Group of five people standing outdoors in a wooded area during fall, dressed in casual and outdoor gear including a red vest and safety vest.
Ten #TreeFriends #volunteers descended on #NPS #CarderockPark this past Thursday to remove invasive plants. They worked cutting vines and saving scores of trees and native habitat. To participate in one of their events ▶️https://ow.ly/RtaY50Yrg2A #cuttingvines
For months, we warned DOGE's access to Americans' private data was ripe for abuse. And here it is:
A former DOGE employee stole the Social Security numbers & personal info of over 500 MILLION Americans.
Musk, Trump, & their DOGE lackies must be made to answer for this, NOW.
It’s in a location that can’t be accessed by the public.
A right turn only sign topped with a yellow pedestrian crossing icon. The sign is posted in a way that almost certainly obstructs the view of the road for many drivers.
Watch for pedestrians, especially now that we have posted the sign that obscures your sightline. Traffic engineers are not OK, etc.
$1.3 billion. That’s how much Trump’s pardoned fraudsters no longer have to repay their victims.
If we’re serious about preventing fraud, maybe stop letting fraudsters off the hook.
Amici stress that the admin's use of JAGs to prosecute civilians is part of an effort to *militarize* civil society and *politicize* the military — a direct threat to the civ-mil balance that has safeguarded our democracy and kept our military strong.
“I learned ninth-grade civics: You’ve got three equal branches of government. But right now, the Congress is not one of them. It abdicated everything to the White House.”
“I think Madison never imagined or envisioned a Congress with no ambition. This is a Congress without ambition. This is a Congress without really a belief structure in defending legislative prerogative. They just are a rubber stamp for whatever a president tells them to do.”
"Internal emails show otherwise."
www.wired.com/story/cbp-pr...
"This is exactly why the framers and founders of our government said we don't want to have a monarch that can just unilaterally decide that America needs to be involved in these foreign conflicts."
📣 Congress needs to stop this disastrous + immoral war now.
@hassaneltayyab.bsky.social
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
Joe Rogan on Epstein: "Names were redacted that are powerful people, not victims…What about where Epstein says 'I like the torture video.' Why would you redact the name of a person that sent you a torture video?…That's evidence that you're trying to protect powerful people."
I wrote about what we gain from the rule of law, and what we owe to it, here:
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Here's my deep dive on the 5-year mark of Jan 6 -- The ongoing impact on victims, the lies ... and the continued malignant corrosion of democracy As aired on..... The BBC
All one needs to know about why Scott MacFarlane -- one the of the network's most high-profile and respected correspondents -- left CBS News is spelled out in this tweet of his in January, where he unsubtly calls out his network for not airing his J6 deep-dive report.
It aired, instead, on the BBC.
Andy Ogles seems unable to comprehend the basic values the United States was founded on – like religious freedom under the First Amendment.
Muslim Americans are our neighbors, colleagues, and friends. They belong here, but this vile Islamophobia doesn’t belong in Congress.
It was madness to shut those plants down.
There are nuclear power plants that have been built and closed early. Maybe start there.
the funny thing about Saks in Chevy Chase is *the building* is zoned for mixed use but the parking lots are zoned for single-family homes (on Wisconsin Avenue! a block from the Metro!) unless another fancy department store wants to come here, there could be a years-long rezoning fight
I was asked by Jake Tapper if my push to deny Trump funding for his illegal war with Iran was a failure to "support our troops".
My answer: refusing to repeat the mistakes of the past - sending soldiers to die in pointless Middle East wars - is how we support our troops
Question from CNN to Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) just now:
"Do you think Stephen Miller should go?
Tillis: "Of course I do"
As the death toll climbs higher each day, we must remember:
Those being killed are not statistics. They are real people who had loved ones. Who had hopes and dreams.
Our leaders have a moral duty to stop this killing.
I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)
The WSJ “tracked U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive government campaign to detain and demonize dissenters…Most of the alleged culprits were U.S. citizens, denounced as terrorists, rioters and agitators.“
Amazing Report—Read & Repost
GiftLink
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Illustration of buildout at Addison-Seat Pleasant Metro station. Source: Preliminary Central Ave-Blue/Silver Line Sector Plan and SMA https://pgplanning.org/resource_library/preliminary-central-avenue-blue-silver-line-sector-plan-and-sectional-map-amendment/
Prince Georgians - speak up for vibrant, walkable, mixed use Metro station areas along the Central Ave/Blue Line corridor. Tell PGC officials yes to TOD rezoning around Capitol Hts, Addison Rd, & Morgan Blvd Metro stations! Send a letter/sign up for 3/10 hearing here: tinyurl.com/Blue-Line-TO...
“As a Quaker organization, we know that war is never the path to peace."
"We mourn every life lost. We hold the victims’ loved ones and communities in the Light as we call for an immediate end to this war.”
@afsc-org.bsky.social
Long overdue. The plaque honoring the officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 was installed albeit with no moment to publicly recognize the courage of those who risked their lives to protect our democracy.
Honoring them shouldn't be controversial.
Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol
“Donald Trump’s White House is blocking top US intelligence agencies from warning law enforcement across the country about rising threats to the homeland tied to his war with Iran, the Daily Mail can reveal”
Education results have gotten worse during a period of time when we’ve decided to try less hard to teach kids
It creates an extra hour of *useful* daylight, and I approve!
