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Rachel Sipper

@rachelsipperstudio.net

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Come for the art process images, stay for the perspective. I'll be pinning whatever I'm currently working on, daily. she/her 💙🦓♿

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Rachel Sipper @rachelsipperstudio.net · 1d

This bear illustration is a memory of trips to the Smoky Mountains with my family as a child. I have such wonderful memories of hiking there. And I’m told that some bears wandered close to our picnic when I was 4 or 5 and I took off running to the car, two long braids flying.

A black and white, stylized and pattern-filled illustration of a seated black bear against a terra cotta background.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3h

The reason Mike Johnson is able to keep the House closed and not pass bills to pay the military or fund the government is because Trump is going to circumvent congress and illegally steal that money from other government programs. All to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

You can save yourself a lot of time by never arguing with people who don't protest *ever* about protest. Keep it moving and reclaim your time.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 3h

If you were just laid off by the Department of Education and your job was to help distribute IDEA funds, please be in touch for a @motherjones.com article. I can protect your identity in an article, though I'll have to confirm who you are. My signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts appreciated.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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🔥💀LA MANTIA!💀🔥 @lamantia.bsky.social · 4h

Forgot to check the headphone volume before hitting play.

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Rachel Sipper @rachelsipperstudio.net · 3h

I love this so much.

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4h

Australian printmaker Rachel Newling is inspired by the floral and fauna of her homeland.
'Grey Headed Flying Fox', hand coloured linocut #ReframjngWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring three bats hanging upside-down in branches of a tree with green leaves and orange blossoms

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 6h

Opinion: Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It.

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 6h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 5h

Our future is being shaped to a terrifying degree by people who have just … completely lost their marbles…

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 1d

For nothing is more certain than the arrival of good weather after a seemingly endless storm.”

Amyr Klink

“One hundred days between sky and sea.”

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 7h

Being autistic is being told why didn’t you ask for help.

Because asking required social scripting, shame buffering, tone analysis, and a risk assessment.

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Harmless Artist @dunhillpage.bsky.social · 19h

They wanted the House.
They wanted the Senate.
They wanted the White House.
They got it. All of it.
It's all theirs.
And it's shut down.

They can lie
They can troll
They can "own the libs"

But. They. Cannot. Govern.

This is all you need to hold in mind when you're looking to assign blame.

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scubapopeye.bsky.social @scubapopeye.bsky.social · 10h

If you’ve never been in the military please understand the majority of us served for you.

We sacrificed time for you.

Most of us are not war mongers.

We served and fought for you.

Unfortunately right now the military is getting used as pawns for a dictator.

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 6h

Applying For Disability

Written by stephen king

directed by qeuntin tarantino

soundtrack by yoko ono

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15h

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 6h

Please remember that "that's illegal" is a *description*, not a *conclusion*.

The law PROHIBITS people from doing things. It does not PREVENT people from doing things. "Illegal" does not mean "impossible." "Illegal" means "on a list of actions the government can, but is not required, to punish."

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Rachel Sipper @rachelsipperstudio.net · 6h

Thank you 🥳

Rachel Sipper @rachelsipperstudio.net · 7h

Thank you so much!

Rachel Sipper @rachelsipperstudio.net · 7h

Aw, thank you!

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 1d

Inspired by a stunning sunset on the evening of my son's first baseball game of the season last year, and painted from memory and imagination in my studio.

Tisha Mark ©2024, Sunset on Opening Day, oil on linen, 20"x20"

Available:
tishamark.com/product/suns...

#BlueSkyArtShow #glow #art #painting

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Sunset on Opening Day" 20"x20" oil on linen (2024). A seascape painting with dramatic blue clouds in orange-toned sunset sky over a rocky seashore. Flecks of orange light appear in the sky, and colors from the sky are reflecting in water below.

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Rachel Sipper @rachelsipperstudio.net · 7h

Today is my birthday. While my disease is chronic, not sudden, I wasn’t sure I’d make it to 46. I am deeply grateful. I will be spending the week connecting to nature and making art, with the caretaking support of my husband. Eat some cake today!

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Lord Juiblex @lordjuiblex.bsky.social · 1d

Watercolour, black marker, red marker, white paint pen. Face of a man. Red green blue face. Purple shirt.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10h

Mary Cassatt, The Letter, 1890. The Impressionist painter and printmaker was inspired by Japanese woodblock prints for the style, layout, and colours of her work in print #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring a woman in a blue patterned dress to the left sitting at a desk in an interior while licking the glue of an envelope

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Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 22h

I'm asking my American friends to turn out for the No Kings marches on the 18th. Turn out for your immigrant friends and neighbors. Turn out for your soul.

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Rachel Sipper @rachelsipperstudio.net · 8h

This piece sings and dances, to my eyes. So beautiful.

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14h

'Cool blues' by Vicky Oldfield, contemporary UK printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring three bottles of different shapes in a row all filled with blue flowers and resting on a surface with a busy pattern in blue