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Academic grumpy cat in DC. Marylander 🦀. Geographer 🌎. Research US militias, Christian Right, Northern Ireland, & #DC metro. Write 4 Political Research Associates/Public Eye, Greater Greater Washington, and Streetsense DC. Love ocean creatures 🐳🦈🐙
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DMV schools have been awfully timid as the poop hits the fan. At the very least, I wish the consortium school (American, George Washington, Georgetown, George Mason, Catholic, UMD, VT in DC) would issue a joint statement. AU is newly R1

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Not sure why they put scare quotes around the word nazi. Even the far right French guy understood *exactly* what it was.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Irish America has been relentlessly bipartisan. It paid off during Brexit, when D and R members of congress lobbied against a hard border on the island of Ireland. They even had the backing of trump's chief of staff/later special envoy to NI, Mick Mulvaney. That may not survive his second term 1/2

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Another story abt people voting 4 trump & now unsure abt what he's done. 1 thing really stood out to me. Trump killed a trade deal in his 1st term that hurt this couple but they still voted 4 him bc: Biden's "overzealous environmental regulation" &"extreme social views." Nazi salutes aren't extreme?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Go Terps! 🐢

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Europe's largest pension fund sold its entire €571 million ($585 million) stake in Tesla #DefundMusk

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Like a lot of magas, this guy assumed musk/trump would hurt those 'other' people, not him. Despite the strong 'leopard ate my face vibes,' i can't celebrate his firing. The feds are not the enemy. But at some point, trump voters are gonna have to reckon with the havoc they brought on all of us.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Bravery comes in lots of forms. Truth telling is one of them.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Stop calling these acts of deliberate malicious destruction mistakes — if you close your eyes and fire machine gun spray ceaselessly into a crowd claiming you just want to scare some of them off, it’s not a mistake that there are casualties.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

I remember as a kid watching my hometown's 2 largest employers do rounds of layoffs. It was scary, but distant because it wasn't my job to figure out what to do if my dad was laid off. Sitting on the other side of the fence, though is downright terrifying. 1/4

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Mexican writer Leon Krauze has some good advice 4 the opposition in today's wapo. Get a spokesperson & never let them shut up. AMLO gave a press conference every day of his presidency. He ended up creating THE narrative. This is what voldemort does. We need a T'Challa/Gandolf/Zena to counter him 1/3

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Pardon Tracker is an independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, documenting the statements, activities, and networks of the individuals that received pardons for participating in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Details on how to support this project:

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

DC protest today.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote this short blog piece for the LSE Phelan United States Center ( @lseblogs.bsky.social ). It's about what J6 clemency says about the kind of government trump is likely to run this time around. Far-right regimes that use paramilitaries aren't pretty.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

@defector.bsky.social is cookin'. I started reading it after @washingtonpost.com bent the knee & smooched cheeto-dusted butt cheeks. It's obviously not a 1-1 replacement, but cheeky headlines, delivered with robust analysis of the depravity we're facing, gives me hope. Like this ⬇️one is spot on.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Moonpie loves to throw rhetorical bombs, but there's little evidence, from his time in the Senate or from his 'throw mama under the hillbilly bus' book, that he can build consensus on anything beyond the already widespread view that he's a bad combination of creepy and weird

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“Doing mutual aid I run into a ton of different types of people from all walks of life, but one of my favorite groups are the extremely supportive mothers and grandmothers of radicals.” ~ kolektiva.social/@temerity/11...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

This is great advice. Don't do dirty work for anyone who insists dirty work is necessary but refuses to do it themselves. That's a sign you're about to be thrown under a bus. Let Bove/Bonde dismiss. They should have to face the judge & deal with what it might mean to their standing w/ the bar

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

LGTBQ+ friends (sorry if I forgot some letters...they're digging up the street outside) -- Maryland has a LOT of protections in terms of fair housing. Here's a cheat sheet with state and local protected classes. econaction.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

A brief break from the sh*t show here in the dmv to say watching the highlight reels on the Everton/Liverpool game yesterday was sheer delight. When a tie is a win! Last game at merseyside!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Wait til she hears about Amy Chua 🤢

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

More Court Stenography from @washingtonpost.com. I won't even link to the article it is so shameful. DC is a company town, yet nowhere do the reporters discuss whether musk's moves are legal or what they will do to the city, let alone the country. 1/5

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

ADL has a post on x condemning Kanye's recent antisemitic tirade. They're right to condem him, but because ADL refused to condemn musk's nazi salute, no one is talking about kanye. Instead, they're focused on ADL's rank hypocrisy. This is how u run an organization into the ground

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Depressing to open up @washingtonpost.com & see no blaring headlines abt musk's takeover of us govt agencies. It's code red & they are focusing on technical things (fed workers to decide on deferred resignations by today) & maga checkins (maga likes what they see). Its NOT a regular thursday y'all

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

"Resignation Scam" is a good way to describe this cluster fork

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This lawsuit is great, but the city needs a permanent fix to deconflict 2 important programs for low income housing--rent control and housing choice vouchers. Right, now landlords are using vouchers to undermine rent control. I wrote about this last year for @ggwash.org (link in the reply).

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment