Salome
I like cities, Ukraine, and riding the bus. Formerly @worldresources.bsky.social. In DC and sometimes abroad. Views are my own. 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🚲
- turned in a wallet we found at a bar and found out later that its owner paid our entire drinks and dinner tab in full as a thank you, call it good karma
- Maybe it’s because I’m a bit under-slept but instant tears at this. Being on team Ukraine gives life more meaning than anything else
- "Those who choose to slash institutions that inform the public — especially at moments like this — render direct assistance to authoritarian regimes." kyivindependent.com/editorial-wh...
- Reposted by SalomeLooking at raw employment growth makes it obvious how hard DOGE hit DC—the DC area has lost 56k jobs over the last year, more than 4x the next worst (San Francisco) Over the last year, the DC metro area has lost more jobs than the largest-growing US metro area (NYC) has gained
- Reposted by Salome1/ Feb 6, 1996: Ukraine raised its flag in Antarctica. The British Faraday station became Vernadsky station. After russia tried to monopolize Soviet Antarctic stations, Ukraine fought its way back—through diplomacy, science, and persistence.
- Reposted by SalomeThis is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
- Great piece. Country Georgia catching strays because they really deserve it 😠 🇬🇪
- Reposted by Salome157 more Ukrainians, both military and civilian, have been freed and returned to Ukraine. 💙💛 Most of them have been in russian captivity since 2022. Welcome home🇺🇦
- Reposted by SalomeHOME 🇺🇦❤️☺️
- Reposted by SalomeI know a lot of people operate off the assumption all unions are good and should be regarded as such at all times but they are in fact very different depending on their leadership and membership.
- Reposted by SalomeA publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
- Reposted by SalomeThe amount of loss in DC over the past year has been staggering. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of jobs, even entire industries, whole offices cleared out. The entire Kennedy Center, and now a huge chunk of our hometown paper. I don't think people outside understand the scope
- Reposted by Salome1. Build huge subscriber base by telling them their $ supports democracy. 2. Don’t establish other revenue sources. 3. Rug-pull subscribers by pushing opinion side to the right. 4. Subscribers leave, revenue falls. 5. Enact crippling newsroom cuts.
- Reposted by SalomePeople keep saying that this is The 51st, but with respect, I don't think it is. The 51st has (admirably) positioned itself as an outlet to give voice to underserved communities. But the city needs, like, a sports page, an arts page
- Reposted by Salome“.. A woman eats soup donated by a Polish volunteer group in a Kyiv neighborhood experiencing electricity and heating outages following recent Russian attacks on #Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure during subzero temperatures.” @reuters.com
- even when this is considered I just don't understand how a state otherwise known for being pretty progressive keeps electing this person
- Senator Susan Collins appears to consistently win exemptions for Maine from Trump's policies—those Lobster Roll-backs—because the administration appears to be intent on preserving her political career. The latest edition of Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social:
- maybe there is some maine specific knowledge I am missing
- At what point does the "hold street parking spot with chairs" thing expire in a snow context? We aren't able to have needed reconstruction workers (we have giant holes in our walls from the burst pipe situation) to come to our place because they can't park and multiple neighbors are holding spots
- Reposted by SalomeA day before scheduled peace talks with Ukraine, Russia resumed strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure on Tuesday, hitting power plants in several regions in Kyiv. It's part of a major campaign intended to freeze Ukrainians into submission amid frigid temperatures. nyti.ms/4ag6dBf
- regardless of what happens I feel like I’ll remember where I was when I first read about this
- Ukraine also has a groundhog (name: Timko IV, lives in Kharkiv), who also predicts 6 more weeks of winter subota.online/molodyj-prov...
- big words from someone fresh off impeding one of the most effective things that can be done for ukraine out of fear of russian retaliation
- one thing I know about european leaders is that they won’t let the threat from the trump administration motivate them to do more to help ukraine
- ukrainians are freezing to death in their apartments while the prime minister of belgium goes on a speaking tour about how disturbed he is by the general situation in the world
- Talking to a bar about a reservation for a post-wedding afterparty and they quoted me a minimum spend to reserve the space. After asking further they reveal that’s before 10% DC Sales Tax and 23% Gratuity. You never get used the dishonestly and lying by omission that are so rampant when doing this!
- didn’t even say it was for something wedding related in this case, they just lie to everyone
- crazy levels of free PR being had
- nobody hates dc like the national park service hates dc
- Reposted by SalomeRemember, part of the reason Pretti's killing commanded so much interest and attention is that conservatives initially thought the story was *good for them,* when the gun had been recovered but before it was clear he had been murdered for no reason.
- what you need now is a hammer, to get down and break up the ice and then shovel
- Reposted by SalomeThe *things* russians are doing: invading a sovereign state, murdering civilians, creating a humanitarian disaster in extreme cold, abducting children, razing towns to the ground, raping, torturing, looting
- INSTANT hack for getting cardio in, beating WFH inactivity, and getting thanked a lot by your neighbors
- only had time to do half of this other one before going to the alex pretti vigil but walked later this evening to see someone else had gone by and finished ❤️
- older woman walked by and said that this must be a good way to release the tension caused the trump administration 👑
- when you sweat walking to the polling booth in the mayoral primary on june 16, 2026, think real hard about that time it snowed in january
- all of our nation's finest journalists are on x . com right now leaning hard to underscore anti DC home rule discourses because of ice
- At least 5 people were killed when Russian drones attacked a passenger train carrying 291 passengers in Kharkiv, Ukraine kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-...
- Another one for the I DEMAND DC prioritise efficient snow removal above ALL OTHER ISSUES
- 911 dispatch issues? affordable housing? road safety? no - only snow plow!!! I am very smart!!!
- Reposted by SalomeA thought: what's happening in the US shows that the somewheres/anywheres thing is bollocks. Most of the people mobilising, Goodhart would call Anywheres. And they're mobilising specifically to protect their neighbours and their neighbourhoods.
- Reposted by SalomeBREAKING: The Border Patrol's Greg Bovino has been ousted from his role of "Commander at Large"—and Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski could be next to lose their jobs, sources tell @nickmiroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by SalomeFeels like Trump is pretty much unconditionally surrendering as support collapses
- comparing your personal tax bill with snow removal efficiency is crypto republican behavior and I will not be taking further questions
- staff writer for politics at the Atlantic magazine has no concept of how tax revenues are spent most efficiently - we should use them to buy 600 more snow plows for the 3 days of snow we get a year so we can be more like Des Moines
- let me just hop on the des moines metro oh wait-
- the immediate problem has been fixed (by cutting big holes in walls to access pipes) by the management company of the condo building we rent in but OUR property manager and landlord remain COMPLETELY awol. it is really dehumanizing to be treated so carelessly
- even just saying "we got your many emails and calls and we will deal with it as soon as the roads clear up"
- “I believed something untrue based on nothing and got mad”
- she did it again
- multi family buildings are great because you can watch your neighbors step out to take selfies in the snow while you shovel the walkway everyone has to use
- Reposted by SalomeI keep thinking about this fact that his last words were are you okay and hers were I'm not mad at you and it feels like a weird coincidence but it's just a reflection of the fact that the people who are coming out to take care of their neighbors are good and the people who are after them are bad
- Reposted by SalomeThis is so difficult to read. apnews.com/article/immi...
- people were making fun of everyone storm prepping but we are now on hour 12 of a frozen then burst pipe, flushing our toilet with a bucket and drinking from jugs, all while the ice storm hasn’t even arrived yet
- probably not going to ever go without a few things of potable water in my place again
