The future of DC calls for safe streets, fast and frequent public transit, and far more housing than we currently have.
Making DC affordable for working families requires us to unlock barriers to housing and a transportation system that works for all of us.
Let's work together to get it done! ✅
The DC I know is worth fighting for.
I’m Janeese Lewis George, and I’m running for Mayor.
youtu.be/aOBD45c3wVM
Fantastic!
This is where Ellington and MacArthur students transfer to buses to get to their schools. The accountability is firmly with @mayorbowser.dc.gov and @dcpublicschools.bsky.social Lewis Ferebee for abandoning kids. Our school choice transit system makes kids vulnerable. www.popville.com/2025/10/hara...
Bike lanes are anti-ice! Also love the other biker that made room.
tapping the "please support billionaire-free, independent, and/or worker-run local newsrooms" special DC edition:
@51st.news
@washingtoninformer.com
@wcp.bsky.social
@streetsensedc.bsky.social
A note on this: a source with knowledge just told me former Ward 4 CM/lobbyist/Bowser pal Brandon Todd is throwing his annual summer party on Martha’s Vineyard tonight. Not saying I’ve heard the mayor is there (she says she’s picking up her daughter from camp) just observing the coincidence…
The Washington Post reports per two sources familiar that Mayor Bowser’s “strategy…is to try to outlast the White House’s interest in the city and position the mayor as central to Trump’s wins… That approach involved agreeing to cooperate with ICE”
Bowser’s strategy is to collaborate and throw DC to the fucking wolves?!? No hell is hot enough!
I hate this so much for a ton of reasons but especially because of *course* physical & life sciences are political. Maybe moreso, because they can be very expensive. Why do you study this instead of that? Who decides what’s fundable? It’s a resource allocation, and that’s political.
Unconscionable bullshit from the mayor.
@mayorbowser.bsky.social showed a hell of a lot more fire and urgency about getting a stadium deal than about the federal government taking over and occupying our city
biden, mayor bowser, and plenty of centrist pundits share a big chunk of the blame for the DC mess. the nonsense they spread about the DC criminal reform bill a couple of years ago paved the way for what trump is now doing.
Strongly dislike the DC Council statement on all this. I wish we had stronger moral leadership.
it is not some accident that the people suing charlottesville over its efforts to build more housing are retired university professors and their friends
If it is OK for publicly-funded scientists to be political activists in their capacities as publicly-funded scientists, then is it also ok to defund those scientists for political reasons?
We should engage in political activism as well-informed human beings, and not in our professional capacities.
Climate models have underestimated the departure of high temperature extremes from monthly means.
If we assume these model biases persist in future projections, then the climate models are also likely underestimating the magnitude of future high temperature extremes.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
we are apartment sitting for some close friends in brooklyn and i have to say that as a person who does not live here the density of public services and amenities is incredible. (and, of course, literal density is what makes it possible!)
ICYMI: DC’s weekend floods were part of a bigger pattern. AU’s Stephen MacAvoy explains how a wavy jet stream, warmer air, and more humidity are fueling more extreme weather across the U.S. Read the interview: bit.ly/44GWodR
8,000 spots in towering parking garages? That’s a fumble. A brand new Metro Station? Touchdown!
Hear more from CM Allen: youtu.be/6WQcD8Uqog0
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Same firm was fired from an impact study of historic districts, with an oversight member commenting their report "reads almost as a defense of a historic district rather than a rigorous intellectual examination of their impacts." www.pressherald.com?p=6923924&uu...
"Would you tell Jack Evans to fundraise for a review of the District’s ethics laws, and then conduct that review?" But that's exactly what DC OP is doing by asking the DC preservation league to assess historic districts. If you are in one of the ANCs listed, please write to oppose this.
Amazing! I'm so happy the DC Council is moving forward in implementing I-83.
Councilmember Brianne K Nadeau speaks into a microphone on the dais in the Council chamber of the John A Wilson Building
COMING SOON: Ranked Choice Voting, as demanded by voters in I-83! @cmchenderson.bsky.social and I introduced a budget amendment this a.m. which passed 8-4. Let’s give voters more agency and let’s honor their Nov 2024 vote for this.
Congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social who is giving New Yorkers and all of us hope tonight. His campaign was about lowering the cost of living for working class New Yorkers and I am not surprised that it resonated so deeply with voters! 🙌🏾❤️🌹
My new piece looks at proposed climate policy changes under the second Trump administration so far. Here's the tl;dr version.
This is part of a @cepr.org eBook out today edited by Gary Gensler,
@simonhrjohnson.bsky.social, @upanizza.bsky.social, and @wederdim.bsky.social.
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Judge Session: I see no evidence of risk or danger of any kind. The court orders ICE to release Rümeysa Öztürk from custody IMMEDIATELY. She is free to return to her home in Massachusetts. Also free to travel within Mass and VT. I'm not going to restrict her travel, because I see no danger of flight
Unlike other people who pretend to know what they’re talking about on this, I actually represent the country’s biggest military community. Kicking out trans service members is the last thing we need when trans people are TWICE as likely as cis people to join the military.
This is by far the best path I've read that universities should follow.
