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Metro DC DSA @mdcdsa.org · 24/01/2026
ICE has murdered another community member in Minneapolis today! Join us TONIGHT at 6pm at Hancock Park in SW to demand justice and accountability from Minneapolis to DC! ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE!
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qualms @quallms.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
DC: ALL HANDS ON DECK🚨 Today, ICE shot and murdered a responder in MN. SHAME! ‼️MOBILIZATION TODAY JAN 7 @ 4pm‼️ 🗓️: TODAY ⏰: 4PM 📍: Hancock Park - 800 C St. NW
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
NEWS: D.C. Councilmember Brooke Pinto, joined by her 12 colleagues, has sent a letter to Chief Pamela Smith asking for answers on MPD's cooperation with federal agents on law enforcement/immigration enforcement. She says answers would help "ensure accountability & bolster public trust."
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Aparna Raj @aparnafordc.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
People are being forced out of DC. The cost of living is too high, and Trump is waging an all-out assault on the District. It should be easier and more affordable to build a life here. That's why I’m running for DC Council in Ward 1. Join us: aparnafordc.com/donate
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Pat Dennis 🐍 @patdennis.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Trump hasn’t “chickened out” on his tariffs. He is — at this very second — inflicting great harm on American workers, families and the entire U.S. economy. my latest in the Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | ‘Trump always chickens out’ is the exact wrong message for Democrats
Trolling Trump on trade policy with “TACO” feels vindicating for Democrats, but it’s helping him.
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qualms @quallms.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
there's a distinct information quality asymmetry. it's much, much easier to churn out easily digestible disinformation than it is to research and create something that strives toward truth.
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
ICE went to the home of a 61-year-old man with poor health and after his family informed ICE agents that they needed a warrant signed by a judge, dozens of ICE agents instead showed up in an armored vehicle with a battering ram and flash grenades and took him by force.
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qualms @quallms.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Two tweets from David Lynch in 2010. The first says “This weekend I’m going to find out if I’m connected to the moon. The second, three days later, says “I’m pretty sure I’m connected to the moon.”
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/01/2025
tweet by @PerthshireMags
climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it
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Abigail Higgins @abigailhiggins.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Excited to see the eviction defense guide I wrote for @51st.news translated into Amharic, one of DC's most widely spoken languages, and published by @ethiopique202.bsky.social. Hope it's helpful to folks.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
The last major health facility in northern Gaza has been put out of service, the World Health Organization has said, and its director detained according to Gaza officials after an Israeli military operation targeting sites near the Kamal Adwan hospital.
theguardian.com
Last major health facility in north Gaza ‘out of service’ after Israeli attack
Gaza officials say staff at Kamal Adwan hospital, including its director, have been detained as WHO reports Israeli forces burned and destroyed key departments
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This Haaretz piece of IDF soldiers’ confessions of human rights violations absolutely wrecked me www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
IDF confessionIDF confessions IDF confessoons
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qualms @quallms.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
as an aside, it’s funny that there are so many cops and buyers who are just gun collecting. for people who are planning for the end times it seems unwise to live on a lightly defended weapons cache.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Crime reporting be like
Correction
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Emberflame Foxheart @emberflamefoxheart.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
finally
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qualms @quallms.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
love how the guardian doesn't mention that the only reason this law exists is to punish trans and intersex people.
theguardian.com
‘We were horrified’: parents heartbroken as baby girl registered as male
Parents told Nottinghamshire registrar’s error on birth certificate cannot be changed
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
AOC asked the Trump/AOC voters why the split ticket and i don't think we're going to make it
AOC screenshot
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 09/11/2024
For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Ten book covers: How We Get Free, Hope in the Dark, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Palestine in a World on Fire, Let This Radicalize you, Socialism... Seriously, The Black Antifascist Tradition, Elite Capture, Class Struggle Unionism, and Unbuild Walls. More details at the included link.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/11/2024
Are you a current or former government employee? Sign up to be a source for our reporters. We may contact you with questions related to your area of experience. Your insights will be incredibly important to our work post-election.
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Do You Work For the Federal Government? ProPublica Wants To Hear From You.
We’re doubling down on our coverage of government agencies and federal policy. With your help, we can dig deeper.
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qualms @quallms.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
love that this all comes down to the most checked out people in the country
A New York Magazine update that says "Surprise! Google search traffic is spiking in the U.S. for the question 'Did Joe Biden drop out?'"
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
I feel like tonight is a good time to introduce my American followers to three Ukrainian concepts you will need to scream at each other tomorrow. You have, after all, entered the Eastern European stage of your national development. Welcome to the world of hanba, zrada, and peremoha.
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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Remember how angry certain people got if you said Israel deliberately targeted Al-Aqsa Hospital last fall?
