Maria Valls
mariavalls.bsky.social
Maria Valls
@mariavalls.bsky.social
Pissed as hell.
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DO YOU WHAT THAT “CURRENT LAW” IS CALLED?

THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION.
December 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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I don’t want to see “experts say Trump can’t pardon a state conviction.”

That’s like “experts say sun rises in east, and some scientists claim water is two hydrogen atoms attached to an oxygen atom.”

It’s just a fact.

He CANNOT do this.

And the media DAMN well better get their coverage right.
Trump says he's pardoned Tina Peters, but that may not save her from prison
Trump has no jurisdiction over state-level cases to offer the pardon.
www.axios.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Trump's mangled right hand was extremely spackled tonight at the White House congressional ball (Alex Wong/Getty)
December 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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405,000 desks and counting! In #Malawi, our 15-year partnership with @ms.now's @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social continues to improve learning outcomes for children by delivering sturdy school desks to classrooms. Here, we see a before and after at Chapita Primary School in Salima, central Malawi.
December 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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"I cannot think of another time when the administration wanted something this badly, and failed this catastrophically to get it from Republicans."

@samsteindc.bsky.social, @sonnybunch.bsky.social, and @adamwren.bsky.social on how Indiana Republicans defied Trump and rejected his redistricting push.
December 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Lots of sh*t, but also some good stuff.... a quick, direct read, and recommended.

Kristi Noem Caught Lying in Brutal Hearing + More Thursday Updates - 12/11/25
open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Kristi Noem Caught Lying in Brutal Hearing + More Thursday Updates - 12/11/25
By Ben Meiselas
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Where do things stand on the health care fight in Congress?
- Dems have a good plan that Republicans oppose
- Republicans can’t agree among themselves on a plan of their own
- Trump wants to stay on the sidelines
- consumers are quickly running out of calendar www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
As Republicans reject bill to protect ACA subsidies, what happens now?
In a normal environment, a president would show some leadership and back a practical solution. In 2025, that's not happening.
www.ms.now
December 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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The US government is now a mafia organization.
December 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Once again, a grand jury serves as the conscience of the community, a bulwark against the prosecutorial overreach and abuse of Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, and Lindsey Halligan.

Today is a good day for the rule of law.
December 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Hundreds of immigrant children across the nation were detained for longer than the legal limit this summer, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has admitted in a court filing, alarming legal advocates who say the government is failing to safeguard children.
About 400 immigrant children were detained longer than the recommended limit, ICE admits
Legal advocates concerned over the prolonged detention of immigrant children in federal custody are sounding the alarm before the federal court. U.S.
bit.ly
December 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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‘Even the animals seem confused’: a retreating Kashmir glacier is creating an entire new world in its wake
‘Even the animals seem confused’: a retreating Kashmir glacier is creating an entire new world in its wake
Kolahoi is one of many glaciers whose decline is disrupting whole ecosystems – water, wildlife and human life that it has supported for centuries
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Open, public misogyny is making a comeback. Women, and decent men, are absolutely deserting women by their silence in the public forum.

Trump on Women
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Trump on Women
The new Mayor of Miami, Florida, is a Democrat.
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Waste. Fraud. Abuse.
December 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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If Trump gets his way in the Supreme Court's upcoming independent agencies ruling, the logical next step will be "arguing that all civil service laws are unconstitutional." lnk.thebulwark.com/48rIUEH
December 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The Roberts Court will go down in history as having upheld the desires of Donald Trump and the GOP, rather than its commitment to justice, precedent or the rule of law.

Today’s ruling — which substitutes its own fact finding for that of the lower court — is yet another example.
BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Texas use Trump-backed gerrymandered maps in 2026
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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I’ve been reporting about the potential connection of tariffs to small biz job losses. Scott Lincicome of Cato offers this piece discussing not just the high level of the tariffs, but the “truly insane complexity” whose “overall economic cost is likely staggering. “

thedispatch.com/newsletter/c...
Welcome to Tariff Complexity Hell
Complexity is a tax, and today U.S. companies are paying through the nose.
thedispatch.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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You don’t fight drug trafficking by freeing the man who flooded our streets with cocaine.

This pardon is an insult to law enforcement and a gift to the cartels.
December 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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I would say it’s a clown show, but these clowns kill people and will get people killed in the future so it’s not really that funny or entertaining.
December 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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ICE detains a 7-year-old Illinois second grader on his Thanksgiving trip, taking him and his mother 1,000 miles to a Texas detention center.
December 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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The problem isn’t religion, it’s the fundamentalists.
@johnfugelsang.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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The new CDC #2 has a history of supporting medical gibberish.

Pro Ivermectin as a “treatment” for COVID, yet against mass vaccine campaigns.

It will fall to leaders at the state level and coalitions like the West Coast Health Alliance to fill the massive gap.

#WCHA @governor.ca.gov
December 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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❗️Putin is stalling and trying to deceive the United States in order to seize more territory — U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal commented on the talks that took place in Moscow, saying:

“Putin continues to delay and stall, buying time for further attacks and the killing of
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM