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Vanessa White

@vanessawhite.bsky.social

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♍️ Retired nurse. Proud Marine MoM 🇺🇸Advocate for equality 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽Expat living in Caribbean, but still votes blue in the US. Recovery posse ODAAT. I don’t sugar coat so if you need glitter and unicorns, I’m not for you. Click on pinned post for my history.

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Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · Feb 23

Brief bit of my history and where we are today. I was raped and left for dead by 3 men in 2004. It took years of therapy to recover from it. In 2016 when t was installed (he wasn’t elected), PTSD struck again and I had to go back into therapy. As time progressed and I saw women who were my friends

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Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 2h

Sadly, with all due respect, if you think elections are going to matter until the civil war takes them out you have not been paying very close attention.

Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 4h

Pretty sure the entire lot of everyone pardoned for J6 is now working for ICE 🙄

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 5h

Anyone that thinks it will be better or different under Vance has lost their mind. It will be FAR worse.

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Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 5h

Anyone actually believe this? 😂😂😂

Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 5h

Anyone that thinks it’s going to be better or different under Vance has lost their mind. It will be FAR worse.

Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 14h

Oh. Does he mean just another Tuesday in Nazi Germany 2.0, since that what the country is as of 1/20/25?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you

Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 16h

A judge can swear her in. Just do it 🙄

Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 17h

Well, the bottom line would definitely dictate whether they fall in line. So yes, if they toe the line to keep the advertising bucks rolling in, then yes, getting kicked out would be bad.

Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 17h

Nope. Crazy sells, and trump is the goose with the golden egg. No chance they lose this unlimited source of money.

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Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 17h

There is zero chance we get the house back.

Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 17h

From what I’m reading, a judge can swear her in? Wouldn’t that be simpler?

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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 1d

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Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 17h

What part of, the media is all in with the fascist regime, are you missing?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 17h

Of course it was.

Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 17h

Anyone know?

I talk loud and fast, mostly to myself. @wtfjusthappened.bsky.social · 18h

A judge can and I’m not sure why she hasn’t had one do so.

Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 18h

He’s awesome but hasn’t stopped trump from deploying troops into Illinois 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 18h

Anyone that is not 100% certain it will be invoked before the midterm elections next year has probably been a cave since 1/20/17 🙄

Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 18h

But sure the midterms will go off without a hitch and all those incoming Dems will save the day 🙄🙄🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social · 20h

Speaker Mike Johnson should stop protecting predators in the Epstein files and swear in Adelita Grijalva without delay. www.salon.com/2025/10/08/a...

Adelita Grijalva wants to get to work. The GOP won’t let her - Salon.com

Rep.-elect Grijalva tells Salon she's exploring legal action over House Speaker Mike Johnson's refusal to seat her

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Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 18h

Firewall 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 1d

As I’ve been saying all along. This one off thing is useless. Further, the country is incapable of sustaining anything like what it would take to make even a tiny dent in this regime. Too many people living paycheck to paycheck to take that much time off work. This isn’t the 60s. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 1d

Shake everyone why? Some of us became acutely aware that the country fell on 1/20/25. I was shaken then. Now I’m just resigned to this is life now, a full on dictatorship that no one can stop. This is who we are now. Short of a civil war to get them out. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Vanessa White @vanessawhite.bsky.social · 1d

No. It’s bad in a democracy. But in a dictatorship, which is what we have now, it’s perfectly normal. Why is anyone shocked?