Mark VDH
@markvdhmusic.bsky.social
TV/Film Music and Post Production (Bob’s Burgers), Dance Music Producer (https://www.beatport.com/artist/mark-vdh/18835) Writer, LGBTQ Film Producer (piecesofusthefilm.com) Travel Enthusiast, Ex-Disney, Ex-Netflix, Political Animal
Sunset hike on our last night in Cabo. Can’t beat it.
February 17, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Sunset hike on our last night in Cabo. Can’t beat it.
1000%
"Now that it no longer benefits us, we are against gerrymandering. We will now copy-paste arguments Democrats made, that we ignored and mocked, as evidence of their hypocrisy."
The whole Republican Party right now
The whole Republican Party right now
February 17, 2026 at 1:27 AM
1000%
Umm, yeah. Zero middle ground.
There literally is no middle ground between fascists & democrats, as they are advocating for two mutually-exclusive competing types of government.
February 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Umm, yeah. Zero middle ground.
Truth. Music is a universal language. Love will always conquer hate.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Truth. Music is a universal language. Love will always conquer hate.
THIS!
If all these rich men "regret" their time with Epstein then why didn't they announce prior to the release of the files that their names would be part of the collection? Why didn't they self-report? The answer is they are not sorry and have no regret. They are sorry and regret they got caught.
February 9, 2026 at 1:15 AM
THIS!
And the hits on Disney kept coming. What a world.
29 years ago today, we first met — and said goodbye to — Shary Bobbins. #TheSimpsons episode “Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious” first aired February 7, 1997.
February 8, 2026 at 6:20 AM
And the hits on Disney kept coming. What a world.
Agreed.
Thank you to everyone in CA including the elected officials and voters who successfully accomplished mid-decade redistricting to swiftly counter the attempted theft by Texas.
Action and tangible results are so much better than gripes and strongly worded letters.
Action and tangible results are so much better than gripes and strongly worded letters.
February 5, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Agreed.
Meek Johnson is a serial liar, and a terrible lawyer.
WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.
Q: You're a constitutional lawyer. Can you detail the 4th Amendment protections someone has if ICE approaches their home w/an administrative warrant?
MIKE JOHNSON: When ICE goes to execute a warrant, it's issued by an immigration judge, & that is a sufficient legal authority to go apprehend someone
MIKE JOHNSON: When ICE goes to execute a warrant, it's issued by an immigration judge, & that is a sufficient legal authority to go apprehend someone
February 3, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Meek Johnson is a serial liar, and a terrible lawyer.
Is it just me, or has this corrupt administration ruined any TV show or movie with the FBI? I just don't believe they are the good guys anymore. They are the bad guys. These shows are now more fiction than before.
February 3, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Is it just me, or has this corrupt administration ruined any TV show or movie with the FBI? I just don't believe they are the good guys anymore. They are the bad guys. These shows are now more fiction than before.
Just because we all need a laugh.
February 3, 2026 at 6:51 AM
Just because we all need a laugh.
1000%
When a president talks about skipping elections and floating an unconstitutional 3rd term, it’s not hard to see what this is and what it isn’t.
Seizing election material in a state that already counted the 2020 results three separate times isn’t about election integrity.
It’s about preparation.
Seizing election material in a state that already counted the 2020 results three separate times isn’t about election integrity.
It’s about preparation.
February 2, 2026 at 2:50 AM
1000%
Taking a moment to feed our neighborhood squirrels, who will walk right up to our feet and ask. Skittish but not shy.
February 2, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Taking a moment to feed our neighborhood squirrels, who will walk right up to our feet and ask. Skittish but not shy.
Ahead of its time. By far. One of the best sitcoms ever made. Norman Lear was a genius and forced the networks to get in the game they didn’t want to play.
It was in January 1971 when the TV sitcom "All In The Family" debuted, which soon turned into a controversial show...
February 1, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Ahead of its time. By far. One of the best sitcoms ever made. Norman Lear was a genius and forced the networks to get in the game they didn’t want to play.
💯
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
January 31, 2026 at 5:27 AM
💯
Something everyone should understand at this point - as we try to negotiate the up is down, lies are truth party now in charge.
"The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States' officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program."
In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law.
The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...
The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...
