Veronica R. MSW, LICSW
@tahoeboulder.bsky.social
Pediatric Medical Social Worker. New Englander. Social Work/Sociology Professor. Part time Psychotherapist. Eating Disorders. Humanism in Medicine. Family Systems. Gen-X. #MomSky
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I refuse to believe that Larry Summers' expertise and skills are indispensable in any way. Please find another economist and policy expert, @americanprogress.bsky.social. There are loads out there.
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I refuse to believe that Larry Summers' expertise and skills are indispensable in any way. Please find another economist and policy expert, @americanprogress.bsky.social. There are loads out there.
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“The point that we are trying to make as survivors is we still don’t know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are.” Jeffrey Epstein abuse survivor Haley Robson slams Trump for turning against the survivors when all they want is closure to know who was involved in the atrocities they faced.
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“The point that we are trying to make as survivors is we still don’t know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are.” Jeffrey Epstein abuse survivor Haley Robson slams Trump for turning against the survivors when all they want is closure to know who was involved in the atrocities they faced.
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Epstein wasn’t an anomaly—he was the blueprint. Just another powerful man trafficking girls for money, access, and ego, protected by a system that treats rich predators like rare exceptions instead of the recurring pattern they are. The real shock is how normal this horror actually is.
He got by with a little help from his friends. From British royalty to White House alumni, from a Silicon Valley investor to a leftwing academic...
Yet none appeared to challenge Epstein over his horrific crimes.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Yet none appeared to challenge Epstein over his horrific crimes.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The banality of evil: how Epstein’s powerful friends normalised him
Long after his conviction for sexual abuse, people in royalty, academia, business, journalism and politics sought his ear
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Epstein wasn’t an anomaly—he was the blueprint. Just another powerful man trafficking girls for money, access, and ego, protected by a system that treats rich predators like rare exceptions instead of the recurring pattern they are. The real shock is how normal this horror actually is.
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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NEVER forget...
November 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
NEVER forget...
And Republicans have been mad about it ever since. #momsky
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
November 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
And Republicans have been mad about it ever since. #momsky
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I think I mentioned this last week but I lived in a hud house as a kid and is a big reason why my life worked out the way it did
helping people have homes is good, actually
helping people have homes is good, actually
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I think I mentioned this last week but I lived in a hud house as a kid and is a big reason why my life worked out the way it did
helping people have homes is good, actually
helping people have homes is good, actually
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According to a new analysis by Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee, the average American family has paid more than $700 in higher costs per month since Trump took office.
Remember when Trump said he would end inflation on "day one"?
Remember when Trump said he would end inflation on "day one"?
November 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
According to a new analysis by Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee, the average American family has paid more than $700 in higher costs per month since Trump took office.
Remember when Trump said he would end inflation on "day one"?
Remember when Trump said he would end inflation on "day one"?
#capitalism is violent
Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
November 16, 2025 at 3:54 AM
#capitalism is violent
Pardon power needs to go away. Same with citizens united. And also we need term limits. Separate things but all necessary.
1. President Trump has granted a pardon to Suzanne Kaye, who was sentenced to serve 18 months in federal prison for threatening to shoot FBI agents if they came to her home to speak to her about her presence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
November 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Pardon power needs to go away. Same with citizens united. And also we need term limits. Separate things but all necessary.
Not unless she finds out that the Epstein files show him directly harming children. Right now she thinks they will exonerate him (hahaha). But she is also protective of the survivors, so we'll see. Pushing other GOP to vote yes:
November 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Not unless she finds out that the Epstein files show him directly harming children. Right now she thinks they will exonerate him (hahaha). But she is also protective of the survivors, so we'll see. Pushing other GOP to vote yes:
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"I have four questions, about Trump’s level of culpability, Epstein’s reliability, and what the Good Republicans will do now." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-epst...
What If the Trump-Epstein Relationship Was Even Worse Than We Thought?
