Valerie Fern
valeriefern.bsky.social
Valerie Fern
@valeriefern.bsky.social
A stranger in a strange land.
February 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.

You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?

Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.

You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income
This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.
truthout.org
February 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Panama says US claims of free canal transit for warships are ‘lies’

https://www.ft.com/enrichedcontent/515a9372-1a34-401b-9bac-4b438eb21e05
Panama says US claims of free canal transit for warships are ‘lies’
President escalates dispute with Trump administration over strategic waterway
www.ft.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Just Another Day by Artist Noel Chavez.
February 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
ALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
media.tenor.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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February 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Dear Canada and Mexico,

We’re so, so sorry.

— Sane America
February 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
So awesome yo have friends Jenn and Holly join me this week in Ajijic!
January 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
By street artist Kilos in Porto, Portugal.🇵🇹
January 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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JUST IN: Meta agreed to pay President Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 federal lawsuit alleging First Amendment violations after his suspension from Facebook and Instagram in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack.
Meta agrees to pay Trump $25 million to settle lawsuit over Facebook and Instagram suspensions
Meta agreed to pay President Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 federal lawsuit alleging First Amendment violations after his suspension from Facebook and Instagram in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack.
www.npr.org
January 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
January 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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News: Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, DC, apologizes to LGBTQ people: "The way that we have treated our LGBTQ brothers and sisters has brought them tears and too many of us disgrace."

outreach.faith/2025/01/card...
Cardinal Wilton Gregory: I apologize to LGBTQ Catholics
The outgoing archbishop of Washington, D.C., Cardinal Wilton Gregory, said that LBGTQ people in the church have not been treated well and offered an apology.
outreach.faith
January 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
January 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Buenos Días de Ajijic, Mexico!
January 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
January 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
México! Here I come!
January 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
January 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
30 years and still going strong!💜💜💜
January 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
January 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
January 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
docs.google.com
January 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.”

~President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
January 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Pure Courage. Hero.
January 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM