Sam Rosen-Amy
@rosenamy.bsky.social
Research Manager for the Office of the Budget Director at the Council of the District of Columbia. Personal account.
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Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
n.pr
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
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Conservatives want to pitch the White House demolition as YIMBY. This is a bad-faith brain-dead take.
You don't want expansive historic reviews for building new homes.
You do want expansive historic reviews for *demolishing the White House.*
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
You don't want expansive historic reviews for building new homes.
You do want expansive historic reviews for *demolishing the White House.*
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | In defense of the White House ballroom
Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs
www.washingtonpost.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Conservatives want to pitch the White House demolition as YIMBY. This is a bad-faith brain-dead take.
You don't want expansive historic reviews for building new homes.
You do want expansive historic reviews for *demolishing the White House.*
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
You don't want expansive historic reviews for building new homes.
You do want expansive historic reviews for *demolishing the White House.*
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Events DC should have paid to the District government an additional $68.7 million in “excess cash” according to DC law
dcauditor.wpenginepowered.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Events DC should have paid to the District government an additional $68.7 million in “excess cash” according to DC law
The Spirit doing something no other DC-area team is doing.
Different roots. Same home. ONE SPIRIT 💛
The first 200 federal employees can claim a voucher for a free ticket on a first-come, first-served basis.
After that, a limited number of $10 tickets for federal employees will be available so you can bring your friends & family!
🎟️ bit.ly/46vSPrX
The first 200 federal employees can claim a voucher for a free ticket on a first-come, first-served basis.
After that, a limited number of $10 tickets for federal employees will be available so you can bring your friends & family!
🎟️ bit.ly/46vSPrX
October 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The Spirit doing something no other DC-area team is doing.
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People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
September 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
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DC's least accountable federal police force looks forward to running you over or smashing into your car in the pursuit of "bad guys" (door dash drivers on mopeds)
Ten car chases. Six crashes. Park Police have new rules in Trump’s D.C.
U.S. Park Police have initiated at least 10 car chases in the past three weeks as part of President Donald Trump’s D.C. surge, court records show.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
DC's least accountable federal police force looks forward to running you over or smashing into your car in the pursuit of "bad guys" (door dash drivers on mopeds)
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Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
August 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
Interesting that this article is in NPR, since the Washington Post is (I think) without a dedicated DC court reporter after Keith Alexander took a buyout a few weeks back.
Inside the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Monday, tensions over the potential for federal overreach broke into open court.
'The most illegal search': Judges push back against D.C. criminal charges
Inside the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Monday, tensions over the potential for federal overreach broke into open court.
n.pr
August 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Interesting that this article is in NPR, since the Washington Post is (I think) without a dedicated DC court reporter after Keith Alexander took a buyout a few weeks back.
Our daycare canceled the annual family picnic because the increased federal presence in DC made the teachers feel unsafe.
For folks not in DC:
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
August 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Our daycare canceled the annual family picnic because the increased federal presence in DC made the teachers feel unsafe.
One team chose to embrace their fans, and released a love letter to the city when it felt under attack. The other didn't.
August 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
One team chose to embrace their fans, and released a love letter to the city when it felt under attack. The other didn't.
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Friendly reminder that the gas-powered models look the same.
And the design is for a reason: tall enough for a worker to stand upright in the back, with a low-enough driver seat to reach a mailbox, and ensure good visibility while driving.
And the design is for a reason: tall enough for a worker to stand upright in the back, with a low-enough driver seat to reach a mailbox, and ensure good visibility while driving.
The new EVs have had problems. And they do look very silly.
Selling them off would set USPS back a decade — it’d cost billions of dollars, and the current fleet of gas-guzzlers are frankly dangerous to drive.
Selling them off would set USPS back a decade — it’d cost billions of dollars, and the current fleet of gas-guzzlers are frankly dangerous to drive.
The Postal Service’s electric mail trucks are way behind schedule
Defense contractor Oshkosh had only delivered 93 trucks by November — compared to 3,000 expected by now. The delays put Biden’s climate goals at risk.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Friendly reminder that the gas-powered models look the same.
