Val Hughes

Val Hughes

@valhughes.bsky.social

Retired and living in Spain and not doing anywhere near enough to keep my brain going. (no DM's)

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If any of my followers can see this can you just like as I'm sure I've possibly enabled a setting that is hiding my posts. I could of course just be so boring that no one's interested. Thanks

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Gloria Steinem spent her life fighting for the dignity, freedom, and equality of women across this country. She was a feminist icon, a labor champion, and an American hero.

Just had a terrible 15 minutes. In our apartment block there a small lift just for four people and that's pretty tight. We got to our floor and the door wouldn't open. The light went out and my husband who has Alzheimer's started to freak out. 1/2

I'm pressing the emergency button and eventually someone speaks to me in Spanish but husband is making so much noise with shouting and banging the door I can't hear him clearly. Just to make matters worse it's 35 degs and hubby says he wants a pee. Eventually got moving but nightmare scenario. Need🍷

Not Dolly. One of the good guys who managed to be accepted by often the most diverse of political groups because she didn't offer opinion but quietly got in with her amazing philanthropic campaigns especially for educating young children via her book programme. Such a loss.

I nearly 81 and I can't believe that that after years of struggle for women to be able to hold a place alongside men in all aspects of the workplace I should read this diatribe. They are basically saying women should subjugate themselves in order to make men feel fulfilled.

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Embracing racism is not a way to restore pride, it’s a way to restore racism. It’s not a path to glory, it’s a path to repressed shame and having to lie to yourself, ever more desperately, about who you’ve become.

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I hope someone is archiving all the Lego videos for the historical record. I am not sure anyone has spoken truth to power or humiliated it so throughly, as Iran has. They really are exposing so much.

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BREAKING: Former President Barack Obama has endorsed YES on Virginia’s April 21 referendum, calling it a “responsible, temporary step” to protect fair representation as several Republican-led states redraw congressional maps mid-decade to gain an advantage. Early voting begins March 6.

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We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

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UNARMED WOMAN: “Shame on you.” ICE GOON: “Have you not learned from the past few days?” UNARMED WOMAN: “Learned what? What’s our lesson?” ICE GOON: *VIOLENTLY SNATCHES HER PHONE* (H/T @Mollyploofkins)

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Replying to @tippytaff.bsky.social

TRUMP RUSSIAN OWNED ! 1990’s Trump’s businesses went bankrupt! Legitimate banks wouldn’t lend to him BUT Russian oligarchs DID ! Putin’s ruling clique! TRUMP QUOTE “We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.” Donald Trump JR, 2014 CANCELLED RUSSIAN SANCTIONS