Here in DC we could use some help. The House must pass the DC Local Funds Act or we take a $1.1 B budget hit (it's our local revenue, needs Congress' approval). Please call your Reps to ask that they support the District of Columbia Local Funds Act of 2025 and ask Spkr Johnson to bring it for a vote

In case there’s no mention of them on government websites any more, I happened to be in downtown Boston today, so here’s a couple pictures of the memorial to the 54th Massachusetts DEI Regiment

Late-breaking news that's not news: Chuck Schumer hangs the people of Washington, DC out to dry

The Republican continuing resolution would strip Washington DC of over $1B of local money that we already allocated (in a balanced budget)- slashing funding for schools, transit, & public safety mid-fiscal year. Please call your senators; tell them to vote NO!
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Pitch-perfect response to Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin from @georgetownlaw.bsky.social Dean Bill Treanor.

It’s always a privilege and honor to be part of the GULC community (and to be Bill’s colleague), but *especially* today.

Getting sick when you are a teacher is like buying something with a credit card that starts charging interest immediately (picture of this weekend’s grading, with pen for scale)

FDR helped preserve a capitalist economic system in the US by constructing public goods that would buffer working class folks from economic (and other forms of) privation. Trump is in the process of trashing them. What happens next? (Spoiler alert: people suffer...)
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...

Daughter A: B, did you stick a Q-tip in a door?
Daughter B: Yes.
Me: <laughs>
Daughter B: What? Bobby needed a resting place...

The Washington, DC "Not My President's Day" rally organizers (50501 and Project Revolution) were prepared for a few hundred attendees at the Capitol Reflecting Pool on the Mall today. At peak attendance, we had a couple-few thousand.

"Pre-bunking" is one of the most effective ways to combat mis- and dis-information. Here is some actual information about USAID and Elon Musk, from Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs faculty Asha Rangappa: asharangappa.substack.com/p/prebunking...

Citizens of Washington, DC do not have voting representation in Congress. If you do have Reps and Senators who can vote, please make sure you call yours to remind them to do their job: Congress controls funding, and the executive branch should not be choosing not to fund programs Congress has funded

The cruelty I expected and was braced for. The blatantly unconstitutional stuff I find frightening.

"Sometimes I like to brag, sometimes I'm soft-spoken -- and when I'm in Holland, I eat the pannenkoekken" (words as true now as when first uttered in 1998 -- "Super Disco Breakin', off Hello, Nasty)