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Valerie 💙🌊

@valeries2cents.bsky.social

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Liberal political junkie. Real Christian who loves my neighbor, our planet and people who don't look like me. Organic gardening, integrative healthcare and science. Happily married! 🚫DM's. 🚫Fascism #INTJ

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Valerie 💙🌊 @valeries2cents.bsky.social · Jan 11

Please update your profiles so others know who you are and your interests.

Blank profiles may not get a follow back.

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Henry L Niman PhD @hlniman.bsky.social · 1h

MMWR staff and 70 CDC Disease Detectives fired yesterday

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Valerie 💙🌊 @valeries2cents.bsky.social · 20h

Show up please!

The Real Zanetta @therealzanetta.bsky.social · 21h

Peter Thiel
Qatari Airbase
#SheShed
We’re eight days away from #NoKings Day, and over 2,500 protests planned in all 50 states and across the world.
October 18 is going to be the biggest day of nonviolent protest in US history — because Courage is contagious.
Find an event 👉🏾 mobilize.us

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Elayne Boosler @eboosler.bsky.social · 21h

assface is letting Qatar build an air force base on US soil so the next round of Qatari financed airplane hijacking suicide terrorists won't have as far to fly as they did on 9/11.

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Valerie 💙🌊 @valeries2cents.bsky.social · 1d

What special hell has he unleashed on the world now? This idiot needs to be impeached!

Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 1d

www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
China announced a series of new limits on the trade of rare earths and technologies related to them.

Trump on Friday threatened a "massive" increase in tariffs on Chinese products, rocking markets and adding a fresh dose of uncertainty in trade relations.

Trump threatens China with new tariffs and 'countermeasures'

On Thursday, China announced a series of new limits on the trade of rare earths and technologies related to them.

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Tulsa Teresa @tulsateresa.bsky.social · 7d

Payment for stabilizing emergency medical conditions in the emergency department is required by a federal law signed by Reagan, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. That payment is not Medicaid funding. It is wholly separate from what Leavitt is babbling about, not in CR or OBBB.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 8d

Over the past few weeks, Fox News and Republicans have been raging over liberals' "dangerous" rhetoric, saying they are the only ones calling their political opponents "evil."

Meanwhile, here's the president posting a message that says Democrats "are the party of hate, evil, and Satan."

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Boehlert Media Busters @mediabusters6.bsky.social · 9d

The Banality of EVIL
Taking glee from firing thousands of American workers
These MF’ing FASCISTS ought to be in prison
Trump is NOT in charge
he just does what Stephen Miller & Russ Vought tell him to
Did YOU vote for them?
www.rawstory.com/russ-vought-...

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 9d

Swear her in.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18d

🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court Monday upheld President Donald Trump’s dismissal without cause of the last Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) despite nearly a century of court precedent protecting the official. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Supreme Court Allows Trump’s Dismissal of Last Democratic FTC Commissioner

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 18d

This is what a boycott and the collective power of Americans can do when millions say enough is enough to sacrificing our rights and capitulating to the Trump regime.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18d

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20d

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump instructs Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute his political opponents. "We can't delay any longer."

Democracy Docket will have full coverage of have this escalation, including my exclusive analysis. Sign up now to make sure you receive. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 20d

Courtesy of Convicted Felon, Donald Trump, America is the laughingstock of the world.

Pure trash.

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 21d

As Americans face rising grocery bills, rent hikes, and job insecurity, the Trump WH has delayed a critical inflation report—critics call it a dangerous “politics of erasure,” where facts vanish, trust erodes, and democracy falls into decay.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/us-delays-...

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Valerie 💙🌊 @valeries2cents.bsky.social · 22d

This is head of FCC!

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 22d

hey so this is insane

Brendan Carr confirming that the FCC is carrying out Project 2025 stuff via a gif on Twitter

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 23d

Boycott Disney.

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Valerie 💙🌊 @valeries2cents.bsky.social · 22d

Fascism is at our door. Cancel Disney!

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 22d

“It’s gotten so easy to pick out the bad guys. One after another, at an escalating pace, the corporate cowards are abandoning their duty as citizens and kowtowing to Trump in a pathetic display of weakness and avarice.”

www.americaamerica.news/p/capitulati...

Capitulation and the Attack on Free Speech

The crackdown on Jimmy Kimmel is an outrage that puts us all at risk

www.americaamerica.news

Valerie 💙🌊 @valeries2cents.bsky.social · 22d

Cling to hope!

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22d

After Republicans flipped four Senate seats in 2024, even some Democrats expected it would take years to reclaim the chamber. But with Trump’s approval sinking, GOP retirements piling up, and a strong crop of Democratic recruits, 2026 could give Democrats a real shot at retaking the majority.

Yes, Democrats Have A Path To Retake The Senate Next Year

A lot of things have to fall into place, but we’re starting to see that happen

thinkbigpicture.substack.com

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CNN @cnn.com · 22d

When FCC Chair Brendan Carr suggested Jimmy Kimmel should be suspended and said, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” ABC and its local affiliates were listening. Within hours, ABC suspended Kimmel’s show “indefinitely,” a stunning move that has raised serious First Amendment concerns.

How Brendan Carr, the attack-dog FCC chair, helped take down Jimmy Kimmel with words, not actions | CNN Business

When Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr suggested Jimmy Kimmel should be suspended and said, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” ABC and its local affiliates were listenin...

www.cnn.com

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Valerie 💙🌊 @valeries2cents.bsky.social · 23d

I need to get George Orwell's 1984 from the library so I can see what comes next!

Valerie 💙🌊 @valeries2cents.bsky.social · 23d

Last week I agreed with MTG, and today Steve Bannon!!

What the hell is happening??

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 24d

Steve Bannon expressed skepticism about the text messages allegedly sent by the suspect in Charlie Kirk's assassination to his roommate, saying the conversation sounded like a "bad script.

'Too stilted': Steve Bannon casts doubt on Charlie Kirk suspect's reported confession

Steve Bannon expressed skepticism about the text messages allegedly sent by the suspect in Charlie Kirk's assassination to his roommate, saying the conversation sounded like a "bad script."The former Donald Trump adviser told viewers of his "War Room" podcast that messages the FBI presented as evide...

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Valerie 💙🌊 @valeries2cents.bsky.social · 23d

Let it be true!

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24d

Steve Bannon, Candace Owens, Matt Walsh, Mike Savage, and Catturd all don't believe Kash Patel and the FBI's explanation or evidence of the Charlie Kirk murder.

When you radicalize your own base and elevate conspiracy theorists, well, don't be shocked when they turn on their masters.

Valerie 💙🌊 @valeries2cents.bsky.social · 27d

My thoughts exactly. Saying he became more political, and not saying left or right says it all. Had the republican family said he became liberal that would be clearly stated.

bladenp.bsky.social @bladenp.bsky.social · 27d

Look. Everyone who knows Tyler Robinson, including his parents and family, knows why he disliked Charlie Kirk. The fact that law enforcement sources are not reporting that (and it’s under a tight lid) is a dead giveaway he was a Groyper.

Valerie 💙🌊 @valeries2cents.bsky.social · 27d

Do better. Please. I hope to come to bsky for accurate info.

AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 28d

There is plenty of info out there about Tyler Robinson without having to use falsified images.
Let's do this the right way, folks.

Fake image of Tyler Robinson altered to include a Trump shirt

Original, authenticated photo of Tyler Robinson as published by ABC News

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Robert Fessler @professler.bsky.social · 28d

Pay attention to your kids. They could be living in an alternate universe without you even knowing it.

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