Philly folks reporting for duty. We have been training
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Philly folks reporting for duty. We have been training
2 weeks after being violently attacked & arrested. "Good job, Mayor Bowser. You're a Fascist, too.”
Frickin yikes
There is no good Moore movie, they all suck. He is awful and gross and the writing was just cheeseball bonkers. The World is Not Enough theme by Garbage is amazing and Sophie Marceau is incredible.
Amazing how blind some people get when he puts out a few amusing tweets that do exactly fuck all to improve anyone's situation.
Proof that you are known to be out standing in your field.
Fuck anyone who chose to work for ICE, but the person who did nothing of the sort and looks kinda like one of these pictures and gets harassed? Nope.
Muriel's never met a bus she won't throw us under.
General reminder for those who forgot: manifesting can stay with you and yourself. No need to get hopes up.
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
I am crying such ugly tears knowing that my little baby will start school in 2026. The part about remembering uvalde has fucking undone me.
The declining respect for experts combined with people wanting the benefits of being an expert without expending the effort to learn and develop the expertise. Feels like it's connected to the push for AI (when people don't know how to spot the errors and hallucinations)
Wondering how many people would not qualify somewhere on this list?
this (from the brilliant @everywhereist.bsky.social) puts into words the big black tangle of frustration i have whenever i get the same question
Whoever wrote that headline should be ashamed!
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Today I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The courts & public outcry forced Trump to return him to MD, but Trump’s cronies keep lying about his case & are engaged in a malicious abuse of power to try to deport him to Uganda. As I told Kilmar, I won’t stop fighting for justice & due process for all:
With love and hugs to @mychal3ts.bsky.social My little one at Glenarden branch of @pgcmls.bsky.social singing with joy at being at the library, singing with toys and excited for 16 amazing books we checked out for her! We love it here!
❤️😭❤️😭❤️😭❤️
Hot tip for anyone in DC who wants to yell at cops (etc): you can’t do it inside a metro station, but you can do it just outside of one. You do have a right to protest, just not where people are accessing transit. Stay safe. Stay loud!
BRING BACK EXPERTS!!! The internet has EVERYBODY believing they are experts because they have unlimited access to information. People study certain topics for years, sometimes DECADES, through empirical processes to build the knowledge base they have. THAT IS NOT THE GENERAL PUBLIC!!!
Legit. My previous response has been that I am not interested in a church that doesn't actively celebrate our LGBTQIA+ family and friends. It is very effective.
Now I need to remember this for the next time I see Jehovas Witnesses at the Metro. I am sure there are other uses too.
Any faith that discourages adherents from education and scientific inquiry is based on control, not truth.
Important detail: John Brown was going around fighting and killing slaveowners with the sickest looking longsword I've ever seen
I am suddenly reminded of Indiana Jones where someone is asked for their papers by a nazi and they push a newspaper in his face and punch nazi. For no reason.
Lol - the sign for trump alone in asl is hilarious (and perfect)
K st NW between 18th & Conn bsky.app/profile/ej50...
We bought a house in Prince George's County, but our dog couldn't come with us because she "looked like" a pit bull. This fall, county councilmembers could finally overturn a 27-year-old pit bull ban.
She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩
Listening to @bridgettodd.bsky.social reviewing the situation in DC on It Could Happen Here is oddly soothing, a clear and familiar voice of reason when it feels so strange here.
This is very cool! After 30 years trying to change the name of "Moors Street" in Berlin, they've renamed it after Anton Wilhelm Amo, the Akan philosopher from present-day Ghana who became a significant Enlightenment philosopher in Germany in the first half of the 1700s.
I can not fathom why this woman is so obsessed with the genitals of people she doesn't know and has to make it everyone's problem. May she have her life depend on the generosity and care of some amazing trans people who don't demand the status of her genitals before treating her like a human being.
Rt to save your own sanity and like 800000 gallons of water, 3 redlined neighborhoods' air quality and a thousand baby seals
Agents amass in DC, unclear why or which agency. Some masked. Residents: “You’re in a church parking lot—get out!” “We don’t want you kidnapping our neighbors!” Agents start recording too. Soon decide to leave, some mockingly wave their phones. They zoom down the 25mph road, skimming by our feet.
