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Alex Simbana

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/08/2026
NEW: At some private schools across the U.S., every student uses taxpayer money to pay toward tuition, thanks to the growth of school voucher programs. But these "quasi-public" schools face almost none of the scrutiny given to public schools.
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At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.
Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...
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World Health Network @thewhn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
One infection. That's all it takes. For millions around the world, a single COVID infection led to symptoms that lasted months or years. Long COVID can affect the brain, heart, lungs, immune system, and more. (...)
Graphic from the World Health Network on a light gray background. Text reads: “whn.global. World Health Network. Science for a safer, healthier world. One COVID infection. That’s all it takes to develop Long COVID. Mask up.” The words “COVID” and “Long COVID” are highlighted in bright pink, with a pink mask icon below.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
BIG MONEY: Pro-@kenyanmcduffie.bsky.social independent expenditure group People for a United D.C. has raised $827k and spent $813k on anti-@janeese4dc.bsky.social mailers and ads. Most of its funding ($650k) comes from a dark money group. $100k from realtors group. Also: Nats owner, developers.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10/06/2026
Makes sense when you realize inflation is a wealth transfer from the poor to the rich.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 02/06/2026
Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 28/05/2026
Santiago Campos is a graduating high school senior at the District of Columbia International School. His grandfather, despite being an American citizen, was deported by the Eisenhower admin during Operation Wetback. How many times have you heard media elites utter the word "genocide" on live TV?
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Family who lived through 1950s U.S. deportation effort reflects on current climate
The Trump administration’s immigration policies have created fear and uncertainty for many communities, including people who lived through an earlier crackdown. Santiago Campos of our journalism train...
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Tom Bridge @tombridge.com · 22/05/2026
DC friends, they've started up checkpoints again. There's a checkpoint at Rhode Island Ave NE and South Dakota Ave NE. And fuck ICE.
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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"GCAAR claims these groups have endorsed McDuffie — a statement that is false. None of these three groups have endorsed McDuffie, and GCAAR used the logos without permission." #DCElections www.dclabor.org/news/develop...
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Developer group backing Kenyan McDuffie distributes voter materials falsely claiming union support — Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO
GCAAR-funded materials claim support from workers, but not a single union has endorsed Kenyan McDuffie
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 15/05/2026
Quick #DCpolitics note: The mayoral race is big. @janeese4dc.bsky.social is a problem-solver,a fighter, great communicator, and will make the District just work better. Yesterday I got this text frm McDuffie about her “improper” campaign actions. But he did smthg similar to E Silverman 2 yrs ago…
BREAKING NEWS
D.C. Office of Campaign Finance Investigates Janeese
Lewis-George Campaign
Janeese Lewis George's campaign is under investigation for "improper campaign coordination" with outside groups pouring millions in dark money into her mayoral bid.
Mail-in ballots are on their way to
DC voters, don't let our
communities be bamboozled by outside interference.
Rush $10 or any amount to Kenyan's campaign for DC by DC.
kenyan4.org/investigation?
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NPR @npr.org · 14/05/2026
Just in: State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden boxes. Parents weren't notified.
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Native kids with disabilities were held in wooden boxes. Sweeping reforms are coming
State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden boxes. Parents weren't notified.
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lilli 🤠 @lillianbf.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The statement by students, also written out in the alt text
For Immediate Release from The Organizers:
On Saturday, May 10th, 2026, Howard University graduating seniors organized a protest and rally in opposition to Howard University's decision to select Muriel Bowser as keynote speaker of this year's Commencement Convocation. A commencement convocation ceremony is meant to be a final congratulations to the graduates on behalf of the University by offering words of encouragement and guidance as they step into a new life phase. Typically, a keynote speaker is a person of upright character. They should be a living example of competence, truth, and service.
Muriel Bowser demonstrates none of these qualities. Any resident of the D.C. area is familiar with the increase in police and federal agent presence in the city. These officers have targeted Black young people (including Howard University students) in their attempt to control and subdue Black bodies. Bowser did nothing to prevent the federal takeover of D.C., and offers no protection to the people she swore in to serve. To make matters worse, Bowser is implicated in the killing of millions of men, women, and children in Gaza through her partnership with the genocidal American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Why does Howard University believe Muriel Bowser is qualified to offer words of wisdom to Black students, many of whom will soon return to Black communities across the country?
Why won't Howard University take a public stance against anti-Blackness, capitalist greed, and war?
Since the University is not willing to demonstrate care and responsibility toward issues that affect the reality of Black people in the DMV and oppressed people abroad, students decided to act in actual alignment with the values of truth and service.
During Bowser's speech, some students turned their backs while she spoke. Others began to yell from the audience. Several students got up and walked out of the ceremony and participated in a celebration of their own.
This is the truth.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I made a video about reports of Howard students booing Mayor Muriel Bowser, citing @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social in the #overseerclass
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/05/2026
There is no NYC without unions. A people united and organized cannot be defeated. Together, we're showing the world what solidarity means.
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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
He’s barely beating @killthecomputer.com lmfaooooooo
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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The WHCD shooter will be used to justify things that have nothing to do with the WHCD shooter. Mark this moment.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 26/04/2026
Let’s be clear: this does not warrant building a ballroom at the White House.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I guess now we know why JD wasn't going to go to PK with Jared and Witkoff. More important plans.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The White House claims it has secured all of Iran—when it can't even secure one DC ballroom.
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020. She missed these trials by a few months. One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here. I feel such a hole inside. In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/04/2026
It's so funny to me that Trump pushed the GOP to extend FISA after bitching for years that it was used to "spy" on his campaign. Surveillance on thee but not on me! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...
