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tyler ⚙️🍉 @syllytyler.bsky.social · 13h

Aside from Jay Jones being Cool and Good, it genuinely will make a significant difference if DC is able to join into a broader regional defense pact with the whole of the DMV and not just Maryland.

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tyler ⚙️🍉 @syllytyler.bsky.social · 13h

Please get this man a friend in Virginia 🥲

DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: We just filed a lawsuit alongside 25 states to restore SNAP food assistance during the federal shutdown.

141,000 DC residents rely on SNAP to afford their meals — including 47,000 children and 24,000 seniors.

We will do everything in our power to prevent DC families from going hungry.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 14h

Indeed. I'd actually go further than this and say that the real problem is that people treat the piecemeal de-escalation in one theatre of occupied Palestine as tantamount to a ceasefire in all parts. There has never been a comprehensive ceasefire for Palestinians.

What I wrote in The Nation:

As of writing this, a so-called ceasefire in Gaza is supposedly in effect. Despite this, Palestinians are still being routinely murdered and displaced in Gaza and in the occupied West Bank. The theft of Palestinian land via settlement and colonization remains ongoing. The Palestinians of occupied East Jerusalem are still under threat. The Palestinian citizens of Israel are facing some of the most oppressive days since the martial law on them was lifted in 1966. It is thus abundantly clear that the question of Palestine has not been resolved. And absent a comprehensive resolution of the question of Palestine, which must clearly guarantee our rights and our ability to return and live as equal and free people on the land, this change in American public perception against supporting Israel won’t just be magically stopped. Seeing as how Trump is in no way capable of facilitating this resolution, it is safe to assume that these changes in public opinion will only continue. It would be prudent, then, for Democrats up and down the ballot to quickly determine how to oppose genocide, apartheid, and colonialism and then articulate this opposition to the base, which is increasingly hungry for the moral clarity needed on this issue.

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tyler ⚙️🍉 @syllytyler.bsky.social · 14h

Proud to be apart of this effort. It’s time DC protect our families, not federal agents.

Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 17h

Residents and activists have been pushing the council to do oversight on what MPD is doing with ICE. While nothing with police has been scheduled, tomorrow @brianneknadeau.bsky.social is holding a roundtable on human rights violations during the federal takeover: 51st.news/mpd-dc-polic...

Questions remain about MPD’s work with ICE. Activists want lawmakers to step in

They say the D.C. Council should publicly question MPD about cooperation on immigration enforcement.

51st.news

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WIRED @wired.com · 15h

and may we present you with:

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tyler ⚙️🍉 @syllytyler.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks man, genuinely means a lot. Not gonna let these bastards win.

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tyler ⚙️🍉 @syllytyler.bsky.social · 1d

I am being criminally charged with “disorderly conduct”

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tyler ⚙️🍉 @syllytyler.bsky.social · 1d

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tyler ⚙️🍉 @syllytyler.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah right by the judiciary square metro entrance

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tyler ⚙️🍉 @syllytyler.bsky.social · 1d

💗

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tyler ⚙️🍉 @syllytyler.bsky.social · 1d

This is the reality of Trump’s America: Your neighbors are being abducted, disappeared, and killed; free speech is an arrest-able offense; children and a FIFTH of the nation’s capitol are set to go hungry next month, and the president is busy demolishing the East Wing.

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tyler ⚙️🍉 @syllytyler.bsky.social · 1d

These agents told me repeatedly that my first amendment rights did not matter, all while not reading me my Miranda rights. I will be suing them.

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tyler ⚙️🍉 @syllytyler.bsky.social · 1d

On Thursday (10/23), as I was walking back to the office with my lunch I stopped to heckle a crowd of National Guard and federal agents. I was then tackled to the ground, slammed against a squad car, arrested and held in a cell for several hours.

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tyler ⚙️🍉 @syllytyler.bsky.social · 5d

Would watch tf outta this

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tyler ⚙️🍉 @syllytyler.bsky.social · 5d

Lmao

Eric Adams Will Endorse Andrew Cuomo for Mayor

www.nytimes.com

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 6d

Last month, 300 federal agents descended on a Chicago apartment building by helicopter, zip-tying residents. These raids mark a new phase of a longer campaign of elite demolition of lower-class Chicago. From Maureen Tkacik and Emma Janssen: trib.al/SE1fVo4

The Lost Dream of Obam-a-Lago - The American Prospect

Long before the September 30 ICE raid, Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood had been ravaged by a series of sprawling apartment building pump-and-dump schemes, aided and abetted by industrial-scale mortgage fraud, old-fashioned government inaction, and a smattering of Venezuelan gangsters.

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PTK @leftveteran.bsky.social · 6d

“This month, Meta removed a Facebook group that Chicagoans used to monitor ICE…Apple and Google removed ICEBlock, an app that allows users to report ICE activity”

Two Months of ICE Terror in Chicago - The American Prospect

Chicago is a notoriously segregated city, which means that some neighborhoods have been completely transformed by ICE’s presence, while in non-Latino neighborhoods, it’s mostly been business as usual....

prospect.org

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 7d

I am already in multiple text and email chains trying to help get people food, and we haven't even gotten to Nov 1 bills due or shutdown consequences yet

Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 7d

For DC, this combined with federal workers who are furloughed now needing to access the local food banks, will be devastating

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 7d

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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tyler ⚙️🍉 @syllytyler.bsky.social · 7d

This fact always makes me so cartoonishly angry. powermapmag.com/jamaal-bowma...

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Clare Willow @mollymalone45.bsky.social · 7d

www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

BREAKING: Al Jazeera publishes name of man said to have ordered murder of Hind Rajab

Major Sean Glass named on Arabic-language broadcast as commander who ordered the fire on Hind Rajab - but not named on English version

www.thecanary.co

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Aparna Raj @aparnafordc.bsky.social · 8d

Exciting news! Workers in some of the most music venues in DC are organizing for better pay, respect, and working conditions.

Solidarity! I can't wait to see a show or go to an event at a union venue in Ward 1 😊 🎸✊🏾

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Workers take steps to unionize at four D.C. music venues, including 9:30 Club

Staff members at the Anthem, Lincoln Theatre, the Atlantis and the 9:30 Club presented petitions to production company I.M.P. on Monday. They criticized conditions and wages at the locations.

www.washingtonpost.com

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tyler ⚙️🍉 @syllytyler.bsky.social · 8d

All the caveats aside (Koch money, demographic differences in the base, threats to the ballot box itself) there is a massive opportunity for the organized left to seize state power right now. We must be ruthlessly effective in taking it.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8d

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

www.nytimes.com

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The Electronic Intifada @intifada.bsky.social · 8d

We began to walk – my family, my relatives, 31 people in all. There were no streets left, no standing houses, only rubble. So we bade farewell to the ruins, ruins that once had been homes filled with life. #eiGazaDispatches

Nothing to return to

The author and her relatives took a long hard road south just before the latest ceasefire was announced.

electronicintifada.net

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Pang OfFearnity @bough.cloud · 8d

A ceasefire was supposed to bring calm and a renewed supply of goods. Let’s help our sisters bear such a disappointment without shattering. 💔
chuffed.org/project/142381

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tyler ⚙️🍉 @syllytyler.bsky.social · 8d

HER FAULT

Bowser attended the game. She is cursed.

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