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Mer

@valkmer2.bsky.social
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Progressive, depressive, occasionally excessive Pro BLM, Pro BIPOC, Pro LGBTQIA+, Anti Bigotry She/her I prefer to let women define themselves. Go Pack Go!

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God @thegodshow.com · 10/10/2026
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This 👇
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can one politician or journalist tell him he's disgusting, to his face, on camera? One. (1).
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ossoff: Did you see this business about Don Jr.‘s wedding in the Bahamas? Where he received, apparently, a cash gift from a Russian oligarch connected to the Kremlin? This man, Kremlev, was apparently in China with Putin two days before he flew to the Bahamas for Don Jr.’s wedding…
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you're still on the fence about whether AI is good or bad for society, consider this: The fascists desperately want it
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
NOT-SO-FUN FACT: Today’s national average diesel fuel price of $6.49 is an all-time record high. ⛽️
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This Day in Labor History: September 19, 1945. 24 fired female employees of the Lindstrom Tool and Toy Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut picketed outside the factory in protest of their firing to replace with returning men. Let's tell the often untold story of women workers in World War II!
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The other half is abusing children
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No argument from me. You're absolutely right.
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The plague of AM talk radio personalities turned politician has obviously mutated
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Toxic hospitality
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is who the Trumps are. This is what they do.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/09/2026
DHS finalized its $16.7 million purchase of 6,650 pairs of electric shock gloves from Compliant Technologies. That comes out to about $2,400 per pair, plus some accessories like glove fresheners in case the ICE agents wearing these direct-contact electroshock weapons get sweaty.
motherjones.com
Lawmakers Push DHS to Cancel Its Shock Gloves Contract
"This administration continues to outfit ICE and CBP with the tools of an occupying paramilitary force."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/09/2026
Pete Hegseth is reportedly considering his chief spokesperson, Sean Parnell—who allegedly abused his estranged wife and children—to succeed US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.
motherjones.com
It looks like Hegseth is replacing top military officers with loyalists
US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is just the latest to depart.
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Make America Strong Again? Seriously? Hegseth literally wants people to say "yes, MASA."
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Could"
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Last week, the Trump administration deported eight people seeking asylum from the Iranian regime to the Central African Republic.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 26/08/2026
Another "voter fraud" allegation collapses: Trump claimed three states had more than 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote, but months later, the Department of Homeland Security is claiming only 185 such cases exist. It hasn't provided what basis it has for accusing them to Nevada:
npr.org
DHS acknowledges the noncitizen numbers it touted on voter rolls were inflated
The Trump administration claimed to have found 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls in four states. But the agency's communications with states since then indicate that data was preliminary.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“My parents died so fuck yours too,” is quite the argument against reasonable healthcare
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/08/2026
Numerous studies, including from the FBI itself, show that invasive mass surveillance tech like Flock and Axon's automatic license plate readers don't help police fight crime. Surveillance is not safety.
futurism.com
Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows
New FBI data shows case closure rates for the Atlanta Police Department have not improved despite thousands of ALPRs installed since 2021.
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I think "broad" and "skirt" are both pretty swell.
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
As usual, shocking but not surprising.
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Love how Gym completely refutes his own argument at the end.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/07/2026
Holy shit! Jim Jordan is reduced to stammering when Kasie Hunt presses him on why he continues to support Max Miller despite credible allegations that he abused his ex-wife and toddler daughter
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I'd cheer for biscuits.
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Natural follow on from "if you don't do any testing, there won't be any new cases."
