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Columbia Heights. Down with ornithology. Grab your binoculars, come follow me.

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Arianeh Sajadi, Esq. @arianehsajadi.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Nobel Peace Prize status. 🏆
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Royal Dutch Blue 🇳🇱 @dutchannie.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I love a good chuckle in the morning (though incomprehensible of course).
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
The entire internet right now
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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
It’s been 3,174 days since I escaped corporate life. I was 44. My children were tiny. Now they're teenagers. Today I turn 53, and we are infinitely happier here, in our farmhouse by the ocean. No more meetings. No more commute. If I can escape, you can too (because I'm a dumbass). #Life #Art
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Mike Henry @onlyveesaz.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Saturday evening Coop 🪶☀️🌵
Young Cooper’s Hawk portrait
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/07/2025
I hope someone has hired a cadre of ratfuckers to go into right-wing spaces & foment as much dissension as possible over this Epstein stuff.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/07/2025
Are you aware that private equity, in addition to destroying numerous other venerable US institutions, is now going after public libraries?
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A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity.
Photo from The Samuels Public Library After being targeted by anti-LGBTQ book banners and having their funding pulled, a local library in Virginia successfully stopped a threatened takeover by a pr…
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Just saw Superman. Was gonna do a whole bit about it walking in. That’d be a disservice. It’s an important piece of work and I’m not joking. I don’t even like superhero movies. Sprint to see it. Bring your kids and explain it to them. James Gunn had a time machine when he made it.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
trump remade the Republican party in his own image over the course of like six months so yeah, i do think political parties can pivot to do things that work
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
MacKenzie Scott paid me $100k for this tweet
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
hi! @newmediamentors.bsky.social has a class on Visual Strategy lead by the amazing design strategist behind the NYC No Kings protests and if you work for a nonprofit or union you should take our course. bit.ly/vizstrat
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Another day testing the limits of resilience. The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels. Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels. The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.
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‘This is bull——”: National Science Foundation employees protest HUD's takeover
Dozens of National Science Foundation employees crowded the agency’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday to protest the news that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, w...
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
politico.com
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
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Rural Anarchy @ruralanarchy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Not enough people realize that Merrick Garland let an entire network of White Power groups that literally built Timothy McVeigh's bomb off the hook because he had the one guy that was easy to convict because he admitted to the bombing. They are still out there plotting. Garland made sure of that.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I had a REALLY lovely time talking to @milesklee.bsky.social at Rolling Stone about why The Onion is thriving. It's because we're one of the only legacy outlets unafraid to accurately reflect the mood of this country. That mood? Everyone fucking hates this. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
We want to be able to say stuff that other people, for institutional reasons, can’t say, or they’re too afraid to say.

You may be the only CEO in America making that promise.
We’re in a unique position, certainly. And other places have to learn from this — being afraid all the time and just constantly making transactional moves. How long can you survive like this? What is even the point of being alive if you’re just gonna continue managing rot? And it seems like that’s what 98 percent of people are doing in these media companies right now. I don’t know, take a chance. Nobody likes what’s happening. Especially if you’re a journalism company or a media company, you’re [meant to be] actually reflecting what people want or what people believe. So get some guts and do something interesting. It’s not that hard.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
republicans are about to tweet things about mamdani that are like the hatred you read about in the bible
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Andrew Cuomo was the US Secretary of Housing and is now running for mayor, where one of the largest agencies they manage is NYC's Housing Authority. And yet Cuomo literally had ChatGPT write his campaign housing policy. This is who the media and establishment want you to think is "serious"
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
the detail about the dog lying in state beside them has unexpectedly fucked me up
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/06/2025
i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
nytimes.com
‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Incredible how Cuomo is absolutely DWARFING everyone else in money and spend and yet it’s still close enough that they’re pulling these stops out. They’re scared.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 22/06/2025
A laboubu is 2025s answer to a troll doll or a beanie baby but uglier and even more expensive
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
A thing people don't remember about 2003 is that "they have WMDs" was the pitch to *high-info* voters. The pitch to low-info voters was "the dastardly muslims attacked us on 9/11 and we have to hit them back by deposing the muslim king saddam hussein who attacked us"
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 22/06/2025
Easy to start, hard to stop - like Pringles, but with more body bags.
Timothy Snyder on war.
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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Another failure of privatisation. Taxpayer money literally going up in smoke.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds
Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper.

