Sue Mosher
@placekeepers.bsky.social
Humanity. Earth. Between and Beyond. Living in #ArlingtonVA but dreaming of Scotland. THEN: broadcast news & desktop software maven. NOW: spiritual teacher ( #Celtic #contemplative) & #NativePlants enthusiast. She/her/us.
Walk for Peace in #ArlingtonVA Mon afternoon-Tues morning 2/9-10, offers 4 prime gathering locations:
1) Crystal City, where they'll enter on US 1 and then veer onto Crystal Drive, then west along 12th Street and Army Navy Drive, past Pentagon City Mall. (Metro: Crystal City & Pentagon City)
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1) Crystal City, where they'll enter on US 1 and then veer onto Crystal Drive, then west along 12th Street and Army Navy Drive, past Pentagon City Mall. (Metro: Crystal City & Pentagon City)
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For #ArlingtonVA folks and DMV neighbors wanting to greet the monks of the Walk for Peace on Monday, locations in Crystal City and north Arlington are accessible via Metro. Brief remarks at Marymount Univ night stop. They'll cross Chain Bridge to enter Washington, DC, early Tuesday morning.
Spectator Reminders:
▪️quietly line streets along the route
▪️do not walk behind or follow monks
▪️stay out of roadways and avoid obstructing traffic
▪️do not attempt to touch, approach or step in front of monks
▪️allow the monks to initiate any interaction
▪️follow law enforcement direction
▪️quietly line streets along the route
▪️do not walk behind or follow monks
▪️stay out of roadways and avoid obstructing traffic
▪️do not attempt to touch, approach or step in front of monks
▪️allow the monks to initiate any interaction
▪️follow law enforcement direction
February 6, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Walk for Peace in #ArlingtonVA Mon afternoon-Tues morning 2/9-10, offers 4 prime gathering locations:
1) Crystal City, where they'll enter on US 1 and then veer onto Crystal Drive, then west along 12th Street and Army Navy Drive, past Pentagon City Mall. (Metro: Crystal City & Pentagon City)
1/4
1) Crystal City, where they'll enter on US 1 and then veer onto Crystal Drive, then west along 12th Street and Army Navy Drive, past Pentagon City Mall. (Metro: Crystal City & Pentagon City)
1/4
For #ArlingtonVA folks and DMV neighbors wanting to greet the monks of the Walk for Peace on Monday, locations in Crystal City and north Arlington are accessible via Metro. Brief remarks at Marymount Univ night stop. They'll cross Chain Bridge to enter Washington, DC, early Tuesday morning.
Spectator Reminders:
▪️quietly line streets along the route
▪️do not walk behind or follow monks
▪️stay out of roadways and avoid obstructing traffic
▪️do not attempt to touch, approach or step in front of monks
▪️allow the monks to initiate any interaction
▪️follow law enforcement direction
▪️quietly line streets along the route
▪️do not walk behind or follow monks
▪️stay out of roadways and avoid obstructing traffic
▪️do not attempt to touch, approach or step in front of monks
▪️allow the monks to initiate any interaction
▪️follow law enforcement direction
February 6, 2026 at 9:13 PM
For #ArlingtonVA folks and DMV neighbors wanting to greet the monks of the Walk for Peace on Monday, locations in Crystal City and north Arlington are accessible via Metro. Brief remarks at Marymount Univ night stop. They'll cross Chain Bridge to enter Washington, DC, early Tuesday morning.
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Important paper. Schools are high-risk environments for respiratory disease transmission MAINLY because classrooms are underventilated. This problem has a workable solution - it just needs political will. Air quality is as important as water quality for public health. MT @martinmckee.bsky.social
Our paper modelling transmission risk in schools is published in Nature Communications. **The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools** doi.org/10.1038/s414...
February 5, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Important paper. Schools are high-risk environments for respiratory disease transmission MAINLY because classrooms are underventilated. This problem has a workable solution - it just needs political will. Air quality is as important as water quality for public health. MT @martinmckee.bsky.social
International employees of every news organization, many of them local hires, are often the unsung heroes and heroines that keep a window on the world open for the rest of us. Donations to this fund will go directly to those laid off in the dire cuts at the Post. gofund.me/c0b05c224
February 5, 2026 at 4:43 PM
International employees of every news organization, many of them local hires, are often the unsung heroes and heroines that keep a window on the world open for the rest of us. Donations to this fund will go directly to those laid off in the dire cuts at the Post. gofund.me/c0b05c224
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This is a fantastic graphic on the post-viral impact of COVID published in Cell. When people think of long COVID, they likely think of the last image.
Many don't know the virus can worsen pre-existing conditions & causes new ones (e.g. autoimmune disease, stroke)
www.cell.com/action/showP...
Many don't know the virus can worsen pre-existing conditions & causes new ones (e.g. autoimmune disease, stroke)
www.cell.com/action/showP...
February 5, 2026 at 2:40 PM
This is a fantastic graphic on the post-viral impact of COVID published in Cell. When people think of long COVID, they likely think of the last image.
