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Valerie Jablow

@vjablow.bsky.social
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DC resident & former DCPS parent who started educationdc.net in 2015 because there was too little media coverage of public education issues in DC--and lots of right-wing ed reform propaganda about the same.

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 18h
Black people are STILL fighting for the right to vote in 2026. Sit with that.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 22h
It's crunch time, the midterms are three and a half Zacharias away.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
As the recent 15-min @nytimes.com excuse session w @markjacob.bsky.social showed, dominant American media outlets platform republicans saying & doing horrendous things that those outlets (including @nytimes.com) refuse to call out, all the while bemoaning that democrats are mean and/or incompetent.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org
jan6memoryproject.org
The January 6 Memory Project
A public archive of Department of Justice news releases and related court filings concerning prosecutions from the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Well, this tale makes clear how the military will act if ICE decides to take its show on a bigger stage anytime soon.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Never, ever underestimate the role of misogyny in any of this administration's decision making.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Yes. This is for you, @democrats.org @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
And it's not just pricing--we are being actively disconnected from the normal of the last 60+ years of public infrastructure & institutions serving everyone (schools, libraries, social safety net programs, mail service, trains, highways, social security).
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Huh, I didn't know he actually worked for Congress in any manner.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
BTW this is the same opera company providing thousands of free tickets to performances while DC's main opera house, at the Kennedy Center, has been closed and threatened with extralegal demolition by our president, who supports russia against ukraine.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Yes. I have often wondered if the reason that judges are not jailing administration actors who blatantly & repeatedly violate court orders is that the judges are afraid and/or threatened.
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Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 14/10/2026
it's so weird how it's never time for the centrists to align with the left, no matter how often and how pathetically the center fails
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
It may be because--per @nytimes.com--we cannot speak such "inflammatory" things like a president literally siccing the police on his political opponents. bsky.app/profile/vjab...
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Yeah.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Hey, how about a little praise for the sturdy washing machines that handle that underwear?
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Mark, thank you for doing this. It was heroic of you. FWIW @nytimes.com seems to have a history of sanewashing. www.tabletmag.com/sections/his...
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The New York Times’ ‘Nazi Correspondent’ - History - Tablet Magazine
As Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany and then embarked on his program of world conquest and mass extermination, The New York Times’ Berlin bureau ch...
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Incredible thread and interview. Unbelievably, staffer for @nytimes.com admitted that even if using an "inflammatory" term about the president is actually truthful, @nytimes.com will not use that term. (Welcome to the "sparing people's feelings about an American dictator" stage of major media.)
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Yes. I have long maintained that I could go to my local [fill in the blank] store and within 2 minutes find any number of employees who would work harder and more honestly than 90% of Congress--and would easily be better than anyone in the current administration.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Body parts lower than his mouth probably are a better metaphor . . .
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Yes. While claiming DC is terrible (& working for people who want to destroy it), folks not from DC have been in droves bringing their Texas, Alabama, Michigan, North Carolina, Arkansas, South Carolina-plated vehicles to Capitol Hill, getting residential parking permits, & staying.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This isn't entirely correct--the last phrase is supposed to be "until you die at an earlier age than your grandparents."
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Yes. This outlet was started in the wake of the Post deciding that actual journalism wasn't its thing, esp for local DC reporting. But the Sun cannot escape this part of its being: "We’ve got the financial backing of Robert Allbritton, the founding publisher of POLITICO."
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Somebody Somewhere @agrrl.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Good God. “Advocates say”?!?!?! You are supposed to be JOURNALISTS. YOU should be concerned, not feeding us an imbalanced “both sides” as though one is just a small group of people rather than literally most people. Delete your account.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Yes.
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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
DC folks, report National Guard sightings at ballot boxes to 866-OUR-VOTE. They are supposed to stay 50 feet away #FreeDC
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Again! Perhaps the judges in DC's case need pictures of this voter intimidation, @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Wow--essential reading.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Yes. They indeed want all the marbles, but like bullies everywhere, they don't want to play fairly because they will never win that way, so they just inflict pain & cruelty to get the marbles.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This would not be surprising to anyone if the Epstein files were released in their entirety.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Maybe he misses making and viewing similar videos (albeit with human beings only)?
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Oh hello, @univofmaryland.bsky.social: You may want to get on with reviewing your expulsion rules.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Head's up, DC: Happening tomorrow! freedcproject.org/event-list/n...
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No Guard at Bard Press Conference — Free DC
National Guard and federal police have been patrolling outside DC schools, harassing students and intimidating families. As parents, families, and education leaders, that is unacceptable to us. On W...
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Uh, does it mean the russian bot farms are up again?
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Isn't jail the destination of those who violate court orders?
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Essential reading.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Agree with your sentiment--but wonder if there ever has been "extreme accountability" here for all the folks who have perpetuated great crimes in this country and/or in our names.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yes--@washingtonpost.com is propaganda for right-wing fascists.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's money & power. With Medicare for all, drug & insurance companies and other for-profit entities would lose $$. And employers would lose power in keeping workers beholden for insurance. Our dependency reaps profits & power for them--which is why they pay off politicians to keep it that way.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yes.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Bet on it. They have NO problem surrounding public schools in DC during school hours w FBI, natl guard, and ICE and closing off our public spaces for no reason.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 12/10/2026
Ukraine just did more to clean up American elections than Congress has done in twenty years.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Tells you everything you need to know about this man.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yes.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
He has a job still bc cruelty & lawlessness are part of the job.
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Interesting, coming from the man who literally faked a cell phone call to escape from a few DC residents who came into his office to ask that he support DC being able to use its own tax $$ after his party denied it. educationdc.net/2025/03/30/t...
educationdc.net
The Ides Of (Late) March
So as we DC residents wait for the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a bill to allow us to use our own local tax dollars and correct the $1 billion hole Congress callously (and undemocratically…
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Framing it so that YEARS of unprovoked Russian attacks on Ukraine appear to be the fault of (checks notes) Ukraine, not Russia, is how @wtopnews.bsky.social casually reported the war this morning. (Next up: charging rape victims for assault when they fight their rapists.)
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Valerie Jablow @vjablow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Gosh, whatever could go wrong??
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