Valerie T
@vtroy.bsky.social
Tired of the bs. Feminist, still. Do not obey in advance. Joe Biden was not the President in 2020.
The game of life is hard, and a lot of us are playing hurt. - Anne Lamott
The game of life is hard, and a lot of us are playing hurt. - Anne Lamott
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Valerie T
@vtroy.bsky.social
· Nov 18
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US oldest brewing company, Siebel Institute of Technology(1872) to relocate to Canada! (Quebec) TOO CHALLENGING FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS TO ATTEND DUE TO TRUMPS policies!! Whoa!!!!
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
US oldest brewing company, Siebel Institute of Technology(1872) to relocate to Canada! (Quebec) TOO CHALLENGING FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS TO ATTEND DUE TO TRUMPS policies!! Whoa!!!!
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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In the #Yukon, First Nations are fighting to defend their land, language, and water as a new mining project threatens the at-risk caribou herd, which has helped sustain families for generations.
@westernwriter.bsky.social recently visited the community:
ricochet.media/climate/envi...
#WaterIsLife
@westernwriter.bsky.social recently visited the community:
ricochet.media/climate/envi...
#WaterIsLife
In the home of the caribou, the looming shadow of an open-pit mine threatens the Kaska way of life
On the shores of Frances Lake, Yukon First Nations fight to defend their land, language, and water as a new mining project threatens the Finlayson herd and a fragile cultural resurgence
ricochet.media
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In the #Yukon, First Nations are fighting to defend their land, language, and water as a new mining project threatens the at-risk caribou herd, which has helped sustain families for generations.
@westernwriter.bsky.social recently visited the community:
ricochet.media/climate/envi...
#WaterIsLife
@westernwriter.bsky.social recently visited the community:
ricochet.media/climate/envi...
#WaterIsLife
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Uh nuhhhhhhhh 🙄
Planned obsolescence is wasteful, irresponsible, and puts a burden on the economy and the planet. But sure, blame consumers for not spending money they don't have on stuff and things.
Corporate America needs to present solutions and satisfy consumers, not Wall Street.
Planned obsolescence is wasteful, irresponsible, and puts a burden on the economy and the planet. But sure, blame consumers for not spending money they don't have on stuff and things.
Corporate America needs to present solutions and satisfy consumers, not Wall Street.
November 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Uh nuhhhhhhhh 🙄
Planned obsolescence is wasteful, irresponsible, and puts a burden on the economy and the planet. But sure, blame consumers for not spending money they don't have on stuff and things.
Corporate America needs to present solutions and satisfy consumers, not Wall Street.
Planned obsolescence is wasteful, irresponsible, and puts a burden on the economy and the planet. But sure, blame consumers for not spending money they don't have on stuff and things.
Corporate America needs to present solutions and satisfy consumers, not Wall Street.
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A video surfaced showing the brutalization of community members by ICE and the St. Paul, Minnesota PD after ICE abducted two of their neighbors. As a result of the chemical munitions and police beatings, eight people, including a journalist, were hospitalized. 11/25/25
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
A video surfaced showing the brutalization of community members by ICE and the St. Paul, Minnesota PD after ICE abducted two of their neighbors. As a result of the chemical munitions and police beatings, eight people, including a journalist, were hospitalized. 11/25/25
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NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
Phil Knight, founder of Nike and billionaire, loves what the Republicans do for rich folks like him. www.koin.com/news/politic...
www.koin.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Phil Knight, founder of Nike and billionaire, loves what the Republicans do for rich folks like him. www.koin.com/news/politic...
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Voyager 1 Is About to Reach One Light-day from Earth
After nearly 50 years in space, NASA’s Voyager 1 is about to hit a historic milestone. By November 15, 2026, it will be 16.1 billion miles (25.9 billion km) away, meaning a radio signal will take a full 24 hours, a full light-day to reach it.
After nearly 50 years in space, NASA’s Voyager 1 is about to hit a historic milestone. By November 15, 2026, it will be 16.1 billion miles (25.9 billion km) away, meaning a radio signal will take a full 24 hours, a full light-day to reach it.
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Voyager 1 Is About to Reach One Light-day from Earth
After nearly 50 years in space, NASA’s Voyager 1 is about to hit a historic milestone. By November 15, 2026, it will be 16.1 billion miles (25.9 billion km) away, meaning a radio signal will take a full 24 hours, a full light-day to reach it.
After nearly 50 years in space, NASA’s Voyager 1 is about to hit a historic milestone. By November 15, 2026, it will be 16.1 billion miles (25.9 billion km) away, meaning a radio signal will take a full 24 hours, a full light-day to reach it.
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Congress requires DOD to facilitate Scouts activities but the Secretary can ignore the law in cases where it is “detrimental to national security." Hegseth is preparing to do so because the scouts have become too inclusive of girls.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Congress requires DOD to facilitate Scouts activities but the Secretary can ignore the law in cases where it is “detrimental to national security." Hegseth is preparing to do so because the scouts have become too inclusive of girls.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
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The Des Moines Register published an op-ed by a man who believes in the great replacement theory and wrote for Vdare. The op-Ed argues no immigrant can be vetted enough to be safe to enter this country. White washing racism in the name of local journalism.
