Valerie 📸
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New #365Project for 2026
#CatnamedYoda | KCMO | she/her
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- Reposted by Valerie 📸lmao NBC is doing takedown requests for videos of JD Vance Getting boo'd at the Olympics
- Reposted by Valerie 📸IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI
- Reposted by Valerie 📸one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
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- So NBC did cut the sound for the Vance boos. At least he looked uncomfortable but damn. Boo! #MilanoCortina2026
- Day 37 of my #365project. More blur on Main St. in Kansas City, MO. The Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics have started. It is cool that they have multiple locations this time. Time to watch sports at odd hours and boo our fascist Vice President. #photography
- Reposted by Valerie 📸Trans Kansans and allies use Statehouse restrooms in act of ‘malicious compliance’ | via @anna-writes.bsky.social #ksleg
- Reposted by Valerie 📸1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
- Clear winners. That USA coat is not it.
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- Thank you. Everyone in this administration should be shamed for life.
- Donald Trump posted the video. He is a racist. Absolutely disgusting.
- Day 36 of my #365project. Blur for blurry times. Wish I didn’t see it all too clearly. But we must persevere. #photography
- Day 35 of my #365project. The City Market in the River Market neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri has been active since 1857. #photography
- Day 34 of my #365project. Today was one of those. Didn’t get the job I wanted with the benefits I need. So #CatnamedYoda will continue to be my coworker. Some sad family news adding to the pile. Going to read a bit and hope tomorrow is a better day. Breathing deeply. We will survive. #photography
- Reposted by Valerie 📸A KCUR investigation discovered the department used the city’s license plate readers to track the writer’s movements and it issued a “be on the lookout” for him.
- Day 33 of my #365project. Thinking of everyone who has been protesting since the beginning. We knew. We know. Trump and Epstein will be linked forever together. They are one and the same. #photography #nokings
- Reposted by Valerie 📸People all over Portland, Oregon were impacted by the chemical warfare deployed by the feds tonight. Here’s a thread of some Portlanders experiences who weren’t even at the protest:
- Reposted by Valerie 📸This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.
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- Reposted by Valerie 📸Happy Black History Month! Celebrate by deepening your knowledge of Black history, with recommended books and films, as well as events and activities at the Library. Learn more at kclibrary.org/news. Illustration by Emily Johnson, LINC Staff
- KC Tenants does not miss. Congrats on another major win!
- Day 32 of my #365project. Looking north towards downtown Kansas City, Missouri from 22nd St. and Gillham Road. In honor of Black History Month I suggest this great local resource at kcblackhistory.org. #photography #bhm
- Reposted by Valerie 📸When I saw pictures of Liam Ramos with his Spidey backpack and bunny hat, I felt an overwhelming responsibility as someone who works in superhero comics. Please do check out the art in #Comics4Liam and visit comics4liam.com to support Liam and groups helping other immigrants like him. ❤️💪🐇
- Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!
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- Thank you to Bad Bunny and all using their time and platforms. #iceout
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- Reposted by Valerie 📸A few hundred people arrived to the Portland ICE facility a few hours ago, marching in remembrance of all killed at the hands of ICE. The energy was high, for over an hour the feds would randomly shoot pepper balls. And then they came out and heavily gassed
- Give him an Emmy.
- Reposted by Valerie 📸Fantastic Black History Month thread is up on the tl for the 14th Amendmebt Center for Law & Democracy. @the14thcenter.bsky.social Do you know the story of this drawing? It’s not what you think. Go to: bsky.app/profile/the1...
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- Reposted by Valerie 📸BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
- Reposted by Valerie 📸Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
- Reposted by Valerie 📸Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
- Reposted by Valerie 📸JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
- Reposted by Valerie 📸I can't explain the feelings I felt today visiting the sites where Alex Pretti and Renee Good were murdered by the U.S. Gov't. Here are some visuals. #photography #minneapolis #abolishICE
- Reposted by Valerie 📸For the past 25 years, Reshona Landfair has lived with the painful aftermath of her name lingering in the public without her consent. She was the 14-year-old girl in the absolutely sickening R. Kelly videotape. Now, she’s reclaiming her name and her story. We should all bear witness.
- Reposted by Valerie 📸I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep
- Reposted by Valerie 📸Pretty proud of my bike protest setup. It was an inspiring day riding with my community to remember Alex Pretti.
