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Visit: whatistheafterlife.com #UVA student. #NDE, #OBE & #After-death communication research. Research Assistant at #MonroeInstitute, #DOPs & sometime podcaster❤️Member of #SSE, #APA, #SMN, #SPR, #PA, #Rhine, #IONS, #IRVA & #iCreateS ✨ #FATM

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Shannon Desalvo Ewald🧠🧘🏻‍♀️🔬🔭👻 📚 @shannondesalvo.bsky.social · Nov 9

I’m going to start by saying this now so there is no future confusion if you decide to follow me:

I believe that being trans is a real thing & I ❤️ LGBTQIA+ people.

I believe that diversity breeds progress & creative problem solving.

I am ANTI-racist.

I will never not believe these things.

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Collateral Damage @coldamage.bsky.social · 26d

America is violence, my dear.

#FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust

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Jalane Schmidt 📢✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢 @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social · 25d

Whatever happened to 2A proponents’ “now is no time to politicize the victim’s death” admonishment that always follows a lethal shooting?

JoeMyGod @joemygod.bsky.social · 25d

Voldemort Vows To Prosecute Charlie Kirk's Critics - Joe.My.God.

“The last message that Charlie Kirk gave to me before he joined his creator in heaven was he said that we have to dismantle and take on the radical left organizations in this country that are fomentin...

www.joemygod.com

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Jalane Schmidt 📢✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢 @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social · 25d

To honor a deceased bad faith advocate of free speech, the government will now ban free speech

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Jalane Schmidt 📢✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢 @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social · Aug 14

TONIGHT 👇🏾

Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · Aug 9

This week: Mapping Power, Building Movements: Strategy for the Long Haul
How do we make the changes we want in our community? Identifying a goal, assessing available opportunities, and bringing people into action. Full info here:
www.indivisiblecharlottesville.org/2025-peoples-summer-workshop

People's Summer Activist Series, August 14. Starting with a potluck dinner! Thursdays, 6-8 pm, May 22-August 21, Wesley Memorial Methodist Church.

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · Jul 23

So you’re telling me @wsj.com that the placeholder president is a sexual abuser, law-breaker, narcissist, liar…exactly what any of us who did a modicum of research knew 10 years ago…Great decade, America…

www.wsj.com/politics/jus...

Exclusive | Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files

Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president that the department also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victim...

www.wsj.com

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Shannon Desalvo Ewald🧠🧘🏻‍♀️🔬🔭👻 📚 @shannondesalvo.bsky.social · Aug 5

Freedom of speech in an age where words travel faster than light makes facts even heavier, and no one wants to carry weight when they can get likes. Reddit rooms & Rogan brought gasoline & matches despite warnings it would make fire to burn us all, but people thought they were exempt from the flame.

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · Aug 5

#UVA alums overwhelmingly livid and disenchanted with events surrounding the resignation of President Ryan! 83% of 1,900 responses oppose these trends: uvamagazine.org/articles/sad...?

‘Saddened, disappointed and terrified’: We asked alumni for their reactions to President Ryan’s departure. The overwhelming majority were upset; 1 in 6 was pleased to see him go.

The Alumni Association asked alumni for their reactions to Jim Ryan’s departure. Here are the results.

uvamagazine.org

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 1

COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to?

HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

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Jalane Schmidt 📢✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢 @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social · Aug 3

There is a lot at stake in Virginia’s election. Reporting by @andrewkerley.bsky.social www.virginiascope.com/virginia-dem...

Virginia Democrats look to reform university board appointment system in response to GOP influence

Virginia Democrats said Thursday they plan to introduce legislation during the next General Assembly session to reform how members are appointed to the governing boards of public universities. The pro...

www.virginiascope.com

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ᴋʟᴀᵾs @tinyklaus.com · Aug 4

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ᴋʟᴀᵾs @tinyklaus.com · Aug 3

Anyone curious or confused about JD Vance's recent comments on UFOs should check out our most recent episode.

It is not simply another attempt to distract from Epstein.

There is an operation that's been in motion for years, and it is much darker than that.

open.spotify.com/episode/3HpP...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jul 20

ICE just got a 265% detention funding boost.

Palantir software is being used to create the federal government’s first national citizenship data bank.

The Trump regime is attacking naturalized citizens and birthright citizenship.

