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Hi. I'm not all the way here from Twitter. Would love to find the epi, science, long covid communities. So far the few people I have followed are those who posted handles on FB. So msg if this Nick's unfamiliar.

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
That's funny--they don't spell out what MOUT stands for here.... oh... "Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain" huh...
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JTF-DC MOUT Training
U.S. Soldiers with the Georgia National Guard, assigned to Joint Task Force-District of Columbia in support of the DC Safe and Beautiful mission, practice patrolling techniques at Marine Corps Base Qu...
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Lawrence MacDonald @climateboomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In or near DC! Drop by the day-long vigil to stop T’s vanity arch, Oct 1 actionnetwork.org/events/sacre...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 25/09/2026
A massive backlog of voter registration applications in Texas could affect the outcome of local and state elections, including a contentious U.S. Senate election. It’s unclear how many voters could be affected. In Bexar County alone, around 45,000 registrations have not yet been processed.
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Processing Error Could Disenfranchise Tens of Thousands of Voters in Texas
The deadline to register to vote in Texas is October 5.
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Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Seriously? Colonoscopy low fiber now starts a full week out?
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Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Umbrella walk folk are going today to the architect for the vainglorious arch. 3:30 to 5:30 or so, 1010 Wisconsin NW ( near Georgetown Waterfront) Bring an umbrella, doesn't have to be with a message. Acrylic paint pens great for putting messages on umbrellas
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Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hands Around The Kennedy Center is tonight at 630. Because he's threatening to tear it down. Foggy Bottom is closest Metro and the shuttle's running. If driving, I'd suggest using spothero to find a garage space, though *perhaps* finding parking in the neighborhood is possible.
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Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am in an ortho waiting room. Their normal upbeat music continues over The Reading of The Names. It is cognitive dissonance city. Front desk is willing to change music but seems to think there must be music. They just turned the TV volume off instead. :facepalm:
Still from Reading of the Names at NYC 9/11 memorial.  Some of closed captioning visible over the readers.Still from Reading of the Names at NYC 9/11 memorial.  Some of closed captioning visible over the vid of the memorial itself (the square of water)
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Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am in an ortho waiting room. Their normal upbeat music continues over The Reading of The Names. It is cognitive dissonance city. Front desk is willing to change music but seems to think there must be music. They just turned the TV volume off instead. :facepalm:
Still from Reading of the Names at NYC 9/11 memorial.  Some of closed captioning visible over the readers.Still from Reading of the Names at NYC 9/11 memorial.  Some of closed captioning visible over the vid of the memorial itself (the square of water)
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Truthout @truthout.org · 31/08/2026
Amid public outcry, the Commissioners Court for Tarrant County — which contains Fort Worth and borders Dallas — plans to hold a vote on Tuesday on whether to shutter 92 of the polling places used in the 2022 election, many of which serve the city’s poorer and minority populations.
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Texas Swing County Could Shut Down 92 Polling Places Before Midterm Election
Senate candidate James Talarico is pushing Tarrant County to drop plans to close nearly a third of its polling sites.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 31/08/2026
Shasta County's job offer to a felon CONVICTED OF TAMPERING WITH VOTING MACHINES to work on their election process is a disgrace. I'm directing CDCR to make every effort to BLOCK any transfer of her parole supervision into California.
Denver7 News: "Shasta County, California, is considering bringing former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters into its elections office just months after her release from prison, according to a report from KRCR in Redding"
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Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hey @waba.org are there more protest actions in the works?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick … approached a group of racecar drivers hanging out by the paddock. …. “‘Good luck today,’ Mr. Lutnick told them. …. “He walked away. One of the drivers turned and shrugged. “‘I honestly have no idea who that was,’ he said.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
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Trump’s Summer of Fun Ends With an IndyCar Race on the Streets of D.C. (Gift Article)
It was the final, major event planned for the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations. The president took a lap.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 23/08/2026
NEWS — Former Anchorage Mayor Dan A. Sullivan has endorsed Alaska Sen. Dan S. Sullivan for re-election this fall over teacher Dan J. Sullivan and former Rep. Mary Peltola, according to a post on his Facebook page.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The feds infiltrated leftwing groups, Signal chats. They called it “Operation Puppet Master,” which is funny bc they’re claiming it’s to figure out who funds autonomous organizing but they’re the ones running a bunch of socks in pursuit of their political agenda. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal
DHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/08/2026
All of these ICE charter airlines have emergency landings, diversions, aborted takeoffs etc ALL THE TIME. And very often the shackled passengers have to sit on the plane until ICE flies in a new one. When I say I am drowning in stories and wish more journos were covering this, this is what I mean!
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Oh my god does this mean we can support Sandy Hook families with a GAY FROG PLUSHIE and GAY FROG HOLOGRAPHIC STICKERS??? store.theonion.com/products/gay...
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Gay Frog Plush Replica
They did turn the frogs gay, and they're fabulous. Now you can have your own gay frog and just do… whatever.  This friendly amphibian is a perfect companion to almost every situation. From uptown to d...
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 04/08/2026
As the Trump administration withholds more than $1 billion in Medicaid funds from California and Minnesota, a historian of social policy argues that politicians have spent six decades blurring the line between fighting Medicaid fraud and using fraud claims to discredit the program.
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Chairman Phil Mendelson @chairmanmendelson.com · 21/07/2026
Yesterday I wrote a letter to Rep. Comer opposing tomorrow's meeting to adopt the "DC Taxing Authority Review Act." Congress already has the authority to disapprove tax increases adopted by the Council. The bill would straightjacket the District and paralyze our tax code. My full letter below:
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Capitalist Oppressor @capopp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
As to Musk spending cash on the midterms, yeah, we make it a liability. Make it about Musk wanting to take their jobs with AI robots. Make it about him being a Nazi. Make it about baby mamas, DOGE, or whatever your audience hates about him. We wanted the next Congress to be pissed at him anyways.
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Bill Burr: By All Means, Do It SNL Clip
Alt: Bill Burr: By All Means, Do It SNL Clip
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Saudi-Emirati feud has had disastrous consequences for the people of Sudan. While Saudi Arabia backs the official Sudanese army, the UAE has been funding and arming the Rapid Support Forces despite their notorious atrocities in Darfur.
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The Saudi-Emirati Rivalry Is Fueling a Series of Wars
The tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have now burst into the open as a bitter public feud. Two oil-rich absolute monarchies are using much poorer neighbors like Yemen and Sudan as battlegrounds for their destructive proxy wars.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 30/07/2026
Over 1,100 scientists and senior employees at top AI firms have called for more oversight as OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, recently disclosed that one of its experimental AI agents went rogue and secretly hacked into the infrastructure of several other companies.
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Calls Grow for Oversight as OpenAI Admits Experimental AI Agents Went Rogue
Scientists and AI firm employees urge the US to “deliberately pace” the development of the most advanced AI systems.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
here's Thursday's post: "it’s time to leave Dr. Fauci the fuck alone" — Republicans are being shitweasels again. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
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it’s time to leave Dr. Fauci the fuck alone
Republicans are being shitweasels again
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Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Links to find other events in other parts of the country are in the second post. And my seeing the dawn this morning is somewhat related.
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SirFox @sirfox.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
If you can smell smoke That means you're breathing smoke and that's bad Hit the hardware store Get a good N95 mask(s) Get the highest quality air filter you can for your HVAC system, at least MERV 13 and change that out Tape up cracks where outside air can get in. Build an air filter, too.
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Protect yourself from wildfire smoke - cheap and easy air filter #diy
YouTube video by HomeProjects
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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 17/07/2026
VERY UNHEALTHY: DC among cities with worst air on earth this morning. 😖 Air quality as bad or worse than during historic 2023 wildfire event. Could get worse before it gets better. We'll have updates through the day: www.capitalweather.com/wildfire-smo...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/07/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/07/2026
Bill Browder is definitely not a conspiracy theorist. He’s the man who wrote the Magnitsky Act.
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Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Oh I'm out of town but good Lord
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Again, money is not speech. Cartoon all the way back to 1997. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/06/2026
The fever swamps are cooking up mandatory surveillance of every woman for signs of pregnancy to enforce immigration law.
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How about this -- a visa granted to an alien to enter and remain in the U.S. is automatically terminated if the female alien become pregnant, and medical care providers are obligated by law to report positive pregnancy tests under threat of criminal prosecution for failure to do
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Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It is noted that Thomas told him yesterday and this is all theater.
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Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Amphipha and tactical frivolity with Team Algae! Gift link! wapo.st/3QF6Hen
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At the Reflecting Pool, these protesters speak for the algae
The group has leaned into the ridiculousness, and on a recent evening, could be heard chanting, “Let’s grow algae, let’s grow.”
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Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Honestly I don't know if at this point it's too late to finally get some eyes on tomorrow's (tonight's) protests in Gaza. Last time they were roundly ignored Hamas beat an organizer to death and left his body on the family doorstep. This time they've threatened far worse.
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Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Omg
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Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Thing that I learned earlier today which fascinates me is that the broadcast of this thing is on a paid service. For what is purportedly a celebration of the nation? Did people have to pay to get in on the ellipse?
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
They tried to hide but I got em anyway
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Yeah we need to just ignore that deal and prosecute them anyway and let them be mad about it. They created this age where no promises mean anything. Any promise made to the Trumps should be broken.
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Election Truth Alliance @electiontruthalliance.org · 06/06/2026
🧵 Grasping the extent of U.S. election security vulnerabilities is clarifying in that it puts a lot of other issues that threaten to dominate our time, attention, and media ecosystems into perspective.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/06/2026
"Is there a way to make Utah go blue? How do we find out?"
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026
Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link
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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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The Seattle Times @seattletimes.com · 06/06/2026
Steven Kahn, director of the UW Diabetes Research Center, was removed by police from a national conference as he and others handed out copies of an editorial.
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UW diabetes researcher removed from conference by police
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026
The criticism of Trump, Kennedy, and Bhattacharya that was so subversive that the ADA had to eject the Editor-in-Chief of their flagship journal from their annual meeting for sharing it? Prior today it had fewer than 1000 views. Do your thing.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
There was a huge difference in what it was like to follow Greg Bovino and Border Patrol around, versus what’s happening to us at Delaney Hall. Often BP was so nice to us it was uncomfortable! Funnily, this comes out as many of the journalists in this story are now being brutalized by ICE in Newark
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Notes From an ICE Chaser
I followed Border Patrol agents from Illinois to North Carolina to Minnesota. To my surprise, they loved my coverage.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Everyday I become more convinced that no one knows what a journalist is.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Context for people at home: like 80% of the writers I know couldn't even tell you where the press credential their outlet gave them is. I've gone to protests with staffers and had to remind them to bring it, because why would they even think about it. There is no such thing as a journalism license.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Here is an 11.5 minute video from Sunday at Delaney Hall.
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Police Kettle Press and Protesters at Delaney Hall
YouTube video by Amanda Moore
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Local police are not allowing journalists to take gas masks or even bags with their equipment to Delaney Hall. People are arriving because ice is back to guarding the facility, and arresting protesters.
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Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Much beloved person in my social circle just died after seemingly successful pancreatic cancer. This is big.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
WATCH: New footage from a home security camera in shows National Guard soldiers tackle a woman to the ground, put her in handcuffs, and detain her seemingly without any justification or provocation🧵
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