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For my fellow DC residents who have to watch Isr@el have more representation than us in Congress everyday. Taxation w/o representation for us. Representation w/o taxation for them. Use responsibly 🙃: bit.ly/rep-no-tax

I’m no Ana K defender, but AOC has gone to great lengths to defend military aid to Israel while being able to technically maintain that she didn’t vote for it. She didn’t vote for it, she voted against cutting it (and put out public statements in support of the aid).

BREAKING: Rep. DeGette gets heated with a constituent pressing her on why she voted to send bombs to Israel: "If this the only issue that you care about is this issue, then you should not vote for me" DeGette, who's 68, is facing a primary challenge from @MelatKirosCO.

@ENicoleJustUS What is your issue with the organizers?

@EvoBabble Folks inside Washington know the organizers and how it was organized. Politics is messy sometimes. I’m not sure how I would react to a longtime colleague (now opponent) calling me a sellout in front of my family. Not cool but it’s the game that has to be played I guess? Good luck

Actually incredible he posted this himself and chose to include the part where the organizers tell him to sit his ass down.

Is Vincent Orange running for mayor or liquor board? 🤔

Meanwhile look at the expressions of our Daal Gadot next to him

@uhshanti @mehdirhasan Somebody said Daal Galot and I cannot stop laughing!

@uhshanti @mehdirhasan BJP gal gadot 😭😭😭

saying that next to BJP Gal Gadot is funny as hell

“No to war and Free Palestine” — Javier Bardem at the Oscars

Damn fashion is truly getting mad Indian.

If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz

This week the New York Times published two articles devoted to explaining what the United States and Israel are targeting in their war on Iran. Across both articles, the description of what the bombing campaign is hitting is sourced entirely to U.S. and Israeli officials: a “senior U.S. military official” speaking anonymously, the Pentagon, U.S. Central Command, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Israeli military, and Israel’s ambassador to Washington. Neither article quotes Iranian officials, independent analysts, humanitarian organizations, or civilians inside Iran. Neither article makes any mention of civilian deaths or the destruction of civilian infrastructure, including medical centers, water desalination plants, apartment buildings, mosques, or schools.

Freezing property taxes in DC is one of the worst policy ideas I've heard. It's a massive tax cut for people who own properties — including multimillion-dollar houses — paid for by DC residents who do not own homes. It also drains revenue from DC while we're in a fiscal crisis.

Commentator Stefan Renna on Swiss public broadcaster RTS sparked controversy during Israeli captain AJ Edelman’s second bobsleigh run at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina, bringing up Edelman’s past social media posts supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza, including one calling it “the most morally just war in history.” He compared the situation to the IOC’s restrictions on Russian and Belarusian athletes, and asked why similar neutrality standards were not being applied to Israel. Israel’s bobsleigh team, “Shul Runnings,” finished 26th out of 26 sleds, recording the slowest start and finish times in both heats, according to official results. Despite the ranking, pilot AJ Edelman stated, "We are victors, not victims.” Edelman holds dual Israeli and U.S. citizenship.

Compare how Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Editorial Board treated Republican redistricting in Texas and Democrat redistricting in Maryland and Virginia.

DC’s Center-Right Mayor — who was endorsed by the WaPo Editorial Board three times — failed to clear the city’s streets and sidewalks for a full week and counting. WaPo Editorial Board: Here is how it’s actually a democratic socialist’s fault.