Tommy Valdez

Tommy Valdez

@thomasav.bsky.social

Michigander.

3,103 Followers 360 Following 16,845 Posts Joined Nov 2023
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Our local news coverage of the attack on the temple in West Bloomfield is light years ahead of national coverage.

Detroit, Dearborn, and SE Michigan is not utopia. However, there is a very long history of interfaith cooperation here. Many of us mourn for and with our Jewish and Muslim neighbors.

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'Insane': Michigan Woman Facing 10 Years for Allegedly Using Her Food Stamps to Buy Ingredients for Bake Sale 🚨 Michigan woman facing 10 years for using food stamps to bake and sell goods! Shocking twist in food stamp fraud scandal! #MichiganWoman...

Free her

atlantablackstar.com/2025/09/19/m...

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Ms Rachel has shifted from advocating for children killed by bombs that our taxes pay for, to advocating for children that our government is imprisoning without cause, which our taxes also pay for.
This isn’t what a kid’s entertainer should feel the need to do, but since we’re here, more ppl should.

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A spokesperson for Third Way is currently complaining that the Pod Save America guys are attempting to "shrink the tent" by calling for Dems who support the war with Iran to be primaried. Less than two weeks ago, Third Way hosted a conference on how to eject progressives from the democratic fold

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Israel is an Apartheid state that is continuing to genocide people while also displacing millions around the world. Evil.

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Statement on Today’s Temple Israel Attack

We are heartbroken by today’s attack on the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, and grateful that the victims, though injured and traumatized, are now safe from further harm.

Americans are all too familiar with this cycle of violence in daily life. Mass shootings targeting schools, grocery stores, movie theaters, and houses of worship have become shockingly routine. 

Today’s incident has an extra layer of tragedy with reports that the perpetrator may have had family members who were killed in recent strikes carried out by Israel against Lebanon.

If these reports are accurate, the attacker’s choice to target a synagogue in suburban America constitutes an act of collective punishment against people of Jewish faith everywhere – and collective punishment is never justified.

Our path forward to peace requires a fierce commitment to the humanity, dignity, and inherent right to life of all humans, everywhere. That is what drives our work every day.

For peace and justice,

The entire team at Track AIPAC

Official Statement on Today's Temple Israel Attack

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Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center

www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz...

What a world

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AIPAC Is Staying Out of Illinois Senate Race — But Its Donors Back Juliana Stratton AIPAC is spending big in Tuesday’s Illinois House primaries. In the Senate race, its donors quietly lined up behind Stratton.

SCOOP: you know AIPAC is spending millions on Illinois races. It’s publicly stayed out of Tuesday’s Senate race - but AIPAC donors have been giving to Lt. Gov. Julianna Stratton’s campaign since August. & a former AIPAC president is on her finance committee. theintercept.com/2026/03/12/a...

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I welcome @editorialboard.bsky.social to come to Dearborn to tell my Arab and Muslim friends, or my friends at UMich who were arrested for protesting human rights violations that their outrage over genocide wasn’t warranted.

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Buy SoniaSulaiman a Coffee Sonia is writing speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Leave her a tip to support her work!

Friends, I’ll be visiting mom tomorrow at the long term care home. I don’t have enough for the round trip. Any help would be appreciated! ko-fi.com/soniasulaima...

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"Frans Hals Portraits: A Family Reunion" YouTube video by Toledo Museum of Art

The whole painting had a fascinating history

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Iran War Live Updates: New Supreme Leader Issues Defiant Statement Amid Growing Disruption to Global Oil Supplies

"Khamenei...advised countries in the Middle East to close military bases used to attack Iran “as soon as possible,” adding that those countries 'by now must have realized that America’s claim of establishing security and peace has been nothing more than a lie'”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

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Most moral army in the world.

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A painting of a baby with pink cheeks and a top row smile.

Yeah. Every time I’m there I cackle at this diva.

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Red Flag Alert - Anti-Trans Genocide in the USA - #3 | Lemkin Institute

The Lemkin Institute has issued a *THIRD* trans genocide warning, noting the next stage is widespread containment - and this was before the 4th Circuit ruled today that states can essentially do whatever they want to make trans people "appreciate their sex".
www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

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Someone's enjoyed an afternoon at the Toledo Museum of Art.

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they were thriving on nostalgiacore/normiecore.

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So much for a big Democratic tent.
NEW @J _Insider via @GSDeutch:
"Ben Rhodes calls for primaries against Dems who support Iran war""
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Ben Rhodes calls for primaries against Democrats who suppo...

