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Olivia Golden @ogolden-policy.bsky.social · 2d

As an admirer of your work and a resident of Washington, DC, I want to add how much DC residents hate living under occupation. Yes, the admin uses attacks on our community to justify attacking yours - so please stand by us & include autonomy for DC in the national democracy agenda.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Olivia Golden @ogolden-policy.bsky.social · 2d

Speaking as a Nats fan, he never came thru for us. (But Trea did - well always be grateful for him & the rest of the 2019 championship team.)

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Olivia Golden @ogolden-policy.bsky.social · 2d

Will, you're forgetting Toronto! And forgetting us in Wash DC (tho of course not in playoffs) - Trump got about 6% of the vote hete.

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Foundation for Child Development @fcd-us.bsky.social · 3d

These stories of resistance in all its forms, grassroots, institutional, personal, cultural & of hope that emerges not from naive optimism but from the daily choice to act, build, push back, or hold the line.

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DC Fiscal Policy Institute @dcfpi.bsky.social · 3d

DC lawmakers must act quickly to prevent $658 million in new revenue losses resulting from federal tax cuts.

Looking to understand what is going on with our local economy? Our staff analyzed the latest revenue forecast from DC’s Chief Financial Officer.

https://loom.ly/K7dvw9k

DC Revenue Higher than Expected, But a Recession Still Looms

Although DC is not facing a budget shortfall as some expected, the CFO warns that the District is entering a moderate recession this year.

www.dcfpi.org

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Olivia Golden @ogolden-policy.bsky.social · 3d

I am a huge fan of both of you, so very excited as well. Any collaborations on the horizon? I have ideas! @citizencohn.bsky.social @crampell.bsky.social

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d

The Trump admin will likely try to strip Salvadoran TPS next year when the 18 month period is up — unless Bukele convinces them not to.

Should that happen, it'll hit the DC metro area badly. In 2018, it was estimated almost a third of the local construction industry has TPS.

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DC Fiscal Policy Institute @dcfpi.bsky.social · 7d

DC CFO’s revenue report underscores impact of slashed federal government on DC–nearly 11k jobs lost this year, including 8,700 federal jobs.

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Sharon Parrott @sharonparrott.bsky.social · 8d

Today’s government funding shutdown is fundamentally different than prior funding fights b/c the Administration is acting outside the law. Any funding agreement must put a stop to this pattern of lawlessness & protect affordable health care. My statement:
www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

Congress Must Block Administration’s Illegal Cuts, Protect Affordable Health Care | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Today’s government funding shutdown is fundamentally different than prior funding fights because the Administration is acting outside the law. Any funding agreement must put a stop to this pattern of ...

www.cbpp.org

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 8d

OK y'all. Democrats are holding strong and now IT'S OUR JOB TO HAVE THEIR BACKS and demand Republicans stop the Trump shutdown.

Start here:

indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

STOP THE TRUMP SHUTDOWN

indivisible.org

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 8d

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 8d

8/ Governor Kathy Hochul just posted this statement on X.

Masked ICE agents shoved and injured journalists today at Federal Plaza. One reporter left on a stretcher.

This abuse of law-abiding immigrants and the reporters telling their stories must end.

What the hell are we doing here?

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 9d

Wrote this almost two years ago — about what would need to change in order to subvert the military — and it sadly appears to have been prescient open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

The Next Battle

Why Trump and his allies hate the U.S. military.

open.substack.com

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Sharon Parrott @sharonparrott.bsky.social · 12d

The Trump Admin’s threat to illegally fire more workers if the President doesn’t get his way is blatant extortion: using working people & their families as pawns in a power play with no concern for who gets hurt.

My full statement: www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

Republicans Must Negotiate to Prevent Health Care Cost Spikes, Protect Funding Laws | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Republicans are claiming their short-term continuing resolution is business as usual, but nothing about this moment is normal.

www.cbpp.org

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Olivia Golden @ogolden-policy.bsky.social · 13d

Terrific thread by @sharonparrott.bsky.social @cbpp.bsky.social

Sharon Parrott @sharonparrott.bsky.social · 13d

The Trump Administration’s threat to illegally fire more workers if the President doesn’t get his way is blatant extortion: using working people and their families as pawns in a power play with no concern for who gets hurt.

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Sharon Parrott @sharonparrott.bsky.social · 13d

Meanwhile, they are doing nothing to address a looming, massive health care cost spike for >20M ppl and have so far refused bipartisan negotiations to prevent families across the country already struggling to afford health care & other basics from taking this hit.

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Olivia Golden @ogolden-policy.bsky.social · 16d

For everyone who wants to know what they can do, here's a great opportunity.

DC Fiscal Policy Institute @dcfpi.bsky.social · 16d

Federal interference threatens our democracy—DCFPI is fighting back for DC families.

Join us through the Advocacy Xccelerator Fund to power our defense. Learn more and take action here: http://bit.ly/3IdxNou

#DCStrong #CommunityPower

The Advocacy Xccelerator Fund

DC is under attack. Federal interference and local budget challenges are threatening our community’s progress, stability, and self-determination. But together, we can fight back.

