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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 7h

“but you commented earlier about a naked bike ride in portland” would be a legitimate follow up for any reporters in the room w johnson when he says he didnt see the important story youre asking him about

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1d

we're going to have to prosecute this stuff

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d

This is not morally or legally different than lining up two dozen men and shooting them in the face.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 2d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Coalition for Smarter Growth @betterdcregion.bsky.social · 2d

Spotted by @cmkisicki.bsky.social yesterday. Congrats @wmata.com, the American Public Transportation Association's (APTA) 2025 Transit Agency of the Year!

- with @apta-info.bsky.social

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 2d

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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Carrie Kisicki @cmkisicki.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats!!!! 😄

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

Showing up to No Kings with a sign reading “monarchy is an affront to human dignity but, when incorporated into a liberal democratic system, may nevertheless be a useful safety valve for nationalist and/or authoritarian impulses” and then getting clobbered by a Buttigieg-supporting grandmother

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 2d

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 2d

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 4d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 5d

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

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Kate Stewart (she, her) @cmkatestewart.bsky.social · 6d

The community organizations in the Purple Line Equitable Housing Training Series Cohort engage residents in policy change, chart a brighter future for the Purple Line corridor every day, and lead by example.

Council President Stewart joins community members representing organizations in the Purple Line Corridor Coalition Cohort.

Council President Stewart speaks to a room of Purple Line Corridor Coalition members.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 6d

"Thursday’s incident marked the second traffic death of an MCPS student in less than three weeks. On the night of Sept. 21, James Evert Anderson, 16, of Kensington died after he was struck by an SUV in the 3500 block of University Boulevard West."

Girl, 11, on bicycle dies after collision with MCPS school bus in Rockville

Roads near crash site closed to traffic Thursday evening, police say

bethesdamagazine.com

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Carrie Kisicki @cmkisicki.bsky.social · 7d

✅✅✅ correct!!!! 🫡

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Carrie Kisicki @cmkisicki.bsky.social · 7d

reading @yonahfreemark.com reports to the tomato plant while the local fish crow visited my balcony may also have helped. hard to say

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Carrie Kisicki @cmkisicki.bsky.social · 7d

other hand pollination methods included using the handle of an electric toothbrush so the vibrations would mimic a bumblebee 😅

oh and I should mention 4) buying a large enough pot, it was in a much smaller original one and it really took off when I repotted it and became a happier tomato plant

Screenshot of Carrie’s mom calling her a ‘large atypical bumblebee pollinating balcony tomatoes’ with an image of Carrie in a floral dress on her balcony hand pollinating tomatoes with an electric toothbrush

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Carrie Kisicki @cmkisicki.bsky.social · 7d

thank you I am so proud of them!!!

here is what I think helped make it work:
1) my balcony gets full sun (v lucky!)
2) fertilizer stakes
3) (most important and funniest) hand fertilizing the blossoms by flicking them while open, at which point they stopped dying off + started turning into tomatoes!

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Carrie Kisicki @cmkisicki.bsky.social · 7d

that’s my BEAUTIFUL and LOUD son 🫡

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Mike English @mocomikee.bsky.social · 7d

He’s a chirpy boy

Mike English @mocomikee.bsky.social · 7d

Also a kitty (sound)

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Carrie Kisicki @cmkisicki.bsky.social · 7d

Teddy is a big fan of more neighbors!!!! and eating balcony plants

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Mike English @mocomikee.bsky.social · 7d

Silver Spring, it’s good!

View of DTSS from the place I’m cat sitting, aquatic center in foreground

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 7d

genuinely squealed like I saw a celebrity

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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