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Vanessa Fuller

@vlfuller.bsky.social

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Independent writing instructor & editor by day Reader, writer, science communicator & politics junkie by night Obsessive runner later in life Crazy cat lady forever [NB: If you know the artist for the banner pic in my profile, please let me know.]

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Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · 22h

Good thing #JohnRoberts granted #DJT immunity, right? #ThisIsAllOnSCOTUS

Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · 22h

Sheer coincidence? Or deliberate strategic choice?

Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · 22h

I hope you know how much hope you grant us all, not just in NYC, but amongst so many of us in the US and abroad in this moment. You've got this. And, we've got your back. #LFG

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

I guess people had short memories.

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Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · 22h

This. Absolutely this. There is no act of resistance which is too small in this moment.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

The Constitution is not self-enforcing.

The only thing holding our Republic together are our norms.

And the only thing that enforces those norms is The People.

No one is coming to save us.

It's entirely up to us.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d

DC J6: 1.500 arrests
DC No Kings: zero

Tell me again which side is violent?

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Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · 5d

Just a warning: the images from Helsinki are not from the No Kings protest but from a march in solidarity with Palestine. The No Kings gathering here, though, did have ~100 people gathering outside Oodi, and was organised by Democrats Abroad. It also made the national news here.

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Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · 5d

Just further evidence that #JDVance is a pandering piece of shit with not an ounce of integrity.

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Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you for the warning. Just joined you.

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 22d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

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Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · 24d

Could it possibly be not repeating the absurdity of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries as minority leaders in the Congress? Because that would be awesome.

Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · 25d

This makes me rather unnaturally pleased.

Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · 25d

'Stare decisis is for suckers'.

No rights are safe any longer. No rights at all. Raise your hand if you think the Roberts Court is the worst SCOTUS ever. The only good things left are Justices Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson.

Clarence Thomas says precedent might not determine cases on upcoming supreme court docket

The court is expected to weigh in on same-sex marriage next session, which it legalized in 2015

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Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · Sep 22

No...! Really?! I'm shocked! Shocked I say!

Picture of a woman's torso and part of her hand holding a square paper hand fan emblazoned with a blue drawing of the White House with a flag atop it, which reads 'Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project Project2025.org' Above the picture a headline reads: 'A Trump appointee confirmed that Project 2025 was the plan all along'.

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Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · Sep 18

I mean, I know we're all feeling like it's 1930-something, but after checking the calendar, it is indeed Thursday. Thanks for the reminder for Friday, however. (And, solidarity. I genuinely didn't know what day it was, to be honest.)

Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · Sep 18

JFC. I thought this was a joke, not the goddamn vice president of the United States.

Can y'all imagine if Kamala had tweeted anything resembling this?!

Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · Sep 9

This. Absolutely this.

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · Sep 9

They’re claiming the signature isn’t real but I’m going to remind everyone that 11000+ photographs and videos were removed from Epstein’s properties by the FBI and this is the tip of the fcking iceberg.

And I think everyone in the GOP knows it.

Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · Sep 9

I wish I lived / voted in NYC. I would absolutely vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 9

Choose your fighter.

Screenshot of a headline from Jacobin magazine. It reads:

"Zohran Mamdani: “New York City Is Not for Sale

by Zohran Mamdani

At a Brooklyn town hall with Bernie Sanders on Saturday, Zohran Mamdani recounted how Bernie “gave me the language of democratic socialism to describe my politics” and called on supporters to keep organizing after Election Day. We reproduce his speech here."

Screenshot of a NYTimes headline that reads:

"Wealthy New York Developers Hold Meeting to Plot Mamdani’s Defeat

Some of New York’s biggest business leaders convened on Tuesday morning for an urgent gathering to support former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, saying the “time to act is now.”

There's a photo of Andrew Cuomo and another man entering a building.

Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · Sep 9

@hcrichardson.bsky.social began adding notes to readers for when to read her daily summaries: save this for tomorrow, this should be okay to read before you sleep, etc.

I honestly don't know how she continues to do the work she does. But, I am enormously grateful to her.