Carrie Kisicki
@cmkisicki.bsky.social
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Montgomery Advocacy Manager at @betterdcregion.bsky.social, bird and baseball fan
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cmkatestewart.bsky.social
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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thewaroncars.bsky.social
"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
cmkisicki.bsky.social
✅✅✅ correct!!!! 🫡
cmkisicki.bsky.social
reading @yonahfreemark.com reports to the tomato plant while the local fish crow visited my balcony may also have helped. hard to say
cmkisicki.bsky.social
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
cmkisicki.bsky.social
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!
cmkisicki.bsky.social
that’s my BEAUTIFUL and LOUD son 🫡
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cmkisicki.bsky.social
Teddy is a big fan of more neighbors!!!! and eating balcony plants
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mocomikee.bsky.social
Silver Spring, it’s good!
View of DTSS from the place I’m cat sitting, aquatic center in foreground
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jfruh.bsky.social
genuinely squealed like I saw a celebrity
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donmoyn.bsky.social
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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internethippo.bsky.social
Sometimes a user will post a joke and then that very same user will post something sincere. And I as the reader am expected to understand this, using my brain?
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ryanboyd.bsky.social
The grand unified “Everyone is Twelve” theory is a legit contribution to contemporary thought and critique. We really are ruled by evil adult children!
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cherylcort.bsky.social
Our Ward 3 for everyone happy hour was a lovely meet-up with likeminded folks. We’ve got a lot to champion- Wisconsin & Conn Aves rezoning, a new Comp Plan in the works. Grateful for partners working together.
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kenwhite.bsky.social
These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.
flglchicago.bsky.social
Here’s video of the incident
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kathbarbadoro.bsky.social
I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is
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Purple Line light rail vehicles are running to an actual station as part of testing! This testing runs from 9 pm to 5 am and started with New Carrollton.

The original testing was limited to the one one-milemile test track at the Glenridge Operations and Maintenance facility.
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jackjenkins.me
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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jamellebouie.net
thank you brett kavanaugh!
dlknowles.bsky.social
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
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boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com
Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.
The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”
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stevemullis.net
Am I going insane or does the top of this NYT story on Portland read like vintage Breitbart?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...
N.Y.C.
Mayor's Race >
Who's Running
Capitalizing on Adams's Departur
By Kellen Browning Photographs by Jordan Gale Reporting from Portland, Ore.
Oct. 4, 2025
Too extreme. Too inexperienced. An absolute disaster.
Mainstream politicians are sharpening their attacks, and the wealthy are threatening to move away as a socialist revolution sweeps through the city.
They're not talking about Zohran Mamdani or his plans for New York City.
Rather, they are agonizing over the scene in Portland, Ore., where the democratic socialist principles espoused by Mr. Mamdani - the front-runner to become New York's next mayor
— have already taken root at City Hall.
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gbrockell.bsky.social
Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her