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“ZEP provides tools to tap right into students’ natural curiosity. Instead of relying on dry, standard textbooks, you access vibrant primary sources, forgotten stories, & diverse voices that get your students leaning in.” — Roy Dalisay, MS LA teacher, Schuyler, NE Donate: zinnedproject.org/donate
When you join ZEP, you’re not just downloading another set of lesson plans — you’re transforming how your middle schoolers experience reading, writing, and thinking. ZEP gives you the tools to tap right into students’ natural curiosity. Instead of relying on dry, standard textbooks, you get access to vibrant primary sources, forgotten stories, and diverse voices that instantly get your students leaning in. — Roy Dalisay, Middle School Language Arts Teacher, Schuyler, Nebraska
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In 1991, construction of a new 34-story office in Lower Manhattan unearthed the remains of roughly 15,000 Africans 20 feet below ground. Many were enslaved to build the city. NPS calls it “the oldest & largest known excavated burial site in N. America for both free & enslaved Africans.” 🧵 More: ⬇️
nytimes.com
The New York of the Past Is Still Visible Today. You Just Have to Look. (Gift Article)
Traces of New York’s layered histories can be found scattered throughout its contemporary urban landscape.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/07/2026
When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)
propublica.org
Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes
Learn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your case.
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Ugh. Like Coleridge and Kubla Khan. That story has haunted me for decades.
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Are you me?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
When some on the right speak of reverence for “civilization,” what they’re doing is trying to anachronistically justify the hierarchy of race they would like to see enacted today by rooting it in antiquity. You cannot cast Black people in The Odyssey, because The Odyssey is a pillar of “Western civilization,” which they consider to be white. This faction of the far right imagines antiquity as a kind of idyllic Jim Crow universe of utterly separate civilizations, one in which the integration they despise could not possibly exist.But Greece is not as far from Africa as the North American continent is, and the modern construct of race, a pseudoscientific product of the Atlantic slave trade, would not be invented until thousands of years after Homer. Black people are depicted in Greek art. Egypt, Libya, and “Aethiopia” are frequently referenced in ancient writings. As the Black classics scholar Frank Snowden Jr. wrote in the 1970s, at least one of the characters in The Odyssey, Eurybates, is specifically described as “black-skinned and woolly-haired.” As the Stanford classics professor Sarah Derbew notes in her book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, Black people are referenced in plays by Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus. They also appear in the writings of Hesiod and Herodotus. One of the lost epic poems is The Aethiopis, in which Memnon, the Aethiopian king and an ally to Troy, plays a major role.
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I mean, that's not exactly hell, but maybe you're in purgatory?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
And any outlet that let Trump pretend he didn’t know anything about it should be shamed into oblivion
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Three congressional Democrats say that as much as $21.5 million paid by ABC, Meta, Paramount and X to settle lawsuits brought by Trump is now missing or has been spent without explanation and requested a full accounting from the foundation building his presidential library.
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Democrats push Trump library to account for millions in lawsuit settlement funds
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal and Rep. Melanie Stansbury are calling for answers after they noted discrepancies in the president’s financial disclosures.
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Silence is assent @stef47.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Proof that guns create cowards. Remember the Uvalde 400.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
SCIENCE UPDATE in the US, here's where we are (via @nejm.org) TL;DR:A political appointee decides funding, not peer review; Your grant can be canceled at any time without warning; International collaborations are prohibited; & All conferences require political pre-approval @naomioreskes.bsky.social
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I know. Just defining terms.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/06/2026
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
And this is just one of the reasons Republicans hate the idea of consent.
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Absolutely not. We welcome her vote and that is it.
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I just hope we're remembering to bring our punch card
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Could not agree more! Not only did Hillary beat the Orange Atrocity by 2.8 MILLION votes, but Al Gore got 543,895 MORE votes than Bush! The Electoral College allows candidates who received less votes to win the presidency. ABOLISH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
How nice for the taxpayers who covered the costs and who will never see any benefit from it.
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Not seeing a counterpoint. Mind elucidating?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/06/2026
As many are hailing Musk’s entry into this league of one, it’s a good time to review his record as an alt-right extremist who’s amplified and promoted noxious, dangerous, and false ideas.
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Elon Musk: The world’s worst trillionaire
His wealth isn't the only thing that's extreme.
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Mer @valkmer2.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
That may be the best compliment ever.
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