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Katy #FreePalestine

@kaydo11.bsky.social
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People walking, biking, & taking transit deserve better. We ALL deserve better, and it's possible - if we organize & fight for socialism.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Pretending, under such circumstances, that we can simply "election" & "normalcy" our way out of this problem is not only unserious, but borders on complicity & fascist accommodation. Time to wake the fuck up.
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
This is such an insane statistic that it's hard to understand. 40% of what is shipped is fossil fuels -- not 40% of things are shipped *by* fossil fuels. 40% of *what is being carried* is the fossil fuels themselves.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
warning signs up around town at the many small parks you might not realize are basically national parks
Yellow sign that says heads up this park is federal property, with other fine print detailing the current situation and the phrase “your risk is higher here”
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Mark Misoshnik @misoshnik.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Counterpoint: they don’t need to be trained because they’re not there to enforce laws, they’re there to terrorize poor people of color. Really hate this framing considering how shitty local cops are on this stuff, too.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
It really bothers me that we're not talking about how the GOP cut DC's funding before invading.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.
The
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The White House V*
@WhiteHouse
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OPERATION MAKING D.C. SAFE & BEAUTIFUL
ARRESTED
CARRYING A PISTOL
WITHOUT A LICENSE
The WHITE HOUSE
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Jesus. Pam Bondi just purported to replace the DC police chief and revoke guidance from earlier today that instructed police to continue to comply with DC’s sanctuary laws — laws duly passed by our city council, elected by our voters. Even more radical than we’d feared.
The attorney general's directive comes hours after Smith directed MPD officers to share information with immigration agencies regarding people not in custody - such as someone involved in a traffic stop or
checkpoint. The Justice Department said Bondi disagreed with the police chief's directive because it allowed for continued enforcement of "sanctuary policies."Bondi said she was rescinding that order as well as other MPD policies limiting inquires into immigration status and preventing arrests based solely on federal immigration warrants.
All new directives must now receive approval from Cole, the attorney general said.
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 14/08/2025
US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
This goes to show, policing as it has existed has always been tyranny's foot in the door. If Democratic mayors could justify unaccountable, undemocratic, secretive state violence in some places, it's a much lower bar to justify it everywhere.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/08/2025
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
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AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 12/08/2025
🚨ALERT: ICE & other feds raided the Home Depot parking lot on Rhode Island this morning (8/12) and detained approx 15 people who were both workers and shoppers. Multiple agencies were involved and the cowards were masked. 1/
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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 12/08/2025
🚨ALERTA: La actividad de las agencias federales continúa esta noche (8/11) en DC. Hemos recibido informes de avistamientos en: - Benning Rd & 17th NE - Franklin & 7th NE - Dupont (17th & Church NW) - Parque Malcolm X (Meridian Hill) y alrededores - U St - The Wharf
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
NEW — Video taken by a witness and shared with me tonight from DC’s Trinidad neighborhood shows FBI and Secret Service agents patrolling by foot and peering into cars with flashlights. (Per witness, residents made fun of agents, saying they can't get women and that's why they were doing this lol)
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The 51st @51st.news · 12/08/2025
As a part of our explainer series, a few months back we covered what to do if you're arrested in D.C. Refresh yourself on your rights. 51st.news/what-to-know...
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What to know if you're arrested in D.C.
Understanding your rights is crucial to protecting yourself and your neighbors.
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Katy #FreePalestine @kaydo11.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Lanternfly on the balcony crime
Photo taken of a balcony through a window, showing railing and a street. The railing has a spotted lanternfly on it.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser today called Trump's decision to take over D.C. police + send National Guard troops into the city "unsettling and unprecedented." She also didn't condemn him or his authoritarian move even once in her 45-min press event. www.huffpost.com/entry/muriel...
huffpost.com
D.C. Mayor Calls Trump's Police Takeover ‘Unsettling And Unprecedented’
“I’m going to work every day to make sure it’s not a complete disaster,” said Muriel Bowser, who refrained from attacking Trump for infringing on her role.
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Katy #FreePalestine @kaydo11.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
This dog that looks like my friend's dog.
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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
How D.C. first lost its right to self-govern, and the long road to home rule 
In 1871, Congress took over the capital city, blaming the District’s financial mess on Black voters. March 2025 🎁🔗⬇️
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How D.C. first lost its right to self-govern, and the long road to home rule
The nation’s capital made history on Jan. 8, 1867, by giving Black men the right to vote with the District of Columbia Suffrage Bill.
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Conor Shaw @fixcircle.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
It's a huge tell that the executive order makes no attempt to specify what services the President is requesting from MPD. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 740 of the District of
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The 51st @51st.news · 11/08/2025
Martin is following today's news. Keep up with him here. ⬇️
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
If you’re in DC and seeing National Guard/Federal agent activity, reach out via Signal at marisakabas.04
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 11/08/2025
Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall. If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is (h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
it’s crazy that anyone can do politics like this. just being among the people, and not doing media opps at a dozen focus tested diners and fairs that poll for maximum impact
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Russ The Tedious Ghost @russ41.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Now through this weekend, I'll donate $1 to @51st.news for each: - person who reposts this post - new follower @51st.news ws gets - new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets - new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets - new follower I get And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.
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Katy #FreePalestine @kaydo11.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Thank you, @51st.news ! Our bill this month was enormous. Proud to subscribe and thanks for the info.
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maxlevites.bsky.social @maxlevites.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
If you miss DCist, make sure you're supporting @51st.news!
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Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
VICTORY: Our clients UMD SJP will receive a $100,000 settlement from the University of Maryland — the highest financial penalty likely ever imposed on a US university for violating pro-Palestinian students’ free speech rights, to our knowledge. palestinelegal.org/news/umd-set...
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Party for Socialism and Liberation @pslweb.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Why are the vast majority of U.S. adults stressed about the cost of basic needs? In the richest economy in the history of the world, no one should believe the lie that “there’s no money” to ensure everyone’s basic needs are met.
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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
AAA estimates the average cost of owning a car is $12,297 a year, and recommends drivers spend no more than 10 percent of their income on car costs. This means you should make 120K to afford the average cost. Median *household* income in the US is $77K. The math just doesn't work.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 04/08/2025
“We are going to create a machine that solves all our problems” is a preposterous assertion and should be treated as such. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
In other words, we are in the final few years of pre-AGI civilisation, after which nothing may ever be the same again. To some the prospect is apocalyptic, to others, like Hassabis, it’s utopian.

