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Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️‍⚧️🩵
@vsschultz.bsky.social
Writer on the Oregon Coast, Mother, #Leguminati, Left-hander, Vegetarian, Venn Diagram lover, she/her
Latest Book: "Till the Moon Be No More"
I’m new on substack: ‘Boomer Mode’
**Get your library card**
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“You’re not allowed to give up.”
- Alexei Navalny
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There is literally no reason for the military to be in D.C.
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for so much - above all, for loved ones who are with us in our best and worst moments, and who remind us who we really are.

From our family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Happy Chompsgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong." .. (George Washington).. (Cartoon Dave Granlund).. #trump #maga #immigration
November 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I’m mindful today of those for whom this is their first Thanksgiving without a loved one. I’m praying for a measure of peace and the comfort of beautiful memories.
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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"America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system."..(quote Walter Cronkite).. (Cartoon Dave Granlund) #healthcare #USA
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Warning:
Presidential posting ahead
During this season of giving, let’s do what we can to give back to the communities that have given us so much. From our family to yours, have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reminder:
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Not on our watch
Protect our trans kids 💙🏳️‍⚧️

Republicans Privately Pushing Anti-Trans Funding Ban For ACA Subsidy Deal After Shutdown Compromise
www.erininthemorning.com/p/republican...
Republicans Privately Pushing Anti-Trans Funding Ban For ACA Subsidy Deal After Shutdown Compromise
The proposal, which was first detailed in the Wall Street Journal, could harm transgender people even in blue states if it becomes part of the negotiated deal.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Reminder:There is no Dept of WAR.
Speaking of pulling stuff out of Trump's butt...
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
attacking an astronaut hero: maybe not the savviest political move
Trump keeps escalating his dangerous rhetoric, and it’s fueling a surge in death threats against anyone he labels an “enemy.” His Truth Social posts aren’t subtle, they’re prompting MAGA supporters to bombard people with threatening calls, emails, and online messages.
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
" . . . you don’t need to talk politics at Thanksgiving, and you definitely don’t need to bang your head against a wall arguing with a diehard MAGA relative."

How to Handle Your MAGA Uncle at Thanksgiving (Without Ruining Dinner)
www.messageboxnews.com/p/how-to-han...

(or your maga cousins)
How to Handle Your MAGA Uncle at Thanksgiving (Without Ruining Dinner)
Some facts and messages for the inevitable, awkward political conversation over Turkey.
www.messageboxnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This is the way.
Kudos to Senator (and U.S. Marine) Ruben Gallego for his direct response to Drunken Frat Boy Pete Hegseth and his ridiculous "investigation" of highly-decorated Veteran and former astronaut Mark Kelly.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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trmp is not above the
Constitution
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Someone very close to Putin once explained to me that Putin thinks that all Westerners can be bought. We have no values; only a price. Dmitriev's prominent role in drafting the latest "peace plan" underscores that Putin assessment. I hope Putin is wrong. I fear for some, he might be right.
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“I’m a US citizen.”
“I don’t care.”
Mother of God.
PLS SIGN OUR Change.org PETITION👇 & CALL Congress to impeach & convict racist #MAGA demagogue con artist & Hitleresque #Project2025 wannabe King #Trump & Sec Noem & prosecute #ICE, ALL traitors to OUR American #democracy

www.change.org/p/with-this-...

TYVM @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
#BlueCrew
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Read this. A real American.
I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.

If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
JD Vance is the snake in the grass 🐍
Peter Thiel, the great theologian
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Great idea
On Thanksgiving, I think we should all, as a family, watch THE LAST WALTZ. It’s the first Thanksgiving with all the members of The Band gone.
a man in a hat is playing an electric guitar
ALT: a man in a hat is playing an electric guitar
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM