Valerie T
@vtroy.bsky.social
Tired of the bs. Feminist, still. Do not obey in advance. Joe Biden was not the President in 2020.
The game of life is hard, and a lot of us are playing hurt. - Anne Lamott
The game of life is hard, and a lot of us are playing hurt. - Anne Lamott
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Valerie T
@vtroy.bsky.social
· Nov 18
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The thing Sacks is mad about is a potential wealth tax which only impacts those with assets over $1 billion. That will impact very few actual people in Silicon Valley.
FWIW I have some issues with the actual proposal, but the idea that it means Silicon Valley "is for dinner" is nonsense.
FWIW I have some issues with the actual proposal, but the idea that it means Silicon Valley "is for dinner" is nonsense.
Thinking about the time Sacks and his buddies started a run on their own bank and had to be bailed out.
David Sacks, presumably, on the push by some in the tech and VC world to fund a primary challenge to Congressman Khanna.
December 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The thing Sacks is mad about is a potential wealth tax which only impacts those with assets over $1 billion. That will impact very few actual people in Silicon Valley.
FWIW I have some issues with the actual proposal, but the idea that it means Silicon Valley "is for dinner" is nonsense.
FWIW I have some issues with the actual proposal, but the idea that it means Silicon Valley "is for dinner" is nonsense.
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 A slice of Trump cake that the US president is treating Zelensky and the Ukrainian delegation to today
Also on the menu is chicken broth and steaks with fries.
Also on the menu is chicken broth and steaks with fries.
December 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
🇺🇸🇺🇦 A slice of Trump cake that the US president is treating Zelensky and the Ukrainian delegation to today
Also on the menu is chicken broth and steaks with fries.
Also on the menu is chicken broth and steaks with fries.
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RFK Jr and Trump rolled back a Biden regulation that required nursing care homes that received Medicare and Medicaid payments to have a registered nurse on site 24/7.
Effective January 1st — those rules no longer apply.
So choose carefully when making medical care decisions for your loved ones.
Effective January 1st — those rules no longer apply.
So choose carefully when making medical care decisions for your loved ones.
December 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
RFK Jr and Trump rolled back a Biden regulation that required nursing care homes that received Medicare and Medicaid payments to have a registered nurse on site 24/7.
Effective January 1st — those rules no longer apply.
So choose carefully when making medical care decisions for your loved ones.
Effective January 1st — those rules no longer apply.
So choose carefully when making medical care decisions for your loved ones.
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Before 2025, “media capture” was a term used exclusively overseas, describing the compromise of a free press to curry favor with the regime in power. Sometimes this happened through threats and intimidation, greased by partisan group think.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Before 2025, “media capture” was a term used exclusively overseas, describing the compromise of a free press to curry favor with the regime in power. Sometimes this happened through threats and intimidation, greased by partisan group think.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.
They’re again advocating against Denmark when it comes to Greenland
December 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.
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This this this. And if you, the public, cease to care, why should the President?
NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
December 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This this this. And if you, the public, cease to care, why should the President?
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When you add this to Judge Matey's similar dissent earlier this year, you can see that there is an emerging strand of thought among the more radical right-wing jurists that would aim to strip basic rights and freedoms from noncitizens. It's not had any success yet, but its adherents are growing.
NEW: 6th Cir upholds the fed law barring undocumented immigrants from having guns.
What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov
December 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
When you add this to Judge Matey's similar dissent earlier this year, you can see that there is an emerging strand of thought among the more radical right-wing jurists that would aim to strip basic rights and freedoms from noncitizens. It's not had any success yet, but its adherents are growing.
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Donald Trump is a convicted criminal.
The Trump administration is a criminal organization.
This is an unprecedented constitutional crisis and we will need an unprecedented constitutional mechanism to repair the republic.
The Trump administration is a criminal organization.
This is an unprecedented constitutional crisis and we will need an unprecedented constitutional mechanism to repair the republic.
The DOJ once considered crimes involving a breach of public trust "to be among the most serious offenses on the books"—but now Trump is "reshaping the American system of governance to make room for graft," the former pardon attorney Liz Oyer argues.
Trump Is Using a Sacred Power for Depraved Purposes
The president’s pardons encourage public officials to place personal interests ahead of the interests of the people.
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Donald Trump is a convicted criminal.
The Trump administration is a criminal organization.
This is an unprecedented constitutional crisis and we will need an unprecedented constitutional mechanism to repair the republic.
The Trump administration is a criminal organization.
This is an unprecedented constitutional crisis and we will need an unprecedented constitutional mechanism to repair the republic.
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“That’s not just offensive. It’s dangerous. And his apology was insincere.”
@davidwontshutup.bsky.social on Rep Andy Ogles irresponsibly painting a target on the backs of Nashville judges to the point where they felt the need to ask @GovBillLee for more security
@davidwontshutup.bsky.social on Rep Andy Ogles irresponsibly painting a target on the backs of Nashville judges to the point where they felt the need to ask @GovBillLee for more security
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
“That’s not just offensive. It’s dangerous. And his apology was insincere.”
