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Franc O 🏳️‍🌈

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Peering out at my fellow citizens and trying to not allow my face to say everything I'm thinking....

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 30/09/2026
What is most important is that the federal government should NOT be ramming policies down on DC without consulting with the 700,000 people who live here. (DC statehood now.) @janeese4dc.bsky.social is very likely DC’s next mayor and the White House would do well to help her make DC better.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 30/09/2026
Dear Mr. President, our gold standard Mosquito trapping apparatus using carbon dioxide is safe and effective and controls the DC Mosquito population near a park (Here are a dozen trapped mosquitos; they will dry out and die in a few hours when I put this back.)
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 30/09/2026
Here is more basic biomedical research on understanding how mosquitos smell and find CO2 to bite people. (This is close to my lab’s work, as we have studied amplification and filtering of input by E-E recurrent networks, it’s a thing.)🧪
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 30/09/2026
Here’s some of the NIH-funded mosquito work, aimed at understanding how mosquitos work so we can control them
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 30/09/2026
Here’s The 51st reporting on DC 🦟 control, from @samdelgado.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/51st...
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 30/09/2026
(There’s a new executive order on DC mosquito control) (Trump is trying to kill NIH and NSF-to privatize their research and control their large budgets to drain out cancer research and do cronyism. We will see if he tries to kill mosquitoes.)
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 30/09/2026
Dear Mr President, it has come to the attn of the 700,000 citizens of DC that you are interested in mosquitos.🦟 Good news! Neighbors are already banding togthr to trap mosquitos (see @51st.news) And #NIH & #NSF do mosquito research. But you’re trying to kill them. web.archive.org/www.whitehou...
(a) Leading the world in safe and effective tick and mosquito population control to prevent disease through smart land management techniques and procedures, natural predator populations, non-chemical pest control measures, and advanced technologies, including sterile insect techniques and insect control tools developed with safe and effective biotechnologies.
(b) Diagnosing, preventing, and treating the syndromes and diseases spread by ticks andMosquitos trapped
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Franc O 🏳️‍🌈 @francom27.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Presence patrols like we are enemy combatants. Close Quarters training. Military operations on urbanized terrain.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
texans, you are going to see this clip once a week and twice on sundays until the election
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nailed it ⛽️ 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Franc O 🏳️‍🌈 @francom27.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Appalling and enraging, men- we have to stop this. We have to call out our friends, colleagues, politicians ,judges- anyone who is putting up obstacles to ending sexual assault needs to be brought to heel.
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Franc O 🏳️‍🌈 @francom27.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you feel like I do, you may be wondering how much longer it will be safe to live here in the land of the free & home of the brave. If you want to discuss & explore how your voice or your experience can literally turn the tide from the terrible things currently happening, let's chat.
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Franc O 🏳️‍🌈 @francom27.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Schoolchildren (anywhere!) should not have ARMED National Guard patrolling outside of their schools. This isn't normal & I won't make this anti-democratic, fiscally irresponsible intimidation normal. We need more signatures- please share widely. actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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Tell Brooke Pinto: No Guard Outside Our Schools
As DC parents and caregivers with kids at several different schools we are alarmed by how the National Guard and other heavily-armed federal law enforcement agencies are congregating in large numbers ...
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Franc O 🏳️‍🌈 @francom27.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Tell Brooke Pinto: No Guard Outside Our Schools. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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Tell Brooke Pinto: No Guard Outside Our Schools
As DC parents and caregivers with kids at several different schools we are alarmed by how the National Guard and other heavily-armed federal law enforcement agencies are congregating in large numbers ...
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Franc O 🏳️‍🌈 @francom27.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “How to be antiracist in the authoritarian age: a conversation with Ibram X Kendi” - sign up now to www.mobilize.us/surj/event/1...
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How to be antiracist in the authoritarian age: a conversation with Ibram X Kendi · Showing Up for Racial Justice
How are authoritarians able to win over so many white people? And convince them that they’re better off with fewer rights and economic instability? And what will it take to beat them at their own game...
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Franc O 🏳️‍🌈 @francom27.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I went down to Charlottesville, VA, knocked on doors & spoke w/ voters about our better future with Tom Perriello in Congress. Join Free DC's next bus trip down: freedcproject.org/event-list/f... As always, Delete DoorDash, Turn Away from Target, Abstain from Amazon, and FUCK ICE!
