M. Valrie
@mvalrie.bsky.social
Urban Planner | Community Curator | Thrift Queen | Member of the 92% | Lover of all things Black
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We import a SIGNIFICANT amount of pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical INGREDIENTS from China and India so…
We import a SIGNIFICANT amount of pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical INGREDIENTS from China and India so…
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The US Postal Service says it is temporarily suspending international package acceptance of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong until further notice.
The US Postal Service says it is temporarily suspending international package acceptance of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong until further notice.
February 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
UM.
We import a SIGNIFICANT amount of pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical INGREDIENTS from China and India so…
We import a SIGNIFICANT amount of pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical INGREDIENTS from China and India so…
They treated him like a meme coin. 🤣 #crypto
Vivek Ramaswamy expected to depart DOGE
Trump's choice to co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency is expected to announce a gubernatorial campaign after the new administration begins.
www.cbsnews.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
They treated him like a meme coin. 🤣 #crypto
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If you live in an abortion-restricted state, order your abortion pills now. PlanCPill.org will direct you to a provider who delivers to your state. If you live in Texas, you'll need to go through AidAccess.org. Legal jeopardy is on the provider, not the recipient--for now. So order them now.
PLAN C: Abortion pills by mail in every state
Plan C is an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. Learn how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pill options online.
PlanCPill.org
January 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
If you live in an abortion-restricted state, order your abortion pills now. PlanCPill.org will direct you to a provider who delivers to your state. If you live in Texas, you'll need to go through AidAccess.org. Legal jeopardy is on the provider, not the recipient--for now. So order them now.
Remember how I said I was scanning and organizing my books…I’m at book 802. AND, I found a signed Angela Y. Davis, (Women, Race and Class) a signed Anthony Bourdain (No Reservations) and a second copy of Fired Up Ready to Go by Peggy Cooper Cafritz. All from the thrift. #BlackBooks
January 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Remember how I said I was scanning and organizing my books…I’m at book 802. AND, I found a signed Angela Y. Davis, (Women, Race and Class) a signed Anthony Bourdain (No Reservations) and a second copy of Fired Up Ready to Go by Peggy Cooper Cafritz. All from the thrift. #BlackBooks
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Instead of Khloe Kardashian talking bullshit about Mayor Karen Bass, people should be talking about how she and her sister used an excess of over 300,000 gallons of water in just one month during a drought. How about the water waster just STFU.
January 12, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Instead of Khloe Kardashian talking bullshit about Mayor Karen Bass, people should be talking about how she and her sister used an excess of over 300,000 gallons of water in just one month during a drought. How about the water waster just STFU.
Inmate fire crews are typically paid $5.80 to $10.24 PER DAY …they get an additional $1 per hour when responding to a disaster.
Inmate Firefighter Crews Dwindling as California Starts to Burn
Prison reform and COVID-19 are cited as reasons for the reduction in participation in the vital program.
www.firehouse.com
January 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Inmate fire crews are typically paid $5.80 to $10.24 PER DAY …they get an additional $1 per hour when responding to a disaster.
This is what happens when you’re listening to a good audiobook. #BlackSkyFitness
January 9, 2025 at 1:40 AM
This is what happens when you’re listening to a good audiobook. #BlackSkyFitness
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A new study finds about a quarter of freshwater animals are threatened with extinction
New research shows a quarter of freshwater animals are threatened with extinction
New research shows about a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction.
apnews.com
January 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A new study finds about a quarter of freshwater animals are threatened with extinction
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so greenland is melting and everyone wants access to the minerals instead of worrying about what the climate implications will be for a country that fkn big returning to the ocean. cool cool.
January 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
so greenland is melting and everyone wants access to the minerals instead of worrying about what the climate implications will be for a country that fkn big returning to the ocean. cool cool.
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Today is Zora Neale Hurston’s birthday.
Zora was not only a writer and anthropologist, but she was also an ass-beater.
Story is she couldn’t stand her young stepmother Mattie so much that Zora knocked that lady’s head between the wall and her fist because Mattie threw a vase at her.
Zora was not only a writer and anthropologist, but she was also an ass-beater.
Story is she couldn’t stand her young stepmother Mattie so much that Zora knocked that lady’s head between the wall and her fist because Mattie threw a vase at her.
January 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Today is Zora Neale Hurston’s birthday.
Zora was not only a writer and anthropologist, but she was also an ass-beater.
Story is she couldn’t stand her young stepmother Mattie so much that Zora knocked that lady’s head between the wall and her fist because Mattie threw a vase at her.
Zora was not only a writer and anthropologist, but she was also an ass-beater.
Story is she couldn’t stand her young stepmother Mattie so much that Zora knocked that lady’s head between the wall and her fist because Mattie threw a vase at her.
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And when this happens, you know Trump will try to take credit for it🙄
So let me say this for posterity: Thank you VP KAMALA HARRIS, PRESIDENT BIDEN, and all the good people at the CFPB for moving to free MILLIONS from the burden of medical debt on their credit reports.
So let me say this for posterity: Thank you VP KAMALA HARRIS, PRESIDENT BIDEN, and all the good people at the CFPB for moving to free MILLIONS from the burden of medical debt on their credit reports.
Vice President Harris announces: A new rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would ban medical debt from appearing on credit reports — the move would potentially lift the credit scores of about 15 million Americans and make it easier for them to obtain loans.
