Rachel Navarre
@rnavarre.bsky.social
Displaced South Louisianan. Associate prof of PoliSci @Bridgewater StateU (MA), studies Populism, immigration policy and other depressing things. Newest book The Age of Discontent is out now.
I miss properly seasoned seafood
She/ her
I miss properly seasoned seafood
She/ her
Pinned
Rachel Navarre
@rnavarre.bsky.social
· Mar 23
Boycott any company that sponsors. Let make sure it’s just Balance of nature, my pillow and relief factor and whatever else Foxnews one
Hey @democrats.org yet another story for your ad campaign that I’m really sure you’re going to start any second now.
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Broadside to host New Orleans ICE Rapid Responder training tonight from 6 to 7:30 pm
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
Broadside to host New Orleans ICE Rapid Responder training Nov. 25
With the Trump regime deploying hundreds of ICE agents and CBP paramilitary units in the New Orleans area as part of its anti-immigrant campaign, activists and attorneys will host a
www.nola.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Broadside to host New Orleans ICE Rapid Responder training tonight from 6 to 7:30 pm
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
Oh no my partner is being sweet on their main.
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Oh no my partner is being sweet on their main.
We do not have to accept them pissing on our legs and telling us it’s raining.
They know good and well that’s not what insubordination is. They know that the obligation is for members of the military to reject immoral/illegal orders and that code supersedes all others.
They know good and well that’s not what insubordination is. They know that the obligation is for members of the military to reject immoral/illegal orders and that code supersedes all others.
Abuse of power extending beyond Senator Kelly
"FBI has requested interviews with six Democratic U.S. lawmakers."
DOJ official "said the interviews were to determine 'if there's any wrongdoing and then go from there.'"
Note: For video accurately stating military law
www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...
"FBI has requested interviews with six Democratic U.S. lawmakers."
DOJ official "said the interviews were to determine 'if there's any wrongdoing and then go from there.'"
Note: For video accurately stating military law
www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
We do not have to accept them pissing on our legs and telling us it’s raining.
They know good and well that’s not what insubordination is. They know that the obligation is for members of the military to reject immoral/illegal orders and that code supersedes all others.
They know good and well that’s not what insubordination is. They know that the obligation is for members of the military to reject immoral/illegal orders and that code supersedes all others.
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NEW: President Biden commuted the death sentences of most people on the federal death row before exiting office.
President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports:
boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports:
boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
This story was produced by Bolts and published in partnership with The Nation. Inside the federal supermax tucked away in Colorado’s high desert, prisoners spend 22 to 24 hours a day... Read More
boltsmag.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
NEW: President Biden commuted the death sentences of most people on the federal death row before exiting office.
President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports:
boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports:
boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
Once again, there are plenty of other angry Cajuns willing to sputter cuss words and bon mots for much less pay.
Guys let’s all hold hands and simply decide not to listen to James Carville
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Once again, there are plenty of other angry Cajuns willing to sputter cuss words and bon mots for much less pay.
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Two months after Trump signed his TikTok executive order, there are still major questions about this supposed TikTok deal. I’m demanding full answers and transparency.
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Two months after Trump signed his TikTok executive order, there are still major questions about this supposed TikTok deal. I’m demanding full answers and transparency.
Give me the tax, pension, and union structures of mid-century America (w/o the racism), re-regulate everything, plus throw in the Great Society and I’ll wear a damn girdle and gloves on everything from a puddle jumper to a cross continent red eye.
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Give me the tax, pension, and union structures of mid-century America (w/o the racism), re-regulate everything, plus throw in the Great Society and I’ll wear a damn girdle and gloves on everything from a puddle jumper to a cross continent red eye.
That is a man clearly singing stairway to heaven and I will not take any questions.
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
That is a man clearly singing stairway to heaven and I will not take any questions.
Also I just texted my pop culture ignorant, social media ignoring bestie the article because that’s what friends do.
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Also I just texted my pop culture ignorant, social media ignoring bestie the article because that’s what friends do.
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A former senior immigration policy official explains how the immigration system works, what has changed under the Trump administration, and what needs to be fixed most urgently.
bit.ly/3LSrLet
bit.ly/3LSrLet
An Insider’s View of the Immigration System
A former senior immigration policy official offers insight into how the system works and highlights urgent problems that must be addressed.
www.brennancenter.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
A former senior immigration policy official explains how the immigration system works, what has changed under the Trump administration, and what needs to be fixed most urgently.
bit.ly/3LSrLet
bit.ly/3LSrLet
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All of Bluesky this morning:
a person holding a bag with a note that says dead dove do not eat
Alt: a person holding a bag with a note that says dead dove do not eat
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
All of Bluesky this morning:
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I TOLD Y'ALL I didn't want to learn anything else!!! I said I was DONE with information and I MEANT IT!! I don't want to KNOW THINGS any longer! I was VERY CLEAR about this: do not inform me.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I TOLD Y'ALL I didn't want to learn anything else!!! I said I was DONE with information and I MEANT IT!! I don't want to KNOW THINGS any longer! I was VERY CLEAR about this: do not inform me.
I hate everyone.
Jesus h Christ my husband just told me horrors await me and he Won’t tell me what saying that I have to find out organically like the rest of you and then I find this and I still haven’t found the actual horror yet, but I’m scared
good morning, logging on to catch up on what i missed on a serene autumn saturday morning
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I hate everyone.
