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Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵

@vsschultz.bsky.social

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Writer on the Oregon Coast, Mother, #Leguminati, Left-hander, Vegetarian, Venn Diagram lover, she/her Latest Book: "Till the Moon Be No More" I’m new on substack: ‘Boomer Mode’ **Get your library card**

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Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · Mar 4

“You’re not allowed to give up.”
- Alexei Navalny

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Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 1m

Since when is beating your girlfriend serious for these dicks?

Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 2m

He’s gonna see a LOT of American flags. And Americans.

SK Media @spaghettikozak.bsky.social · 41m

One of the foundational truths of this republic is that we are against kings, and authority should be limited. Mike Johnson is an absolute moron.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 48m

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 3m

This guy is straight outta Theater of the Absurd

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J6 Plaque @thejan6plaque.bsky.social · 16m

MIKE JOHNSON CAN SHUT UP FOREVER ABOUT HOW CAPITOL POLICE OFFICERS ARE TREATED

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 38m

History has its eyes on him 👀

Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 1h

John Roberts is slowly dismantling America

www.salon.com/2025/10/15/j...

John Roberts is slowly dismantling America

Twenty years of the Roberts Court has wreaked shocking damage. Is the Voting Rights Act next?

www.salon.com

Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 44m

so stupid it hurts

Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 47m

Ear looking all healed

Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 12h

This woman is an imbecile.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

AG Bondi: "We're gonna get to the funding of antifa, we're gonna get to the root of antifa, and we're gonna find and charge all of those people who are causing this chaos in Portland and all these other cities across our country."

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Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 12h

Jesus. Send them home already.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 18h

If the media won't report on it, we need to personally tell everyone we know. The msm is making themselves obsolete, and it's time we learned to bypass them.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

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Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 14h

Sounds like Congressional Republicans

Quite Interesting @qi.com · 1d

Male bees, or drones, don’t do any work in the hive. They make up roughly ten percent of the colony’s population, and they spend their whole lives eating honey and waiting for the opportunity to mate.

Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 17h

Groceries are WAY up

Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 17h

Note the lack of scar tissue on that pristine ear

Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks, brainworm

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Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 1d

Not a small group, mister. Not a violent group. But not a happy group. We don’t know how else to save our country but to put our peaceful bodies in the streets. 🇺🇸

Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 1d

Actually showcasing the lack of scar tissue on that assassinated ear

Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 1d

Wow shooting unarmed men of God is not enough for this little gasbag

Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 1d

The self-satisfied smirk says it all.
Maybe he’ll be able to order donuts when he becomes a real boy.

Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 1d

JD Vance isn’t stupid, but he thinks you are www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

JD Vance isn’t stupid, but he thinks you are

Vice President JD Vance was a busy boy on Sunday, hitting the network shows with his patented combination of petulance and bullying. Not content with threatening the country with an expanded police .....

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Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 1d

Also PDX! 🩵

Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 1d

💔💔

JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 1d

Some say arming lunatics & the resulting murders they commit is simply the price we must pay to protect the freedom of armed lunatics to commit murders.

Let’s remember all the victims of senseless gun violence.

In Memory of
MELISSA HORTMAN
Former Minnesota House Speaker
1970 - 2025
Taken far too soon in a targeted attack.
A voice for justice, clean energy, and equality.
We honor her legacy, leadership, and courage.
#RestInPower

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

happy bday poet E. E. Cummings, b.1894, Cambridge, MA.

“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”

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Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 1d

So weird she’s there when sex offenders aren’t eligible for minimum security

Wonder how that got engineered

Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 1d

Having dirt on the President has its perks. WSJ is reporting on the special treatment that Ghis Maxwell receives in prison. TT Vcu @kerrbear3.0

#releasethefiles

Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 1d

I just want him to keep working on ordering donuts like a human.
And he’s never gonna make it in stand-up.
Cut him off again, George.

Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way.

Washington State Democrats @wadems.org · 1d

Today, we celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day, honoring the rich cultures, histories, and resilience of Native communities. Washington is home to 29 federally recognized tribes, we honor their strength and ensure every tribal voice is heard in our democracy.

Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵 @vsschultz.bsky.social · 1d

Jimmy Donuts thinks he’s funny but he’s snot