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Vanessa Casavant

@vancasavant.bsky.social

Content designer, writer, knitter, and former journalist. Living in Seattle, but born and raised in rural North Dakota. Proud to be of both Anishinaabe and French Canadian descent.

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Artwork featuring PBS children’s characters and vtge words. 
‘PBS didn't
"become woke."
You grew up to be a bad person.’

Artwork featuring PBS children’s characters and vtge words. ‘PBS didn't "become woke." You grew up to be a bad person.’

29.09.2025 21:33 — 👍 2531    🔁 745    💬 10    📌 12

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. #1stAmendment

19.09.2025 06:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#NotYourMascot This is ridiculous.

21.07.2025 10:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

11.07.2025 22:50 — 👍 39471    🔁 11434    💬 439    📌 515

MAGA says California is Sodom & Gomorrah…

Meanwhile Florida out here auditioning to be the season finale of the Book of Revelation.

09.07.2025 05:14 — 👍 50    🔁 4    💬 5    📌 1
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As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas

Trump regime and DOGE are directly responsible for these deaths. There will be more to come. Government services are vital to human safety. This isn’t politicizing death - this is calling out the human impact of disastrous policies and incompetent leadership. #GiftArticle

06.07.2025 18:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Who Says That's Not American (explicit) - Raye Zaragoza
YouTube video by Raye Zaragoza Who Says That's Not American (explicit) - Raye Zaragoza

A new protest song from one of my favorite artists - Raye Zaragoza. #ProtestMusic

06.07.2025 06:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rev. Benjamin R. Cremer on Substack Grief Is a Form of Patriotism, Too: A Fourth of July Reflection. Today, some of us won’t be waving flags or watching fireworks. Not because we hate our country, but because we love it too much to pr...

I couldn’t have said it better.

04.07.2025 19:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Dollar Has Its Worst Start to a Year Since 1973

The MAGA regime has destroyed the value of the dollar.

01.07.2025 15:14 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

They are sending roving bands of masked thugs with the stated goal of kidnapping 20 million brown people to transport them to any country they can pay to take them. All this has been cleared by The Stolen Court.

This is not deportation.

This is ethnic cleansing.

28.06.2025 21:34 — 👍 23478    🔁 8074    💬 773    📌 380

People freaking out about having a socialist in the NYC mayoral residence but OK with having a fascist in the White House.

27.06.2025 21:42 — 👍 6738    🔁 1652    💬 274    📌 97

Proud to have you as my senator @murray.senate.gov - keep it up!

27.06.2025 22:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you see this and aren’t objectively horrified, you’re a terrorist sympathizer.

27.06.2025 20:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was going to suggest the “People’s Party” as well! Just looked up the history of the name - rooted in fighting the corruption of the Gilded Age. Perfect.

27.06.2025 06:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Zak Kimball on Substack “Democratic socialism” desperately needs a rebrand if it’s gonna succeed nationally. #politics #democrat #liberal #leftist #democraticsocialism #socialism

Was gonna share this same thought earlier about needing to rename “Democratic Socialist” to something that people understand it for what it is in terms of human well-being.

27.06.2025 03:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Zohran delivered the Democratic establishment the thrashing it deserved It backed another tired, entitled candidate in Andrew Cuomo. Voters finally had enough.

@natesilver538.tweet.pub is doing some statistical breakdowns on his Substack that are worth checking out. open.substack.com/pub/natesilv...

26.06.2025 22:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Agree. The DNC ousting instead of listening to David Hogg is another example of their spectacular failure right now. The inability to let go the reigns is astonishing. They are pretending the chess board hasn’t fundamentally changed.

26.06.2025 22:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As Donors Work Against Mamdani, Top Democrats Stop Short of Backing Him

This is how Dems will continue to lose and let our country fall further under the control of a fascist regime — party establishment ignoring voters yelling as loud as they can that change is needed. #GiftArticle

26.06.2025 05:09 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
Supaman - Why
YouTube video by Supaman Supaman - Why

Just putting some good medicine out there. Take a moment, close your eyes, listen, breathe and know that in this moment, for right now, you are OK. #GoodMedicine #HardMoments #FillDarknessWithLight

23.06.2025 06:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

22.06.2025 00:24 — 👍 67380    🔁 21273    💬 2729    📌 1402
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Cheguerreroeng on Substack ICE detained a U.S. citizen who tried to stop them from taking his co-worker. Adrian Martinez, a 20-year-old Walmart employee, is now being held in a federal building in downtown L.A., possibly facing...

We need to start pulling down the masks and removing the hats and glasses off these regime thugs to expose them, and then crowd source identifying them by name. This is akin to pulling the hood off KKK members so people know who their neighbors are.

19.06.2025 05:56 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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18.06.2025 03:22 — 👍 28532    🔁 7203    💬 1475    📌 715
Governor Walz to Provide Public Safety Update
YouTube video by Minnesota Department of Public Safety Governor Walz to Provide Public Safety Update

We got him.

Providing an update on the manhunt momentarily.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=RxT-...

16.06.2025 03:40 — 👍 33783    🔁 4266    💬 748    📌 192

A Democratic Mayor arrested.

A Democratic Congresswoman indicted.

A Democratic Senator tackled and detained.

A Democratic State Representative killed.

A Democratic State Representative in critical condition.

We can all see where this is going.

14.06.2025 15:57 — 👍 25108    🔁 8934    💬 665    📌 503
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Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’ Several service members told advocacy groups they felt like pawns in a political game and assignment was not necessary

I have yet to see U.S. media digging to cover the news from this angle. Do better.

12.06.2025 14:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate…

Tribal college leaders said they were stunned by the proposed cuts to their already insufficient funding and had more questions than answers.

“It’s a dagger, and I don’t know how we can survive these types of cuts,” one college president said.

By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social

06.06.2025 23:30 — 👍 617    🔁 311    💬 24    📌 18
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DOGE was a smash and grab robbery of our personal data.

03.06.2025 04:29 — 👍 4437    🔁 1313    💬 99    📌 43
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Trump pardons drug kingpins even as he escalates U.S. drug war rhetoric President Trump has promised to attack drug gangs and called for the death penalty for street dealers. But he has also pardoned more than 20 people serving time for serious drug crimes, some involving...

Pardoning fellow felons who are drug kingpins and allowing cartel heads into the U.S. while zip tying children’s wrists and deporting them and adding their DNA to the national criminal database. #Evil #Felon #TACO

31.05.2025 21:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fascism is here. It would be great if we could somehow let people know that. Like, say, if there were newspapers and television and podcasts and radio and YouTube and stuff like that … maybe carrier pigeons.

20.05.2025 03:38 — 👍 220    🔁 99    💬 9    📌 2

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