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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 16h

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 1h

Yesssss!!

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 1h

Great thread, thank you.

Susanne Wosnitzka 🎃👻 @donauschwalbe.bsky.social · 2h

Das stimmt leider nur hinten & vorne nicht. Die 1. Frau, die einen Doktortitel in Mathematik erhielt – & damit die erste Frau, die überhaupt einen Dr.-Titel erhielt – war Elena Lucretia Cornaro Piscopia in Padua im Jahr 1678! Die WDR-Recherche wirkt wie Verleugnung von Frauengeschichte, WEIL:

Drel:la, default effect @sektordrei.bsky.social · 2h

"Sie erwirbt als erste Frau der Welt einen Doktortitel in Mathematik und wird weltweit die erste Professorin für Mathematik."
www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/s...

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 1h

Was für ein fantastisches Buch! Katy Hessels „The Story of Art without Men“ ist für die Kunst ebenso gut geeignet.

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 1d

The URL if you wish to sign is petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Inquiry into sexual violence in NHS hospitals

I want the Government to have an inquiry into sexual violence being reported in NHS hospitals, to come up with a plan to reduce incidents.

petition.parliament.uk

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 1d

The Green Party is huffing serious solvents. Zack Polanski still maintains - post Supreme Court - that women can have a penis and transwomen have a place in women's sports. Homophobic, but also eejits.

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 1d

Piers Morgan interviews the Green Party's Zack Polanski (47 minutes in), who opines that trans-identifying men should be in women's sports and women can have a penis. It's all down to nuance, apparently.

“Get the F*** Out of Gaza!” Trump Seals Israel-Hamas Peace Deal | With Cenk Uygur & Daniella Weiss

YouTube video by Piers Morgan Uncensored

www.youtube.com

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 2d

Great post about stolen IP and IDF propaganda.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Cyndicate @cyndicate.bsky.social · 3d

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 4d

"We", says the draft-dodger.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 5d

Genius: ICE goons have the choice of beating up a froggie in front of a nation brought up on sweet, optimistic Kermit or retreating.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 6d

wizard frog is insane

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 5d

Macho, macho man.

Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 6d

That's a family-sized popcorn treat in the making.

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 6d

Do you swim in your clothes?

Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 6d

Fantabuloso.

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 6d

Very fine - optimistic, even - post about the First Amendment.
joycevance.substack.com/p/the-first-...

The First Amendment (And A Court) Punch Back

Tonight, we have a post that is longer than usual.

joycevance.substack.com

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 8d

Kleptomaniac vultures.

Found: 650-year-old shoe, in vulture nest

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 9d

The correct URL for a great piece. And relieved to see ’theist’ emerging in this thread as a new trans activist insult to break the mind-numbing monotony of the old ones. www.tabletmag.com/sections/sci...

There Are Only Two Gametes

The gametic understanding of sex is consensus mainstream science that makes research and understanding possible across a variety of key fields. So why are professors at Harvard and Princeton and edito...

www.tabletmag.com

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 9d

I want to be a difficult woman when I grow up.

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 9d

She’s just not that bright.

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 10d

Missed it at the time, so brava from the back!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 13d

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

www.chosun.com

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 12d

Makes me hoot every time I run across it - what an anecdote!

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Val Stevenson @valstevenson24.bsky.social · 13d

I have come to the conclusion that you either don't understand the SC ruling or you don't give a toss for your female constituents, or both.

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