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Nikki Metzgar

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 30/09/2026
I’m always in favor of a collective reckoning around gendered violence but also, it’s fucking exhausting. The sheer tsunami of stories of harm. The desperation from women and survivors that men listen, for once, and learn and change. The force of the righteous and correct anger. Phew.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Incredible headline here (among other things)
theguardian.com
Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply
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Nikki Metzgar @nikkimetz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I just paid $9 for a cardamom bun. DC is a nightmare
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Nikki Metzgar @nikkimetz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
lmao it’s the same in NYC as in DC. the wealthy don’t want their taxes to go up so they’ll say a lot of nonsense meant to sound adult and serious in order to justify cutting public services.
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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If three NYers were shot up by strangers that got away it would be on CNN and NYT/WSJ above fold. If three subway riders died after being pushed on 🚇tracks by strangers it would be on CNN and NYT/WSJ above fold. Three NYers were killed by hit-run drivers and nary a peep?
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Whenever I post about this kind of thing, often somebody will reply “they are trying to get you used to it” No we are all mad as hell all the time, they are trying to get YOU used to it
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Feel free to be upset by the costs of this, but if it’s not a familiar experience, please also think about how you would feel if you saw military patrols in your neighborhood when you walked your dog, went to the store, went out for the evening, etc.
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The goal now is just to discipline labor and crush any popular anticapitalist movement. They’ve achieved a level of wealth that makes profit and loss pure abstraction, now they’re just focused on social control. Fighting taxes isn’t about wealth, it’s about starving the state of resources
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The point of all this isn't to turn a profit or come out ahead. The point is to establish that capital can never be invaded, that wealth belongs exclusively in private hands and its expenditure decided by private interests, that the state and its people have no right to it or say in its use.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Casually threatening mass rapes
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is a disaster created by the GOP. It's important to identify the culprits. It was directly created by them as POLICY. They clearly articulated that this was what they hoped to accomplish. gothamist.com/news/food-pa...
gothamist.com
Food pantries see long summer lines as New Yorkers lose SNAP benefits in Trump overhaul
They say they have enough food for now but worry they’ll run out of supplies once more New Yorkers begin losing their SNAP benefits.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13/07/2026
it has not even been seven days since the last time ICE agents killed someone, then claimed without evidence that the person had "weaponized" their car, and also were not wearing body cameras
wgme.com
ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford leaves young man dead
The incident happened Monday morning near Pool Street.
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Nikki Metzgar @nikkimetz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I don't think DC residents are talking about this enough: Mayor Bowser and Council raided the tax money employers pay to support paid leave. That money should support workers; its not for patching budget holes elsewhere. dc.citycast.fm/news/dc-paid...
dc.citycast.fm
D.C. is Making its First Ever Cut to Paid Leave · City Cast DC
Some benefits drop by up to 50% while funds from the paid leave tax go to other programs.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This is a really moving and thoughtful interview
advocate.com
Man in viral D.C. Metro photo says he was ‘terrified’ as masked white nationalists surrounded him
Roswell Encina, a gay Filipino American civic leader, said the Fourth of July encounter with Patriot Front was frightening and impossible to separate from American history.
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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
700k+ people of DC are forced into role as ground-zero for Trump's wanton destructiveness. Again: We pay *more*, per capita, in federal taxes than any other Americans. For real. Greatest tax burden. Zero representation. Statehood for DC needs to be #1 on Dem agenda.
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prince egregious, heir apparent @sonofahurricane.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Minnesota people: many of them are OUR guardsmen, sent by OUR governor. It’s disgusting
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L Wasson @wassonl.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
From the pond 🌱 🌿 #FlowerReport #bloomscrolling
A pink water lily blooms in a backyard pond
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This sort of thing makes clear there are no fiscal problems here, only political ones.
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Nikki Metzgar @nikkimetz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A characteristically rancid take from WaPo editorial board on the proposed Wealth Proceeds Tax for DC. Are educated and married people not to pay taxes on passive income? So what about people who are single or don't have college degrees?
a screenshot that reads "Nadeau pitches this as a teensy tax that would mainly fall on those who make more than $1 million a year. It would be more accurate to say it is a tax on educated and married people. According to the Census Bureau, the median family income of married couples in the District was $228,926 in 2024 — a level comfortably reachable by a couple of federal workers with GS-12 or GS-13 civil service ratings."
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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Interested in Texas politics? Welcome! We’re happy to have you. Pls stop linking to NYTimes stories about us. We’ve much better choices from actual Texans. Start here: @texastribune.org @texasobserver.org @texasmonthly.bsky.social @lonestarleft.com @cltomlinson.bsky.social
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Nikki Metzgar @nikkimetz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A must read. DC is set to double down on expensive business incentives with *no proof they're working* and a lot of research that says they won't. dcfpi.org/all/dc-counc...
dcfpi.org
DC Council Should Redirect Funds From Ineffective Tax Breaks Into the Hands of Workers | DC Fiscal Policy Institute
To shepherd DC through these tough economic times and drive inclusive growth, the mayor and DMPED should focus on growing DC’s economy from the bottom up and middle out and shoring up the financial we...
