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Irie DC
@iriedc.bsky.social
Miss my homestate NY, love my adopted hometown DC.
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I take pictures of the sky. Sports obsessed (especially ⚽️, USWNT, EPL Liverpool, NWSL).
Hey. What's going on?
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Union Market, NE DC. Seen August 2025.
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Thank you @markey.senate.gov for your commitment to true innovation, and to all you do to push for protections for all of us!
Innovation does not justify a rush to roll out AI without protections. As tools of oppression evolve, our civil rights protections must evolve, too—and I’m standing with @maya4rights.bsky.social to make it real.
December 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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#BlackList2025 arrives tomorrow morning.
Tuesday December 9, 9 am PT
Announced by some very special folks

blcklst.com/2025blacklist
December 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
They flashed the words "1st Half Highlights" on the screen and Spouse and I burst into spontaneous laughter. #MNF
December 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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I would happily listen to a ragtime Christmas album.
December 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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The city is powered by laughs and screams. This is the perfect game for that
We’re giving the people of Monstropolis some disgusting football
December 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Now this will make you smile: city asks school kids to name new pothole filling truck. I was dreading the ‘potty mcPot face’ entries. Winner? 6th grader with “Uncle Fill” (from fresh prince of bel air Uncle Phil). It’s beyond genius. UNCLE FILL!! The kids are all right, I tell ya
December 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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My grandpa was born in the US to German parents. He had younger cousins who were in Hitler youth in Germany. Decades later I talked with some of them about it (with the ruthless candor of youth). Why did you do that? What were you thinking? What they described was a lot like this.
Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.
December 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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After months of delays from DHS, I was the first Member of Congress in years allowed into the ICE Processing Center in Broadview.
December 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Someone I hired to do a task talking to me like I'm her staff and not her client. 🤨 Oh really, Ma'am? I can fire you.
December 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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What y'all mad about today?
December 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Every time Harrison Butker misses a field goal a woman gets her PHD
December 8, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Y'all gonna miss us slow bureaucrats who actually care about people (and can be yelled at) when we're all replaced by silent AI from corporations run by Nazis and eugenicists.
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Getting rewarded for rejecting claims is wild.... it's OUR money!
December 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Shop now while you can still make good decisions!
December 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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There's been lots of interest in the Black Reconstruction tour, but let me commend this one to you too!!
Equally intended to inspire, emphasizing community, all of that good stuff
We're not running this Fells Point tour regularly rn, so get it while you can! Our most popular tour—If you’ve ever wanted to learn what privateers or caulkers actually did, or if an evening full of liberation stories sounds great right now, this is for you fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#f...
December 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
A reminder that Trump's Executive Orders are not laws, international or domestic. They are federal executive branch governance and direction.
December 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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It’s terrifying that these companies are going all in on Ai, when it’s not profitable or capable of doing what it claims. This burst is gonna be so bad.
December 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Rafael Ithier, Founder of El Gran Combo, Dies at 98, A Titan of Salsa Leaves His Legacy
lamezcla.com/rafael-ithie...
Rafael Ithier, Founder of El Gran Combo, Dies at 98, A Titan of Salsa Leaves His Legacy | LaMezcla.com
Rafael Ithier, founder and musical director of El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, has passed away at 98. A monumental loss for salsa and Latin music worldwide.
lamezcla.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM
MTG vs the corporate political press.
[*Let them fight gif here*]

LESLEY STAHL: You contributed to the toxic culture. You were out there pounding, insulting people

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: You've contributed to it as well

STAHL: I want you to respond to what you have done in terms of insulting people

MTG: I'd like for you to respond to that
December 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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“No human being is garbage, Mr. President, and shame on you for saying so,” said the Lutheran pastor.“In the name of Jesus, I rebuke those hateful words.The Somali community in Minnesota are our neighbors, brothers and sisters, children of God, fellow Americans.”

www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...
Twin Cities religious leaders unite to support Somali community and condemn Trump attacks
Religious leaders from churches, Jewish temples and mosques from across the state opposed remarks from President Donald Trump that included calling Somalis “garbage.”
www.startribune.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Since entering office, the Trump administration has encouraged the public multiple times to send in tips about people who are not aligned with its agenda or ideology.
In effect, it's priming the public to police each other. #Velshi
White House’s tiplines are priming the public to police each other
Since entering office this year, the Trump administration has encouraged people multiple times to send in tips about people who are not aligned with its agenda or ideology on a number of issues. Historians and experts on authoritarianism have a word for this: denunciation – the practice of citizens monitoring each other and reporting perceived wrongdoing to the state. Many Americans have expressed resistance to the idea of becoming a government informant, but it’s another sign of how the country may be slipping into authoritarianism.
www.ms.now
December 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Doris “Dorie” Miller was a 22-year-old Black messman aboard the USS West Virginia when Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.
—a reminder that institutions can celebrate a single act of Black bravery while resisting structural change that bravery demands.
open.substack.com/pub/advocacy...
Dorie Miller: A Story America Tried Not to Tell
From ‘Unnamed Negro Messman’ to American Hero
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Joe West is in the top ten positive masculinity TV Dads.
December 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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die-hard | adjective | strongly or fanatically determined or devoted

Die Hard | noun | a Christmas movie
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM