TheBarrasReport
@BarrasReport
Author, poet, public scholar, award-winning journalist and member Society of Professional Journalists DC Pro Chapter Hall of Fame. Posts are my own.
$5.4 million for a program that only has 344 participants. That's nearly $16k per participant!! Only in DC.
More movement on violence interruption in D.C.: After @CMBrookePinto (and @MayorBowser before her) pushed to eliminate Cure the Streets violence interruption programs, @ChmnMendelson has found money to restore 6 sites. (But will not be run out of AG's office, as they are now.)
Helen Thomas told me as a young reporter “You don’t get into this business to make friends.” And when I was told I was disrespectful to POTUS she said: “I don’t think asking a tough question is disrespectful.” I truly miss her.
DC Council Mbr @charlesallen famously told tipped workers at a meeting in #Ward6 seven years ago today that he knew workers support the #TipCredit tip-wage system but ‘you don’t *NEED* my vote to overturn Initiative 77’… …Workers need/want your vote now to Reform #Initiative82!
When the smoke clears, the mirrors will be broken. jonetta rose barras: The DC Council engages in unauthorized spending and endorses the actions of election violators thedcline.org/2025/07/18/jon…
Ossoff: Eric said the other day, “We’re the hottest brand in the world right now.” It’s amazing the opportunities that open up when your daddy’s the president and the whole world thinks he takes bribes.
My American friends, how did America become such a political cesspool?
Valerie Bertinelli nails it. If you are unable to realize or grasp what a serious moment this is for our country as we descend towards fascism and authoritarianism, then you need to get out of the way of those who do. #ResistTrump
Here's a question. Did you ever in your wildest dreams think that people in America could be rounded up and sent to concentration camps?
.@ChmnMendelson says @councilofdc is using $60 million from DC CFO June budget estimates to restore more than $100 million in budget cuts proposed by @MayorBowser but won’t say if CFO approves of this strategy. “I informed the CFO” @nbcwashington
While kids were swallowing mud and water, for over 72 hrs FEMA rescue teams were unable to help due to Kristi Noem imposing a rule that required her to sign-off on operations over $100K. With people clinging to life, it took Noem 3 fucking days to respond!
Armed ICE agents tried to interrogate American citizen kids who were at baseball practice in NY They then harassed the coach when he brought up their Constitutional rights
I'd love to know how a Pam Bondi happens. How much power and money is worth lying for a living on behalf of a traitorous pedohpile? It boggles the mind of decent human beings.
🤣🤡 TODAY'S LAUGHER 🤡🤣
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on President Trump's cabinet: "It is an amazing group of people that he put together ... There is not one who I would say is not a complete success in what they're doing."
The ruling has just been issued. A communist judge in LA has ordered ICE to report directly to her and radical left NGOs — not the president. This is another act of insurrection against the United States and its sovereign people.
BREAKING - Biden-appointed judge, Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, has just made a ruling that marks Home Depots, car washes, and other locations where illegals hide as safe havens in LA blocking ICE from making arrests at those locations.
Gay Democratic Socialist DC Council member @CMZParker5 positions himself as local political outlier with last-minute grandstanding proposal to raise taxes in order to perpetuate massive recent rise in city government spending levels.
Today, I shared a letter with my colleagues proposing a modest capital gains surcharge in the FY26 budget. This targeted approach would help fund vital programs and make our tax system more equitable. We must invest in a fairer future for all District residents.
What an absolute embarrassment. #ResistTrump
I was there. I covered it for KMOL. Almost 38 years to the day. 10 teens died. Much talk followed about early warnings. NOTHING done. Source: Texas Standard share.google/Agm1BHQZbe5pd1…
How did our beautiful country of 330 million mostly good, honest people end up being governed by so many corrupt bastards?
Your daily reminder that the woman who called off an investigation into Trump University as AG of Florida after receiving a campaign contribution from Trump has assured us there’s no Epstein client list.