Maude de St Valéry
@vlherrou.bsky.social
Lawyer, policy advocate for poor families, observer of the human condition. Richmond, Virginia. 💙
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The man who ran on a platform of "America First" and promised no involvement in foreign wars is now launching wars of choice in Nigeria, Venezuela, Syria, and Lebanon.
Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.
Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.
December 26, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The man who ran on a platform of "America First" and promised no involvement in foreign wars is now launching wars of choice in Nigeria, Venezuela, Syria, and Lebanon.
Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.
Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.
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In thinking about what you can do this year, keep this in mind:
Showing up at protests has real impact!
Showing up at protests has real impact!
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In thinking about what you can do this year, keep this in mind:
Showing up at protests has real impact!
Showing up at protests has real impact!
I’m guessing the @washingtonpost.com ad for Amazon ‘healthcare’ thinly disguised as a screed against the UK’s NHS - by the “editorial board” - isn’t winning it any friends or influencing any people (written by AI??). And cheap: using a photo it already owns instead of commissioning an illustration.
December 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I’m guessing the @washingtonpost.com ad for Amazon ‘healthcare’ thinly disguised as a screed against the UK’s NHS - by the “editorial board” - isn’t winning it any friends or influencing any people (written by AI??). And cheap: using a photo it already owns instead of commissioning an illustration.
Yeah, we're gonna count you as "in" on that, David Brooks and @nytimes.com. we should have read that column as the confession it was.
December 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Yeah, we're gonna count you as "in" on that, David Brooks and @nytimes.com. we should have read that column as the confession it was.
How is this man still employed by the @nytimes.com ?? Not for being in the photos (necessarily--but that too) but for not revealing his huge conflict of interest and violation of journalistic ethics. Jeez! #davidbrooks
December 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
How is this man still employed by the @nytimes.com ?? Not for being in the photos (necessarily--but that too) but for not revealing his huge conflict of interest and violation of journalistic ethics. Jeez! #davidbrooks
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It is insane that this is not a bigger “story.” We have to pay attention to ALL of the atrocities. They all matter.
The Trump Administration is detaining U.S. citizens for days without due process or a phone call—only to release them with no charges.
This is illegal and immoral.
This is illegal and immoral.
December 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
It is insane that this is not a bigger “story.” We have to pay attention to ALL of the atrocities. They all matter.
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Barbarity
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Barbarity
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Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
Cato Institute and Bezos @wasingtonpost.bsky.social: “don’t whine about food prices y’all! In the past two years, wages increased 8.1% compared with a 4% rise for food.” But… the overall cost of living rose much more. Housing is 15% higher than 2022. That makes food prices a daily hit to the face.
December 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Cato Institute and Bezos @wasingtonpost.bsky.social: “don’t whine about food prices y’all! In the past two years, wages increased 8.1% compared with a 4% rise for food.” But… the overall cost of living rose much more. Housing is 15% higher than 2022. That makes food prices a daily hit to the face.
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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Sadly relevant today.
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Sadly relevant today.
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Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.
Since the White House and the Hagfish are whining about Dems reminding the military of their duty to disobey illegal orders, this “distancing” won’t go so well for them in the long run. Anyway whatever happened to “the buck stops here”? Trump is definitely no Truman.
December 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Since the White House and the Hagfish are whining about Dems reminding the military of their duty to disobey illegal orders, this “distancing” won’t go so well for them in the long run. Anyway whatever happened to “the buck stops here”? Trump is definitely no Truman.
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A report reveals the DOJ—after frantically realizing the files would be released—has been paying FBI agents nearly $1M in overtime to work on the “Epstein Transparency Project."
Ostensibly aimed at protecting victims' privacy, the project could also prevent exposing Trump. trib.al/su4zh6N
Ostensibly aimed at protecting victims' privacy, the project could also prevent exposing Trump. trib.al/su4zh6N
November 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A report reveals the DOJ—after frantically realizing the files would be released—has been paying FBI agents nearly $1M in overtime to work on the “Epstein Transparency Project."
Ostensibly aimed at protecting victims' privacy, the project could also prevent exposing Trump. trib.al/su4zh6N
Ostensibly aimed at protecting victims' privacy, the project could also prevent exposing Trump. trib.al/su4zh6N
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“The only way to stop drug trafficking is blowing up boats and pardoning the drug dealers.” —Senile Satan
November 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
“The only way to stop drug trafficking is blowing up boats and pardoning the drug dealers.” —Senile Satan
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I'm a lawyer who fights for democracy who built Democracy Docket from scratch because we need independent pro-democracy media. For $10 a month you can help it do its vital work. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
November 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I'm a lawyer who fights for democracy who built Democracy Docket from scratch because we need independent pro-democracy media. For $10 a month you can help it do its vital work. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...
theonion.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."
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Jeff Bezos paid $50 million for a wedding. He just got a $16 billion tax break. He just laid off 60,000 people.
And you're furious about a kid getting a free school lunch?
And you're furious about a kid getting a free school lunch?
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Jeff Bezos paid $50 million for a wedding. He just got a $16 billion tax break. He just laid off 60,000 people.
And you're furious about a kid getting a free school lunch?
And you're furious about a kid getting a free school lunch?
Covering up their eff-up
The White House has said last month’s jobs report and inflation data would “likely never” be released.
White House Will Release October’s Jobs Report—After Saying Data Would ‘Likely Never’ Publish
The White House has said last month’s jobs report and inflation data would “likely never” be released.
www.forbes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Covering up their eff-up
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About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.
So the forced-birth people are ok with women not getting pre-natal care and dying on their way to the hospital because the one closest to them no longer offers OB/GYN services. cardinalnews.org/2025/11/11/a...
As Centra ends OB/GYN care in Farmville, experts say more women’s health services are at risk due to changes brought by federal spending bill
Despite state legislative efforts last year to make women’s health more affordable, the cost savings haven’t been enough to offset financial pressures.
cardinalnews.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
So the forced-birth people are ok with women not getting pre-natal care and dying on their way to the hospital because the one closest to them no longer offers OB/GYN services. cardinalnews.org/2025/11/11/a...
Today's question for @nytimes.com and Russ Douthat:
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Today's question for @nytimes.com and Russ Douthat: