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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NICU babies are the most vulnerable a human can be, and it seems almost quaint to say it now, but we are supposed to build societies where the most vulnerable can count on others to not let this happen

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh boy, if you thought I had a bee in my bonnet about dangerous car drivers (and bad scooter/ebike riders with a death wish) on DC streets before? A new level of righteous anger was unlocked by trying to navigate RI Ave NE rush hour with our newborn in the car.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...

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Facts on the ground

Two things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries)

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Ruro @ruro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's telling that some of the beliefs you can develop from an interest in making a city better for the people who live in it, like "mistakes should be survivable" and "children who make an impulsive choice around a street should not die or get hurt for it," are categorized as very socially radical.

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The new candidate in another SMD in my ANC whom I guessed was running out of anger about a handful of parking spots being removed for intersection daylighting and improving a bike lane did basically go ahead & admit that to GGWash. They provide such a public service! ggwash.org/view/104557/...

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Our 2026 ANC Voter Guide

Find out who’s running for ANC in your neighborhood, and where they stand on housing, transit, and development, with our interactive voter guide.

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Greater Greater Washington @ggwash.org · 01/09/2026

Who's running for ANC where you live in DC? Search your address, read candidates' answers on land use, housing, and transportation, and compare them side by side.

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Our 2026 ANC Voter Guide

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is also just about 1.5 miles daily--doable because the Dutch prioritize homes being located close places that people need to go. We could have this in the US in about a decade just by removing the myriad laws prohibiting good land use. Our cities suck because it's illegal for them not to.

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Heed this warning from me, a person who already broke out "Here You Come Again" at a karaoke party earlier this week and got out of breath. *to be fair, the reduced lung capacity of being extremely pregnant did not help

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

So glad I got to visit Dollywood, including seeing the Dolly revue show and the "Life of Many Colors" museum, earlier this year while she was still with us. Some fave pics I took:

A glass box display of Dolly's past wigs of varying eras and styles

A museum display of one of Dolly's dresses, yellow with leopard print accents and a large rhinestone leopard on the skirt, with a sign that notes it is from a 1976 episode of the Dolly variety show

A display in the Dolly museum with a video of her singing projected on a large guitar on the wall under the words "Dolly"

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The Trump-endorsed IndyCar race on the DC streets into a great unintentional advertisement for the effectiveness of raised crosswalks as a traffic calming measure

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

year 1: there's still grant funding, but we may need to change how we talk about our work, or what we work on year 2: the government has disappeared one billion dollars of science funding. it is unclear why they did that or where that sits within concepts like "the rule of law"

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

As the owner of an eartipped TNR fail, I love that this thread naturally turned into a bunch of pics of eartipped beauties

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“I’m mad that I can no longer get away with breaking the law and endangering others with my selfish and reckless behavior.”

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I don't know how effective a viewer boycott of the show could be--I guess we'll see--but I do think a media boycott would have some impact. If all the websites that would ordinarily cover this from every angle just greet it with oceans of silence...maybe it'd mean something.

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

They've been out here pushing this crap... I know someone who had an unexplained stillbirth a few years ago and some quack doctor suggested to her with no evidence that her COVID vaxes in previous years could have been a factor. In her vulnerable state, she took it seriously. Screw these people.

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J. I. Swiderski, MURP @swiderski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Not sure if there's been less discussion of it or if I've just missed it, but with two more pedestrian deaths in the last week of July, DC's count of traffic fatalities has already surpassed last year's total, and is on pace to beat every prior year of the Bowser admin. _except_ 2023-4.

Bar chart of DC traffic fatalities by year since 1995.
After rising to their highest level since 2007 in 2023, and matching it in 2024, fatalities dropped to a 14-year low in 2025.
However, traffic fatalities are already higher in 2026 than all of 2025, and are on pace to be the third-highest in 20 years, 45, behind only 2023 and 2024.

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alex block ⚽️ @alexblock.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I get why this has been the case in the US (it’s a similar issue with reducing GHG emissions) but mode shift is the pathway for cities to address all sorts of policy goals

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I remember being dismissively assured it wasn’t true, that this crank zillionaire is funding basically unlimited vexatious litigation

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So exhausted already by the meme that the "tells" of gen AI writing are when something is structurally aping the way a decent professional writer writes, rather than when it's meaningless word salad. (You will take my em dashes, sets of three, and lack of typos from my cold, dead hands.)

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 01/08/2026

It's a tough job, but literally no one has to do it

Four National guard troops standing around doing nothing on a beautiful day in Georgetown

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It turns out insurance companies believe in climate change whether you do or not

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Excellent exam room art at AtlasVet

A framed print of a surreal-ish painting with three wacky cartoon-looking dogs surrounded by floating strips of bacon and flowers

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.

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Ellen Schenk, MPP @ellendschenk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Telehealth medication abortion is safe & effective. But it is an access workaround disguised as a solution. We need equitable access to the full spectrum of abortion care, not just better delivery of one type. See our op-ed (my first)!

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Rachel Weiner @rachelweiner.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My last story about DC for a while: Trying to figure out why buses slowing down 51st.news/metro-tried-...

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Metro tried to make bus service better. Somehow, ridership and speeds are both down

A year after Better Bus, reviews are mixed.

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Payton Chung @westnorth.com · 22/07/2026

Even the worst-transit-served block in DC has better transit and lower VMT than this corner of Loudoun County. Following the logic of TOD, DC should allow this RF-1-style density everywhere. Yet it doesn't - because it's applying TOD logic to exclude, not include.

