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Valerie Jablow

@vjablow.bsky.social

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DC resident & former DCPS parent who started educationdc.net in 2015 because there was too little media coverage of public education issues in DC--and lots of right-wing ed reform propaganda about the same.

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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 17h

Oh hey, @washingtonpost.com.

Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 18h

Oh boy:

Greatest novel of the perils of the 20th century (in English) is Howard's End.

Greatest American novel is Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Greatest novelist in English is Charles Dickens.

Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 19h

Yep. It may be the stopped clocks right twice a day theorem in action, but it's happening.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

This is Antifa. Which, I guess, makes Republicans Profa.

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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 22h

Wow, thanks. That film had loads of Hollywood royalty.

www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/...

Thousands Cheer

An egotistical acrobat joins the Army and falls in love with his commander's daughter.

www.tcm.com

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 1d

I know I could get into trouble for posting the Antifa battle flag, but I'm gonna do it anyway.

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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 22h

That's great.

In DC yesterday, at the regional office of antifa, it was pretty quiet.

www.nps.gov/wwii/index.htm

World War II Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)

Through stone architecture and bronze sculptures, the World War II Memorial recognizes the ways Americans served, honors those who fell, and recognizes the victory they achieved to restore freedom and...

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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 1d

Good for the homeowner.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 1d

Congress better hurry up and settle the shutdown before everyone figures out they’re nonessential personnel.

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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 1d

The wiener dog of war.

Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 1d

Alternative facts, alternative government--so many alternatives!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 2d

Well, either he is this stupid; this demented; and/or this venal to make such claims about when he himself was president.

Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 2d

Sure--as long as there is a court order in place that he is not allowed to leave said facility; be on social media; and hold any elected office.

Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 2d

Yep--especially bc National Guard personnel of some of these states are now not IN those states but in DC, which isn't exactly going to bear the brunt of this storm.

All brought to you by the party that says it values life.

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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 2d

Shhhhh . . . you're upsetting the narrative.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

The cruelty is the point

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 3d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 2d

Crimes against humanity are indeed depraved. @coalitionfortheicc.org

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 2d

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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 3d

Irving Berlin . . . who was an immigrant.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d

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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 3d

Great thread--thank you.

Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 3d

Your grandfathers didn’t storm Normandy so you could be afraid of the word antifascist or “antifa”

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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 3d

No, apparently not.

Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 3d

Yep.

To be fair, IRL the most common reaction I get when upset about something that absolutely warrants being upset about are folks saying that demanding better of elected/appointed officials is too much agita for them and/or isn't their business.

Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 3d

Yes.