Valerie Jablow
@vjablow.bsky.social
DC resident & former DCPS parent who started educationdc.net in 2015 because there was too little media coverage of public education issues in DC--and lots of right-wing ed reform propaganda about the same.
Oh hey, @americanbar.org: I think this is for you.
I wanna know which attorney is gonna take the reins and file a lawsuit for the people against the United States of America for all of the Ice agents and the abuse that the American people have been taking from these politicians who are liars
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Oh hey, @americanbar.org: I think this is for you.
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I feel this in my bones…
THE AMERICAN WORKER IS ALL OF US. Black, white, Latino, Asian, Native, immigrant, union or not. Not the “working class” stereotype.
We built this country. We keep it running. Stop dividing. Start recognizing.
I have a lot to say
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
THE AMERICAN WORKER IS ALL OF US. Black, white, Latino, Asian, Native, immigrant, union or not. Not the “working class” stereotype.
We built this country. We keep it running. Stop dividing. Start recognizing.
I have a lot to say
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
The American Worker
Is all of us
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I feel this in my bones…
THE AMERICAN WORKER IS ALL OF US. Black, white, Latino, Asian, Native, immigrant, union or not. Not the “working class” stereotype.
We built this country. We keep it running. Stop dividing. Start recognizing.
I have a lot to say
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
THE AMERICAN WORKER IS ALL OF US. Black, white, Latino, Asian, Native, immigrant, union or not. Not the “working class” stereotype.
We built this country. We keep it running. Stop dividing. Start recognizing.
I have a lot to say
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
Oh hey, @wtopnews.bsky.social--something for the traffic reports: racial profiling checkpoints.
ICE is now setting up racial profiling checkpoints to stop people on major US highways. These checkpoints are being seen near Washington, DC on the Baltimore-Washington Pkwy, on the DC/Maryland border.
(12|8/25)
(12|8/25)
December 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Oh hey, @wtopnews.bsky.social--something for the traffic reports: racial profiling checkpoints.
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has Four Seasons Total Landscaping announced the recipient of their Peace Prize yet
December 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
has Four Seasons Total Landscaping announced the recipient of their Peace Prize yet
@thehillishome.com: Did you see this?
December 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
@thehillishome.com: Did you see this?
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
This entire thread is incredible (it seems to go backwards--but worth the journey).
NK04 - to make sure when shock hits, public wealth & community holdings are stripped & transferred upward. That is why privateering / Viking metaphor lands: disaster capitalism is not random looting, it is organized, state‑entangled plunder dressed up as “reform” & “reconstruction.”
NK03 - to clear communities, buy distressed assets, & lock in privatization, turning other people’s ruins into long‑term revenue streams.
A business model of organized plunder crisis isn’t just misfortune; it is the entry point for profit, with policies and deals designed in advance
A business model of organized plunder crisis isn’t just misfortune; it is the entry point for profit, with policies and deals designed in advance
December 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This entire thread is incredible (it seems to go backwards--but worth the journey).
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insane to call the literal 14th amendment of the constitution a "longstanding principle"
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challenge
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
insane to call the literal 14th amendment of the constitution a "longstanding principle"
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41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.
Oh hey, @mayorbowser.dc.gov @chmnmendelson.bsky.social:
We could do this in DC, too--but nah, republican bullies are so so scary and might, I don't know, sic the National Guard on us!!
(Oh, wait . . . )
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
We could do this in DC, too--but nah, republican bullies are so so scary and might, I don't know, sic the National Guard on us!!
(Oh, wait . . . )
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Oh hey, @mayorbowser.dc.gov @chmnmendelson.bsky.social:
We could do this in DC, too--but nah, republican bullies are so so scary and might, I don't know, sic the National Guard on us!!
(Oh, wait . . . )
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
We could do this in DC, too--but nah, republican bullies are so so scary and might, I don't know, sic the National Guard on us!!
(Oh, wait . . . )
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
By now, it is a truism that EVERYTHING about this administration is "worse than we had been led to believe."
December 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
By now, it is a truism that EVERYTHING about this administration is "worse than we had been led to believe."
Thread on the progression of Project 2025.
Gonna sound conspiratorial, but there always has been a deep state. Barry Goldwater saw it back in his time, and repeatedly warned about it. They are the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition, The 700 Club, The Federalist Society, the Heritage Foundation, the hundreds of white supremacy hate
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December 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Thread on the progression of Project 2025.
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Stephen Miller has six figure investments in the private for-profit detention industry.
Pam Bondi is a former lobbyist for the private for-profit detention industry.
Follow the money.
www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/04...
Pam Bondi is a former lobbyist for the private for-profit detention industry.
Follow the money.
www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/04...
Private prison companies positioned to benefit from increased deportations - OpenSecrets News
As the Trump administration is ramping up detentions and deportations of immigrants living in the United States, it is also…
www.opensecrets.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Stephen Miller has six figure investments in the private for-profit detention industry.
Pam Bondi is a former lobbyist for the private for-profit detention industry.
Follow the money.
www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/04...
Pam Bondi is a former lobbyist for the private for-profit detention industry.
Follow the money.
www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/04...
Good luck with explaining this, @scotushistory.bsky.social
“OK, you can gerrymander to cheat in elections, but only if it hurts nonwhite voters.”
- US Supreme Court
- US Supreme Court
December 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Good luck with explaining this, @scotushistory.bsky.social
Amen!
This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice.
📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Amen!
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842,000 Americans died from overdoses in the last 25 years, 500,000 from opioids. If we’re hunting narco-terrorists we can probably stop blowing up fishing boats and start blowing up boardrooms.
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
842,000 Americans died from overdoses in the last 25 years, 500,000 from opioids. If we’re hunting narco-terrorists we can probably stop blowing up fishing boats and start blowing up boardrooms.
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Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map
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If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.
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it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse
Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post are at it again.
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse
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“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland
When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.
When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.
December 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland
When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.
When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.
Oh hey, @democrats.org
Democratic voters are working hard to stop fascism. It would be nice if the leaders of the party joined them.
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Oh hey, @democrats.org
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it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
@jaketapper.bsky.social: Psst, here's a book idea . . .
December 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
@jaketapper.bsky.social: Psst, here's a book idea . . .