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#humanitarian. Mom to Mash and Sunshine. #USAIDForever. Epidemiologist. Cyclist. backpacker/forest bather. harrier. Bibliophile. moss-, lichen-, and baobab-obsessed. 📍 whiskey-loving Michigander in occupied DC. | #bikeDC | #episky | #GoBlue! | #USAID |

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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"That is a war crime. That is barbarism. And it is something the United States must never be associated with." I don't know, man - I think it might be a bit too late for that...
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I feel like this would have been violently disallowed if id ever tried to shift money between these diametrically opposed budget line items. Curious how the party of law and order is justifying these beyond "because I want to" [as my 3 yr old yells that at the dinner table 🫪]
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What about Don's Johns? Can we slap his name on the side of those? Trump team now wants to put his name on Ford’s Theatre: report www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Trump team now wants to put his name on Ford’s Theatre: report
White House officials apparently pitch renaming buildings in Trump’s honor to get on the president’s good side, according to a report
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At best it gives them download counts... even if you never open the spyware app chock-full of unfiltered propaganda (until another super sketchy gov regime uses it to splash around their propaganda). ... UNLESS someone else decides to have some fun with it?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Katie Henke for ANC 6D03 @katie6d03.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Announcing POLICY WEEK! Let's talk about what the next ANC can do to improve SW DC for everyone! katiehenke.substack.com/p/announcing...
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Announcing POLICY WEEK!
For people who want to know what I plan to do if elected to represent ANC 6D03...
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Oh ffs. *apparently Canadians will see both (real and fake/bs) names. #lakeontario #Ontario #americanexceptionalism
Screenshot of Google maps showing Lake Ontario labeled as Lake America.

(Taken Monday, August 31)
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“Trump smells like poop” and “rejecting occupation since 1776, national guard go home”  stamped on a peeled off poster with some kind of self inking stamp
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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 30/08/2026
LOGGING ON
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CommonSense @comminsense.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Is it too much to ask to get total revenge on Trump, his family, his enablers and the entire co-conspirator GOP party?
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
That would be a remarkably generous take... Seems that the WHO has taken lessons in sane-washing from our friends in the oh-so-polite, terribly passive media.
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Is this the cutest baby animal to have ever existed!? (Kinda want to dare folks to prove me wrong bc I could definitely use a thread of the cutest things ever) #waterbuffalo #babies #furbabies #cuteness #cutestever
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Aside from the Good and Pretti killings this might be the fastest a viral video has gotten on the front (digital) page of the NYT.
ICE Agent Points Gun at Woman in Car in Virginia, Videos Show
The agent accused the woman of trying to run him over with her vehicle, a claim she denied. It was the latest tense encounter between a federal agent and a driver.
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Damn straight. We can all bond over mutual hatred for buckeyes 🎯 #Michigander #goblue #michigan @umich.edu
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
HASAN: “Everyone is already doing ‘CaN @abdulelsayed.bsky.social uNitE the Dems’? That Q is really: can he get the people/consultants who work only for pro-🇮🇱 candidates to shut the fuck up about him being a ‘TeRrOriSt’ long enough to consolidate the base + beat Mike Rogers?”
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DSP💙#🟦✡️ @drawstickpeople.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This could be me I want a salad. A cold crunchy salad. This is the longest I've gone without one & in the before times, i had salad twice a day So Fuck RFK, Jr
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MassShootingTracker @massshootingtrk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
UPDATE: America's gun psychopathy continues: *326* mass shootings so far in 2026. 💔😡💔 #GunsDontMakeUsSafer The latest: A gunman shot 10 people, 3 fatally, then killed himself in Twin Falls, Idaho: www.kens5.com/article/news...
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 30/07/2026
Odyssey this. Odyssey that. We Odyssey ICE abolished.
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“The Republicans have all had their spines surgically removed,” @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social said in #Michigan. “I mean, they’re just gelatinous blobs that kind of make it through the United States Senate.” #iran #warpowers @abdulelsayed.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Senators accuse Republican ‘gelatinous blobs’ of caving to Trump on Iran war
Democrats Warren and Van Hollen attack Republican ‘rubber stamps’ in Congress for ceding authority to Trump
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Claude escaped! Quite a bit of agency and anthropomorphizing we're giving to an inanimate collection of code that the humans didnt appropriately safeguard. #anthropomorphicAI #skynet
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Anyone else wondering: Is this real or @theonion.com? TNR's title manages to make it believable: #RFK Jr. Launches Cooking Show as Nation Racked by Explosive Diarrhea (@newrepublic.com) Take that however you will. #rfkjr #cyclospora #screwworm @fda.gov www.foodandwine.com/rfk-jr-launc...
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RFK Jr. Just Launched a YouTube Cooking Show — Here’s What He Wants Americans to Eat
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced at a press conference today that he’s launching a YouTube cooking show called “The Real Food Show.” The series will feature ...
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A painfully blunt example of us at our most oxymoronic, those who support or turn a blind eye to these concentration camps are the same folks who still trumpet bs about the land of the free/ home of the brave and their beliefs in American Exceptionalism. #crimesagainsthumanity #ice #icc
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Nose Stuck in a Book Blog @nsiabblog.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I feel attacked #booksky
You’re doing a lot of scrolling for someone who has a book to read
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The Verge @theverge.com · 27/07/2026
The government is prosecuting US citizen Sam Tunick for allegedly providing authorities with a “duress password” that wiped his phone when they tried to seize it at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport.
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The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border
Whoops, was that the duress password?
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/07/2026
👋 Public Health Communicator from Australia here. One of the reasons Australia punches above its weight in sports is that it prioritizes sports science. It's no surprise that Aussie athletes like the swim team have been consistently masking to prevent themselves getting sick before competitions.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/07/2026
GM CEO Mary Barra is introducing Trump at his rally. Something to keep in mind if you're in the market for a vehicle anytime soon.
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Lucky Shitt 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 @luckyshitt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Animals are far more intelligent than we want to believe
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Lemondrop 👉 YOUMA? @lipstick-lemondrop.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
holy moly @hausofdecline.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com ???
Photo of a page from the July issue of In These Times, depicting a six-panel comic from Haus of Decline. 