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Hi Im jamal from gaza, everything is destroyed around us and everything is expensive and so hard to live in this conditions, you can support us with donations or reposting to rebuild our life, this is helping us so much and this the last hope in this life gofund.me/a625d5ba
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
for years scholars wondered how many toddlers you can run over with tanks before your country is considered "Bad" . probably about 4 million
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 26/10/2024
remembering maybe one of the last pre-covid media things I went to and someone saying to someone “so how’s your billionaire?” “oh fine he mostly leaves us alone, how’s yours” and it sinking in that this was the state of the jobs that there were
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
hugely discrediting to conspiracy theorists that there’s an actual foreign-born billionaire doing all this while *overtly* attempting to control what you see online, buy an election, run software in your car, and put microchips in your brain and they’re like 🤷‍♂️
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
The 2024 election is upon us. Millions of ballots have already been cast. Mail-in ballots are being returned. Early voting is taking place. And dozens of rumors are spreading. So, let me re-introduce our framework for diagnosing how many “evidence-based” rumors mislead:
FIVE "MOVES" OF MISLEADING ELECTION RUMORS FALSE EVIDENCE — The rumor is fabricated or manipulated evidence, such as false statements, deceptively edited content, and synthetic (AI-generated) content. MISINTERPRETED EVIDENCE — The rumor is based on real evidence that has been mischaracterized or misinterpreted to create a false impression. OMITTED REMEDIES — The rumor highlights real or perceived issues with election administration but overlooks or obscures remedies, such as downstream security measures, to imply an untrustworthy process or results. EXAGGERATED IMPACT — The rumor exaggerates the impact of real or perceived issues with election adminstration to imply an untrustworthy process or results. FALSE ATTRIBUTED INTENT — The rumor falsely attributes intention to real or perceived issues with election administration to imply voter or election fraud.
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Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
We need 10 new tents for folks on our route! As it starts to get colder and the city continues to evict people, shelter is super important. If able, please purchase tents off our wishlist so we can get them out to the folks who need them. Link to WL: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
The top right corner has the Remora House Logo.  Central image of red and black tent with the words "Tents Needed!" superimposed. Caption reads "Temps are dropping and evictions are ongoing! Please help us get tents out to folks who need them!"
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Emma Roller @emmaroller.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
People need to get away from the idea of politicians as heroes and embrace the idea of politicians as cowards who must at every turn be bullied into having good politics
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
"Evictions are on the rise in DC, with an estimated 1,493 people set to be forcibly removed... we rounded up tips from lawyers, tenant organizers, and housing advocates for when you or a neighbor are facing an eviction." @abigailhiggins.bsky.social for @51stnews.bsky.social 51st.news/what-to-know...
51st.news
What to know if you get an eviction notice in D.C.
You have time, options, and legal recourse. And you’re more likely to get a better outcome if you’re well informed.
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qualms @quallms.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Hannah Arendt noted that this is the fertile ground needed for fascism.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Unfollowing toxic social media influencers makes people less hostile! In 2 experiments, we found that unfollowing extreme influencers: -Reduced partisan animosity by 24% -Increased satisfaction with X -Led people to share higher-quality news Effects lasted for 6+ months. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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MARA9 @maranine.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
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Mr happy and Mr sad from the train meme inside of the trolley problem
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qualms @quallms.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
going to open a weed store called “mids”. it’ll all be ditchweed and low dose edibles. i’ll sell at a premium to people who have work tomorrow and make millions.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 06/10/2024
Around the world, Uber is slashing its drivers earnings so it can claim to be profitable. It’s using tech to find out which drivers are desperate enough to accept lower pay for trips and continuing to fight to make sure they’re contractors, not employees.
disconnect.blog
Roundup: Uber is cutting workers’ wages globally
Read to the end for one of the worst photos of Elon Musk I’ve ever seen
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Wild Geerters @steinkobbe.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
One of the biggest ideological influences for JD Vance is Curtis Yarvin the reactionary blogger who has said the only problem with Breivik the Norwegian Nazi terrorist that killed 77 people, mostly kids, is that he wasn't more effective. So that's cool how America is this close to electing him
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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 04/10/2024
Tweet from Aric Toler:
South of Gaza City: 2022 vs. last week
Recent image via PlanetGaza neighborhood in 2022 pictured from space. Normal-looking neighborhood.Picture of same spot from 26 September 2024. All rubble.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
"As a worker-run newsroom that will rely heavily on audience input to shape our coverage of the city, we’re providing information WITH representation (put that on a license plate)." The 51st News is live! 51st.news/dc-local-new...
51st.news
What's in a name? DC local news done differently
Introducing The 51st, local news by and for D.C. residents.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
This stat is so jarring to me that I thought I was misreading it at first: www.cnn.com/business/liv...
Shipping rates soared during and immediately after the pandemic, as supply chains snarled and demand surged. Industry profits topped $400 billion from 2020 to 2023, which is believed to be more than the industry had previously made in total since containerization started in 1957, according to analyst John McCown.

“Since Covid, they’re making billions and billions of dollars,” ILA President Harold Daggett told CNN. “But they don’t want to share it. They’d rather see a fully automated terminal right here on the East Coast so they can make more money.”
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
a lot of people love to talk about revolution and camaraderie and "the commune" and then can't speak to a Normie for five minutes without losing their mind. i have bad news about the people who will also be in the commune
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qualms @quallms.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
dc is going to drive itself off of an eviction cliff with this shit. this could be voted on as soon as tuesday.
washingtonpost.com
D.C. Council aims to tighten housing policies as unpaid rent climbs
The bill would tighten the rules around the city’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program and make it easier for landlords to evict tenants who refuse to pay rent.
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qualms @quallms.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
this would shake out differently if the online left wasn’t rejoicing over the indictment. idiots like this guy can’t even come up with their own analysis beyond being against whatever the left is for.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2024
In April, USAID and the State Dept.’s refugees bureau concluded Israel had deliberately blocked humanitarian aid. By law, Biden would be required to cut off weapons shipments to Israel. But he ignored them. 📽️ See the full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV9J... 👀 Read the story: propub.li/3Xxtvfe
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Gustaue Flavbert @cataribartok.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
It’s like the argument over whether college should be job training, liberal arts mind & citizenry expansion, or finishing school for rich shitheads. We used to have an economy where we didn’t have to decide, and the tensions could be hidden by everybody getting a job that justified the expense.
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