Yeah well I mean, >85% of Democratic voters think this is a stupid fucking idea, >75% think negatively of Israel, and even >80% of Democratic members of Congress weren't stupid enough to vote against the WPR.

Sorry but you're a sucker if you think you can just cry and appeal to "the big tent".

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BREAKING: ABC News, citing sources: The United States is facing difficulty evacuating its personnel from facilities under bombardment in Iraq

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Gotta say it’s always weird hearing defenders of the middle east’s only democracy call anyone else terrorists after decades of apartheid, 2.5 years of genocide and man made famine, the use of white phosphorus on civilians, incendiary bombs on refugees, eco terrorizing in Tehran and bombing children.

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It was easier than I thought to Just Say No 2 Target.

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Every single dollar they're using for ICE or war is a dollar they're not spending on our healthcare, our crumbling roads and bridges, or our schools.

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A tumblr post from Jan 10 by Muppetshow2026 featuring a photo of researchers working with a seal. 

The text below it reads 
WHAT IS THE CHARGE?
EATING A PENGUIN? A SUCCULENT ADÉLIE PENGUIN?

The post has 20k reblogs and 30k likes

It’s crazy seeing posts from this year with more engagement than top Bluesky posts.

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From the AskSocialists community on Reddit: Isreali civilian accidently reveals schools are being used as military bases Posted by AwkwardTal - 405 votes and 45 comments

An Israeli influencer posts about their day, revealing that the IDF is using schools as military bases. As with the GOP, every accusation is an admission. Israel and its supporters have said for years Hamas was doing the same, and it made them legit targets. But would Iran risk a strike? Prolly not.

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March 11, 2026
Minneapolis City Council
350 South 5th Street
Room 370
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Dear Council President Payne, Council Vice President Osman and Council Members:
This letter is to inform you that I have vetoed Ordinance No. 2026-002 to extend the pre-eviction notice for
renters to 60 days. I understand the authors’ intent, but the experience from COVID-19 and guidance from
shelter and affordable housing providers shows that this strategy has not worked. We have heard over and over
again from shelter and affordable housing providers that longer timelines produce worse outcomes for
residents. In their words, when rental assistance isn’t available, time is a debt trap that becomes a barrier to
securing future housing.
I heard a call for more financial assistance, and I believe that is the best path forward. Rental assistance is
working and getting to renters quickly – rent collections are better in 2026 than 2025. That’s why I’m proposing
to spend $1 million from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund for emergency rental assistance administered
through Hennepin County.
While a 60-day pre-eviction notice period sounds good, there is no data to show that it does good. Pandemic
era eviction moratorium allowed many renters to accumulate huge amounts of debt that they are still paying off
today. When property owners carry the losses, the housing system experiences upward pressure on rents to
replenish reserves, catch up on missed mortgage, insurance, utility, payroll, and property tax payments, and
cover increased costs associated with deferred maintenance.
I believe most landlords are working with tenants to develop payment plans and access rental assistance. But for
bad actors, I worry that the proposal gives them reasons to report tenants to ICE or use minor lease violationswhich don’t require as much notice and are harder to expunge – to evict tenants.
We will continue to monitor the data. If something substantially changes, I am committed to working with the
City…

mayor jacob frey has vetoed the pause evictions, save lives bill the minneapolis city coucil approved that would've extended the eviction timeline from 30 days to 60 days temporarily to held families impacted by the ICE invasion catch up paying rent

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Israel Heritage Foundation leaders join new pro-Israel nonprofit The Israel Justice Organization aims to influence U.S. officials to advance Israeli interests and address antisemitism

Several Israel Heritage Foundation leaders leave to join new pro-Israel nonprofit in Florida, reports @glentalk.bsky.social. The 501(c)(3) Israel Justice Organization aims to influence U.S. officials to advance Israeli interests & address antisemitism.

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New CEO clearly starting his tenure by planting stories.

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Every text from DGA ACTION:

Hi, it's centrist Dem who enables Trump. Here's the deal, we're checking to see if there are more of US than THEM. That's where you come in. What's your status?

🔵 I'm a Democrat: giveusmoney.com

⚪️ I'm an independent: giveusmoney.com

🔴 I'm a Republican: giveusmoney.com

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Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong:

"Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. 
I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. 
The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. “Pastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. 
Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge.
The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."

Nekima on the Target boycott.

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A Target boycott ends with no concessions to DEI rollbacks. Here's why A yearlong national boycott of Target over its DEI rollbacks has ended without concessions or changes to the company's diversity policy. Here's why.

the usa today piece is not paywalled and includes the important context that ol boy was not the first to call for this boycott.

www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

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