Many don't know the virus can worsen pre-existing conditions & causes new ones (e.g. autoimmune disease, stroke)
www.cell.com/action/showP...
Many don't know the virus can worsen pre-existing conditions & causes new ones (e.g. autoimmune disease, stroke)
www.cell.com/action/showP...
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This is one glaring reason why RFK Jr. and his MAHA posse is completely unserious about making America healthy - they ignore climate change & its impact on health
Wildfire Smoke Is More Dangerous Than We Thought
New research shows long-term smoke exposure raises the risk of death, even at low levels
Read & subscribe: www.celinegounder.com/p/wildfire-s...
New research shows long-term smoke exposure raises the risk of death, even at low levels
Read & subscribe: www.celinegounder.com/p/wildfire-s...
Wildfire Smoke Is More Dangerous Than We Thought
New research shows long-term smoke exposure raises the risk of death, even at low levels
www.celinegounder.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
This is one glaring reason why RFK Jr. and his MAHA posse is completely unserious about making America healthy - they ignore climate change & its impact on health
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Shouldn’t be this hard—NIH director admits after being grilled by @sanders.senate.gov : 1) The best way to stop the measles epidemic is to vaccinate your kids against measles. 2) no single vaccine causes autism. RFK Jr is wrong.
February 3, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Shouldn’t be this hard—NIH director admits after being grilled by @sanders.senate.gov : 1) The best way to stop the measles epidemic is to vaccinate your kids against measles. 2) no single vaccine causes autism. RFK Jr is wrong.
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😳 Thanks for the warning 😳
⚠️ Potential danger: “Snowcrete” sliding off slanted roofs ❄️🧊
With temps rising above 32 today, be especially alert for snow and ice shedding from roofs of homes, schools, and businesses, it can pose a serious hazard.
Be alert for this and avoid prone areas.
Photo by Laurie McCartney Wehmeyer.
With temps rising above 32 today, be especially alert for snow and ice shedding from roofs of homes, schools, and businesses, it can pose a serious hazard.
Be alert for this and avoid prone areas.
Photo by Laurie McCartney Wehmeyer.
February 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM
😳 Thanks for the warning 😳
On this day, 67 years ago, “time ran out for ‘massive resistance’“ in Virginia. Link has contemporary account and the students’ own oral history. #ArlingtonVA
At 8:45 a.m. on Feb. 2, 1959, four students – Lance Newman, Michael Jones, Ronald Deskins, and Gloria Thompson – entered Arlington's Stratford Junior High School, making them the first to desegregate a Virginia public school. Hear from the history makers: https://bit.ly/4gp4k6j
February 2, 2026 at 1:50 PM
On this day, 67 years ago, “time ran out for ‘massive resistance’“ in Virginia. Link has contemporary account and the students’ own oral history. #ArlingtonVA
Gift link, thanks to @examined.bsky.social, regarding what may be in store for Haitian immigrants due to lose TPS status this week, including those who have revitalized Springfield, OH. Don’t look away.
share.inquirer.com/u5XTUP
share.inquirer.com/u5XTUP
A not-‘toned down’ Trump regime prepares for ethnic cleansing in Ohio
A plan for immigration raids this week on thousands of Haitians in Springfield, Ohio shows that nothing has changed.
share.inquirer.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Gift link, thanks to @examined.bsky.social, regarding what may be in store for Haitian immigrants due to lose TPS status this week, including those who have revitalized Springfield, OH. Don’t look away.
share.inquirer.com/u5XTUP
share.inquirer.com/u5XTUP
The video we all need. Childhood wonder regained (at least for now). Color me relieved.
1. After a federal judge ordered the release of him and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias (who had an active asylum application), Liam Conejo Ramos headed home to Minnesota on a Delta flight, where the pilots offered him a VIP tour of the cockpit.
(ABC News John Quiñones)
(ABC News John Quiñones)
February 1, 2026 at 11:24 PM
The video we all need. Childhood wonder regained (at least for now). Color me relieved.
Glad to see Virginians pushing back!
Hanover Board asks ICE to reconsider proposed facility
Hanover Board asks ICE to reconsider proposed facility
"It is clear this location is not an appropriate one," the Hanover County Board Chair said.
www.richmonder.org
January 29, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Glad to see Virginians pushing back!
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His voice cracked as he spoke.“Nurses are shift workers,” he said. “We always aim to leave our relief shift set up for success, to carry on the sacred work of care in the best way possible.”
“Alex is now relieved. That means now it’s up to us to carry the work forward.”
“Alex is now relieved. That means now it’s up to us to carry the work forward.”
January 29, 2026 at 12:40 AM
His voice cracked as he spoke.“Nurses are shift workers,” he said. “We always aim to leave our relief shift set up for success, to carry on the sacred work of care in the best way possible.”
“Alex is now relieved. That means now it’s up to us to carry the work forward.”