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Congress Votes to Extend Expiring Law on Warrantless Surveillance for 10 Days
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The Subsequent Mrs. de Winter @notrebecca.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
"...in 1896 America, options for international students of color were severely limited. Northern universities maintained informal racial barriers. Howard had established itself as an institution willing to educate students who faced discrimination elsewhere." www.forbes.com/sites/hannah...
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BTS Drops ‘Arirang’ Trailer: What To Know About The ‘Seven Koreans At Howard’
When BTS released the animated trailer for their fifth studio album Arirang on Thursday, the K-pop septet drew on an obscure moment in Korean-American history.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is all hands on deck—Democrats, Republicans, Independents—AMERICANS must look at using any and every tool to stop the President and his unauthorized war including the 25th Amendment, Impeachment, and War Powers Resolutions. The world is watching, and history will remember.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I wish that Pentagon request would silence any sort of "we can't afford ..." (I know it won't.) If we can find $200B to sooth the ego of sundowning narcissist, we can afford to fund ANYTHING. Including air traffic control. EVERY aspect of degraded service we see is a CHOICE.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 15/03/2026
I don’t know if it helps anyone persuade others to come here, but… One bright spot in media for Team Democracy is 👇👇. Chalk up the existence and vibrancy of this site as LOSING for Trump.
, Bluesky
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE. Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
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Elizabeth Mitchell 🌈🦄♋️😮‍💨🌊 @efcmitchell.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
John Falchicchio is working on McDuffie's campaign?!?!?! @maustermuhle.bsky.social have you heard anything about this? @alexkoma.bsky.social ?? This article and the horrors contained within still haunt me. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... This is how we're starting Women's History Month?
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Lewd texts, unwanted touching: Woman details allegations against Bowser deputy
The accuser says John Falcicchio sexually harassed her in her first interview since D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser's chief of staff resigned.
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NPR @npr.org · 25/02/2026
After NPR reporting revealed dozens of pages of Epstein files related to President Trump appear to be missing from the public record, a top House Democrat wants to know why. n.pr/40AIirr
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Top House Dem wants Justice Department to explain missing Trump-related Epstein files
After NPR reporting revealed dozens of pages of Epstein files related to President Trump appear to be missing from the public record, a top House Democrat wants to know why.
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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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Alex Simbana @simbanalex.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
@dcdpw.bsky.social @dcpublicschools.bsky.social @robertwhitedc.bsky.social @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social @chenderson.bsky.social @mattfrumin.bsky.social @chmnmendelson.bsky.social summary this AM where school communities can’t access bus stops, can’t park to drop off kids bc streets are not cleared.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 30/01/2026
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/01/2026
This is testimony… 📌 Stella Carlson, “Pink coat lady”, speaks on the murder of Alex Pretti. “After the shooting, they (ICE) decided to just scatter and save themselves.”
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Joe is Me @yeahjeetsyeah.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Jeffries wanted to be leader. If he's not willing to lead, he shouldn't have the job.
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Alex Simbana @simbanalex.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
My ❤️ is with the people of MN. As much as people stand w/ MN, plz remember to stand w/EVERY STATE, EVERY CITY bc the scare tactics & rhetoric against good communities & people is the same across the country. You don’t need to have a personal connection. This is terror across America. -❤️ 💪 from DC
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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Called and left messages for both of my Dem Senators opposing any funding for ICE. WTF is wrong with our Dem leadership? Do they think voters will vote for them in the midterms after this? Because people are getting jaded. Apathy is coming if they won’t fight.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
“Lifeless… foam around his mouth. Nobody wants to see their kids like that.” ICE attacked a family trying to LEAVE the besieged neighborhood and hospitalized a 6 month old baby that couldn’t breathe.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Yes. Do you know how many families are being supported by their neighbors right now? Families afraid to leave home being fed by their neighborhoods; immigrant communities feeding the old hippies standing on their street corners with whistles in 10-degree snowstorms. They cannot break us
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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal: “No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle. “What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.” Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
🧑‍🌾 SPOTTED in Jackson County, Wisconsin…
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
guy on the left can barely stand upright at the start of the clip but is still thinking clearly enough to denounce "fucking holocaust shit" cc: @democrats.senate.gov
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/12/2025
📽️ WATCH: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, which led to 18 million hens being killed and a spike in egg prices, the Department of Agriculture didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. But ProPublica did. @natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD
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The 51st @51st.news · 05/12/2025
Don't miss this week's opportunities to get involved locally! All of the details from @colleengrablick.bsky.social, feat @freedcproject.bsky.social, @harrietsdreams.bsky.social, and more: 51st.news/dc-civic-eng...
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Alex Simbana @simbanalex.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
@DCPSChancellor every other school district is delayed or closed. Has a decision been made on DCPS ? I’d hate for kids to leave on buses and metros only to find closed school buildings. ???
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Alex Simbana @simbanalex.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Jackie Wright’s testimony at the DC Council’s Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety hearing is live now and 🔥!!! lims.dccouncil.gov/Hearings/hea...
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DC Council Hearings Management System
View Hearings, Register to Witness, Submit Testimony
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety. My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
A little tidbit: @janeese4dc.bsky.social just told me that her campaign qualified for public financing in just four hours since launching. That required getting $40,000 in small donations from at least 1,000 D.C. residents. That's pretty fast.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/11/2025
NEW: This is one hell of an opening paragraph from Jim Comey's attorneys in his motion to get the grand jury materials in the case against him.
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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 21/11/2025
This is very interesting!
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