#takomapark — Public Fediverse posts

Adding a bird-friendly water feature to your yard

Tim Rahn, a Friends of Native Trees in Takoma (FONTT) member, explains in this month's blog how he created a low-key water feature to give birds a place to drink and bathe in his back yard–and shares how do-it-yourselfers can follow suit. #Birds #Pollinators #TakomaPark https://fontt.org/2026/08/17/this-plastic-puddle-is-for-the-birds/

06/26 - Concert: INDEPENDENTS DAY (Takoma Park, MD)
https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-296a-3083-9020-e8e316621163
#music #TakomaPark #poetry #resist #resistance #protest #OCEAN_Trio #community #FreeDC

#America has never needed an expert on Constitutional law in Congress more than today -- luckily my district sent them one and we are going to re-elect him this #november #TakomaPark @jamieraskin.com

#uspol #uspolitics #elections #democracy #corruption

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/opinion/trump-congress-blanche-treasury.html

#IFEU:
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Schließung des IEER in Washington: Ende einer fruchtbaren, transatlantischen Partnerschaft für unabhängige Umweltforschung
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"Vereint in dem Willen, sich f. eine nachhaltige, demokratische Energiezukunft zu engagieren, gründeten Arjun Makhijani u. Bernd Franke in Takoma Park .. Vorort von Washington DC, 1983 das Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, kurz IEER."

https://www.ifeu.de/nachrichtenarchiv/sschliessung-des-ieer-in-washington-ende-einer-fruchtbaren-transatlantischen-partnerschaft-fuer-unabhaengige-umweltforschung

4.5.2026

#Atomkraft #IEER #Kernenergie #TakomaPark #Umwelt #USA #Washington #Wissenschaft

Takoma Park Folk Festival: September 27, 2026 https://takomaparkmd.gov/m/newsflash/home/detail/375
#TPFF #music #TakomaPark #Takoma #TakomaParkFolkFestival #folk #art #festival #Maryland #MD

03/20 - Sanctuary: Benefit for CASA, Takoma Park, MD
https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-5169-bbe1-b6b9-80a378891569
#music #poetry #benefit #CASA #immigration #immigrants #Spanish #concert #WashingtonDC #DC #TakomaPark #TakomaParkMD

New at https://bl.ag online, ‘“The Town is Our Portfolio”: No Plan on Main Street’, with a look at the story behind the husband and wife studio and their hyperlocal branding projects in the Washington D.C. suburb of Takoma Park:

https://bl.ag/the-town-is-our-portfolio-no-plan-on-main-street/

#TakomaPark #WashingtonDC #ShopLocal #Branding #NoPlan

"Highly Visible": a short video documentary of the resistance by Jay Mallin, with some singing from the DC Labor Chorus
https://vimeo.com/1149684421
#resist #music #protest #signs #interviews #news #DC #Illinois #Maryland #Virginia #ICE #Broadview #Hyattsvile #SilverSpring #Greenbelt #TakomaPark #Baltimore #WashingtonDC

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ Yarrow Mamout ✧

Yarrow Mamout was an African-American freedman of Guinean origin. Born into the Fula people in around 1736, Mamout was raised as a Muslim and learned to read and write in Arabic as well as his native Fula language. Captured and enslaved in 1752, he was brought to Maryland on the slave ship Elijah and was sold to Samuel Beall, a plantat...

#TakomaPark #PhiladelphiaArtMuseum #Fula #Maryland #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarrow_Mamout