And the design is for a reason: tall enough for a worker to stand upright in the back, with a low-enough driver seat to reach a mailbox, and ensure good visibility while driving.
And the design is for a reason: tall enough for a worker to stand upright in the back, with a low-enough driver seat to reach a mailbox, and ensure good visibility while driving.
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If you're a D.C. Library user, be aware: The D.C. Public Library system says it is likely going to have to reduce opening hours at neighborhood branches, from the current 61 hours a week to 40 hours. Branches would also go from being open seven days a week to five days.
June 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
If you're a D.C. Library user, be aware: The D.C. Public Library system says it is likely going to have to reduce opening hours at neighborhood branches, from the current 61 hours a week to 40 hours. Branches would also go from being open seven days a week to five days.
This is obviously in preparation for a run for an independent seat on the DC Council.
Ex-WH press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre left the Democratic Party, publisher of her new book says
Ex-WH press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre left the Democratic Party, publisher of her new book says
Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has switched her affiliation to independent, according to the publisher of her new book.
apnews.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This is obviously in preparation for a run for an independent seat on the DC Council.
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WORKER WIN: Equinox and AllCare will pay over $117,000 and reform their labor practices after requiring their employees in DC to sign unlawful noncompete clauses.
Noncompete clauses drive down wages, trap workers, and stifle competition.
We will continue to enforce DC's noncompete ban.
Noncompete clauses drive down wages, trap workers, and stifle competition.
We will continue to enforce DC's noncompete ban.
May 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
WORKER WIN: Equinox and AllCare will pay over $117,000 and reform their labor practices after requiring their employees in DC to sign unlawful noncompete clauses.
Noncompete clauses drive down wages, trap workers, and stifle competition.
We will continue to enforce DC's noncompete ban.
Noncompete clauses drive down wages, trap workers, and stifle competition.
We will continue to enforce DC's noncompete ban.
Street Fight, the documentary about Cory Booker's 2002 mayoral campaign against James, is a great political movie and available for free:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZi_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZi_...
May 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Street Fight, the documentary about Cory Booker's 2002 mayoral campaign against James, is a great political movie and available for free:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZi_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZi_...
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🧵Alright, some details on the D.C./Commanders deal: 65,000-seat roofed stadium to be ready by 2030. $2.5 billion team investment in stadium, with D.C. kicking in more than $1 billion over a decade for infrastructure and site prep, as well as parking. (8,000 spots on-site.)
It's official: The Washington Commanders are coming back to D.C.'s RFK stadium site. The details of the deal between the city and the team are being disclosed today, but the expectation is for the stadium to open by 2030.
April 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
🧵Alright, some details on the D.C./Commanders deal: 65,000-seat roofed stadium to be ready by 2030. $2.5 billion team investment in stadium, with D.C. kicking in more than $1 billion over a decade for infrastructure and site prep, as well as parking. (8,000 spots on-site.)
Key details of the framework:
April 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Key details of the framework:
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Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them.
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them.
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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This thread is incredible. Poetic and sharp.
About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
March 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This thread is incredible. Poetic and sharp.
People have been naming their children Outerbridge Horsey longer than there's been a United States of America.
March 4, 2025 at 3:29 AM
People have been naming their children Outerbridge Horsey longer than there's been a United States of America.
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Dan Tangherlini has spent his entire career committed to improving quality of life for DC and the country. It’s really heartening to see his resolve here — yes, we will build it again.
Gutting 18F will make pave the way for private contractors, many aligned with Musk, to fill the gap that DOGE has created, but at a much inflated cost.
From Dan Tangherlini, former GSA Administrator who oversaw 18F.
From Dan Tangherlini, former GSA Administrator who oversaw 18F.
March 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Dan Tangherlini has spent his entire career committed to improving quality of life for DC and the country. It’s really heartening to see his resolve here — yes, we will build it again.
18F was the most innovative thing the federal government has done in decades. Cutting it costs us money and only hurts Americans.
18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.
March 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
18F was the most innovative thing the federal government has done in decades. Cutting it costs us money and only hurts Americans.