Sanjida
@adijnas.bsky.social
An observer, reader, scientist, mother just outside the center of the (un)free world
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I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
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<2,000: how many people wrote letters of opposition about to the council about the University Blvd Corridor Plan.
229,289: how many times people boarded the M12-University Blvd bus in September 2025.
229,289: how many times people boarded the M12-University Blvd bus in September 2025.
University Boulevard may one day have fewer car lanes, wider sidewalks and more housing developments under a major growth plan the Montgomery County Council approved 7-3 on Tuesday.
December 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
<2,000: how many people wrote letters of opposition about to the council about the University Blvd Corridor Plan.
229,289: how many times people boarded the M12-University Blvd bus in September 2025.
229,289: how many times people boarded the M12-University Blvd bus in September 2025.
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
Fantastic article that cuts through the confusion and dysfunction around public hearings. Thank you to Casey for writing this!
Opinion: The problem at public meetings isn't who shows up, but the roles that the people at public meetings are expected to play
What are planning hearings actually for?
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November 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Fantastic article that cuts through the confusion and dysfunction around public hearings. Thank you to Casey for writing this!
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This is an excellent piece about the limitations inherent to public engagement, not a call to stop doing it, but a call to recognize it for what it is and, more crucially, what it is not.
It also comes from MoCo’s former planning board chair, who knows what he’s talking about.
Please read it
It also comes from MoCo’s former planning board chair, who knows what he’s talking about.
Please read it
Opinion: The problem at public meetings isn't who shows up, but the roles that the people at public meetings are expected to play
What are planning hearings actually for?
View this post on ggwash.org
ggwash.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is an excellent piece about the limitations inherent to public engagement, not a call to stop doing it, but a call to recognize it for what it is and, more crucially, what it is not.
It also comes from MoCo’s former planning board chair, who knows what he’s talking about.
Please read it
It also comes from MoCo’s former planning board chair, who knows what he’s talking about.
Please read it
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The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
open.substack.com/pub/theargum... This could have been me. Two years ago I found myself unexpectedly pregnant in my mid 40s. The author didn't feel safe to pursue a high risk pregnancy in a state with restrictive abortion laws. I live in Maryland, and cautiously, I went ahead.
An abortion ban pushed me toward abortion
Is this what the pro-life movement intended?
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
open.substack.com/pub/theargum... This could have been me. Two years ago I found myself unexpectedly pregnant in my mid 40s. The author didn't feel safe to pursue a high risk pregnancy in a state with restrictive abortion laws. I live in Maryland, and cautiously, I went ahead.
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Hallowe'en is just around the corner and it is one of the most dangerous days for children. Here are some safety tips:
1) Avoid hitting children with your pickup truck, SUV or other motor vehicle. It is technically against the law to harm or kill a child with your vehicle and you could be charged.
1) Avoid hitting children with your pickup truck, SUV or other motor vehicle. It is technically against the law to harm or kill a child with your vehicle and you could be charged.
October 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Hallowe'en is just around the corner and it is one of the most dangerous days for children. Here are some safety tips:
1) Avoid hitting children with your pickup truck, SUV or other motor vehicle. It is technically against the law to harm or kill a child with your vehicle and you could be charged.
1) Avoid hitting children with your pickup truck, SUV or other motor vehicle. It is technically against the law to harm or kill a child with your vehicle and you could be charged.
This is a big and good step!
October 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is a big and good step!
These are bad people and they should feel bad.
These people are bad people.
They saying that they believe the aesthetics of their neighborhood matter more than the safety of children and people with disabilities.
Trees are replaceable. Children are not.
They saying that they believe the aesthetics of their neighborhood matter more than the safety of children and people with disabilities.
Trees are replaceable. Children are not.
September 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
These are bad people and they should feel bad.
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Anyway, really does explain the colloquialism, "scratch a deeply held American belief that makes no sense and you'll find racism"
September 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Anyway, really does explain the colloquialism, "scratch a deeply held American belief that makes no sense and you'll find racism"
Lots of touching and hopeful testimony from @cmkisicki.bsky.social, @darashef.bsky.social , and @coloradoskatebug.bsky.social and others at the Univ Blvd Plan public hearing tonight.
Final tally 15 for, 32 against, 4 mixed. We stand against fear, saying yes, we can have nice things.
Final tally 15 for, 32 against, 4 mixed. We stand against fear, saying yes, we can have nice things.
September 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Lots of touching and hopeful testimony from @cmkisicki.bsky.social, @darashef.bsky.social , and @coloradoskatebug.bsky.social and others at the Univ Blvd Plan public hearing tonight.
Final tally 15 for, 32 against, 4 mixed. We stand against fear, saying yes, we can have nice things.
Final tally 15 for, 32 against, 4 mixed. We stand against fear, saying yes, we can have nice things.
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Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.
September 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.
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back in the day before you got online you had to listen to the digitized sound of the forsaken child that powered the internet, and it was a lot healthier for everyone.
August 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
back in the day before you got online you had to listen to the digitized sound of the forsaken child that powered the internet, and it was a lot healthier for everyone.
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also, “so woke you have walked backwards into supporting segregation” is definitely a thing online
July 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
also, “so woke you have walked backwards into supporting segregation” is definitely a thing online
@readtheorchard.org I was thinking of you and our conversation about how Klein is grappling, and wondering if you saw this piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...
Opinion | Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another
www.nytimes.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
@readtheorchard.org I was thinking of you and our conversation about how Klein is grappling, and wondering if you saw this piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...
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Can confirm this email is authentic — and about nothing in it is true.
Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that.
It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.
Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that.
It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.
Hi, I think a lot of us received e-mails from SSA saying that social security will no longer be taxed - and that somehow there is "enhanced deductions" (how much enhancement can you make to 0?) for those over 65. What part, if any, of this is true? Thank you!
July 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Can confirm this email is authentic — and about nothing in it is true.
Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that.
It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.
Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that.
It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.
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Abundance is left now and we're going to build multifamily housing everywhere
June 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Abundance is left now and we're going to build multifamily housing everywhere
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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
It's shocking how we are being gaslit about what actually happened during COVID. Listen to this.
Episode 41: "In Covid's Wake" Part 2
Republican counties may have three times higher COVID death rates than Democratic counties, but have you considered that they have lower rates of liberal groupthink?
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Republican counties may have three times higher COVID death rates than Democratic counties, but have you considered that they have lower rates of liberal groupthink?
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
"In Covid's Wake" Part 2: Wron… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/19/2025 · 1h 10m
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June 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It's shocking how we are being gaslit about what actually happened during COVID. Listen to this.