@valmerrick.bsky.social
Retired, cancer survivor, blue dot in a sea of red. I like crafts and gardening
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When the dam breaks on these guys - and it will, because they can't control themselves and don't even see why they should - it's going to get really ugly, really fast.
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
October 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
When the dam breaks on these guys - and it will, because they can't control themselves and don't even see why they should - it's going to get really ugly, really fast.
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Breaking: Trump just banned states from being able to wipe medical debt from Americans’ credit reports.
The Biden-Harris administration had moved to wipe medical debt from credit reports. Now this new rule will keep $220 billion in medical bills on Americans’ records.
The Biden-Harris administration had moved to wipe medical debt from credit reports. Now this new rule will keep $220 billion in medical bills on Americans’ records.
October 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Breaking: Trump just banned states from being able to wipe medical debt from Americans’ credit reports.
The Biden-Harris administration had moved to wipe medical debt from credit reports. Now this new rule will keep $220 billion in medical bills on Americans’ records.
The Biden-Harris administration had moved to wipe medical debt from credit reports. Now this new rule will keep $220 billion in medical bills on Americans’ records.
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President Biden urges America to get up!
October 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
President Biden urges America to get up!
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After January 6, 2021, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Comcast publicly pledged to stop donating to politicians who sought to undermine the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election.
In 2025, these companies have stopped worrying about democracy and are buying Trump a ballroom.
In 2025, these companies have stopped worrying about democracy and are buying Trump a ballroom.
These Corporations Stopped Worrying About Democracy and Bought Trump a Ballroom
It has been nearly five years since the 2020 presidential election, but President Trump continues to baselessly insist it was stolen.
popular.info
October 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
After January 6, 2021, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Comcast publicly pledged to stop donating to politicians who sought to undermine the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election.
In 2025, these companies have stopped worrying about democracy and are buying Trump a ballroom.
In 2025, these companies have stopped worrying about democracy and are buying Trump a ballroom.
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#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #DV1
At the Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony, the former president Biden expressed his pain at watching his successor ruin everything and hurt people.
Still, as he says, we can fight to restore sane governance: it starts with coming off-year elections.
At the Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony, the former president Biden expressed his pain at watching his successor ruin everything and hurt people.
Still, as he says, we can fight to restore sane governance: it starts with coming off-year elections.
October 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #DV1
At the Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony, the former president Biden expressed his pain at watching his successor ruin everything and hurt people.
Still, as he says, we can fight to restore sane governance: it starts with coming off-year elections.
At the Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony, the former president Biden expressed his pain at watching his successor ruin everything and hurt people.
Still, as he says, we can fight to restore sane governance: it starts with coming off-year elections.
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She never should have been detained in the first place. How much damage to families, businesses and schools can we tolerate before this stops?
youtu.be/QNxhF74X5nk
youtu.be/QNxhF74X5nk
Portland mother detained by ICE released from custody
YouTube video by KGW News
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
She never should have been detained in the first place. How much damage to families, businesses and schools can we tolerate before this stops?
youtu.be/QNxhF74X5nk
youtu.be/QNxhF74X5nk
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New episode of the @ricksmithshow.bsky.social podcast. #MSWMedia
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
October 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
New episode of the @ricksmithshow.bsky.social podcast. #MSWMedia
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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The government shutdown is halting the collection and release of statistics tracking the job market, public health and crop production, as well as other economic indicators.
www.axios.com/2025/10/26/s...
www.axios.com/2025/10/26/s...
Government shutdown leaves the economy in uncharted territory
The shutdown is halting the collection and release of statistics tracking the job market, public health and crop production.
www.axios.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The government shutdown is halting the collection and release of statistics tracking the job market, public health and crop production, as well as other economic indicators.
www.axios.com/2025/10/26/s...
www.axios.com/2025/10/26/s...
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Martin is hard at work and our mascot, Gracie, 🐶 doing what she does best.
October 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Martin is hard at work and our mascot, Gracie, 🐶 doing what she does best.
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October 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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YES I am terrible at being on vacation, but this story is too important because ALL ROADS LEAD TO EPSTEIN. Starting in ten minutes: youtube.com/live/gJjI6FR...
LIVE: Trump SECRET Payment’s SHOCK TIES TO EPSTEIN Revealed
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
youtube.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
YES I am terrible at being on vacation, but this story is too important because ALL ROADS LEAD TO EPSTEIN. Starting in ten minutes: youtube.com/live/gJjI6FR...
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🚨Premiere Episode🚨 of The Martin Sheen Podcast! 💙@themartinpod.bsky.social #MSWMedia
This episode is filled with heroic stories and poems and the men and women who, despite the dangers, valiantly followed their hearts.
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
This episode is filled with heroic stories and poems and the men and women who, despite the dangers, valiantly followed their hearts.
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
October 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🚨Premiere Episode🚨 of The Martin Sheen Podcast! 💙@themartinpod.bsky.social #MSWMedia
This episode is filled with heroic stories and poems and the men and women who, despite the dangers, valiantly followed their hearts.
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
This episode is filled with heroic stories and poems and the men and women who, despite the dangers, valiantly followed their hearts.
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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If you've not heard, Hurricane Melissa, is about an hour away from landfall in Jamaica.
