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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath? Four people at a table: four food menus, one drink menu. Every time. I will never not be mad about this.

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The 90% blue city of Washington, DC has been under military occupation for a year

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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Great thread for those in the final throes of bar prep. The only thing I would add is a quote from Jonathan Grossman's videos: "Shut up and pick it." Don't overthink it. You'll be fine.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Lived in Denver when funding for the new airport was on the ballot. Voted no every time. And every time I fly in and out of this airport (about 4x/year for 10+ years), I am more convinced it was the right vote. What a disaster. 🖕 to you, Federico Pena.

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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I admit I got lured in at first, but this aged well.

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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Happy 13th anniversary of the day of Rusty the red panda’s daring escape from the National Zoo. Rest easy, king. m.youtube.com/watch?v=YtZP...

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Rusty the Red Panda's Great Escape from the National Zoo | NBC4 Washington

YouTube video by NBC4 Washington

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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Going through the new KIDS Act and this section from the AI Chatbot section is making me scratch my head. When would a chatbot be a licensed professional?

Text from KIDS Act section for AI Chatbots: "A chatbot provider may not provide to a covered user a chatbot that states to the covered user that the chatbot is a licensed professional (unless such statement is true)."

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Personasama @persona.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Sucks that this 64 year old Rocky & Bullwinkle joke still hits now

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 12/06/2026

A society with one trillionaire and millions of people in poverty is something to be deeply ashamed of, actually

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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Since Elmo is a trillionaire now I’m sure the Elmo Cancer Center, the Elmo Public Libraries, and the Elmo Endowments for Arts and Humanities are forthcoming imminently. Right? Right? <tap tap tap> is this thing on?

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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Yet another reason that any Dem running for Congress should be asked whether they would sponsor and support a bill for statehood for DC.

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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 08/06/2026

“Jews aren’t safe in Mamdani’s New York” Jewish guy in Mamdani’s New York:

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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I’ve lived in DC for 20 years, from the last couple years of the W administration, and whatever the politics of the day have been, I’ve always seen DC as a truly beautiful city. Until now. Now it’s just sad.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

People love historical what if scenarios. What if JFK was never assassinated? What if the Nazis won in WW2? A scenario I never see discussed is what if the aids crisis didnt decimate the gay men of America in the 80s-90s? Its easy to forget 1 in 15 gay boomer men died. An estimated 300,000 deaths-

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Andrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamme.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

“There may be.” FFS. Forget the flags. I have a literal masters degree in public health, I’m an actual union leader (in my second term as chapter president,) I’m a college professor, and a reproductive health advocate. And people are quibbling over if he abused his exes enough to be disqualifying.

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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The good news is Mr. Rogers is now on YouTube. The bad news is...well, pretty much everything else, I guess.

Screenshot of NYT home page featuring Republicans keeping DJT's illegal slush fund alive, J6 rioters being hired into sensitive Pentagon positions, other J6 rioters accused of new crimes, some stupid thing about Vanilla Ice, but at least Mr. Rogers is now on YouTube.

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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

“Engaging with Nazis is fun” lol okay.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Use the map in Virginia. Then, if you get control of Congress, be ruthless. Block everything. Do impeachments. Run investigations. Then in 2029, expand the Supreme Court, make DC a state, expand the House.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Meta's Louisiana data centre is getting $3.3 billion in tax breaks - more than seven years of the state's entire police budget. The "benefit" to the community will be only a handful of jobs. Until they pay their fair share, stop giving them money👏

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Meta's $10 billion Louisiana data center is getting $3.3 billion in tax breaks—more than seven years of the state's entire police budget | Fortune

States are awarding more than $5.6 billion annually to data center developers, and that’s a conservative estimate.

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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Slightly increase a band. The Cures

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Dear car makers, Knock it off. You shouldn’t have to be digitally stalked to drive a car. We would never allow a car company to follow you around, document your driving habits, and sell it to companies like a dirty little snitch in the physical world and we shouldn’t allow it in the digital world.

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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I'm fascinated at the strong reactions to this, but I get what he's saying. I'm a DC lawyer now but grew up in the deep south. While my DC friends and I talk about recidivism rates and juvenile justice, people from where I come from say "line 'em up and shoot 'em." I think that's all he's saying.

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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

A good chunk of my practice deals with youth privacy laws. The biggest companies in the world have spent enormous amounts of time and money on age estimation, and it all just got beat by a 12 year-old with his mom's eyeliner. Back to the drawing board, it seems. www.euronews.com/next/2026/05...

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How children are getting creative and fooling age verification checks

A new report reveals that children across the UK are outwitting online safety measures with fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and some surprisingly creative facial hair.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/05/2026

Anyway the real question is, and always has been, "what about the incredibly wealthy fossil fuel companies trying to keep us from having free energy from the sky instead of expensive energy from the ground."

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

A graph from Our World In Data showing a precipitous drop in child mortality starting in the late 1800s going from an average of 48% to global rate of 27% in 1950 to the 2020 infant mortality rate of 4%, with some countries having a rate as low as 0.3%

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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

First semester 1L: “When times are good, people fight. When times are bad, people fight a lot.”

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Driver9 @driver9.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

"I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me."

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The myopia of the professional journalist class is kind of disgusting display right now, where multiple mass shootings that had actual casualties received basically 0 attention and the fact that a person was stopped exactly where they were supposed to but journalists' night was ruined is front page

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin?

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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Because we have so much evidence to suggest Trump’s instincts are to reassure and calm the nation. Rrriiiggghhhhtttt.

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Spookleton Peck 👻🎃🧛‍♂️⛓️🪓⚰️🪦 @templetonpeck.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

This is the dumbest possible timeline. Just so, so fucking stupid.

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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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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Do, or do not. There is no try.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Just for the record, because we're talking about a Bad Site and how many visitors it got, it's very important to understand that "62 million site visits" does not translate out to "62 million human eyeballs" but it's very bad in other ways.

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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Jeremy Lin’s post-Linsanity NBA career (2012-2019)

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I like to imagine that Zohran Mamdani, Socialist African-born Muslim, was literally willed into existence by the collective psychosis of the Tea Party GOP over Obama, like the ectoplasm under NYC in Ghostbusters II

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

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Koreen Brennan @koreen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕 *All four astronauts went to public schools!

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See A Germ @seeagerm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This excerpt from "Into the Wood Chipper" might be the saddest, most insane thing I've ever read. Millions of lives ended by the dumbest people imaginable. There is no hell hot enough for those behind kiling USAID. Thank you Nicholas Enrich for writing it. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Into-t...

“Can I just clarify one thing?” she asked, not waiting for a response. “This group seems very focused on what GH does to respond to infectious diseases, but we haven’t spoken much about our other lifesaving work. Just as one example, we support lifesaving care to mothers for emergency inter- ventions like postpartum hemorrhaging and eclampsia, two of the leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths. You would also consider that kind of work to fit into our ‘priority number one,’ right?”

Another brief silence followed as Joel watched the clock, and it was Paul Seong who broke it. “I’d say that’s more of a number two,” he said dismissively, looking to Joel and Ken for affirmation.

“That sounds right,” Joel agreed, and the others nodded. Nida, shaking visibly, scribbled furiously in her notebook. And just like that, it was decided. Without even a cursory nod to data or expertise, USAID’s leadership had determined purely on a whim that lifesaving maternal health services were not a priority for this administration.

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