Valerie ❌👑
@shybleu.bsky.social
Loving life in the Driftless. Happily married. Art, nature, ☮️
Plant milkweed for Monarchs
Medicare for All
End Citizens United
#TaxTheRich #Indivisible #50501Movement
#HandsOffSocialSecurity
#NoKings
#SicEm
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Plant milkweed for Monarchs
Medicare for All
End Citizens United
#TaxTheRich #Indivisible #50501Movement
#HandsOffSocialSecurity
#NoKings
#SicEm
No DMs, porn, money requests
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UNREAL! Congressional hearing Tuesday with US citizen Marimar Martinez who was shot by ICE. Rep Garcia notes how the ICE agent bragged to his friends about shooting her, writing 'I fired 5 rounds, and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys." You can NOT reform ICE. Abolish and PROSECUTE ICE!!
February 4, 2026 at 1:11 PM
UNREAL! Congressional hearing Tuesday with US citizen Marimar Martinez who was shot by ICE. Rep Garcia notes how the ICE agent bragged to his friends about shooting her, writing 'I fired 5 rounds, and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys." You can NOT reform ICE. Abolish and PROSECUTE ICE!!
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trump is not a strongman. He is a crybaby with power. The most powerful man in the world who somehow believes he is the victim of everything. Either he is the whiniest victim in modern history—or he is the most incompetent holder of power imaginable...
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Trump Is Panicking—and Wants the Justice Department to Be His Revenge Squad
Trump’s obsession with “weaponizing” the DOJ isn’t about justice. It’s about panic, revenge, and a man who knows his legacy is already written.
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February 4, 2026 at 5:08 PM
trump is not a strongman. He is a crybaby with power. The most powerful man in the world who somehow believes he is the victim of everything. Either he is the whiniest victim in modern history—or he is the most incompetent holder of power imaginable...
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Everything moves so fast now. It's impossible to give every event the care and attention it deserves, especially when the bar is "at least no one died."
But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalation—and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.
But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalation—and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.
What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids
Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack
www.thehandbasket.co
February 3, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Everything moves so fast now. It's impossible to give every event the care and attention it deserves, especially when the bar is "at least no one died."
But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalation—and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.
But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalation—and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.
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New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.
These are their stories:
These are their stories:
What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids
Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack
www.thehandbasket.co
February 3, 2026 at 1:25 AM
New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.
These are their stories:
These are their stories:
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Emails and photographs from the Epstein files reveal that Ubiquiti (#$UI) equipment was integral to the communications and surveillance infrastructure on Epstein’s notorious private island, Little St. James, in the US Virgin Islands. Ubiquiti is the principal provider to the Russian intel services.
NEW: Ubiquiti Wi-Fi (And Surveillance Camera!) on Epstein’s Island
Newly surfaced documents from the Department of Justice reveal Ubiquiti’s gear was integral to communications and surveillance at Little St. James.
open.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Emails and photographs from the Epstein files reveal that Ubiquiti (#$UI) equipment was integral to the communications and surveillance infrastructure on Epstein’s notorious private island, Little St. James, in the US Virgin Islands. Ubiquiti is the principal provider to the Russian intel services.
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Minnesota and Minnesotans show us another way to peacefully resist.
#Iceout
#ICEOutForGood
#FundHealthcareNotIce
#Voices4victory
#usDemocracy
#Iceout
#ICEOutForGood
#FundHealthcareNotIce
#Voices4victory
#usDemocracy
February 4, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Minnesota and Minnesotans show us another way to peacefully resist.
#Iceout
#ICEOutForGood
#FundHealthcareNotIce
#Voices4victory
#usDemocracy
#Iceout
#ICEOutForGood
#FundHealthcareNotIce
#Voices4victory
#usDemocracy
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I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.
February 4, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.
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I told everyone from the beginning: ICE in Minnesota, LA, and other places was just a practice run.
This is why, now more than ever, we need to turn out the vote.
From school board members on up—turn out in groups. 🗳️
Don't let them intimidate anyone, we are stronger together.
👥👥👥👥 🗳️
This is why, now more than ever, we need to turn out the vote.
From school board members on up—turn out in groups. 🗳️
Don't let them intimidate anyone, we are stronger together.
👥👥👥👥 🗳️
So an overfunded and undertrained private military force that has harassed and killed American citizens without any repercussions or oversight will be used to "protect" our polls? This administration treads on our rights every chance they get.
February 4, 2026 at 5:01 PM
I told everyone from the beginning: ICE in Minnesota, LA, and other places was just a practice run.
