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Denise Du Vernay

@duve727.bsky.social

Minnesotan 4ever, childless cat lady and nonprofits pro in Chicago, taught university English for 17 years and waited tables for 8

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I really wish people who should know better would stop saying Kimmel was suspended for โ€œcomments about Charlie Kirk.โ€

Kimmel was not suspended for anything he said, and anyway, the quote theyโ€™re using is about MAGA, not Kirk.

21.09.2025 15:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I get that saving democracy is up to all of us, but where are the PACs? For each DHS ad, there should be at least one ad outing the Republicans for allowing trump to enact an authoritarian regime.

20.09.2025 16:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Could this be a harbinger?
Or am I just looking for something to be hopeful about?

20.09.2025 15:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats to Stephen! Well deserved!

15.09.2025 03:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What a mensch ๐Ÿ™„

14.09.2025 15:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the republicans on all the sunday shows are preemptively blaming social media because they know that pretty soon itโ€™s going to be impossible to pretend robinson is a โ€œradical leftistโ€ like trump is saying

14.09.2025 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Utah governor is doing the Sunday rounds to continue building his presidential primary campaign.
Gross.

14.09.2025 14:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thatโ€™s also a liberal POV.

12.09.2025 15:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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When you realize the people you fired to avoid any investigation of your crimes are the same people you need to investigate other crimesโ€ฆ

12.09.2025 10:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11761    ๐Ÿ” 2783    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 842    ๐Ÿ“Œ 253

Itโ€™s the guns.

10.09.2025 22:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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33 million voters have been run through a Trump administration citizenship check Tens of millions of voters have had their information run through the tool โ€” a striking portion of the U.S. public, considering little has been made public about the tool's accuracy or data security.

Tens of millions of voters have had their information run through the tool โ€” a striking portion of the U.S. public, considering little has been made public about the tool's accuracy or data security.

10.09.2025 13:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 277    ๐Ÿ” 163    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16
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Rand Paul argues to Will Cain that killing people withou process is bad: "Let's say there's a house in your neighborhood & they're selling fentanyl & thousands of people have died & you're mad, do you go over there and just kill them or burn them? No, you go to a judge and you get a warrant."

09.09.2025 20:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12797    ๐Ÿ” 2665    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 776    ๐Ÿ“Œ 268

He raped and hit Ivana.
Clearly.
Does anyone actually believe she fell to her death?

09.09.2025 04:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.

08.09.2025 21:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8308    ๐Ÿ” 1076    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 525    ๐Ÿ“Œ 130

Right?!
Did you see how none of them are speaking out about ICE and encouraging peaceful protest? And how none of them grilled RFK Jr? And how not a word is being said about the Epstein files?

So sucky ๐Ÿ™ƒ

09.09.2025 00:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am a Vikings fan, but itโ€™s hard not to root for Bears # 12 ๐Ÿ˜‰

09.09.2025 00:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Words that arenโ€™t trumpโ€™s?

08.09.2025 13:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hey, read the article ๐Ÿ˜‰

08.09.2025 13:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Northwestern was directly hit, but thatโ€™s a private university.

Yeah, itโ€™s an incredible waste. I was talking to a doc at Northwestern who was telling me about a particularly promising ALS study & trial that has to be ended. There are 1000s like that.

08.09.2025 12:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sorry, to clarify โ€” not in direct attacks on universities (that I know of) but the with the blanket cuts to government agencies like NEH, NIH, NSF, DoD, and Dept of Education

07.09.2025 15:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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trump is threatening war on my city.
An American city.

06.09.2025 17:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Pritzker readies residents for a CHICAGO SHOWDOWN as Trump amasses troops
YouTube video by MSNBC Pritzker readies residents for a CHICAGO SHOWDOWN as Trump amasses troops

Also, in his interview on Friday with Jen Psaki, JB explained what he is doing (or trying to do) to prepare, and what the limitations and complications are.

He is a lawyer, which is a great benefit right now.

youtu.be/h9kEEjIjvWw?...

06.09.2025 17:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We have lost funding.

06.09.2025 17:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do to stop my simpleminded nephew from destroying your country."

06.09.2025 00:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9938    ๐Ÿ” 2546    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 158    ๐Ÿ“Œ 59
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Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US

Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic

05.09.2025 18:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10733    ๐Ÿ” 4053    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1895    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1181
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Pritzker expands safeguards to abortion providers, drug access to university students Gov. JB Pritzker signed two measures he says will bolster Illinois' status as a safe haven for reproductive rights, including one that requires public universities to offer abortion-inducing drugs to ...

Hmm
chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-gov...

06.09.2025 14:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No, it was and remains important.

06.09.2025 14:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pritzker expands safeguards to abortion providers, drug access to university students Gov. JB Pritzker signed two measures he says will bolster Illinois' status as a safe haven for reproductive rights, including one that requires public universities to offer abortion-inducing drugs to ...

Hereโ€™s an example:
chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-gov...

06.09.2025 14:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You can tell what the situation is just from that clip?
Wow, are you a savant?

06.09.2025 14:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ˜‚

06.09.2025 14:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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