Mike Bento (he/him/his)

@STATter911 @OUC_DC What's the Wilson Building equivalent of ketchup being thrown against the wall?

@MikeBento @OUC_DC I agree. Also, their testimony yesterday shows they are continuing to do so. I am sure that wasn't easy.

Important: Testimony before the DC Council yesterday should have you questioning everything you’ve ever heard from DC911/@OUC_DC's director. Former DC Fire & EMS Department Medical Director Dr. Robert P. Holman and former Chief of Staff Amy Mauro lifted the curtain. They showed us how important medical decisions by Dr. Holman were overruled or ignored by the 911 director, resulting in poor performance by DC911. Chief John Donnelly frequently reminds the public that his department runs the third-largest health care agency in the city. What Holman and Mauro show is that running that health care agency is hampered by the 911 director ignoring crucial medical advice and the medical director being unable to verify the quality assurance of EMS calls handled by DC911. Emergency call-taking and dispatching are crucial components of EMS. The medical director must be making these key medical decisions. If you want a 911 center that properly and effectively handles 911 calls, it should be in the hands of the person legally and ethically responsible for pre-hospital patient care. Support the bill submitted by @CMBrookePinto, @Janeese4DC, and @AnitaBondsDC, that puts the medical director fully in charge of EMS. If you like the continued failed coordination between the two agencies, prefer the status quo, and want to protect the turf and egos at OUC, then Director Heather McGaffin’s ridiculous new plan is for you. In her testimony yesterday, McGaffin said she suddenly wants her very own medical director at OUC. One that she can control. Yesterday’s hearing proved that Director McGaffin is really bad at following doctors’ orders. Here is some of the testimony from yesterday, starting with Amy Mauro and Dr. Holman. Then my testimony, followed by the IAFF’s Robert McClintock and David Hoagland. The last video is the questioning by Council member Brooke Pinto, the chair of the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety. #FixDC911 @CMRobertWhiteDC @CMZParker5 @chenderson @charlesallen @ChmnMendelson @BrianneKNadeau @CMFrumin @CMWendellFelder @donicrawford @kpattdc @dclinenews @tomsherwood @NFTC_News @RamirezReports @SegravesNBC4 @ANCCostello @SmithSteiner @johnson4b06 @Evan_Yeats @ANCJonah @MayorBowser @SafeDC @theHillisHome @PoPville @dccrimefacts @abeaujon @SchreiberSara @CapitalJeff @Brightwoodian @ODCA_DC @IAFF36 @dcpoliceunion @jennygathright @tednbc4 @Tenleytown411 @6Min2Live @MattGregoryNews @DCNewsNow @danyagainor @LiannaGoldenTV @KatieLusso @IAFFofficial

The difference between animals and humans is that animals would never allow the dumbest member of the herd to lead them.

@NFTC_News They’re gonna do to her what she did to her dog.

Funny stuff. She is out by next week.

“You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. This is how prayer works.” -Pope Francis

I would rather get a Pap smear by Edward Scissorhands than watch Trump’s State of the Union..

The Epstein survivors. The citizens of Minnesota. The people of Ukraine. Three remarkable examples for all of us of courage, persistence, and resistance in dark times. We will not merely endure, we will prevail.

Trump’s attempt to silence Stephen Colbert has completely backfired.

It’s kind of ironic how Bad Bunny was dancing on an electrical post at the Super Bowl halftime show. Puerto Rico isn’t exactly known for having reliable electricity. He could have highlighted the electrical grid crisis in PR and done some good with his platform, but he chose degeneracy!

She was so close.

@ElaheIzadi @washingtonpost Consider a similar examination into Casa Ruby. While many frontline staff were doing crucial work, the organization continued to get DC grants and contracts without audits, paying taxes, having a functioning board of directors, or basic non profit compliance.

Exclusive reporting, only from the @washingtonpost's local reporters: How D.C. allowed ‘completely inappropriate’ spending by anti-violence group-- includes spending on trips to a New Jersey shopping mall, lavish meals and a pool party with alcohol. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/…

@misterAmos Malingering? Is this guy living in a Charles Dickens novel?

I knew this fucking dork would chime in on some bullshit eventually every single take he has on local DC politics reads like a policy analyst who only leaves home to go to their depressing downtown cubicle. like we are absolutely not living in the same city lol

@misterAmos Silly wabbit. Applying logic and common sense.

@MikeBento 😂😂😂 that would be too easy. why not utterly fail at a cohesive response and make Councilmembers act as liaisons to provide updates instead

y’all can gfy for this one

A whole lotta gays are scrambling for an alibi right about now. Man With Pizza Cutter Is Said to Have Tried to Break Mangione Out of Jail nytimes.com/2026/01/29/nyr…

@misterAmos On brand?

@MikeBento 😂😂😂 every element of it is so transparently inauthentic

who is this even for

Social Dems in Germany in 1937 probably: “Hey should we be saying ‘Abolish the Gestapo’? I know Nazis are rounding up our neighbors and murdering them, but what if it hurts our chances in the next election? Maybe we just go with ‘Gestapo, cut it out!’?”

“I have asked clergy to get their affairs in order, to make sure they have their wills written. Because it may be that now is no longer the time for statements but for us with our bodies to stand between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable.” — ROB HIRSCHFELD, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire