Andrew Fister
@andrewfister.bsky.social
Be good to everyone. 🥑🔰
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At Land Use (again) and it's literally all the same people it always is (myself included)...like who are we fooling that the same 75 people showing up every time is "the will of the people"? What a sham public process is sometimes, sadly
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
At Land Use (again) and it's literally all the same people it always is (myself included)...like who are we fooling that the same 75 people showing up every time is "the will of the people"? What a sham public process is sometimes, sadly
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Here an underage girl testifies that Epstein vaginally and anally raped her before beating her in fury because Trump had taken her virginity before he could.
November 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Here an underage girl testifies that Epstein vaginally and anally raped her before beating her in fury because Trump had taken her virginity before he could.
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Nala is the #TransitCat of the day!
Nala enjoying the view on her train ride to Montréal
She's a well traveled cat!
She's a well traveled cat!
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Nala is the #TransitCat of the day!
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Decision Desk has called the New Jersey governors race for Mikie Sherill. Yet another state where millions of dollars in anti trans ads didn't work.
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Decision Desk has called the New Jersey governors race for Mikie Sherill. Yet another state where millions of dollars in anti trans ads didn't work.
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Modal Candidate in each part of the DMV
Virginia: Cia girlboss
DC: non-profit exec who measures accomplishments in community engagement meetings held
Maryland: NIMBY with in this house we believe sign.
Virginia: Cia girlboss
DC: non-profit exec who measures accomplishments in community engagement meetings held
Maryland: NIMBY with in this house we believe sign.
November 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Modal Candidate in each part of the DMV
Virginia: Cia girlboss
DC: non-profit exec who measures accomplishments in community engagement meetings held
Maryland: NIMBY with in this house we believe sign.
Virginia: Cia girlboss
DC: non-profit exec who measures accomplishments in community engagement meetings held
Maryland: NIMBY with in this house we believe sign.
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This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
November 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
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New episode @sunildasgupta.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
New episode @sunildasgupta.bsky.social
There were lots of jets and helicopters going over Silver Spring as well. Related to this I think:
www.popville.com/2025/10/head...
www.popville.com/2025/10/head...
October 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
There were lots of jets and helicopters going over Silver Spring as well. Related to this I think:
www.popville.com/2025/10/head...
www.popville.com/2025/10/head...
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Why are fighter jets flying over Bethesda, Maryland? There are no fishing boats here.
October 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Why are fighter jets flying over Bethesda, Maryland? There are no fishing boats here.
I bike with my kids on the short bit of Sligo Ave to get between Grove and Woodbury, and it's always a little frightening. Getting some traffic calming would really help here @mcdotnow.bsky.social
Drivers routinely speed down Sligo Ave through East Silver Spring (where I live) despite the high volume of pedestrians, due to a lack of stops and traffic calming elements.
A child was recently hit at this intersection but MCDOT refuses to consider stop signs. This approach is killing pedestrians.
A child was recently hit at this intersection but MCDOT refuses to consider stop signs. This approach is killing pedestrians.
October 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I bike with my kids on the short bit of Sligo Ave to get between Grove and Woodbury, and it's always a little frightening. Getting some traffic calming would really help here @mcdotnow.bsky.social
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Trump’s tearing down the East Wing to build himself a $350M ballroom while Americans struggle to afford health care.
Senator Ruben Gallego went to the site of the Trump teardown.
Senator Ruben Gallego went to the site of the Trump teardown.
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Trump’s tearing down the East Wing to build himself a $350M ballroom while Americans struggle to afford health care.
Senator Ruben Gallego went to the site of the Trump teardown.
Senator Ruben Gallego went to the site of the Trump teardown.
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
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No Kings protests were one of the few times Trump, MAGA, and right-wing media were reacting to something the opposition did, rather than the opposition reacting to whatever they do.
Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.
Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.
Point five is really important. The protests provoked errors from the administration (shit force one) that may haunt them for years. That’s what happens when you stop being reactive.
October 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
No Kings protests were one of the few times Trump, MAGA, and right-wing media were reacting to something the opposition did, rather than the opposition reacting to whatever they do.
Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.
Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.
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As the US faffs about with declining fossil fuels, China has leapt forward to become the uncontested global leader in clean energy -- and not just on the cheap labor/commodity side, either. They're beating us on research, startups, & patents.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How China Went From Clean Energy Copycat to Global Innovator
A surge in high quality research and patent applications has cemented China’s dominance in the industry.
