Valerie Linn

Valerie Linn

@linnva.bsky.social

Feminist, progressive, former school counselor. Love libraries, public education, arts and the natural world

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This fossil fuel-loving fool is so casual about an illegal war with Iran that’s costing American taxpayers more than $1 billion a day. What about the 18 American servicemembers dead and 758 wounded?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Chris Wright now says there may be no deal with Iran after all: "There may not be a nuclear agreement. It may be simply destroying their capabilities to do it. An agreement may await the next administration in Iran. We simply don't know that."

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During the 2 World Wars, women in Europe used knitting for spying, including encoding messages with combinations of knits/purls...find out more in #UnravellingWomensArt the 1st @womensart1 book, along with many more wonderful and sometimes weird textile art facts....!

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I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.

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Newsom addresses Trump directly: "Where's your decency, Mr President? Stop ... it's immoral. You're creating the conditions that you claim you're solving."

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Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

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DOGE keeps cutting agencies and funding and personnel, but no one I know has saved a dime on taxes. It’s almost like they are stripping the public good of resources to send that money to the oligarchs in tax cuts…

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1. The North Carolina Supreme Court just TOSSED 260 BALLOTS in a razor close election for a seat on the same court The ballots were invalidated based on a claim by the Republican candidate that all of voters were "never residents" of North Carolina But that claim is false We have receipts

popular.infoNorth Carolina Supreme Court throws out hundreds of ballots based on flawed dataThis is a special collaboration between Popular Information and Anderson Alerts, a newsletter about North Carolina politics.
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com

Despite what you’ve probably heard, Trump’s immigration agenda isn’t actually popular. While Americans sometimes approve of “the way he is handling immigration” in abstract, they are very negative on the details. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-imm...

Contemptible!

Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social

The world knows about climate change mostly because of great American researchers, and that work has been largely centered at NOAA. Trump and Musk are now shutting down that brilliant work. They are contemptible, short-sighted, and sold out www.science.org/content/arti...

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In just two months, DOGE has —lost— the government an estimated half a trillion dollars. I propose that Musk pay it back personally.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

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The White House just put out a statement threatening to veto this bill if it reaches Trump's desk. punchbowl.news/sap-s-1272/

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social

This Senate bill to slap limits on the president’s tariff power now has SEVEN Republican sponsors: • Grassley • Moran • Murkowski • McConnell • Tillis • Young • Collins

We have to take him seriously

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social

Trump said he was not joking about the possibility of seeking a third term, claiming a lot of people wanted him to pursue it. While he emphasized he was focused on the current, he hinted at the existence of methods to make it happen.

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Exclusive: The best-known member of Elon Musk's US DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters reut.rs/4l2R9eL 1/5 @raphae.li

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Tragic evil beyond words shades of 1936 Germany! Nari Alvarado working as a baker in Dallas was sent to an El Salvador prison camp because he had an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his brother! He was informed by ICE that he was clean and not a gang member! Yet he was sent to El Salvador!

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Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

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Castro: "The idea that this information, if it was presented to our committee, would not be classified, you all know is a lie. That's ridiculous."

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Whatever happened to the "5 things " DoGe emails ? Talked to someone really smart who just left gov, who said all the emails bounced back as inbox full. Already forgotten Typical Ready Fire Aim

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For several days, fire crews have battled fires burning across thousands of acres in WNC. Local leaders have issued evacuations for many locations. For those who need a place to go, this is a list of shelter locations for wildfire evacuees. www.bpr.org/bpr-news/202...

bpr.orgList: Shelters for wildfire evacuees in Western North CarolinaThis is a list of updated shelter locations for those evacuating wildfires in Western North Carolina, including Polk, Transylvania, Henderson, and other locations.

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I hate to break this news to Schumer, but if Repub Senators won’t strongly condemn & investigate such a blatant breach of national security at the highest levels during the first military action taken by the Trump Admin, they aren’t going to rebel when they defy court orders.

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Scientific research endangered by Trump funding cutoff from Columbia? Use of AI to detect early signs of breast cancer, long-term health of children born to mothers with Covid during pregnancy and links between diabetes and dementia. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/n...

nytimes.comMedical Research at Columbia Is Imperiled After Trump Terminates FundingDozens of medical and scientific studies are ending or at risk of ending, leaving researchers scrambling to find alternative funding.

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The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

benefit.mebenefit.me

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Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Serbia's capital Belgrade to protest state corruption and negligence under President Aleksandar Vucic after a railway station roof collapse killed 15 people last year reut.rs/4ks6BAL

reut.rsProtesters flood Belgrade in one of biggest anti-government ralliesPolice deployed hundreds of officers in full riot gear in and around Pionirski Park, where supporters of Aleksandar Vučić have camped this week inside a ring of parked tractors.
Reuters@reuters.com

More than half of Americans, including one in four Republicans, think President Donald Trump is ‘too closely aligned’ with Russia, as he radically realigns US foreign policy, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows reut.rs/3XRpOlD