Vvalkyri
@vvalkyri.bsky.social
Hi. I'm not all the way here from Twitter. Would love to find the epi, science, long covid communities.
So far the few people I have followed are those who posted handles on FB. So msg if this Nick's unfamiliar.
So far the few people I have followed are those who posted handles on FB. So msg if this Nick's unfamiliar.
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He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
The comments are worthwhile
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The comments are worthwhile
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I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...
Seven Voting Laws Every Blue State Should Enact Right Now
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...
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In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence.
In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.
In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence.
In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.
In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.
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This kid passed out at the top of the escalator and needed to be moved immediately and his friends are just screaming “he’s over 18! he’s over 18!” bc they are more worried about the curfew rules than anything else
December 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
This kid passed out at the top of the escalator and needed to be moved immediately and his friends are just screaming “he’s over 18! he’s over 18!” bc they are more worried about the curfew rules than anything else
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Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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The White House continues to make our work harder. They’ve:
✂️ Cut funding for transportation and education
👎 Effectively told families in poverty “you’re on your own”
❌ Presided over the longest government shutdown in history
🚨 Failed to act after Western Maryland was hit by a devastating storm.
✂️ Cut funding for transportation and education
👎 Effectively told families in poverty “you’re on your own”
❌ Presided over the longest government shutdown in history
🚨 Failed to act after Western Maryland was hit by a devastating storm.
December 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The White House continues to make our work harder. They’ve:
✂️ Cut funding for transportation and education
👎 Effectively told families in poverty “you’re on your own”
❌ Presided over the longest government shutdown in history
🚨 Failed to act after Western Maryland was hit by a devastating storm.
✂️ Cut funding for transportation and education
👎 Effectively told families in poverty “you’re on your own”
❌ Presided over the longest government shutdown in history
🚨 Failed to act after Western Maryland was hit by a devastating storm.
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🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.”
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
December 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.”
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
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PIERS: “You’re not gay?”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
December 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
PIERS: “You’re not gay?”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
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Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."
December 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."
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In South Carolina, helping more than five people vote by mail makes you a felon. Three voters, all currently living in nursing homes, are challenging the law.
Disabled voters are challenging South Carolina's draconian ballot laws
In a state at war with the Voting Rights Act, helping more than five people vote by mail makes you a felon.
www.motherjones.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
In South Carolina, helping more than five people vote by mail makes you a felon. Three voters, all currently living in nursing homes, are challenging the law.
I remember finally understanding cultural appropriation when someone put it in terms of refilling as hip fashion accessory.
And I now viscerally understand microaggressions as exhausting in a way I had not.
As well as why filling a feed with horrible incidents is less nice than folk may think.
And I now viscerally understand microaggressions as exhausting in a way I had not.
As well as why filling a feed with horrible incidents is less nice than folk may think.
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I remember finally understanding cultural appropriation when someone put it in terms of refilling as hip fashion accessory.
And I now viscerally understand microaggressions as exhausting in a way I had not.
As well as why filling a feed with horrible incidents is less nice than folk may think.
And I now viscerally understand microaggressions as exhausting in a way I had not.
As well as why filling a feed with horrible incidents is less nice than folk may think.
It's pretty scary, honestly, to watch how much a flat out blood libel performance art was cheered and by whom.
I find myself wondering just how few people know what blood libel is.
I find myself wondering just how few people know what blood libel is.
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It's pretty scary, honestly, to watch how much a flat out blood libel performance art was cheered and by whom.
I find myself wondering just how few people know what blood libel is.
I find myself wondering just how few people know what blood libel is.
If you always simply assume that this Administration is going to choose whatever is least good for the public, you'll probably be right.
NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵
November 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If you always simply assume that this Administration is going to choose whatever is least good for the public, you'll probably be right.
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The House is voting today on two bills that will put hard-fought reforms to DC’s justice system in the crosshairs.
But what happens in DC doesn’t stay here. When it’s DC today, it’s always America tomorrow. We can stop it right here, right now. #FreeDC
But what happens in DC doesn’t stay here. When it’s DC today, it’s always America tomorrow. We can stop it right here, right now. #FreeDC
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The House is voting today on two bills that will put hard-fought reforms to DC’s justice system in the crosshairs.
But what happens in DC doesn’t stay here. When it’s DC today, it’s always America tomorrow. We can stop it right here, right now. #FreeDC
But what happens in DC doesn’t stay here. When it’s DC today, it’s always America tomorrow. We can stop it right here, right now. #FreeDC
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Folks have got to make some noise. Congress has the constitutional right to make or unmake agencies, not the executive branch.
And yet they're already talking about just exactly how they are dismantling the department of education.
Folks have got to make some noise. Congress has the constitutional right to make or unmake agencies, not the executive branch.
And yet they're already talking about just exactly how they are dismantling the department of education.
Trump administration announces dismantling of parts of Education Dept.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March seeking to close the department, but only Congress has the power to do that.
