#capitol hill

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Capitol Hill, Washington D.C., USA by Gina

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Chappell Roan’s 2024 festival looks

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capitol hill graffiti is just as good as i had hoped

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Capitol police quickly issued a warning to the protesters — which included U.S. army whistleblower Chelsea Manning alongside author and activist Raquel Willis — to disperse or face arrest, including sexual misconduct charges. Following those warnings, they were arrested and escorted from the building by Capitol police. 

The protest follows Johnson’s announcement in November that transgender women are not allowed to access women’s restrooms and facilities in the Capitol and House buildings — an announcement that was not accompanied with any information about enforcement, or how such a policy would be carried out. The group called for elected officials to block Rep. Nancy Mace’s proposed bill that would ban trans people from bathrooms in museums, national parks and other federal property and for Democratic members of Congress to filibuster and block the bill if or when it comes to a vote. 

“This bathroom sit-in sets an example of the righteous defiance and solidarity needed under a second Trump administration,” Gender Liberation Movement said in a press release, citing support from transgender and cisgender participants. The group said survivors of sexual violence also joined the protest to demand that proponents of bathroom bills stop falsely accusing trans women of endangering cis women when they use women’s facilities.  

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Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861

Photograph taken by John Wood

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chaser drake be like "got my heart broke by a dog girl from cap hill/ ain't enough cheese for me to swallow that pill"

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got new plants 🪴

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Power Tangle

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Stained glass window, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC 2014.

In a standard 1890s era apartment building, not in a church!

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Teachers with Pride Still Have to Hide

Gay schoolteachers wearing masks at parade, June 28, 1986

In this image, Seattle schoolteachers participating in the Gay Freedom Day parade through the Capitol Hill neighborhood hold a banner reading "Teachers with Pride Still Have to Hide," and wear masks to protest the discrimination they have felt. An estimated 10,000 people participated in the event, which is part of Seattle's annual Gay Pride Week.

[ 📷 Jennifer Werner-Jones / Seattle Post-Intelligencer ]

oh, how times have changed!

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John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy pose on Capitol Hill on May 23rd, 1955. This was his first day back at his Senate office following an operation on his back due to an injury from World War II.

[tomorrowusa]

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD-08) is a living national treasure of democracy.

Rep. Raskin visited with Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders-Townsend at MSNBC's The Weekend to talk about a number of issues.

He said Trump "came back to the scene of the crime" with his first visit to Capitol Hill since 06 January 2021. Trump met with GOP members of both chambers who ignored the fact that he put their lives at risk with his coup attempt.

Of course Trump offered no apology for his endangerment of their lives or for his damage to American institutions of democracy. It says a lot about the mindset of most Republicans these days that they will suffer no humiliation too great to show their grovelling loyalty to wannabe dictator Trump.

Rep. Raskin also talked about the GOP Supreme Court's NRA-friendly approval of the use of "bump stocks" – devices that permit assault rifles to be converted into machine guns.

Republicans willingly gave up their claim to being the party of law and order so they could incessantly pander to Trump's lust for dictatorship and to empower the NRA's goal of putting machine guns in the hands of every nutjob in the country.

This election requires more personal effort than previous ones. Be willing to do more grassroots work and make our case to low-information voters you may know.

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The Moon over Seattle from the Garage, 2024

An image from my Yashica 635

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Arrestees – organizers from LGBTQ+ rights and reproductive justice organizations, as well as individuals like whistleblower Chelsea Manning – chanted “Speaker Johnson, Nancy Mace, our bodies are not a debate!” (The activists are currently detained and any potential charges are pending.) In response, in a video posted to Mace's Twitter/X account, she was recorded speaking into a megaphone outside the Capitol police precinct where the protesters were being held. In it, she refers to them using a transphobic slur and read the Miranda rule.

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The Discovery of America statue on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building by Luigi Persico