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Abigail Breiseth

@abinbaltimore.bsky.social

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Teacher of hospitalized kids. Civic. Curious. Cranky. Baltimore, baby.

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Abigail Breiseth @abinbaltimore.bsky.social · Dec 30

I read a smart thing about marking up vile things before reposting them, so the brain is signaled before reading and we aren’t normalizing them by giving them more oxygen. So, something like this, from me with no particular online skills? Tips for better marking?

Same EM text as original post with a “forbidden” circle with slash drawn over it.

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Abigail Breiseth @abinbaltimore.bsky.social · 5h

Please use alt text.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 7h

Not A Fan of Christie's, but He's Onto The Chump Regime Tactics...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Isn’t this the same deal Biden and Harris brokered before they left office?

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Behold the National Neckgina.

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Jerome Alexander Horne @jahorne.bsky.social · Nov 23

Professor Trash Wheel is one of three trash interceptors in Baltimore that work to clean up the Inner Harbor, Patapsco River and Chesapeake Bay. The other two wheels are the male @MrTrashWheel at the mouth of the Jones Falls and the gender neutral @CaptTrashWheel in Brooklyn.

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Jayne Miller @jemillerbalt.bsky.social · May 26

In Baltimore, we have an old expressway covering up a waterway--the Jones Falls. Some (myself included) believe it is long past time to uncover the waterway and knock down the expressway for a friendlier urban street/boulevard

Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · May 25

If Rochester can do it, your city can too.

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🎃 Harm City Slasher 🔪 @sprawlhater.bsky.social · Apr 4

blessing your tl with the no. 18 streetcar crossing the Jones Fall bound for Canton

1952 picture of a yellow Baltimore Transit Co. streetcar crossing a bridge over the Jones Falls with the spire of St. Vincent's and the the Shot Tower featured prominently

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Chloe misses Link @chloeph.bsky.social · Apr 8

Wildlife is under enormous pressure, but sometimes
I feel like we have better nature in Baltimore city than when I’m out in the burbs

A screenshot of the iNaturalist app, showing a great density of observations along the Jones Falls, sandwiched between large swathes of concrete and development

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Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · Aug 14

Baltimore: we should clean up the Jones Falls and make the Jones Falls Trail a quality multi use path!

City Hall: hey, I got an idea we should move the dump there!

Baltimore Brew @baltimorebrew.bsky.social · Aug 13

Rough reception for City Hall plan: Relocate DPW's Sisson St. trash dropoff ctr to the Potts & Callahan yard on Falls Rd.
Biking or walking on the Jones Falls Trail? You'd be alongside vehicles hauling garbage. And, attention drivers: Falls Rd wd be closed to cars at Mill #1 tinyurl.com/36rws9mn

Rough reception as city proposes moving Sisson Street trash drop-off center to a site along the Jones Falls | Baltimore Brew

Falls Road would be permanently closed to vehicle traffic near Mill No. 1. Vehicles dropping off and hauling garbage would access the site via lower Falls Road, side by side with bikers and walkers.

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Abigail Breiseth @abinbaltimore.bsky.social · 5h

Hey, Baltimore Bluesky, let’s elevate this issue. Are we going to allow a truly foul plan to decimate this stream all over again, after working so hard to reclaim it? We know too much to allow another Highway to Nowhere decision…don’t we? #DontTrashTheFalls

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Baltimore Brew @baltimorebrew.bsky.social · Sep 1

[email protected] weighs in, opposing the Sisson Street trash facility relocation plan. tinyurl.com/5n8wx584 Garbage and hazardous household waste don’t belong beside the Jones Falls in a FEMA flood zone, the Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper says.

Blue Water Baltimore weighs in, opposing the Sisson Street trash facility relocation plan | Baltimore Brew

Garbage and hazardous household waste don’t belong beside the Jones Falls in a FEMA flood zone, the Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper says.

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Bruce Willen @publicmechanics.bsky.social · 28d

I co-authored an op-ed in today's Baltimore Sun about the need to think bigger and reimagine the future of the Jones Falls river.

www.baltimoresun.com/2025/09/15/j...

Don’t trash the Jones Falls (again) | GUEST COMMENTARY

The Jones Falls valley is one of Baltimore’s greatest untapped assets, but a new city proposal puts that potential in jeopardy, local organizers write.

www.baltimoresun.com

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Abigail Breiseth @abinbaltimore.bsky.social · 5h

Hear, hear! #DontTrashTheFalls

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · 28d

Baltimore, we can do much better than a dump along the Jones Falls. In this new op-ed for the Baltimore Sun, we sketch a vision for the river at the heart of our city. Join us via our new Jones Falls 2076 project.

www.baltimoresun.com/2025/09/15/j...

Don’t trash the Jones Falls (again) | GUEST COMMENTARY

The Jones Falls valley is one of Baltimore’s greatest untapped assets, but a new city proposal puts that potential in jeopardy, local organizers write.

www.baltimoresun.com

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Abigail Breiseth @abinbaltimore.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks for using alt text!

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23h

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes:
- inflatable frog suit
- cape
- pepper spray filter
- a thirst for the blood of the innocent
- air pump

batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 17h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 18h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20h

⚠️ Warning: these back-to-back scenes are hard to watch unless you’ve got a depraved heart.

These are thugs, not officers with any real training. We keep seeing it again and again, and at this point, it’s clearly the op.

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Xennial Farmer @xennialfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever immunity they think they have will not save them.

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Race Bannon @racebannon.bsky.social · 1d

This is brilliant. I wonder how many frogs are going to show up on October 18th.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14h

Since the MLB playoffs are ongoing, I’ll conclude my evening with this ✌️

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Just Jill 💖 @just-jillg.bsky.social · 18h

This should be considered everywhere. They are kidnapping, abusing, harassing and threatening people who have rights. Every single one of them have rights and they are ignored. What they’re doing is unconstitutional and illegal.
Payback will come.

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JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

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Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 20h

This administration keeps torching the Hatch Act—propaganda videos in airports, partisan emails on federal servers, even mass firings. It’s corruption with a flag pin. See something? Say something. Expose it through the whistleblower tip line.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

Farmers grow what they grow because of farm policy.

We don’t need all the soy and corn that we grow, but those are the commodities that receive subsidies and markets.

If we want something better, if we want to heal the Earth and grow food, now is the time to do it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 1d

Industrious Scrembles!

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