Be warned — Trump’s police state is here.

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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · Jul 20

i can see this one is going to get a lot of use

a comic thay depicts a trump supporter telling a dem if they puchthe button djt goes to jail for life BUT so does bill clinton like its a gotcha and the dem just keeps pushing the red button

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Jalane Schmidt 📢✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢 @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social · Jul 10

#OTD July 10, 2021 Charlottesville’s century-old Confederate statues were removed.

Charlottesville’s statue of Robert E. Lee is wrapped in nylon straps and hoisted by crane off of its pedestal.

Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue strapped to a flat bed trailer being pulled out of town.

An African American couple embracing in the foreground watching workers wrap straps around Charlottesville’s statue of Stonewall Jackson, preparing it for removal.

Charlottesville’s statue of Stonewall Jackson strapped onto a flat bed trailer that is taking it away. Foreground has signs which read “In memory of those who were bought and sold here.”

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · Jul 2

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

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Jalane Schmidt 📢✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢 @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social · Jul 10

Their leader quoted here and his losers were in Charlottesville in 2017 at the Unite the Right rally. Now his U-Haul boys are tryna white wash their hate. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US neo-fascist group claims it is part of Texas floods relief efforts

Patriot Front leader says so-called ‘activists’ prioritizing giving supplies to their ‘people’ and ‘European peoples’

www.theguardian.com

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · Jul 11

re: Netanyahu at Monticello, I suppose my only thoughts are that as a longtime museum worker I’m feeling for the many many staff who must be blindsided, devastated, furious, and deeply hurt by the institution’s choice to welcome him

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Jalane Schmidt 📢✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢 @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social · Jul 11

Fascism is hyper nationalism + the cult of the Dear Leader, who vows to "save" The Nation—defined in exclusive hierarchies of Us vs. polluting illegitimate Them who don’t belong & must be subdued. Fascism makes grandiose use of touchstone national symbols. This is what fascism looks like in America.

Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · Jul 11

An actual post from the official White House account. FFS.

Tweet from White House account. Image: Trump as Superman. Text: “THE SYMBOL OF HOPE.

TRUTH. JUSTICE. THE AMERICAN WAY.

SUPERMAN TRUMP. 🇺🇸”

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Jalane Schmidt 📢✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢 @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social · Jul 11

Not all heroes wear capes

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Jul 11

ICE vehicle getting towed at St John's hospital (Oxnard, CA) ✊🏽

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Jalane Schmidt 📢✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢 @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social · Jul 12

Yesterday I was driving up 29North & there was a black SUV behind, driving fast with siren & flashing lights, trying to get around traffic. Honestly, my inclination was to stay in my lane & maintain speed, rather than pull over. I was skeptical it was actual law enforcement, because these days…

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Jul 12

A man was robbed and assaulted in Milton, Delaware, by two masked men impersonating ICE agents www.delawareonline.com/story/news/c...

2 men wearing 'ICE' vests rob motorist at gunpoint in Milton. What to know, plus safety tips

If you are unsure if the person pulling you over is a law enforcement officer, call 911 to verify.

www.delawareonline.com

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Shannon Desalvo Ewald🧠🧘🏻‍♀️🔬🔭👻 📚 @shannondesalvo.bsky.social · Jul 13

It’s absolutely terrifying. All the time now.

Shannon Desalvo Ewald🧠🧘🏻‍♀️🔬🔭👻 📚 @shannondesalvo.bsky.social · Jul 8

You sweet boy

Shannon Desalvo Ewald🧠🧘🏻‍♀️🔬🔭👻 📚 @shannondesalvo.bsky.social · Jul 7

No context needed and we are all in support.

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Shannon Desalvo Ewald🧠🧘🏻‍♀️🔬🔭👻 📚 @shannondesalvo.bsky.social · Jul 4

I wish I would’ve seen this sooner!!!

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Shannon Desalvo Ewald🧠🧘🏻‍♀️🔬🔭👻 📚 @shannondesalvo.bsky.social · Jun 28

I’m so angry right now. I am so tired.

Jim Ryan was the 1st, but he won’t be the last.

Please stand with #UVA in our outrage. Our outrage should be your outrage.

This is a university that adults (yes 18 + is an adult) choose to attend.

Adults.

This is a direct attack on our freedom.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 27

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 27

... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration

www.nytimes.com

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