Dr. Shela Van Ness
@friendofhind.bsky.social
Retired Sociology Professor now living in Sarasota, Florida. Student of crime and human behavior. Grant writer. Former counselor, & mediator. Humanist patriot who believes in justice for all. Good sense of humor.
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Protect the Oath: Reject Presidential Intimidation Now
At a time of growing threats to democratic norms, Congress must make it unmistakably clear that the United States Armed Forces remain committed to upholding the Constitution and protecting the America...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/pr...
Trump’s trade war and mass corporate consolidation are forcing American soybean farmers to grow crops with no one to sell to.
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Too Big To Farm
Trump’s trade war and mass corporate consolidation are forcing American soybean farmers to grow crops with no one to sell to.
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October 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Trump’s trade war and mass corporate consolidation are forcing American soybean farmers to grow crops with no one to sell to.
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This is AI2ES, my AI institute. No way around it other than to say this is really awful. We are doing so many amazing things! We want to keep doing amazing things but without this level of funding, we will not be able to do so.
Another blow to meteorological R&D this morning, as it was confirmed that NSF is terminating funding for its main weather and earth science focused AI research institute led by the Univ. of Oklahoma. Also - a LOT of weather to talk about, especially in the West. More: https://tinyurl.com/mr2znbdb
NSF terminates funding for its main meteorology focused AI institute
In weather, lots of potential threats in the West this week
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September 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is AI2ES, my AI institute. No way around it other than to say this is really awful. We are doing so many amazing things! We want to keep doing amazing things but without this level of funding, we will not be able to do so.
And this is why fascism is not a sustainable way to run a country!
Speculation over Trump’s mortality exposes MAGA’s fragility. Like Stalin’s inner circle, his death would unleash chaos—loyalists clawing for power, institutions paralyzed, America left vulnerable to the wreckage he engineered.
The Death of Trump
What would happen to MAGA? And America?
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September 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
And this is why fascism is not a sustainable way to run a country!
Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly skipped its typical bidding process to fast-track a multimillion-dollar, GOP-connected SUV contract.
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The Fraudster Behind ICE’s New $2.2 Million Wheels
Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly skipped its typical bidding process to fast-track a multimillion-dollar, GOP-connected SUV contract.
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September 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly skipped its typical bidding process to fast-track a multimillion-dollar, GOP-connected SUV contract.
www.levernews.com/the-fraudste...
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A Florida Judge Tried To Strip Me Of My Law License
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A Florida Judge Tried To Strip Me Of My Law License
Why I need your courage now more than ever to combat injustice in our legal systems and protect due process of law for All people in the United States
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September 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A Florida Judge Tried To Strip Me Of My Law License
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U.S. offers certain workers temporary visas to make up for labor shortages.
H-2B is for workers in jobs for with demonstrated shortage of talent.
Mar-A-Lago employs > 100 non-U.S. citizens, one of leaders in H-2B in Florida. Why?
How many of these workers have been subject to ICE scrutiny?
H-2B is for workers in jobs for with demonstrated shortage of talent.
Mar-A-Lago employs > 100 non-U.S. citizens, one of leaders in H-2B in Florida. Why?
How many of these workers have been subject to ICE scrutiny?
August 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
U.S. offers certain workers temporary visas to make up for labor shortages.
H-2B is for workers in jobs for with demonstrated shortage of talent.
Mar-A-Lago employs > 100 non-U.S. citizens, one of leaders in H-2B in Florida. Why?
How many of these workers have been subject to ICE scrutiny?
H-2B is for workers in jobs for with demonstrated shortage of talent.
Mar-A-Lago employs > 100 non-U.S. citizens, one of leaders in H-2B in Florida. Why?
How many of these workers have been subject to ICE scrutiny?
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There's actually a scientific explanation for how Florida politics got so MAGA. The Northeastern Boomers who made that a swing state died and the Cubans who see Democrats as no different from Castro grew in number. That's how the pistol-shaped state came to vote so differently.
August 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
There's actually a scientific explanation for how Florida politics got so MAGA. The Northeastern Boomers who made that a swing state died and the Cubans who see Democrats as no different from Castro grew in number. That's how the pistol-shaped state came to vote so differently.
Everyone in Florida needs to buy colored chalk and decorate sidewalks everywhere in Florida.
Ron DeSatan tries to intimidate the lgbtqai community but even Florida law doesn’t follow what Ron wants.
A judge dismissed the case, finding no probable cause after Florida police arrested a man as part of Ron DeSantis’ crackdown over rainbow chalk ark memorializing the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. More:
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August 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Everyone in Florida needs to buy colored chalk and decorate sidewalks everywhere in Florida.
And in Sarasota too!
Miami, Florida
Tomorrow September 1
Tomorrow September 1
August 31, 2025 at 4:58 PM
And in Sarasota too!
So this tells us the fascists are really afreaid of the gays? Who are the real snowflakes? We need to use our power to sabotage their fascism. We have the power.
It took cops three hours to finally go into the Pulse nightclub the night of the shooting.
If you wander near a crosswalk in Florida with a piece of chalk right now you'll have four cops on you in under five seconds.🤷♂️
If you wander near a crosswalk in Florida with a piece of chalk right now you'll have four cops on you in under five seconds.🤷♂️
August 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
So this tells us the fascists are really afreaid of the gays? Who are the real snowflakes? We need to use our power to sabotage their fascism. We have the power.
