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Ross Wallen

@rosswallen.bsky.social
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Progressive politics, DC, Biking, Clean Energy, MarTech, Digital. Former CleanChoice, USAction, Wellstone Action, Americorps VISTA via Macalester / Mpls & KY.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11h
Aminata Seck has been freed. "I'm just ready to go back to school, get my master's and get this surgery done,” she said. ICE kept her in pain in detention for two months for no reason. www.espn.com/womens-colle...
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Kentucky State player released on bond from ICE custody
Kentucky State University women's basketball center Aminata Seck was released on bond Wednesday after spending two months in ICE custody.
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Alex Taliadoros @alexctaliadoros.bsky.social · 12h
Happy first day of open ballot dropboxes, DC!
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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 15h
In Minneapolis and in the State of Minnesota, we love, support, and stand in solidarity with our Somali and immigrant neighbors. 🩵 Artwork by @SeanLimMN.bsky.social
Text reading “We love our Somali neighbors” with blue butterflies over a blue backgroundText reading “We love our immigrant neighbors” with orange butterflies over an orange background
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 15h
Hey, @bikeshare.bsky.social friends, will there be a bike valet setup for the USWNT game at Audi tomorrow afternoon? It's been nice to have for the @washingtonspirit.com games.
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Josh Burch @jburchdc.bsky.social · 20h
As a Cat3 hurricane bears down on the Florida panhandle, it's worth noting that states like GA, FL, AL, & MS, have the highest numbers of Nat'l Guard troops in DC (needlessly & unjustifiably). Seems like they're actually needed at home, not here. #FREEDC #DCStatehood www.npr.org/2026/08/11/n...
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Armed troops have patrolled D.C. for 1 year now. It's challenging democratic norms
The deployment is expected to cost in the billions after it was quietly extended until Inauguration Day of 2029.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19h
The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.

Bo French, who is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, has taken this idea a step further, suggesting that the only way to be an American is to be white and Christian.
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reminder that U St does not need more law enforcement. Statehood for the people of DC.
A dozen Trump regime thugs and DC MPD
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump’s Deadly Invasion of Memphis | Lisa Armstrong A Black city tried to rein in abusive policing. Then Trump’s task force arrived. hammerandhope.org/article/trum... | @hammerandhope.bsky.social
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Trump’s Deadly Invasion of Memphis
A Black city tried to rein in abusive policing. Then Trump’s task force arrived.
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New York Times/Siena polls find Dems gaining the governors offices in Alaska, Iowa, Texas, and Ohio. That would give Dems control over election admin in Alaska and Texas. It’s a sign that Dems could also win for secretary of state in Iowa and Ohio in this environment www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
Chart of Siena poll results in five governor's races, showing each candidate's estimated support with margin-of-error bars. Democrats lead in Iowa (Sand 52%, Lahn 41%), Alaska (Kreiss-Tomkins 52, Wilson 48), Texas (Hinojosa 49, Abbott 46) and Ohio (Acton 49, Ramaswamy 45). The Republican leads in Kansas (Masterson 49, Holscher 44)
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U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team bot @uswntbot.com · 04/10/2026
Going back to the District for a big time matchup with Spain 👀 🎟️ ussoc.cr/USAvESP10 #USWNT x #Purina
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
my guide is especially helpful if you care about an issue a lot and want to know the (often dozens of local) referendums that will affect it. here's just a sampling on housing/transit/climate!
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That is sad news. Smoked salmon BLT + avocado RIP
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It was a great time despite the result. I think Leicy will pull us back together in time for the playoffs. Have a great wknd!
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thanks again!
Spirit fans smiling with the pitch in the background
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thanks, I missed the first time around. Just donated!
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Spirit Squadron @spiritsquadron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
YOU ASK, WE DELIVERED - we have restocked our custom Free DC x Spirit Squadron scarves! You can donate for them, starting now, using ONLY the link in our bio. As before, all proceeds raised will go to @ayudadmv.bsky.social. Reminder: these scarves are for PICK UP ONLY, starting at tomorrow’s game.
fundraiser for Ayuda: donate $25 and you will receive a custom free dc x spirit squadron soccer scarf. Pick up only. $15 from every $25 donation will go to Ayuda. Please see caption for more information. Link in bio. Photos of green and yellow side of scarf that says rise up dc and white side of scarf with red stripes that says no one is illegal in black letters. Free dc, spirit squadron, and Ayuda logos at bottom. spirit fan holding scarf showing white side with red stripes and it says no one is illegal in black letters.

Photo by Yohan Maitland, photographer
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"In 2020, there were only six programs in the U.S. that sent unarmed responders, such as mental health clinicians, to certain 911 calls instead of police officers. Now, these programs — sometimes called alternative or community response — are in nearly 100 cities." www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...
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How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities
Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Amazing! Thanks so much!!!
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Partner not pictured in proof of Spirit fandom
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My partner and I would love to go this wknd!
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
A picture of Amina Seck in her Kentucky State jersey on a basketball court.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yep, snow trucks yanked the ones from Columbia Road. Seems like it's mostly DC or utility work. Disappointing the city doesn't just fix it promptly and charge Pepco, Washington Gas, DPW, DC Water, or whomever a steep price for not completing within a day or two of work being completed.
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'The unreasoned tacit endorsement of racial profiling in the Court’s order cannot be squared with the Constitution’s express prohibition on “unreasonable searches and seizures” or its guarantee of “equal protection of the laws.”'
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Whatever." That's the morning message from DC police to #bikeDC less than 24 hrs after a cyclist was killed when asked why they parked illegally in the bike lane to get coffee. Maybe @janeese4dc.bsky.social can claw back MPD's budget for every parking violation b/c 311 does nothing to fix behavior.
DC MPD car blocking the 17th St bike lane to get coffee
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In case it's helpful:
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Moments after posting, more illegal military policing of the District
Three National Guard on U St
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
U St every single day for the past year+
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Rain won't stop Lena from going to the farmer's market
A smiley golden dog on a wet sidewalk in her yellow rain jacket and pink harness
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is an elementary school. National Guard and FBI plus a circling helicopter showed up this morning at yet another DC elementary school, this time in Ward 1. These gangs of armed agents terrify children and cause fear among families. It's time for federal agents to leave our communities alone.
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Neighbors Upset Over Federal Agents’ Presence at D.C. School
Agents and National Guard troops handed out fliers outside a Northwest elementary school, as a helicopter hovered overhead.
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👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 17/09/2026
Today in @insideclimatenews.org: @spears.bsky.social -- State trifectas “are the most powerful tool for 2027 policy outcomes on clean energy,” she said. Fewer than 25 races out of more than 7,000 legislative seats could determine whether Democrats gain five new trifectas, or none at all.
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Lena happy to be at our favorite PATC cabin a few hours from the District. Nice to visit somewhere the National Guard aren't bringing their illegal military occupation to your doorstep. #freeDC
A smiley golden German Shepherd in the grass in the woods
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Spirit Squadron @spiritsquadron.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
always ✊
protect trans lives painted on trans flag hanging in supporters section
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I would say uncomfortably humid. @capitalweather.com feels like 93
Capital Weather forecast for DC
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Too hot for Lena to go today. Maybe next year
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Lena and I will enjoy the @washingtonspirit.com game on the couch in the AC. Solidarity to everyone + pups at Audi today. Let's go Spirit!
Blurry man in a Washington Spirit jersey and Lena the dog smiles tongue out & panting through the humidity in the District today
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026
whether it's mail ballots, the godforsaken ballroom, or one of Trump's other lawless schemes, the GOP justices have the same move: shield Trump from substantive review by keeping lower courts mired in procedural BS, thus prolonging lawbreaking as long as possible ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
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How the Supreme Court Helps Trump Run Out the Clock
A president who loves breaking the law is very lucky to have a Supreme Court that gives him the time he needs to do it.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/09/2026
It breaks my heart that it wasn't the ankle monitor that broke him—it was the way his college classmates treated him for having to wear It. Which says so much about the kinds of hatefulness that permeate American culture and that made it possible for MAGA to gain so much power.
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Lena lounging at the block party this wknd
Golden German Shepherd doggie lays on her blanket in the grass at a neighborhood block party listening to music
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Google currently promoting this at the top of the Android app store
Google Play Store screenshot of Google promoting "Grok Image 2.0 Model" Grok AI at the top of the application home screen
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Perhaps it would be better morally & electorally to make the people you're running against, who are assaulting, abducting, murdering, stealing, putting kids into concentration camps, starting wars & destroying our lives, your opposition. Instead of some streamer dude voters have never heard of.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It has been 7 months since federal agents killed two Minnesotans. Alex Pretti’s family has lost a son and a brother, who his sister called her “hero.” Alex Pretti's family is calling for accountability and justice. They deserve nothing less. youtu.be/V47dE01V8sc?...
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Family of Alex Pretti speak out
YouTube video by Good Morning America
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Everyone gets ice cream tonight
A golden german shepherd dog gets a vanilla ice cream treat
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
She was so good to us.
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Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Feds continue to illegally obscure their license plates as they operate out of District police stations, pictured last night as they left MPD 3DHQ:
Trump regime feds in a Chevrolet SUV covered their VA license plate's first and last digits illegally, rear
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026
yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery
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Aparna Raj @aparnafordc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is why we call it an occupation. Even if it seems like the National Guard "aren't doing anything," them simply being here, as an armed militarized presence, is meant to intimidate us and squash dissent, especially at the same time other federal agents are disappearing neighbors.
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