Rachel
@tunesandtales.bsky.social
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Midwesterner in the Mid-Atlantic. Making it up as I go. Toastie. She/her.
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tunesandtales.bsky.social
I accidentally forwarded an email with attachment to an outside party with the same first name as one of my teammates instead of my teammate. It's fine, I followed up and outside guy deleted and didn't open, but lordy, I could've done without that adrenaline spike.
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aoc.bsky.social
If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
this girl Gloria who got into my local newspaper for seeing Titanic 50 times in Rome and who I have remembered since reading about her in 1998
Published March 14, 1998|Updated Sept. 12, 2005

A 12-year-old from Rome, identified only as Gloria, goes to the movies every day. Same time, same place, same movie: Titanic. So far, the girl has seen the hit film about 50 times, leading the pack of Italy's fervent Titanic fans. And she's still not tired of it. She even has cats named Jack and Rose. The young movie buff was discovered by the newspaper La Repubblica. "She comes to the 9 o'clock feature every night," said Giancarlo Malferrari, the owner of the only movie theater in Castelfranco Emilia, a town of 11,000 in central Italy. "And every weekend, she watches two shows in a row." Now the theater has started saving her favorite seat and even letting her in free. Neither he nor La Repubblica used the girl's last name, citing Italy's privacy law. Gloria told La Repubblica it isn't heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio that attracts her, but the character he plays: Jack Dawson, a struggling artist who wins his passage on the Titanic in a poker game. "Jack is cuter than Leo," she said. "And it's for real; it's a true story. That's what makes it so beautiful." Gloria's mother, a cleaning woman who works at night, says she hasn't seen Titanic yet but she's not worried about her daughter's obsession. "She's not doing anything bad," she told the newspaper, adding that Gloria has to do her homework first every night.
tunesandtales.bsky.social
Shout out to the first people to stuff olives with garlic cloves. Excellent decision.
tunesandtales.bsky.social
Happy, happy Swoon Day!! 🎉🎶🪩🎂
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outfrontcnn.bsky.social
“We could hear them laughing.”

Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility.

#OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago
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rlmartstudio.bsky.social
This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.
A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.
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ifycomedy.com
I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
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matthewcort.land
Unlawfully fired from your job at HHS or CDC protecting the public health? Want to talk through how to tell your story in the press? I'm happy to help you think through messaging strategy.

I’ve spent years doing public health comms and talking with reporters. You can see my work at matthewcort.land
Matthew Cortland
Matthew became a lawyer by necessity. Now they use their training in public health and law to help others.
matthewcort.land
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katelynburns.com
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
tunesandtales.bsky.social
Bless Taskmaster for always making me laugh.
tunesandtales.bsky.social
For a while, in the deep depths of the pandemic, eating it or throwing it out felt like a bad omen--it would be gone and suddenly I'd get sick/need it/whatever--but then it just kind of faded in to the back of the freezer and my mind. And here we are, ~five and a half years later.
tunesandtales.bsky.social
I've had a two pound deli container of butternut squash soup that I made on March 20th, 2020 in my freezer (in two different apartments!) since, well... March 20th, 2020. Today, because I needed the freezer space and because this has gotten absurd, I took it out to defrost and pitch. End of an era.
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adamchicago.bsky.social
The frogs have landed in Chicago!
Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.
tunesandtales.bsky.social
I just started an email with "I know it's 4 pm on a Friday and nobody wants this, but [...]"
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carlygoodman.bsky.social
Ripping millions of people away from the fabric of our communities is creating unfathomable mass trauma
maggietokudahall.bsky.social
Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.