Virginia
@vaellen.bsky.social
Always need more time to walk, read, watch movies, and laugh! 🩵 Devoted UNC fan 🐏, not a fan of my lynch syndrome (msh6)
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there’s a new ad running at wapo where you can access all of their articles for free without a sub if you read using comet, an ai-powered browser controlled by perplexity
perplexity is an amazon-backed ai product
i have no other words, really
perplexity is an amazon-backed ai product
i have no other words, really
November 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
there’s a new ad running at wapo where you can access all of their articles for free without a sub if you read using comet, an ai-powered browser controlled by perplexity
perplexity is an amazon-backed ai product
i have no other words, really
perplexity is an amazon-backed ai product
i have no other words, really
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Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
n.pr
October 31, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
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They have tear gassed a parade of trick or treating children. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/26/f...
Feds Tear Gas Northwest Side Street, Disrupting Halloween Parade For Kids
Two neighbors, including a 70-year-old man, were arrested after allegedly interfering in the arrest of another man by immigration agents, neighbors said. Agents also threw a woman, 67, to the ground.
blockclubchicago.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
They have tear gassed a parade of trick or treating children. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/26/f...
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Pepper ball rounds Trump immigration agents are firing at protesters:
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/v...
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/v...
October 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Pepper ball rounds Trump immigration agents are firing at protesters:
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/v...
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/v...
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About to be 392. At Stanford next week at 10:30pm. Wow
October 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
About to be 392. At Stanford next week at 10:30pm. Wow
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So not about Charlie Kirk then, got it
September 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
So not about Charlie Kirk then, got it
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The political media is obsessively relitigating the issue of Biden being too old and out of touch while the current president babbles incoherently at press conferences and regularly admits he's not the one making decisions on key policy matters.
May 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The political media is obsessively relitigating the issue of Biden being too old and out of touch while the current president babbles incoherently at press conferences and regularly admits he's not the one making decisions on key policy matters.
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Again, my wife lost her excellent job at a nonprofit Seattle hospital because the trump administration simply stopped paying medicaid reimbursements at the beginning of the year, throwing it into complete financial turmoil
the cuts are already here
the cuts are already here
Johnson: "Do not believe the lies the Democrat Party has said. We had their ads taken down. They were running ads around the country in swing districts trying to convince people Republicans are going to 'gut Medicaid.' It's just simply not true & that's why their ads & billboards had to come down"
April 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Again, my wife lost her excellent job at a nonprofit Seattle hospital because the trump administration simply stopped paying medicaid reimbursements at the beginning of the year, throwing it into complete financial turmoil
the cuts are already here
the cuts are already here
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Domestic terrorism
This video shows the fire damage inside the Pennsylvania Governor’s mansion.
Governor Shapiro’s reaction to the arson attack is on my timeline.
Governor Shapiro’s reaction to the arson attack is on my timeline.
April 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Domestic terrorism
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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
April 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
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April 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Here he is today, deeply concerned about economic hardship caused by his tariff scheme.
April 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Here he is today, deeply concerned about economic hardship caused by his tariff scheme.
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Send in the clowns…🤡
Folks are sending us signs from protests across the country that say we’ve had ENOUGH of the Trump circus. #handsoff
📷
1. Alan Koppel, Chicago
2. Frederick, MD
3. John Roberts, NYC
4. Jen Wolfe, Atlanta
Folks are sending us signs from protests across the country that say we’ve had ENOUGH of the Trump circus. #handsoff
📷
1. Alan Koppel, Chicago
2. Frederick, MD
3. John Roberts, NYC
4. Jen Wolfe, Atlanta
April 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Send in the clowns…🤡
Folks are sending us signs from protests across the country that say we’ve had ENOUGH of the Trump circus. #handsoff
📷
1. Alan Koppel, Chicago
2. Frederick, MD
3. John Roberts, NYC
4. Jen Wolfe, Atlanta
Folks are sending us signs from protests across the country that say we’ve had ENOUGH of the Trump circus. #handsoff
📷
1. Alan Koppel, Chicago
2. Frederick, MD
3. John Roberts, NYC
4. Jen Wolfe, Atlanta
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NC Court of Appeals: Voters get 15 days to prove their vote should count.
Voters: How?
NC CoA: Show your ID to prove who you are.
Voters: I did that when I voted.
NC CoA: DO IT AGAIN!
Voters: How is that different?
NC CoA: IT JUST IS!
Voters: How?
NC CoA: Show your ID to prove who you are.
Voters: I did that when I voted.
NC CoA: DO IT AGAIN!
Voters: How is that different?
NC CoA: IT JUST IS!
a woman says " do n't question me " in front of her
ALT: a woman says " do n't question me " in front of her
media.tenor.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
NC Court of Appeals: Voters get 15 days to prove their vote should count.
Voters: How?
NC CoA: Show your ID to prove who you are.
Voters: I did that when I voted.
NC CoA: DO IT AGAIN!
Voters: How is that different?
NC CoA: IT JUST IS!
Voters: How?
NC CoA: Show your ID to prove who you are.
Voters: I did that when I voted.
NC CoA: DO IT AGAIN!
Voters: How is that different?
NC CoA: IT JUST IS!
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NEW — After putting all Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) employees on administrative leave Monday, I'm told DOGE is canceling congressionally-appropriated grants to state libraries across the entire country. Libraries are getting notice that funding was canceled as of 4/1.
More here:
More here:
EveryLibrary Condemns the Trump Administration's Termination of IMLS Grants as an Attack on Libraries, Museums, and Archives Everywhere.
State Library Agencies and other grant recipients across the country began receiving official notices from the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services terminating their grants,...
www.everylibrary.org
April 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
NEW — After putting all Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) employees on administrative leave Monday, I'm told DOGE is canceling congressionally-appropriated grants to state libraries across the entire country. Libraries are getting notice that funding was canceled as of 4/1.
More here:
More here:
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civil servants matter. state capacity matters.
I KNEW IT!
NWS Louisville doesn’t have enough staffing to cover NWS surveys. They now have to verify tornadoes via social media pictures.
NWS Louisville doesn’t have enough staffing to cover NWS surveys. They now have to verify tornadoes via social media pictures.
April 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
civil servants matter. state capacity matters.
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If you have parking tickets or moving violations, you're going to be renditioned to a slave labor camp in a random foreign country run by a regime-friendly dictator.
JD Vance claims the Maryland father the Trump administration mistakenly deported to a slave prison in El Salvador wasn't "father of the year" bc he had "traffic violations," and says "we do not ask permission from far left Democrats before we deport illegal immigrants."
(He's talking about judges)
(He's talking about judges)
April 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
If you have parking tickets or moving violations, you're going to be renditioned to a slave labor camp in a random foreign country run by a regime-friendly dictator.
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Would like to report some gang tattoos.
March 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Would like to report some gang tattoos.
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All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.
February 25, 2025 at 4:14 AM
All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.
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It’s easy to forget that one of the ways that both Musk and Trump got rich was by just not paying their bills
February 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It’s easy to forget that one of the ways that both Musk and Trump got rich was by just not paying their bills
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Oh please please i am begging, don't use generative AI for any reason if you can avoid it.
It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.
It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.
February 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Oh please please i am begging, don't use generative AI for any reason if you can avoid it.
It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.
It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.
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the definition of a “competent government” is “one you don’t have to think about all the time”
February 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
the definition of a “competent government” is “one you don’t have to think about all the time”