@davidwontshutup.bsky.social on Rep Andy Ogles irresponsibly painting a target on the backs of Nashville judges to the point where they felt the need to ask @GovBillLee for more security
@davidwontshutup.bsky.social on Rep Andy Ogles irresponsibly painting a target on the backs of Nashville judges to the point where they felt the need to ask @GovBillLee for more security
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Instead of showing you clips of Babbling Liar Dementia Don in some casino in the Poconos
Thought you might enjoy this
Today in Chicago President Barack Obama visited Burke Elementary School and read to the children
Thank you President Obama for your love of children and our Country
Thought you might enjoy this
Today in Chicago President Barack Obama visited Burke Elementary School and read to the children
Thank you President Obama for your love of children and our Country
December 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Instead of showing you clips of Babbling Liar Dementia Don in some casino in the Poconos
Thought you might enjoy this
Today in Chicago President Barack Obama visited Burke Elementary School and read to the children
Thank you President Obama for your love of children and our Country
Thought you might enjoy this
Today in Chicago President Barack Obama visited Burke Elementary School and read to the children
Thank you President Obama for your love of children and our Country
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This is not about making the public safer. This is ethnic cleansing where everyone who doesn't look white is swept up into overcrowded inhumane detention centers without access to adequate food and water or legal representation. This shouldn't be happening under the US Constitution!
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This is not about making the public safer. This is ethnic cleansing where everyone who doesn't look white is swept up into overcrowded inhumane detention centers without access to adequate food and water or legal representation. This shouldn't be happening under the US Constitution!
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And we wonder why they’re barring inspections.
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
And we wonder why they’re barring inspections.
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Of course criminal slumlord Jared Kushner is behind Paramount’s hostile $108B bid to acquire Warner Bros.
Faking a Middle East peace mission and illegally accepting $2B from Saudi Arabia in exchange for US intel wasn’t enough for this crook. They should’ve jailed him long ago.
Faking a Middle East peace mission and illegally accepting $2B from Saudi Arabia in exchange for US intel wasn’t enough for this crook. They should’ve jailed him long ago.
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Of course criminal slumlord Jared Kushner is behind Paramount’s hostile $108B bid to acquire Warner Bros.
Faking a Middle East peace mission and illegally accepting $2B from Saudi Arabia in exchange for US intel wasn’t enough for this crook. They should’ve jailed him long ago.
Faking a Middle East peace mission and illegally accepting $2B from Saudi Arabia in exchange for US intel wasn’t enough for this crook. They should’ve jailed him long ago.
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The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
‘For the Reinvention of Man’: How a Conservative Debating Society at Harvard Pushed Women From Its Ranks | News | The Harvard Crimson
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
www.thecrimson.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Abigail would like a word…
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
‘For the Reinvention of Man’: How a Conservative Debating Society at Harvard Pushed Women From Its Ranks | News | The Harvard Crimson
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
www.thecrimson.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Abigail would like a word…
This needs to be prosecuted.
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👹Lucifer, Beelzebub, Satan & Mephistopheles all converged for this kind of evil intentional shit to happen!
🤬This is a one way ticket straight to hell! Don’t pass go, don’t collect $200 & no 🤬 hand basket!
👹Lucifer, Beelzebub, Satan & Mephistopheles all converged for this kind of evil intentional shit to happen!
🤬This is a one way ticket straight to hell! Don’t pass go, don’t collect $200 & no 🤬 hand basket!
December 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This needs to be prosecuted.
It died in the line of duty.
December 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM
It died in the line of duty.
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
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Under Trump, US aid to Ukraine is over. However, there's plenty of aid to Russia.
December 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Under Trump, US aid to Ukraine is over. However, there's plenty of aid to Russia.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![Texas is not on “the eve of an election,” as was true in the
case the majority cites. Republican National Committee v.
Democratic National Committee, 589 U. S. 423, 424 (2020)
(per curiam); see ante, at 2. The election there was five days
after the injunction. Similarly, the election in Purcell was
“just weeks” away. 549 U. S., at 4. Here, Election Day is
eleven months from now. Even the primary election (which
Texas could change) is in March. The District Court care-
fully listed the various “election preparations” underway to
switch to the 2025 map. App. 144. On the other hand, the
court noted how the 2021 map—which the injunction rein-
stated—was, in a real sense, the status quo. See id., at 145.
Officials, candidates, and voters are all familiar with it from
the last two election cycles. Until late last summer, every-
one expected that map to govern 2026 too. And indeed, it
will be used in a special runoff election in the State’s largest
county on January 31, 2026. So, the District Court properly
concluded, “[a]n injunction in this case would not cause sig-
nificant disruption.” Id., at 144. Except to the extent all of
us live in election season all the time, the 2026 congres-
sional election is not well underway.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpna2qi2e44fafbhhtqjak3x/bafkreifzzrhpyftoam4b4eqcpdcegf2hksn4ula6rwbtv6fqwviqfgikte@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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When a state draws majority-minority districts as a remedy to proven discrimination: strike down the map!
When a state draws majority-minority districts as a ruse to steal 5 Democratic seats: go right ahead!
When a state draws majority-minority districts as a ruse to steal 5 Democratic seats: go right ahead!
BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Texas use Trump-backed gerrymandered maps in 2026
December 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
When a state draws majority-minority districts as a remedy to proven discrimination: strike down the map!
When a state draws majority-minority districts as a ruse to steal 5 Democratic seats: go right ahead!
When a state draws majority-minority districts as a ruse to steal 5 Democratic seats: go right ahead!