Lisa Wartenberg Vélez
@lisawv.bsky.social
🇨🇴 • PEN / Dau • Best Debut Short Stories 2023, MQR, Nimrod, Ghost Parachute, others; forthcoming: Cutleaf • @UcrossFdn • 🏳️🌈
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You just had to be there.
September 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
You just had to be there.
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Josephine Silone Yates was a professor of chemistry & among the 1st women in the US to head a university science department. She was also a journalist & editor & served as the president of the National Association of Colored Women in 1901.
September 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Josephine Silone Yates was a professor of chemistry & among the 1st women in the US to head a university science department. She was also a journalist & editor & served as the president of the National Association of Colored Women in 1901.
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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BREAKING: A unanimous three-judge panel of the Second Circuit upholds the $83.3 million jury verdict for E. Jean Carroll in her defamation case against Donald Trump. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...
September 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
BREAKING: A unanimous three-judge panel of the Second Circuit upholds the $83.3 million jury verdict for E. Jean Carroll in her defamation case against Donald Trump. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...
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Omg I thought people were joking. This isn’t satire?
September 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Omg I thought people were joking. This isn’t satire?
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I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
~Anais Nin
[Eadweard Muybridge (1887)]
~Anais Nin
[Eadweard Muybridge (1887)]
January 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
~Anais Nin
[Eadweard Muybridge (1887)]
~Anais Nin
[Eadweard Muybridge (1887)]
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One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals
Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...
www.propublica.org
August 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
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Listen I’m sure he just fell asleep in a sunbeam somewhere dreaming of inhuman deportation techniques, or accidentally glued himself to one of his golden toilets with his own orange clown makeup, but we can all have a little happy hope in our hearts it ends up being something else, can’t we?
August 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Listen I’m sure he just fell asleep in a sunbeam somewhere dreaming of inhuman deportation techniques, or accidentally glued himself to one of his golden toilets with his own orange clown makeup, but we can all have a little happy hope in our hearts it ends up being something else, can’t we?
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Live your life so that people don’t consider rumors of your death a form of edging.
August 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Live your life so that people don’t consider rumors of your death a form of edging.
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The @foodchainworkers.bsky.social just sent out a newsletter and it is clear that the ICE raids are also an attack on organized labor.
July 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The @foodchainworkers.bsky.social just sent out a newsletter and it is clear that the ICE raids are also an attack on organized labor.
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Let my dawg cook!!!! ✊🏾
August 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Let my dawg cook!!!! ✊🏾
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We don't tax the rich so we don't have funding for critical public infrastructure so we have to rely on the rich to for critical services which makes the rich richer while public services degrade which increases our reliance on the rich so we don't tax the rich and don't have funding for critical pu
August 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We don't tax the rich so we don't have funding for critical public infrastructure so we have to rely on the rich to for critical services which makes the rich richer while public services degrade which increases our reliance on the rich so we don't tax the rich and don't have funding for critical pu
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White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
August 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
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He had the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, Ukraine, the EU and NATO in the White House and he made them wait while he went to get instructions from Putin ...
For forty minutes?!
For forty minutes?!
BREAKING NYT:
Trump paused his meeting with European leaders and Zelenskyy this afternoon to call Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin has since confirmed the call. It lasted for 40 minutes.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Trump paused his meeting with European leaders and Zelenskyy this afternoon to call Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin has since confirmed the call. It lasted for 40 minutes.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Update from Jim Tankersley
www.nytimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
He had the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, Ukraine, the EU and NATO in the White House and he made them wait while he went to get instructions from Putin ...
For forty minutes?!
For forty minutes?!
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The pan right fascist movement is a mafia style network of dark money donors, groups and slush funds all aimed at overturning democracy forever. The far right assault on America is coordinated act between mega wealthy donors, politicians and the courts and has been for decades.
Politico: Charles Munger Jr., the megadonor backing Republicans’ effort to block Dems from countering Trump stealing seats in Texas, has contributed to orgs that oppose reproductive freedom and backs groups whose leaders oppose 🏳️🌈 rights. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
August 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The pan right fascist movement is a mafia style network of dark money donors, groups and slush funds all aimed at overturning democracy forever. The far right assault on America is coordinated act between mega wealthy donors, politicians and the courts and has been for decades.
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The REAL STORY is STILL THIS: AND WE MUST KEEP IT THAT WAY.
August 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The REAL STORY is STILL THIS: AND WE MUST KEEP IT THAT WAY.
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"But SpaceX has most likely paid little to no federal income taxes since its founding in 2002 and has privately told investors that it may never have to pay any, according to internal company documents reviewed by The New York Times."
SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes.
www.nytimes.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"But SpaceX has most likely paid little to no federal income taxes since its founding in 2002 and has privately told investors that it may never have to pay any, according to internal company documents reviewed by The New York Times."
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My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.
August 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.
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August 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Fun fact! "the U.S. military has been identified as the largest single institutional emitter of greenhouse gases worldwide"
www.newsweek.com/climate-chan...
www.newsweek.com/climate-chan...
July 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Fun fact! "the U.S. military has been identified as the largest single institutional emitter of greenhouse gases worldwide"
www.newsweek.com/climate-chan...
www.newsweek.com/climate-chan...
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Johnny Noviello moved from Canada to Daytona Beach when he was 10 years old. He grew up in Florida and became a lawful permanent resident.
On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami, after six weeks in immigration detention.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami, after six weeks in immigration detention.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Canadian man awaiting deportation dies at detention facility in downtown Miami
The cause of death for the 49-year-old man is still under official investigation.
www.miamiherald.com
June 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Johnny Noviello moved from Canada to Daytona Beach when he was 10 years old. He grew up in Florida and became a lawful permanent resident.
On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami, after six weeks in immigration detention.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami, after six weeks in immigration detention.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...