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~writer, mom, teacher, ✡️, spouse to @grumpykelson.bsky.social~ There’s no one to blame but the voters.

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · Sep 9

“Here in America it’s not a question of if we tolerate minorities. America IS minorities.”

This absolutely slaps, and everyone should watch it. Especially that fucker JD Vance.

Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · Sep 9

We're living the college classroom scene from the WWII US Army film "Don't Be A Sucker" in which a professor is dragged out of a classroom for teaching ideas forbidden by the State. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ0c...

still from US Army film "Don't Be A Sucker." scene is a college classroom and in the background arestudents at desks with two armed men approaching the professor who is teaching students the forbidden idea "there is no master race." The armed then men drag the professor out while students sit and watch.

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 2h

(But white moms can be BRUTAL, and that’s some honest talk.)

Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 2h

Another thing: We get one of these exposes every few years, and have for as long as I can remember. Young Republicans have *always* found racism, antisemitism and misogyny funny, just like there will always be frat houses that like flying the Confederate flag on MLK day.
They will always be trash.

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 7h

"We're saving God from Colin Kaepernik" is a pretty good distillation of Republican thought

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 3h

Pretty effing sick, isn’t it?

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 5h

If they sniff out the slightest delusional threat to their property values, taxes, or “good schools” (all of those things seen as the threats of integration), most white women will turn on a DIME.

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tachi @tachimine.bsky.social · 5h

So Johnson is saying he condone everything ICE has done - ALL OF IT.

He's such a loathsome little prick.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h

Mike Johnson — man of deep faith, we are told — wants pastors to be shot in the head with pepper balls.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 23h

I’m not Israeli.

If I’d said “Kung Fu” or “Shaolin” would you be hassling my ass about Uyghurs?

No. You wouldn’t.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 1d

😭😭😭😭😭😭

ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

Nah. Me too.

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Hallowed Bae Thy Ween @randallsd.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like you should be able to flip this and point out Bessent is actively, presently saying Trump is a King and the government will remain shut down until people accept that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

THESE are the promises I want to hear.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

It felt really really satisfying to send Nazis flying into walls. I want everyone to experience that same blend of peace and joy around the death of klansmen 🙂☠️

Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

It was—I think—an early first-person shooter game, and you just wandered around hallways blowing away Nazis. Animation was amazing for its time but little better than Minecraft 😂. And you weren’t encountering Jewish victims. Just soldiers at some Eagles Nest type place.

Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

Oh, I should make myself clear: The Castle Wolfenstein version that I played—the only one I ever saw—was a much much much earlier version! Sorry, I had no idea that the game had changed that much!

Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 2d

been?” And those are the consumers Ubisoft should be listening to, 100%.
Again, thank you for your response.

Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 2d

were insensitive…but I absolutely see your point about the Black protagonist. And I greatly appreciate you responding to me.
In the end, everywhere I looked I saw Black posters expressing frustration, and no one was saying, “Thank goodness, we dodged a bullet, can you imagine how bad that could have

Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 2d

The setting in Wolfenstein seemed relatively “safe”: The version I played ages ago was just a lot of stone hallways. It wasn’t like hunting Nazis in the field where they were doing violent Nazi work (like, say, in a camp or a ghetto). Hunting the klan in the south could be different if the creators

Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 2d

So which Chicago IL lawmakers are taking this case on and raising hell???

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 3d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 2d

So it’s not just me???

I’ve been like that *forever*—if I can’t have a foot out I think I’m suffocating

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 2d

Greatest movie ever

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 2d

@kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social How did it go?

Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 3d

You might not be qualified to be an antisemitic tool. You might want to read a bit more before you do *that*.

This was a thread about atheism. You decided to hop on and lay into Jews specifically. It’s noticeable to *everyone.*

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 3d

There were little girls and young women who were computer nerds back then, and we should have
1) taught all of them Krav Maga, and
2) given all of them flame throwers.

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