#capitol hill

[petitworld]

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

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

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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[tomorrowusa]

Psychologist Mary Trump knows Uncle Donald better than most of us.

It would take just four GOP US House members and four US senators to halt the destruction of America.

If you're a registered voter living in a swing House district or state then you have more power than most Americans. Visit the local office of your US rep or senator to register your disgust at what is going on.

Sorry, but phone calls and emails to people who represent you are next to worthless; the only way for your rep or senator to know that you are 100% real is to personally visit their offices and talk to their staff. Make a copy of your voter registration card to leave with them as a reminder that you are an engaged voter.

The era of slacktivism is over. Interacting with neighbors and lawmakers in person is the only way forward. Low energy digital twiddling will get us nowhere.

Republicans on Capitol Hill have to be made more fearful of the 2026 election than they are of Trump and Musk.

It may be unfair that you have to do more just because you live in a swing district or state, but then your share of success is also greater.

[illustratus]

Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861

Photograph taken by John Wood

[liannaedgelord]

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"

[ellie-williams01]

Capitol Hill 🌿

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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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The form in question.

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Hike up Capitol Hill

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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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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.

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The Moon over Seattle from the Garage, 2024

An image from my Yashica 635

[tomorrowusa]

« For most Republicans in Congress, there’s no battle between conscience and supplication. They dropped to their knees years ago. There’s no tension between what they say and what they do. They praise Trump with their every word, including the conjunctions. »

— Frank Bruni at The New York Times.

Republicans on Capitol Hill have become Trump-Musk hos. Instead of acting like a co-equal branch of government to the White House they are MAGA-DOGE lickspittles.

On a similar note, former Republican Charlie Sykes compared congressional Republicans to "potted plants".

If you live in a district narrowly won by a GOP US House member in 2024, you have a disproportionate amount of influence at a critical time in our country's history. Start working now to defeat those Republicans who are giving Trump-Musk permission to destroy our future.