Todd V

Todd V

@toddv2.bsky.social

Really blue in a really red state, fighting the normalization of absurdity 🇺🇸. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 All deserve to be safe and included 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Unscientific poll request, friends of BlueSky... When we say "Eat the rich", what is the minimum net worth that should start to make someone sound appetizing? Serious question, thank you all!

For our kids, friends, and all who just want to love and be loved for who they are... You matter, you're loved, you're safe here. We're proud of you, be proud of yourself! #HappyPride

Just saw a TV ad for AC repair... I'm no HVAC expert, but if it's hot enough to turn on the AC, you might want to lose the sweater.

Very few people probably know this, but in its earliest stages of life, salami is actually a flower 🌼 But by the time it hits the grocery store it's a torpedo-looking thing or thin round slices. The more you know...

For all I know about world history, never once has an authoritarian regime ever been explained away or justified by saying "if only the authoritarians had felt seen and heard, and non authoritarians had only tried to understand the authoritarians better..." ...until now.

This article nails it. For anyone wondering how we got here, please read it. BTW, it's also a road map for the current state of healcare under this administration.

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@nbcnews.com Just watched Nightly and was sickened by the sanewashing of Trump politicizing the solemn duty of a president on Memorial Day. You know you would lose your shit if Biden did this, or forgot a name, but you chose to bury it in Texas hail. Grow a pair and cover actual news.

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🚨Trump's tariff maths is 'Flawed'🚨 Trump’s administration is focusing too much on trade deficit & not “factoring in” America’s financial services. 🇺🇸 “RECIPROCAL TARIFFS” (Spoiler: They Aren’t Reciprocal) Pls watch/share ♻️ this excellent CBC explanation by Andrew Chang. 2/5🧵 youtu.be/PWhv-06DNjE

youtu.beThe bizarre way Trump’s team calculated reciprocal tariffs | About ThatYouTube video by CBC News

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This is @beezaydad22 Cody Conner speaking at a school board meeting in Virginia. He's damn good at explaining difficult subjects using great analogies. If he's not yet in politics, I sure hope he considers running. Another example:

First 2 segments of NBC Nightly News about Musk and Gaza have all MAGAt comments replayed from Fox News. WTF? If they won't talk to NBC, fuck them, it should be like they never said anything.

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"The ruling effectively means that Proud Boys chapters across the country can no longer legally use their own name or the group’s traditional symbols without the permission of the church that was attacked, the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

nytimes.comProud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They VandalizedA judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

This is right on. Best thing I've seen here in a while. Thanks!

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Years ago I made a promise to myself that instead of being jealous of what others might have I'd be happy for them instead. Not gonna lie, it took work and self discipline to get there. Once it became habit my happiness level went WAY up. #BeKind #BeMindful

To my neighbors to the west who want to bail out of Illinois and become part of Indiana, I'll tell you what some of the natives told me when I got here and asked about why no Sunday sales or DST: "Suck it. If you don't like it, you can move somewhere else."

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Despite Trump’s knee-jerk decision to blame the New Orleans terrorist attack on an immigrant, the suspect is actually a 42-year-old US Army veteran who was born and raised in Texas. He was apparently radicalized online.

Just watched ABC news' coverage of the tragedy on Bourbon Street, and the statements by Biden and Trump. Complete sanewashing, omitting the orange circus peanut's claim that the terrorist was an immigrant (he isn't). These people are in the tank for this fascist.