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Valerie Costa

@valeriecosta.bsky.social
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Always finding my way into good trouble. 🫀+💪 www.troublemakerscommunity.org

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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Give Washington AI Resistance - @wa-air.bsky.social - a follow! The group is doing all it can to stop data center development in WA state, but also putting forth a vision of a People's Bill of Rights on AI. Big tech shouldn't be shaping our reality and the rules of the economy.
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
WA Gov Ferguson @governorferguson.bsky.social we need a moratorium on data center development until AI can be regulated! Live in WA? Send a letter! actionnetwork.org/letters/gove...
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Governor Ferguson, Stand with Washington Communities against Big Tech
Washington State is in the fourth year of a drought; given the current El Niño, the fifth is likely right around the corner. We're also facing other dire climate impacts: heat waves, wildfires, floodi...
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Never underestimate what a small group of people can do. Backed by 10k+ people emailing council. Seattle passes a one-year data center moratorium. Unanimously!!! @troublemakers.bsky.social @oilgasaction.bsky.social
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Ben Gvir's cruel treatment of hundreds of people kidnapped by the Israeli military in international waters (while attempting to bring aid to Palestinians) looked a lot like Bukele/Noem posing with deportees to El Salvador. We need to keep raising our voice or else it becomes normalized.
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Can we be in the timeline where Colbert is President and there are goofy performances like this?
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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
At the first @council.seattle.gov hearing on the data center moratorium, & the most striking thing so far is the heterogeneity of the comments: costs, heat islands, environmental justice, consolidation of power, water concerns, labor concerns, etc. Big Tech has no idea the solidarity it’s created.
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Celebrating one year of #teslatakedown outside the closed Seattle/SLU Tesla showroom 😍
Tesla takedown cake with cyber truck
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Showing Amazon how easy it is to dump ICE. At Amazon HQ in Seattle. #dumpice #iceout
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Getting up to a little good trouble here in Seattle. Tim Cook partied at the White House the night ICE goons executed Alex Pretti. As long as Tim is running the show, #AppleIsCooked #begood #iceout
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
West Hollywood. Seattle. Austin. Beverly Hills. One message for Tim Cook: #AppleIsCooked. We're done with corporations and billionaires licking boots while the Temu Stormtroopers kidnap our friends and murder our neighbors in the street.
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Having a much deserved beer after protesting Target today and this is on the wall. #iceoutforgood
Fuck ice sticker
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Even Elon Musk's self-evaluation on his job at DOGE is poor.... meanwhile his company gave him a trillion $$ compensation package. No matter how much he screws up, he seems to get rewarded more. I think a different set of rules apply to him.
screenshot of the The Seattle Times online 12/10/25
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I grew up playing Pac-man. Being human (or anything living for that matter) right now is feeling like being a dot, just waiting to be eaten by the multinational corporation/AI/corporate overlords. Can we send some of those ghosts in to stop Pac-man??
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Disgusting. Who is on this "investor arbitration panel"?
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Carrie @chilimama.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Thanks to @soseaemerald.bsky.social for the article about Washington Neighborhood Defense's work to share #KYR info with businesses across #WAstate. We aim to visit every business in the state and need all the help we can get. Join us!
Graph showing progress of businesses canvassed with KYR materials.
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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
In LA, community organizing has played a major role in slowing ICE down. Here are the strategies I saw while I was there. Note: This is a shorter cut of a longer video that’s available on my other socials. All of which can be found here: linktr.ee/kevinfoster
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 09/09/2025
Coming to you live from T-Mobile headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, where we're delivering our petition with more than 20k sigs incl 5k+ T-Mobile subscribers demanding the company hang up on fascism. @cwaunion.bsky.social @aft.org @stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social @workingfamilies.org #teslatakedown
5 boxes of petitions on a lobby table at T-Mobile HQ with the T-Mobile logo showing on a wall in the background. Boxes list T-Mobile's misdeeds, including

