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Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿
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Disabled Immigration Lawyer w/ Vestibular Migraine & PPPD. 💜 Antiracist. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 Ally
Rapa Nui 🌺🍍🌈🤙🗿
An American, Chicago-born
Vermont Resident 🍁
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UChicago; Harvard Law.
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Please check out my essay on how my Jewish heritage has moved me to condemn the genocide in Gaza and the de facto annexation of the West Bank. vtsullivan.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/i...
Identity Politics: How the struggle to validate my Jewish heritage has made it impossible for me to ignore the genocide in Gaza and settler violence in the West Bank.
In other essays in this blog, I have shared the lifelong journey I’ve undertaken to establish my Jewish identity despite the many obstacles to doing so. In particular, I’ve described th…
vtsullivan.wordpress.com
Future generations won't believe this shit actually happened. White House installs plaques mocking Barack Obama and Joe Biden share.google/Y7fp2jtbX1hp...
White House installs plaques mocking former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden
The Biden plaque refers to him as “Sleepy Joe Biden” and calls him “the worst President in American History.”
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December 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This sounds about white...Man wrongfully arrested over Florida license plate frame – NBC 6 South Florida www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/f...
Man wrongfully arrested over license plate frame amid confusion over new Florida law
A Florida man spent the night in jail after he was pulled over and wrongfully arrested for the license plate frame on his rental car.
www.nbcmiami.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
@jjindc.bsky.social

Good news: not being used to render shackled human beings
Bad news: being used to take VT Air National Guard members to Puerto Rico to fight and die in a pointless and stupid war.
December 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Wag the Dog!
He'll start a war to:

1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
December 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Let me explain something to white Christian MAGA bigots. For the same reason a Muslim gentleman disarmed a terrorist in Bondi Beach, Australia, a massive amount of Jewish people support Palestinians.

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December 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...

Disgraceful, but not terribly surprising in this country, which is a consumer and now exporter of mass shootings.
2 Students at Brown Witnessed School Shootings as Children
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December 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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I’ve been voting to protect her rights for my entire life. She’s been voting against everyone’s.
IOWA — “I’m a very pissed off conservative Christian woman. I almost died because I was denied medical care after being diagnosed with a fatal fetus… Cornered by the system… pro life? Choose me. Choose the mother.”

It had to happen to her to get this? #ForcedBirthNation
December 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
@actualnames.bsky.social Cumming, Georgia - Wikipedia share.google/bStezJQhPY8s...

Lucky her!
Cumming, Georgia - Wikipedia
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December 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
He is definitely not a show-er: John Grothendick (Port Barrington Village Trustee Board At-large, Illinois, candidate 2025) - Ballotpedia share.google/rFrT7QNdpcUN...
John Grothendick (Port Barrington Village Trustee Board At-large, Illinois, candidate 2025)
Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics
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December 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
We went from the penthouse to the outhouse.
I couldn’t leave Chicago without getting a cut from my old barber, Zariff!
December 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This is what a naturalization ceremony is like - a joyous event for all present. Imagine going to one with your family and friends expecting a special event and being pulled out of line. www.sevendaysvt.com/news/politic...
Amid an Immigration Crackdown, 23 New Vermonters Become Citizens
Vermont’s newest Americans swore their fidelity to the Constitution in a federal courtroom last week. They came from 16 nations.
www.sevendaysvt.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
@actualnames.bsky.social

Old Dick Hyman Richard Hyman - Wikipedia share.google/BPafoL0FrXui...
Richard Hyman - Wikipedia
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December 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Marybeth Gasman - Wikipedia
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December 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
@zorey.bsky.social

De Rapa Nui (Ile de Paques) youtu.be/TDVb2r7nvTU?...
Moai Official Video Clíp
YouTube video by Yoyo Tuki
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December 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
@actualnames.bsky.social Dicker-rod - Wikipedia share.google/LUHm9aNx4MPb...

This was a very useful tool for ensuring the proper placement of balls.
Dicker-rod - Wikipedia
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December 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Rather than a failure to be avoided, Rapa Nui represents a success to be studied and demonstrates that human societies can develop sustainable, peaceful, and culturally rich ways of life even under extreme constraints.
December 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
@actualnames.bsky.social Noboru Takeshita - Wikipedia share.google/z0HG1Yx8nzJW...

His administration was known for its regularity.
Noboru Takeshita - Wikipedia
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December 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM