Reposted by VvalkyriRob @robmakesthat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Silly donnie, bombing a girls’ school only gets you the FIFA Peace Prize… 0826
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 10/10/2026More info on Frogs: At Lincoln starting at 1, then 2:15 walk to Einstein. Please have family friendly signs! (Been in touch with organizer) 000
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 10/10/2026NPR top of the hour news said only two countries have done public executions in such a manner any time recently; I forget which, but dictatorships. 010
Reposted by VvalkyriDemocracy Helpers @democracyhelpers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Save the frogs 10/10 at the Lincoln! Also democracy fest is at All Souls and Nat'l Nurses United has a rally at Medstar. savethefrogs.com/march-2026 learninglife.info/demfest/ act.nnu.org/signup/red-a... Nurses starts at 11 and health checks and tacos+ til 3. Demfest is 1-5. Frogs is 1-3.savethefrogs.comMillion Frog March: Washington DC (October 10th, 2026)The Million Frog March brings frog enthusiasts to Washington, DC to defend frogs, the environment, and democracy. We invite you to join us! 222
Reposted by VvalkyriCarole with an e @crwright.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Voyager 1 is running on less memory than a single photo in your camera roll—69 KB. Its data is saved to an 8-track tape & software was developed when "the cloud" was in the sky. NASA sends commands and the old thing answers. And yet your brand new laptop freezes because you opened too many tabs. 892024607
Reposted by VvalkyriChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yeah, he’s lost the juice. 481695191
Reposted by VvalkyriRagnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 06/10/20262016: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing" 2026: 36430
Reposted by VvalkyriBrad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026 That's funny--they don't spell out what MOUT stands for here.... oh... "Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain" huh...dvidshub.netJTF-DC MOUT TrainingU.S. Soldiers with the Georgia National Guard, assigned to Joint Task Force-District of Columbia in support of the DC Safe and Beautiful mission, practice patrolling techniques at Marine Corps Base Qu... 1182
Reposted by VvalkyriLawrence MacDonald @climateboomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In or near DC! Drop by the day-long vigil to stop T’s vanity arch, Oct 1 actionnetwork.org/events/sacre... 042
Reposted by VvalkyriTruthout @truthout.org · 25/09/2026A massive backlog of voter registration applications in Texas could affect the outcome of local and state elections, including a contentious U.S. Senate election. It’s unclear how many voters could be affected. In Bexar County alone, around 45,000 registrations have not yet been processed.buff.lyProcessing Error Could Disenfranchise Tens of Thousands of Voters in TexasThe deadline to register to vote in Texas is October 5. 55542
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Seriously? Colonoscopy low fiber now starts a full week out? 000
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Umbrella walk folk are going today to the architect for the vainglorious arch. 3:30 to 5:30 or so, 1010 Wisconsin NW ( near Georgetown Waterfront) Bring an umbrella, doesn't have to be with a message. Acrylic paint pens great for putting messages on umbrellas 011
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Maybe he's trying to counter the fact that the reason it needs to not be there is the sight line from Robert E Lee's home to the Lincoln Memorial is a symbol of healing from the Civil war. 010
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It was really big and it was really good and there will be some marvelous pictures coming up I'm sure 010
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hands Around The Kennedy Center is tonight at 630. Because he's threatening to tear it down. Foggy Bottom is closest Metro and the shuttle's running. If driving, I'd suggest using spothero to find a garage space, though *perhaps* finding parking in the neighborhood is possible. 022
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Update: Xray looks good. New pain may just be nature's way of telling me to return to stiffer shoes. No, I am *not* going back to the boot - i already returned the borrowed EvenUp. 120
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Man, listening to What's Love Got To Do With It and random I dunno while reading the captions is EVEN WORSE. Also I tried to catch a still of how they'd keep showing this one guy who was crying against the memorial but they didn't go back to him which I suppose is a mercy. 100
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I am in an ortho waiting room. Their normal upbeat music continues over The Reading of The Names. It is cognitive dissonance city. Front desk is willing to change music but seems to think there must be music. They just turned the TV volume off instead. :facepalm: 100
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Man, listening to What's Love Got To Do With It and random I dunno while reading the captions is EVEN WORSE. Also I tried to catch a still of how they'd keep showing this one guy who was crying against the memorial but they didn't go back to him which I suppose is a mercy. 000
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I am in an ortho waiting room. Their normal upbeat music continues over The Reading of The Names. It is cognitive dissonance city. Front desk is willing to change music but seems to think there must be music. They just turned the TV volume off instead. :facepalm: 100
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This looks like it's talking about the a****** religious zealot settlers in the West Bank who are indeed terrorist. There's a bunch of Jewish groups where Jewish Israelis have put their bodies on the line to try to protect against those assholes. 000
Reposted by VvalkyriTruthout @truthout.org · 31/08/2026Amid public outcry, the Commissioners Court for Tarrant County — which contains Fort Worth and borders Dallas — plans to hold a vote on Tuesday on whether to shutter 92 of the polling places used in the 2022 election, many of which serve the city’s poorer and minority populations.truthout.orgTexas Swing County Could Shut Down 92 Polling Places Before Midterm ElectionSenate candidate James Talarico is pushing Tarrant County to drop plans to close nearly a third of its polling sites. 33731
Reposted by VvalkyriGovernor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 31/08/2026Shasta County's job offer to a felon CONVICTED OF TAMPERING WITH VOTING MACHINES to work on their election process is a disgrace. I'm directing CDCR to make every effort to BLOCK any transfer of her parole supervision into California. 48547185
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Ah yes, the dome of the rock floats in the air. Got it. 000
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Btw did you see the recen5 headlines about Lebanon not wanting Israeli withdrawal? 000
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Hey @waba.org are there more protest actions in the works? 000
Reposted by VvalkyriGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/08/2026“Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick … approached a group of racecar drivers hanging out by the paddock. …. “‘Good luck today,’ Mr. Lutnick told them. …. “He walked away. One of the drivers turned and shrugged. “‘I honestly have no idea who that was,’ he said.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...nytimes.comTrump’s Summer of Fun Ends With an IndyCar Race on the Streets of D.C. (Gift Article)It was the final, major event planned for the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations. The president took a lap. 1241444217
Reposted by VvalkyriVoteHub @votehub.com · 23/08/2026NEWS — Former Anchorage Mayor Dan A. Sullivan has endorsed Alaska Sen. Dan S. Sullivan for re-election this fall over teacher Dan J. Sullivan and former Rep. Mary Peltola, according to a post on his Facebook page. 54548112
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Also? 2 million Arab citizens of Israel (some serving in parliament) would beg to disagree about having been eradicated. 000
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Although I guess we've at least established you do understand that more than one group can be indigenous to an area, since you remember the Temple. How much of the current Palestinian population is such is an interesting question - Yassir Arafat was born in egypt. 100
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 19/08/2026And since you consider it a curse word to believe in self-determination of Jews in their ancestral homeland, I will assume you are in favor of the destruction of the country where half of the world's Jewish population lives. 100
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Dude, there has been a continuous Jewish presence on the land for millennia, long before the Arabs conquered the area. 000
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The inversion is tiring Local Arabs were periodically massacring local Jews long before Partition and Independence The death toll in Gaza is a piss poor attempt at genocide if that were the actual intent Note that Israel doesn't bomb neighbors who don't have Iranian backed ghouls sending rockets 100
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Over half of Israelis are Mizrahi, descended from those the whole Arab world expelled in the years before and after independence. And I personally know someone with 10 generations of Jewish ancestors in Jerusalem. Stop consuming hate propaganda. 100
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Indeed. I'm certainly seeing that in the comments. So far as I can tell there's a lot on the Left who want to dismantle the country where half the Jews on the planet live, because indigenous national movements are great except the one for Jewish self determination in the ancestral homeland. 101
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I don't know why you're acting like supporting Jewish self determination in the ancestral homeland is disqualifying, unless you support displacing half the Jews on the planet. 100
Vvalkyri @vvalkyri.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Yeah, a DSA candidate in Florida pretty much means forget getting that seat. I hope I'm wrong. (I remember trying to explain to someone that primarying Manchin was how to lose control of the Senate.) 210
Reposted by Vvalkyritalia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The feds infiltrated leftwing groups, Signal chats. They called it “Operation Puppet Master,” which is funny bc they’re claiming it’s to figure out who funds autonomous organizing but they’re the ones running a bunch of socks in pursuit of their political agenda. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comUS conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records revealDHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown 6410147
Reposted by VvalkyriGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/08/2026All of these ICE charter airlines have emergency landings, diversions, aborted takeoffs etc ALL THE TIME. And very often the shackled passengers have to sit on the plane until ICE flies in a new one. When I say I am drowning in stories and wish more journos were covering this, this is what I mean! 6190119
Reposted by Vvalkyri🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Oh my god does this mean we can support Sandy Hook families with a GAY FROG PLUSHIE and GAY FROG HOLOGRAPHIC STICKERS??? store.theonion.com/products/gay...store.theonion.comGay Frog Plush ReplicaThey did turn the frogs gay, and they're fabulous. Now you can have your own gay frog and just do… whatever. This friendly amphibian is a perfect companion to almost every situation. From uptown to d... 314717
Reposted by VvalkyriThe Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 04/08/2026As the Trump administration withholds more than $1 billion in Medicaid funds from California and Minnesota, a historian of social policy argues that politicians have spent six decades blurring the line between fighting Medicaid fraud and using fraud claims to discredit the program. 4197
Reposted by VvalkyriChairman Phil Mendelson @chairmanmendelson.com · 21/07/2026Yesterday I wrote a letter to Rep. Comer opposing tomorrow's meeting to adopt the "DC Taxing Authority Review Act." Congress already has the authority to disapprove tax increases adopted by the Council. The bill would straightjacket the District and paralyze our tax code. My full letter below: 01614
Reposted by VvalkyriCapitalist Oppressor @capopp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026As to Musk spending cash on the midterms, yeah, we make it a liability. Make it about Musk wanting to take their jobs with AI robots. Make it about him being a Nazi. Make it about baby mamas, DOGE, or whatever your audience hates about him. We wanted the next Congress to be pissed at him anyways.static.klipy.comBill Burr: By All Means, Do It SNL ClipAlt: Bill Burr: By All Means, Do It SNL Clip 618747
Reposted by VvalkyriJacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The Saudi-Emirati feud has had disastrous consequences for the people of Sudan. While Saudi Arabia backs the official Sudanese army, the UAE has been funding and arming the Rapid Support Forces despite their notorious atrocities in Darfur.jacobin.comThe Saudi-Emirati Rivalry Is Fueling a Series of WarsThe tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have now burst into the open as a bitter public feud. Two oil-rich absolute monarchies are using much poorer neighbors like Yemen and Sudan as battlegrounds for their destructive proxy wars. 0114
Reposted by VvalkyriTruthout @truthout.org · 30/07/2026Over 1,100 scientists and senior employees at top AI firms have called for more oversight as OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, recently disclosed that one of its experimental AI agents went rogue and secretly hacked into the infrastructure of several other companies.buff.lyCalls Grow for Oversight as OpenAI Admits Experimental AI Agents Went RogueScientists and AI firm employees urge the US to “deliberately pace” the development of the most advanced AI systems. 15124
Reposted by VvalkyriJeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 30/07/2026here's Thursday's post: "it’s time to leave Dr. Fauci the fuck alone" — Republicans are being shitweasels again. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —bit.lyit’s time to leave Dr. Fauci the fuck aloneRepublicans are being shitweasels again 511208235