Joe Weedon

Who wins Saturday's massive game between @IlliniMBB and @MSU_Basketball? ➡️ @TheAndyKatz lays out the stakes 🔥 📍 @AutoOwnersIns

Who else is taking this step today? Bye, @washingtonpost. 25 years as a subscriber are coming to an end.

Last October, a driver hit a kid in a crosswalk in DC. He had 60 outstanding tickets totaling $14,988, 90%-ish of which were for failure to stop at a stop sign. Luckily, this kid was able to walk away. Reminder: no one is getting ticketed for going 3-10mph over the speed limit.

BREAKING: Oklahoma State Superintendent @RyanWalters_ just announced that every single high school in the state will now be required to have a Turning Point USA chapter. Ask yourself: how would the right react if a Democratic superintendent forced every school to host a Black Lives Matter club, a Sunrise Movement chapter, an ANTIFA club, or a Planned Parenthood student group? They would call it indoctrination — and they’d be right. This is deeply concerning. Public schools should not be turned into mandatory recruitment hubs for any political organization.

Trump-friendly billionaires are consolidating control over American media, steering legacy brands and social platforms in a new conservative direction. axios.com/2025/09/18/tru…

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like. yahoo.com/news/articles/…

The cycle repeats ... I just found Council testimony on this from 15 years ago while cleaning out old files. How should D.C. schools fix its chronic absenteeism problem? wapo.st/4nd8hiY

Why do we need Food Stamps tied to work? Raise the minimum wage and cap corporate wages/benefits so employees are paid enough that they don't need government assistance. politico.com/live-updates/2…

Kinda obscure, but a big deal for public access to DC records: The Court of Appeals ruled today that Bowser has to disclose agency budget requests. Basically, this is how much money agencies say they need (often quite different from what they get): dccourts.gov/sites/default/…

How much does it cost to feed a child with SNAP benefits? $6 per day.
  How much does the GOP Budget give away to the rich? $6 million — per billionaire.
  The American people won’t forget the GOP's betrayal.

@Ruth4Schools @hugolowell It's gotta be Trumpian.

@hugolowell “Nice law firm you have there. It would be a shame if anything happened to it.” How to describe these tactics? Mafia? Putinesque? Stalinist? What ideas do people have?

New: Trump's memo targeting the law firm representing Special Counsel Jack Smith is out -- orders the suspension of any security clearances held by Peter Koski and other lawyers at Covington & Burling, and directs agencies essentially to stop using the firm as outside counsel

I have a message for Donald Trump: nobody fights harder than a mom. Republican leadership may have denied my ability to vote by proxy but that didn’t stop us from voting against this disastrous budget that strips away health care and food for seniors, veterans, kids and families across Colorado — all to give tax breaks to billionaires like Elon Musk. I’ll never back down when it comes to our kids.

Government is about means as well as ends. Donald Trump’s critics are right to be alarmed by the way he is approaching power econ.st/3Qp8X5J

Today, we unequivocally and unapologetically reaffirm, to the United States of America and to the World, the following undeniable and indisputable facts. We ask all Americans, including all elected officials from all Parties and all levels of Government, to join us by sharing and reposting this message for the World to see: 🇺🇸 Three years ago today, Vladimir Putin illegally invaded Ukraine without justification and without provocation.   🇺🇸 The United States of America stands for the Rule of Law, and respects and defends the borders and territorial sovereignty of all Freedom-Loving Nations.   🇺🇸 Ukraine is an independent, sovereign, and freedom-loving nation, and is an ally of the United States of America and the Free World.   🇺🇸 Vladimir Putin, through his illegal invasions, genocide, kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of innocent civilians, including women and children, is an enemy of the United States of America and the Free World.   🇺🇸 The United States of America stands with Democracies and opposes Dictatorships. 🇺🇸 Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the Legitimately Elected President of Ukraine through a free and fair election.   🇺🇸 Vladimir Putin is an Unelected Dictator who imprisons his political opponents and who has never held a free and fair election.   🇺🇸 The Ukrainian election has been delayed because Ukraine is under daily relentlessly bombings, over 200 per day, by Vladimir Putin, and Ukraine is in a State of 24/7 Martial Law.   🇺🇸 Ukraine will hold their elections as soon as Vladimir Putin stops his unprovoked, unjustified daily bombings inside Ukraine. 🇺🇸 If Putin is rewarded for his illegal invasion and genocide, this will serve as a green-light incentive to other Dictators, such as CCP Chairman Xi Jinping, to pursue their own conquests (i.e. Taiwan), which will lead to more instability across the Globe. 🇺🇸 Dictators like Vladimir Putin are the Adult Versions of the School Yard Bullies that we all confronted in Grade School. And they must be dealt with in the same exact way. There is Peace through Strength, and there is War through Weakness. There is no magical third option.   #PeaceThroughStrength

This is not true: the Clinton effort was led by VP Gore who assembled a task force of hundreds of federal workers to spend 6 months looking across gov’t and issue recommendations by September 1993. The recommendations became BIPARTISAN legislation that was passed into law.

On, Wisconsin! Congrats to the 2025 Posse Scholars.

If government was tihs simple...

@maustermuhle Can we get a 2nd tunnel under the Potomac?

I went down a bit of a rabbit hole recently on what AI image generators imagine D.C. would look like in 20-50 years. There seems to be consensus that the Height Act will be gone. Other possibilities: a monorail of sorts, a second U.S. Capitol, and lots of flying vehicles.

Finally. A small step. After D.C. school’s collapse, council may boost oversight of charters washingtonpost.com/education/2024…

@TonyHackPhoto Thanks, Tony. Hope you're well.

What a dramatic win for THE Fighting Illini (@UofIllinois) over Rutgers! Congrats, Joe (@joeweedon)! Best to Amy!