Owner Capitol Romance LLC💗 Tech leader & strategic comms by day | working parent of 3! | feminist | safe streets advocate | imperfect ally | tweets 100% my own
Parker, I'm so glad I had the chance to meet you today (and for the dance party)! Keep on dreaming big for yourself...and maybe one day I'll proudly look up at a portrait of you!
@CapitolRomance
Also not sure why you think being concerned about carjackings and super predators is funny when one just killed an innocent human being. DC is a warzone.
A slew of bars and restaurants in the D.C. area announced they would be temporarily closing during the coronavirus pandemic. We're tracking them all here:
DC Journalists - this is a call to action for you to do your duty and get to the bottom of why a man that confessed to murdering a 13yo child, still hasn’t been arrested. Stop taking Conte & Bowser at their word. We need Truth and we need Justice.
SHE’S HOME!!!!! Thank you to everyone for sharing. The most amazing couple took her in and has been caring for her and we connected over Pawboost! Thank you all!!
Hi
#Brookland
neighbors - can you be on the lookout for our dog? A small dachshund that's been lost since this morning? We live at 14th & Otis. Please let me know if you see her ... & please RT!
@BrooklandBridge
@PoPville
Hi
#Brookland
neighbors - can you be on the lookout for our dog? A small dachshund that's been lost since this morning? We live at 14th & Otis. Please let me know if you see her ... & please RT!
@BrooklandBridge
@PoPville
Not to be an asshole but
@DCPSChancellor
couldn't accomplish this list when they had an entire summer before the school year started, how they going to do it in 3 days?
With a negative test to return to school, safe school environments *also* need:
✅Ongoing weekly testing
✅KN95 masks
✅Outdoor eating
✅Functioning HVAC
✅Open communication
✅Synchronous virtual learning plans for untested students + those testing positive and/or quarantining
The family is quoted as saying “this is not an accident, this was a choice.” I couldn’t agree more & believe it’s
@MayorBowser
‘s choice to continue to do nothing or too little to stop traffic fatalities. We know the solutions, we fail to make the right choice.
There’s a lot going on - but
@DCPoliceDept
are still arresting protestors and using illegal force. All because they illegally chased a young Black man on a moped which resulted in him being killed.
“I know I’m doing the right thing. I’m fighting for human rights & you all are fighting to be fvcking fascists”
118lb DC protester free after being slammed/tackled/illegally arrested by bunch of police after protest for
#KaronHylton
was over
#DCProtests
There are 20+ tents outside Union Station.
@MayorBowser
absolutely cannot win another term. Our unhoused neighbors and DC residents deserve housing. We have the money and ability to solve this problem, but she chooses not to.
This DC Crime Bill stuff is just … idk, not a criminal, nor an expert, but I just really find it hard to believe that folx that commit crimes see the proposed longer sentences and stop and think … oh ok now I won’t commit those crimes.
Was it really that hard for DC to release Covid numbers daily? I really wish I had ANY idea if numbers were low, trending back up, what hospitals look like … anything 😓
UPDATE: An EXTREMELY nice and helpful
@dcra
employee called me and is helping me through a refund. She said it shouldn't have happened / I am EXTREMELY grateful for this. Shoutout to Harriett at
@dcra
- truly made my day.
#creditwhereitsdue
So
@dcra
wants to hit me with a FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR late fee because I missed renewing my business license in the pandemic... when I was making NEGATIVE money off weddings... and never got a notification to remind me the license was expiring. Is there really no relief for this!?
Does requiring kids to test negative before returning to school after winter break seem like the absolute right choice or what?
@DCPSChancellor
@dcpublicschools
if we thought post thanksgiving has been a nightmare, January is going to suck :(
I mean an
@ewarren
with absolutely nothing to lose, leaving those blood & teeth on the floor, is EXACTLY what I want to see at the next debate.