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
wapo.st/4oS9619
Folks have got to make some noise. Congress has the constitutional right to make or unmake agencies, not the executive branch.
And yet they're already talking about just exactly how they are dismantling the department of education.
Folks have got to make some noise. Congress has the constitutional right to make or unmake agencies, not the executive branch.
And yet they're already talking about just exactly how they are dismantling the department of education.
Boost the signal! And you can still add to the auction til tomorrow (Wed) afternoon.
Join @fedworkersunited.bsky.social for a SPIRITED fundraiser @ Dew Drop Inn, this Thurs 11/20 6:30-8:30pm 🎉🪩
Federal workers will be donating all KINDS of services in a silent auction to benefit a DC/MD/VA federal worker solidarity fund!
(Guess which one is mine! 😇)
💘 bit.ly/FUNDMV1120
Federal workers will be donating all KINDS of services in a silent auction to benefit a DC/MD/VA federal worker solidarity fund!
(Guess which one is mine! 😇)
💘 bit.ly/FUNDMV1120
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Boost the signal! And you can still add to the auction til tomorrow (Wed) afternoon.
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notably, Fox News is not broadcasting the Khanna/Massie/Greene Epstein news conference live. CNN and MS are.
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
notably, Fox News is not broadcasting the Khanna/Massie/Greene Epstein news conference live. CNN and MS are.
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"Charlotte's Web" is a story about a tiny and nearly invisible creature using the only skills she has to protect a friend and neighbor who's about to be butchered to make the farmer some money, and he returns the favor by caring for her children. Just in case you needed the reminder.
November 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"Charlotte's Web" is a story about a tiny and nearly invisible creature using the only skills she has to protect a friend and neighbor who's about to be butchered to make the farmer some money, and he returns the favor by caring for her children. Just in case you needed the reminder.
Tell Congress to stop using DC as their Playtoy.
House Democrats "strongly oppose" the anti-DC bills House GOP are pushing this week:
* H.R. 5214 - DC Cash Bail Reform Act of 2025
* H.R. 5107 – CLEAN DC Act of 2025
"Instead of meddling in local D.C. matters, Congress should pass the D.C. statehood bill." - @robertgarcia.bsky.social
#freedc
* H.R. 5214 - DC Cash Bail Reform Act of 2025
* H.R. 5107 – CLEAN DC Act of 2025
"Instead of meddling in local D.C. matters, Congress should pass the D.C. statehood bill." - @robertgarcia.bsky.social
#freedc
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Tell Congress to stop using DC as their Playtoy.
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My right side is absolutely killing me
You need an appendectomy
How much is that
Umm … $47,285
How much without the anesthesia
Ok we can do that for $36,210
I don’t think so
What’s it going to take to get you into this OR today
I’m going to shop around
Hold on, my manager is coming over
You need an appendectomy
How much is that
Umm … $47,285
How much without the anesthesia
Ok we can do that for $36,210
I don’t think so
What’s it going to take to get you into this OR today
I’m going to shop around
Hold on, my manager is coming over
TRUMP: We’re going to give Americans the money to buy health insurance
REPORTER: But won’t they buy it from
Insurance companies?
TRUMP: Ahhh. Some may. I mean they’ll be negotiating prices
REPORTER: But won’t they buy it from
Insurance companies?
TRUMP: Ahhh. Some may. I mean they’ll be negotiating prices
November 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
My right side is absolutely killing me
You need an appendectomy
How much is that
Umm … $47,285
How much without the anesthesia
Ok we can do that for $36,210
I don’t think so
What’s it going to take to get you into this OR today
I’m going to shop around
Hold on, my manager is coming over
You need an appendectomy
How much is that
Umm … $47,285
How much without the anesthesia
Ok we can do that for $36,210
I don’t think so
What’s it going to take to get you into this OR today
I’m going to shop around
Hold on, my manager is coming over
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Among the news deluge this week were a handful of developments that help us to understand the chaos to come next year. Let’s start with Monday’s pardons.
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-pard...
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-pard...
The hysteria over Biden's pardons seems extra ridiculous now
Trump's abuse of the pardon power makes everything else look like child's play.
www.publicnotice.co
November 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Among the news deluge this week were a handful of developments that help us to understand the chaos to come next year. Let’s start with Monday’s pardons.
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-pard...
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-pard...
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👀 REPUBLICAN @RepJohnRose continues to call out @MarshaBlackburn for her shameless money grab — stuffing her pockets with taxpayer dollars for being investigated in connection with Trump’s insurrection.
(Rose is running against her for Governor)
www.facebook.com/share/1AHX3q...
(Rose is running against her for Governor)
www.facebook.com/share/1AHX3q...
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
👀 REPUBLICAN @RepJohnRose continues to call out @MarshaBlackburn for her shameless money grab — stuffing her pockets with taxpayer dollars for being investigated in connection with Trump’s insurrection.
(Rose is running against her for Governor)
www.facebook.com/share/1AHX3q...
(Rose is running against her for Governor)
www.facebook.com/share/1AHX3q...