Baltimore's filthiest son said it best, if somebody takes you back to their place and they don't have any books, don't fuck 'em.
If they’re incurious in the streets, would you want to bet they’re interesting in the sheets?
Why can they find places to sleep for national guard troops coming from other states to occupy DC, but not for homeless ppl. In Jan 2020, they used hotels for the guard. Will they do the same this time? If so, why is there $ for the army to stay in hotels but not homeless ppl?
Shucks, I think it js just the right amount of fun!
Big Ted Cruz energy.
As someone who doesn't keep up with international soccer, I still can enjoy the love for Mo Salah. And an excuse to share this song from a couple years ago. youtu.be/WcZ8lTRTNM0?...
NEWS: Trump’s DOJ caves, agrees to dramatically scale back its attempted takeover of the DC police after Judge Reyes signaled it violated the Home Rule Act. DC Police Chief Pamela Smith will remain in charge.
🚨ALERTA🚨 La Policía de DC (MPD) anunció que comenzará a colaborar con ICE durante las paradas de tráfico. ¿Qué significa esto? 👉🏽
🚨 ALERT🚨 DC Police (MPD) has announced that they will start collaborating with ICE at traffic checkpoints. What does this mean 👉🏽
🚨ALERTA🚨 Zonas donde ha habido informes de policías/agentes federales parando a la gente y pidiendo documentación, especialmente a individuos en scooters/ciclomotores y confiscándolos - Calle 5 y K NW - Calle 19 y M St NW - Calle 14 y Rhode Island NW - Calle 14, entre T y U NW - Calle 14 y Irving NW
🚨ALERT🚨 Areas where there have been reports of police/federal agents stopping people and asking for documentation, especially individuals on scooters/mopeds & confiscating them - 15th & K St NW - 19th & M St NW - 14th & Rhode Island NW - 14th St, between T & U NW - 14th & Irving St NW
Followed by a terrible rendition of DMB Satellite on their guitar
I grew up in PA and that first trip to New Orleans was a shock. Hell. I still do a double take a wine and beer in grocery stores in the DMV!
I am often scared of driving in DC because the drivers are terrible and there are too many drunk Republicans behind the wheel. This dude is a shitstain of a coward cosplaying as big tough dude.
This is exactly one block from the sandwich throwing incident. The neighborhood is being collectively punished for it.
🚨ALERT🚨 Active checkpoint on 14th St NW between V and W St. Federal agents and MPD present, currently stopping drivers passing through. Atleast one individual detained. Fuck these cowards that apparently have nothing better to do but clog up our streets 🧻
Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd of people shouting at police. "Fuck you!" "What is wrong with you!" "You don't need to terrorize people like this!"
The joy of transitioning from having the same kids song stuck in my head for a day to suddenly having a Queen song taking its place.
In Maryland, crabs could bring some real hurt. Especially if still alive and pinching.
I don’t know who needs this today, but here you go..
As someone who absolutely fell in love with We Came to Welcome You and have recommended it many times since, and looking forward to finishing my current book so I can start We Don't Swim Here, thank you for sharing your gorgeous and incredibly creative gift with the rest of us!!
i will die on the hill that the original Nazis were just as silly as our modern versions. Hitler based his plans for the invasion of Russia partly on cowboy novels written by a con-man.
I don't agree with Bowser on much, but no argument with that.
"I'm so tired of the FO when I didn’t FA." I wish the FO only happened to those who FA... but naw, we all get it.
Today is an especially good day to support the mutual aid work Remora House and @dcmigrantmutualaid.org are doing to take care of unhoused and migrant community members in DC, if you're looking for somewhere to pitch in.
My experience of DC changed so fundamentally moving from upper NW to Landover. These might as well be different continents. I wouldn't trade back for the world.
Smelling that first thing in the morning on the way to work everyday for years. I can't go near it at all. 🤢
Bring us your hot, your handsome, your overlooked gorgeous actors yearning to be oggled.
If you or someone you love goes to e.g. ChatGPT for random, general questions or "life advice" or whatever, PLEASE consider breaking that habit now. Be prepared for what's happening, and don't outsource any amount of your thinking, brainstorming, reasoning, or writing to these models.
Ew. If he can't figure out right from wrong on his own, maybe we need a remedial kindergarten for him and people like him. With absolutely no children nearby.
i don’t usually share gofundme’s unless i personally know someone to vouch for it, but making an exception here. especially since you know if charges are brought, the perpetrators of this hate crime will almost certainly have a successful one for their legal costs.
This is one reason why your toddler parent friends are tired.
Is itself a vampire. Autocorrect refuses to cooperate with this fever dream.
Baby-er shark in a buggy is crying that the jaguar friend was bitten by a mistaken crocodile. In the jungle. And they are now singing to comfort it and riding the back of the crocodile. Can't they swim across the river???
"The vampire bus goes flap and flap..." Not a bus full of vampires, but a bus that is itself a driver, driven by an underage shark. Not approved by marine biologists or transit mechanics
I just watched Baby Shark as a firefighter extinguish an undersea volcano eruption by spraying it with water from a fire hose. 🧐 What?!?!? DO NOT LOOK TO KIDDO CARTOONS SEEKING LOGIC.
If someone told me that they played soccer, and I took them to the field and they said instead that they don’t play themselves but have simulated the games on a machine, I wouldn’t agree that they were an athlete. I don’t know why the arts would be any different.
This!
Starting a new post and linking directly to the fundraisers because Bluesky accounts are getting deleted so often. I will then comment with the Bluesky account below the fundraiser so you can follow or chat with them and try to update as needed. I also fixed the graphic because it was bugging me.
FYI, if anyone has some of their own money to funnel, I love my local @dcmigrantmutualaid.org
How funny would it be if the money was just funneled to migrant mutual aid groups and paid for diapers, formula, and rent?
Why did we give it a crown?
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
Anyone who has more of a problem with his colorful language than his points needs to sit with that for a minute and ask themselves when their priorities got so out of whack. (Not a comment on @onestpress.onestnetwork.com but rather preemptive warning to tone police out there)
Hey DC folks - ICE is standing at the top of the Foggy Bottom metro escalators observing people coming off the trains. Be aware. cc @popville.bsky.social @51st.news
📍A few safety points - Know how to administer Naloxone (Narcan) -Be careful with things purchased in smoke shops & gas stations -Anything with Kratom & Kava can be habit forming & dangerous -Consider adult swim lessons/ refreshers
Is there a 3rd cheek to complete the trinity?
No cheating. Post the last pic of your pet 🐶
America in a nutshell.
The bogus claim in Jurassic Park that T. Rex vision is "motion-based" isn't just absurd — it's liable to get someone killed
Tread carefully, dang it. Apparently this bitch needs to type carefully too.
This is like asking if it is good for a fox to feel comfortable walking through a hen house. We white folks represent the danger to Black neighborhoods. We have to read very carefully when invading someone else's sanctuary.
As Epstein is back up in the news, reminder: -1 in 9 girls* & -1 in 20 boys* under the age of 18 experience SA -Female ppl* aged 16-19 are 4x more likely than the general population to be victims of SA or attempted SA Some of those survivors read your skeets. *& presumably nonbinary & gnc ppl
She also had a cameo in the 90s fever dream live action super Mario brothers (also not my fave, but major WTF vibes)
What are they going to be forced to do next? Hang out with sex workers? With people whose job makes them a social outcast? Give away their worldly goods? How terrible!!!
Twitter screenshot from user @ArcticMagoes (screen name shows "keep your mangoes in th...") People often mistake socializing regularly for community. If there is no commitment to care, there is no community, no matter how fun the socializing is. Tweeted 15 July, 2025
Apparently there was a joke event in Peru where all the jockeys raced each other instead of their horses
I wants it!!!
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