This is why, now more than ever, we need to turn out the vote.
From school board members on up—turn out in groups. 🗳️
Don't let them intimidate anyone, we are stronger together.
👥👥👥👥 🗳️
This is why, now more than ever, we need to turn out the vote.
From school board members on up—turn out in groups. 🗳️
Don't let them intimidate anyone, we are stronger together.
👥👥👥👥 🗳️
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The ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.
A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.
Nearly 30,000 Minnesotans trained as constitutional observers
The Immigrant Defense Network works with more than 100 organizations to help train constitutional observers. At the end of November, there were 2,500 trained observers. That number has soared as more ...
www.mprnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 1:09 PM
The ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.
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It's also a core failure to understand POWER, which is frankly embarrassing and should concern anyone wanting to critique the media or international politics.
5. What this is about is the locus of solidarity. Either you express solidarity with the victims of genocide and the victims of sexual abuse. Or you express solidarity with someone you treat as a hero, who might be assisting the airbrushing of those crimes. There’s a choice to be made.
February 4, 2026 at 1:39 PM
It's also a core failure to understand POWER, which is frankly embarrassing and should concern anyone wanting to critique the media or international politics.
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Yet another example of how data centers will raise the cost of living for everyday Americans - a big jump in demand for fracked gas
#econsky
#econsky
The AI boom is making natural gas great again — Axios
Natural gas is the clear winner in a fast-moving push to generate power directly at data centers, a new report finds.
apple.news
February 4, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Yet another example of how data centers will raise the cost of living for everyday Americans - a big jump in demand for fracked gas
#econsky
#econsky
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Hi everyone! Welcome if you just joined my feed 👋 I thought I'd just introduce myself. I am Dr. Emma L. Briant, a leading academic expert on information warfare and propaganda in a surveillance age. My work was central in exposing #CambridgeAnalytica and I hope to be your guide through this crazy...
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November 11, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Hi everyone! Welcome if you just joined my feed 👋 I thought I'd just introduce myself. I am Dr. Emma L. Briant, a leading academic expert on information warfare and propaganda in a surveillance age. My work was central in exposing #CambridgeAnalytica and I hope to be your guide through this crazy...
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the health hazards of raw milk are plentiful
A newborn baby has died in New Mexico from a Listeria infection that state health officials say was likely contracted from raw (unpasteurized) milk that the baby’s mother drank during pregnancy.
Newborn dies after mother drinks raw milk during pregnancy
Raw milk is promoted by anti-vaccine Health Secretary Kennedy.
arstechnica.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:14 AM
the health hazards of raw milk are plentiful
Science saves lives
A newborn baby has died in New Mexico from a Listeria infection that state health officials say was likely contracted from raw (unpasteurized) milk that the baby’s mother drank during pregnancy.
Newborn dies after mother drinks raw milk during pregnancy
Raw milk is promoted by anti-vaccine Health Secretary Kennedy.
arstechnica.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Science saves lives
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A newborn baby has died in New Mexico from a Listeria infection that state health officials say was likely contracted from raw (unpasteurized) milk that the baby’s mother drank during pregnancy.
Newborn dies after mother drinks raw milk during pregnancy
Raw milk is promoted by anti-vaccine Health Secretary Kennedy.
arstechnica.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:38 PM
A newborn baby has died in New Mexico from a Listeria infection that state health officials say was likely contracted from raw (unpasteurized) milk that the baby’s mother drank during pregnancy.
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Speaker Johnson is lying.
He knows that counting mail votes is not “magic” or “fraudulent,” it is following the law.
Echoing these lies shows how beholden Johnson is to the Liar In Chief, but the Speaker of the House should be above such awful behavior.
This is disgraceful.
He knows that counting mail votes is not “magic” or “fraudulent,” it is following the law.
Echoing these lies shows how beholden Johnson is to the Liar In Chief, but the Speaker of the House should be above such awful behavior.
This is disgraceful.
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Rs to "nationalize" elections: "We had 3 Republicans who were ahead on election day in last cycle & every time a new tranche of ballots came in they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost. It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove it? No"
February 3, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Speaker Johnson is lying.
He knows that counting mail votes is not “magic” or “fraudulent,” it is following the law.
Echoing these lies shows how beholden Johnson is to the Liar In Chief, but the Speaker of the House should be above such awful behavior.
This is disgraceful.
He knows that counting mail votes is not “magic” or “fraudulent,” it is following the law.