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Flip VA-5: Indigenous People’s Day Weekend Canvass — Free DC
Congress has been attacking DC for the last year and a half. It’s time for the representatives responsible for those attacks to start losing their seats. This fall Free DC is working to flip Virgini...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/09/2026
So much winning
Today's oil/gas news:
— Brent ~$108, WTI ~$104-105 on Saudi supply fears
— Saudi East-West pipeline still shut; repairs may take weeks
— Oil loadings suspended at Yanbu, Saudi Arabia's main Red Sea port
— No Red Sea Saudi crude exports since
Saturday
— Houthis seize Red Sea islands and attack
Saudi airbase
— US diesel hits record $6.27 a gallon
— Ukrainian drones hit Russia's top diesel refineries
— China's yuan crude futures at a record
- Goldman: oil could reach $120 if fighting escalates
— Aramco delaying/canceling some late-September European cargoes
— Costco starts rationing motor oil as prices spike
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Okay so I pitched a cultural piece about the resurgence of gothic incest in pop culture and the attending politics of white power and eugenics. Admittedly, it was too niche. Anyway Musk’s dad apparently has two kids with his stepdaughter and I’m sure it’s all unrelated.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mike DODGERS is too cowardly to show up to debate me.
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WTF Just Happened Today? by Matt Kiser @whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com · 16/09/2026
WTF just happened today? ⚡️ Day 2065: “Really let our Country down.” whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2026/09/15/d...
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Day 2065: “Really let our Country down.”
The Supreme Court blocked Trump’s plan to limit mail-in voting in the midterms; Trump attacked the Supreme Court over its “bad decision”; FBI Director Kash Patel declined to rule out sending agents...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ouch.
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All of Ed Sheeran's Openers Abandon Tour After Macklemore Debacle
Finneas, Lukas Graham, and more have dropped off shows with Ed Sheeran after Macklemore was pressured off the tour after saying, 'Free Palestine.'
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Reporters were barred from recording video” — Um What? PSA: The moment you obeyed that command you stopped being “reporters” @punchbowlnews.bsky.social
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 16/09/2026
Always fun explaining the Posse Comitatus Act to our occupying forces #freedc #nationalguardgohome
Four Arkansas NG violating the law and Constitution
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Franc O 🏳️‍🌈 @francom27.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: November 2026 Election Protection Volunteer Interest Form. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/novemb...
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November 2026 Election Protection Volunteer Interest Form
We are less than two months away from the midterm elections and the National Guard is still patrolling our neighborhoods. It’s going to be up to us to protect our elections. Election Protection Field Program Volunteers played a key role in DC’s June primary election. They were present outside voting locations, assisting voters who might have questions, and reporting National Guard presence. Will you join us to protect the polls on November 3?
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 11/09/2026
🚨 FORECAST FLIP — Democrats are now favored to take back the Senate. It’s the first Democratic lead in our Senate forecast since it launched in May. Across individual contests, Democrats hold the edge in enough races for a 52-seat majority; overall control remains a tossup.
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The American Postal Workers Union @apwu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Stand with postal workers. Tell Postal Service leadership to do their job and protect the people's Post Office. usmailnotforsale.org/take-action/
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The American Postal Workers Union @apwu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The USPS Board of Governors and especially Chairwoman @ambermcreynolds.bsky.social MUST act to defend the Postal Service's independence and protect vote-by-mail.
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The American Postal Workers Union @apwu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The USPS is independent precisely to protect it from politics. The USPS Board of Governors has the power to protect vote-by-mail, but they are not doing their job.
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The American Postal Workers Union @apwu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today APWU National President Jonathan Smith Went live on MS NOW to set the record straight on Vote-By-Mail. Watch:
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We broke records for the biggest mobilizations in American history Now it’s time to break the record for the largest early vote turnout in history
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
MAGA John McGuire has spent the last 19 months attacking DC, so this fall we’re teaming up with @indivisiblecville.bsky.social and @robertwhite-dc.bsky.social’s DC51 PAC to get out the vote for @tomperriello.bsky.social in VA-05!! When we fight, we win!
