This is what faith looks like. Look at all of these ppl of faith who came out to support a #FreeDC. Faith looks like caring for our neighbors, not the national guard and kidnapping people and evicting homeless folks.

.West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy and Invest in Louisiana are calling on their governors to withdraw their National Guards from DC. DC residents deserve the same right to local self-governance that other states’ residents enjoy. #FreeDC wvpolicy.org/recall-our-nat…

I've been hearing over and over from DC restaurant operators the last couple weeks: many of their employees are afraid to come to work right now. And it's not just undocumented workers. Immigrants with legal status fear being detained too. washingtonian.com/2025/08/26/man…

Clearing encampments makes it harder for people to get into housing. People’s IDs that they need to get into housing are destroyed, people’s medications are thrown away, people’s bikes that they need to get to work are often trashed. buff.ly/xTj3ILZ

“Things get a little better when we ask for help. People help us. Most astonishing of all, people forgive us, and we eventually forgive them. Talk about miracles.” ~ANNE LAMOTT

This speaks perfectly to my most recent story for The 51st on how when it comes to makes parks in D.C. beautiful, it’s often the city that has picked up where the federal government has failed. Read it here: 51st.news/trump-wants-to…

Daily cost of Trump deploying the National Guard to Chicago: $1.59 million Daily cost of housing every unhoused person in Chicago: $383,000 No, Trump doesn't want to solve problems. He wants to waste our resources on reckless shows of authoritarianism.

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Obvious overdue work for National Park Service ... years of neglect and/or no funding. Maybe that "beautiful" dc task force President created can find its way to these eyesores.

If you live outside of DC, please take action right now.

The mayor's lopsided economic agenda is leaving our most vulnerable neighbors behind. And I can't imagine the horrors that the 2025 data will show.

The Council votes today on the RENTAL Act, which would gut tenant protections through developer-driven policy changes that disproportionately harm Black renters. dcfpi.org/all/dc-council…

The RENTAL Act speeds up eviction proceedings and removes long-standing tenants rights under the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act. A DC government racial equity assessment found it would intensify racial disparities. washingtoncitypaper.com/article/768220…

Tenants' rights are under threat at the Council of DC; here’s what you need to know:

The Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act is a DC law that allows tenants a say when their building is for sale. They can negotiate to buy the building, improve conditions, & add affordability. TOPA is a national model for keeping buildings affordable & creating tenant power.

The RENTAL Act is a bill up for a second vote in front of the Council of DC today, and in the bill’s current form, it would speed up evictions and take away TOPA rights from thousands of renters.

Unfortunately, some CMs are also trying to strip TOPA rights from even more DC residents. Anita Bonds introduced an amendment to take TOPA rights from every renter in a 2-4 unit building, which would have a devastating impact on the effectiveness of the program.

Make sure your councilmember knows they should support DC renters and protect TOPA! You can find their contact information here: dccouncil.gov/councilmembers/

Members of Congress can of course argue whatever they want, but coming at D.C. about responsible budgeting when Congress almost never passes its own actual budgets is, well, something.