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Stephanie Damassa @shdamassa.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
If you like what happened in Virginia, you’re gonna love DC statehood
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 04/04/2026
Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS.
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Chernobyl Hobo @chernobylhobo.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Over 40k people die a year due to cars in the US and that isn't even factoring in environmental damages. Instead of acknowledging the harm that cars cause to the populace cyclists continue to get demonized by people who can't even conceive of an infrastructure not centered around cars.
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Nikki Metzgar @nikkimetz.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Last year, DC ended dental coverage for residents insured through the Health Care Alliance and Basic Health Plans. 19 years ago a 12-year-old Maryland boy died because he didn't have access to dental care. It doesn't have to be this way. www.washingtonpost.com/archive/loca...
washingtonpost.com
For Want of a Dentist
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Emma Whitford @emmawhitford.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Shout out to the student journalists that have tirelessly covered their professors' ties to Epstein. My job would be much harder without them. See thread for some of my favorite recent student news pieces. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... #AcademicSky #HigherEd
insidehighered.com
Professors in the Epstein Files Begin to Face Consequences
Several faculty members who spoke regularly with Epstein have been stripped of their titles or teaching duties.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The way so many people on here casually refer to any liberal woman over 35 as a "wine mom" is gross
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Nikki Metzgar @nikkimetz.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It would be nice to have a Council chair who didn't always condescend to advocates who want DC residents to have their basic needs met. We understand that the fiscal situation is dire. The question is, are you going to do a single thing about it? www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.
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Nikki Metzgar @nikkimetz.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
something that always makes me cry instantly: singing at protests.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
There's been absolutely no public hearing on this bill, no chance for D.C. residents to weigh in on whether it should be left to their elected officials to determine tax policy or unaccountable members of Congress. (The bill was quietly introduced on January 22.)
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Congressional Republicans, who barred D.C. from spending $1B of its own revenue in its 2025 budget, are moving to block another D.C. law. This action poses risks to D.C.'s public services & credit rating & could create filing chaos as tax season begins. www.cbpp.org/blog/congres...
cbpp.org
Congress Must Allow D.C. to Spend Its Own Local Dollars
Congressional Republicans, who last year barred the District of Columbia from spending $1 billion of its own revenue in its 2025 budget, are now moving to block another DC law.
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Nikki Metzgar @nikkimetz.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Not one Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security Committee should vote yes on this effort to overturn a local DC law. 10 states made the same choice to decouple from tax cuts in the OBBA--only DC gets its law overturned because we don't have the same rights as other Americans.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.
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princess bubblegum 🏳️‍⚧️ @vvv.gay · 25/01/2026
Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
10 years of this shit
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Imagine doing a PhD in electricity, just so you knew how to blow up nuclear power plants and heavy water-producing facilities. “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.” A profile in absolute courage.
The A.N.C., in a statement, called Dr. Christie’s role “in disrupting and exposing the apartheid state’s clandestine nuclear weapons program” an “act of profound revolutionary significance.”

From the doctoral dissertation he had written at the University of Oxford on the history of electricity in South Africa, Dr. Christie provided the research needed to blow up the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station; the Arnot coal-fired power station; the Sasol oil-from-coal facilities that produced the heavy water critical to producing nuclear weapons; and other critical sites.Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”
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DC Books to Prisons @dcbookstoprisons.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
DC Books to Prisons is 100% volunteer run, so every cent we raise goes to sending books to people in prison. For the rest of the year every donation made to out program will be matched, up to $10,000! Double your impact at linktr.ee/dcbtp
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Nikki Metzgar @nikkimetz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
this administration’s obsession with pull-ups as a demonstration of masculinity is as pathetic as it is hilarious
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Nikki Metzgar @nikkimetz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
i hope DC politicians are paying attention. taxing wealth so everyone can have their basic needs met is POPULAR.
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Maurice Mitchell 🐺 @mauricewfp.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Every talking head is going to try to sell you the idea that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's win was a fluke. But working people are sending a message: they WANT a politics that prioritizes them, not the billionaires.
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Chron.com @chron.com · 04/11/2025
"The more rainbows I can paint, the better."
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After Greg Abbott took theirs, Houstonians are painting rainbows everywhere
"The more rainbows I can paint, the better."
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Such a perfect example of what we all give up when we refuse to address basic inequalities. I don't want to live in a country where all the public space is militarized to keep hungry people from stealing food, just give them money to buy food!
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Nikki Metzgar @nikkimetz.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Uh, Mayor Bowser, I'm upset with you.
Screenshot from an article that reads, "Asked at a housing-related event in Friendship Heights on Wednesday what she would say to residents complaining about how she has handled the situation, Bowser said, "I just talked to a lot of residents here. Nobody told me they were upset with me. in fact, what they told me is, 'Thank you, mayor, for your leadership during unprecedented times.'"
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Anya Kamenetz @anya1anya.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"If you are a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but give your money away, shorties" consequence.net/2025/10/bill...
consequence.net
Billie Eilish Calls Out Billionaires After Announcing Her Own $11.5 Million Charitable Donation
The pop star put her money where her mouth is while calling on billionaires to do the same during the WSJ. Innovator Awards on Wednesday night.
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