Panel 1: A woman standing and smiling in front of a chart. “THE ADVENTURES OF BLOODLESS QUANT”
Panel 2: Another woman pleads to Bloodless Quant: “Bloodless Quant, please help! I can’t afford to feed my family!”
Panel 3: BQ replies, “That’s ludicrous. The stock market is at an all-time high”
Panel 4: The woman says “But groceries are—“ but BQ cheerfully interjects, “You shouldn’t make statements if you don’t have economic literacy!” 
Panel 5: BQ holds up a chart with a line rocketing upward, saying “Here’s a chart explaining why your fears are unfounded”
Panel 6: A boy asks the woman, “What are we having for dinner tonight?” The woman dejectedly stirs a pot with the chart in it. “Chart,” she replies.
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Found a surprisingly lovely tableau when we walked into our Pediatrician's waiting room on this Monday am: Several kids playing on the modular furniture. A family reading a book together. And some siblings just... talking to each other. Not a single child on a screen. #screenfreekids
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Sean Sublette @subletteweather.com · 18/07/2026
Colette recently defended her thesis in (check notes) — Clinical Psychology. So you might want to listen to what she has to say. She knows how these bastards think.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
NEW: The Trump administration DOJ went to a secret deportation court this week. After the first hearing ever convened by the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, the judge concluded DOJ still had more work to do to make its case. Tonight, at Law Dork:
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The Trump administration DOJ went to a secret deportation court this week
After the first hearing ever convened by the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, the judge concluded DOJ still had more work to do to make its case. Also: Law Dork on MS NOW.
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Even if you *were* using ChatGPT as a search engine, why would you use it to “check links,” instead of just following the links and reading them… oh wait, I see.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“Defendant knew that they were false”
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Home monitoring. With daily phone check-ins. That's what I had to do when I returned from Sierra Leone in 2015 (where I ran an #Ebola Treatment Center in one of the last hot spots of that outbreak). #publichealthsaveslives #publichealth #globalhealthsecurity #USAID #episky
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Mike Ingram For Everyone @electmikeingram.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Every time I think that we've exhausted this meme format, someone manages to prove me wrong. 😂
It's the meme where a guy is looking over at his left shoulder at a woman who has just walked past, much to the chagrin of his clearly aghast partner who is to his right. Except this time it's Death standing in the place of the man, looking at Lindsey Graham over his left shoulder while Mitch McConnell stands in for the partner to Death's right.
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
#NotIdiocracy #NotTheOnion Def did not have "Woke Dept of War leans hard into gender-affirming care" on my 2026 bingo card. I would ask if that means they'll also support evidence-based HRT for women, but sadly, we are in These F*cking Times where science/evidence is shunned. youtu.be/C9Eo_f8LR5g
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announces annual testosterone screenings for service members
YouTube video by The Hill
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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 15/07/2026
Alt text: A screenshot of a tweet by Secretary Pete Hegseth with his caption "The High-T Department of War." In the image, Hegseth looks insecure, and perhaps concerned that someone will learn he tested low for testosterone, which is a very normal aspect of aging and nothing to be embarrassed by.
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Like so many things, the bar has sunk so low that the question needed to be asked, and the response is newsworthy.
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Breaking News: Extremely Unattractive Dottard does more dumb 💩.
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
While traffic stops are certainly to blame, the bigger issue is that these are done in service of racism, implemented by incompetents who are operating with impunity (not unlike Blackwater and other PMCs overseas). Even without traffic stops, ICE would continue to kill.
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Summer 🏳️‍⚧️ @artgirlsummer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Unarmed person shot with bullets from gun held by person with badge in ICE-related extra-judicial stop-and-kill situation
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microveldt @microveldt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Try, “ICE Murders Father in front of 3 year old Daughter”
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
So much winning.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Getting to mock taco AND no chance that ka$h will try to show up in their locker room? Must be good to be belgian.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ICE is not about immigration. ICE is not about the southern border. ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force on our streets. It cannot be reformed. It cannot be retrained. ICE must be abolished.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“Can I put my finger in it or am I going to get arrested?”
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/07/2026
Toxic plume from the fireworks barrage has poisoned the air around DC. Check air quality carefully this morning before going outside. Highest reading is 256 for PM2.5 #freedc #america250
AQI at 1 am in DC regionAQI monitor readings for DC region
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