If you can make it in the room but your morals and beliefs cannot, you have not gained power, power has gained you.

Yes, yes you can comrade Elmo

Of the 5 "retail recovery grants" 2 went to already-planned projects and 2 to subsidize chains (including one awful union-buster) to move back INTO THEIR OWN VACANT SPACES. Mayor Muriel Bowser DMPED Brooke Pinto and CM McDuffie's Office are managing to produce zero new jobs or investment.

RIGHT NOW: Family, friends and community members are gathered on the 2500 block of Marion Barry Ave SE in remembrance of Justin Robinson, a violence interrupter shot and killed by DC Police Department less than a week ago. Washington Informer story coming soon...

NOTE: Family members said they declined the release of the body cam footage b/c they wanted the entire 19 mins released, not the redacted version.

DC NOW: Vigil for Justin Robinson is over and crowd hits the streets. Justin was loved in community #JusticeforJustin

This is awful on many levels but: 1) No landlord should be allowed to "certify" a unit as compliant. Rapid re-housing requires inspections for housing code compliance prior to move-in. Why didn't that happen?

I recently toured the Kite House condos at Walter Reed - incredibly expensive & very, very small. None have separate living room/dining room - your couch will be a few feet from your stove. The 1200sqft 2bedrm is close to a mill + condo fees. On former public land. Damn shame.

Police killed more people in 2021 than in 2020, the year of George Floyd's murder. They killed more people in 2022 than in 2021. They killed more people in 2023 than in 2022. And they are on pace to kill far more in 2024 than 2023.

Justin Robinson was the son of a beloved member of the HD Woodson HS community. They are fundraising for a homegoing service to honor his memory. Please donate if you can. gofundme.com/f/honor-justin…

For the record I’m a legal scholar and I did not want fundamental rights to be governed by the states. And most of the legal scholars I know didn’t either.

Mayor Bowser cut 1,000 families from D.C.'s rapid rehousing program weeks before they could access new housing resources. Councilmembers and advocates warn this could push families back into homelessness. buff.ly/3ZjXlXa

Under any conservative reading of the data, judges commit far more illegal cash bail violations every year in California than there are instances of shoplifting.

It's one of the oldest scams in politics but it's always incredible to watch them do it in real time

BREAKING: Incoming reports from two sources I’ve contacted on the ground claim that an NYPD officer shot someone at the Stutter Avenue train stop because he didn’t pay the fare. The individual has been declared dead on arrival at the hospital. Unknown if officers were harmed,