Echoing these lies shows how beholden Johnson is to the Liar In Chief, but the Speaker of the House should be above such awful behavior.
This is disgraceful.
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Congress must stop the lawlessness in Minnesota and across the country, with DHS breaking the law, ignoring the Constitution, committing violent acts and even murder.
No secret police. Transparency and accountability aren’t optional. Masks OFF, body cameras ON, ID on demand.
No secret police. Transparency and accountability aren’t optional. Masks OFF, body cameras ON, ID on demand.
Don Beyer Demands ICE and CBP Transparency and Accountability
YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer
youtube.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Congress must stop the lawlessness in Minnesota and across the country, with DHS breaking the law, ignoring the Constitution, committing violent acts and even murder.
No secret police. Transparency and accountability aren’t optional. Masks OFF, body cameras ON, ID on demand.
No secret police. Transparency and accountability aren’t optional. Masks OFF, body cameras ON, ID on demand.
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Alex Pretti wasn't killed by rhetoric, he was killed by two masked CBP agents shooting him 10 times in the back after they had disarmed and pepper sprayed him.
Rhetoric didn't kill Renee Good either, a thug from ICE did that with a gun as she tried to avoid hurting him.
Rhetoric didn't kill Renee Good either, a thug from ICE did that with a gun as she tried to avoid hurting him.
Homan: "I said back in March of this year [sic] that if the hateful rhetoric didn't stop I was afraid there would be bloodshed. And there has been."
February 4, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Alex Pretti wasn't killed by rhetoric, he was killed by two masked CBP agents shooting him 10 times in the back after they had disarmed and pepper sprayed him.
Rhetoric didn't kill Renee Good either, a thug from ICE did that with a gun as she tried to avoid hurting him.
Rhetoric didn't kill Renee Good either, a thug from ICE did that with a gun as she tried to avoid hurting him.
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Crockett: "Now my colleagues want to be the protectors of girls & women. I didn't hear them screaming this when Renee Good was killed in the middle of the street by the same people the vast majority of you just voted to give more money to. It was a lot of crickets, including about the Esptein files"
February 3, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Crockett: "Now my colleagues want to be the protectors of girls & women. I didn't hear them screaming this when Renee Good was killed in the middle of the street by the same people the vast majority of you just voted to give more money to. It was a lot of crickets, including about the Esptein files"
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They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Judge orders release of suspects in alleged shovel attack on agent
Department of Homeland Security says agent fired in self-defense after being attacked with a snow shovel and broom.
www.startribune.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:25 PM
They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
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The more America(ns) fight back, protest, boycott, and expose this corrupt regime live via streaming and pictures, the more we WIN every single day! This is a battle that has been decades in the making, and now we have Chump and his criminal cronies on the ropes.
open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
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It's Common Sense
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to con...
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February 3, 2026 at 8:21 PM
The more America(ns) fight back, protest, boycott, and expose this corrupt regime live via streaming and pictures, the more we WIN every single day! This is a battle that has been decades in the making, and now we have Chump and his criminal cronies on the ropes.
open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
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America's Sleeping Giant roared when police attacked civil rights marchers.
And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate.
Today it roars in Minneapolis and around the country — at the jack-booted thugs occupying our cities.
And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate.
Today it roars in Minneapolis and around the country — at the jack-booted thugs occupying our cities.
February 2, 2026 at 4:23 PM
America's Sleeping Giant roared when police attacked civil rights marchers.
And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate.
Today it roars in Minneapolis and around the country — at the jack-booted thugs occupying our cities.
And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate.
Today it roars in Minneapolis and around the country — at the jack-booted thugs occupying our cities.
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Trump's pumping agents onto ICE’s payroll at record speed.
He's giving them a mere 47 days of training (Trump is the 47th President).
And he's sending them onto the streets with loaded guns and telling them they have full immunity.
Congress should not be funding ICE’s abuses.
He's giving them a mere 47 days of training (Trump is the 47th President).
And he's sending them onto the streets with loaded guns and telling them they have full immunity.
Congress should not be funding ICE’s abuses.
February 3, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Trump's pumping agents onto ICE’s payroll at record speed.
He's giving them a mere 47 days of training (Trump is the 47th President).
And he's sending them onto the streets with loaded guns and telling them they have full immunity.
Congress should not be funding ICE’s abuses.
He's giving them a mere 47 days of training (Trump is the 47th President).
And he's sending them onto the streets with loaded guns and telling them they have full immunity.
Congress should not be funding ICE’s abuses.