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Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿

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Disabled Immigration Lawyer w/ Vestibular Migraine & PPPD. 💜 Antiracist. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 Ally Rapa Nui 🌺🍍🌈🤙🗿 I am an American, Chicago-born Vermont Resident 🍁 #COYG UChicago; Harvard Law. Español🇨🇱 Français 🇵🇫 Português 🇧🇷 Italiano 🇮🇹 🚫 Catfish

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Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · Aug 20

Please check out my essay on how my Jewish heritage has moved me to condemn the genocide in Gaza and the de facto annexation of the West Bank. vtsullivan.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/i...

Identity Politics: How the struggle to validate my Jewish heritage has made it impossible for me to ignore the genocide in Gaza and settler violence in the West Bank.

In other essays in this blog, I have shared the lifelong journey I’ve undertaken to establish my Jewish identity despite the many obstacles to doing so. In particular, I’ve described th…

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Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 10h

What's brown and sounds like a bell?

Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 11h

Big Brother doesn't care about your 4th Amendment Rights.

Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 12h

EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland.

Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

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Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 11h

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Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 11h

So many combinations...

Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks for the mammaries!

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Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 14h

Argentina has been an an economic basket case for decades. He's right about that. Of course Trump is pushing Brazil, a much bigger economy, into the arms of China.

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Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 17h

beavis and butthead from beavis and butthead are sitting on a couch talking to each other .

ALT: beavis and butthead from beavis and butthead are sitting on a couch talking to each other .

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Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 17h

Vermont has been hit hard by drought, but New Hampshire is really getting the shaft. And Maine, well...
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Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 1d

@msmeredith.bsky.social My Heavenly Blue Morning Glories, succumbed to the frost before blooming. But here is a sampling from a few years ago.

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Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 1d

He had a long career in the adult film industry.

Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 1d

He was a total...

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@actualnames.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DPjSqtWjbx...

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Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 1d

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search.app/nEsk9 As we knew, the whole basis for the government shutdown is a lie.

Emergency Medicaid for undocumented immigrants accounts for less than 1% of state spending: Study

Emergency Medicaid for undocumented immigrants made up only 0.4% of total Medicaid spending in 2022, a new study published Thursday finds.

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Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 1d

Rasmus Hojlund?

Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 1d

He was born am adolescent

Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 1d

Home to a lot of poison ivy

Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 2d

Always a happy ending with her!

Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 2d

Linda?

Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 2d

Diamond owes all of the people of Rapa Nui a huge apology.

Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody likes a braggart!

Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 2d

The Rapanui were and are an ingenious and resourceful people. They accomplished so much, yet their population was never more than 3,500 until recent times.

Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 2d

Jared Diamond’s hypothesis that the Rapa Nui felled too many trees to transport the huge moai was wrong.

They not only lived in a very sustainable way, but they used an ingenious method instead!

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Scientists just proved the moai could walk, solving a 500-year mystery

Researchers confirmed that Rapa Nui’s moai statues could “walk” upright using a rocking motion, aided by rope and just a few people. Experiments with replicas and 3D models revealed design features...

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Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 2d

A very prominent family...

Matato'a Varua 🗿🗿🗿 @matatoa.bsky.social · 2d

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Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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