Funding Elon Musk 
Being the cellular provider for Trump's corrupt Trump Mobile
Union busting
Cancelling DEI programs to Curry favor with Trump
Lobbying for the BBB
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
“Tonight when you look at your family or look at your kids, think about the fact that today you kidnapped my husband and took him away from us.” - Jennifer Vasquez Sura (Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife) said to ICE agents and masked bounty hunters as her husband was yet again taken by the regime.
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Oil and Gas Action Network @oilgasaction.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
PLEASE SHARE! This summer/fall join a national cohort of student organizers who are taking bold action to expose & challenge the influence of billionaires on campus. Apply for this three-day summit (week of August 18th and the Bay area) and paid semester long organizing fellowship! Bit.ly/stbfellow
Promotion flyer for Stop the Billionaires college student summit and fellowship
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It's simple. No money to fascists like Elon Musk. T-Mobile's Starlink partnership is a dirty deal and it's not too late to drop them. @teslatakedown.com #muskmustfall
T-Mobile Funds Musk banner dropped at Seattle Mariners game 6/30/25
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 01/07/2025
Hey T-Mobile, can you hear us now?? #teslatakedown #starlinktakedown #MuskMustFall
Giant banner under T-Mobile sign in the bleachers that reads "T-Mobile funds Musk"Giant banner under T-Mobile sign in the bleachers that reads "T-Mobile funds Musk" from a further distance
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Made this little video about our Unhappy Birthday Elon party today at Tesla Lynnwood (15 miles north of Seattle). #teslatakedown
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Unhappy birthday Elon. Many people will not have more birthdays because of you. Even your cybertruck piñata is filled with cash and poop. #teslatakedown Lynnwood, WA
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I have been watching @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social videos all week on Instagram reels... It's one of the only things that has made me feel excited and hopeful lately. I am thrilled to Zohran's primary win in New York City! Now, let's get Katie Wilson elected as Seattle mayor!
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 25/06/2025
Incredible news. This kind of thing doesn't happen without tens of thousands of #teslatakedown activists taking action week in and week out to make Tesla's brand toxic. Keep pushing, friends! #MuskMustFall www.wsoctv.com/news/local/c...
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Charlotte City Council drops Tesla from list of approved electric vehicle purchases
City officials voted to remove Tesla from its vendor list.
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
See all the green and orange? These are all the forests up for sale in WA to the highest bidder if the Senate Reconciliation Bill / BBB passes. The bill proposes the sale of over 250 million acres of public lands---so the rich can get their tax cuts. 🤮 wilderness.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant...
map of WA state noting forests for sale
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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 09/06/2025
The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Fuck 'em both.
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Last night's RTVE show (Spanish public TV, kinda like a huge PBS) was all about children dying in Gaza. The host said they're being murdered. Then the 11pm news talked about the EU revisiting it's relationship with Israel. I know this should but be shocking, to hear truth on media, but it is.
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
10 years ago I moved back to Seattle and joined up with some incredible people (many whom I'm still collaborating with) to protest Shell's arctic drilling. I was not brave enough to get in a kayak and try to block this monstrosity. Later that year Shell pulled out of the artic due to "risk."
Two kayaks one with words paddle in SeattleShell arctic drilling rig
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
So happy to see Washington State sue the feds. Less than a decade ago we were fighting massive fossil fuel expansion plans here in the PNW and mostly stopped them. #thingreenline www.kuow.org/stories/wash...
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Washington state sues to block Trump order expediting fossil fuel projects
Washington Attorney General Nick Brown is suing over what he says is President Donald Trump's unlawful declaration of an energy emergency, which is intended to speed up permitting procedures for fossi...
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Governor Phil Murphy @govmurphy.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark. I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 09/05/2025
Reminder: creating a massive surveillance state to facilitate extreme and unconstitutional attacks on immigrants is one of Elon's big projects at DOGE. Fighting Elon is fighting this illegal and inhumane treatment of our neighbors #teslatakedown
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 09/05/2025
HAPPENING NOW: Rümeysa Öztürk appears remotely for her bail hearing in Vermont federal court! 🧵
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Some days are rollie pollie, get dirty, kinda days.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 01/05/2025
"I'm not getting fired. Please don't print in the papers that I'm getting fired." 😂 #teslatakedown
Musk Quote Tweeting Tesla. Dude is sounding more and more pathetic and desperate lol.

