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Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1. ANC 1B03 - The current Commissioner, Jamie Sycamore, is well known for his misconduct. Jamie settled a lawsuit against him as Commissioner (Schoen v. Sycamore) which cost DC $17,000. There are reports about his potential misconduct as an ASL interpreter web.archive.org/web/20150726...
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The left isn’t weak because of infighting. The left is weak because every facet of our society and economy is geared to the benefit of fascism and white supremacy and it is the challenge of multiple lifetimes to dismantle all of that.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18h
CLAIM: the ICE agents fired into a vehicle with a child in it for no reason at all FACT: these keys here are jingling isn't that interesting? isnt the sound they make really something?
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13h
Tapping the sign
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veleau-monica.bsky.social @veleau-monica.bsky.social · 19h
Every day that we still have fish and birds is miracle given what we’ve done to the planet and what we continue to do.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 19h
MAGA John McGuire messed with the wrong people. We’re over 100 people strong today knocking doors for @tomperriello.bsky.social for VA-05!
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 09/10/2026
Mayor Muriel Bowser Presents
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Steevo @exsk8pnk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
if you're tired of my frequent posts about the bs of the ubiquity of national guard troops in the us capitol (and elsewhere)- know this, we, the citizens of DC/elsewhere are more tired of it than you are. if you can't/won't wake up to the reality that this is coming to you, enjoy your sleepwalking
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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
DC folks, if you film an arrest, especially one involving federal agents or National Guard, please make a report to Film the Police DC. @harrietsdreams.bsky.social and @dcmigrantmutualaid.org can then take action to help arrestees #WeKeepUsSafe www.filmthepolicedc.org
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Film the Police DC
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/10/2026
Antichrist Deeply Uncomfortable With Perceived Connection to Peter Thiel “I have never met Peter, I’ve never spoken to him, and I have no desire to be connected to him,” clarified the Son of Perdition. “We do have a lot in common..but I find him deeply off-putting” thehardtimes.net/culture/anti...
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Antichrist Deeply Uncomfortable With Perceived Connection to Peter Thiel
HELL — The Antichrist issued a sweeping denial of any relationship with Peter Thiel this Wednesday following numerous remarks made by the... Continue this tale
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Soldiers positioned at voting locations is not legal behavior. These are Mississippi National Guard troops at a DC ballot dropbox yesterday. We demand the governors of Mississippi, Florida, and Georgia get your soldiers OUT NOW.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
have seen surprisingly few national guard other than during the march, which is kinda confirming my suspicions that they are mostly in our neighborhoods now
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am so frustrated with the refuse fascism people showing up at protests and trying to overshadow the actual organizers on camera with their branded stuff
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the moon report 🌑 @seachanger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
love how we were told performative social justice was the problem, but the performance of literal violence is these people's entire life purpose
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 08/10/2026
#freedc #nationalguardgohome DC folks when you see AL/MS/GA and other guard, point out there's a major climate disaster coming this weekend they should be doing Climate disaster preparation and relief isn't a cushy gig like their Club Med Falluja-DC deployment, but it saves lives & obeys the law
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This made me laugh this week.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
BAIER: The president says 'SI.' Are you into SI or AI? BEZOS: I do like SI, because 'artificial' is not a very flattering thing. Like, nobody wants an artificial sweetener, artificial flavoring.
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l'Humanité @humanite.fr · 08/10/2026
"On fait le tour des lycées qui bloquent pour apporter un soutien aux lycéens." Karelle, du collectif « Œil au beurre noire » présente l'initiative Food et Médical Truck. ➡️ l.humanite.fr/WkB
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Racer Kittie Knox was the first African-American to become a member of the League of American Wheelmen. Knox raced despite sometimes being denied access to races, restaurants, and hotels, and was known for her baggy trousers as well as her cycling ability. #BicycleBirthday October 7 (1874-1900)
Antique photo of Kittie Knox dressed in knickers posing standing with a bicycle.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/10/2026
This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.
Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He’s gonna keep saying this because it gets him the attention he craves.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/10/2026
"Start with under-eye concealer because you look like a panda, if pandas were chronically furious. Moisturize first; if you don't, the concealer will settle into your wrinkles, and you'll look like a lizard. There are so many animals you must now work to avoid resembling." buff.ly/1z3JtIe
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How to Apply “No-Makeup” Makeup: A Guide for Mature Women
“Confronting the brutal truth of your skin at this age will be frightening, but you are a middle-aged woman and lately, you seem to delight in brutal truth t...
