Rob Valente

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

As a medievalist, I approve this message.

They hate us because we fight.

“We’ve Had Enough” Nicole Collier’s Revolt Against GOP Control

Nicole Collier’s cry of “We’ve had enough”—is more than civil disobedience. It’s a battle line, a spark, a declaration that democracy will not be policed into silence.

We must make it echo far and wide. We must make it multiply.

#WeveHadEnough

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Mail-in voting is safe. Period. Trump and Republicans know it. But they also know winning fair and square doesn’t look likely with their horrible policies and broken “promises.” That’s why they’re hell-bent on gutting voting rights. When you can’t win fair, you cheat.

For the Epsteinth time, release the files

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.

The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it frighteningly surreal that the terrible atrocities, injustices and war crimes of faraway lands that we studied in history books when we were kids are now being committed, promoted and even celebrated by our own U.S. government, on a daily basis?

Just got my MMR booster (Because I live in Texas with anti-vaxx assholes and it's been 50 years since my last one), and my Covid-19 booster vaccines.

Still free. Still easy. For now.

Stay vaccinated, people, and stay up-to-date on all your boosters!

The United States could have great things like this. But we like to spend our money on kidnapping people and trafficking them to concentration camps instead. #Priorities

You know what? Today would be a good day to release the Epstein files.

Vaccines don’t prevent infection. Vaccines are meant to produce immunological memory and antibody production, so that when you get infected, your immune system can rapidly respond to eliminate the pathogen and prevent serious complications, including death.

Vaccines don’t cause autism!

So glad to see this.

Do you have access to the EPSTEIN Files? Want to be inducted into the Whistleblower's Hall of Fame, be glorified in history as the Savior of Democracy & have an annual holiday named in your honor?
All of this can be yours if you simply: #LeakTheEPSTEIN-Files!*

*victim's names redacted, of course

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

No tyrants!

Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES!

Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No.

Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES!

Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES!

Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES!

Fund mRNA research!

In New Letters, DOJ Escalates Hunt For State Voter Data, Threatens Legal Action Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is escalating its effort to pressure states to hand over sensitive voter data, including by threatening legal action, according to letters from a top department official obtained by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Texas in 2025.

As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous.

Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.

Collier: I refused to sign and so I was told that I was gonna have to stay here on the floor. They have locked the doors. The sergeants have been instructed not to allow me to leave until I have a permission slip.

WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."

Martha Coston turned personal tragedy into innovation perfecting a maritime signal flare system that saved countless lives at sea. What if her brilliance had gone unseen? How many voices do we miss in history? #WomenInHistory #WomenWhoLead
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There are 2 main ways men can prevent women and girls being victims of sexual predatory:

1. Don’t be a sexual predator.
2. Stop your friends, colleagues, sons, etc… from being sexual predators by calling out ALL forms of misogyny.

Neither of them mean being “street vigilantes”

Newsom is doing something necessary and important right now. The stakes are everything. Many more should join him. It's not about finding some star to follow & idolize, it's about coming together & pushing back. An example of that is being set.

These people pick your vegetables, cut your meat, and do about every other menial job that doesn't appeal to Americans. This administration needs to stop demonizing these hard working PEOPLE!