January 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
And when this happens, you know Trump will try to take credit for it🙄
So let me say this for posterity: Thank you VP KAMALA HARRIS, PRESIDENT BIDEN, and all the good people at the CFPB for moving to free MILLIONS from the burden of medical debt on their credit reports.
So let me say this for posterity: Thank you VP KAMALA HARRIS, PRESIDENT BIDEN, and all the good people at the CFPB for moving to free MILLIONS from the burden of medical debt on their credit reports.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule on Tuesday that will bar medical debt from being included in credit scores.
Disabled adults are disproportionately impacted by medical debt.
Disabled adults are disproportionately impacted by medical debt.
Medical debt to be removed from all Americans' credit scores
"This will be life-changing for millions of families," Vice President Kamala Harris said.
www.motherjones.com
January 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule on Tuesday that will bar medical debt from being included in credit scores.
Disabled adults are disproportionately impacted by medical debt.
Disabled adults are disproportionately impacted by medical debt.
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Los Angeles January 2025
January 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Los Angeles January 2025
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I can’t love this more.
January 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I can’t love this more.
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Who staying at home?
a man in a white shirt is giving a high five with a facebook logo in the background
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media.tenor.com
January 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Who staying at home?
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If you start watching NEW JACK CITY at exactly 11:25:55 pm today, your boy Flavor Flav will scream
“HAPPY NEW YEAR!”
right as the clock strikes midnight,,, and we can celebrates together,!!
“HAPPY NEW YEAR!”
right as the clock strikes midnight,,, and we can celebrates together,!!
December 31, 2024 at 11:24 PM
If you start watching NEW JACK CITY at exactly 11:25:55 pm today, your boy Flavor Flav will scream
“HAPPY NEW YEAR!”
right as the clock strikes midnight,,, and we can celebrates together,!!
“HAPPY NEW YEAR!”
right as the clock strikes midnight,,, and we can celebrates together,!!
It’s go time. 🤛🏽 💪🏾🏋🏾♀️ Happy Festivus.
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media.tenor.com
December 25, 2024 at 6:37 PM
It’s go time. 🤛🏽 💪🏾🏋🏾♀️ Happy Festivus.
photo by Erin Speaking of fishing curiosities... From DOEE: "The Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) has recently completed a tissue study of fish caugh…
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December 25, 2024 at 6:34 PM
photo by Erin Speaking of fishing curiosities... From DOEE: "The Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) has recently completed a tissue study of fish caugh…
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This year had been so chaotic that this almost got overshadowed.
That's the title that Science magazine is bestowing upon the medication called lenacapavir — a twice yearly injectable that prevents infection by the HIV virus.
This drug is the 'breakthrough of the year' -- and it could mean the end of the HIV epidemic
That's the title that Science magazine is bestowing upon the medication called lenacapavir — a twice yearly injectable that prevents infection by the HIV virus.
www.npr.org
December 13, 2024 at 2:39 AM
This year had been so chaotic that this almost got overshadowed.
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Luigi got them shook.
North Carolina’s Atrium Health says it will forgive the debts of 11,500 people — less than a week after NBC News reported that the company has aggressively pursued former patients’ medical debts, placing liens on their homes to collect on bills.
'Like a miracle': N.C. couple free of nearly $100,000 medical debt after 15 years
The lien on Donna and Gary Lindabury's home for a 2009 heart surgery debt was among 11,500 wiped away by Atrium Health after an NBC News report.
www.nbcnews.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:37 AM
Luigi got them shook.
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Kim: You have a number of nominees who are literally, their mission is to dismantle the organization that they are being nominated to be in charge of. I find that to be so dangerous at this moment.
December 12, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Kim: You have a number of nominees who are literally, their mission is to dismantle the organization that they are being nominated to be in charge of. I find that to be so dangerous at this moment.
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Remember MAGA’s smoking gun that was gonna take down Biden www.cbsnews.com/news/alexand...
December 12, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Remember MAGA’s smoking gun that was gonna take down Biden www.cbsnews.com/news/alexand...
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It’s probably fine that the 3 pillars of Trump’s economic plan — protectionist tariffs that kill international trade, deporting a huge, irreplaceable chunk of the labor force, and letting rich people do whatever the fuck they want — are the same as Herbert Hoover’s reaction to the Great Depression
“Trump advisers and officials from his newfound Department of Government Efficiency have, for example, asked whether the president-elect could abolish the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp”
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Exclusive | Trump Advisers Seek to Shrink or Eliminate Bank Regulators
Advisers asked potential nominees whether Trump could abolish the FDIC.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2024 at 1:07 AM
It’s probably fine that the 3 pillars of Trump’s economic plan — protectionist tariffs that kill international trade, deporting a huge, irreplaceable chunk of the labor force, and letting rich people do whatever the fuck they want — are the same as Herbert Hoover’s reaction to the Great Depression
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Like I said. They are not even proper robber barons. No real philanthropic spirit - no museums or libraries. Just their own toys - rockets and cars.
NEW: For the 3rd year in a row, Elon Musk’s foundation gave away less than it was supposed to. In 2023, it gave away $421 million less than the minimum required for a charity of its size, new filings show. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/u...
Musk’s Foundation Gave Away Less Money Than Required in 2023
Private foundations must donate 5 percent of their assets every year. Elon Musk’s enormous charity missed that standard for three consecutive years.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Like I said. They are not even proper robber barons. No real philanthropic spirit - no museums or libraries. Just their own toys - rockets and cars.