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Ian

@ianlivingston.bsky.social
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Writer. Reporter. Listener. Forecaster. Editor. Former Brookings foreign policy and WaPo weather/climate. #wx #dc #dogs #climatechange #policy #military #python #gis capitalweather.com

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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 9h
Extreme wind warning for Niceville
Isaias making la fall with extreme wind warning
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Kevin Mahoney @kev13wx.bsky.social · 9h
Drill bit, holy moly.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 9h
Sunset appears to be a fail. Unless you like milky gray.
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Matt @maoil.bsky.social · 10h
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narciss...
en.wikipedia.org
Narcissism of small differences - Wikipedia
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 10h
Trump would make a deal with the devil to get gas prices down. Not sure this is a new development. Plus he holds a grudge like no other so he probably still wants Zelensky to fail.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 11h
God this app is a pain in the ass. Nothing like arguing with people that are 95%+ in alignment with you politically.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 12h
I just got a response from the National Guard, which says troops “are directed not to monitor or secure polling locations” and is “addressing this specific instance.”
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 11h
That's them putting their MOUT training into practice.
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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 12h
You want blood boiling? Here they are in formation outside Tubman Elementary last week
Four armed soldiers standing backs to each other on a quiet street corner across the street from an elementary school
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 12h
Will use this an excuse to plug this:
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 12h
These guys stand around with their backs to eachother like they are on watch in a warzone. Blood boiling.
National Guard patrolling U street
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 12h
Go tell them to move their loitering authoritarian asses somewhere else
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 12h
Southern Arkansas the new snow belt
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 13h
The D.C. Board of Elections says it’s asking the National Guard to avoid standing near D.C.’s ballot drop boxes, which opened today, in the wake of video footage showing them near a box in Foggy Bottom this week: www.washingtonsun.com/metro/nation...
washingtonsun.com
D.C. Elections Board Asks National Guard to Stay Away From Ballot Drop Boxes
Guard members were seen standing next to a drop box in Foggy Bottom this week.
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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 14h
#Isaias looking increasingly impressive on Elgin AFB radar. Latest recon pass found 135 kt as flight level in NE quadrant.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20h
This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.
A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drinkThe console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders. In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 18h
Added a bunch more obs to our tracker for Isaias. Gusts shown. www.capitalweather.com/tracking-isa...
Isaias visible with gusts shown.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 18h
My guess is Trump will step in to un-televise the execution. Then he will be stupidly praised by some media.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 18h
I still go to Xitter for work stuff at times. It always amazes (disgusts?) me how so many people I used to chat with all the time are just posting through the site being owned by one of the globe's leading fascist propagandists.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 20h
High clouds already streaming in ahead of the storm. Should be good sunset this eve, perhaps more tomorrow.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A key difference between us and the Iranian autocracy is they have sane leaders
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If TX really goes blue this will probably be a big part of it. All sorts of righties were loving the farm bill legalization then the MAGA gov turned the clock back.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Don’t underestimate the regime’s interest in apocalyptic religious war
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Uhh I got nothin
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I don’t get why people want to still call it Twitter tho. The rest of the names arguably matter.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
nightmare country
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I feel like such a rebel calling it the Gulf of Mexico. May even join blue anon.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Except if you have kids and move to Florida they can work in the mines and make you rich
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The need for attention is strong in this economy
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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 08/10/2026
Isaias became the first hurricane in the Atlantic this season overnight. Now up to 80 mph sustained wind. It'll throw our region a wet Sunday, and perhaps a severe weather threat. Recon is in there now checking out the storm. Track it here: www.capitalweather.com/tracking-isa...
Satellite image of Isaias in the Gulf of Mexico with recon overlay.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My paranoia is rapidly intensifying as the midterms approach. May need to log off for a few weeks.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This stain on our lives has no clue how not to double down on the stupidest shit he says
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Never stop poolin’ (Until they kick you out for the season in a few weeks)
Pool and sunny skies oh my
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Added recon. Started this like 3 mo ago then didn't touch it till yesterday. Quality season.
storm stats
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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 07/10/2026
Tropical Storm Isaias will become the season's first hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, with rapid intensification likely the next few days. The storm could also deliver substantial rainfall to the DC region this weekend. Track it here: www.capitalweather.com/tracking-isa...
capitalweather.com
Tropical Storm Isaias tracker
The storm will likely deliver some impacts to the DC region after making landfall along the northern Gulf Coast as the season's first hurricane.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
First morning this fall seeing my breath. DCA got into the 40s for the first time, too.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In an authoritarian regime, people publicly debase themselves to signal loyalty to the ruler
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lock it in 🌪️
CAPE coming at meWedges formation
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Daily Wah (red pandas) @dailywah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Daily red panda carving a pumpkin!
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A whole season worth of hype waiting for this one. Let’s gooooo.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How could they not want the rage inducing deployment of troops to their city for no reason
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Responses here are a good showing of how people offload their thinking skills to post on social media.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wait till you see the feet in the second pic. Thats a very big baby.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
theunpopulist.net
A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He was saying high gas is a small price to pay and they could take out a city if he didn’t do anything. He is just old and babbles through senility. Why the crowd cheered is another question.
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Mark Ellinwood @markellinwood.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sarah found this behemoth by the shed this morning... About 80% of the size and weight of a cantaloupe.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A lot of mushrooms
A troubling number of mushrooms that have enjoyed the wet weather lately
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think that @aselrod.bsky.social is right that the attention economy does bad things to our brains, whether or not those things qualify as addiction www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...
liberalcurrents.com
Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater
Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not to mention the radar network has been underfunded and life extended for a long while before the latest stupid cuts to NOAA. Or that industry generally only likes to get involved in things with huge profit margins these days.
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