#OneMoreDebate
#StayInLiz
"Union Market looks ready to open today for guests"
So who's planning on going out today/this weekend? If so, where?
[Results of our poll Wed. said 74% were staying home.]
@TheStagmania
Who the hell thought the pay back was a good idea? Did the banks and auto company pay back their bailouts? Who thinks people will suddenly have extra money in 2-months to pay back the $ ?!?!? Insanity.
Not the fuck it isn’t. Where’s the petition against this?! I want my teachers paid and my kids school to not be crumbling and so many other things than this 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
A driver careened their car into our kids elementary school. Luckily no one was hurt but the exterior brick wall and heater inside the classroom was damaged. This is in a 25mph zone. We’re lucky no one was hurt.
Learning tonight from our PTO that
@BurroughsES
has NO HEAT upstairs due to broken boilers and recent flooding. Hearing it could take MONTHS for boilers to be fixed.
@MayorBowser
@DCDGS
this is unacceptable. Space heaters provided are not an ok, long term solution.
Feeling pretty low and hopeless tonight. So I’ll be donating $ to campaigns in districts where we have Dems running for Senate against soulless monsters like
@senatemajldr
- join me?
This isn’t a problem born of apathy. It’s a problem of resolve on the part of our government, representatives like
@senatemajldr
who continue to ignore the plight, and the will, of the people.
Let’s focus on the cowardly public servants, rather than the coping mechanisms.
@CapitolRomance
The current situation in DC makes it clear that we are not incarcerating enough criminals! El Salvador is seeing a massive reduction in crime thanks to rising incarceration rates. We need to do the same! Lock the criminals up for a LONG time!
White women - please if you share this article with (justified) outrage, you must know that these losses were Black and Latina women, White women made gains.
@cnn
dropped the ball on this headline.
US employers cut 140,000 jobs in December, according to the latest jobs report. Women accounted for all the losses, losing 156,000 jobs, while men gained 16,000.
With all due respect
@DCDGS
and
@MayorBowser
- what are you still assessing? The heat went out YESTERDAY! Parents are picking up kids because the paltry heaters aren’t enough. This is unacceptable
@dcpublicschools
@DCPSChancellor
@CapitolRomance
@dcpublicschools
@MayorBowser
We are aware, and our engineers and contractors have been on-site assessing the situation. Heaters are operational and have been in place throughout the school as we remediate impacted areas. We are working as efficiently as possible to abate.
So
@dcra
wants to hit me with a FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR late fee because I missed renewing my business license in the pandemic... when I was making NEGATIVE money off weddings... and never got a notification to remind me the license was expiring. Is there really no relief for this!?
Still nothing from
@CM_McDuffie
nor
@DCDGS
- would appreciate the RT to help me elevate and hopefully someone answers my phone calls tomorrow because this is unacceptable.
These are pictures of leaking pipes and falling plaster, inside my son’s PK3
@dcpublicschools
classroom. Teacher says it’s been leaking for YEARS.
@MayorBowser
@CM_McDuffie
@DCDGS
- this is unacceptable! I shouldn’t have to blast this on Twitter to get help. FIX OUR SCHOOLS!
People… please do not vote for Mayor Bowser. She does not deserve another term. She’s had ample time AND MONEY to fix these HVAC issues in our kids schools.
New beta
@DCDGS
HVAC dashboard for DCPS schools: Includes total open HVAC WO's by school, estimated completion dates and brief descriptions. Also has most recent HVAC service date by school. Currently 875 open requests. DGS plans to update every two weeks.
Mayor Bowser LITERALLY only cares about developers. They fund her and fuel her and she answers right back to them. It's time DC had a leader that cared more about prioritizing it's PEOPLE over developers. Please vote & donate to
@RobertWhite_DC
Mayor Bowser's budget didn’t allocate a single $ for new housing vouchers, the best tool to getting people housed.
No surprise what she's funding instead⬇️
"She’s pitched a massive, $250 million increase in her 2023 budget that would make $500 million available to developers."
