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Tommy Valdez
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Tommy Valdez @thomasav.bsky.social · Jun 1
So today @safety.bsky.app gave Saeed a lifetime ban despite going out of his way to prove his existence. I don't know what problem @jay.bsky.team has with Arabs, but if you find @bsky.app's draconian and racist targeting bad, donate and email [email protected].
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 4h
all NYT headlines include an implied chasing goose
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 5h
incredible use of the passive exonerative tense
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 5h
oh good I was worried the utterly unearned Vanity Fair editor job was all she got for violating the most basic rules of journalism
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 6h
Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...
Have I Got Nuzzi For You
Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.
www.status.news
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Tommy Valdez @thomasav.bsky.social · 6h
Thank you for coming to my greenhouse gala in a drab Norwegian dock. I'm here to read to you MY will.
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diplomatofnight.com
Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 8h
IDK why people are surprised. The Democratic base is far to the left of leadership on this and has been for a while. Simple as that.
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 8h
Re: Booker's non-answer about Netanyahu on I've Had It
excited for every ambitious corporate dem to go on this podcast expecting softballs from wine moms and instead absolutely disqualifying themselves in front of the 2028 primary electorate I've Had It Podcast & @iveh... • 3h It's a simple yes or no question
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 8h
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
IndyStar 2 . Follow 1h: "All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff should be scared by this blatant attack on someone standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement. Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1 IndyStar. IDS The original investigative student newsroom of Indiana University Barge suspends Bloomingtonr LITTLE 500 IDS IDS She should've knownbetter:' nt in N eoiencnalt. A INnpttM Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid push to control student newspaper's content The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper. As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 11h
Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day
A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d
The Dem establishment is going to back Mills over the absolute phenom outsider Platner in Maine, which tells you everything you need to know about how well they understand the current moment & how prepared they are to meet it.
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Tommy Valdez @thomasav.bsky.social · 10h
So how is adding a second Democrat to the ballot gonna help beat a sole republican?
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onion person @junlper.beer · 13h
israel has already broken the ceasefire
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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 11h
"Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich vows 'there will be Jewish settlements in Gaza' during an address at a Simhat Torah event in the southern border city of Sderot."
Smotrich: ‘There will be Jewish settlements in Gaza’
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www.timesofisrael.com
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onion person @junlper.beer · 12h
these people know how extreme they are
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Tommy Valdez @thomasav.bsky.social · Oct 20
Phantom Thread (2017, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson) #OnePerfectShot
“Do you remember the fun we had when you poisoned me?” House on Haunted Hill (1959) Vincent Price asks while standing in profile, facing right on the left side of the image. His film wife, played by Carol Ohmart, stands to his right.
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CAIR @cairnational.bsky.social · 12h
CAIR, CAIR Action Call on American Politicians to Cut Ties with ‘Israel First’ Megadonor Miriam Adelson After President Trump’s Revelations tinyurl.com/n4upkxxn
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 12h
My God, what has the party of Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, and George W Bush become?

The party of Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, and George W Bush.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
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Tommy Valdez @thomasav.bsky.social · 12h
Pig shit butt ass weedle
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Tommy Valdez @thomasav.bsky.social · 14h
Keep calling your lawmakers. Keep asking your candidates where they stand on funding to Israel.

An arms embargo is the bare minimum. A complete defunding of Israel’s violent apartheid regime and the establishment of a Palestinian state is the end goal.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15h
BREAKING: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.
Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire
The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war is being tested as complex issues remain a day after widespread jubilation over the return to Israel of the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15h
BREAKING: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.
Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire
The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war is being tested as complex issues remain a day after widespread jubilation over the return to Israel of the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange.
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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 14h
Netanyahu gave Trump the headlines and applause he wanted then got right back to the business of ethnic cleansing
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15h
BREAKING: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.
Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire
The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war is being tested as complex issues remain a day after widespread jubilation over the return to Israel of the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h
The Pentagon wants @huffpost.com to sign an absurd document. We refuse
The Pentagon Wants HuffPost To Sign An Absurd Document. We Refuse.
Sign Pete Hegseth’s ridiculous press restrictions? No way in hell!
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Tommy Valdez @thomasav.bsky.social · 14h
What a weird disingenuous take.

