Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
OKBoomer! Make way for the young 🩵🇺🇸
Writer on the Oregon Coast, Mother, #Leguminati, Left-hander, Vegetarian, Venn Diagram lover, she/her New Book: "Till the Moon Be No More: The Grit and Grace of Growing Older" **Get your library card**
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view profile on Bluesky Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
OKBoomer! Make way for the young 🩵🇺🇸
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
always the masters of grammar
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
Christian Nationalists think the Holy Spirit is woke.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
Yikes.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
I’m the Abandoned New Cracker Barrel Logo, and You Can All Go Fuck Yourselves www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
Another act of international terrorism from international terrorist putin: And we made him a fancy lunch
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you for this post that is worthy of a US president #WhatMightHaveBeen
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
@jamesmartinsj.bsky.social thank you for your tireless advocacy and grace
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
Cruel, inept, loyal: the requirements to work in this admin. These kids deserve our help and compassion. That should be the American way 💔
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
#WhatMightHaveBeen 💔
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
My kids who worked as baristas can confirm.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
This is a fairly coherent tweet. Someone else wrote it, a halfhearted try to imitate his usual incoherence
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
So back off our trans kids, transphobes 🩵🏳️⚧️
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Atul Gawande (@agawande.bsky.social) reposted
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
Project 2015 = ‘1984’ We are living in Orwellian times
Matthew L Reznicek (@drreznicek.bsky.social) reposted
Literally could not do my job without the amazing UMN libraries
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
A true cult member, versed in Newspeak
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
Monthly Faith column www.bakersfield.com/columnists/v...
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
When tragedy is weaponized www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
Keep it up, folks! Make a sign and get out there More horn honking and fewer middle fingers this weekend in Tillamook, OR
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
He was there for the articles
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
I see we are in the hands of another expert anti-trump troll And with tears in my eyes I say thank you, sir
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
Rereading 1984: WAR IS PEACE
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
He’s always more outrageously evil that he first appears
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
🇺🇸🇺🇸
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
INFURIATING.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
Insanity. In power. This creepy weird nepo baby needs to shut up about his ‘observing’ our kids. He will kill some of our kids and some of us with his total lack of and disregard for medical knowledge.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
Pay attention.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
Mother of God.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
Is this really what magas voted for?
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
"health care decisions for Medicare patients in those states will now be made by AI algorithms from for-profit tech companies. . . the AI companies will get a cut of the savings they generate" Nope. Urgent Saturday Message: Trump's Launches AI Death Panels! www.messageboxnews.com/p/did-you-kn...
Ian Boudreau (@ianboudreau.com) reposted
If/when he does re-emerge it would be fun to insist that it's a clone just to be annoying
Robert G. Callahan, II ⚖️ 📚 ⚖️ 📚 (@rcallahanwaco.bsky.social) reposted
Faith without works is dead children.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
#caturday catnip fix
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
the former, sadly
Dan Emerson (@danemers.bsky.social) reposted
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
Isn’t this the porno superintendent? He still has a job in education?
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
Good point.
tweety (@bluskypolitics.bsky.social) reposted
🐥 need a political break ? 🐥 #Catsky #Dogsky #Kittens ♥️
Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted
It should never be easier to access a gun than a vaccine.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
Extra helping of rage on his taking away Kamala Harris’s secret service protection
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
Looong prison term for this one
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
of course not of course magas will weaponize against everything trans 🩵🏳️⚧️
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
Fellow grandparent feels your joy 🩵
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
“WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” - George Orwell, “1984”
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
Total bullshit. We reject goons here.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
the gleeful cruelty is always the point with these damaged souls
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
small victories: one less incumbent maga www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
And if you're using tragedy to target and endanger our trans kids, hellfire on you.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
Detaining firefighter WHILE they’re firefighting is a new low Also terrible optics, like laughing in front of concentration camp cages
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
I despise him and wish him ill even more for this dick move. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
Hellfire for him.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
A must.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
WHY, for the love of God. WHY?
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
This is some bullshit
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
#JimmyDonuts lacks his boss’s weird cult-leader charisma. Fortunately for us.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.“ - ‘1984’ by George Orwell The grandfather of Project 2025
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
God is counting on you to DO SOMETHING, Jimmy D. Pray AND act.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
💔
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
I found this 1949 US edition of ‘1984’ at the local library’s used book sale. I’d read it in high school, maybe in 1972. I didn’t expect rereading it to break my goddam heart.
WeRateDogs (@weratedogs.com) reposted
This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)
Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 (@liz.sheshed.rocks) reposted
Menopause, the cessation of menstruation and reproductive ability, is a rare phenomenon in the animal kingdom. Only a few species are known to experience menopause. Out of the few only humans are not matriarchal. This must be corrected.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
500 words!
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
This is my first substack post, and I don't know what I'm doing Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/valeries...
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
If they quack like a duck. . . FIRE THEM.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
💔
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
🩵🏳️⚧️🩵
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
Mother of God, fire this dangerous quack
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
Tom Clancy’s Our Bodies, Ourselves
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s the guns, stupid
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
My most recent in America Magazine www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus...
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
same
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
If they keep the #EpsteinGenius off the cover, I promise I will subscribe
Andrea Junker (@strandjunker.com) reposted
Voting should be easier than buying guns.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
he no longer realizes how instantly checkable his lies are: lol
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
this is actually not an exaggeration at this point
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
the little planet that exists only in his little mind
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
Fuuuuuck. Booby Junior strikes again.
Scott Smith (@canaansdad1987.bsky.social) reposted
So, we have Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Wes Moore, Kathy Hochul, Bob Ferguson all telling the orange felon to send the national guard at his own risk, lawsuits will be filed immediately. We need the rest of the Democratic governors to do the same thing. #USDemocracy
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
always projection with this one
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
My stars, this sounds like something a *dictator* would say
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
Pray you, no
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
Imagine voting for a convicted felon insurrectionist imbecile who abuses women and cheats at everything
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
💔💔
Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) reposted
part of the reason i beat up so hard on democratic weakness is we need people who are tough on the monsters that continue to allow childrens brains to be splattered on the walls by gunshots. i dont want to make nice with these people. they're not "good friends" and "colleagues" on the other side.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
We need to bring back the national ban on assault weapons. We need comprehensive national background checks and gun registration and licensing. Those are my thoughts and prayers. For starters.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
Those kids WERE praying, Trump. They needed you to mandate stricter gun laws.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
"One reason Democrats lost in 2024 is that, in our efforts to stand up to Trump, we positioned ourselves as saviors of democracy and defenders of norms. But most voters see. . .politicians as corrupt" The Path to Defeating MAGA Runs Through the Working Class www.messageboxnews.com/p/the-path-t...
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
Done. It’s easy and takes less time than making toast. Can recommend.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
Mother of God.
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social)
Not going back, Pete Kegseth’s pastor
Valerie Schultz🌻🟧🫘🏳️⚧️🩵 (@vsschultz.bsky.social) reply parent
Oregon is sorry not sorry for kicking her out of her House seat, thus inflicting this loser on the whole country