Valerie Dennis

Valerie Dennis

@pirategrlv.bsky.social

Production Editor; once studied demons in drama; still shocked at the deal with the devil we Americans are in right now.

257 Followers 754 Following 20 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 month ago
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Greg Bovino Loses His Job The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.

One Nazi gone.

More to go. Many more to go.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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3 months ago
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My message to Trump: Your message of bigotry won’t work. Somali Americans are here to stay. 💅🏾

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5 months ago
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Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

Here's how to support my work:

I'll be teaching a version of my Columbia class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month for @resistanceschool.bsky.social.

The course is online/ hybrid. Deadline is Sept. 19th! Sign up!

www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

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6 months ago
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If it were realistic, the spaghetti scene in Lady and the Tramp would be a lot more aggressive

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7 months ago

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

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7 months ago
HPPR - Homepage | HPPR A public radio service to the High Plains region of Kansas, Colorado, Texas & Oklahoma including NPR news, regional features & classical, folk & jazz music.

This is the rural public radio station I support. It has wonderful music programming and it supports art, music, and history events in the area, including some connected to West Texas A & M University. www.hppr.org

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7 months ago
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Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.

New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.

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8 months ago

I am very new to gardening but I got very lucky this year and happened to plant some carrot seeds in the same container as a cowpea/bean plant and the carrots are so much happier than when I tried to grow them individually last year.

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8 months ago

We've been putting out peanuts and almonds, and today the chestnut-backed chickadees brought their two kids by for the first time. And the Steller's jay with the broken beak brought all three of his kids and his mate. I swear he was saying "Look at my beautiful family! Thanks for all the takeout."

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8 months ago
Yellow poster featuring a stylised sun flower to the left and black text tobthe right

Iconic anti-war poster, originally by US printmaker Lorraine Schneider, 1966
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers

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9 months ago

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously

But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state

Keep that same energy of support for her

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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9 months ago
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A lifetime of love for the charismatic narwhal An independent scientist working with the Inuit has unraveled many mysteries of the one-tusked ‘unicorn of the sea’

“There are so many properties of the narwhal tusk that defy every principle I ever learned in dental school.”

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1 year ago
The back of several people with some protest signs in the distance and a blue sky and a couple of skyscrapers in the background.

Stand up for Science yesterday in San Francisco was inspiring. The enthusiastic, kind people in the crowd gave me hope. True to form, I didn’t get any good pictures

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1 year ago

I never in a million years thought I'd be saying this, but has anyone tried showing Republicans the original "Red Dawn" again?

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1 year ago
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Apocalypse Addie ends 2024 with another successful squeakerectomy

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1 year ago
Pink delicate clouds looking like cotton candy with a dark blue sky

Cotton candy sunset tonight

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1 year ago
Oak trees lining a wide trail in the mist with a white dog with brown spots walking forward with her curled tail looking like a periscope

Another walk in the fog with the dog

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1 year ago

While I was walking Apocalypse Addie on a narrow windy road through the park on this cold rainy day, a guy drove by with his windows down blasting “Dreams” by Van Halen, and I was kind of annoyed because I think you’re only allowed to blast Van Halen windows-down when it’s “Panama.”

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1 year ago

As is her right, as a cat! I guess when you’re that gorgeous you can get away with it

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1 year ago

She is gorgeous!!

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1 year ago
A wet paved road curves to the right, lined with gnarled oak trees covered in moss and lichens. A pale gray sky peeks through the branches

Had a misty, gloomy evening walk with Apocalypse Addie. Boris the cat stared down a bobcat this morning on our front porch, but is now purring in my lap. I know it’s not October anymore but it was a witchy day anyway

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1 year ago
Sun setting low behind Mount Tamalpais, with gray, white, and orange clouds stretched across the sky

Sunset walk with Addie the Apocalypse dog

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1 year ago

I am so sorry for your loss

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1 year ago

Thank you! She’s a good girl and she keeps us on our toes

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1 year ago

I know dogs have the reputation of loving humans unconditionally, but I feel like the dogs I’ve had start treating us like we might actually be gods after their first Thanksgiving with us. My cat, however, is always unimpressed.

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1 year ago

Hi Uncle Rick! Love your pic too! This seems like a nice app so far but I was telling Nathan it’s still a silly waste of time. I need that sometimes though 😁

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1 year ago

She hears everything! I think she picks up radar too

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1 year ago
Smiley white dog with brown spots on a green couch.

Hi! I’m Valerie, and this is my apocalypse dog, Addie. We’ve been doing a lot of walking.

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