“Assuming we steward it safely and responsibly into the world, and obviously we’re trying to play our part in that, then we should be in a world of what I sometimes call radical abundance,” says Hassabis. He paints a picture of medical advances, room-temperature superconductors, nuclear fusion, advances in materials, mathematics. “It should lead to incredible productivity and therefore prosperity for society. Of course, we’ve got to make sure it gets distributed fairly, but that’s more of a political question. And if it is, we should be in an amazing world of abundance for maybe the first time in human history, where things don’t have to be zero sum. And if that works, we should be travelling to the stars, really.”

Is he getting too close to his own technology? There are so many issues around AI, it’s difficult to know where to even begin: deepfakes and misinformation; replacement of human jobs; vast energy consumption; use of copyright material, or simply AI deciding that we humans are expendable and taking matters into its own hands.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Minneapolis!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This is actually hilarious 😆
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isaac @sevier.io · 03/08/2025
I think there’s a big difference between “all hope is lost” and “I have lost hope” and in climate it is really important to distinguish between the two. My personal feelings, your personal feelings are not the limits of our collective politics.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Do you remember the horrific abduction in Worcester, MA where protestors clashed with ICE as they ripped a woman away from her family? The horror continues. The woman’s 13 and 17 year old daughters were placed in foster care. They are now both missing. 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/31/m...
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Two sisters in DCF custody since mother was detained by ICE in May in Worcester are missing, officials say - The Boston Globe
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has released a missing poster of both sisters to help in the search.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/ The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone* www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...
chart: capital expenditures, quarterly

shows hockey-stick like growth in the capex expenditures of Amazon, Microsoft, Google and meta, almost entirely on data centers

in the most recent quarter it was nearly $100 billion, collectively
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Katy #FreePalestine @kaydo11.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
First of many indications that the site will be SO over-parked. @kingmanpark.bsky.social @homesnotstadiums.bsky.social @sierraclub.org @ddotdc.bsky.social @doee-dc.bsky.social
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Katy #FreePalestine @kaydo11.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Wow - Commanders rep just said in response to Chairman Mendelson's comment about them saving money bc they're only paying $1 in rent: "There's no value in the [RFK] land." Wow yea okay. So why do you want it then?
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s" An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us: www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
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‘Past The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Describes How Starvation In Gaza Is Driving Mass Death
"In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, to...
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Party for Socialism and Liberation @pslweb.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
🚨BREAKING: Today, the Trump administration moved to repeal a 2009 EPA finding that human-caused climate change poses a danger to health and safety – further entrenching the idea that private profit should come before people and the planet. END CAPITALISM BEFORE IT ENDS US!
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Alex Koma @alexkoma.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
As the RFK hearings get started, Robert White took another chance to lay out some of his problems with the deal and warn that he's still not decided on how he'll vote Friday. He's among the swing votes who could extract concessions...if they have the stomach for it.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
How are Trump's economic policies impacting you? Let me give you a hard example. 🧵
Photo of overseas shipping containers stacked on top of each other. There is yellow tape all over the graphic that says "Tariffs."
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
oh my fucking god
🚨 Horrifying scenes : Aerial footage shows the complete destruction of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. According to Israeli sources: “We didn’t leave a single stone standing.”
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The analysis says that the reason mixed-used development without a stadium would eventually produce more tax revenue is simple: "The stadium proposal comes with a significant amount of land dedicated to large parking garages, which do not generate sizable revenues."
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/07/2025
This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants. This is horrifying beyond words. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
whitehouse.gov
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
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Kingman Park Kaleidoscope @kingmanpark.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
They don’t care about public comment. Saying it’s been discussed for years is absurd—details matter and the details were only announced a couple months ago. McDuffie is leading the Community Benefits Agreement but hasn’t once spoken to actual communities that surround the stadium like Kingman Park.
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CM Janeese Lewis George @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
My statement on the DC Auditor’s report on the “Grossly Inadequate” discipline of the MPD officers convicted in the killing of Karon Hylton-Brown:
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Metro @wmata.com · 20/07/2025
Did you know transit is 20 times safer than driving a car? Each year, public transportation prevents more than 2,500 injuries related to car accidents. Take Metro!
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