Valerie Russ
@vruss.bsky.social
Journalist and writer. Bison. Former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter. Broke story on the controversy over Philadelphia's Harriet Tubman statue being commissioned without a public call for artists. The city reversed course; issued the call.
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Come on, @nytimes.com. There is a massive scandal brewing that Russia authored the purported American "peace" plan and *these* are your headlines on what is happening?
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Come on, @nytimes.com. There is a massive scandal brewing that Russia authored the purported American "peace" plan and *these* are your headlines on what is happening?
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
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November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows
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November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Thanks for sharing. Despite the rain, we had a good turnout for #FallofFreedom walking tour of Billie Holiday's Philadelphia.
Participants received a sticker courtesy of Scribe Video Center. I'll plaster the sticker all over Freedman Alley, a graffitied place of remembrance on the Lower East Side.
Participants received a sticker courtesy of Scribe Video Center. I'll plaster the sticker all over Freedman Alley, a graffitied place of remembrance on the Lower East Side.
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Thanks for sharing. Despite the rain, we had a good turnout for #FallofFreedom walking tour of Billie Holiday's Philadelphia.
Participants received a sticker courtesy of Scribe Video Center. I'll plaster the sticker all over Freedman Alley, a graffitied place of remembrance on the Lower East Side.
Participants received a sticker courtesy of Scribe Video Center. I'll plaster the sticker all over Freedman Alley, a graffitied place of remembrance on the Lower East Side.
Today. ICYMI @andersonatlarge.bsky.social conducted a walking tour of #BillieHoliday 's Philadelphia. The tour, in partnership with @scribevideo.bsky.social as part of 'Fall of Freedom,' a nationwide arts project led by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage
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Creative resistance is as American as apple pie — especially in Philadelphia | Opinion
With democracy under assault, "Fall of Freedom," a national artist-led protest, has issued a call for creative resistance, of actions against censorship, beginning Friday.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Today. ICYMI @andersonatlarge.bsky.social conducted a walking tour of #BillieHoliday 's Philadelphia. The tour, in partnership with @scribevideo.bsky.social as part of 'Fall of Freedom,' a nationwide arts project led by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage
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#OTD in 1963 - John F. Kennedy was shot while in a presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas. He was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The @PhillyInquirer
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November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
#OTD in 1963 - John F. Kennedy was shot while in a presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas. He was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The @PhillyInquirer
The @PhillyInquirer
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Thanks for the kind words in this column, Will. (Not the college part. It’s been a couple decades since my last college newspaper article. 🙃)
You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done
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College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
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November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Thanks for the kind words in this column, Will. (Not the college part. It’s been a couple decades since my last college newspaper article. 🙃)
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“ICE agents then surrounded (Superior Court Judge McBurney’s) car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.”
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“ICE agents then surrounded (Superior Court Judge McBurney’s) car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.”
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Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
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November 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Howard Lutnick has reportedly promoted projects as commerce secretary that his kids are benefitting from in business.
Strong story by @ericlipton.nytimes.com, @mrothfeld.bsky.social, David Yaffe-Bellany and @anaswanson.bsky.social.
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Strong story by @ericlipton.nytimes.com, @mrothfeld.bsky.social, David Yaffe-Bellany and @anaswanson.bsky.social.
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Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
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November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Howard Lutnick has reportedly promoted projects as commerce secretary that his kids are benefitting from in business.
Strong story by @ericlipton.nytimes.com, @mrothfeld.bsky.social, David Yaffe-Bellany and @anaswanson.bsky.social.
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Strong story by @ericlipton.nytimes.com, @mrothfeld.bsky.social, David Yaffe-Bellany and @anaswanson.bsky.social.
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🚨BREAKING: Federal prosecutors admitted Wednesday that the grand jury handling the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey never reviewed or voted on the final indictment used to charge him — a virtually unprecedented revelation that could topple the entire case.
In Stunning Admission, DOJ Says Grand Jury Never Saw Indictment Against Comey
Read more here.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
🚨BREAKING: Federal prosecutors admitted Wednesday that the grand jury handling the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey never reviewed or voted on the final indictment used to charge him — a virtually unprecedented revelation that could topple the entire case.
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Every American newspaper's op-ed page should be focused on Jamal Khashoggi's life, work, and legacy for the rest of the week.
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
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He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Every American newspaper's op-ed page should be focused on Jamal Khashoggi's life, work, and legacy for the rest of the week.
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Neil Daniel Frye, US sailor who died in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, was recently identified, returned home to North Carolina, & buried with full military honors. He earned the Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, American Defense Service Medal, & the Bronze Star Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal.
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Neil Daniel Frye, US sailor who died in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, was recently identified, returned home to North Carolina, & buried with full military honors. He earned the Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, American Defense Service Medal, & the Bronze Star Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal.
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Jeffrey’s journalists: Epstein emails reveal cozy relationship with two reporters
Emails reveal Jeffrey Epstein’s close interactions with reporters and how Michael Wolff counseled him after the Miami Herald’s South Florida investigation.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Women at NASA, starting with one of my favorite #WomenInSTEM photos
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Valerie Thomas (1943) is an African American badass scientist.
She invented the illusion transmitter in 1980.
She helped develop the digital media formats that image processing systems used in NASA's Landsat program.
Her [very cool!] NASA photo next to a stack of computer tapes, 1979.
#WomenInSTEM 🧪
She invented the illusion transmitter in 1980.
She helped develop the digital media formats that image processing systems used in NASA's Landsat program.
Her [very cool!] NASA photo next to a stack of computer tapes, 1979.
#WomenInSTEM 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Women at NASA, starting with one of my favorite #WomenInSTEM photos
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I am joining @arimelber on @msnbc about 6:30 pm.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I am joining @arimelber on @msnbc about 6:30 pm.
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is it a bad sign when the industry that literally wrote the book on risk management is saying that large swathes of the country are too risky to manage
Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme weather. That's forcing families across the country to make tough choices. n.pr/47QGKwH
It's harder to get home insurance. That's changing communities across the U.S.
Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme weather. That's forcing families across the country to make tough choices.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
is it a bad sign when the industry that literally wrote the book on risk management is saying that large swathes of the country are too risky to manage
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
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November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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James Newton, a WWII veteran who forged his mother’s signature to join the Army, has died at 99
Newton joined the Army when he was 17 years old, and served in Guam and Okinawa, Japan during World War 2. He lived in North Philadelphia since the 1950s with his wife Bernice and their children.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to let him deny SNAP benefits to 42 million hungry Americans after a federal appeals court ordered him to release the money.
Trump Appeals to Supreme Court After Judges Block Bid to Curtail Food Stamp Aid
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November 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to let him deny SNAP benefits to 42 million hungry Americans after a federal appeals court ordered him to release the money.
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The government shutdown has thrown multiple industries into disarray, including this health-related "major challenge." www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...
Experts Warn The Government Shutdown Is Affecting You In A Major, Unexpected Way
This lapse is leaving doctors and the public dangerously in the dark.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The government shutdown has thrown multiple industries into disarray, including this health-related "major challenge." www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...
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Credit where credit is due: Pelosi read the room
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Credit where credit is due: Pelosi read the room