Racheline Maltese
@racheline.bsky.social
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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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
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U.S. embassies around the world have been instructed to categorize abortion access, DEI policies, and transgender care for minors as human rights infringements.
www.jezebel.com/in-the-u-s-n...
www.jezebel.com/in-the-u-s-n...
In the U.S., Nothing Says Human Rights Abuse Like Ensuring Reproductive Freedom!
U.S. embassies around the world have been instructed to categorize abortion access, DEI policies, and transgender care for minors as human rights infringements.
www.jezebel.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
U.S. embassies around the world have been instructed to categorize abortion access, DEI policies, and transgender care for minors as human rights infringements.
www.jezebel.com/in-the-u-s-n...
www.jezebel.com/in-the-u-s-n...
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yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
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Prosecutors in California used A.I. to argue that a 57-year-old man should be held without bail, his lawyers say, filing a brief that included wholesale misinterpretations of the law, as well as quotations that do not actually appear in the cited texts. nyti.ms/3M1bVye
Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. to Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say
The case is among the first in which a prosecutor is accused of filing court papers marred by A.I.-generated mistakes.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Prosecutors in California used A.I. to argue that a 57-year-old man should be held without bail, his lawyers say, filing a brief that included wholesale misinterpretations of the law, as well as quotations that do not actually appear in the cited texts. nyti.ms/3M1bVye
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“Another longtime CDC employee who works in communications said, “The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
“Another longtime CDC employee who works in communications said, “The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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We have gotten so used to Great Replacement becoming normalized that most people hardly noticed that a racist, antisemitic, xenophobic conspiracy theory popularized by mass shooters and 4chan trolls is now government policy.
The U.S. State Department is repeating a white nationalist conspiracy theory.
On Friday, it claimed that “mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization.”
That line comes straight from the Great Replacement myth: the lie that immigration is a plot to erase white populations.
On Friday, it claimed that “mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization.”
That line comes straight from the Great Replacement myth: the lie that immigration is a plot to erase white populations.
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We have gotten so used to Great Replacement becoming normalized that most people hardly noticed that a racist, antisemitic, xenophobic conspiracy theory popularized by mass shooters and 4chan trolls is now government policy.
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WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
Leading Autism and Disability Organizations Statement on CDC's Vaccines and Autism Page
As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of autistic individuals and partners across the disability and public health sectors, we are deeply disappointed by the latest update to...
autisticadvocacy.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Since he’s in the news being a nuisance, a giggle:
My wife talks in her sleep. When we were first dating she suddenly says, dead asleep, “he looks like a shaved turtle.”
In the morning I recounted this.
“I was dreaming about that guy-“
I cut her off. “Janes Carville, I know.”
Funny forever.
My wife talks in her sleep. When we were first dating she suddenly says, dead asleep, “he looks like a shaved turtle.”
In the morning I recounted this.
“I was dreaming about that guy-“
I cut her off. “Janes Carville, I know.”
Funny forever.
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Since he’s in the news being a nuisance, a giggle:
My wife talks in her sleep. When we were first dating she suddenly says, dead asleep, “he looks like a shaved turtle.”
In the morning I recounted this.
“I was dreaming about that guy-“
I cut her off. “Janes Carville, I know.”
Funny forever.
My wife talks in her sleep. When we were first dating she suddenly says, dead asleep, “he looks like a shaved turtle.”
In the morning I recounted this.
“I was dreaming about that guy-“
I cut her off. “Janes Carville, I know.”
Funny forever.
My final project in J-school was an investigative report on police brutality during the Adams Morgan Riots of 1991 and the specific abuse of Deaf individuals. And Dems are still acting like it’s a crime to force cops to have policy/accountability beyond “violence is fun” and “fuck you respect me”
These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My final project in J-school was an investigative report on police brutality during the Adams Morgan Riots of 1991 and the specific abuse of Deaf individuals. And Dems are still acting like it’s a crime to force cops to have policy/accountability beyond “violence is fun” and “fuck you respect me”
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"Court video showed ICE agents, who allegedly had a 12-pack of Modelo in their car...
"“This is great,” an officer said as they started following Martinez. “This is fun,” another replied.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
"“This is great,” an officer said as they started following Martinez. “This is fun,” another replied.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol
Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"Court video showed ICE agents, who allegedly had a 12-pack of Modelo in their car...
"“This is great,” an officer said as they started following Martinez. “This is fun,” another replied.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
"“This is great,” an officer said as they started following Martinez. “This is fun,” another replied.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
Anyone who believes this administration’s support for Israel was about fighting antisemitism and not Trump wanting to build beachfront property in Palestine - fuck you forever. Netanyahu trying to war his way out of corruption charges plus American Christian Nationalists is ALWAYS bad for the Jews.
Trump Administration bizarrely demands the University of Pennsylvania hand over "names, phone numbers and physical addresses" for anyone who "belongs to Jewish clubs or groups on campus, and anyone who works in the university’s Jewish studies program"...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Anyone who believes this administration’s support for Israel was about fighting antisemitism and not Trump wanting to build beachfront property in Palestine - fuck you forever. Netanyahu trying to war his way out of corruption charges plus American Christian Nationalists is ALWAYS bad for the Jews.
