Valerie Kalfrin
@valeriek109.bsky.social
Film/culture writer & screenwriter. Member, Alliance of Women Film Journalists & RT-approved. Words at Script, RogerEbert, The Hollywood Reporter, The Guardian, In Their Own League. Tell better stories. Tell stories better.
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December 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.
December 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.
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Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
December 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
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Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...
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December 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...
🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍
🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍
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He absolutely does not care that your healthcare, is about to run out.
Zero fucks are given.
Zero fucks are given.
December 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
He absolutely does not care that your healthcare, is about to run out.
Zero fucks are given.
Zero fucks are given.
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Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
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Cheers to @brianboone.bsky.social and @vulture.com for including my book, John Candy: A Life In Comedy, on your Best Comedy Books of 2025. Is that a number one beside it? Further thanks for kindly noting my book’s celebration of humanity and the empathy of comedy.
@houseofanansi.bsky.social
@houseofanansi.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Cheers to @brianboone.bsky.social and @vulture.com for including my book, John Candy: A Life In Comedy, on your Best Comedy Books of 2025. Is that a number one beside it? Further thanks for kindly noting my book’s celebration of humanity and the empathy of comedy.
@houseofanansi.bsky.social
@houseofanansi.bsky.social
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TRUMP BREAKING: As Epstein releases near, Americans think Trump knew about Epstein’s alleged crimes. A new poll reinforces how troublesome the impending document drops could be for the Florida Felon!
As Epstein releases near, Americans think Trump knew about Epstein’s alleged crimes | CNN Politics
Friday featured yet another drop in the drip-drip-drip of new information from the Jeffrey Epstein files. This time: new pictures released by House Democrats that feature Donald Trump and other powerf...
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December 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
TRUMP BREAKING: As Epstein releases near, Americans think Trump knew about Epstein’s alleged crimes. A new poll reinforces how troublesome the impending document drops could be for the Florida Felon!
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Happy 100th Birthday Dick Van Dyke, and thank you for the joy!
December 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy 100th Birthday Dick Van Dyke, and thank you for the joy!
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When the streets start telling the truth, it’s because the institutions won’t.
What’s become painfully obvious is that ICE agents aren’t trained to make us safer. They’re just recruits who thirst for power, violence, and cruelty.
[street art from around the country]
What’s become painfully obvious is that ICE agents aren’t trained to make us safer. They’re just recruits who thirst for power, violence, and cruelty.
[street art from around the country]
December 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
When the streets start telling the truth, it’s because the institutions won’t.
What’s become painfully obvious is that ICE agents aren’t trained to make us safer. They’re just recruits who thirst for power, violence, and cruelty.
[street art from around the country]
What’s become painfully obvious is that ICE agents aren’t trained to make us safer. They’re just recruits who thirst for power, violence, and cruelty.
[street art from around the country]
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"By shouting things like 'our prices are coming down tremendously,' Trump is telling voters to 'reject the evidence of their eyes and ears.' But this is 2025, not 1984, and voters aren’t buying it."
The Hoax of Christmas Present
Polling and focus group data show voters across parties feel crushed by rising costs, even as Trump dismisses affordability concerns as a “hoax” that contradicts Americans’ lived reality.
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December 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"By shouting things like 'our prices are coming down tremendously,' Trump is telling voters to 'reject the evidence of their eyes and ears.' But this is 2025, not 1984, and voters aren’t buying it."
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Steve Bannon ripped off his own followers with his ‘build the wall’ scam. Trump pardons him. Then photos come out showing him hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein AFTER he was charged with child trafficking, and yet he somehow has an audience because really MAGA stands for nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Steve Bannon ripped off his own followers with his ‘build the wall’ scam. Trump pardons him. Then photos come out showing him hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein AFTER he was charged with child trafficking, and yet he somehow has an audience because really MAGA stands for nothing.
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If you’re looking for something to do, start working on overturning citizens united in your state. States control the power corporations have. Take their political power away with a ballot initiative. Here’s how: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If you’re looking for something to do, start working on overturning citizens united in your state. States control the power corporations have. Take their political power away with a ballot initiative. Here’s how: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Bennie Thompson on Noem: "Her arrival was short lived. She left in the middle of the hearing ostensibly to go to another meeting. We found that the meeting had been canceled, so she could've stayed. But nonetheless, we're not surprised, because this is who she is."
December 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Bennie Thompson on Noem: "Her arrival was short lived. She left in the middle of the hearing ostensibly to go to another meeting. We found that the meeting had been canceled, so she could've stayed. But nonetheless, we're not surprised, because this is who she is."
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It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
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BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released.
NEW: A federal judge ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the Maryland man who was wrongly removed from the U.S. and sent to El Salvador without due process by the Trump administration — to be released from an ICE detention center, ruling his detention unlawful.
Judge Orders Abrego Garcia's Immediate Release from Immigration Custody
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released.
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This entire article is positive about Trump Gold Cards. It contains positive quotes about it from Trump, Lutnick and a CEO. It contains no quotes from the many critics of the program. This is sandwiched between 6 posts about Erika Kirk. CBS is lost.
December 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This entire article is positive about Trump Gold Cards. It contains positive quotes about it from Trump, Lutnick and a CEO. It contains no quotes from the many critics of the program. This is sandwiched between 6 posts about Erika Kirk. CBS is lost.
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“He is not unstoppable and you are not without power”
Remind yourself of this every day.
Especially on the bad days.
Remind yourself of this every day.
Especially on the bad days.
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“He is not unstoppable and you are not without power”
Remind yourself of this every day.
Especially on the bad days.
Remind yourself of this every day.
Especially on the bad days.
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New in PN: We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
"If you fed a low-rent knockoff version of ChatGPT a diet of Trump Truth Social screeds and X posts from Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem, this National Security Strategy is what it would spit out."
"If you fed a low-rent knockoff version of ChatGPT a diet of Trump Truth Social screeds and X posts from Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem, this National Security Strategy is what it would spit out."
We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.
www.publicnotice.co
December 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New in PN: We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
"If you fed a low-rent knockoff version of ChatGPT a diet of Trump Truth Social screeds and X posts from Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem, this National Security Strategy is what it would spit out."
"If you fed a low-rent knockoff version of ChatGPT a diet of Trump Truth Social screeds and X posts from Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem, this National Security Strategy is what it would spit out."
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Imagine explaining to the galactic federation during Earth’s application that we picked white as the colour of the year and chose a bunch of techbro scammers as person of the year. All whilst burning up all our resources for meme junkware masquerading as AI.
December 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Imagine explaining to the galactic federation during Earth’s application that we picked white as the colour of the year and chose a bunch of techbro scammers as person of the year. All whilst burning up all our resources for meme junkware masquerading as AI.
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We can't grow numb to his vicious racism and knuckle-dragging, ignorant bigotry. We must call it out loud and clear so society's children don't learn to hate from this disgusting and broken man.
#ResistTrump
#ResistTrump
December 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
We can't grow numb to his vicious racism and knuckle-dragging, ignorant bigotry. We must call it out loud and clear so society's children don't learn to hate from this disgusting and broken man.
#ResistTrump
#ResistTrump
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You'd never know he was talking about his actual son.
Trump on his wife's legislative initiative: "I just heard about that for the first time. The only thing I can tell you, I know one thing for sure, it's going to be great for children. I don't know what it is she's doing. She loves children. She's got a wonderful boy. And she's very proud of her boy"
December 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
You'd never know he was talking about his actual son.