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 SHARING TO INFORM AND EDUCATE ABOUT WASHINGTON D.C.! Today marks a major victory for D.C. residents and for real accountability in our city as we continue to feel the wrath of federal agents patrolling our city. For too long, D.C. has been subjected to aggressive and opaque coordination between MPD and federal agents operating in our neighborhoods. Communities have been left in the dark while masked officers carried out actions with little transparency and even less accountability. That changes today. At my insistence, the D.C. Council voted unanimously to override a politically motivated veto by outgoing Mayor Muriel Bowser and enact the “Full Accountability in Arrest Reporting Amendment Act of 2026.” This law delivers what should have always been the standard: full transparency in police reporting. When federal officers are present, and especially when they use force, that information must now be clearly documented in MPD police reports. No omissions. No ambiguity. No hiding beh...

Here's the real threat to personal liberties and free markets Robert Reich Feb 28 Friends, Here’s an oped by Dana Millbank, an opinion writer for The Washington Post, which ran today in the Post. I hope Millbank continues to write opinion pieces for the Post because I’ve always found his opinions to be sharp and relevant. But given Jeff Bezos’s blatant attempt to turn the Post into a sycophantic suck-up outlet for Trump, I’m not sure. *** Over the last 48 hours, I’ve been receiving from readers and friends the sort of notes one gets upon losing a loved one, or perhaps receiving a terminal diagnosis. “So very sorry.” “Hang in there.” “Sending you love and strength.” “With appreciation and sorrow.” The cause of death? The belief that Post owner Jeff Bezos has  just ended the tradition  of open debate that has guided this paper’s editorial page for generations. “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” Bezos...