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Spiritualism skyrocketed in the US after its brutal Civil War killed roughly 750,000 people - and now in the wake of Covid’s million+ death toll, modern Americans are using ChatGPT to speak with the spirits. In this paper I will
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Spiritualism skyrocketed in the US after its brutal Civil War killed roughly 750,000 people - and now in the wake of Covid’s million+ death toll, modern Americans are using ChatGPT to speak with the spirits. In this paper I will
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None of the talk about how harmful social media is for kids balances that with a discussion of how useful and beneficial it is for them. It helps with loneliness, is a source of friendship and of information, and helps them find solace when their ‘offline’ lives are harmful or miserable. 1/4
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
None of the talk about how harmful social media is for kids balances that with a discussion of how useful and beneficial it is for them. It helps with loneliness, is a source of friendship and of information, and helps them find solace when their ‘offline’ lives are harmful or miserable. 1/4
After hemming and hawing about the stand mixer, issue was resolved by someone buying us one for our wedding! I am now paralyzed about what to make with it first tho!
November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
After hemming and hawing about the stand mixer, issue was resolved by someone buying us one for our wedding! I am now paralyzed about what to make with it first tho!
Lots of very very valid Hamilton criticisms out there but nothing will ever convey the agonizing longing of ambition -and- the overwhelming insomniac horror of being the only person fully committed to the group project as “Hamilton wrote the other 51!”
November 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Lots of very very valid Hamilton criticisms out there but nothing will ever convey the agonizing longing of ambition -and- the overwhelming insomniac horror of being the only person fully committed to the group project as “Hamilton wrote the other 51!”
Watched the first episode of Talamasca. I don’t hate it. I have quibbles but that’s just being a creative watching a show and thinking about how I would have done it. Is it Interview levels of brilliance? Not remotely. Is it the hot garbage mess that is Witches? Also not remotely, so that’s okay.
November 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Watched the first episode of Talamasca. I don’t hate it. I have quibbles but that’s just being a creative watching a show and thinking about how I would have done it. Is it Interview levels of brilliance? Not remotely. Is it the hot garbage mess that is Witches? Also not remotely, so that’s okay.
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Earlier this year Jane Evans ran an informal LinkedIn experiment: 2 women & 2 men, posted identical content at the same time. The women had a combined 154K followers, the men had only 9,389. Guess who got the highest reach? Yep, the men.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Bro boost: women say their LinkedIn traffic increases if they pretend to be men
Collective experiment found switching profile to ‘male’ and ‘bro-coding’ text led to big increase in reach, though site denies favouring posts by men
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Earlier this year Jane Evans ran an informal LinkedIn experiment: 2 women & 2 men, posted identical content at the same time. The women had a combined 154K followers, the men had only 9,389. Guess who got the highest reach? Yep, the men.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
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Said it already and many others are as well but two things really cannot be emphasized enough:
- Mamdani has The Juice to an unusual degree
- he’s also a celebrity and Trump is to his marrow a starfucker
To my mind, those two facts alone explain virtually everything we saw yesterday
- Mamdani has The Juice to an unusual degree
- he’s also a celebrity and Trump is to his marrow a starfucker
To my mind, those two facts alone explain virtually everything we saw yesterday
Not only has he never looked at Don Jr. or Eric like this, he’s never been so happy to bask in JD Vance’s presence either.
He looks giddy. JOYFUL even.
Is Zohran a witch
He looks giddy. JOYFUL even.
Is Zohran a witch
the son he always wanted
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Said it already and many others are as well but two things really cannot be emphasized enough:
- Mamdani has The Juice to an unusual degree
- he’s also a celebrity and Trump is to his marrow a starfucker
To my mind, those two facts alone explain virtually everything we saw yesterday
- Mamdani has The Juice to an unusual degree
- he’s also a celebrity and Trump is to his marrow a starfucker
To my mind, those two facts alone explain virtually everything we saw yesterday
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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I’m really surprised this isn’t bigger news. Just under 10 million people live in Tehran. Where can they go? Where else in Iran will have enough water? This will undoubtedly strain the country’s and the region’s politics, finances and governance capacity.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I’m really surprised this isn’t bigger news. Just under 10 million people live in Tehran. Where can they go? Where else in Iran will have enough water? This will undoubtedly strain the country’s and the region’s politics, finances and governance capacity.
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I have this idea for a bookstore selling only carefully curated self-published books.
The ads would say “We don’t have that” over & over as customers ask for Maas, King, Yarros, Sanderson, etc.
“Well what do you have?”
“The most incredible books you’ve never heard of.”
<table of gorgeous books>
The ads would say “We don’t have that” over & over as customers ask for Maas, King, Yarros, Sanderson, etc.
“Well what do you have?”
“The most incredible books you’ve never heard of.”
<table of gorgeous books>
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I have this idea for a bookstore selling only carefully curated self-published books.
The ads would say “We don’t have that” over & over as customers ask for Maas, King, Yarros, Sanderson, etc.
“Well what do you have?”
“The most incredible books you’ve never heard of.”
<table of gorgeous books>
The ads would say “We don’t have that” over & over as customers ask for Maas, King, Yarros, Sanderson, etc.
“Well what do you have?”
“The most incredible books you’ve never heard of.”
<table of gorgeous books>
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lmao wait is Olivia Nuzzi the TRUE author of "My Immortal"
November 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
lmao wait is Olivia Nuzzi the TRUE author of "My Immortal"