Jesus h Christ my husband just told me horrors await me and he Won’t tell me what saying that I have to find out organically like the rest of you and then I find this and I still haven’t found the actual horror yet, but I’m scared
good morning, logging on to catch up on what i missed on a serene autumn saturday morning
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Jesus h Christ my husband just told me horrors await me and he Won’t tell me what saying that I have to find out organically like the rest of you and then I find this and I still haven’t found the actual horror yet, but I’m scared
Ok-is she scared, running, or throwing her lot in with Nick Fuentes? She’s been “thinking a lot” since Kirk’s death, but space lasers believer wouldn’t denounce Fuentes on that interview. Could be scared. But there are growing anti Semitic conspiracy theories about Israel with Kirk and Epstein.
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Ok-is she scared, running, or throwing her lot in with Nick Fuentes? She’s been “thinking a lot” since Kirk’s death, but space lasers believer wouldn’t denounce Fuentes on that interview. Could be scared. But there are growing anti Semitic conspiracy theories about Israel with Kirk and Epstein.
Reupping this because of that presser today:
I am haunted by visions of myself 20 years older taking a deep, resigned breath and closing my eyes to answer a student with “yes, the AI, on the social network he brought did say he was better than Jesus, and that was after they changed it to the Gulf of America”.
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Reupping this because of that presser today:
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett has released receipts that reveal that ProPublica has reported that Kristi Noem secretly diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security funds to a consulting firm affiliated with her own campaign.
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Rep. Jasmine Crockett has released receipts that reveal that ProPublica has reported that Kristi Noem secretly diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security funds to a consulting firm affiliated with her own campaign.
Dear fellow Louisianians, what would you do in this situation? My child just showed me a cop car in his computer game because it was from Louisiana, but then he added “I don’t know what county though.”
Please keep me in your thoughts during this difficult time.
Please keep me in your thoughts during this difficult time.
November 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dear fellow Louisianians, what would you do in this situation? My child just showed me a cop car in his computer game because it was from Louisiana, but then he added “I don’t know what county though.”
Please keep me in your thoughts during this difficult time.
Please keep me in your thoughts during this difficult time.
Also if Aaron is saying this data is still good, I’d trust him. When his org or Cato start questioning it, then it’s when not to believe it. (You get really good at spotting irregularities in data when you are always playing in it, so find those people for all gov data is my advice).
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Also if Aaron is saying this data is still good, I’d trust him. When his org or Cato start questioning it, then it’s when not to believe it. (You get really good at spotting irregularities in data when you are always playing in it, so find those people for all gov data is my advice).
Also to add to my big long thread, that right wing media ecosystem that doesn’t need to make a profit is filled with guys who think the world is different because some nefarious plot and not because they grew up.
If only there were some ancient wisdom about being a child and thinking like a child
If only there were some ancient wisdom about being a child and thinking like a child
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Also to add to my big long thread, that right wing media ecosystem that doesn’t need to make a profit is filled with guys who think the world is different because some nefarious plot and not because they grew up.
If only there were some ancient wisdom about being a child and thinking like a child
If only there were some ancient wisdom about being a child and thinking like a child
Reposted by Rachel Navarre
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
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I’ve been REALLY reticent to use the term “disappear” to refer to people arrested by immigration enforcement, even when there’s now routinely a lag of hours or days before loved ones know where they’re being held.
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
A man missing for weeks and the immigration system that lost him
Vicente Ventura Aguilar got picked up last month, but his family doesn’t know if he’s dead or alive. ICE says he’s not in their system, so they say they can’t help.
www.ms.now
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I’ve been REALLY reticent to use the term “disappear” to refer to people arrested by immigration enforcement, even when there’s now routinely a lag of hours or days before loved ones know where they’re being held.
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
While I like to harp on the Dems not using their platforms more effectively, a clear other issue is the media environment.
Local news is dead. This has a huge impact.
Local news is dead. This has a huge impact.
one of the underrated factors for the rise in scamming across U.S. society is the death of local media.
It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
While I like to harp on the Dems not using their platforms more effectively, a clear other issue is the media environment.
Local news is dead. This has a huge impact.
Local news is dead. This has a huge impact.
Things I want to indoctrinate my students about:
- There is never a “mandate”.
- Politicians still need the votes and obey the law (or they should)
- populism requires attacks on lib, pluralist democracy where there’s a unified good people and evil plotters standing in the way of the people.
- There is never a “mandate”.
- Politicians still need the votes and obey the law (or they should)
- populism requires attacks on lib, pluralist democracy where there’s a unified good people and evil plotters standing in the way of the people.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Zohran Mamdani “seems to think the historic nature of his victory allows him to steamroll state government,” Nicole Gelinas writes. “But he will face political and legal barriers if he tries to treat Albany as a mere inconvenience.”
Zohran Mamdani “seems to think the historic nature of his victory allows him to steamroll state government,” Nicole Gelinas writes. “But he will face political and legal barriers if he tries to treat Albany as a mere inconvenience.”
Opinion | How to Resist a Populist Mayor and a Populist President
Hochul can show how Democrats wary of a mayor-elect’s populist brand of socialism can push back against it.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Things I want to indoctrinate my students about:
- There is never a “mandate”.
- Politicians still need the votes and obey the law (or they should)
- populism requires attacks on lib, pluralist democracy where there’s a unified good people and evil plotters standing in the way of the people.
- There is never a “mandate”.
- Politicians still need the votes and obey the law (or they should)
- populism requires attacks on lib, pluralist democracy where there’s a unified good people and evil plotters standing in the way of the people.
I am haunted by visions of myself 20 years older taking a deep, resigned breath and closing my eyes to answer a student with “yes, the AI, on the social network he brought did say he was better than Jesus, and that was after they changed it to the Gulf of America”.
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I am haunted by visions of myself 20 years older taking a deep, resigned breath and closing my eyes to answer a student with “yes, the AI, on the social network he brought did say he was better than Jesus, and that was after they changed it to the Gulf of America”.