rachel mattson
@captainmaybe.bsky.social
Ridiculousness as resistance. Chinga la migra. I fucking loathe meta but I still post more on Instagram, alas. I’m working on it.
“I believe that going an inch wide and a mile deep in our actions (i.e., our practice) is actually a good thing to do right now. We need to be in a consistent mode of practicing.”
“you rise to the level of your training and practice, not to the level of your imagined self.”
A lot of people need to read this.
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“I believe that going an inch wide and a mile deep in our actions (i.e., our practice) is actually a good thing to do right now. We need to be in a consistent mode of practicing.”
“you rise to the level of your training and practice, not to the level of your imagined self.”
A lot of people need to read this.
We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…
A Year Since the 2024 Election
prisonculture.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
“you rise to the level of your training and practice, not to the level of your imagined self.”
A shonde
Did you know that the ADL's Mamdani Tip Line is live and that you can submit instances where Zohran Mamdani is being anti-Semitic for them to investigate? www.adl.org/mamdani-moni...
www.adl.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A shonde
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New, from me:
The Times published a piece accusing a man born in Africa as claiming to be African-American in a failed college admission.
They viewed this story to be newsworthy enough to grant anonymity to a eugenicist working with hacked personal data.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...
The Times published a piece accusing a man born in Africa as claiming to be African-American in a failed college admission.
They viewed this story to be newsworthy enough to grant anonymity to a eugenicist working with hacked personal data.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...
Who's Afraid of Zohran Mamdani?
And what it means to be an immigrant on July 4th
donmoynihan.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
New, from me:
The Times published a piece accusing a man born in Africa as claiming to be African-American in a failed college admission.
They viewed this story to be newsworthy enough to grant anonymity to a eugenicist working with hacked personal data.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...
The Times published a piece accusing a man born in Africa as claiming to be African-American in a failed college admission.
They viewed this story to be newsworthy enough to grant anonymity to a eugenicist working with hacked personal data.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...
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Race 👏🏼 Is 👏🏼 A 👏🏼 Social 👏🏼Construct.
That noise you hear is historians of science and medicine banging their collective heads on the table.
That noise you hear is historians of science and medicine banging their collective heads on the table.
July 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Race 👏🏼 Is 👏🏼 A 👏🏼 Social 👏🏼Construct.
That noise you hear is historians of science and medicine banging their collective heads on the table.
That noise you hear is historians of science and medicine banging their collective heads on the table.
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Mamdani was born in Uganda, a fact that Trump and his allies are now using incessantly to attack him. Meanwhile, the NYT has a piece today going after him for having checked "Black or African American" alongside "Asian" in his college application when he was a senior in HS.
His response:
His response:
July 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Mamdani was born in Uganda, a fact that Trump and his allies are now using incessantly to attack him. Meanwhile, the NYT has a piece today going after him for having checked "Black or African American" alongside "Asian" in his college application when he was a senior in HS.
His response:
His response:
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now we just have to make sure that even if billionaires and centrists spend $500 million boosting cuomo in the general election, mamdani's campaign won't end up like india walton's jacobin.com/2021/11/buff...
Buffalo’s Establishment Pulled Out All the Stops to Defeat India Walton
To beat India Walton, the establishment smeared her, changed the rules, and threw piles of cash. In the end, she flipped Byron Brown’s base while he drove up turnout in the city’s wealthiest areas.
jacobin.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
now we just have to make sure that even if billionaires and centrists spend $500 million boosting cuomo in the general election, mamdani's campaign won't end up like india walton's jacobin.com/2021/11/buff...
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One week after terminating the employment of over 100 staff at the National Endowment for the Humanities, the agency posts four open positions...but we who are now unemployed are not "eligible" to apply for them.
The absolute cruelty is more apparent than ever. #NEH
The absolute cruelty is more apparent than ever. #NEH
June 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
One week after terminating the employment of over 100 staff at the National Endowment for the Humanities, the agency posts four open positions...but we who are now unemployed are not "eligible" to apply for them.
The absolute cruelty is more apparent than ever. #NEH
The absolute cruelty is more apparent than ever. #NEH
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ATTN: If you work at any Smithsonian and have any info regarding Trump’s action purporting to fire the head of the National Portrait Gallery (and any related actions), please reach out from a non-work phone. I’m at crg.32 on Signal.
May 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
ATTN: If you work at any Smithsonian and have any info regarding Trump’s action purporting to fire the head of the National Portrait Gallery (and any related actions), please reach out from a non-work phone. I’m at crg.32 on Signal.
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None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.
Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested
Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.
I’m kinda bereft that @buzzfeed.com cancelled the New Abnormal so abruptly. @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and Andy Levy I miss you! Wtf
May 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I’m kinda bereft that @buzzfeed.com cancelled the New Abnormal so abruptly. @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and Andy Levy I miss you! Wtf
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NOW: A group of faith leaders have linked arms & are blocking the entrance to the ICE detention facility at Delaney Hall, NJ.
“We want to know who is in the building behind us. Americans believe in due process. This is not the country anyone asked for.” 👏
(🎥 Alexis McAdams, FOX)
“We want to know who is in the building behind us. Americans believe in due process. This is not the country anyone asked for.” 👏
(🎥 Alexis McAdams, FOX)
May 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
NOW: A group of faith leaders have linked arms & are blocking the entrance to the ICE detention facility at Delaney Hall, NJ.
