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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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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

Thank you for the warning. Just joined you.

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 20d

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 · 22d

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 · 23d

This makes me rather unnaturally pleased.

Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · 23d

'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 · 29d

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.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · Sep 9

September 8, 2025

On Friday, September 5, Trump lawyer Cleta Mitchell told Southern Baptist pastor and Newsmax host Tony Perkins that Trump may try to declare that “there is a threat to the national sovereignty of the ...

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Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · Sep 9

JFC. There are no words for how unhinged all of this is.

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Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · Aug 31

Global. The celebration will be global.

Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · Aug 30

Dude, it's going to be like this E V E R Y W H E R E in the world.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · Aug 28

Curious what the reasoning for this could possibly be. My first thought it that it was a Putin request

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Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · Aug 26

What in the actual fuck?

Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · Aug 26

Ha! I didn't even notice that, but you're absolutely right.

Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · Aug 26

No lies detected.

Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · Aug 26

I see this image and I just want to know that one day each of these individuals will be held accountable for their crimes. I want to know that a jury of their peers (meaning, normal thinking people, not their cultish worshipers) will hear evidence against them and decide they are guilty.

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · Aug 24

Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”

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Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · Aug 24

Clearly, Roger Stone has never once looked in a GD mirror.

Vanessa Fuller @vlfuller.bsky.social · Aug 23

Just a reminder: That transcript was theatre from a liar and the personal lawyer to another liar.

#ReleasetheEpsteinFiles

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Aug 23

Here’s what was NOT released today:

- the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ

- the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed

- communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison

- the Epstein files

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