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The House bill being voted on today to require cash bail in DC is insane.
DC hasn’t had cash bail since 1992, and crime has plummeted since.
Our current system is near identical to federal law.
People should be held pretrial if they pose a safety risk — not because they are too poor to pay bail.
DC hasn’t had cash bail since 1992, and crime has plummeted since.
Our current system is near identical to federal law.
People should be held pretrial if they pose a safety risk — not because they are too poor to pay bail.
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The House bill being voted on today to require cash bail in DC is insane.
DC hasn’t had cash bail since 1992, and crime has plummeted since.
Our current system is near identical to federal law.
People should be held pretrial if they pose a safety risk — not because they are too poor to pay bail.
DC hasn’t had cash bail since 1992, and crime has plummeted since.
Our current system is near identical to federal law.
People should be held pretrial if they pose a safety risk — not because they are too poor to pay bail.
Hot take: the new Frankenstein movie is bad
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Hot take: the new Frankenstein movie is bad
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DC lawyers and law nerds wyd Saturday
When the lawyers take to the streets, history suggests, change is possible. Join us on Saturday in front of the Supreme Court.
Lawyers March for Democracy Kickoff
Lawyers March for Democracy As the Supreme Court wraps up its November oral arguments, join fellow attorneys, law students, and legal advocates for a powerful rally outside the Supreme Court to decla...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
DC lawyers and law nerds wyd Saturday
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A reminder that if you are called to be part of a jury in a political prosecution you have a right to refuse to convict on the grounds the prosecution is unjust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock
When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.
www.theatlantic.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A reminder that if you are called to be part of a jury in a political prosecution you have a right to refuse to convict on the grounds the prosecution is unjust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Ladies and gentleman…the next mayor of DC
Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”
November 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Ladies and gentleman…the next mayor of DC
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Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.
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As the cold reality of Cuomo’s defeat sets in, this is a moment for centrists to ask themselves: Have we lost touch with the common voter? Get out and spend time in the tattoo parlors and dispensaries. The drag shows, community gardens and outsider art galleries where Real New Yorkers congregate
November 5, 2025 at 5:23 AM
As the cold reality of Cuomo’s defeat sets in, this is a moment for centrists to ask themselves: Have we lost touch with the common voter? Get out and spend time in the tattoo parlors and dispensaries. The drag shows, community gardens and outsider art galleries where Real New Yorkers congregate
The Flytrap is doing great work and deserves all the success. Not too late to subscribe.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Hey Jerome, I have an alternate theory for why Microsoft and Amazon are laying off engineers - they massively overhired 4 years ago. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLID...
November 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Hey Jerome, I have an alternate theory for why Microsoft and Amazon are laying off engineers - they massively overhired 4 years ago. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLID...
A bad idea, expressed badly. Just absolute word salad from Jeffries on a softball question he knew was coming. I know who *isn’t* the future of the party, that’s for sure.
Hakeem Jeffries says Zohran Mamdani is not the future of the Democratic Party.
November 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
A bad idea, expressed badly. Just absolute word salad from Jeffries on a softball question he knew was coming. I know who *isn’t* the future of the party, that’s for sure.
Hyperreality at the grocery store
November 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Hyperreality at the grocery store
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🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.
You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.
You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
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October 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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you've been doing a really good job with that boulder, just want to say, exemplary stuff, we all really appreciate it. we've actually got a bigger boulder to roll up a steeper hill in the next fiscal year, it seems right up your alley
October 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
you've been doing a really good job with that boulder, just want to say, exemplary stuff, we all really appreciate it. we've actually got a bigger boulder to roll up a steeper hill in the next fiscal year, it seems right up your alley
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Will CM @cmbrookepinto.bsky.social demand that DC Police turn over footage from their raid on USIP at the behest of DOGE? She chairs DC Council's Committee on Public Safety, which oversees MPD.
If Pinto won't defend DC from Trump while she's on Council, why would she as DC's Delegate to Congress?
If Pinto won't defend DC from Trump while she's on Council, why would she as DC's Delegate to Congress?
NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
I'm suing DC Metro Police for body cam footage of US Institute of Peace raid
The Handbasket is represented pro bono by lawyers from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
www.thehandbasket.co
October 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Will CM @cmbrookepinto.bsky.social demand that DC Police turn over footage from their raid on USIP at the behest of DOGE? She chairs DC Council's Committee on Public Safety, which oversees MPD.
If Pinto won't defend DC from Trump while she's on Council, why would she as DC's Delegate to Congress?
If Pinto won't defend DC from Trump while she's on Council, why would she as DC's Delegate to Congress?
I don’t actually agree with “vote blue no matter who” so whatever. But I don’t wanna hear it when some leftist dems are insufficiently enthused about a conservative nominee.
New @washingtonpost.com supercut:
Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer have spent the past 17 weeks refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor.
Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer have spent the past 17 weeks refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor.
October 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I don’t actually agree with “vote blue no matter who” so whatever. But I don’t wanna hear it when some leftist dems are insufficiently enthused about a conservative nominee.
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October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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facing unprecedented uncertainty re: employment due to the shutdown/trump cuts 😕
if you have leads on open Emergency Management or COOP/Biz Continuity roles at state/local gov't agencies, I would love to hear about it!
especially interested in highly regulated and complex environments, dm's open
if you have leads on open Emergency Management or COOP/Biz Continuity roles at state/local gov't agencies, I would love to hear about it!
especially interested in highly regulated and complex environments, dm's open
October 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
facing unprecedented uncertainty re: employment due to the shutdown/trump cuts 😕
if you have leads on open Emergency Management or COOP/Biz Continuity roles at state/local gov't agencies, I would love to hear about it!
especially interested in highly regulated and complex environments, dm's open
if you have leads on open Emergency Management or COOP/Biz Continuity roles at state/local gov't agencies, I would love to hear about it!
especially interested in highly regulated and complex environments, dm's open
I got a bunch of phishing attempts to an email address only ever used to order a print from FedEx Office one time last year. Hmm
October 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I got a bunch of phishing attempts to an email address only ever used to order a print from FedEx Office one time last year. Hmm
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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
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I know a glass cliff when I see one
October 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I know a glass cliff when I see one
The evidence that the Epstein files are really important is...that the Trump admin is doing lots of things that have nothing to do with the Epstein files?
This is begging the question. It's conspiracy theory logic.
This is begging the question. It's conspiracy theory logic.
I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.
But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.
But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.
October 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The evidence that the Epstein files are really important is...that the Trump admin is doing lots of things that have nothing to do with the Epstein files?
This is begging the question. It's conspiracy theory logic.
This is begging the question. It's conspiracy theory logic.
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SESTA/FOSTA backfired miserably.
The UK's age verification law backfired miserably.
The TikTok ban is backfiring miserably.
So of course @blumenthal.senate.gov has decided now is a great time to revive the terribly written Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) which will ... spoiler... backfire miserably
The UK's age verification law backfired miserably.
The TikTok ban is backfiring miserably.
So of course @blumenthal.senate.gov has decided now is a great time to revive the terribly written Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) which will ... spoiler... backfire miserably
September 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
SESTA/FOSTA backfired miserably.
The UK's age verification law backfired miserably.
The TikTok ban is backfiring miserably.
So of course @blumenthal.senate.gov has decided now is a great time to revive the terribly written Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) which will ... spoiler... backfire miserably
The UK's age verification law backfired miserably.
The TikTok ban is backfiring miserably.
So of course @blumenthal.senate.gov has decided now is a great time to revive the terribly written Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) which will ... spoiler... backfire miserably
“Constant Contact” is a bizarrely threatening product name
September 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
“Constant Contact” is a bizarrely threatening product name