Vvalkyri
@vvalkyri.bsky.social
Hi. I'm not all the way here from Twitter. Would love to find the epi, science, long covid communities.
So far the few people I have followed are those who posted handles on FB. So msg if this Nick's unfamiliar.
So far the few people I have followed are those who posted handles on FB. So msg if this Nick's unfamiliar.
It's pretty scary, honestly, to watch how much a flat out blood libel performance art was cheered and by whom.
I find myself wondering just how few people know what blood libel is.
I find myself wondering just how few people know what blood libel is.
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It's pretty scary, honestly, to watch how much a flat out blood libel performance art was cheered and by whom.
I find myself wondering just how few people know what blood libel is.
I find myself wondering just how few people know what blood libel is.
If you always simply assume that this Administration is going to choose whatever is least good for the public, you'll probably be right.
NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵
November 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If you always simply assume that this Administration is going to choose whatever is least good for the public, you'll probably be right.
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The House is voting today on two bills that will put hard-fought reforms to DC’s justice system in the crosshairs.
But what happens in DC doesn’t stay here. When it’s DC today, it’s always America tomorrow. We can stop it right here, right now. #FreeDC
But what happens in DC doesn’t stay here. When it’s DC today, it’s always America tomorrow. We can stop it right here, right now. #FreeDC
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The House is voting today on two bills that will put hard-fought reforms to DC’s justice system in the crosshairs.
But what happens in DC doesn’t stay here. When it’s DC today, it’s always America tomorrow. We can stop it right here, right now. #FreeDC
But what happens in DC doesn’t stay here. When it’s DC today, it’s always America tomorrow. We can stop it right here, right now. #FreeDC
wapo.st/4oS9619
Folks have got to make some noise. Congress has the constitutional right to make or unmake agencies, not the executive branch.
And yet they're already talking about just exactly how they are dismantling the department of education.
Folks have got to make some noise. Congress has the constitutional right to make or unmake agencies, not the executive branch.
And yet they're already talking about just exactly how they are dismantling the department of education.
Trump administration announces dismantling of parts of Education Dept.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March seeking to close the department, but only Congress has the power to do that.
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
wapo.st/4oS9619
Folks have got to make some noise. Congress has the constitutional right to make or unmake agencies, not the executive branch.
And yet they're already talking about just exactly how they are dismantling the department of education.
Folks have got to make some noise. Congress has the constitutional right to make or unmake agencies, not the executive branch.
And yet they're already talking about just exactly how they are dismantling the department of education.
Boost the signal! And you can still add to the auction til tomorrow (Wed) afternoon.
Join @fedworkersunited.bsky.social for a SPIRITED fundraiser @ Dew Drop Inn, this Thurs 11/20 6:30-8:30pm 🎉🪩
Federal workers will be donating all KINDS of services in a silent auction to benefit a DC/MD/VA federal worker solidarity fund!
(Guess which one is mine! 😇)
💘 bit.ly/FUNDMV1120
Federal workers will be donating all KINDS of services in a silent auction to benefit a DC/MD/VA federal worker solidarity fund!
(Guess which one is mine! 😇)
💘 bit.ly/FUNDMV1120
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Boost the signal! And you can still add to the auction til tomorrow (Wed) afternoon.
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notably, Fox News is not broadcasting the Khanna/Massie/Greene Epstein news conference live. CNN and MS are.
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
notably, Fox News is not broadcasting the Khanna/Massie/Greene Epstein news conference live. CNN and MS are.
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"Charlotte's Web" is a story about a tiny and nearly invisible creature using the only skills she has to protect a friend and neighbor who's about to be butchered to make the farmer some money, and he returns the favor by caring for her children. Just in case you needed the reminder.
November 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"Charlotte's Web" is a story about a tiny and nearly invisible creature using the only skills she has to protect a friend and neighbor who's about to be butchered to make the farmer some money, and he returns the favor by caring for her children. Just in case you needed the reminder.
Tell Congress to stop using DC as their Playtoy.
