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Alex Simbana @simbanalex.bsky.social · 14h

Our DC residents LOVE ALL OUR NEIGHBORS! Stop attacking of DC neighborhoods with your MPD goons!!! Two active harassment checkpoints on GA Ave!!!

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Emily Roderer @emilyroderer.bsky.social · 20h

I have the stand-up Hoover version. I’m glad I have it. But also, there are some things you just don’t want to know.

Emily Roderer @emilyroderer.bsky.social · 22h

The Offal Office

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 23h

New sign outside the Oval Office..

Emily Roderer @emilyroderer.bsky.social · 7d

I like not knowing the things I don’t know.

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Emily Roderer @emilyroderer.bsky.social · 10d

Typo. Dammit. A great distance.

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Emily Roderer @emilyroderer.bsky.social · 10d

I felt like I was being forced to watch the news presented by a middle school comedy club. Because it was also great distance from an impersonation.

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Emily Roderer @emilyroderer.bsky.social · 10d

😂

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Emily Roderer @emilyroderer.bsky.social · 10d

I thought you meant it would be bad, but still fun to watch. So I clicked on it. I would like my time back.

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Emily Roderer @emilyroderer.bsky.social · 13d

National Guard in DC. One million a day to guard the empty bike share stand at the Metro. Thanks American taxpayers. I guess.

National Guard in DC guarding empty bike stand.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 14d

The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad.

I made a video explainer about why.

Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social

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Emily Roderer @emilyroderer.bsky.social · 14d

www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/p...

Experts estimate National Guard deployment in DC is costing roughly $1 million a day | CNN Politics

The ongoing National Guard mission in Washington, DC, as part of President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown in the city, is costing roughly $1 million a day, experts estimated to CNN.

www.cnn.com

Emily Roderer @emilyroderer.bsky.social · 14d

Daily reminder that it costs about $1 million a day for the National Guard to patrol pricey residential neighborhoods in DC. For no reason.

Photo of two National Guard members walking down a residential street

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Emily Roderer @emilyroderer.bsky.social · 15d

Was it not Miley Cyrus, who taught us tattoo impermanence via laser removal. Have we learned nothing from our younger elders?

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 16d

Diana Bianchi, the NIH scientist that ran the study that saved Sara’s life, was fired by Russell Vought and Trump in April.

Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 16d

“My name is Dr. Sara Teichholtz.
And I’m here because in 2023, NIH saved my life.”

From the NIH #NoKings rally this weekend.

Powerful and honest and brave from Sara. 🧪

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Emily Roderer @emilyroderer.bsky.social · 20d

Congress could do something to protect public investment in science. I don’t have representation in Congress, but maybe you do.

Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20d

I made a video about the shutdown, and why this government worker won’t be a pawn.

When the president and Supreme Court are both acting lawlessly, Congress must stand up and stop it.

US science is collapsing and Congress needs to act.
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Full video here: www.instagram.com/reel/DP1tXXE...

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 23d

Once again: this is also happening in DC. Still.

It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police.

Please talk about us too.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 23d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Emily Roderer @emilyroderer.bsky.social · 23d

That is not my recollection

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 26d

Russell Vought has announced that "mass firings [RIFs] have begun."

Lawless. The RIFs in the spring were illegal, as Judge Illston outlined. Yes, the conservative SCOTUS supermajority lawlessly signed off. But the Calvinball Court is not doing law.

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'RIFs have begun.' Vought announces start of mass firings during government shutdown

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

www.pbs.org

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Emily Roderer @emilyroderer.bsky.social · 27d

I’ve entered this conversation in medias res and it’s kind of exciting.

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Abbie @kabbiearlish.bsky.social · Oct 5

Keep talking about Rodney Taylor! Please, call your officials about him!

Officials need to know that we're paying attention, we're furious, and that fury isn't going to die down the way they hope.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Oct 4

Rodney Taylor still needs our help!

He’s still locked in an ICE camp.

He’s still going without his new prosthetic legs.

He’s still facing deportation to Liberia.

He’s still having necessary disability accommodations ignored.

Please keep sharing his story. Public pressure works!