Valerie Russ

Thinking of these two freedom fighters this morning and how much we owe them in the fight for economic justice at home and global justice abroad. Rest in power Dolores Huerta!

Have you heard about Nevada Neymar Pierre, a 3-year-old soccer prodigy, has gone viral following a controversial incident where police were called to his youth soccer match and removed the boy because he was playing too good! He scored 40 goals in 5 games! And these asshole parents called 911. WTF!

BIG WIN in my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the unredacted Epstein Files! The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit DENIES Blanche’s request to pause Judge Sullivan’s order directing him to begin reviewing foreign language documents for production. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

May she Rest in Power www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Looking at US News and World Report's list of best places to retire. They don't seem to have factored in diversity; top 3 choices, Midland, MI, Homosassa Springs, FL and Weirton, WV are all 85-91% white, according to a quick Google search. Sigh. loom.ly/tNsMBkA

The NY Times quotes DOJ assurances that its election maneuvers aren't politically motivated. Then NYT says: “Yet it has become increasingly difficult to reconcile reassurances with reality, critics say.” What the hell is “critics say” doing in that sentence? NYT knows it to be true. Just say it!

In 1983, Svetlana Mojsov identified the active form of GLP-1, the molecule behind Ozempic and Wegovy. The credit went to the men around her. For 40 years, her contributions went largely unrecognized. She fought to get the credit she deserved. Her name is Svetlana Mojsov. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

She was the lead seamstress for the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore when he walked on the Moon. But history got her name wrong for more than 50 years. This photo was misidentified for decades. Her name is Jean Wilson, and in March 2026, the Smithsonian finally corrected the record. #SheShed #VivaHer

From @rannmiller : www.salon.com/2026/10/21/j...

from @rannmiller : 'Hurts is perhaps one of the most disrespected players in the NFL as, in commissioner Roger Goodell’s words, a “face of the league.” '.https://www.salon.com/2026/10/21/jalen-hurts-shows-the-price-of-being-unapologetically-black/

My column on the mishandling of the Jalen Hurts situation, and the NFL's condescending response, free to read at @theathletic.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

perhaps more exciting than being on tv was meeting debbie shields, the women who improv’d with conan on subway takes

The BBC is doing something important, refusing to be intimidated by a powerful person trying to use the legal system to punish criticism and discourage scrutiny. They’re schooling the American press on what the 1st Amendment means. Read about it here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-bbc-st...

In 1959, 9 year-old Ron McNair, walks into a library in South Carolina wanting to check out some books, despite the rule that only white people can have library cards. Decades later, that building would be named after him. Remembering Dr. Ronald E. McNair on his birthday 💙🕊

"Ordinarily, moving historical items within the Pentagon is a deliberate process overseen by trained curators. Instead, Hegseth’s staff dispatched its own team." The curators "had been furloughed due to a partial government shutdown...." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

just finished the latest series of The Diplomat (Netflix) seriously one of the best shows going around at the moment...

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tommy did not get paid $250k to disrupt el-sayed's event. tommy's dad TIMMY's LLC was paid that amount. whether timmy gave tommy a cut is unknown at this point.

Four brothers went to war against Hitler. Three were killed. The fourth survived, and his grandson, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is the president of Ukraine. Zelensky comes from a family that fought tyrants: Trump negotiates with them while demanding concessions from their victims.

Updated, new and improved version, now with extra Sirianni obfuscation Bowen: Eagles org. reeling with Jalen Hurts out for season allphly.com/eagles/bowen...

Eagles QB Jalen Hurts, who is out for the season after several blood clots were revealed in his lungs. Before the London game, Hurts was in the hospital until 4 am and did not sleep because sleep was a risk. He played the game without having slept. Crazy.

This isn't unique or personal to Tom, but we HAVE to stop lionizing any and every sacrifice at the altar of the NFL. The question was never, "how committed is Jalen Hurts to football?" He's a Super Bowl MVP. The question is: how committed were the Eagles to Hurts when his health was in real danger?

Yes, I wrote about how the #Eagles’ leadership team, including Howie Roseman and Nick Sirianni, and the team doctors need to be punished in some capacity. It is horrendous what they did to Jalen Hurts. #FlyEaglesFly insidetheiggles.com/eagles-leade...

"The design appears to eliminate Ohio Drive, which loops around Hains Point, a century-old grove of cherry trees and a historic mini golf course. The space is used not only by golfers, but thousands of cyclists, runners, walkers, anglers, birdwatchers..." www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...

This is awesome. If your vote didn’t matter Republicans wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop you.

This is a conversation that I know a lot of people here have daydreamed about having, and it's worth your time.

"Under Trump, the Public Integrity Section has been gutted, with scores of experienced prosecutors being pushed out or fired. Only a small number of attorneys remains in the division, and they've largely been cut out of sensitive political investigations..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Last week: We revealed that Trump immigration agents have detained more than 500 citizens This week: House members introduced the Justice for Citizens Wrongfully Detained by ICE Act The bill's sponsor, @fernandez.house.gov, says our reporting was "the genesis" fernandez.house.gov/news/documen...

From @michellegoldberg.bsky.social quoting Arendt: “One is almost tempted to measure the degree of totalitarian infection by the extent to which the concerned governments use their sovereign right of denationalization.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/o...

Based on their public comments, NYT leaders view the kind of insider details discovered by Haberman and others as essential to understanding Trump. I don't think that's correct. Public documents (Project 2025) and events (Jan 6, DOGE) to me describe this presidency better than insider accounts.

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Oscar Belgal was shot in the neck by ICE. The bullet’s still there. He’s lost feeling in half his face. Lost hearing in an ear. Because they won’t disturb that bullet. ICE has him in detention, not a hospital. They’re taking better care of that bullet than that man.

BREAKING: Guinea-Bissau did not approve the controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial to move forward, the country's health minister says: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

All parents must have a sympathetic understanding of the ordeal to which the nine Negro children who have been prevented from attending Central High School have been subjected. Dwight D. Eisenhower Born October 14, 1890

"There is no excuse for this and you know why I’m furious right now,” the judge said. “I was hearing from plaintiff’s side that this was going to happen and I said ‘no’ repeatedly, ‘I trust the government.’ I trusted you all repeatedly to not do what you have done...” www.ms.now/news/you-did...

After 430 trees are cut down for a new golf course, a federal judge says the government has lost its credibility.

A federal judge criticizes the Trump administration for removing hundreds of trees from a public golf course and issues an order temporarily barring any other trees from being removed until at least Tuesday.

WOW: A federal judge ERUPTED at Trump administration lawyers after hundreds of trees were chopped down for Trump's DC golf course project despite repeated warnings to provide advance notice. Our Scott MacFarlane was inside the courtroom for the extraordinary showdown.

At least four members of the Danish ethics committee have resigned after this project was pushed through. One told me that the babies who contract hepatitis B while they are part of this research will, in effect, get sick “by design”. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Hamilton was in her early thirties when she led the team of software engineers that powered NASA's Apollo missions. She later said, "There was no choice but to be pioneers." n.pr/4jdONeD

ICE fired into the car of a Dad who had just picked up his 5 year old kid... Witnesses described a chaotic scene after they said they heard several gunshots ring out "I only heard about four shots" ICE has been using a nearby Target parking lot as a staging area abc7ny.com/amp/post/per...

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The proposed $6 billion complex, dubbed the Big Woods Technology Park, will encompass 800 acres of private property near Bassfield, Mississippi, approximately 300 of which will be leveled to accommodate the data center and supporting facilities. buff.ly/rLqkrfJ