893 millibars at last pass through with the hurricane recon flight.
I am terrified for the people in Jamaica.
Cat 5. 182 mph at the eye wall. 200+mph wind gusts.
#SheShed
www.youtube.com/live/qitHKtk...
893 millibars at last pass through with the hurricane recon flight.
I am terrified for the people in Jamaica.
Cat 5. 182 mph at the eye wall. 200+mph wind gusts.
#SheShed
www.youtube.com/live/qitHKtk...
🔴 LIVE Major CAT 5 Hurricane Melissa Coverage - Live Cameras & Weather Data
YouTube video by Ryan Hall, Y'all
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
If you've not heard, Hurricane Melissa, is about an hour away from landfall in Jamaica.
893 millibars at last pass through with the hurricane recon flight.
I am terrified for the people in Jamaica.
Cat 5. 182 mph at the eye wall. 200+mph wind gusts.
#SheShed
www.youtube.com/live/qitHKtk...
893 millibars at last pass through with the hurricane recon flight.
I am terrified for the people in Jamaica.
Cat 5. 182 mph at the eye wall. 200+mph wind gusts.
#SheShed
www.youtube.com/live/qitHKtk...
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Charles I has prorogued parliament.
Lofgren: Now, instead of the president weighing in, we’ve got him doing weird little dances as he lands in Asia, and he’s missing in action. The Senate is refusing to negotiate across party lines, and the House of Representatives isn’t even meeting. I mean, I’ve never seen anything like this.
October 28, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Charles I has prorogued parliament.
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Appalling
These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans.
Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now is meant to distract you from this.
Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now is meant to distract you from this.
October 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Appalling
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Attacking truth, facts, and science is part of a classic authoritarian playbook. We as educators have an important role helping young people become critical thinkers to see through the lies and corruption. @ruthbenghiat in the new #AmericanEducator: aft.org/ae/fall2025/ben-ghiat
The Trump Administration Is Trying to Wreck Our Democracy
aft.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Attacking truth, facts, and science is part of a classic authoritarian playbook. We as educators have an important role helping young people become critical thinkers to see through the lies and corruption. @ruthbenghiat in the new #AmericanEducator: aft.org/ae/fall2025/ben-ghiat
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Lutnick on being invited over to his then-neighbor Jeffrey Epstein's house: He invites us in and there's a massage table in the middle of the room. I say, "Massage table in the middle of your house? How often you have a massage?
And he says, "Every day...and the right kind of massage."
And he says, "Every day...and the right kind of massage."
October 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Lutnick on being invited over to his then-neighbor Jeffrey Epstein's house: He invites us in and there's a massage table in the middle of the room. I say, "Massage table in the middle of your house? How often you have a massage?
And he says, "Every day...and the right kind of massage."
And he says, "Every day...and the right kind of massage."
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NEW: The DOJ sues California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania for refusing to release sensitive voter registration data, aggressively escalating the department’s ongoing efforts to obtain states’ voter rolls.
From: @mattdcohen.bsky.social
From: @mattdcohen.bsky.social
DOJ Sues Six States, Escalating Campaign to Seize Private Voter Data
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
NEW: The DOJ sues California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania for refusing to release sensitive voter registration data, aggressively escalating the department’s ongoing efforts to obtain states’ voter rolls.
From: @mattdcohen.bsky.social
From: @mattdcohen.bsky.social
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Dr. Andrea Baccarelli, a leading epidemiologist whom the administration cited as a major authority for linking Tylenol and autism, “was paid at least $150,000 to serve as an expert witness on behalf of plaintiffs in lawsuits” against . . . Tylenol.
The World’s Brittlest Ego Meets the Globe’s Biggest Stage
When are all you U.N. jerks going to start appreciating everything the American emperor does for you?
www.thebulwark.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Dr. Andrea Baccarelli, a leading epidemiologist whom the administration cited as a major authority for linking Tylenol and autism, “was paid at least $150,000 to serve as an expert witness on behalf of plaintiffs in lawsuits” against . . . Tylenol.
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the FBI is refusing to say whether the people who were killed today at an ICE facility in Dallas were detainees, but they are confirming that no law enforcement officials were injured 🤔
September 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
the FBI is refusing to say whether the people who were killed today at an ICE facility in Dallas were detainees, but they are confirming that no law enforcement officials were injured 🤔
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In December 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to grant cert before judgement to hear Trump’s immunity appeal.
The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024.
Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.
The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024.
Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.
Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it.
It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.
This is the *23rd* such grant since then.
It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.
This is the *23rd* such grant since then.
#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.
September 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
In December 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to grant cert before judgement to hear Trump’s immunity appeal.
The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024.
Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.
The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024.
Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.
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Just a reminder
September 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Just a reminder
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Hard to express to those not in the weeds just how much the current state of the immigration detention system is just utter chaos.
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Hard to express to those not in the weeds just how much the current state of the immigration detention system is just utter chaos.
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I was unaware this national friendship day statues existed of Trump and Epstein. @jollygoodginger.bsky.social shows us what it's all about and what people are thinking about these statues. #VetsAgainstTrump
September 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I was unaware this national friendship day statues existed of Trump and Epstein. @jollygoodginger.bsky.social shows us what it's all about and what people are thinking about these statues. #VetsAgainstTrump