She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 18/06/2025
When it came out WHY they were so desperate to get people to use messenger (to spy on them) it taught me a valuable lesson. If a service wants you to use it too much it's not in your best interest. And that's how I feel about AI. If AI was THAT good they wouldn't be pushing it on us so hard /2
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 18/06/2025
There was a period Facebook app made it basically impossible to send messages through the app - you had to use the stand alone messenger app. I found that so annoying (I did not want the messenger app) I ended up deleting the facebook app altogether. /1
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/06/2025
SCOOP: The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
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Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Seen at Jan. 6 Riot Flown Above Government Agency in DC
The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/06/2025
If you can clear your mind of that mythology, it's obvious. Anyone clever or ambitious leaves for the city. The economy has shifted to services. The airwaves are absolutely dominated -- not 99%, but 100% -- by right-wing media. What else would you expect to become of the people still out there?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/06/2025
Remembering this story from 8 years ago, about the differing values of rural & urban people. One reason I remember it is that every single factual assertion made by a rural person in the piece is false.
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New poll of rural Americans shows deep cultural divide with urban residents
Big-city and small-town Americans have vastly different views on issues like immigration and religion, helping to explain President Trump’s election
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
STAT story about the ruling www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/n... 1/n
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Hundreds of NIH grant terminations are 'void and illegal,' federal judge rules
A federal judge ruled that some of the grant terminations by the National Institutes of Health on DEI grounds are “void and illegal.”
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Janet Johnson @jjohnsonlaw.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
@nytimes working hard to make the suspect sound apolitical but buried in the story are his staunchly anti-gay/transgender/abortion beliefs. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...
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Minnesota Suspect Served on State Board With One of the Victims
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Putting this on screen in a Bass Pro Shop would completely upend U.S. foreign policy for a generation.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
<thread> On the left: June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians. On the right: June 13: See for yourself. Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The 250th anniversary of the Army is marked by it turning on its own people. America has a long, long way to come back from all this. Authoritarian dictatorship & fascism. Unfolding right in front of our eyes.
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Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows
Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
BREAKING: US Marines deployed to Los Angeles have carried out the first known detention of a civilian, the US military confirms. It was confirmed to Reuters after they shared this image with the US military.
Two Marines in army combat outfits and guns are seen detaining a young black man in a black and white top, wearing sunglasses with air pods in his ears.
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Arctic Velocipedist @arcticvelocipedist.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
"FBI Discovers the Internet"
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This guy is just posted up outside of Congress and I’m honestly not sure what his political views are but I agree
Person sitting with a banner that reads YOU ARE ALL COWARDS
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This is a sparkling example of lack of science literacy displayed by the HHS. HHS report, which is against recommending Covid vaccines to pregnant women, cites studies that conclude the opposite. The best advice of 2025 is to NOT listen to RFK Jr. or HHS. 🧪🖇️ www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Title of editorial cartoon: 
Sound Advice

“Do Not Listen to Robert F Kennedy Jr.”

Artist: Clay Bennett
Chattanooga Times Free Press 
5/12/25

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/may/12/sound-advice/
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 13/06/2025
You are most hot and furious when you win.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/06/2025
i think this is exactly right
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 12/06/2025
Ananda Lewis, who many of us remember from our youth, has sadly died from metastatic breast cancer. She did not do routine mammograms and chose not to have appropriate treatment bc she thought her body would “work it out.” This is how “wellness” influencers kill. RIP 💔 people.com/ananda-lewis...
"My plan at first was to get out excessive toxins in my body. I felt like my body is intelligent, I know that to be true. Our bodies are brilliantly made," Lewis said. "I decided to keep my tumor and try to work it out of my body a different way... I wish I could go back. It's important for me to admit where I went wrong with this."
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/06/2025
RFK Jr justifies firing scientists on the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee due to “conflicts of interest.” Yet RFK Jr made almost $100K a year from anti-vax lawsuits and almost $90K a month from his anti-vax nonprofit. The person with the biggest conflict of interest at HHS is the one leading it.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 11/06/2025
Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
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ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600
And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.
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