Catholic. Hatred welcomer. Former: Director of Outreach+Engagement, Rodney Stooksbury 2020. Current: Guzmán Chair in Social Theory, The New School-Buenos Aires.
I love DC, where else can you get the 18th spot in the queue for two copies of Legacy of Ashes around the corner from a delicious breakfast taco and cocktail spot
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
Norman Rockwell painting "Southern Justice (Murder in Mississippi)." It depicts the final moments in the lives of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights workers killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan over 50 years ago for registering people to vote.
I wrote about a glaring issue with I83. Are @DCDemocrats aware that their voters will not have a voice in the second At-Large seat? I'm not against rank choice, but this impl is bad https://t.co/zuEhjlnohl
Today's featured member in our daily series is Aparna R., who joined DSA in '19 and has been involved with tenant, labor, and electoral organizing, was an at-large member of the Steering Committee in '22-24, and served as Chapter Chair in '23. Join today: https://t.co/OyfEbfnxUX
Aparna is “well-funded” because she has actual grassroots support. she has over 1,400 small donors from DC, far more than any other candidate in the race. she broke day 1 fundraising records AND became the fastest ward-level campaign in DC history to max out on public matching 💸
I know this is the kind of story people calibrate for likes but hand to God, the last time we were in Navy Yard we walked past a restaurant patio and I had such a visceral bad impression that I stopped Irene and asked if she had noticed anything. It turned out to be Scarlet Oak.