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
drivers don’t think of themselves as ‘sharing the road’ with cyclists and pedestrians. they think they occasionally donate bits of road to us out of the goodness of their hearts and that doing so is optional
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Geoffrey Hatchard @imgoph.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks for the reminder to call all three of these councilmembers to let them know their constituents support a bottle deposit law to make our city and our environment cleaner. cc: @cmzparker5.bsky.social @chenderson.bsky.social @elissasilverman.bsky.social
Picture of a flier mailed by “big beverage” to scare people into thinking a bottle deposit will bring on the end times. Stupid people, stupid message.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🔥 🇫🇷 FRENCH STUDENT: “More resources for education. Our demand is institutional. We want someone who changes things. A breakaway left. We want to change the system.”
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
Launched in May, “the page uses data from customers’ activity to generate details about them in categories like Product Preferences, Interests & Hobbies, and Home & Family, which Amazon then uses to personalize users’ product experiences.”
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'Has flat buttocks,' 'cusses when scared': Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles. Here's how to find yours
Amazon's new 'About you' page lists many assumptions about shoppers—like their favorite brands, their hobbies, and the shape of their bodies.
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I and others have made the observation that if you are not a current or former DC resident it's difficult to fathom the emotional toll the physical destruction of our city has been going through. And the ever present thought that even worse is to come.
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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kat excellence ✨ @katexcellence.io · 31/08/2026
this was difficult to read, but it's important to know people are currently in prison for 50+ years for attending a protest + one wasn't even at the protest, but got sentenced for 30 years for "concealing" anarchist zines
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How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa
“We are not terrorists.”
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Tucker Jones @tuckerjones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's clear that Chairman Mendelson doesn't actually want to do key parts of the job. The only part that surprises me is that he keeps running for reelection for a job he doesn't want to do.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
someone was standing too close to the edge of the platform and getting yelled at by the special police, so they all came up to watch
National guard soldiers lean on a railing on a subway platform
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
lol the kids that were being yelled at are in my car and they are calling them the camo dweebs
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Justina Ireland @justinaireland.com · 06/10/2026
This is me but also I’m willing to admit when I’m wrong.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 04/10/2026
When Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson was running for president in the 1950s, a supporter purportedly said to him: “Every thinking person in America will be voting for you.” Stevenson replied, “I’m afraid that won’t do — I need a majority.” (Stevenson would win nine and seven states in '52 and '56)
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SRtwofourfour @srtwofourfour.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Looks like Tucker is slowly going insane without his tv show
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump is holding the G7 at his own golf resort so he can shovel more money from the US treasury into his private pocket, and collect from other governments, too. This time no one says a word about it, even though everyone thinks it's record-breaking corruption and sleaze.
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How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits
The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Please, for the love of God, leave me behind with all the books because you don’t read. I want to be left behind!
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Geoffrey Hatchard @imgoph.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Keep showing disapproval to the HSI/FBI goons rolling around—it’s getting to them. Yesterday, I stood near the park fence as they went by. Held up a thumbs down & shouted “go home.” Goon in the back seat rolled down window, leaned out, yelled sarcastically “and you have a wonderful day, sir!” 🤪🙄
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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Keya Chatterjee @keyachatterjee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wish it was mentioned that AK and IA Govs have a cumulative 150 armed soldiers serving under the “DC Safe and Beautiful Taskforce” that has killed + kidnapped neighbors and is on a spree of harassing families at school pick up/drop off alongside HSI and FBI agents www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Democrats Lead Governor Races Deep in Republican Territory, Polls Show
Democratic advantages in the races for governor in Texas, Iowa, Ohio and Alaska reflect deep unhappiness with President Trump and the economy. A Republican leads in Kansas.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 04/10/2025
#OtD 4 Oct 1936 the Battle of Cable St took place when Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists tried to march through East London. They were met by over 100k local workers who fought the blackshirts and the police protecting them, stopping the march workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Correct 🎯
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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'll believe that fuel is too expensive when I don't routinely see people parked up in their cars with the engine running.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Geoffrey Hatchard @imgoph.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I still believe that BIDs are an acknowledgment that the city isn’t doing its job well. The work they do should be capably handled by a well-staffed, well-managed government.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
17. Jamie Raskin made a similar point. The Maryland congressman told CNN Tuesday that Schmitt's intentions were "completely sinister" but that his execution was "totally inept." www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fbD...
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