News flash. Now that there is an imminent court-ordered closing of DeSantis' a..igator A. the guards are now beating prisoners. See report by Status Coup on Youtube.
Florida’s immigrant detention crisis isn’t a failure—it’s the blueprint. Engineered cruelty. State-sanctioned abuse. DeSantis turned the state into a test lab for authoritarianism—and now it’s spreading.
You won’t believe what they’ve gotten away with. social.demcast.com/s/Dk6aQBQR
You won’t believe what they’ve gotten away with. social.demcast.com/s/Dk6aQBQR
👉 Click here to read the full investigation
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August 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
News flash. Now that there is an imminent court-ordered closing of DeSantis' a..igator A. the guards are now beating prisoners. See report by Status Coup on Youtube.
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Solutions-based thinking to combat snowflake state govt bigotry in Florida! 😃 🏳️🌈
Here is an easy solution to the Pulse memorial crosswalk conflict: The state of Florida has jurisdiction because the crosswalk is on State Road 527. If the Democratic mayor and city council of Orlando authorize and paint a city crosswalk 50 feet away, the state should have no enforcement authority.
August 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Solutions-based thinking to combat snowflake state govt bigotry in Florida! 😃 🏳️🌈
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The values of the government of Florida are the values of the third reich. The values of the Ku Klux Klan.
They demand an erasure of all other races, all other peoples, all other creeds.
They will demand all others be made legally subordinate, as they already have done to trans folks.
They demand an erasure of all other races, all other peoples, all other creeds.
They will demand all others be made legally subordinate, as they already have done to trans folks.
August 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The values of the government of Florida are the values of the third reich. The values of the Ku Klux Klan.
They demand an erasure of all other races, all other peoples, all other creeds.
They will demand all others be made legally subordinate, as they already have done to trans folks.
They demand an erasure of all other races, all other peoples, all other creeds.
They will demand all others be made legally subordinate, as they already have done to trans folks.
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RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.
They Don't Care
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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August 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.
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Impeach Kennedy NOW, who LIED in his confirmation hearings and has demonstrated he cannot protect the nation’s health but IS CAUSING needless illness and death.
August 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Impeach Kennedy NOW, who LIED in his confirmation hearings and has demonstrated he cannot protect the nation’s health but IS CAUSING needless illness and death.
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TRUTH!
I always thought that the thing in 1984 where the Ministry of Truth spread Propaganda and the Ministry of Love undertook torture was the most over the top aspect of the dystopia, but now we have a Department of Education that creates ignorance and a Center for Disease Control that spreads disease.
August 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
TRUTH!
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THANK YOU, PRESIDENT OF PORTUGAL
August 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
THANK YOU, PRESIDENT OF PORTUGAL
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The republican Congress is allowing America to implode.
August 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The republican Congress is allowing America to implode.
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BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
August 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
Will the Politician Who Sabotages Justice for Flint Finally Pay the Music?
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Will the Politician Who Sabotages Justice for Flint Finally Pay the Music?
No agents "had ever seen this shit before," an FBI source familiar w/ Flint criminal investigation told us about fraud that MI AG Dana Nessel buried. She was just subpoenaed over alleged wrongdoing.
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August 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Will the Politician Who Sabotages Justice for Flint Finally Pay the Music?
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Assassinations of journalists is an Israeli attempt to stop truth from getting to the world. Israel will die when the genocide ends and people see the full reality of what Israel and the US have done. Israel is a rogue nation with no moral center. No nation will associate with them.
“A double-tap strike… Israel has killed more journalists in Gaza than all journalists killed in wars since World War 2 combined…”
@chrislhayes @krystalmball @esaagar @aymanm cover the horrific Nasser hospital strikes, where rescue workers were targeted. Not a “mishap”.
@chrislhayes @krystalmball @esaagar @aymanm cover the horrific Nasser hospital strikes, where rescue workers were targeted. Not a “mishap”.
August 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Assassinations of journalists is an Israeli attempt to stop truth from getting to the world. Israel will die when the genocide ends and people see the full reality of what Israel and the US have done. Israel is a rogue nation with no moral center. No nation will associate with them.
More dirty tricking by the Administration. More lessening our reputatiionwith former European allies. Actiions have consequences.
Trump wants Greenland for the same reason Hitler wanted the Suedetenland. Expansion of a state's boundaries is a concrete indication of the fascist regeneration of the nation where it cannot be denied: on the world stage
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Denmark summons US envoy over claims of interference in Greenland
The top U.S. diplomat in Denmark has been summoned by the government after a report that people connected to Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.
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August 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
More dirty tricking by the Administration. More lessening our reputatiionwith former European allies. Actiions have consequences.
This should not happen in a government "for the people, by the people."
Yikes! The CDC has quietly scaled back its FoodNet surveillance, now only tracking salmonella and STEC.
Monitoring for Listeria, Campylobacter, Vibrio and other pathogens has stopped- even after last year’s deadly Listeria outbreak. buff.ly/OyTTIOA
h/t @boghuma.bsky.social
#medsky #IDsky 🛟🧪
Monitoring for Listeria, Campylobacter, Vibrio and other pathogens has stopped- even after last year’s deadly Listeria outbreak. buff.ly/OyTTIOA
h/t @boghuma.bsky.social
#medsky #IDsky 🛟🧪
August 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This should not happen in a government "for the people, by the people."