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Racheline Maltese

@racheline.bsky.social

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Award-winning romance author writing happily ever afters about difficult people with complicated lives. SAG-AFTRA. Figure skater. Former journalist/media analyst.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · Aug 25

This was definitely how A QUEEN FROM THE NORTH got built. A defaced government poster about unity in a train station. It opened up the whole plot to us before we even knew what we were about https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XBPDJPM?ref=KC_GS_GB_US

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 6h

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 34m

I’m trying to be chill and even the Star Trek I hate I love but I am very tired

Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 35m

I have seen the Starfleet Academy trailer and as far as the copious make outs go all I see are straight people being straight

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 3h

For all the execs that don’t get it - the point of Tron movies is the setting and the music and sometimes some amusing cameos. Having someone as intolerable as Jared Leto in a Tron movie set in the human world means it’s only 30% Tron movie and no one wants that.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 5h

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 5h

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 1d

Calling these things “mistakes” is disingenuous and lazy. A 45 year old fragrance in a bottle that is scented like the fucking fragrance is not a damn drug and everyone knows that. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic

Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

www.nbcnews.com

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 8h

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 8h

I was already voting for you but this would have made it happen for me if I wasn’t already on board. Thanks for doing this.

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Lina Morgan @alinaisyou.bsky.social · 8h

Mamdani standing up for transgender people living in America is a huge part of why he is dominating the mayor's race in New York City.

Giving a shit about trans people, immigrants, and the unhoused is a winning strategy. I hope that reminds you of what Trump wants you to forget:

People are good.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out, we also have a frog hopping around Rogers Park! They’re spreading from Portland. This is the corner where people were grabbed up yesterday.

A picture of somebody in a giant green frog costume whimsically hanging off a street corner sign pole like Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain. They were actually doing the twirl but I didn’t take video. The frog has a beige belly and face and black spots all over the rest of the costume. There is, unfortunately, a corner of a postal truck obstructing the view. I was hesistant to get a closer, clearer pic. But the frog made me smile!

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

The Democratic Attorneys General Association established a Legal Defense Fund for exactly this moment: when its members — including AG Tish James—are targeted by the Trump administration for political prosecution.

Donate here.

Donate to DAGA's Legal Defense Fund

The Democratic Attorneys General Association has launched a defense fund to help defend Democratic attorneys general and their staff who are targeted for political retribution by the Trump administrat...

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 1d

We are here. What’s your plan if you get that knock on your door?

(Again, this is not for answering here, this is for making clear decisions and plans you are able to execute on in a high-pressure moment)

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 1d

These are the gay feral cats who live in my backyard (they are neutered and receive vet care but do not want to be near people or inside)

Two large grey tabby cats with white paws. They are curled up together on a blue and white cushion on a white Adirondack chair in a backyard. They are gay and in love.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

I'm doing another print run of these "Biology is Bigger than Binaries" shirts!

Back, quite literally, by popular demand. Bullying works, sure, but so does a bunch of nice cutie patooties politely asking!

Order 'em now, I'll mail 'em in early November.

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a woman with short bown hair, glasses, and tassel earrings, wears a purple KN95 and looks cool as hell in her biology is bigger than binaries shirt, in orange

a woman with green glasses takes a selfie lookin' cool as hell in her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt. She's also got ice cream, that lucky dog.

a woman with long brown hair and glasses hangs out in the back yard with her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt

A man with a hat and sunglasses stands in hero-pose with his biology is bigger than binaires shirt (orange)

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 1d

Cuomo’s completely wrong take here is because the only context he has for busses is the Upper East Side where they were the only option prior to the Q and yes, ladies who lunch take them. This is not the city-wide bus reality. It’s not even the UES bus reality at this point. Dude doesn’t know NYC

Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 1d

great post sir, keep saying shit like this

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so mad that I spent my entire life thinking it was a skill issue!

Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 1d

If you like to rubberneck people being absolutely bonkers may I recommend Facebook wedding planning communities?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025

"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"

"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"

solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday we had our makeup test for the wedding in which I learned I was not a failure as a goth but, in fact, have a weird eye shape that makes it actively impossible to do wings/cat eye

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