West Valley Tom
@tomwvv.bsky.social
I collect stuff. I sell other stuff. I’m not old, I’m vintage.
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Truth bears constant repetition.
February 11, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Truth bears constant repetition.
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BREAKING: @lizzylawrence.bsky.social reports that CBER director Vinay Prasad overruled career #FDA staff and unilaterally decided to refusal to accept #Moderna 's #flu vaccine submission. www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...
February 11, 2026 at 3:38 PM
BREAKING: @lizzylawrence.bsky.social reports that CBER director Vinay Prasad overruled career #FDA staff and unilaterally decided to refusal to accept #Moderna 's #flu vaccine submission. www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...
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“Kari Lake ran twice on this, and she was humiliated at the ballot box twice. So, it is not true that the people of Arizona support these kinds of measures. That is empirically false, as we have seen.”
story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
Arizona House approves resolution ending Election Day ballot drop-offs,
Arizona House passes early voting restrictions as Kolodin attacks Senate Republicans over ballot drop-off resolution
azmirror.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:52 AM
“Kari Lake ran twice on this, and she was humiliated at the ballot box twice. So, it is not true that the people of Arizona support these kinds of measures. That is empirically false, as we have seen.”
story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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"And what will you eat during the Puppy Bowl?"
"Puppies."
"Puppies."
RFK Jr on what he'll eat during the Super Bowl: "I am on a carnivore diet so I just eat meat and ferments, and I'm very happy with that. So I'm probably going to have yogurt."
February 8, 2026 at 6:53 PM
"And what will you eat during the Puppy Bowl?"
"Puppies."
"Puppies."
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somebody should inform the Politico/CNN/Axios/NYT brunchlord media establishment that corruption has hollowed out public safety, labor rights, and consumer protection, opening the door to decades of mass suffering and death
I feel like that might be an interesting story
I feel like that might be an interesting story
Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds
The Environmental Protection Agency has drastically pulled back on holding polluters accountable.
arstechnica.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:49 PM
somebody should inform the Politico/CNN/Axios/NYT brunchlord media establishment that corruption has hollowed out public safety, labor rights, and consumer protection, opening the door to decades of mass suffering and death
I feel like that might be an interesting story
I feel like that might be an interesting story
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Call me crazy, but I don't want my tax dollars paying the president for frivolous lawsuits
February 5, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Call me crazy, but I don't want my tax dollars paying the president for frivolous lawsuits
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so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.
February 4, 2026 at 6:45 AM
so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.
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It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.
February 3, 2026 at 11:34 PM
It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.
Turns out that democracy doesn’t die in darkness, it dies in the golden glow of immense riches. www.nbcnews.com/business/med...
Washington Post begins sweeping layoffs as it cuts costs
Sports coverage and the paper's podcast are among those hit the hardest as the storied newspaper struggles with declining revenue.
www.nbcnews.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Turns out that democracy doesn’t die in darkness, it dies in the golden glow of immense riches. www.nbcnews.com/business/med...
Believe these people when they tell you that it’s more important to commit depraved acts to terrorize the population than to follow the law and the Constitution.
Rep. Mark Harris: "Some of these things are nonstarters. Having judicial warrants? To me, hat's a nonstarter. Being able to make off their mask, putting them at risk? That's a nonstarter. I would say anything that's going to hamstring the work of ICE, that's just not going to go anywhere."
February 3, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Believe these people when they tell you that it’s more important to commit depraved acts to terrorize the population than to follow the law and the Constitution.
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Making it make sense: Epstein wasn't a global mastermind. He did not orchestrate a vast conspiracy that led us to today.
He was a very rich man with connections to other very rich men. The shared culture of these men is that they have a right to dominate and abuse others without consequence.
He was a very rich man with connections to other very rich men. The shared culture of these men is that they have a right to dominate and abuse others without consequence.
February 3, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Making it make sense: Epstein wasn't a global mastermind. He did not orchestrate a vast conspiracy that led us to today.
He was a very rich man with connections to other very rich men. The shared culture of these men is that they have a right to dominate and abuse others without consequence.
He was a very rich man with connections to other very rich men. The shared culture of these men is that they have a right to dominate and abuse others without consequence.
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So Musk intentionally forced xAI to embrace making sexualized material to increase user active seconds, and the AI chatbot had, throughout 2025, only two employees devoted to safety compared to dozens of staffers on similar teams at OpenAI or other rivals.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator
Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:22 PM
So Musk intentionally forced xAI to embrace making sexualized material to increase user active seconds, and the AI chatbot had, throughout 2025, only two employees devoted to safety compared to dozens of staffers on similar teams at OpenAI or other rivals.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Closing the Kennedy Center for two years so the government can install a $29.99 all you can eat buffet *with* a dessert bar and a folksy gift emporium
February 2, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Closing the Kennedy Center for two years so the government can install a $29.99 all you can eat buffet *with* a dessert bar and a folksy gift emporium
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/5 The people who normalized and promoted Jeffrey Epstein after his conviction sent the message that he was safe now.
