Velvetpage
@velvetpage.bsky.social
Blue in the US, Red/Orange in Canada, hunkering down, preparing to help, and seizing my joy. 🌈 Community member, she/her. I block crypto shillers and MAGAts.
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“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
October 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
#CTV quoted a professor saying there's "no inherent downside" to three-way split grades. They didn't talk to any teachers of split grades to get this story. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
‘A slap in the face’: North York parents speak out against combined classroom with three grades
Parents at a North York elementary school are speaking out after three grades were combined into a single classroom taught by a single teacher following a recent reorganization process.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
#CTV quoted a professor saying there's "no inherent downside" to three-way split grades. They didn't talk to any teachers of split grades to get this story. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
The Quebec government is going full Trump. Tying doctors' pay to "performance indicators" is a great way to make sure the sickest, most challenging patients can't find a doctor. The same tactic was applied in the US to teachers with NCLB, and the result was teachers fleeing inner city schools.
September 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The Quebec government is going full Trump. Tying doctors' pay to "performance indicators" is a great way to make sure the sickest, most challenging patients can't find a doctor. The same tactic was applied in the US to teachers with NCLB, and the result was teachers fleeing inner city schools.
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KONSYSE: European regulators push back on Trump’s autism claim. EMA confirms no link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism. It further urges reliance on evidence-based science.
European Medicines Agency Refutes Trump. Dismisses Claim Linking Paracetamol to Autism — Konsyse
The European Medicines Agency refutes a claim by Donald Trump linking paracetamol use during pregnancy to autism.
www.konsyse.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
KONSYSE: European regulators push back on Trump’s autism claim. EMA confirms no link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism. It further urges reliance on evidence-based science.
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"If that is how they are treating us with camera all around us, what are they doing to the detainees that ate in that facility with the boarded up windows."
@katmabu.bsky.social tells @deanobeidallah.bsky.social about her visits to Broadview Processing Center.
@katmabu.bsky.social tells @deanobeidallah.bsky.social about her visits to Broadview Processing Center.
September 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"If that is how they are treating us with camera all around us, what are they doing to the detainees that ate in that facility with the boarded up windows."
@katmabu.bsky.social tells @deanobeidallah.bsky.social about her visits to Broadview Processing Center.
@katmabu.bsky.social tells @deanobeidallah.bsky.social about her visits to Broadview Processing Center.
So, a shooting that killed only #ICE victims, and no ICE officers, is being blamed on... People who hate ICE officers? We're supposed to tone down our rhetoric but they bear no responsibility for grabbing people off the street and outside their court hearings? Don't dehumanize the masked bandits?
September 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
So, a shooting that killed only #ICE victims, and no ICE officers, is being blamed on... People who hate ICE officers? We're supposed to tone down our rhetoric but they bear no responsibility for grabbing people off the street and outside their court hearings? Don't dehumanize the masked bandits?
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What was incredible to me about this press conference is that nowhere did anyone mention that the victims were all detainees. Even if it turns out the suspect intended to target ICE employees, which we still don’t know is true, doesn’t that seem like important information?
FBI official: "What I can share with you is that early evidence we're seen from rounds that were found near the suspected shooter contain messages that are anti-ICE in nature. Again, this is just the most recently example of this type of attack."
September 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
What was incredible to me about this press conference is that nowhere did anyone mention that the victims were all detainees. Even if it turns out the suspect intended to target ICE employees, which we still don’t know is true, doesn’t that seem like important information?
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When I wrote this in January, people said I was an alarmist. Today, the New York Times reported that “Senior officials in the federal government have taken over a conservative media entity to talk about a crackdown on anti-conservative thought and speech.”
Yes, a crackdown on thought and speech.
Yes, a crackdown on thought and speech.
There Will Be Retribution
From Marc | Donald Trump will insist on using the powers of the state to attack his political opponents.
www.democracydocket.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
When I wrote this in January, people said I was an alarmist. Today, the New York Times reported that “Senior officials in the federal government have taken over a conservative media entity to talk about a crackdown on anti-conservative thought and speech.”
Yes, a crackdown on thought and speech.
Yes, a crackdown on thought and speech.
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"Another religious figure has publicly voiced their criticism of Charlie Kirk."
September 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Another religious figure has publicly voiced their criticism of Charlie Kirk."
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Remember Nory and her mom Estela? Here’s the devastating update.
ICE took Estela’s blood pressure meds when they deported her. She was too afraid to leave home for refills because the same gangs that beat her in Guatemala were still waiting.
She died at 45 because she didn’t have her medication.
ICE took Estela’s blood pressure meds when they deported her. She was too afraid to leave home for refills because the same gangs that beat her in Guatemala were still waiting.
She died at 45 because she didn’t have her medication.
September 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Remember Nory and her mom Estela? Here’s the devastating update.
ICE took Estela’s blood pressure meds when they deported her. She was too afraid to leave home for refills because the same gangs that beat her in Guatemala were still waiting.
She died at 45 because she didn’t have her medication.
ICE took Estela’s blood pressure meds when they deported her. She was too afraid to leave home for refills because the same gangs that beat her in Guatemala were still waiting.
She died at 45 because she didn’t have her medication.
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Why should good people condemn this? These vile people are living in their own reality and dragging down everyone with them. He lived in a world he was creating. He died in that same world. The rest of us don't have to live there.
September 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Why should good people condemn this? These vile people are living in their own reality and dragging down everyone with them. He lived in a world he was creating. He died in that same world. The rest of us don't have to live there.
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Charlie Kirk's death was a tragedy.
But he built his name on provocation and white supremacy.
He said that gun deaths of innocents was "worth it."
On Mark Carney's first day as PM in Parliament Liberals gave Kirk a standing ovation.
Ceding ground to extremism won't make them nicer.
But he built his name on provocation and white supremacy.
He said that gun deaths of innocents was "worth it."
On Mark Carney's first day as PM in Parliament Liberals gave Kirk a standing ovation.
Ceding ground to extremism won't make them nicer.
September 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Charlie Kirk's death was a tragedy.
But he built his name on provocation and white supremacy.
He said that gun deaths of innocents was "worth it."
On Mark Carney's first day as PM in Parliament Liberals gave Kirk a standing ovation.
Ceding ground to extremism won't make them nicer.
But he built his name on provocation and white supremacy.
He said that gun deaths of innocents was "worth it."
On Mark Carney's first day as PM in Parliament Liberals gave Kirk a standing ovation.
Ceding ground to extremism won't make them nicer.
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MAKE NO MISTAKE; these are actual FBI stats. I’ve attached the detailed spreadsheet for doubters.
ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the...
ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the...
September 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
MAKE NO MISTAKE; these are actual FBI stats. I’ve attached the detailed spreadsheet for doubters.
ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the...
ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the...
Me, teaching short vowels: this is a hen. Listen to the vowel. Is it hen or hin?
Me, two minutes later: this is the number six. Listen to the vowel. Is it six or... Um, is it i or e?
The joys of grade one.
Me, two minutes later: this is the number six. Listen to the vowel. Is it six or... Um, is it i or e?
The joys of grade one.
September 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Me, teaching short vowels: this is a hen. Listen to the vowel. Is it hen or hin?
Me, two minutes later: this is the number six. Listen to the vowel. Is it six or... Um, is it i or e?
The joys of grade one.
Me, two minutes later: this is the number six. Listen to the vowel. Is it six or... Um, is it i or e?
The joys of grade one.
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Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
September 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
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“This means war” to “who led this sweet boy astray” in less than 48 hours
“I have no idea why he did this.” A young man's descent from model student to suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk. on.wsj.com/48gbtoN
September 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“This means war” to “who led this sweet boy astray” in less than 48 hours
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FUCKING LIAR. The right are committing the crimes.
September 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
FUCKING LIAR. The right are committing the crimes.
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Charlie Kirk's attacker is now confirmed to be a cis white Christian male Tyler Robinson who wore a Trump Halloween costume, frequented 4chan and alt-right Discord channels, and enjoyed the video game Helldivers. Not a muslim, trans person, or radical leftist.
September 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Charlie Kirk's attacker is now confirmed to be a cis white Christian male Tyler Robinson who wore a Trump Halloween costume, frequented 4chan and alt-right Discord channels, and enjoyed the video game Helldivers. Not a muslim, trans person, or radical leftist.
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Here are the _public_ email addresses for the reporters and the standards editor listed on the WSJ site.
Standards editor:
David.marcelis@wsj.com
Journalists who wrote the article:
james.fanelli@wsj.com
sadie.gurman@wsj.com
Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.
Standards editor:
David.marcelis@wsj.com
Journalists who wrote the article:
james.fanelli@wsj.com
sadie.gurman@wsj.com
Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.
Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.
September 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
September 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
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weird how there are suddenly a bunch of violent incidents and threats at HBCUs and the DNC office despite nobody knowing who the shooter is except that he appears to be a white man in an American flag shirt
September 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
weird how there are suddenly a bunch of violent incidents and threats at HBCUs and the DNC office despite nobody knowing who the shooter is except that he appears to be a white man in an American flag shirt
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NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.
No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way
His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.
www.motherjones.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.
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MSM is showing its whole ass right now. They know Kirk wasn’t a good dude, yet they’re bending over backwards to sanitize him, leaving out his entire racist and white nationalist record.
Mathew Dowd was fired by MSNBC for even the mildest of truths.
Mathew Dowd was fired by MSNBC for even the mildest of truths.
September 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
MSM is showing its whole ass right now. They know Kirk wasn’t a good dude, yet they’re bending over backwards to sanitize him, leaving out his entire racist and white nationalist record.
Mathew Dowd was fired by MSNBC for even the mildest of truths.
Mathew Dowd was fired by MSNBC for even the mildest of truths.