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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Sep 18

Federal officers took 11 Democratic officials into custody inside a federal building in Lower Manhattan after the group demanded entry to Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding cells where migrants were being detained.

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JT @jomake.bsky.social · Aug 24

"Authoritarian leaders topple democracy faster than you can imagine. If you wait to speak out against them, you have already lost."

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Dan Morris @danmordc.bsky.social · Aug 24

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A Ticking Clock on American Freedom

It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · Sep 1

"The greatest threat we face today isn’t any individual leader or government – it’s the technology that’s amplifying authoritarian tactics worldwide, enabled by democratic governments that abdicated their responsibility to protect the public."

But we can fight big tech says @mariaressa.bsky.social

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · Sep 1

Big tech is a weapon of mass destruction to democracy. Here are three ways Australia can fight back | Maria Ressa

You have time that other countries have squandered. You can be leaders in building the information infrastructure humanity needs I became a journalist because information is power, and right now we are living through an information armaggedon. Facts are under assault. Truth is being murdered. The casualty? Trust … making it impossible to govern. Only dictatorships thrive when there’s no trust. And here are the three sentences I’ve said over and over since 2016 when I first said it in Silicon Valley, backed by data and hard-fought experience. Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without trust, we have no shared reality. Continue reading...

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Rachel @rkayla.bsky.social · Jul 3

Hakeem Jeffries providing ALL the receipts. 🙌🙌🙌🙌

Rachel @rkayla.bsky.social · Jun 6

I have lipedema. It’s genetic, affects mostly women, and is triggered by stress & hormone fluctuations. It’s difficult to get diagnosed since few doctors know about it. A great place to start learning more is the Lipedema Foundation with resources for both providers and patients.

#LipedemaAwareness

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Rachel @rkayla.bsky.social · May 10

The Vatican has said “Hold my beer” with this choice and I’m here for it.

a man wearing a striped sweater is sitting on a couch

ALT: a man wearing a striped sweater is sitting on a couch

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · May 9

I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it.

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Pope Leo XIV's grandparents were 7th Ward Creoles

The newly elected pontiff, born in Chicago, has ancestral ties to the city’s historic Seventh Ward, according to genealogists at The Historic New Orleans Collection.

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Rachel @rkayla.bsky.social · Mar 5

And I was “in line” at 9:45 CST.

Rachel @rkayla.bsky.social · Mar 5

@lizzo and First Avenue please explain to me how tickets went on sale at 10am CST and this is what’s available 15-20 minutes later. This is horse💩!

P.S. You should be blocking resale until at least a couple of days after general on sale to avoid this situation!

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Rachel @rkayla.bsky.social · Feb 28

One of my new sites made the news. Now, even more patients have access to scalp cooling and can manage hair loss during chemotherapy just like I did. I’m so honored to support them and their patients.

www.kfyrtv.com/2025/02/21/n...

New therapy at Sanford Health helps cancer patients keep their hair

"For me, it also makes it so that I don't look in the mirror and have a panic that I'm going through this. It gives me a little more peace just to see myself normally," Debbie Baca said.

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Rachel @rkayla.bsky.social · Feb 13

@marriott-hotels.bsky.social I’m a Titanium Bonvoy member and I’m disgusted to see the Epoch Times 🤮 in the lobby of the SeaTac Residence Inn every day. If u can’t provide hotels the local paper or USA Today, the don’t provide a paper at all. Don’t subject us to lies being published by a known cult.

Rachel @rkayla.bsky.social · Jan 25

It’s a snuggly Friday night.

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Rachel @rkayla.bsky.social · Jan 25

Looks like a good party to me.

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Rachel @rkayla.bsky.social · Jan 24

Having a parent with cancer is scary for children of all ages. This article provides some insight into that as well as great resources to help families.

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Mitigating the impact of a parent’s cancer and chemotherapy on young and adult children

Cancer and chemotherapy have a devastating impact on a patient. Alongside the challenges the cancer presents, the patient must contend with the side effects of the chemotherapy.

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Rachel @rkayla.bsky.social · Jan 22

Ollie and Weenie are the only men in my life. 😻

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jan 14

AOC: Trans girls are girls. And for all the folks that are so concerned, thank you for your concern for women for the first time. I don't know who has been to gym class, I’ve played co-ed sports all the time

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Rachel @rkayla.bsky.social · Nov 29

I’m exceedingly proud & honored to have helped the MPLS VA launch their scalp cooling program recently. The entire team there are scalp cooling champions and were excited to begin offering it to patients. Jaclyn may have been one the first scalp cooling patient at the VA but she won’t be the last.

Keep on trucking | VA Minneapolis health care | Veterans Affairs

You have cancer. It’s words that can your turn your world upside down.

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