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Scarlet El Vandimion ✨

@iusuallydont.bsky.social

Same girl, different app.

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Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · last wk.

Yup. Fortunately, the post in the screenshot is incorrect. One of my favorite San Francisco politicians, Matt Haney, has made this his whole jam. He's like, "You can just do stuff! It's true! Simplify!" More red tape doesn't mean better governance. A good government needs to be nimble.

David Schraub@schraubd.bsky.social · last wk.

Half of Mamdani’s genius is convincing ordinary people that progressive ideas will materially benefit their lives and aren’t scary communism, and the other half is convincing terminally online leftists that basic good government is progressive and isn’t neoliberal shilling for evil corporations.

Ambassador Greg Delawie@gregdelawie.bsky.social · last wk.

DoorDash is lobbying against DC Home Rule. Time to find another way to get your meals, because no one should support a company that works to deny democracy to DC residents.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 2w ago

DoorDash, in damage control mode, now claims it supports D.C. home rule and denies lobbying against it. Here’s the letter their lobbyist wrote to Rep. Comer supporting his bill to ban D.C. from ever imposing or increasing a tax or fee without congressional approval. hillheat.com/files/492/DD...

Re: DoorDash Support for H.R. 9720, the "D.C. Taxing Authority Review Act" Dear Chairman Comer and members of the committee: On behalf of DoorDash, I write to express our support for H.R. 9720, the "D.C. Taxing Authority Review Act," which would require congressional approval before the District of Columbia can impose or increase a tax or fee. We believe this is a reasonable check against the hastily enacted local taxes and fees that fall hardest on small businesses and the residents who depend on them. DoorDash's marketplace in the District is built overwhelmingly on small, independent merchants: Roughly 80% of DC merchants that were active on our platform as of December 2025 had 3 or fewer storefronts on the platform. These are the businesses least able to absorb new taxes and fees or the administrative burden of complying with them, from costly point-of-sale upgrades to added compliance overhead. The District's recently passed delivery tax illustrates the risk: a tax on virtually every delivery, with proceeds designated for a myriad of projects and the District's general fund, passed without a single public hearing and, consequently, without input from the residents and small businesses it will most heavily impact. Based on our internal data, a tax like this would mean millions of dollars a year in added costs for D.C. residents and lost revenue for local merchants, and that burden grows quickly as the rate is increased, as authorized by the Budget Support Act. Research on comparable taxes bears this out: an economic analysis of Colorado's retail delivery fee found it raised takeout prices by nearly 1%; cut delivery orders by more than 400,000 a year; cost the restaurant sector over $12 million in revenue; and resulted in a loss of roughly 234 jobs across restaurant and delivery workers.
𝟸 𝙷𝚞𝚜𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝙵𝚒𝚗𝚎@sleeksilhouette.blacksky.app · last wk.

“Stop making it a race thing” look how evil those people are

BlackskyNews 🗞️@blackskynews.blacksky.app · last wk.

Nolan Wells' mom, Christine is a nurse practitioner who has been on leave since her son’s tragic death during 4th of July weekend. Hate mongers have inundated her professional profile with a negative review campaign, even as her family mourns their loss. thegrio.com/2026/07/26/n... #BlackskyNews

Scarlet El Vandimion ✨@iusuallydont.bsky.social · last wk.

I drove back from Philly this morning and spent most of the day recovering and sleeping. I decided to order dinner, a burger from STK, because tired and I needed hangover food. Why did they deliver the wrong order? So, now I have Andrew’s General Tso’s chicken, which, yum but not what I wanted.

Terita@terita.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bullies today get way more leeway than they got when I was young. Now we’re supposed to “deescalate” and be gentle, which is INSANE. Whole concept of bullying is violence. They ain’t getting something at home and need a “weak” target to make themselves feel strong. Knock their fucking teeth out.