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
As the US faffs about with declining fossil fuels, China has leapt forward to become the uncontested global leader in clean energy -- and not just on the cheap labor/commodity side, either. They're beating us on research, startups, & patents.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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No Kings is not the biggest US protest since Earth Day. It is the biggest US protest ever.
Earth Day rallies in big cities were 25,000 or smaller. Half the claimed participants in Earth Day were schoolchildren whose teachers taught lessons on environment.
www.nytimes.com/1970/04/23/a...
Earth Day rallies in big cities were 25,000 or smaller. Half the claimed participants in Earth Day were schoolchildren whose teachers taught lessons on environment.
www.nytimes.com/1970/04/23/a...
Activity Ranges From Oratory to Legislation (Published 1970)
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
No Kings is not the biggest US protest since Earth Day. It is the biggest US protest ever.
Earth Day rallies in big cities were 25,000 or smaller. Half the claimed participants in Earth Day were schoolchildren whose teachers taught lessons on environment.
www.nytimes.com/1970/04/23/a...
Earth Day rallies in big cities were 25,000 or smaller. Half the claimed participants in Earth Day were schoolchildren whose teachers taught lessons on environment.
www.nytimes.com/1970/04/23/a...
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These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.
Looking forward to No Kings Day.
Looking forward to No Kings Day.
Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering
Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.
www.politico.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.
Looking forward to No Kings Day.
Looking forward to No Kings Day.
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"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"
October 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"
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Any news organization that treated "Will Trump Get Nobel?" as a remotely serious question, and not one more indication of his accelerating hallucinatory patterns, has some 'splaining to do.
Looking at you, all major news orgs.
Looking at you, all major news orgs.
October 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Any news organization that treated "Will Trump Get Nobel?" as a remotely serious question, and not one more indication of his accelerating hallucinatory patterns, has some 'splaining to do.
Looking at you, all major news orgs.
Looking at you, all major news orgs.
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As the people who insist otherwise try to burn the country, it's important to affirm that immigrants, from everywhere, are awesome, and America is better the more immigrants we have. You have to be just empty and vapid and unimaginably small to reject that.
October 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
As the people who insist otherwise try to burn the country, it's important to affirm that immigrants, from everywhere, are awesome, and America is better the more immigrants we have. You have to be just empty and vapid and unimaginably small to reject that.
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BREAKING NEWS: We just secured a court order blocking the president’s order to deploy federalized National Guard troops to Portland when a federal judge granted our request for a Temporary Restraining Order. Read our statement.
#orpol #nationalguard #portland #portlandoregon
#orpol #nationalguard #portland #portlandoregon
October 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
BREAKING NEWS: We just secured a court order blocking the president’s order to deploy federalized National Guard troops to Portland when a federal judge granted our request for a Temporary Restraining Order. Read our statement.
#orpol #nationalguard #portland #portlandoregon
#orpol #nationalguard #portland #portlandoregon
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First Trump blackmailed universities into suppressing free speech. Now he’s bribing them with taxpayer dollars to enforce his agenda. Corruption and authoritarianism, plain and simple.
No university should cave to this blatantly unconstitutional coercion.
No university should cave to this blatantly unconstitutional coercion.
Trump offers top universities funds if they boost conservative ideas
Brown and MIT among nine schools told to back conservative views or risk losing federal support, sparking free speech fears
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
First Trump blackmailed universities into suppressing free speech. Now he’s bribing them with taxpayer dollars to enforce his agenda. Corruption and authoritarianism, plain and simple.
No university should cave to this blatantly unconstitutional coercion.
No university should cave to this blatantly unconstitutional coercion.
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Good morning.
The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.
Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.
The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.
Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.
October 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Good morning.
The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.
Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.
The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.
Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.
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If Harvard bows down to this lawless president, it will cover itself in shame and betray its motto “Veritas.”
Don’t pretend to stand for truth if you’re going to surrender to this bully. Appeasement only feeds the beast and puts us all at greater risk.
Don’t pretend to stand for truth if you’re going to surrender to this bully. Appeasement only feeds the beast and puts us all at greater risk.
Trump Says a Deal With Harvard Is Close
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If Harvard bows down to this lawless president, it will cover itself in shame and betray its motto “Veritas.”
Don’t pretend to stand for truth if you’re going to surrender to this bully. Appeasement only feeds the beast and puts us all at greater risk.
Don’t pretend to stand for truth if you’re going to surrender to this bully. Appeasement only feeds the beast and puts us all at greater risk.
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RAHHHH THESE COLORS DON'T RUN
October 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
RAHHHH THESE COLORS DON'T RUN