Every day I go to
@_DCHealth
&
@MayorBowser
COVID dashboard & want to throw something, when the BIG GREEN BANNER is completely at odds with the data below it. Nothing shows minimal community spread, sufficient health & public health capacity, nor excellent community engagement.
If there is one thing
@MayorBowser
is good at - it’s performative representation - painting things on walls and streets, with no policy, money, or action to affect what the art represents.
STUNNING: “By June 1, CNN reported, there were as many guardsmen on protest duty in the U.S. as there are active-duty troops in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan combined, though numbers are now declining as governors begin to send their units home.”
Every damn thing
@DCDGS
is responsible for is neglected and in disrepair. Our schools, our parks, our playgrounds, our pools - our kids’
@dcpublicschools
might not have working heat in main floor classroom for TWENTY TWO WEEKS.
How many pedestrians — and pedestrian children! — will we let get hit before this city actually does something meaningful about cars and traffic?
@MayorBowser
These are pictures of leaking pipes and falling plaster, inside my son’s PK3
@dcpublicschools
classroom. Teacher says it’s been leaking for YEARS.
@MayorBowser
@CM_McDuffie
@DCDGS
- this is unacceptable! I shouldn’t have to blast this on Twitter to get help. FIX OUR SCHOOLS!
I can’t get over how thoroughly the Capitol Police, one of the nation’s largest and best funded police forces, failed today. Their utter abdication of their most basic role—hold control and secure the Capitol building—endangered every person inside, from the Vice President down.
This. THIS. Too fucking bad that your commute will be longer, that you’ll be “inconvenienced” by driving on slower streets, with more stops. We have GOT to stop catering to cars and treating them as more important than human lives.
And for those that are up in arms about how slow streets will inconvenience drivers, too bad. You are in your comfy car with air conditioning/heating & likely something to listen to on the radio.
You’ll be fine.
Wait what? Parents of DCPS students have never been given a choice here? We had no virtual option like last year, and we HAD to test the kids so they could return ... how is that a showing that we support how
@MayorBowser
is running schools right now?
As D.C. students are slated to return to in-person classes this week, Mayor Muriel Bowser said schools navigating COVID-19 test-to-return programs have shown a mandate from parents to keep kids learning.
What does forcing people back to an office have to do with Leadership? Flexibility, accessibility, equity … building work accommodations that fit multiple needs is Leadership. Not forcing people back to fix the economy 🙄
.
@MayorBowser
has made sure DC government is back in person. What we need now is the federal government to show leadership once again, as they’ve done throughout the pandemic, and come back.
story abt the
#DistrictofComebacks
via
@allyschweitzer
@wamu885
MPD is seeking youth 12-18 years old to participate in a new 10 week basketball program. The program will begin on Saturday, April 15th and will be held on Saturdays from 10 am to 12 noon. For more information please refer to this flyer.
A 3hr + ANC meeting full of passionate neighbors desperate for change. Thank you
@PritaPiekara
&
@ANCCostello
for your efforts here. So ready to fight
@DDOTDC
to make Brookland an example of how safe streets and vision zero can ACTUALLY be.
Residents said they “want to make Brookland the slowest neighborhood in the city" on Wednesday after a 5-year-old was struck and killed while riding her bike last week in D.C.
Isn’t there already a record high number of police? Does she have any other thoughts because this feels like what’s been happening and that hasn’t actually reduced crime?
Taking a bit of a Twitter hiatus. My mental health just can’t take this incessant horror here. Please stay healthy and stay home and I hope to be back soon💗
"Does DC have any agreed-upon sign/symbol/piece of clothing to wear to indicate that you've already had Covid-19 and are recovered?"
An interesting question I hadn't thought of before
Forget the polls. The Democratic field needs Julián Castro.
..."there’s a reason why, even when he was mostly sidelined by moderators in earlier debates, Google searches for his name would surge."