@billbindc

billbindc at the blue place

@alpert @patbahn @leylaaa31 @ggwash Curious what the argument is that Bowser hated urbanism. In the last 12 years we got a ton of bus/bike lanes, we get traffic calming across the city and she over saw a large bump in housing creation. What’s the other side of the argument?

@patbahn @leylaaa31 @ggwash Very sad

I don’t think @ggwash pivoted left per se - we/they feuded with lefty MoCo Executive Marc Elrich for his whole tenure and endorsed maybe the least left candidate (Friedson) now. What happened was the Bowser establishment and “business community” pivoted against urbanism.

This...absolutely:

The parable of the fox and the hedgehog: To win, the US must control the Strait, choke Iranian oil, avoid casualties, supply forces, secure allied facilities, manage energy prices, eliminate Iranian strikes, etc.  To win, Iran just needs to only deny the US one or two of those.

I need everyone with any modicum of influence in the Democratic Party or prominent progressive organization to drill this into their skull: “It's a DC myth that the swing voter is a hyper-engaged centrist that writes for the Washington Post. The average swing voter is very much a heterodox moderate — some far-right views, some far-left views. And they don't really care that much about politics. They don't trust people very much. They think that politicians are in it for themselves. And they generally vote for whoever makes the economy the best and whoever has the least chaos in their opinion. So that group overlaps a lot with young voters. It overlaps a lot with Hispanic voters. It overlaps a lot in general with the types of low-propensity voters that Donald Trump has gained a lot with. …[A lot of] these people don't care about politics when a presidential election is not on the ballot. They don't even know a special election is a thing. They barely know a midterm exists.”

@tomsherwood Here's a study that should be part of the debate: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Studies (along with reviews, task forces, etc) are good ways to not do what you don't want to do.

@tomsherwood Tom...where would we find a list of candidates who successfully filed?

This site will take you to all the June races, including the special at-large race to fill the six-month remainder of Kenyan McDuffie’s term. Only 5 of 13 announced candidates filed petitions to get on that ballot. dcboe.org/elections/2026…

#News - DC Attorney Gen Brian Schwalb will run unopposed in the June Democratic Primary. The one person who had announced against him failed to file campaign petitions before today’s 5 pm deadline. @wcp

Electoral environment is going from bad to worse for Republicans in our polling — among enthusiastic voters, the generic is a tick above D+9 in our latest survey, which...that's catastrophic for Republicans. Like, if that holds, that's where Talarico becomes a near-favorite.

they're calling it the Worst First Date Option In DC History

Tonight, Congress will vote to lower the age to prosecute minors as adults from 16 down to 14 in DC. Let me get this straight: Congress wants to prosecute 14 yr. olds as adults, but they don’t want to prosecute adults who sexually abuse 14 year olds? Release the Epstein files.

Manchin told @WSJ Cornyn personally begged him to vote to preserve the filibuster when Dems were in power. “He said, ‘Joe…you get rid of this filibuster and I guarantee you it’ll ruin the Senate. It’ll ruin the way we do business here," Manchin recalled. wsj.com/politics/polic…

Tanker traffic through Strait of Hormuz down by 90% Analysis of vessel activity indicates tanker transits are now around 90% lower than last week. Matt Wright, Principal Freight Analyst at Kpler, explains: "Unlike several other vessel segments where movements have largely ceased, some tankers are still travelling east and west through the strait, with a number of voyages occurring under AIS blackouts."

That's a change of tone from *checks watch* 24 hours ago

@stanveuger @kylewilsontharp @dioscuri @adamwren An airport bar and not a good one.

@kylewilsontharp @dioscuri @adamwren As one of the *very* few people who had a drink there (w/ @BillBindc), it was nothing like that (sadly)

Idea: a bar called The Situation Room. Like a sports bar but for politics. Cable news and live feeds on the screens instead of football. Atlases and copies of Jane’s Defence Weekly on every table. Multiple sets of Risk and Diplomacy behind the bar.

Unbelievable footage from inside the Era Tower in Manama (Bahrain 🇧🇭), filming the Iranian Shahed drones as it slams into the buildings, just several floors up from the POV

Love.

Miss the Blob yet?

NEW: Cardinal Dolan accuses the Trump-Vance ICE of “targeting, harassing, and going into” Catholic parishes. He called it a major violation of religious liberty.

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.