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Bryan Hart @bryanhart.bsky.social · 3d

How varied will the impact be in the region? Should I cancel plans to hike Old Rag on Sunday? Or will the rain be relatively light that far west?

Bryan Hart @bryanhart.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve been through rock springs and learned about its tragic history. So glad that they have expanded the memorial and are not trying to just erase the painful history. We need more of this.

NPR @npr.org · 7d

At a time when President Trump is going after foreign laborers in the U.S, and saying unflattering accounts of U.S. history should be removed, Rock Springs, Wyoming has put up a new monument to ethnic violence there.

New monument commemorates tragic anti-immigrant chapter in Wyoming history

At a time when President Trump is going after foreign laborers in the U.S, and saying unflattering accounts of U.S. history should be removed, Rock Springs, Wyoming has put up a new monument to ethnic violence there.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10d

Immigration authorities are continuing to patrol with D.C. police weeks after the expiration of President Trump’s federal takeover, leaving some local leaders and residents alarmed about D.C. police’s role in immigration enforcement.

Trump’s D.C. crime emergency is over. Immigration officers are still patrolling with D.C. police.

The Washington Post reviewed photos and videos of at least half a dozen incidents since Sept. 10. They show D.C. police officers with masked agents in vests labeled HSI for Homeland Security Investiga...

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Conor Shaw @fixcircle.bsky.social · 12d

Important paper from @rycalder.bsky.social, Rachel Clark, and Claire Summa analyzing 2019-2023 trauma data from DC traffic crashes. They found that injury rates *increased* and that racial disparities exist *for every user type* including pedestrians & cyclists. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41014831/

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DC Families for Safe Streets @safestreetsdc.bsky.social · 18d

We're grateful for @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social's leadership to author and pass the STEER Act and for @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social's role in addressing the most reckless drivers on DC streets. 💛

We're also looking fwd to DC and VA's implementation of anti-speeding tech (ISA) to ensure safer speeds

DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social · 18d

NEW: We won our first court judgment against a dangerous out-of-state driver under the STEER Act.

The Court ordered Ayanna Khalya Wilson to pay $77,100 for over 200 dangerous driving violations.

We also filed 12 new lawsuits against Maryland and Virginia drivers with nearly 2,000 traffic offenses.

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Bryan Hart @bryanhart.bsky.social · 23d

Wasn't this one the hypotheticals in the supreme court cases on presidential immunity that was deemed too far fetched: That the president would be immune from criminal charges if he openly used to his powers to illegally kill civilians or political opponents? I guess we got there pretty quickly...

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23d

“if he can order the Navy to operate as a presidential hit squad on the high seas, any number of grim hypotheticals could become reality sooner than Americans might expect,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:

A Rogue Nation on the High Seas

Trump is treating the military like his personal mercenaries.

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Bryan Hart @bryanhart.bsky.social · 24d

Sadly have a work commitment. But my better half will show up to mildly harangue the CM better than I ever could.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26d

JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27d

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

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Bryan Hart @bryanhart.bsky.social · Sep 7

Quite the juxtaposition that one of the next skeets in my feed following this was about trump pardoned drug dealer Ross Ulbricht getting in on the MAGA grift: bsky.app/profile/rmac...

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Evan Yeats @evanyeats.bsky.social · Sep 2

Really want to thank @mayorbowser.bsky.social for her efforts making my kids walk to and from school feel less safe and less hospitable

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Evan Yeats @evanyeats.bsky.social · Sep 2

Was going to take the kids to the new activation by @downtowndc.org.web.brid.gy in Franklin Park after school pickup but watched a reckless and dangerous Park Police response that involved officers almost hitting pedestrians to respond to a single unhoused person and now I'm not.

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Bryan Hart @bryanhart.bsky.social · Aug 23

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

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Bryan Hart @bryanhart.bsky.social · Aug 21

It’s also a reminder of the additional dangers imposed by our occupation by militarized law enforcement and their vehicles.

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Mike Madden @mikemadden.bsky.social · Aug 21

Apparently this IS a (somewhat unconventional) ghost bike, missing a plaque, for Constance Holden, who was killed at that intersection in 2010

Bryan Hart @bryanhart.bsky.social · Aug 21

It is a ghost bike memorial for Constance Holden. I believe installed as a project by @waba.org but the plaque is missing.

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Bryan Hart @bryanhart.bsky.social · Aug 21

It is a ghost bike memorial for Constance Holden. I believe installed as a project by @waba.org but the plaque is missing.

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Bryan Hart @bryanhart.bsky.social · Aug 21

I believe that’s Constance Holden’s memorial. It looks like the plaque is missing: dcist.com/story/10/04/...

Ghost Bike for Constance Holden Appears Amid Security Fences

Image courtesy WABA The Washington Area Bicyclist Association has just posted some photos to its Facebook page of a white "ghost bike" placed at the corner of 12th Street and New York Ave. NW in honor...

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · Aug 21

It is dangerous for the National Guard to be deployed in residential areas — for people here, for Guard members themselves, and for the communities back home which they are supposed to serve.

Armored tactical vehicles should not be on city streets.

rachelweiner.bsky.social @rachelweiner.bsky.social · Aug 20

Crash early this a.m. on Capitol Hill involved a 14-ton D.C. National Guard Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle (MATV) and is "currently undergoing an investigation," Capt. Tinashe T. Machona says. Civilian driver hospitalized with head laceration per @danlamothe.bsky.social

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Evan Yeats @evanyeats.bsky.social · Aug 16

This is the "good partnership" that Mayor Bowser and Chief Smith were praising this week.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Aug 16

New — I wrote about the violent assault on a DC delivery worker this morning by masked federal agents, and how these agents have made the disturbing turn from quiet thugs to playing for the cameras.

Federal agent during violent DC arrest: “Liberals already ruined” this country

Trump's thugs are proving their skull-bashing loyalty in broad daylight.

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Michelle DuBarry @dubarrypie.bsky.social · Aug 14

This is the Go Fund Me for the family of DaRon Craig who was struck and killed by a driver last week while walking *on the sidewalk* with his 12yo son.

It doesn’t have to be this way, Portland 💔

Donate to A Senseless Act Took Him From His Kids. Help his family cope, organized by Angeline McKinney-Craig

Hi, my name is Angeline. I am the ex-wife of DaRon Craig and … Angeline McKinney-Craig needs your support for A Senseless Act Took Him From His Kids. Help his family cope

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Bryan Hart @bryanhart.bsky.social · Aug 12

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is.

Lotus flower at Kenilworth aquatic garden

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DC Families for Safe Streets @safestreetsdc.bsky.social · Jul 30

🧵 (1 of 6) Community members recently placed memorial ghost bikes in honor of friends and loved ones.

This includes new memorials for loved ones who were killed while bicycling sometime in the past year and a half, plus previous memorials that were in need of care and replacement. ❤️‍🩹

#BikeDC

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Bryan Hart @bryanhart.bsky.social · Jul 30

Do it for the free* t-shirt

*does not include cost of registering

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Bryan Hart @bryanhart.bsky.social · Jul 30

Signed up yesterday!

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Chelsey (she/her) @chelseydc.bsky.social · Jul 19

We had such a fun morning with @ward5familybiking.bsky.social x Right Proper x Zeke's!

🚲🎉🚲🎉🚲

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