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Valerie

@sereneswan.bsky.social
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Lefty 💙 🌎 ☀️ community organizer, neurospicy social critic. valmapack.substack.com?r=6ngnx&utm_… Overeducated. Married forever, 2 kids, 4 grands! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈ally 🦓#EDS

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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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Digital Warlords and the Privatization of Global Power
In an era defined by rapid technological acceleration, the boundaries between private enterprise, national sovereignty, and global security have dissolved.
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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Democracy in Name Only: The Rise of the Tech Oligarchy
When Tech Moguls Control War, Media, and Elections, Political Theater Won’t Save Us
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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The Tech Parasite Eating Global Democracy
How Unelected Silicon Valley Oligarchs Bought Our Defense, Hijacked Our Elections, and Left Taxpayers to Pay for Their Own Extinction.
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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How Biden Helped Israel Destroy Gaza
Watch now (87 mins) | A conversation with Akbar Shahid Ahmed about his new book, “Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel’s War in Gaza”
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Ayman Mohyeldin (@amohyeldin)
This isn’t really about Macklemore or Ed Sheeran. My question is for Robert Kraft—and others like him who claim to care about Palestinian dignity and freedom: What, exactly, is the acceptable way to s...
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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The 67-Point Collapse: How the Establishment Lost the Narrative on Israel
Beneath the manufactured consensus, the cultural power structure is fracturing in real time—and the old political playbook no longer works.
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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When Leaders and Technofascists Lie, The Rest of Us Die: Israel, AI, and Genocide
Author Akbar Shahid Ahmed, author of the forthcoming Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel’s War in Gaza, discusses the blockbuster reporting that revealed Netanyahu disregarded repea...
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Darth Empath @jhatman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A human can only survive 2-7 days without clean water, whereas we can survive in perpetuity without datacenters. Choose wisely.
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Fantastic interview! substack.com/@thelefthook...
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How did Angie Nixon Win the Democratic Senate Primary in Florida as a Proud Black Progressive and Democratic Socialist?
Angie Nixon joins Waj on The Joy Ann Reid Show!
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Tell this story everywhere. Lorenzo did not need to die. End this fascist regime. substack.com/@jesscraven/...
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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo spent 35 years building homes in Houston and raising three American citizen sons.
On Tuesday, he was shot and killed by an ICE agent during a traffic stop.
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Valerie Mapstone Ackerman (@valmapack)
The imperfect politician. Which is all of them of course. But some are devastatingly imperfect. The addled brain guy. And the other one. And the one who is likely brain dead. And the depressed one who...
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/06/2026
I swear to god I thought this was fake www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
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Did Trump's motorcade drive through newly painted reflecting pool?
A White House official posted a video of the motorcade crossing the landmark on May 7, 2026.
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
www.flipsnack.com/C7B55E88B7A/... My grandkid is featured in a story starting on page 106. Fascinating magazine! My first time being aware of it. Enjoy the whole thing and tell me what you think of Keegan! (I am not the featured grandmother.)
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FashionAbility July 2026
Flipsnack is a digital catalog maker that makes it easy to create, publish and share html5 flipbooks. Upload a PDF or design from scratch flyers, magazines, books and more.
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Say The Thing Tee @saythethingtee.com · 20/06/2026
It appears Grok killed the schoolchildren in Iran, in tandem with a US military under Pete Hegseth who DGAF. Remember when Anthropic said 'No' to Hegseth's demand that they allow the DoD to use Claude to kill autonomously, with no human oversight? Check out this timeline:
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY THIS HERE,WAS,FOR MANY OF US, THE CELEBRATION WE NEEDED,AND A REMINDER, NOT TO GIVE UP HOPE ! THANK YOU, MICHELLE, AND PRESIDENT OBAMA...🎊🎉✨️ 👇👇👇
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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Justin Jones & Roland Martin on the Secrecy Surrounding the Fisk U Campus Data Center
Rep.
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (@thelefthook)
The Ethnic Brady Bunch Is Back To Mock Trump 250! Joy-Ann Reid, Katie Phang, Jim Acosta and Waj The Crew breaks down Epstein news, 60 Minutes firings, White House cage match plans, and more chaos fro...
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Childhood in Ukraine : teachers blocking the road so school kids could run to bomb shelter to hide from Russian drones and missiles . It’s been a massive attack on Ukraine today , all regions , and now it’s moving west and continues
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
www.facebook.com/share/v/18XD... Medea Benjamin reminds us that Mother’s Day is about peace.
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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Our Endorsements — Track AIPAC
We support candidates who reject support from AIPAC and their allies. Our candidates support Palestinian rights and statehood, call for conditioning and cutting military aid to Israel, and support enf...
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
We sold our solar powered house in Florida with paid off solar panels. The buyers didn’t want them. They were so propagandized! They heard the panels were extremely toxic. Oh well, we brought them with us to the next house.
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
FAFO
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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes. That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services. This is why people are mad as hell.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"There's only one majority in this country and that's the working class." —Zohran Mamdani
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 17/04/2026
ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East. This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family. Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships. Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
A photo of a tray with three sections empty. One has chopped carrot in it. The other has what can only be described as a posit of brown dog vomit and an insole liner of a sneaker (or a used panty liner from the mid 1700s). The kind of meal that would have you happily tossing yourself overboard.
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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Support Independent Media.
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Koreen Brennan @koreen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
MeidasTouch host Katie Phang testifies in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the proposed merger of Paramount-Skydance and Warner Bros.: "Democracy cannot survive if powerful people get to decide which facts are allowed to exist and what version of the truth they want to peddle for profit."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
AOC: Whether it’s people in the Epstein files still roaming free, or the president, a known rapist, continuing to occupy the White House, all of this has contributed to the normalization and the idea that incidents of harassment shouldn’t matter. And I think today was an important turning point
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs. Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026. This is what corporate greed looks like.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/04/2026
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
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Kenny Kenoir @kenoir323.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
What do you call a group of ICE agents? A Treason.
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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Valerie Mapstone Ackerman (@valmapack)
Our frustration is justified. But we do not have a “get out of fascism for free roadmap.” Or if we do, no one shared it on social media. Can we vote our way out? Doubtful How can we organize our wa...
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The fascism continues unabated
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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Stefan Jonasson (@revstefan) on Threads
See this Instagram post by @jedayal: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNMCRUTyySV/
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
No more secrets. I was asked by Chavez to postpone grad studies to go work for him in 1988. (I declined). This feels personal. Live Updates: Dolores Huerta, Ally Abused by Cesar Chavez, Speaks Out as Revelations Spur Outcry www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
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Live Updates: Dolores Huerta, Ally Abused by Cesar Chavez, Speaks Out as Revelations Spur Outcry
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 13/03/2026
Hahahhahahahaha toy soldier really hopes you think the military academy is the military! It ain’t lol
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Frost formations on my silver car
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The farm crisis is caused by hyper capitalism. Time for a socialist economy. Very informative video attached. www.facebook.com/share/v/1CYX...
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Valerie @sereneswan.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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A federal judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return or replace property taken from unlawfully arrested ICE detainees and released without their belongings, giving the government 30 d...
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