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Rachel Lazerus

@rachellazerus.bsky.social

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Mom of three and a recovering policy wonk. Openly sincere on main. Definitely sleep-deprived. She/her

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Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 21d

Do you actually want me to explain why I think this way, or are you being reflexively defiant at anyone who doesn't agree with your interpretation of the narrative? Because I've got stuff to do today.

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Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 4h

The Norfolk grand jury was presented with lots of evidence of James' innocence, and did not indict.

The Alexandria grand jury was presented with less information, potentially missing the bits where James made it clear it was a bank error, and did indict.

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Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 6h

And they keep it going because it means any violence they do to "the left" is justified, because they're preempting the much worse damage the left was about to do.

You can justify anything that way.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h

It's almost that time of year again in the Northeast... Time to put together some warm kits: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - it's a great family activity and you can get others involved too. Last year, I adapted the activity to focus on public libraries but they can be donated anywhere.

#Warm4Holidays2024

#Warm4Holidays Public Library Edition For a few years on Twitter, I used the #Warm4Holidays hashtag to organize crafters to join a New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day challenge. Crafters were invited t...

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 14h

Hello bluesky! I'm Nora and I have a jewelry store focused on fused glass; I also have game tokens and worry stones.

Collage: nora.jewelry/collections/...
Cluster: nora.jewelry/collections/...
Worry stones: nora.jewelry/search?q=wor...
Earrings: nora.jewelry/collections/...

#bsnm

ad for the nora.jewelry collage collection, which consists of pieces made from patterned cane with some transparency piled on top of other different color canes and turned into a molded shape; the transparency creates a lot of depth in the final pieces, because you can see through the transparent bits to what is behind it. pictures are a pair of round green, white and purple cufflinks, a orange and yellow bolo tie, and a teardrop shaped pendant with a green/white design added to a pink design

ad for the cluster collection, a group of fused glass pendants (and a couple other things, but only pendants are pictured) made from placing glass cylinders on their ends in a group and melting them just enough to round them out but not enough to make them fully puddle like most of my designs. the result of this ends up looking a bit like fish eggs adhered to a flat surface, or a bundle of grapes. the ones pictured are a simple round aqua blue design with yellow middles, a purple design with distorted flowers (this one started out as regular flowers but rounded their petals in the kiln, blurring them) and a round tan design with brown and white middles.

worry stone collection: this one has an orange collage design worry stone in an abstract shape, a white and green one where the edges between the colors blur, and a round one in a bi pride pattern.

earring collection: this one shows a sparkly green aventurine pair of round earrings, one that's white/grey/clear with black spots (that one's made from spiral cane that I made flat and you can see the spiral in the final design) and one with swirling green, yellow and pink set in white.

all the backgrounds on all of these are an aventurine dragonskin sheet that i put at low transparency over white, so they have a lacy quality to them.

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Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 10h

Updating my Yiddish dictionary to put Zohran's picture under "mensch."

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 15h

Fuck, man. This is water in a desert.

Thank you, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. I’m rooting for you.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17h

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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Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 11h

All of these layoffs are being done the same as the ones in March -- they’re putting people on admin leave effective immediately to last until the required notice period is up.

So we’re paying people to not work until December.

This is the opposite of a furlough (and much more expensive).

Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 16h

They kinda did that in 2024 by courting younger Black and Latino men with misogynism.

Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 16h

That's exactly what the post-mortem for the Romney campaign said to do.

And the GOP went, "nah, we're too racist for that."

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Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 17h

At this point, too many people would assume anything they see that doesn't fit their narrative is AI.

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Steve Stevers @stevesteverers.whaleoilcandles.com · 1d

The downside of having awesome kids who think about everything is having awesome kids who think about everything

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Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 17h

Guy who completely blanked out behind the eyes when asked directly how he *didn't* fit the qualifications of antichrist now claiming his literal polar opposite is the antichrist, seems like this is another "every accusation is s confession."

Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 17h

With this framing -- if you've fucked someone who later dyes their hair blue, you can't check off "someone with blue hair" off of your hypothetical hair-color fuck-chart.

There is no textual evidence that he fucked a robot, even if we all think he's capable of it.

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Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 17h

What's already in the public eye should be enough of an explanation: the six GOP appointees all accept bribes and refuse to enforce any sort of oversight on themselves. Several are former GOP operatives, all are FedSoc approved. Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson have been warning us in dissents.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

A rant about the billion-dollar grift that is the Trump Presidential Library, a thing I wish more people were talking about

www.gravityisgone.com/what-even-is...

Imagine a historian ten years from now, wandering in some side door to the supposed archive to do a bit of research on what, exactly, happened with that whole hurricanes-and-sharpies thing, and needing to dodge hosts of Palm Beach car dealership owners paying $1,125 a night for rooms facing away from the bay on their way to a $25,000-a-plate dinner at which the former president who has not been seen without a ventilator in 18 months has promised to gladhand the donors. The documents our lonely historian requested will, of course, not be available.

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Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 1d

I've never even heard of that so we're all learning something tonight

Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon of a man holding a piece of paper that says you are technically correct

ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a piece of paper that says you are technically correct

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Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 1d

I like that the answer to "is Gendo a robot-fucker" is "technically no, spiritually yes."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 2d

Her poor back

Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 2d

I've told my spouse to be wary if I sound too much like Miles Vorkosigan.

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Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 2d

Personally I blame the manipulative instinct on the SFF I read as a tween that highlighted the difference between what people mean and what they do and always had heroes being clever enough to see through it.

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Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 2d

You know how we were the world's pariah for four years because we were the dumbasses who let a fucking celebrity into the most powerful position on the planet?

That stuck.

Also, like, you think the US has been controlling world affairs for a century and you think that's good and we should do more?

Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorry you're in distress.

I don't agree that Biden is the avatar of pure evil here, bc I've given multiple versions of that speech, trying to explain that it's that fucking asshole Bibi who is responsible for this, and that's because of my own sense of complicity for not standing up sooner.

Rachel Lazerus @rachellazerus.bsky.social · 2d

Look, you're assuming there was something Biden could have done that would have dramatically changed the situation in Israel, and that is because you think the US president has that power and can/should use it for good.

That's not power a president has or should have, bc that's how Trump thinks.

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