Evan Yeats
@evanyeats.bsky.social
Union guy. Former Commissioner. DC denizen.
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On Thanksgiving we like to give back to the neighborhood. Thanks to the 15 volunteers who joined me and @evanyeats.bsky.social for our annual tradition. We picked up 15 bags of litter, engaged young kids and high school students in service, and enjoyed good company on this beautiful day.
November 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
On Thanksgiving we like to give back to the neighborhood. Thanks to the 15 volunteers who joined me and @evanyeats.bsky.social for our annual tradition. We picked up 15 bags of litter, engaged young kids and high school students in service, and enjoyed good company on this beautiful day.
I was right, it was a banger. Happy Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I was right, it was a banger. Happy Thanksgiving.
I'm really excited to do this tomorrow.
Let’s give thanks and give back! Join our annual Thanksgiving Adopt-a-Block Community Cleanup:
🗓️Thurs, Nov 27
⏰10 AM
📍Takoma Elementary (7010 Piney Branch Rd NW)
All supplies, snacks & water provided. Support local faves after cleanup + on Small Business Saturday (Nov 29): mainstreettakoma.org.
🗓️Thurs, Nov 27
⏰10 AM
📍Takoma Elementary (7010 Piney Branch Rd NW)
All supplies, snacks & water provided. Support local faves after cleanup + on Small Business Saturday (Nov 29): mainstreettakoma.org.
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I'm really excited to do this tomorrow.
The act of a chicken who thinks he can't win if the vote reflects what the true majority of his constituents want.
Fresh off grilling elections officials at a hearing yesterday, Wendell Felder introduces a bill meant to delay the implementation of ranked-choice voting.
A similar push failed during the budget talks. And, FWIW, BOE said Monday it was on track to have RCV ready by June...
A similar push failed during the budget talks. And, FWIW, BOE said Monday it was on track to have RCV ready by June...
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The act of a chicken who thinks he can't win if the vote reflects what the true majority of his constituents want.
The other part not mentioned in the article is that there is an extensive free bus system (Cambus) that has worked side-by-side with IC Transit for decades. Weird thing to leave out that probably shaped local perception of the change
“The transit system is one of the greatest tools communities have to combat climate change and reduce emissions,” she said. “You can make a pretty immediate impact.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The other part not mentioned in the article is that there is an extensive free bus system (Cambus) that has worked side-by-side with IC Transit for decades. Weird thing to leave out that probably shaped local perception of the change
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Come share food and community at a FREE Community Meal & Potluck on Sat, Dec 20 (12–2 pm) at Seeker’s Church (276 Carroll St NW)! Enjoy a hot lunch from Marty’s Food & Catering, and bring drinks/desserts if you’d like. We can host many but space isn’t unlimited, so please RSVP to hold your spot.
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Come share food and community at a FREE Community Meal & Potluck on Sat, Dec 20 (12–2 pm) at Seeker’s Church (276 Carroll St NW)! Enjoy a hot lunch from Marty’s Food & Catering, and bring drinks/desserts if you’d like. We can host many but space isn’t unlimited, so please RSVP to hold your spot.
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A councilmember who won his primary last year with 23.7% of the vote wants to delay implementing ranked choice voting. The at-large CM who won her last primary with 35.9% agrees that making her run for reelection next year under RCV would be a bad idea.
Felder continues to be critical of the election board's capacity to pull off ranked-choice voting in 2026.
"Before we roll out something of this magnitude I would think we need to do a needs assessment," he says to Evans. "You’ve been tasked with an arduous task. It’s unfair."
"Before we roll out something of this magnitude I would think we need to do a needs assessment," he says to Evans. "You’ve been tasked with an arduous task. It’s unfair."
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
A councilmember who won his primary last year with 23.7% of the vote wants to delay implementing ranked choice voting. The at-large CM who won her last primary with 35.9% agrees that making her run for reelection next year under RCV would be a bad idea.
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Outside the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette right now. Large crowd celebrating our strikers as the win and end their strike!
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Outside the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette right now. Large crowd celebrating our strikers as the win and end their strike!
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An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
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Our @pghguild.com strikers are heading back to work today. But for the last 1,1133 they continued to do journalism:
- 4,017 stories
- 17,780 photographs, graphics and illustrations
- more than $1 million donated
Thank you for sticking with us!
www.unionprogress.com/2025/11/23/d...
- 4,017 stories
- 17,780 photographs, graphics and illustrations
- more than $1 million donated
Thank you for sticking with us!
www.unionprogress.com/2025/11/23/d...
Dog gone: The PUP says thank you and bids you a heartfelt goodbye - Pittsburgh Union Progress
Publications assess themselves by all kinds of metrics — number of page views, time readers spent on pages, advertising revenue, social media followers. Here at the Pittsburgh Union Progress, we’ve co...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Our @pghguild.com strikers are heading back to work today. But for the last 1,1133 they continued to do journalism:
- 4,017 stories
- 17,780 photographs, graphics and illustrations
- more than $1 million donated
Thank you for sticking with us!
www.unionprogress.com/2025/11/23/d...
