~Valerie
@mysvz.bsky.social
Mom to a teenager and dogs, hoping we can #EndCitizensUnited. I like Milky Way’s too, both the sky and candy variety 🙂
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Oh look this is relevant again
It is 2005, the internet is a distributed network of servers designed so that no one outage can take down the entire network
It is 2025, the internet relies on three companies, problems with any one of which can cripple a significant proportion of the global economy
It is 2025, the internet relies on three companies, problems with any one of which can cripple a significant proportion of the global economy
there’s a major AWS outage going on right now that’s taken down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, Perplexity, Roblox, and lots more of the internet. US-EAST-1 is down and impacting a lot of services that rely on AWS www.theverge.com/news/802486/...
November 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Oh look this is relevant again
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Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
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somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism
October 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism
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12-year-old Occupied Government
So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
October 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
12-year-old Occupied Government
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"The city of Portland unveiled it's five newly named snow plows yesterday: Brrrrnside, The Big Snowplowski, Beverly Clear-y, Salt & Thaw and, of course, Plowy McPlowface." #pdx katu.com/news/local/m...
Meet Beverly Clear-y and friends: Portland's newly named snowplow fleet unveiled
The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) unveiled the five newly named snowplows today at Portland International Raceway.
katu.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"The city of Portland unveiled it's five newly named snow plows yesterday: Brrrrnside, The Big Snowplowski, Beverly Clear-y, Salt & Thaw and, of course, Plowy McPlowface." #pdx katu.com/news/local/m...
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its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content
October 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content
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Portland
Massive escalation at the ICE facility. Federal agents made multiple arrests (at least 4), threw out gas, and shot tons of pepper balls.
Heard one of the people arrested screaming minutes later. Not possible to get a visual.
Heard one of the people arrested screaming minutes later. Not possible to get a visual.
October 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Portland
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finally something to pair with my radioactive shrimp
Costco considers a recalled wine so dangerous that it has sent a letter to every store member who bought a bottle telling them to immediately throw it away.
Costco’s urgent recall: Get the bottle out of the house, don’t even try to return it
Costco considers a recalled wine so dangerous that it has sent a letter to every store member who bought a bottle telling them to immediately throw it away.
trib.al
September 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
finally something to pair with my radioactive shrimp
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Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think
Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think
Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives
September 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think
Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think
Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives
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I bought my house in 2017. If I hadn't bought then, if I hadn't had the support of the VA, my wife and I would now be priced out of the town I grew up in, like the millions of Americans being exiled from their towns and cities.
Ban hedge funds from buying homes.
Ban hedge funds from buying homes.
September 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I bought my house in 2017. If I hadn't bought then, if I hadn't had the support of the VA, my wife and I would now be priced out of the town I grew up in, like the millions of Americans being exiled from their towns and cities.
Ban hedge funds from buying homes.
Ban hedge funds from buying homes.
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Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.
September 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.
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Utah Governor Spencer Cox: “Social media is a cancer right now. I would encourage you all to log off, be with your family, and touch grass.”
September 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Utah Governor Spencer Cox: “Social media is a cancer right now. I would encourage you all to log off, be with your family, and touch grass.”
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In another part of the world, people doggedly pursue beauty, knowledge & a deeper connection to the universe: A short thread.
A new study of the Butterfly Nebula shows it blowing out mineral crystals & carbon molecules--the raw material for future Earthlike planets. 🧪🔭
ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
A new study of the Butterfly Nebula shows it blowing out mineral crystals & carbon molecules--the raw material for future Earthlike planets. 🧪🔭
ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
September 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In another part of the world, people doggedly pursue beauty, knowledge & a deeper connection to the universe: A short thread.
A new study of the Butterfly Nebula shows it blowing out mineral crystals & carbon molecules--the raw material for future Earthlike planets. 🧪🔭
ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
A new study of the Butterfly Nebula shows it blowing out mineral crystals & carbon molecules--the raw material for future Earthlike planets. 🧪🔭
ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
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But, let’s be clear what John Roberts did this morning:
Roberts effectively overturned the Humphrey’s Executor precedent and both lower courts’ rulings in this case in order to allow Trump to fire Slaughter for now — on the shadow docket and through an “administrative” stay issued by him alone.
Roberts effectively overturned the Humphrey’s Executor precedent and both lower courts’ rulings in this case in order to allow Trump to fire Slaughter for now — on the shadow docket and through an “administrative” stay issued by him alone.
September 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
But, let’s be clear what John Roberts did this morning:
Roberts effectively overturned the Humphrey’s Executor precedent and both lower courts’ rulings in this case in order to allow Trump to fire Slaughter for now — on the shadow docket and through an “administrative” stay issued by him alone.
Roberts effectively overturned the Humphrey’s Executor precedent and both lower courts’ rulings in this case in order to allow Trump to fire Slaughter for now — on the shadow docket and through an “administrative” stay issued by him alone.
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Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"
September 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"
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NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 unaccompanied migrant children, senator says
The Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 Guatemalan children who crossed into the U.S. without their parents
www.latimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
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The “involuntary resignation” comes days after Borges filed a formal whistleblower complaint accusing the DOGE of wrongfully uploading SSA data, which included highly sensitive information on millions of people with Social Security numbers, to an unsecure cloud server.
SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes
Less than 30 minutes after the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer resigned following a whistleblower complaint, recipients could no longer access the resignation email.
www.wired.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The “involuntary resignation” comes days after Borges filed a formal whistleblower complaint accusing the DOGE of wrongfully uploading SSA data, which included highly sensitive information on millions of people with Social Security numbers, to an unsecure cloud server.
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For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
I keep thinking about how the COVID vaccine was rolled out for free for all Americans in 2021 by the federal & state governments with support from local health departments & universities. Since, we have seen the privatization of delivery thru commercial pharmacies & the need for insurance coverage.
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
August 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
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wild to watch an entire country deliberately and repeatedly shoot itself in the dick, esp. when you live in that country.
August 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
wild to watch an entire country deliberately and repeatedly shoot itself in the dick, esp. when you live in that country.
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In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
August 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
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Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.”
The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
August 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.”
The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
August 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."