Valerie Block

writer at large

[Valerie Block @vblock12]

via @NYTOpinion https://t.co/WmSxb4hyMX

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

This new video raced past 1 million views in a few hours.

#MAGA hate it because they cannot argue with it.

It's Trump - in his own words and exposed as a failure and serial liar.

It's the antidote to Trump's poison.

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

Anyone defending RFK Jr. as a “philo-semite”—after he falsely alleged that COVID was ethnically targeted to favor Jews—is not to be taken seriously.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Pretty much sums up the situation.
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[Valerie Block @vblock12]

“Pediatricians routinely ask about car seats, bike helmets and smoke detectors. Why not do the same with firearms? Evidence shows it works.” https://t.co/aALzIuFbvc

[Valerie Block @vblock12]

Ignoring the Reconstruction Constitution, “the Court traffics only in the 1787 slavery constitution…protecting a modern manifestation of white property rights to keep previously excluded people from entering institutions that support their thriving.” https://t.co/1DtQKbTzyA

[Valerie Block @vblock12]

Naked white supremacy: Court OKs continued race conscious admissions in military academies, signaling that it’s OK to recruit/train Black, Indigenous & Latinx students to fight US wars, but not to recruit/train them to be drs, lawyers, teachers, leaders. https://t.co/1DtQKbTzyA

[Valerie Block @vblock12]

Yes: “Such ‘neutrality’ has helped perpetuate centuries of systemic segregation, brutality, mass criminalization, and the associated diminution of Black political power and wealth.” https://t.co/1DtQKbTzyA

[Valerie Block @vblock12]

Yes: “This Court’s obsession with ‘colorblindness’ – a concept nowhere reflected in the Constitution or the lived reality in this country – is a euphemistic mask for maintaining a default reliance on white supremacy.“ https://t.co/1DtQKbTzyA

[Valerie Block @vblock12]

A maddening, saddening day. https://t.co/AMttwgQax1

[Valerie Block @vblock12]

A thoughtful piece that illuminates the intrigue in Russia: https://t.co/f7rkB6v3Uq

[Valerie Block @vblock12]

“Senators could abolish this practice with a majority vote, but have locked themselves into so many hoary old-boy logrolling traditions that they can no longer see why voters are increasingly repulsed by their inaction.” via @NYTOpinion
https://t.co/Yc652gtGW7

[Valerie Block @vblock12]

WORD OF MOUTH: EARLY SUMMER https://t.co/8Vxz22INNc

[Valerie Block @vblock12]

via @NYTimes
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[Valerie Block @vblock12]

Protester opposed to book bans gets Bible pulled from some Utah schools https://t.co/BnZEjgWxma

[Valerie Block @vblock12]

“Why… do we cherish representations of things in the world when we ourselves are already in the world, surrounded by real things?” https://t.co/TeOtw1V7FT

[Valerie Block @vblock12]

Texas lawmakers pass bill to ban books in libraries https://t.co/HI3BQXi8uK

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

@SnapStream Plaskett: "But when the FBI investigates conservative Christian white men who are actually threatening violence, suddenly my Republican colleagues are rushing to defund the police."

[Valerie Block @vblock12]

If this were another country — say, Nigeria — we would call this an example of youth radicalization. In Texas, we call it “freedom.” https://t.co/106VimFLF2

[Valerie Block @vblock12]

Jason Gay, on working from home: https://t.co/XEp9Y21AT9