Live/work townhouses and multifamily housing in Lansdowne, Loudoun County, which has an AllTransit score of 5.3. Image by the author.

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"By proposing only to legalize new homes w/in a 10min walk of Metrorail stations, or a 5min walk from [some bus stops], OP is shying away from making changes that cities with much less transit have already embraced." Legalize rowhomes & plexes everywhere! @ggwash.org ggwash.org/view/104207/...

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Think outside the circle, DC OP

If it were the 1970s, this proposal from the DC Office of Planning would be cutting edge. Instead, it stands to seriously hold back housing in the District.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 21/07/2026

just got an email from my (former) chair that the university has acted & the state has approved the formal closure of my department. this was done without any faculty input on the decision or the process, & has ended a vibrant, growing (!), humanities department that won teaching and research awards

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Greater Greater Washington @ggwash.org · 20/07/2026

DC has been building far too little, for far too long, and the shortfall runs into the tens or even hundreds of thousands of homes.

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How bad is DC’s housing shortage?

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I somehow missed there was going to be a halftime show entirely and so am doubly unprepared for whatever on earth is happening right now

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Out and about for the first time today and seeing no one else on the streets but us are wearing masks... It makes me feel crazy? Like you all can see this and are reading the news too, right?!

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

What did somebody with a public health degree do to Emily Oster that has made her so persistently hostile to the field?

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A whole lot of people with otherwise progressive views suddenly get real mad when you talk about doing anything at all to address the scourge of speeding drivers killing people

The Garfield, "You are not immune to propaganda" meme but instead it says car brain

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

it's the biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and you almost never hear about it (because it threatens to bankrupt many of the fossil fuel interests who currently run our society)

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 14/07/2026

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

Opportunities Narrow for Women as Hegseth Blocks More Promotions
For the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty female Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This miniseries was *foundational* viewing for tweenage me. Sam Neill as Merlin? Helena Bonham Carter as Morgan Le Fay? Miranda Richardson as the Lady of the Lake? A not-yet-famous Lena Headey as Guinevere?! Iconic. (I bought it on VHS.)

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

In the exam room at my ob-gyn the other day, I noticed a folder of flyers ready for handing out labeled "Tylenol and pregnancy," bc I presume they're getting a lot of scared questions about it from patients. Cool cool cool, great national public health situation. www.reuters.com/world/us-app...

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US appeals court revives private lawsuits linking Tylenol to autism

A federal appeals court on Monday revived more than 500 private lawsuits against Tylenol maker Kenvue over ‌the painkiller's alleged link to autism.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The Republican war on science comes for road safety. Protected bike lanes, road diets, and automatic traffic enforcement prevent people from being killed. Researchers have proven this—repeatedly.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 11/07/2026

The thing is, 95% bullshitting a paper is actually doing most of the important skills development work of writing a paper . "The point of writing a paper is to have a good final product" is something believed by people who paid others to write their papers but somehow they run universities now

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I have to hope that under a new administration and different Council, DC won't keep raiding paid family & medical leave funds and cutting benefit maximums to pay for general fund things that should be covered by more progressive taxation on DC's wealthiest. dc.citycast.fm/news/dc-paid...

Bar chart from linked City Cast DC article noting that "Most money raised by paid leave tax doesn't go to paid leave." Showing how at first, all money from the paid leave payroll tax went to the PFML fund, but since 2025 a majority has been redirected to the general fund.

DC employers (and by extension employees) are now paying the same payroll tax to receive less benefits since the benefit maximums are being reduced in the FY27 budget.

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

They will also learn that, for karaoke purposes, "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a lot longer and has more awkward instrumental interludes than you remember

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Josh Jacobson @districtjosh.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

With OUC's sessions on 311 being in person, I'm doing a survey of challenges with the current app! If you have experience with the DC 311 mobile app, I'd appreciate if you'd fill out the below linked survey. I'll be sharing key takeaways with OUC!

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Well I have received this truly twisted Instagram ad from Matt Walsh and the Daily Wire.

Screenshot of Instagram ad with photo of child screaming with hands over their ears and a mom in the background whom I guess I'm meant to take it is a bad mom because the text says "How Gentle Parenting Helped Turn America Against Children: Men have a deep need for respect. The culture spent decades telling women that is not their problem. The marriages paid the price."
Post attributed to Matt Walsh and The Daily Wire.

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My greatest Emmy nominations excitement is that "Task" got acting nominations for Tom Pelphrey and Mark Ruffalo as well as writing and directing nominations. That show totally blew me away and I have been banging the "Why is no one talking about Task???" drum ever since.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

One of my hardest-won political lessons is that it’s never, ever worth it to treat ppl as ~indispensable no matter what they do~ —bc we *see* the contributions & potential of the abusive men & we don’t get to see that in the women they drive out. We never actually get to know what we’ve squandered

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 06/07/2026

Sorry but I'm embarrassed for everyone who is acting like it required some special skill to suss out that Platner was not great

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Who among us wouldn't give a guy a second chance? and a third. and a fourth. and a fifth. and a sixth. and a seventh. and an eighth. and a ninth. and a tenth. and an eleventh. and a twelfth. But after that it really is time to admit you were being played by a remorseless piece of shit the whole time

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Caroline @caro130.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Annnnd this right here (plus the ability to eventually go to sleep) is why I got out of DC for the 4th, and maybe will try to forever from now on!

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