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Joe Flood

@joeflood.bsky.social
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Writer, photographer, web person in DC. Also known as Red Bike Guy.

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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“Great little nonstop clever book!" LIKES is about the dangerous pursuit of social media fame amzn.to/3U6wwFn
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Likes: Short Stories About Social Media
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4h
Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 6h
Your tax dollars paid to fix Lafayette Park but Trump has locked it up
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17h
In the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" emptywheel.net/2026/09/30/i...
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In the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" - emptywheel
Once you realize Trump's morally binding AI code doesn't even spell "United States" properly, the whole sham looks even more ominous.
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lafayette Park. They moved the fence forward a little bit
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump has made a mess out of DC. Mostly to the White House wapo.st/4z23MwC
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How Trump’s sweeping changes are remaking Washington
No modern president has done more to personally reshape the nation’s capital.
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Secret Handshake has done it again! At the WWI Memorial in DC
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Reflecting Pool is still broken
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
President Trump opposes deal that would open the Strait of Hormuz immediately. Holding out for diesel at $10 a gallon.
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Out of jail on Tuesday, back in jail on Thursday www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Is Accused of Touching Woman’s Hair on D.C. Metro
Bryan Betancur, 29, was taken into custody on Thursday in Arlington, Va., two days after he completed a sentence for the same offense in the District of Columbia.
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Protest against President Xi of China yesterday in Franklin Park featured a punching dummy with Xi's face on it and protesters dressed as Winnie the Pooh. Demonstrators mock Xi as looking like Winnie the Pooh - these images would be banned in China.
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WilsonBWilsonB @ignorantelle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Taken into custody!! Your hair is safe.. for now
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
CCP takeover of DC, courtesy of Donald Trump
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"No Arch" protester in Memorial Circle yesterday
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
pro and anti-Xi demonstrators in DC
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
$6 million in gold leaf paid by you and it's a death trap without exit stairs or enough bathrooms! wapo.st/4hk45vL
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‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues
James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Reading this now. The Gods of New York is a good read if you want to know about Trump, Giuliani, Sharpton and more in 1980s NYC amzn.to/4yd714s
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The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990: Mahler, Jonathan: 9780525510659: Amazon.com: Books
The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990 [Mahler, Jonathan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Gods of New York: Egoti...
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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 21/09/2026
1:30pm Monday: Showers working their way west to east through DC region next few hours, although they may break up some as they come through. Radar and our latest forecast at the Capital Weather app and CapitalWeather.com
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Clever Resistance @cleverresistance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Bravery is contagious...Every time we do something on the ground, it emboldens somebody else, whether that’s one person, an organization, or a whole community, to stand up and push back."
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Embassy of Canada in DC
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Check out my photos of street art in DC! washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7917...
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Cackling at Fascism: How Washington Learned to Laugh Last
As the Trump administration grows more absurd, D.C.’s comedians, artists, and agitators are turning ridicule into civic resistance.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Join tomorrow if you’re free! We hope to see you there! 💚✊ Hands Around the Kennedy Center Friday, September 18, 2026 at 6:30 PM ET The Kennedy Center 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump made a mess of the Mall
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Kennedy Center is closed but not demolished yet
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Kennedy Center is CLOSED!
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Julie Patton Lawson @srfrjulie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Chesapeake Bay Program spotlighted the Mount Vernon Trail and the recognition from @railstotrails.org cc @mountvernontrail.org Hooray for public access to land and water! 💜 www.chesapeakebay.net/news/blog/an...
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An 18.5-mile trail along the Potomac River is honored by the Rails to Trail Conservancy
The Mount Vernon Trail connects the nation’s capital to George Washington’s estate
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14/09/2026
Exclusive: Leaders of the Kennedy Center say the center is on the brink of bankruptcy and argue that putting the president’s name on its facade — and thus ensuring his fundraising efforts — may be the only way to avoid a “certain fiscal collapse.”
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Kennedy Center could close as early as Tuesday, warns of bankruptcy, documents show
Officials said the center is facing “certain fiscal collapse” within weeks, insist that adding President Donald Trump’s name may be the only way to avoid bankruptcy.