House Democrats "strongly oppose" the anti-DC bills House GOP are pushing this week:
* H.R. 5214 - DC Cash Bail Reform Act of 2025
* H.R. 5107 – CLEAN DC Act of 2025
"Instead of meddling in local D.C. matters, Congress should pass the D.C. statehood bill." - @robertgarcia.bsky.social
#freedc
* H.R. 5214 - DC Cash Bail Reform Act of 2025
* H.R. 5107 – CLEAN DC Act of 2025
"Instead of meddling in local D.C. matters, Congress should pass the D.C. statehood bill." - @robertgarcia.bsky.social
#freedc
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Tell Congress to stop using DC as their Playtoy.
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My right side is absolutely killing me
You need an appendectomy
How much is that
Umm … $47,285
How much without the anesthesia
Ok we can do that for $36,210
I don’t think so
What’s it going to take to get you into this OR today
I’m going to shop around
Hold on, my manager is coming over
You need an appendectomy
How much is that
Umm … $47,285
How much without the anesthesia
Ok we can do that for $36,210
I don’t think so
What’s it going to take to get you into this OR today
I’m going to shop around
Hold on, my manager is coming over
TRUMP: We’re going to give Americans the money to buy health insurance
REPORTER: But won’t they buy it from
Insurance companies?
TRUMP: Ahhh. Some may. I mean they’ll be negotiating prices
REPORTER: But won’t they buy it from
Insurance companies?
TRUMP: Ahhh. Some may. I mean they’ll be negotiating prices
November 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
My right side is absolutely killing me
You need an appendectomy
How much is that
Umm … $47,285
How much without the anesthesia
Ok we can do that for $36,210
I don’t think so
What’s it going to take to get you into this OR today
I’m going to shop around
Hold on, my manager is coming over
You need an appendectomy
How much is that
Umm … $47,285
How much without the anesthesia
Ok we can do that for $36,210
I don’t think so
What’s it going to take to get you into this OR today
I’m going to shop around
Hold on, my manager is coming over
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Among the news deluge this week were a handful of developments that help us to understand the chaos to come next year. Let’s start with Monday’s pardons.
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-pard...
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-pard...
The hysteria over Biden's pardons seems extra ridiculous now
Trump's abuse of the pardon power makes everything else look like child's play.
www.publicnotice.co
November 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Among the news deluge this week were a handful of developments that help us to understand the chaos to come next year. Let’s start with Monday’s pardons.
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-pard...
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-pard...
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👀 REPUBLICAN @RepJohnRose continues to call out @MarshaBlackburn for her shameless money grab — stuffing her pockets with taxpayer dollars for being investigated in connection with Trump’s insurrection.
(Rose is running against her for Governor)
www.facebook.com/share/1AHX3q...
(Rose is running against her for Governor)
www.facebook.com/share/1AHX3q...
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
👀 REPUBLICAN @RepJohnRose continues to call out @MarshaBlackburn for her shameless money grab — stuffing her pockets with taxpayer dollars for being investigated in connection with Trump’s insurrection.
(Rose is running against her for Governor)
www.facebook.com/share/1AHX3q...
(Rose is running against her for Governor)
www.facebook.com/share/1AHX3q...
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Federal govt keep denying bond hearings to immigrants even though the feds keep losing habeas petitions. Their goal is to make people desperate enough that they’ll sign up for voluntary deportation, inflict pain so people leave, even if they have deep ties and good records in USA
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the U.S. government’s mandatory detention of Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, the day care teacher arrested at a Chicago preschool, is illegal and she must be given a bond hearing.
Judge rules mandatory detention of Chicago day care teacher by ICE is illegal
According to the ruling, Diana Santillana will be given a bond hearing in front of an immigration judge, who could order her released while her civil deportation case proceeds.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Federal govt keep denying bond hearings to immigrants even though the feds keep losing habeas petitions. Their goal is to make people desperate enough that they’ll sign up for voluntary deportation, inflict pain so people leave, even if they have deep ties and good records in USA
Tbh, this poison pill is insane.
November 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Tbh, this poison pill is insane.
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He's already not whipping against it, rules committee Rs told him they won't do anything to block it, and expectation is potentially dozens will vote for it, because why not at that point.
Johnson isn't moving the vote up in hopes of stopping it, he's trying to do it before they get to two thirds.
Johnson isn't moving the vote up in hopes of stopping it, he's trying to do it before they get to two thirds.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
He's already not whipping against it, rules committee Rs told him they won't do anything to block it, and expectation is potentially dozens will vote for it, because why not at that point.