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Zach Israel @zachisrael.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
With the imminent return of the DC Council in mid-Sept. (post 2-month summer recess), a bunch of newly scheduled public hearings & roundtables have been scheduled! First up, a Sept. 23 Judiciary & Public Safety Committee hearing on 7 bills covering a wide range of topics:
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/09/2026
When Pete Hegseth polled top commanders about cutting a program designed to protect civilians during military operations, he bet they’d back his view that the program was “woke” and out of step with “maximum lethality,” officials told ProPublica. Instead, every commander rebuffed the idea.
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Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.
The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...
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Jaime Fear Her 👻 @bogrosemary.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Welp, there you have it folks. The National Guard is not here to help us. They’re here to provide cover for extrajudicial kidnappings and to promote growing authoritarianism. #FreeDC
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/08/2026
National Guard members are speaking out about Trump’s DC deployment. One called the mission embarrassing. Another put it even more plainly: “The Guard is being exploited.”
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Franc O 🏳️‍🌈 @francom27.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
www.npr.org/2026/08/21/n...
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Some National Guard members speak out about D.C. deployment
As President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., enters its second year, three guard members who served many months on the mission share their thoughts with NPR.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
NOTE: It was Chief Justice John Roberts who granted the Trump administration the administrative stay requested in the ballroom case, not, as NBC and the WSJ push alerts said, the “Supreme Court.”
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Healthcare workers in Minneapolis have been forced to grapple with violence and intimidation as ICE descends on their workplaces. I interviewed several about how organizing and rights training have helped them protect their colleagues and their patients. Read their advice here:
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Minneapolis Health Care Workers Are Organizing to Defend Their Patients From ICE
Organizing and rights trainings have helped health care workers protect their colleagues and their patients.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/08/2026
Trump won’t say who is supplying his cheap foreign beef as he enrages American ranchers, while two major court deadlines loom over the Epstein files and his $400 million ballroom. But a story about what Trump's done to our missile defenses may be the most troubling part.
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Friday Afternoon News Updates: All Hat, Foreign Cattle – 8/21/26
It’s Friday, August 21.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is the report the President is threatening a lawsuit over. #StreisandEffecting www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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The Trump Administration’s $1.7 Billion National Guard Deployments Fail To Reduce Urban Crime
New CAP analysis reveals the Trump administration’s costly National Guard deployments have failed to reduce violent crime despite its claims of success.
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Jaime Fear Her 👻 @bogrosemary.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It's not just the National Guard that's been staging in the Joe Cole/Wheatley parking lot yesterday and today, it's also HSI (ICE). The neighborhood holds its weekly farmers market on Sundays in that lot; summer camp and programming at Joe Cole Rec has been ongoing; school starts in a week.
At least 3 HSI (ICE) police and 8 National Guard troops - all armed - in the Joe Cole lot with another truck of them driving around out of frame.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It's strange. No photos of Mitch McConnell leaving the rehab center. None of him arriving at the departure airport. None of him at the arrival airport. None of him arriving at his Kentucky home. None whatsoever. Just a statement and reporters giving a quick salute.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Rather than let our fears run wild, we can ground them in what’s already happened and how people responded. "D.C. is one of the clearest examples we have. The city faced a wide array of threats and prepared for the June 16 primary without letting fear set the terms. Here’s what they did."
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What D.C.’s election defense under occupation can teach us
As the threat of federal interference looms over the midterms, we can look to D.C., where grassroots election protectors stood up to federal troops.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🔔 Knox County Dems flip control of the school board…
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"The biggest question isn’t whether the federal government should have a role in the nation’s capital — it’s whether the people who actually live there will have the power to shape their own future." @therootdotcom.bsky.social on Chocolate City under occupation www.theroot.com/chocolate-ci...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) took its latest blow in a failing voter roll crusade as a federal judge Thursday dismissed its case targeting Washington, D.C. This marks a 0-21 record for the DOJ. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/doj...
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DOJ is 0 for 21 as court dismisses D.C. voter roll grab
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) took its latest blow in a failing voter roll crusade as a federal judge Thursday dismissed its case targeting Washington, D.C.
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 04/08/2026
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
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Franc O 🏳️‍🌈 @francom27.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Every act of defiance- big or small, every refusal to let this regime change our hearts, every time we speak out or show up, matters. Come bask in some community spirit and help collectively heal some broken hearts.
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