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Janeese4DC @janeese4dc.bsky.social · 22d

To the 31 House Democrats who voted with Trump: I would never vote to disenfranchise your constituents, undermine their democratic rights, or impose harsher penalties on them against their will. Regrettably, you have done exactly that to my constituents and legislative body. Shame 😪

Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 22d

Today 31 Democrats chose to side with Donald Trump over DC.

We did not ask for this. It will not make us safer. And fueling this fascist president's agenda is dangerous for our entire country. (🧵)

31 Democrats who voted with Trump and against DC

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 22d

When our institutions won't stand up, faculties will have to come together to do so.

AAUP @aaup.org · 22d

BREAKING:

A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts

University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-million penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions camp...

www.latimes.com

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 22d

Trump's approval in the poll is 39%. Of course there is statistical sampling error with polls, but the direction seems correct given how unemployment and inflation continue to rise. We haven't even seen the health care premium increases starting in 2026

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 22d

trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...

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DC Fiscal Policy Institute @dcfpi.bsky.social · 22d

The sobering new Census data underscores the need for Mayor Bowser and the DC Council to invest more deeply in policies and programs that reduce poverty and address racial disparities. Read DCFPI's full analysis: www.dcfpi.org/all/inequali...

Inequality Remained Extreme in 2024 as DC Backslid on Poverty

Income inequality and racial inequity persisted in 2024, according to new data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), while the rate of poverty rose. DC once again tied with New Yor...

www.dcfpi.org

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ACLU @aclu.org · 23d

Congress is planning to introduce a set of bills that will prevent the residents of DC from determining what’s best for our own community.

Tell Congress to stop interfering in DC's local governance.

CONGRESS: HANDS OFF D.C.

Right now, politicians in Congress are undercutting the voice of hundreds of thousands of people who live in DC to pursue their political agenda.

action.aclu.org

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Olivia Golden @ogolden-policy.bsky.social · 26d

Not to mention the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing of a federal building, deadliest domestic terrorism attack at least in my lifetime (I'm 70).

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 27d

There were more than 120 domestic terrorist attacks, in which there were 11 murders, in the United States during the “relative calm” of the 1980s and 1990s. They just all happened to be at abortion clinics, so I guess those don’t count.

For those old enough to remember it: How did America get from the assassinations of the late 1960s and the political violence of the early 1970s to the relative calm of the 1980s and 1990s?

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DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social · 28d

DC residents pay more federal taxes per capita than any state and fought and died in our nation's wars.

We deserve the right to set our local laws and an independent Attorney General who is accountable to the people of DC.

I wrote in strong opposition to 13 anti–DC Home Rule bills in Congress.

Dear Chairman Comer and Ranking Member Garcia:
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is scheduled to markup fourteen bills tomorrow related to the operations of the District of Columbia. With the exception of H.R. 2693, the District of Columbia Electronic Transmittal Act, I write in strong opposition to these bills. They address inherently local issues and laws that were passed after careful consideration by the District’s elected representatives, who are directly accountable to District residents. Members of this very Committee have long advocated for the principles of federalism on which this nation was founded. They have consistently condemned federal overreach and fought forcefully and convincingly for the uniquely American values of local control, freedom, and self-governance. These principles should apply to the more than 700,000 people who call Washington, DC home, just as they do for your constituents across the country. I specifically want to call attention to the significant incursion on local self-governance reflected in two bills, the District of Columbia Attorney General Appointment Reform Act and the District of Columbia Judicial Nominations Reform Act. Both laws would displace the ability of District residents to have a voice in the selection of local leaders who wield significant power over local judicial matters: the judges on our local courts and the Attorney General for the District. The judges on the DC Court of Appeals and DC Superior Court rule on inherently local matters such as criminal prosecutions, landlord-tenant cases, probate proceedings, civil cases, and divorce proceedings, all of which have profoundly important impact on our community. For more than 50 years, the Judicial Nomination Commission has successfully allowed DC residents to have a voice in judicial appointments, while also granting the President and Senate a role in confirming our judges. I urge the Committee not to overturn that well-established process.

The DC Attorney General, as the District’s chief law officer, is also responsible for local legal
issues, namely, protecting the District and its residents in a wide range of matters, such as enforcing
child support laws, handling abuse and neglect proceedings in the child welfare system, enforcing
our housing code, and defending District agencies and officers when they are sued. In no other
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place in the United States are such local issues determined by a federally appointed person with
no local accountability. The proposed legislation would be especially undemocratic in light of the
fact that, in 2010, an overwhelming majority of District voters(76%) exercised their right to amend
the District Charter to make the DC Attorney General an independent, elected office, rather than a
position appointed by and subordinate to the Mayor. With that vote, District residents clearly
expressed their desire that the Attorney General should be independent and accountable to them.
The pending bill would displace that choice in favor of installing an Attorney General accountable
not to District residents, but to the President. Given that the U.S. Attorney for the District is already
appointed by the President, if passed, this bill would concentrate all criminal and civil litigation
authority in the President, divesting the District and its residents of any local control over these
essential functions.

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