Erica

What was I supposed to do, not dance with a dog?

[One Perfect Shot @OnePerfectShot]

The most anticipated release of January has arrived ⬇️

[david ehrlich @davidehrlich]

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025

A Video Countdown

https://t.co/TTdUE7JtBD

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

how it actually feels going to the movies alone

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

How to introduce use of the military in American cities in 3 easy steps:
1) Send large #s of masked, heavily-armed ICE agents to indiscriminately harass citizens & non-citizens alike.
2) Foment protests & messy confrontations.
3) Announce that troops are needed to protect ICE.

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

Mahmoud Khalil has been "doing politics the right way" by exercising and defending free speech rights, and having public policy debates on campus with a hostile public. His reward hasn't been hagiography, it's months of unlawful detention and retaliatory threats of deportation.

[jourdain searles @judysquirrels]

it’s so insane to watch palestinians be bombed and starved for 2 fucking years and every time someone tries to help them, this cruel bullshit happens. this isn’t normal! this shouldn’t be normal!

[Councilmember_RobertWhite @CMRobertWhiteDC]

STATEMENT FROM COUNCILMEMBER ROBERT WHITE: URGENT CALL TO END FEDERAL OCCUPATION IN D.C.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say https://t.co/3psTRc9FEF

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

In 2024 @SenJeffMerkley & I visited the Rafah gate on the Egypt-Gaza border. On the other side was Gaza’s thriving city of Rafah — home to 270K. Today we saw it reduced to rubble.

The Netanyahu government has gone beyond targeting Hamas to waging a war of destruction against all Palestinians. It must end.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Every day. The genocide continues. With full US complicity.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

To recap:
* They took $1b out of DC's budget
* They promised to restore it
* They never did
*They gutted the National Park Service
* They called in the National Guard from a number of states to combat crime
* The guard is doing custodial work that DC and NPS usually do

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

Leading global experts just confirmed what we’ve long known: Gaza is in famine. At least half a million Palestinians are facing starvation, acute malnutrition and death. And it’s likely to spread.

The U.S. government is not a bystander to this genocide. We can end it today.

[Sharon Nadeem @SharonNadeem]

Interesting that @lpolgreen's essay on Anas Al-Sharif's assassination already has a different headline to include what "Israel says."

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Since Mar 2024 I’ve warned the UN I serve at great personal cost: the destruction of Gaza’s health system is clear proof of genocidal intent.

I’m in disbelief at its paralysis.

States must break the blockade, send NAVIES with aid, and stop the genocide.History will not forget.

[Lulu NYT @LuluGNavarro]

In all seriousness, what I hear from DC residents is that they’d like the 1 billion dollars Congress cut from the city budget back to make schools better (and the local police better funded). Also, if people don’t like their city government, they vote them out. That’s normally how these things work.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

One way we could make DC safer and cleaner without using the national guard would be to restore the $1b in cuts to the city budget that was passed into law with Trump's signature—which Trump and Republicans were supposed to reverse but never got around to.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

I respect Pete. But we need moral clarity, not status quo. Yes, @jonfavs Dems should have voted for the Sanders Amdt. Yes, Dems should join my letter recognizing a Palestinian state. Yes, Trump AND Biden disastrously failed on Gaza, & we need a new human rights centered vision.

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

#Gaza: We condemn the killing by Israeli military of 6 Palestinian journalists by targeting their tent, in grave breach of international humanitarian law. #Israel must respect & protect all civilians, including journalists. At least 242 Palestinian journalists were killed in Gaza since 7 Oct 2023.

We call for immediate, safe & unhindered access to Gaza for all journalists.