Four questions about Trump and Epstein.
www.thebulwark.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
"I have four questions, about Trump’s level of culpability, Epstein’s reliability, and what the Good Republicans will do now." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-epst...
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Trump is on a posting spree comprised of screenshots of other posts shitting on MTG.
November 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Trump is on a posting spree comprised of screenshots of other posts shitting on MTG.
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as I said before, everyone keeps dancing around the fact that this is open nativist blood libel. This is how you legitimize mass dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population of a nation. And this is now an institutionalized belief in ostensibly the most powerful org in international finance.
Fed Governor Stephen Miran: "Cutting down net migration to 0, potentially even negative because of the deportations that have been occurring, I think is very deflationary."
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
as I said before, everyone keeps dancing around the fact that this is open nativist blood libel. This is how you legitimize mass dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population of a nation. And this is now an institutionalized belief in ostensibly the most powerful org in international finance.
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MacKenzie Scott's $63 million donation is the largest single gift ever received by North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott makes second big Triad HBCU donation to N.C. A&T
North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University officials announced she donated $63 million to the school.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:16 AM
MacKenzie Scott's $63 million donation is the largest single gift ever received by North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
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500+ Experts Worldwide Call for Global Panel to Address ‘Inequality Emergency’ www.commondreams.org/news/global-...
500+ Experts Worldwide Call for Global Panel to Address ‘Inequality Emergency’ | Common Dreams
Economic inequality is a policy choice, not a given. Over 500 experts are calling for urgent action to address the inequality emergency. Will world leaders listen and establish an International Panel ...
www.commondreams.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
500+ Experts Worldwide Call for Global Panel to Address ‘Inequality Emergency’ www.commondreams.org/news/global-...
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
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For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
He gets away with so many things. And yet, if the complicit people around him fell away, he’d be his own worst counsel in court.
This may be Trump's perfect social media post. A true work of art. He confirms:
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
He gets away with so many things. And yet, if the complicit people around him fell away, he’d be his own worst counsel in court.
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The notion that noted Nazi Fuentes is a “betrayal” of Heritage Foundation principles is laughable. Heritage has long played footies with fascism. @Adamlaats shows in his book about conservative education reforms, Heritage’s coming out was in support of book banning protests supported by the Klan.
The Other School Reformers — Harvard University Press
The idea that American education has been steered by progressive values is celebrated by liberals and deplored by conservatives, but both sides accept it as fact. Adam Laats shows that this widely hel...
www.hup.harvard.edu
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The notion that noted Nazi Fuentes is a “betrayal” of Heritage Foundation principles is laughable. Heritage has long played footies with fascism. @Adamlaats shows in his book about conservative education reforms, Heritage’s coming out was in support of book banning protests supported by the Klan.
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I wrote about the supposed conservative "civil war" over antisemitism as more of a lovers' spat for @liberalcurrents.
The Heritage Foundation, Groypers, and the Narcissism of Small Differences
Fuentes is the fly born of Heritage’s maggot.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I wrote about the supposed conservative "civil war" over antisemitism as more of a lovers' spat for @liberalcurrents.
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Michael Wolff tried to buy New York Mag — with money from Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein.
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Blurred lines: how Michael Wolff aspired to be part of elite circles he wrote about
The writer who features prominently in newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails has achieved extraordinary access but faced questions about his journalistic ethics
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Michael Wolff tried to buy New York Mag — with money from Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein.
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Don't miss this interview with Lina Khan. She has the fearlessness the Dems (across the board) need right now.
#momsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRJW...
#momsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRJW...
Lina Khan On Zohran Mamdani, Corporate Welfare & the FTC | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Don't miss this interview with Lina Khan. She has the fearlessness the Dems (across the board) need right now.
#momsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRJW...
#momsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRJW...
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Why the Day 2 stories that end up on p. 19 are often the real news. Let’s make sure this gets the front page attention it deserves!
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Why the Day 2 stories that end up on p. 19 are often the real news. Let’s make sure this gets the front page attention it deserves!