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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18/08/2026

"You were riding in the morning, or at night, or on a quiet road, or a main road. The only time and place to ride a bike is a time beyond time and a place beyond place, where the space-time continuum is bent so strangely that you are both everywhere and nowhere." buff.ly/bSa1Wm5

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You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault

You were riding during rush hour Why were you riding then? There are way too many cars on the road. If you were commuting, you should have contacted your bos...

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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The ghost shoes memorial for Hanna Wegayehou, 61. A hit & run driver, turning right from Crestmoor Dr to Colesville Rd/29, hit & killed her in a marked crosswalk on Friday, June 19, 2026, around 1:14 pm. She was the 9th pedestrian & 29th person killed in a crash in Montgomery County MD in 2026.

A white painted wood plaque that says Hanna Wegayehou, June 19, 2026, a pair of white ballet flats, a bunch of white fake flowers, and a bunch of pink and white real flowers, all nailed to a utility pole next to an unbuffered sidewalk that is next to a six-lane high-speed road. Close-up photo.

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Brigid Howe @bnhowe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Thank you @rebekahwriter.bsky.social for posting about the search for the driver in this fatal pedestrian collision. Hanna Wegayehou’s family deserves answers and justice.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This feels like a good time to note that, indeed, USWNT is the winningest team in international sports history (win percentage: 84) the18.com/en/soccer-en...

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Where Does The USWNT Rank Amongst The Winningest Teams Of All Time? | The18

The USWNT is quite good — that's what all our number crunching has led us to believe.

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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The police crash report says: "suspected minor injury". More information from the GoFundMe: "His right leg was shattered and needed two surgeries to repair, while his other leg suffered major lacerations. He has been in the hospital for more than two weeks."

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It's beautiful when a nation can come together and collectively learn about scaffolding

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Brigid Howe @bnhowe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I hope the court says “hell no” to the extension and fines them for every minute they exceeded the court-ordered time. I better see letters down before I go to bed.

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Brigid Howe @bnhowe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Do the three guys up there even have the tools to remove the letters or are they gonna build more scaffolds after taking a break?

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CamCron @camcron.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

and that’s contempt of court folks

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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It took them less time to take down the East Wing

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Brigid Howe @bnhowe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It’s me. I am up at 11:25 pm watching a scaffold be constructed to take down letters.

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Brigid Howe @bnhowe.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

MCCPTA has been advocating for later start time for high schools for years. Maybe instead of unproven program disruptions, we should start with science to address achievement?

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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/a... The NY Times on the Jeff Krulik and John Heyn 1986 filmed Heavy Metal Parking Lot about Judas Priest & Dokken fans partying before the concert at the Capital Centre outside DC in Md. The short video slowly went viral in the music & film world in a pre-internet age

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The Cult Music Documentary ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot’ Turns Middle-Age

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Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 14/04/2026

We've passed #StopSuperSpeeders bills in: ✅ Washington state ✅ Washington DC ✅ Virginia Very exciting news that #Maryland, just awaiting @iamwesmoore's signature, is poised to be next on the list! We hope he will honor our members and so who've been injured or killed.

A list of people hurt and killed on Maryland's roads.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Winning campaign slogan here if anyone wants it.

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Brigid Howe @bnhowe.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I just saw the GoFundMe and CaringBridge for the other driver in this crash, who is in a coma and faces a long road ahead. There has to be a legislative/policy solution to drivers who are not stopped by being suspended or having an ignition interlock.

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Brigid Howe @bnhowe.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The phenomenal @nicoleasbury.bsky.social was laid off today by @washingtonpost.com. Nicole is a brilliant & impactful reporter and in my time as an education advocate, I’ve been thoroughly impressed by her professionalism & passion for her work. She deserved better, & so did MoCo parents.

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Brigid Howe @bnhowe.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This is sickening and the ICE/CBP staff who are torturing these detainees need to be prosecuted.

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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

maybe a different clerk than the one assigned to footnotes, who also served with distinction here

Alexander Moritz Frey was the first to use “shithole” as a descriptor of a “wretched place,”
doing so in his seminal antiwar novel, The Cross Bearers (1930). See Shithole, Oxford English
Dictionary, https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=shithole.
Frey’s life story confirms the role democracies can play in welcoming, as George
Washington did, “the oppressed and persecuted.” Frey, a prolific author and pacifist, served as a
medic in the trenches of World War I alongside Adolf Hitler. Hitler later tried to convert him to
Nazism, but Frey staunchly refused. He fled Germany in 1933, as Nazis burned his books,
raided his apartment, and issued a warrant for his arrest. He lived his remaining years in exile,
first in Austria and then in Switzerland.

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Brigid Howe @bnhowe.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Gotta love how my phone lights up with texts after public testimony. I love that I have so many friends who care about our local politics & budgets. Also, I was glad to express my gratitude to our essential @seiu.org MCPS support staff for their snowstorm work & that seemed to resonate.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/01/2026

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

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Politics of Cars @thismachinekillsfascists.bike · 14/01/2026

I wish there were fewer news reports saying cops were not charging a driver who killed or seriously injured a pedestrian, and more articles that independently analyzed what actually happened and whether cops have let a dangerous driver keep driving.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/01/2026

Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.

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Brigid Howe @bnhowe.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Kavanaugh stop results in kidnapping and assault of US citizen baby. It’s not enough to orphan kids, let’s injure them physically, too?

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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 08/01/2026

An ICE agent saying "I don't care" and preventing an innocent woman who's been shot from receiving medical care are not the words or actions of officers lawfully protecting themselves and the community. These are the words of sociopaths happy with murder.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

If officials can’t bring themselves to arrest someone who is captured on camera from multiple angles killing someone in cold blood, they should just step aside so someone with a backbone can lead

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

FOLKS IN MINNEAPOLIS: SAVE all videos & photos from today. They will be valuable to prove the ICE agent --- who had time to move & re-position himself to the side of the victim's car to shoot into the driver's side window --- was not in reasonable fear of imminent serious physical injury or death.

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Rep. Joyce Beatty @repbeatty.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

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Brigid Howe @bnhowe.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I’ve been the calm parent on the other end of the phone for my son twice in his first semester of high school. Thankfully not active shooter scenarios but the last lockdown involved a student with a loaded ghost gun. This substack has excellent advice.

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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This entire weekend

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Montgomery County (MD) Department of Transportation - Ride On @rideonmct.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This rider reached out to thank Ride On for the mobility we provide those in the county who don't own a car. Ride On's zero fare policy allows riders to get wherever they need to go with ease.

I wanted to express my deep gratitude for the free Ride On buses. We don't own a car, but we live very close to Veirs Mill Road. It is so nice to be able to hop on a bus and head to Rockville Library, or out into Silver Spring. It's a great service, and I'm very grateful for it.

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Brigid Howe @bnhowe.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

This makes me so emotional. This #kidsridefree route passes Seneca Valley and Northwest HS. To the young rider who wrote this: I can tell you’re going places! Acknowledging the bus driver’s role in your success speaks volumes about your work ethic & grace.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/12/2025

Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

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“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”

We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

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