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Alli DeJong

@allidejong.bsky.social
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climate, adaptation, decision analysis, flood risk, insurance, resilience, BCAs. planning & policy jack of all trades at the Water Institute. (personal account) also sports, birds, हिंदी, cities, etc. chicago via new orleans via chicago

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 3h
need to reboot the cubs game and start over
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can feel myself becoming a Bears Respecter, or at least a Bears Appreciator, and it’s really uncomfortable
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sargent!!!!
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My beloved country, Chicago
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Is there anything better?!? My goodness.
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Americans was, is, will always be better than Game of Thrones, forever and ever, amen
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the movie that almost influenced me into going to sarah lawrence college before i realized.. (world’s longest sigh) … that i’m really a jock nerd at heart and went to notre dame
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Come on, man. Are you serious
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
it I had to cite a key moment from Trump's speech, it would be this one. it is a threat not just to the Iranian government but to the Iranian people, and in that sense it contravenes both the international laws prohibiting war and the international humanitarian law that protects civilians
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 22/09/2026
NEW PAPER: In a new paper, jointly published in @agu.org Earth's Future & @ametsoc.org BAMS, and co-led by Melissa Kenney, @costasamaras.com and me, 175 authors outline priorities to guide the future of scientific assessments of climate change in the United States. 🧵
doi.org
Research Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United States
A network of climate assessments plays a critical role in synthesizing the state of science to support evidence-based decision-making To support future U.S. and sub-national climate assessments, ...
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW BRAIN DROPPED
med.stanford.edu
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Andrew Zimmern’s Wild Game Kitchen is my favorite food show ever and it’s not even close. Just him calmly cooking delicious food over live fire outside in Minnesota and explaining everything with a great coach’s clarity
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026
I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...
We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One more second! Lol wtf
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Peak Bears things happening
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
i love this. i used to stream BBC Radio 4 in college so i could listen to bhangra mashups and the creativity was amazing, love that this is expanding to country
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Rotterdam Centraal my beloved kapsalon station
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’d think the Notre Dame band would have cycled out “It’s My Life” for something else by now but, no, their heart is like a broken highway and they wanna say they did it my way
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
3 TDs in 5 plays and 2 minutes. The Kalen DeBoer Experience
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 19/09/2026
if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
protecting, maintaining and improving the health of il Minesotans
RABID BAT FOUND ON SIDEWALK
On Tuesday, September 15 at about 12pm, a bat was found on the sidewalk on Hennepin Ave between N. Washington Ave and N 3°St.
The bat died and was sent for rabies testing. This bat tested positive for
rabies.
A woman was seen crouching by the bat and putting it into a bag. She was described as a 25-to-30-year-old white woman, about 5'5", with curly brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog. If this was you, please call 911 and ask to be connected to Animal Care & Control.
Bites from bats are tiny, may be painless, and may not leave a mark. An person who had physical contact or touched this bat should talk with health care provider this weekend for assessment. During the week, Minnesota Department of Health can also provide rabies assessments at 651-201-5414.
If vou did not touch or have any contact with the bat, you have no risk of rabies and do not need shots.
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jorco.bsky.social @jorco.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have not seen NAZA, but the facts outlined here have been verified and in the public record for over 2 years: Initial reporting from April 2024: www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-... @nytimes.com re-reporting from December: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...
972mag.com
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hadnt followed up on this but sweet christ www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Energy disruption hits Bangladesh and Pakistan as Gulf crisis worsens
In Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, Parvin Akter times her cooking to the neighborhood's availability of piped gas. With gas in intermittent supply as a result of a global energy crunch, she now som...
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For the first time?
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
That’s right!!!!!
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
catastrophe
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I finished this book a couple days ago and highly, highly recommend it. Incredibly helpful for understanding the dynamics of the last 40-50 years
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Federal employees were paid $9.5 billion not to work in 2025 under DOGE. As part of the Trump-Musk DOGE program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435%.
nytimes.com
Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort
As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The fourth chart’s (tanker rates to Gulf Coast) previous peaks are Katrina, 08 Financial Crisis, and Covid.
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Holly Rowe is worth a thousand Arch Mannings, fuck him and fuck this
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Blanket reply to everybody who’s sent this story to me for comment today: Take a beat and send it to ten of your male friends instead
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the primary consequences Americans have had to face as a result of Hormuz is higher cost of living in India ome of the consequences included not being able to cook food due to LPG shortages
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Not thinking about the Bears 🥰
A woman serenely sitting in the front row of the bleachers at Wrigley
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you. www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-bel...
Just once in my life I would like to see a Democrat being interviewed by right wing media like Fox News or right wing media like every single other outlet treat their questions with the contempt they deserve. I know it's not going to fix everything or maybe even anything but how much coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think it would inspire if when asked about "boys in girls sports" or some other stupid fucking culture war distraction one of them finally said "What the fuck are you talking about man? You sound like a dumb asshole right now."

What's the worst that's going to happen the New York Times is gonna work overtime to make sure you don't get elected? They were already doing that buddy.

You simply say "Are you stupid? Do you think I am stupid? And do you think all of the people watching at home are stupid? Everyone sees through what you are doing. Using one group as a scapegoat for the very real problems everyone has – all caused by Republicans by the way – unlike this fake one you have made up. Dumb asshole."

Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you.
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Both of the marquee games are on at the bar, in the corners and with no sound. Instead they are blasting the Flying Burrito Bros and I have to say the vibes are immaculate.
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Instagram would be 1000x more useful if I could sort and filter by account location and date. And then I could actually see the posts from my area that talk about things happening instead of trying to remember them later and then not being able to find anything.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.
An Onion article titled “Talking to your child about the WTC attack,” which is filled with real good info.
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Matthew Hoppock @hoppock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hey. Something enormous is being built in Kansas City out of public view. The government is building a massive new multi-agency immigration complex: a new Immigration Court, a huge ICE/OPLA office, a new USCIS “Kansas City Mission Center,” and CISA space, all in the same building. I got the plans.🧵
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anyone else thinking a lot about 1979 these days? Why? Oh no reason
the cover of BLACK WAVE by Kim Ghattas (subtitled Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East)
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
horrendous dailyiowan.com/2026/09/08/u...
dailyiowan.com
UI student, Hawkeye Marching Band member died collapsing in heat
This is an ongoing report. Check back for updates. A University of Iowa student and Hawkeye Marching Band member has died after being removed from life support following an incident during the Sept. 5...
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Electric Divvy has totally changed my willingness to get out and ride, especially on the maligned “neighborhood greenways.” Ebike makes all those speedbumps tolerable. The efforts to make a complete network in the 40th, 47th wards also make this work. such a better system even than 2-3 years ago
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laina 𓆣 @laina.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
can you believe we just get to live here
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
lol that is the best punt i’ve ever seen
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We made a great play on special teams!!!!!!
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
What an absolutely perfect beach day. Could not ask for better weather. The lake is so beautiful. Some things are still good
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
What the hell was that
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
OK I guess if you are going to learn one Urdu sentence, this is a good one
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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Summer in Mumbai was brutal and endless. The monsoon's poster child was running out of water. In a dispatch for @equatormag.bsky.social, I wrote about living with extreme heat in a broken city and limits to resilience. With🔥 images by @ishantankha.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/cit...
equator.org
City of Sweat • EQUATOR
A vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai
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