“We want to know who is in the building behind us. Americans believe in due process. This is not the country anyone asked for.” 👏
(🎥 Alexis McAdams, FOX)
“We want to know who is in the building behind us. Americans believe in due process. This is not the country anyone asked for.” 👏
(🎥 Alexis McAdams, FOX)
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So grateful to @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social for this series
The next episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social's Project 1933 is up! We decided to release it early, because the resonances are ... considerable. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Episode 70 -- Project 1933, Part II: March 15 to April 15
Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 04/17/2025 · 1h 18m
podcasts.apple.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
So grateful to @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social for this series
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Read the Prospect, get the news first
prospect.org/power/2024-0...
prospect.org/power/2024-0...
April 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Read the Prospect, get the news first
prospect.org/power/2024-0...
prospect.org/power/2024-0...
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The AHA’s Congressional Briefing from March on the history of deportation will air on C-SPAN American History TV on Saturday, April 19, at 3:30 PM ET, and will be available to watch on C-SPAN American History TV’s website. 🗃️
C-SPAN to Air AHA Congressional Briefing on the History of Deportation - AHA
The AHA's Congressional Briefing from March on the history of the deportation will air on C-SPAN American History TV on Saturday, April 19, at 3:30 PM ET, and will be available to watch on C-SPAN Amer...
www.historians.org
April 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The AHA’s Congressional Briefing from March on the history of deportation will air on C-SPAN American History TV on Saturday, April 19, at 3:30 PM ET, and will be available to watch on C-SPAN American History TV’s website. 🗃️
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Update: DOJ has missed its 11:30 a.m. deadline.
BREAKING: Xinis holds, criticizing DOJ’s filing, saying their claimed need for more time “blinks at reality,” and giving them until 11:30a to comply with the order for a declaration. The 1p hearing stays. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![ORDER
The Defendants ask this Court to extend the deadline to respond to its Order at ECF No.
51, arguing that the Defendants require several days to "meaningful[ly] review the Supreme Court's decision," issued last night at 7:00 PM, and that it is "impracticable for Defendants to
comply with the Court's 9:30 AM deadline only a few hours after the Supreme Court issued an order in this case." ECF No. 55. This, Defendants say, supports extension of the filing deadline until April 15, 2025. The Court largely rejects the Defendants' request.
First, the Defendants' act of sending Abrego Garcia to El Salvador was wholly illegal
from the moment it happened, and Defendants have been on notice of the same. Indeed, as the Supreme Court credits, "the United States acknowledges that Abrego Garcia was subject to a withholding order forbidding his removal to El Salvador, and that the removal to El Salvador was therefore illegal." Noem v. Abrego Garcia, 604 U.S.__ (2025), Slip Op. at 1. Second, the Defendants' suggestion that they need time to meaningfully review a four-page Order that
reaffirms this basic principle blinks at reality. Third, the Defendants misconstrue the Supreme
Court's Order stating that the original deadline at ECF No. 21 is "no longer effective," as](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreibqgziv6bjwrw2imaqudonzwlns337zm5tybe2pzdsiwtwhfm3eoq@jpeg)
April 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Update: DOJ has missed its 11:30 a.m. deadline.
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“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in.” —Bill Fujioka, Japanese American National Museum board chairman
Japanese American National Museum Stands Up for DEI
The institution said it would continue to embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in the face of widespread government funding cuts and pressures.
hyperallergic.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in.” —Bill Fujioka, Japanese American National Museum board chairman
Further in the annals of archives, records management, and fascism
April 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Further in the annals of archives, records management, and fascism
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Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company
IG 3sixteen
IG 3sixteen
April 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company
IG 3sixteen
IG 3sixteen
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We just learned that Washington State Library’s $3.9M annual award from the Feds has been cancelled.
That’s rural libraries, rural librarians and internet access, databases for research and ebooks through Libby.
DOGE needs to end.
That’s rural libraries, rural librarians and internet access, databases for research and ebooks through Libby.
DOGE needs to end.
April 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
We just learned that Washington State Library’s $3.9M annual award from the Feds has been cancelled.
That’s rural libraries, rural librarians and internet access, databases for research and ebooks through Libby.
DOGE needs to end.
That’s rural libraries, rural librarians and internet access, databases for research and ebooks through Libby.
DOGE needs to end.
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We just received notice from the California State Library that our grant funding from IMLS has been terminated. I'm not sharing the whole document. But, that's over 15M in funds that go to local libraries in CA for literacy and public programs for economically disadvantaged communities. 1/3
April 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
We just received notice from the California State Library that our grant funding from IMLS has been terminated. I'm not sharing the whole document. But, that's over 15M in funds that go to local libraries in CA for literacy and public programs for economically disadvantaged communities. 1/3
Today’s 5-4 podcast (@fivefourpod.bsky.social) offers the most detailed description I’ve yet heard of conditions in the prison/concentration camp in El Salvador that US sent random guys w/tattoos to w/no due process. An unfathomably lawless horror that we actually have to fathom— & fight.
April 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Today’s 5-4 podcast (@fivefourpod.bsky.social) offers the most detailed description I’ve yet heard of conditions in the prison/concentration camp in El Salvador that US sent random guys w/tattoos to w/no due process. An unfathomably lawless horror that we actually have to fathom— & fight.
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NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
March 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)