Valarie Shanks
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Valarie Shanks
@valarieshanks.bsky.social
Running for Sultan City Council

She/Her/Hers | 22 | 🇺🇸 | 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🏳️‍🌈 | Democracy Advocate | Sky Valley Indivisible Member
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Give the money to social services, to public libraries, to affordable housing, to health care for all. The money's there. The money's always been there. Let's do it.
January 25, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Yeahhhh it’s one of those nights
January 25, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Reposted by Valarie Shanks
It's hard to overstate how Not Normal this is both in substance but especially in speed.
January 25, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Reposted by Valarie Shanks
BREAKING: Judge Tostrud -- a Trump appointee — has quickly granted a restraining order, barring the administration from "destroying or altering evidence" taken from today's shooting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 5:17 AM
🫂
January 25, 2026 at 5:08 AM
I was out there for about an hour. Nobody else showed up, or came out to talk. But, I still did it. That’s what matters.
January 25, 2026 at 4:10 AM
January 25, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Reposted by Valarie Shanks
I am as explicitly as possible laying down a date-stamped marker that a federal immigration agent is going to die violently within the next calendar year, and that this will retroactively be used to justify policy. I am saying it here so I can angrily quote this at media figures when it happens.
January 25, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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It will not be a shocking development, it will not be a ‘change in the narrative’ it will be the predictable consequence of actions consciously taken that people saw coming.
January 25, 2026 at 2:36 AM
They don’t need to be reined in; they need to be abolished and prosecuted.
January 25, 2026 at 2:39 AM