- 4,017 stories
- 17,780 photographs, graphics and illustrations
- more than $1 million donated
Thank you for sticking with us!
www.unionprogress.com/2025/11/23/d...
A victory for the people of DC, despite our Mayor
NEW: The Court has ruled that the National Guard deployment to DC is illegal and granted a preliminary injunction.
As we made clear from the beginning: the US military should not be policing American citizens on American soil.
This is a victory for DC, Home Rule, and American democracy.
As we made clear from the beginning: the US military should not be policing American citizens on American soil.
This is a victory for DC, Home Rule, and American democracy.
November 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A victory for the people of DC, despite our Mayor
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Hear ye hear ye! Now that the MBT extension to Takoma is officially complete, #MBTpubroll will spend the next 4 Thursdays (sans Thanksgiving) joyously celebrating this wonderful development! Mark your calendars. Tomorrow we're starting at 5:30pm at Takoma Station Tavern then biking to City State 🚲🍻
Still some finishing touches before it's completely done/open, but the MBT #biikeDC extension up to Takoma alongside Blair was quite lovely to ride this afternoon.
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Hear ye hear ye! Now that the MBT extension to Takoma is officially complete, #MBTpubroll will spend the next 4 Thursdays (sans Thanksgiving) joyously celebrating this wonderful development! Mark your calendars. Tomorrow we're starting at 5:30pm at Takoma Station Tavern then biking to City State 🚲🍻
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You can send our CEO an email about this silly situation via this link
Pay Washingtonian Workers a Living Wage
The staff of Washingtonian covers luxury real estate, fine-dining restaurants, and some of the country’s wealthiest and most powerful people. Yet, the magazine doesn’t pay some of us a living wage to ...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
You can send our CEO an email about this silly situation via this link
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Just joined my coworkers for a practice picket outside Washingtonian HQ. Four years without a contract. We’d love to be doing something else today!
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Just joined my coworkers for a practice picket outside Washingtonian HQ. Four years without a contract. We’d love to be doing something else today!
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Scoop: Staffers at the Los Angeles Times have averted a strike, with the guild striking a contract deal with management after a grueling negotiating process.
Details in @status.news: link.status.news/3WTZc2H
Details in @status.news: link.status.news/3WTZc2H
November 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Scoop: Staffers at the Los Angeles Times have averted a strike, with the guild striking a contract deal with management after a grueling negotiating process.
Details in @status.news: link.status.news/3WTZc2H
Details in @status.news: link.status.news/3WTZc2H
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Long live the Daily News!
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Long live the Daily News!
This article was fascinating because the access was engineered by the Mayor's PR team to try and make her look good but the facts on the ground make her look so naive. She's still waiting on the "peter out" of the National Guard and ICE like a rube. Gift link: wapo.st/43thCLr
Behind the scenes of the D.C. mayor’s battle to keep Trump at bay
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has worked behind the scenes to appease President Trump more often than has been publicly known since his reelection.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This article was fascinating because the access was engineered by the Mayor's PR team to try and make her look good but the facts on the ground make her look so naive. She's still waiting on the "peter out" of the National Guard and ICE like a rube. Gift link: wapo.st/43thCLr
More funny if you forget that instead of actually caring about sex abuse by elites, the right-wing tried to shoot up a great local music venue
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
More funny if you forget that instead of actually caring about sex abuse by elites, the right-wing tried to shoot up a great local music venue
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Takoma Elementary School's PTO is collecting toiletries & non-perishable food for the school’s Food Pantry! Please donate items like shampoo, soap, lotion, toothpaste & deodorant. 💙 Donate in person (7010 Piney Branch Rd, NW, M-F 8am-6pm) or via Amazon: shorturl.at/0lZVt
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Takoma Elementary School's PTO is collecting toiletries & non-perishable food for the school’s Food Pantry! Please donate items like shampoo, soap, lotion, toothpaste & deodorant. 💙 Donate in person (7010 Piney Branch Rd, NW, M-F 8am-6pm) or via Amazon: shorturl.at/0lZVt
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Get your coffee from NOT Starbucks today. Found this resource to help you look for unionized coffee (ty Reddit) but hey— a locally owned establishment will do (as long as they didn’t try to put over 100 additional people on their payroll ahead of a union vote).
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Get your coffee from NOT Starbucks today. Found this resource to help you look for unionized coffee (ty Reddit) but hey— a locally owned establishment will do (as long as they didn’t try to put over 100 additional people on their payroll ahead of a union vote).
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We live in sad times. While the Mayor was cutting a ribbon on the Takoma section of the Metropolitan Branch Trail, federal law enforcement was abducting someone just down the way on the Trail and by a school.
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We live in sad times. While the Mayor was cutting a ribbon on the Takoma section of the Metropolitan Branch Trail, federal law enforcement was abducting someone just down the way on the Trail and by a school.
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WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!
![Graphic with multiple picket signs that reads "[up arrow] Minimum Salary", "4 day Work Week", and a big cancel sign over "AI Replacing Jobs" and so much more. Go to kickstarterunited.org to see it all!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gdife25rfr5drwr2nhncr3rf/bafkreidfgv3xytmgta3x35mjze22ojok7lwh3vlhgrcfbcwr7hjg6bb6eu@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!