“Alex is now relieved. That means now it’s up to us to carry the work forward.”
#ArlingtonVA snow issue reporting form here: arlgis.arlingtonva.us/Apps/Snow/Sn...
January 28, 2026 at 6:45 PM
#ArlingtonVA snow issue reporting form here: arlgis.arlingtonva.us/Apps/Snow/Sn...
Night ops. 9:15 pm. 18 degrees. Cleaning up a neighborhood traffic circle traversed by ART buses and school buses, local residents, and parents and students from two nearby schools. Thank you, @arlingtondes.bsky.social.
January 28, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Night ops. 9:15 pm. 18 degrees. Cleaning up a neighborhood traffic circle traversed by ART buses and school buses, local residents, and parents and students from two nearby schools. Thank you, @arlingtondes.bsky.social.
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Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
3rd pass done, with the help of a neighbor. Passage along 3/4 of public sidewalk is widened, and our own front walk is in good shape. Changed tools & technique, adding flat blade spade for vertical cuts to break up the sleet blocks. Kids should be out building igloos. We have enough bricks for it.
2nd pass now done. Moved 2-3" of sleet off the walks I did this morning, some of it in hardened blocks. Base layer of merino did its job in these cold temps. #ArlingtonVA
Cleared 6-8” of snow in Arlington on front sidewalks, just as the sleet was starting to come down. Sprinkled some sand to provide a little grit to mix with the sleet. Will make another pass before dark.
January 26, 2026 at 5:01 PM
3rd pass done, with the help of a neighbor. Passage along 3/4 of public sidewalk is widened, and our own front walk is in good shape. Changed tools & technique, adding flat blade spade for vertical cuts to break up the sleet blocks. Kids should be out building igloos. We have enough bricks for it.
2nd pass now done. Moved 2-3" of sleet off the walks I did this morning, some of it in hardened blocks. Base layer of merino did its job in these cold temps. #ArlingtonVA
Cleared 6-8” of snow in Arlington on front sidewalks, just as the sleet was starting to come down. Sprinkled some sand to provide a little grit to mix with the sleet. Will make another pass before dark.
January 25, 2026 at 8:30 PM
2nd pass now done. Moved 2-3" of sleet off the walks I did this morning, some of it in hardened blocks. Base layer of merino did its job in these cold temps. #ArlingtonVA
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Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 28: When the federal government invades the rights of the people, they “can make use of” their state governments as “the instrument of redress.” Minnesota’s state government is the instrument. Use it.🧵
January 24, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 28: When the federal government invades the rights of the people, they “can make use of” their state governments as “the instrument of redress.” Minnesota’s state government is the instrument. Use it.🧵
California has already joined. Let’s go!! @barbarafavola.bsky.social @hopeforvirginia.bsky.social
Virginia should join the WHO‘s Global Outbreak and Response Network (GOARN). Trump refuses to protect America. Virginia needs to step up where Trump has failed us.
goarn.who.int
goarn.who.int
GOARN
goarn.who.int
January 24, 2026 at 2:36 AM
California has already joined. Let’s go!! @barbarafavola.bsky.social @hopeforvirginia.bsky.social
Solidarity with Minnesota today
January 23, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Solidarity with Minnesota today
Enumerating the good reasons — health, climate stability, and animal welfare — to ignore the new U.S. food pyramid and perhaps make small adjustments to whatt you eat open.substack.com/pub/mccormic...
The red meat and methane diet
Notable problems with our new food pyramid
open.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Enumerating the good reasons — health, climate stability, and animal welfare — to ignore the new U.S. food pyramid and perhaps make small adjustments to whatt you eat open.substack.com/pub/mccormic...
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Projecting this on EEOB might prevent WW3
This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
January 18, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Projecting this on EEOB might prevent WW3
2nd homeowner achievement of 2026 unlocked – I installed a bidet in the powder room. The folks at Luxe were very helpful. (Projects like this and mulching a new bed are helping me to keep steady amid the chaos.)
January 15, 2026 at 6:36 PM
2nd homeowner achievement of 2026 unlocked – I installed a bidet in the powder room. The folks at Luxe were very helpful. (Projects like this and mulching a new bed are helping me to keep steady amid the chaos.)
This analysis of an 8th Circuit asylum case decision is chilling: “Whether DHS was right or wrong is irrelevant, because no court may ask the question…. It converts discretion from a standard of review into a jurisdiction-stripping device.”
open.substack.com/pub/ashtalks...
open.substack.com/pub/ashtalks...
No Court Allowed: The Eighth Circuit Just Closed the Door on Judicial Review of DHS Decisions
January 9, 2026 | Abrahim Mohamed Fofana v. Kristi Noem
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:33 PM
This analysis of an 8th Circuit asylum case decision is chilling: “Whether DHS was right or wrong is irrelevant, because no court may ask the question…. It converts discretion from a standard of review into a jurisdiction-stripping device.”
open.substack.com/pub/ashtalks...
open.substack.com/pub/ashtalks...