Children got raped under the shadow of that message.
Children got raped under the shadow of that message.
February 1, 2026 at 3:38 AM
/5 The people who normalized and promoted Jeffrey Epstein after his conviction sent the message that he was safe now.
Children got raped under the shadow of that message.
Children got raped under the shadow of that message.
What the hell, Brighton?
January 31, 2026 at 4:56 PM
What the hell, Brighton?
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I don’t know if we will ever get anywhere close to the truth of all this, but my gut tells me all of it is even worse than we assume
January 31, 2026 at 2:08 PM
I don’t know if we will ever get anywhere close to the truth of all this, but my gut tells me all of it is even worse than we assume
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The charges against Don Lemon are ridiculous. He’s a target because he’s black, because he’s media, and because he’s a Trump critic, and because Trump and his minions cannot accept any dissent. It’s deeply pathetic, unamerican, and lawless.
January 30, 2026 at 2:19 PM
The charges against Don Lemon are ridiculous. He’s a target because he’s black, because he’s media, and because he’s a Trump critic, and because Trump and his minions cannot accept any dissent. It’s deeply pathetic, unamerican, and lawless.
Artificially inflated housing bubbles have worked out so well in the past.
Trump: "People that own their homes -- we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home."
January 29, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Artificially inflated housing bubbles have worked out so well in the past.
Looks like immigrants have caused another American worker to lose her job.
so bari definitely got the heads up that noem is being shitcanned, right?
January 27, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Looks like immigrants have caused another American worker to lose her job.
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As dangerously cold temperatures move through New York, we have opened 10 warming centers across all five boroughs to provide safe, heated indoor spaces for New Yorkers in need.
Centers will be open through at least Monday evening at the following locations —>
Centers will be open through at least Monday evening at the following locations —>
January 25, 2026 at 4:36 PM
As dangerously cold temperatures move through New York, we have opened 10 warming centers across all five boroughs to provide safe, heated indoor spaces for New Yorkers in need.
Centers will be open through at least Monday evening at the following locations —>
Centers will be open through at least Monday evening at the following locations —>
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It’s been kind of crazy-making to watch the massive retconning of what that uprising actually was and actually did—from a strong, multiracial, and largely nonviolent protest movement that scared the shit out of a lot of powerful people to a bad dangerous destructive wave of “riots”
begging for a repeat of 2020 is also odd in itself since Trump lost that election and most analysis suggests the protests damaged him pretty badly.
one thing i’ll note is that the administration is desperate for a repeat of 2020 and the targeted jurisdictions refuse to give it to them
January 23, 2026 at 2:59 PM
It’s been kind of crazy-making to watch the massive retconning of what that uprising actually was and actually did—from a strong, multiracial, and largely nonviolent protest movement that scared the shit out of a lot of powerful people to a bad dangerous destructive wave of “riots”
The amount of media coverage of the Oscar nominations and Jack Smith’s testimony to Congress today will be inversely proportional to the importance of each.
January 22, 2026 at 3:15 PM
The amount of media coverage of the Oscar nominations and Jack Smith’s testimony to Congress today will be inversely proportional to the importance of each.
Trump can’t find his ass with both hands so this isn’t really a surprise. Somebody give him a map to Gansu.
Trump: "There are windmills all over Europe. There are windmills all over the place. And they are losers. One thing I've noticed is that the more windmills a country has, the more money that country loses, and the worse that country is doing. I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China."
January 21, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Trump can’t find his ass with both hands so this isn’t really a surprise. Somebody give him a map to Gansu.
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I came to Congress to do the job: to work for people and protect them.
Now I’m facing 17 years in prison for standing up to this administration and to ICE. But if they think I’ll back down, they are wrong.
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Now I’m facing 17 years in prison for standing up to this administration and to ICE. But if they think I’ll back down, they are wrong.
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The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees
LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison.
www.newyorker.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:48 PM
I came to Congress to do the job: to work for people and protect them.
Now I’m facing 17 years in prison for standing up to this administration and to ICE. But if they think I’ll back down, they are wrong.
Read more:
Now I’m facing 17 years in prison for standing up to this administration and to ICE. But if they think I’ll back down, they are wrong.
Read more:
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To be clear, Disney asked for quotes, then deleted the post because folks passed the vibes check 😂
January 18, 2026 at 4:09 PM
To be clear, Disney asked for quotes, then deleted the post because folks passed the vibes check 😂