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The Des Moines Register published an op-ed by a man who believes in the great replacement theory and wrote for Vdare. The op-Ed argues no immigrant can be vetted enough to be safe to enter this country. White washing racism in the name of local journalism.
The government is not a business.
🚨In a Fox Business interview, Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) linked a U.S. move to “go in” against Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro to what she portrayed as major economic gains for American oil companies, presenting the two as connected aims.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/gop-lawmak...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/gop-lawmak...
GOP Lawmaker Links Potential U.S. Invasion of Venezuela to Major Economic Gains for American Oil Companies
In a Fox Business interview, Florida lawmaker María Elvira Salazar said a U.S. “go in” option could align with what she called major economic opportunities for American oil firms.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The government is not a business.
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👀 🌴 🏝️
Rare agreement from both sides of the divide.
The Trump admin wants to open offshore drilling along the CA and FL coasts, and both Newsom & DeSantis are calling it out as a threat to the environment, tourism and coastal communities.
If these two are sounding the alarm together, you know it’s bad.
The Trump admin wants to open offshore drilling along the CA and FL coasts, and both Newsom & DeSantis are calling it out as a threat to the environment, tourism and coastal communities.
If these two are sounding the alarm together, you know it’s bad.
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
👀 🌴 🏝️
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Everything is either incompetence, corruption or malevolence.
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Everything is either incompetence, corruption or malevolence.
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Pathetic. Utterly pathetic
GOP Members of Congress correctly noting that the White House treats them like garbage, Speaker Mike Johnson lets it happen because he wants to, the legislature has been usurped, so… they’ll quit, rather than vote for a new Speaker or do oversight of the executive branch.
GOP Members of Congress correctly noting that the White House treats them like garbage, Speaker Mike Johnson lets it happen because he wants to, the legislature has been usurped, so… they’ll quit, rather than vote for a new Speaker or do oversight of the executive branch.
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Pathetic. Utterly pathetic
GOP Members of Congress correctly noting that the White House treats them like garbage, Speaker Mike Johnson lets it happen because he wants to, the legislature has been usurped, so… they’ll quit, rather than vote for a new Speaker or do oversight of the executive branch.
GOP Members of Congress correctly noting that the White House treats them like garbage, Speaker Mike Johnson lets it happen because he wants to, the legislature has been usurped, so… they’ll quit, rather than vote for a new Speaker or do oversight of the executive branch.
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Unprecedented in U.S. history.
Truly vindictive ethnic cleansing
Truly vindictive ethnic cleansing
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Unprecedented in U.S. history.
Truly vindictive ethnic cleansing
Truly vindictive ethnic cleansing
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Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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This is a crazy story:
ICE/CBP took a Coast Guard Rescue helicopter from this shall town in Oregon.
The major industry is harvesting Dungeness Crab which is dangerous, the Coast Guard is needed for rescues.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
ICE/CBP took a Coast Guard Rescue helicopter from this shall town in Oregon.
The major industry is harvesting Dungeness Crab which is dangerous, the Coast Guard is needed for rescues.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
2 lawsuits seek return of Coast Guard rescue helicopter to Newport
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced Friday that the state is filing a lawsuit to force the federal government to return a U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter to Newport. Lincoln County and t...
www.opb.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This is a crazy story:
ICE/CBP took a Coast Guard Rescue helicopter from this shall town in Oregon.
The major industry is harvesting Dungeness Crab which is dangerous, the Coast Guard is needed for rescues.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
ICE/CBP took a Coast Guard Rescue helicopter from this shall town in Oregon.
The major industry is harvesting Dungeness Crab which is dangerous, the Coast Guard is needed for rescues.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
You know what really honors our country? Not trying to prevent the peaceful, lawful transfer of power.
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
You know what really honors our country? Not trying to prevent the peaceful, lawful transfer of power.
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The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
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Gee, am I not surprised? And it's not just limited to many MAGA accounts... Bernie Bro accounts, as well as doom and gloom accounts are like that as well.
X’s new origin/location feature reminds us that many MAGA accounts trolling and triggering us are actually just this:
November 23, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Gee, am I not surprised? And it's not just limited to many MAGA accounts... Bernie Bro accounts, as well as doom and gloom accounts are like that as well.
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A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
This bill would “automatically enroll new Medicare beneficiaries into the lowest-premium Medicare Advantage plan available in their ZIP code unless they actively opt out”, with no option to change plans for 3 years.
This is down right dangerous and should piss everyone off.
Make those phone calls.
This cannot pass!
thehill.com/opinion/heal...
Make those phone calls.
This cannot pass!
thehill.com/opinion/heal...
thehill.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
This bill would “automatically enroll new Medicare beneficiaries into the lowest-premium Medicare Advantage plan available in their ZIP code unless they actively opt out”, with no option to change plans for 3 years.
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
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Just a reminder…
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Just a reminder…
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Weeki Wachee Springs is a state park, Florida
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Weeki Wachee Springs is a state park, Florida