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Nathaniel Pendleton

@npendleton.bsky.social

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Co-editor North East Rail Map, Designer, Cartographer, Blogger, Researcher, Inventor, 🍌🐌 alum, and #DCstatehood Voting Rights & Equality Trouble Maker @V4DC2. US DoS Havana Syndrome symptoms fully disabled since age ~4yo so ~1977 US NATO Mission Brussels.

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Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 28d

Pro D.C. statehood #DCstatehood BlueSky users, please immediately follow me to minimize @moderation.bsky.app applying abusive “spam” label on my issue expert account.

Escalating Federal violence forced me to symmetrically organize, triggering pro tyranny BlueSky censorship.
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Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · Sep 18

Update: #DCstatehood US #VotingRights bill #HR51 2025-2026 summary map, V032,

Pou #NJ09 & Riley #NY19 cosponsor.

Thank Dem bill cosponsors in green.
Reach out to Dem holdouts in blue & ask they cosponsor.

203 Cosponsors +DC=204
201 votes (not DC PR VI)
#DCstatehoodNews

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Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 3h

Zippers without fabric tape!?!

Hatefully voteless DC requires #DCstatehood to free DC to grow DC’s public university UDC by adding a grad school for “fashion & textiles & uniform design”.

Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 9h

Crazy bad to try to fire US nuclear weapons security staff, but GOP is trying it.

Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 11h

Video grid montage of overhead photos of many “No Kings” #NoKings October 18, 2025,

Minneapolis
Boston
Washington DC
Chicago
New York City
San Diego
Boston

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Another video angle of same event.
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Lianna_Fiona 707 @lfk70.bsky.social · 15h

Earlier today, I went to the No Kings Rally in Belfast, Maine. The event had a real hippie vibe. It was a good time.

Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 13h

Photo of Maine “No Kings” #NoKings October 18, 2025 event.

Location in Maine? Unclear/unknown.
#MEpolitics

Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 14h

Photo of Maine “No Kings” #NoKings October 18, 2025 event.

Freeport Maine, north of Portland ME, between Portland ME & Brunswick ME.
#MEpolitics

Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 14h

Photo of Maine “No Kings” #NoKings October 18, 2025 event.

Southwest Harbor Maine, (so on west “lung” of Mount Desert Island, so south east corner of west lung, or south west of big MDI inlet between lungs.
(Acadia National Park is East “lung” of MDI)
#MEpolitics

Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 14h

Photos of Maine “No Kings” #NoKings October 18, 2025 event.

Portland Maine.
Waterville Maine, next college town north of state capital Augusta ME.
#MEpolitics

Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 14h

Photo of Maine “No Kings” #NoKings October 18, 2025 event.

Farmington Maine, a college town, north west of state capital Augusta ME.
#MEpolitics

Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 14h

Video of Maine “No Kings” #NoKings October 18, 2025 event.

Portland Maine, biggest population city & economic seat of Maine.
#MEpolitics

Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 14h

Photo of Maine “No Kings” #NoKings October 18, 2025 event.

Freeport Maine, north side of Portland ME, between Portland ME & Brunswick ME.
#MEpolitics

Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 14h

Photo of Maine “No Kings” #NoKings October 18, 2025 event.

Yarmouth Maine, north side of Portland ME, between Portland ME & Freeport ME.
#MEpolitics

Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 14h

The shadows of people beside you at the railing are easier to count in this video than people we can actually see in the video.

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Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 14h

Photos of Maine “No Kings” #NoKings October 18, 2025 event.

Augusta Maine, a State Capital, river port town, between Portland ME & Bangor ME, west end of Camden Hills State Park’s Rt-17.
#MEpolitics

Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 14h

Photo of Maine “No Kings” #NoKings October 18, 2025 event.

Bangor Maine, a State Capital, river port town nearish coast, between Portland ME & Canadian Border’s Houlton ME, north of Camden Hills State Park, & northwest of Acadia National Park.
#MEpolitics

Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 14h

Video overlooking crowd for key crowd headcount estimates of Maine “No Kings” #NoKings October 18, 2025 event.

Belfast Maine, coast town, between Portland ME & Bangor ME, just north of Camden Hills State Park.
#MEpolitics

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Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 14h

Photo of Maine “No Kings” #NoKings October 18, 2025 event.

Belfast Maine, a coastal town, between Portland ME & Bangor ME, just north of Camden Hills State Park.
#MEpolitics

Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 14h

Photo of Maine “No Kings” #NoKings October 18, 2025 event.

Augusta Maine, a State Capital, river port town, between ME Portland ME & Bangor ME, west of Camden Hills State Park’s Rt-17.
#MEpolitics

Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 14h

Photo of Maine “No Kings” #NoKings October 18, 2025 event.

Presque Isle Maine, an inland town on Canadian Maritimes, northern end of eastern Maine border, for north of Bangor ME, I-95 to border, then long drive north state roads.
#MEpolitics

Nathaniel Pendleton @npendleton.bsky.social · 14h

Photo of Maine “No Kings” #NoKings October 18, 2025 event.

Rockland Maine, a coastal town, between ME Portland ME & Bangor ME, just south of Camden Hills State Park & long drive east of Brunswick ME.
#MEpolitics