Bridget Todd

Our congressional representative, Eleanor Holmes Norton, she can like vote in committees and introduce legislation and stuff like that, but she can't vote. And so all of this matters for... It's so fucked up. It's... Dude, don't even get me started.

Our congressional representative, Eleanor Holmes Norton, she can like vote in committees and introduce legislation and stuff like that, but she can't vote. And so all of this matters for... It's so fucked up. It's... Dude, don't even get me started.

It is. And it's like, I mean, like, there are so many reasons why it sucks that D.C. 's not a state. But ultimately, it's like, we deserve to have political power. We deserve to have a state.

It is. And it's like, I mean, like, there are so many reasons why it sucks that D.C. 's not a state. But ultimately, it's like, we deserve to have political power. We deserve to have a state.

It is. And it's like, I mean, like, there are so many reasons why it sucks that D.C. 's not a state. But ultimately, it's like, we deserve to have political power. We deserve to have a state.

And I mean, I could talk all day when Republican lawmakers get on TV. And I remember they would shit on D.C. by saying things like there's not even loggers who live there. It's not even a real place. Like as if the only way to actually meaningfully exist in the United States is like you have to have loggers who live there.

And I mean, I could talk all day when Republican lawmakers get on TV. And I remember they would shit on D.C. by saying things like there's not even loggers who live there. It's not even a real place. Like as if the only way to actually meaningfully exist in the United States is like you have to have loggers who live there.

And I mean, I could talk all day when Republican lawmakers get on TV. And I remember they would shit on D.C. by saying things like there's not even loggers who live there. It's not even a real place. Like as if the only way to actually meaningfully exist in the United States is like you have to have loggers who live there.

So all of this background really matters to Trump's kind of tense relationship with D.C., like the district. Trump, as you all might remember, spent quite a lot of time just talking straight shit about the district and announcing these like big plans to take over D.C. The background is a little bit complicated, but the quick and dirty version is that D.C. has what's called home rule.

So all of this background really matters to Trump's kind of tense relationship with D.C., like the district. Trump, as you all might remember, spent quite a lot of time just talking straight shit about the district and announcing these like big plans to take over D.C. The background is a little bit complicated, but the quick and dirty version is that D.C. has what's called home rule.

So all of this background really matters to Trump's kind of tense relationship with D.C., like the district. Trump, as you all might remember, spent quite a lot of time just talking straight shit about the district and announcing these like big plans to take over D.C. The background is a little bit complicated, but the quick and dirty version is that D.C. has what's called home rule.

So that's like the ability for D.C. to govern, like for our local government and leaders to like make decisions about what happens to the district. And on the campaign trail, Trump was saying he wants to change this, that D.C. 's home rule would be revoked and that the federal government, basically him, would dictate how D.C. is run as a city. Because D.C.

So that's like the ability for D.C. to govern, like for our local government and leaders to like make decisions about what happens to the district. And on the campaign trail, Trump was saying he wants to change this, that D.C. 's home rule would be revoked and that the federal government, basically him, would dictate how D.C. is run as a city. Because D.C.

So that's like the ability for D.C. to govern, like for our local government and leaders to like make decisions about what happens to the district. And on the campaign trail, Trump was saying he wants to change this, that D.C. 's home rule would be revoked and that the federal government, basically him, would dictate how D.C. is run as a city. Because D.C.

is not a state, technically any president could have that authority to interfere with how D.C. is run. So, yeah, any president could, like, take over the police department and take over the powers our mayor, Muriel Bowser, currently has over the city. Right.

is not a state, technically any president could have that authority to interfere with how D.C. is run. So, yeah, any president could, like, take over the police department and take over the powers our mayor, Muriel Bowser, currently has over the city. Right.

is not a state, technically any president could have that authority to interfere with how D.C. is run. So, yeah, any president could, like, take over the police department and take over the powers our mayor, Muriel Bowser, currently has over the city. Right.

I mean this in the most literal sense. Nobody. Zero. I was out there flying solo and I had multiple friends be like, you're crazy to go down there. Like what? Like everybody.

I mean this in the most literal sense. Nobody. Zero. I was out there flying solo and I had multiple friends be like, you're crazy to go down there. Like what? Like everybody.

I mean this in the most literal sense. Nobody. Zero. I was out there flying solo and I had multiple friends be like, you're crazy to go down there. Like what? Like everybody.