Johnson isn't moving the vote up in hopes of stopping it, he's trying to do it before they get to two thirds.
Johnson isn't moving the vote up in hopes of stopping it, he's trying to do it before they get to two thirds.
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that is a blues brother
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 AM
that is a blues brother
Here's an unlocked WaPo exclusive: wapo.st/4qW5pZJ
November 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Here's an unlocked WaPo exclusive: wapo.st/4qW5pZJ
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Can’t wait for the nuns’ reaction to this one.
BREAKING: Trump’s ICE bans Christians and all people from praying “in front of or inside” the Broadview ICE facility.
So, forced prayer in school is good, but volunteer prayer for the prisoner is banned.
This is what white nationalist Christianity looks like. This is Trump’s fascist America. Smh.
So, forced prayer in school is good, but volunteer prayer for the prisoner is banned.
This is what white nationalist Christianity looks like. This is Trump’s fascist America. Smh.
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Can’t wait for the nuns’ reaction to this one.
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A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.
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Call a Senator that voted no tonight and demand that they vote to remove Chuck Schumer as Senate Minority Leader.
He has weaponized his incompetence against the American people by allowing 8 Dem Senators to cave to an authoritarian regime. We need real leadership, not the oligarchy’s lapdog
He has weaponized his incompetence against the American people by allowing 8 Dem Senators to cave to an authoritarian regime. We need real leadership, not the oligarchy’s lapdog
Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him
And they should, given this is his fault.
And they should, given this is his fault.
This is a lovely sentiment but Schumer isn't up for re-election until 2028 and he knows this. At which point he will be 77/78. There's no mechanism to recall a sitting senator AFAIK.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Call a Senator that voted no tonight and demand that they vote to remove Chuck Schumer as Senate Minority Leader.
He has weaponized his incompetence against the American people by allowing 8 Dem Senators to cave to an authoritarian regime. We need real leadership, not the oligarchy’s lapdog
He has weaponized his incompetence against the American people by allowing 8 Dem Senators to cave to an authoritarian regime. We need real leadership, not the oligarchy’s lapdog
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Circulating on Threads as to who’s in favor (for what it is worth)
@senjackyrosen - NV
@senatorbaldwin -WI
@senfettermanpa - PA
@senatorhassan - NH
@senossoff - GA
@anguskingmaine -ME
@sengarypeters - MI
@senatordurbin - IL
@senatorshaheen - NH
@senmarkkelly - AZ
@senslotkin - MI
@senjackyrosen - NV
@senatorbaldwin -WI
@senfettermanpa - PA
@senatorhassan - NH
@senossoff - GA
@anguskingmaine -ME
@sengarypeters - MI
@senatordurbin - IL
@senatorshaheen - NH
@senmarkkelly - AZ
@senslotkin - MI
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Circulating on Threads as to who’s in favor (for what it is worth)
@senjackyrosen - NV
@senatorbaldwin -WI
@senfettermanpa - PA
@senatorhassan - NH
@senossoff - GA
@anguskingmaine -ME
@sengarypeters - MI
@senatordurbin - IL
@senatorshaheen - NH
@senmarkkelly - AZ
@senslotkin - MI
@senjackyrosen - NV
@senatorbaldwin -WI
@senfettermanpa - PA
@senatorhassan - NH
@senossoff - GA
@anguskingmaine -ME
@sengarypeters - MI
@senatordurbin - IL
@senatorshaheen - NH
@senmarkkelly - AZ
@senslotkin - MI
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Ngl the loud booing for Pete Hesgeth at the Lions/Commanders game felt real good
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Ngl the loud booing for Pete Hesgeth at the Lions/Commanders game felt real good
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Russ Vought will take this as a green light to keep ignoring Congress
I see nothing in here that would require the White House to actually spend any available funds, prevent rescissions or withholding of payments, or do anything to change what has become an unsettling status quo in this calendar year.
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Russ Vought will take this as a green light to keep ignoring Congress
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Hey Chuck, don’t fucking cave.
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Hey Chuck, don’t fucking cave.
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Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?
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At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.
How the Border Patrol uses rodeos to recruit
At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.
www.motherjones.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.