Reposted by Jon ValletThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/04/2025This part 6064839313282 0
Reposted by Jon ValletDavid Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 12/04/2025I used to select Dem primary candidates based on policy. Now I will aggressively try to destroy any Dem who says "we need to look forward not backward" and fervently support anyone who says "I will see these motherfuckers prosecuted and jailed if it's the last thing I do." 31287521663 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 10/04/2025D Frum (and the neocons like him) should not be blindly trusted. But this is mostly correct. 000 0
Reposted by Jon ValletFranchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘 410128613748 0
Reposted by Jon ValletMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/04/2025BREAKING — The family abducted by ICE is returning home, per email from Sackets Harbor Superintendent: 174113673341 0
Reposted by Jon ValletCharles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Ok, Baltimore, time to find an indoor home for Mr. Rogers! He's been living in our guest room and wandering around the house for two weeks now, and he's had all his shots and has been treated for parasites. He has immaculate manners, no spraying, and just wants lots of scritches and playtime. 261230409 0
Reposted by Jon ValletCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 05/04/2025I forgot that almost all the signs are 2-sided because we had more ideas than posterboard, here's the backs 1546 0
Reposted by Jon ValletCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025The Teen had some friends over and we made a lot of signs 1031228 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Kilmar Abrego-Garcia. If they can do it to him, they can do it to you. 000 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 05/04/2025With the first surpluses of money, humans bought their offspring education so they wouldn’t have to follow them to the mills and the mines and the plants. Now we have a wealthy but failed-at-everything President who sincerely believes every American wants a factory job. 000 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Good summary if there was still a question in your mind about where we are and how we got here. We never actually cleaned the stables after 2008, so these piles of shit are still lying around. 000 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Seriously, I really want the pro-polling people to start digging up 2024 Dem election avoiders and find out what they’re thinking right now. Are they guilty? Blaming someone else? Feel like they made a mistake? 000 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Thinking today about those stay-at-home Dem voters in 2024 and wondering what’s in their heads right now. 000 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Note to younger retirement savers: huge market swings are really depressing when you’ve been saving for 2 or 5 or 10 years and now are watching what seems like a huge waste of effort. Take a breath. Don’t over-react. You have a lot of time left for mistakes to fix themselves. 000 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 04/04/2025We need civics education in the US, and this is the beginning, middle and end of the curriculum. Maybe spend a week on checks and balances. 000 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 04/04/2025This is the first time I’ve seen a dem say out loud that they lost because people stayed home. It’s obviously true, but not yet very well understood 030 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 01/04/2025It’s possible that just being a Yale Law School graduate, he just doesn’t understand the difference. 000 0
Reposted by Jon ValletSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/03/2025As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges? 178128714312 0
Reposted by Jon ValletAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/03/2025This means I now have negative 4 security clearances 3383448676135 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 27/03/2025A reminder that in 2013, Bondi ended an investigation of the fraudulent Trump University in Florida after receiving a $25k campaign donation from Trump. These people aren’t even expensive criminals. 000 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Policy folks used to know that every new thing should be imagined as used if the next President is your worst imaginable choice. Imagine former prosecutor K Harris getting this data on every person involved in Project 2025. 000 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 22/03/2025How many businesses exist in the USA named White House Assisted Living? 000 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Dinner time in my 5-brother household, circa 1980 000 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Easy to forget that the president's main goal in the 2024 campaign was avoiding prison. 000 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 18/03/202559 year old here. Graduating high school in 1983, every adult around me was focused on college to support myself in life. STEM? Finance? Pre-med? All ok. History? Music? Liberal Arts? Son, you need to get real. At least where I was, the shift was fully complete 42 years ago. 010 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Great piece. Very thoughtful. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/o...nytimes.comOpinion | How Far Gone Are We? (Gift Article)A typology of constitutional crises and constitutional rot. 173 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 15/03/2025My memory of old-school small “c” conservatism begins with the understanding that because government is really prone to error, we must be careful to keep said government on a short leash. There are so many failures described here. 000 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Exactly which differing opinions are of concern here? 010 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 10/03/2025This kind of excusatory BS ignores the reality that if the S&P 500 was up right now, the administration would be shouting from the rooftops. (Is excusatory a word?) 010 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 06/03/2025One method. Just one method that works. youtu.be/cjOPLTTjnwc?...youtu.beThe Untouchables - The Chicago Way - HDYouTube video by JustPressPlay 000 0
Reposted by Jon ValletEvan Schultheis @evanschultheis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Tips and Tails TNR Rescue is looking for a Special Needs Rescue in the Carolinas for these two bonded cats, Shadow and Sophie. Their owner is being moved to a memory home and the family is going to kick them out on Monday. www.facebook.com/share/p/12Ej... 261320314 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Plenty of people die at 60. Decide how you would like to live the second half of your life. 050 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 28/01/2025So pause spending and keep collecting revenue. If you are a simpleton, pretty soon you’ll think you’re rich. 000 0
Reposted by Jon ValletJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Trying to approach 2025 the way St. Margaret is approaching Beelzebub 423280024190 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comAn Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election (Gift Article)See how your neighborhood voted on our interactive, precinct-level results map of the presidential election. 000 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Helpful key: everywhere it says “savings” is a tax increase and everywhere it says “cost” is a tax cut. Lots of new and increased taxes for middle and working classes here. 000 0
Jon Vallet @jonvallet.bsky.social · 17/01/2025In 5 or fewer words, start a fight not about religion or politics. “Proactive” is not a word 000 0
