Vanessa Fuller

Vanessa Fuller

@vlfuller.bsky.social

Independent writing instructor & editor by day Reader, writer, science communicator & politics junkie by night Obsessive runner later in life Crazy cat lady forever [NB: If you know the artist for the banner pic in my profile, please let me know.]

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Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. (Published April 2023)

propublica.orgClarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP DonorIsland-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...

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Doing one thing right every few years doesn’t absolve the Roberts court. Especially after Dobbs and immunity.

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Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

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FYI: Judge Ellis (Chicago ICE case) noted in November that video evidence shows ICE "brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."

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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

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New rule: if you’re a Supreme Court Justice and you’re mentioned in the Epstein files, you have to recuse from any future lawsuit about the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

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These senators who voted away access to healthcare for tens of millions of Americans really have the audacity to self righteously posture & pretend that they didn't just bow to the administration who has proven that they do not care if Americans starve or die from lack of healthcare access. #Pinks

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Our calls & outrage are working! Sen Kaine, Rosen, Shaneen & Hassan said if they hear from more of their constituents, they could change their votes from a yes to a no. Rs may not be voting for this bill also, so call your R senators too. Keep the phone calls coming bc it’s working! 202-224-3121

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Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."

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I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

This. Absolutely this. There is no act of resistance which is too small in this moment.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽@joshuaeakle.com

The Constitution is not self-enforcing. The only thing holding our Republic together are our norms. And the only thing that enforces those norms is The People. No one is coming to save us. It's entirely up to us.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social began adding notes to readers for when to read her daily summaries: save this for tomorrow, this should be okay to read before you sleep, etc. I honestly don't know how she continues to do the work she does. But, I am enormously grateful to her.

I see this image and I just want to know that one day each of these individuals will be held accountable for their crimes. I want to know that a jury of their peers (meaning, normal thinking people, not their cultish worshipers) will hear evidence against them and decide they are guilty.

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Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”

Just a reminder: That transcript was theatre from a liar and the personal lawyer to another liar. #ReleasetheEpsteinFiles

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files

This pisses me off in so many ways. Lifetime appointment to a guy who said out loud, 'fuck the courts' now sits on those very courts. Fuck the Federalist Society. Fuck Leonard Leo. And, fuck the Senate Republicans / MAGAits.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social

This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...