Val
@vbouch.bsky.social
Artist, ADHD (because why not?), Happily Blue. I always vet accounts before I follow. It could take awhile… I will need other people to get through all this. It’s hell. 🔥
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What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?
ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles
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ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles
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August 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?
ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles
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ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles
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For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce"
www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...
www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...
April 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce"
www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...
www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...
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“Forever wondering if I’m truly far left or if I’m just an empathetic person living in a late capitalist hellscape where I get called a communist for saying “hey, maybe poor people don’t deserve to starve”.
January 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM
“Forever wondering if I’m truly far left or if I’m just an empathetic person living in a late capitalist hellscape where I get called a communist for saying “hey, maybe poor people don’t deserve to starve”.
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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
April 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
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I sounded the alarm on behalf of millions of Americans who don't want Elon Musk's lackeys digging into their personal data.
Today, a federal judge barred them from accessing your private data.
This is why we fight.
Today, a federal judge barred them from accessing your private data.
This is why we fight.
NEW: A federal judge in Maryland just issued an injunction blocking DOGE from accessing sensitive personal information from the Departments of Education and Treasury and OPM — ruling that it trampled on privacy rules when it gained "seemingly unfettered" access to the files.
March 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I sounded the alarm on behalf of millions of Americans who don't want Elon Musk's lackeys digging into their personal data.
Today, a federal judge barred them from accessing your private data.
This is why we fight.
Today, a federal judge barred them from accessing your private data.
This is why we fight.
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This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research?
All of them.
All of them.
February 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research?
All of them.
All of them.
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if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all
February 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all
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Question for OPM: about 30% of federal workers at the VA are Veterans. They were given a preference for hiring because they're Veterans. Disabled Veterans got a higher preference.
They are DEIA hires.
Are you going to fire them all? Are you going to end Veterans preference?
They are DEIA hires.
Are you going to fire them all? Are you going to end Veterans preference?
January 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Question for OPM: about 30% of federal workers at the VA are Veterans. They were given a preference for hiring because they're Veterans. Disabled Veterans got a higher preference.
They are DEIA hires.
Are you going to fire them all? Are you going to end Veterans preference?
They are DEIA hires.
Are you going to fire them all? Are you going to end Veterans preference?
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The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced that he will not allow U.S. military planes carrying Colombian migrants to land in Colombia.
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January 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced that he will not allow U.S. military planes carrying Colombian migrants to land in Colombia.
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What are some things you would rather do than watch Donold’s inauguration?
January 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
What are some things you would rather do than watch Donold’s inauguration?
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Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78.
#cinema #film
bit.ly/40is3yQ
#cinema #film
bit.ly/40is3yQ
David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78
Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.
bit.ly
January 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78.
#cinema #film
bit.ly/40is3yQ
#cinema #film
bit.ly/40is3yQ
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If you have any vetbros in your life jazzed about Pete Hegseth just say "that dude is a "leg", didn't even go to Airborne school let alone Ranger school, his claim to fame is complaining about females in positions he didn't have the balls to attempt.. sure he was national guard infantry but come on"
January 16, 2025 at 3:28 AM
If you have any vetbros in your life jazzed about Pete Hegseth just say "that dude is a "leg", didn't even go to Airborne school let alone Ranger school, his claim to fame is complaining about females in positions he didn't have the balls to attempt.. sure he was national guard infantry but come on"
As a modern human, I agree with all of this.
Dear Modern Humans,
You thought you were so much smarter than people from the Middle Ages. But you're not.
Why do you think the dark ages lasted so long? It was because of greedy, insane despots who crushed progress and dangerous thoughts.
It won't end until you rise up and overthrow them all.
You thought you were so much smarter than people from the Middle Ages. But you're not.
Why do you think the dark ages lasted so long? It was because of greedy, insane despots who crushed progress and dangerous thoughts.
It won't end until you rise up and overthrow them all.
January 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
As a modern human, I agree with all of this.
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I have struggled with how to respond to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness. While I have thought about quitting Facebook, I find great value in the connections and friends I have here, and it doesn't seem fair that I should lose that 1/4
January 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I have struggled with how to respond to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness. While I have thought about quitting Facebook, I find great value in the connections and friends I have here, and it doesn't seem fair that I should lose that 1/4
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Is this a metaphor for the newspaper he’s destroying
After aborting an attempt to get its New Glenn rocket off the ground, Blue Origin — the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos — has declared plans to try again overnight.
Blue Origin makes surprise decision to re-try New Glenn launch attempt overnight | CNN
Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, called off its first attempt to get its new, 30-story New Glenn rocket off the ground in the early hours of Monday morning.
www.cnn.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Is this a metaphor for the newspaper he’s destroying
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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
January 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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If you are in Southern California, here are World Central Kitchen food locations.
Everybody else, we need to continue to donate to the World Central Kitchen if possible. They will be there for a long time after the cameras are gone.
#WorldCentralKitchen
wck.org/news/meal-lo...
Everybody else, we need to continue to donate to the World Central Kitchen if possible. They will be there for a long time after the cameras are gone.
#WorldCentralKitchen
wck.org/news/meal-lo...
World Central Kitchen | Meal Distribution Sites: California Fires
WCK is distributing free hot meals to the public at the following locations in Southern California in response to multiple active wildfires near Los Angeles. For the most up to date information please...
wck.org
January 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
If you are in Southern California, here are World Central Kitchen food locations.
Everybody else, we need to continue to donate to the World Central Kitchen if possible. They will be there for a long time after the cameras are gone.
#WorldCentralKitchen
wck.org/news/meal-lo...
Everybody else, we need to continue to donate to the World Central Kitchen if possible. They will be there for a long time after the cameras are gone.
#WorldCentralKitchen
wck.org/news/meal-lo...
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Sure, some notable people lost their expensive homes in LA
But a lot more people lost their modest homes, their rented condo or apt
Workers at the sandwich shop, baristas, food servers, cooks, supermarket & retail clerks, bank tellers, librarians, gardeners, janitors, etc have lost their jobs
But a lot more people lost their modest homes, their rented condo or apt
Workers at the sandwich shop, baristas, food servers, cooks, supermarket & retail clerks, bank tellers, librarians, gardeners, janitors, etc have lost their jobs
January 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Sure, some notable people lost their expensive homes in LA
But a lot more people lost their modest homes, their rented condo or apt
Workers at the sandwich shop, baristas, food servers, cooks, supermarket & retail clerks, bank tellers, librarians, gardeners, janitors, etc have lost their jobs
But a lot more people lost their modest homes, their rented condo or apt
Workers at the sandwich shop, baristas, food servers, cooks, supermarket & retail clerks, bank tellers, librarians, gardeners, janitors, etc have lost their jobs
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remarkable to me that far from seeming cool or masculine zuck seems like an even bigger loser — the kind of nerd who preemptively gives his lunch money to the bully and thanks him for the opportunity
January 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
remarkable to me that far from seeming cool or masculine zuck seems like an even bigger loser — the kind of nerd who preemptively gives his lunch money to the bully and thanks him for the opportunity
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NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit”
theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”
Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”
theintercept.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit”
theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...