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Washingtonian @washingtonian.com · 14/09/2026
Good morning, in Monday’s Washingtonian Today: * Kennedy Center claims it needs Trump’s name on the building to survive * Reflecting Pool contractor says it—not vandals—was responsible for fiasco * The Commanders’ loss could have been worse washingtonian.com/2026/09/14/k...
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Kennedy Center Claims It Needs Trump’s Name on the Building to Survive, Reflecting Pool Contractor Says It—Not Vandals—Was Responsible for Fiasco, and the Commanders’ Loss Could Have Been Worse - Washingtonian
Good morning. Sunny today with a high around 81 and—finally—a break from the humidity. A low near 58 overnight. 🌎 How well do you know the District? Play our new geography game and test your local…
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Dancing with Liberty by Joseph Schneider at the Reflecting Pool
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 12/09/2026
Attention DC sports fans www.dclibrary.org/hail-fans
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Hail to the Fans
This exhibition will use sports as a powerful lens through which to explore community, identity, civic pride, and resilience. Like all of our major exhibitions, it will be unmistakably rooted in D.C.
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Opera in Dupont Circle for Art All Night!
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We need to have a much deeper conversation about the DOJ that prosecuted innocent people for absolutely NO REASON than to please their Fuhrer. Every single lawyer involved in that shit should be disbarred.
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Proud Boy "leader" (there is some dispute about that) Enrique Tarrio returned to DC in support of Brian Cole, the alleged J6 pipe bomber. J6ers think that Cole was set up by Kash Patel's FBI (it's complicated). He read a statement outside the courthouse and was heckled by locals.
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Dupont Circle tree update - it's covered in thank-you notes
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Blue is coming back to DC! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/a...
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Ousted Kennedy Center Chairman Buys Dismantled ‘Blue’ Sculpture (Gift Article)
David Rubenstein purchased the sculpture, which was removed from the center last week, from the artist’s foundation. He will display it at the National Gallery of Art.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 07/09/2026
come on this would be funny. roof is for Blue!
Google Maps street view of the National Gallery's East Building, viewed from Pennsylvania Ave looking up at the roof garden. At right, Katharina Fritsch's 'Hahn/Cock', her big blue rooster sculpture; at left, i pasted in Joel Shapiro's 'Blue'
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Tributes to the Dupont Circle tree knocked over by the storm
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I explore the dark side of social media obsession in LIKES, a fast and fun collection of short stories www.amazon.com/Likes-Short-...
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Likes: Short Stories About Social Media
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Blue by Joel Shapiro at the Kennedy Center - before and after Trump
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Blue by Joel Shapiro at the Kennedy Center, before it was removed by Trump
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The regime is removing the Blue statue from the Kennedy Center this morning
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“Great little nonstop clever book!" a.co/d/0hYvwlZT
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 30/08/2026
cc @drandrewthaler.bsky.social @joeflood.bsky.social
Cartoon of guardsman saying "after the liner failed, we redeployed to protect the floating blue chips from laughing tourists"
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
from the author of Babylon Berlin, The March Fallen is a page-turner set in a time so similar to our own a.co/d/02x5MGPY
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Gawain 4 ANC @gawain4anc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Very fun and energizing. What a great day to stop Trump from enshittifying everything.
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Save this view! Trump wants to bulldoze Hains Point and has already started chopping down cherry trees. An alliance of park users and conservationists is fighting him in court. Tell your member of Congress to do their job and check the Mad King.
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Hains Point 100 @hainspoint100.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just published in @ggwash.org: I wrote about Hains Point 100, why this public space matters, and why the public should have a say in what happens next. Hains Point gave us room to make something special. That’s worth protecting. #bikearlington #bikedc #hp100 @waba.org ggwash.org/view/104662/...
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Congress made Hains Point a public park. Will it stay that way?
More than a century after Congress set Hains Point aside for the “recreation and pleasure of the people,” plans for a major golf course overhaul raise an old question: Who gets to decide how it’s used...
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Vote Early - seen this morning at the March on Washington
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Jibblescribbits @jibblescribbits.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The real Lake America
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Reflecting Pool this morning. Trump really fucked it up
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