Musk tweet reads:
"It is an EXTREMELY BAD BREACH OF ETHICS that the 
@WSJ
 would publish a DELIBERATELY FALSE ARTICLE and fail to include an unequivocal denial beforehand by the Tesla board of directors!"

Tesla tweet reads: 
"Earlier today, there was a media report erroneously claiming that the Tesla Board had contacted recruitment firms to initiate a CEO search at the company.

This is absolutely false (and this was communicated to the media before the report was published). 

The CEO of Tesla is Elon Musk and the Board is highly confident in his ability to continue executing on the exciting growth plan ahead.

 – Robyn Denholm"
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Share your story with @grist.org. They're good people.
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Lost your federal job or funding? Tell us how cuts are impacting the environment, health, and safety of your community.
Tell us how cuts are impacting your work, and the environment, health, and safety of your community, so we can help tell the story of what's being lost.
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
thief www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Elon Musk’s Doge conflicts of interest worth $2.37bn, Senate report says
Committee calls figure a ‘conservative estimate’ and warns Musk may seek to use his influence to avoid legal liability
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Sickening. Then their army of trolls can do their dirty work.
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I listened to 2nd half of the Tesla earnings call yesterday. CEO and CEO/Technoking" (that's his job title) Elon Musk stumbled through his presentation, making wild promises about robotaxis and robots. He can lie to his investors but the rest of us know BS when we see it. 🤮 #TeslaTakedown
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 23/04/2025
"The fact that these demonstrations were the first thing Musk brought up on the earnings call speaks volumes about how rattled he must be;" - @patrickgeorge.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Tesla’s Remarkably Bad Quarter Is Even Worse Than It Looks
Reality is catching up with Elon Musk.
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Tesla lost all its post election gains in Q1. Turns out Musk is quite unpopular and #teslatakedown is working. If you're in Seattle, join us tomorrow at happy hour at the Pine Box. 🍻
Tesla quarterly earnings call happy hour April 22 at 5:30 at the pine box in Seattle. Image of person with hands behind head looking at dropping stocks
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I LOVE seeing the creative signs at #TeslaTakedown protests. This week, a young person dressed as Princess Leia with a "Don't Leia Hand on My Education" sign, in Fife (near Tacoma), Washington state. #teslatakedown #protest @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @teslatakedown.com
Young person holding protest sign: Don't Leia Hand on My Education  and has a "Bad Doge" dog on a leash.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 17/04/2025
“Musk is not all-powerful and people who own Teslas have special leverage right now … so we wanted to show that, creatively and with humor.” @troublemakers.bsky.social @valeriecosta.bsky.social #teslatakedown www.carscoops.com/2025/04/new-...
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Side Effects May Include Tesla Regret, Public Shame, And Elon Musk Nightmares | Carscoops
Elon Musk and his car company remain in the crosshairs of the Tesla Takedown movement
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
So proud to have been part of developing the Tesla Regret Campaign. Total cost? ~$200. Never underestimate what a few people can pull off. #TeslaRegret #TeslaTakedown #TRS #MuskMustFall #Troublemakers
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“I told her to keep going out, to be with her community. I wanted her to live her life,” E. recalled, her voice breaking. “And then she got abducted in broad daylight.”
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American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be...
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Valerie Costa @valeriecosta.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I turned 44 a few days ago. Life is full of contradictions and one of them is the absolute beauty and love I'm experiencing while the govt is disappearing people (and many more terrors). Embrace the beauty, commit it to memory. It's the fuel of resistance.
Val on 44th birthday at dinner tableFriend holding "Hands Off Val" sign she madeTwo morel mushrooms I found in Seattle a few days before my birthday. View from Deception Pass. Blue green water and trees.
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