- Day 31 of my #365project. Washington Square Park is home to the Missouri Korean Wars Memorial and a statue of Washington on a horse in Kansas City, Missouri. Next to the streetcar on Main St., Union Station and Crown Center it also on a list of sites for a new stadium for the KC Royals. #photography
- Reposted by Valerie 📸Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
- Reposted by Valerie 📸An unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume angrily confronted Santa Clara city officials during a joint meeting of the City Council, city authorities, and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority on Monday, using his public comment to condemn the city’s stance on cooperation with ICE.
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- End of an era.
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- Reposted by Valerie 📸We need a better way to get the 3800+ kids out of ICE detention than this. We know Liam’s name and we can advocate on his behalf, but that isn’t true of almost any of the other people stuck in detention centers. We have to stop ICE on a systemic level.
- Reposted by Valerie 📸JUST IN: A federal judge on Saturday has ordered that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from Columbia Heights being held in a Texas detention facility be released “as soon as practicable” but no later than Tuesday, Feb. 3.
- Reposted by Valerie 📸USAID wrote a 2024 cable warning that north Gaza had become an “apocalyptic wasteland” with dire shortages of food and medical aid. Biden’s Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew blocked it from wider distribution amid a review of Israeli conduct in the war. www.reuters.com/world/early-...
- Reposted by Valerie 📸"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
- Shocked that I haven’t eaten all the Girl Scout cookies in my place yet. I don’t even know who I am anymore.
- Day 30 of my #365project. This is The Link walkway that connects hotels, Crown Center and now Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri. Good for these cold winter days. News is bad but the protests today remind me that we keep walking. No one can predict the future. #photography #architecture
- Reposted by Valerie 📸Younger kid's whole middle school walked out today in solidarity with Minnesota. Apparently there were 13 year olds getting up and making impromptu speeches. They didn't prep a chant in advance, so they settled on "F*ck ICE"
- Reposted by Valerie 📸Don Lemon speaks outside of the courtroom after release: "I have spent my entire life covering the news. I will not stop now ... I will not be silenced."
- Reposted by Valerie 📸When ICE takes videos of protestors & says "We have a nice little database. Now you're considered a domestic terrorist." Minneapolis replies: "Hey asshole, you're going to need a bigger fucking database."
- Reposted by Valerie 📸It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
- This one hurts terribly. I just rewatched Best in Show. There was no bad role for Catherine O’Hara. She was a rare comedic genius. Thank you for the laughs. RIP youtube.com/shorts/rKnAp...
- Thank you to all who were able to get out today ❤️ www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...
- Reposted by Valerie 📸This Epstein drop is HUGE and utterly disgusting. I don’t see how this man is allowed to remain in office. Where are the evangelical leaders, the soccer moms, the folks stocking up on eggs, the farmers, the small business owners. Decide. Who are you?
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- Reposted by Valerie 📸Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
- Reposted by Valerie 📸A reminder: Rümeysa Öztürk has now been facing deportation for 311 days for co-writing an op-ed the government didn’t like, and journalist Ya’akub Vijandre remains locked up by ICE over social media posts about issues he reported on. Read our newsletter (and subscribe) ⤵️
- Reposted by Valerie 📸In an interview with MPR News, Liam's mother gave an update on her son and her own safety. She said Liam asks again and again, “Mommy, why don’t you pick us up?” Or “Mommy, we don’t want to be here anymore. This place is ugly.”
- Reposted by Valerie 📸It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles
- Every Epstein drop is worse than the previous. The protection of the pedophiles must stop starting with Trump. Impeach. Remove. Convict.
- Reposted by Valerie 📸Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
- Platform Ventures is the name of the company. www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...
- Brutal column in the Kansas City Star about a local real estate company trying to avoid public scrutiny for selling ICE a property for a massive prison camp: www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...
- Reposted by Valerie 📸SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A former Illinois deputy has been sentenced to 20 years for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, who called 911 for help.
- Reposted by Valerie 📸Shout out to the Parks Canada staff for the tremendous job they've done in training the Bison of Elk Island National Park! #wildlife
- Release them all.
- It is all a grift.
- Reposted by Valerie 📸Nurses from the Kansas City metropolitan area gathered outside Research Medical Center Thursday evening to hold a vigil for Alex Pretti.
- Reposted by Valerie 📸This is a program of ethnic cleansing. It doesn’t matter how half assed it is, that is what is being attempted.