Sanders isn’t in Maine. The issue is that there’s a younger candidate who is interesting to voters. And Dem leadership would rather protect their interests than help him win.

And if Vermonters want to run a young, upstart 77yo, let them.

But apples/oranges.
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Tommy Valdez @thomasav.bsky.social · 14h
Every post you make it becomes clearer and clearer what kind of person you are.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 15h
🔴 WHO: Over 15,000 amputations in Gaza

The World Health Organization warns Gaza’s health system is collapsing after two years of Israeli assault, with Israel still blocking the entry of medical aid and specialist doctors. It reports that more than 15,000 people have lost limbs and over 15,600...
🔴 WHO: Over 15,000 amputations in Gaza The World Health Organization warns Gaza’s health system is collapsing after two years of Israeli assault, with Israel still blocking the entry of medical aid and specialist doctors. It reports that more than 15,000 people have lost limbs and over 15,600 patients urgently need medical evacuation. UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said Gaza now has the highest proportion of child amputees in the world, with around 4,000 children losing limbs since the genocidal war began. According to the WHO, nearly 42,000 people across Gaza have life-changing injuries, one in four of them children.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 15h
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 15h
🚨In blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement, Israel has announced it will slash agreed aid shipments in half and keep the Rafah crossing closed, after Hamas returned four of the 28 bodies of Israeli captives believed to be in Gaza.

Hamas officials had repeatedly told mediators...

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🚨 In blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement, Israel has announced it will slash agreed aid shipments in half and keep the Rafah crossing closed, after Hamas returned four of the 28 bodies of Israeli captives believed to be in Gaza. Hamas officials had repeatedly told mediators — and said in interviews with Drop Site since early October — that it would be “impossible” to locate and transfer all Israeli bodies within 72 hours of a ceasefire, given the scale of destruction. The ceasefire’s humanitarian protocol explicitly established a joint operations room — including Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, the U.S., Israel, and Hamas — to manage such complications, with Hamas required to submit all information it holds on living and deceased captives. PIJ deputy leader Mohammed al-Hindi, in an interview on October 1 with Al Araby, said: “They demand the handover of [Israeli] prisoners in 72 hours. But even if they were all together in one house, or even buried in one grave, it would be impossible to hand them over in 72 hours. The situation is complicated, and everyone — Israel, America, and the mediators — knows it is complicated.” According to Reuters who cited three Israeli officials, the Rafah crossing will remain closed through Wednesday, and aid deliveries will be sharply reduced. And Israeli outlets are claiming Hamas violated the deal, with Channel 12 citing an official alleging Hamas is “in severe breach” by not releasing more bodies. Egypt has reportedly deployed teams in Gaza to help locate them. In a formal COGAT communication, Israel tied humanitarian aid directly to the return of bodies — a move amounting to collective punishment of a famine-stricken population: “Yesterday, Hamas violated the agreement… As a result, political leadership has decided to impose a number of sanctions related to the humanitarian agreement. Starting tomorrow, only half of the agreed number of trucks — 300 — will be allowed to enter, all belonging to the UN and humanitarian NGOs. No fuel or gas will be allowed into the Strip, except for limited humanitarian needs.” Senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk told Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill last week that a prisoner exchange “would be impossible” while Israeli forces remain in Gaza’s population centers: “We don’t know exactly where the prisoners are. Even the negotiators don’t know their locations. There cannot be an exchange if Israeli forces remain.” Marzouk warned that Israel’s refusal to withdraw proves it “does not want Trump’s ceasefire plan to be implemented.” As early as October 3, when Hamas first delivered its response to Trump’s plan, Marzouk said on television that locating remains “would take months” after Israel destroyed and blocked off delivery of desperately needed heavy machinery. It would be “impossible” in 72 hours.
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