January 28, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Something everyone should understand at this point - as we try to negotiate the up is down, lies are truth party now in charge.
This gets a repost. No lies told.
January 28, 2026 at 3:58 AM
This gets a repost. No lies told.
The simplest explanation is often the correct one. The path to where we are now laid bare as the prediction so many of us had a year ago. It all lines up.
January 27, 2026 at 8:38 PM
The simplest explanation is often the correct one. The path to where we are now laid bare as the prediction so many of us had a year ago. It all lines up.
Those of us fighting to save our country from authoritarianism have felt this for a year now. It is helpful to finally hear someone who claims to represent us in this effort say it out loud. It is a strong true statement, but it is also an obvious one.
Sen Chris Murphy warns Dems:
"If people don’t see us fighting on something as existential as whether we condone the federal government murdering our own citizens, there will be a mass withdrawal from politics altogether."
On the pod, Murphy lays it all out so well:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
"If people don’t see us fighting on something as existential as whether we condone the federal government murdering our own citizens, there will be a mass withdrawal from politics altogether."
On the pod, Murphy lays it all out so well:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
A Dem Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hits Home: “Breaking Point”
As Trump scrambles to contain the damage from the latest ICE horrors, Senator Chris Murphy offers a sharp indictment of Trump-ICE lawlessness—and explains how Dems can meet the urgency of the moment.
newrepublic.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Those of us fighting to save our country from authoritarianism have felt this for a year now. It is helpful to finally hear someone who claims to represent us in this effort say it out loud. It is a strong true statement, but it is also an obvious one.
I have also been this “hysterical” person. I was not then and am not now.
Once upon a time, a white liberal man who claimed to love me told I was being “hysterical” when Donald Trump won and forwarded me articles about why he couldn’t do things he was already doing.
I no longer talk to that person. They refused to see their own privilege.
The end.
I no longer talk to that person. They refused to see their own privilege.
The end.
January 27, 2026 at 3:47 AM
I have also been this “hysterical” person. I was not then and am not now.
💯
A lot of us relate this.
January 26, 2026 at 2:59 AM
💯
Agreed. Silence is not an option at this moment.
Authoritarianism prevails not because people stop believing the truth, but because they stop saying it aloud. If we wish to remain free, we must refuse that silence. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/lies...
Lies, violence and the American state
Trump abhors democracy because it allows ordinary Americans to reject his lies. Even worse for Trump, it allows us to reject him.
www.democracydocket.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Agreed. Silence is not an option at this moment.
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Congress to Abolish ICE. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Congress to Abolish ICE
Donald Trump and Stephen Miller have turned ICE into a massive secret police force that is kidnapping, terrorizing and killing American citizens with impunity - in flagrant violation of our Constituti...
actionnetwork.org
January 25, 2026 at 8:35 PM
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Congress to Abolish ICE. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
The one thing all of this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt to anyone paying attention that is not in a cult - is the depth and depravity of the lies they tell to our faces - when what we see with our own eyes is clear. This is pure evil. If that doesn't wake the "undecided" here up, nothing will.
January 25, 2026 at 7:21 PM
The one thing all of this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt to anyone paying attention that is not in a cult - is the depth and depravity of the lies they tell to our faces - when what we see with our own eyes is clear. This is pure evil. If that doesn't wake the "undecided" here up, nothing will.
great point
The goal of nonviolent civil resistance is not to convince the regime they're wrong.
The goal of #NonviolentCivilResistance is to convince the people to work together to make it impossible for the regime to sustain itself.
We aren't nonviolent for the regime. We're nonviolent for each other.
The goal of #NonviolentCivilResistance is to convince the people to work together to make it impossible for the regime to sustain itself.
We aren't nonviolent for the regime. We're nonviolent for each other.
CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC
You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...
www.nonviolent-conflict.org
January 25, 2026 at 6:44 PM
great point
Make the call. They can no longer claim any of this is normal.
Don't just be angry. Call your senators and express your disgust with what DHS is doing to the American people. Tell them you don't support giving ICE any more money to terrorize us.
Both of Nevada's senators--Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen--have officially come out against the DHS funding bill following the execution of Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis this morning. This effectively ends the DHS funding bill in the Senate.
January 24, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Make the call. They can no longer claim any of this is normal.