Rachel
@rac-hop.bsky.social
I'll come up with a proper bio eventually. Until then, not a bot, just your average electrically powered meat mech trying to survive the daily horrors of capitalism.
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In Trump’s pay-to-play justice system, you can get away with defrauding nursing homes, skirting your taxes, and committing securities fraud. So much for “law and order.” https://youtu.be/NflcWXdV-B0?si=Tj1mzuAdV8zjXEpY
Trump’s Pay-to-Pardon Scheme
Robert Reich
youtu.be
December 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
In Trump’s pay-to-play justice system, you can get away with defrauding nursing homes, skirting your taxes, and committing securities fraud. So much for “law and order.” https://youtu.be/NflcWXdV-B0?si=Tj1mzuAdV8zjXEpY
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ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
(Published November)
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
(Published November)
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
January 1, 2026 at 3:00 AM
ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
(Published November)
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
(Published November)
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Local CBS Minnesota story proves America’s been duped by right wing propagandist Nick Shirley & his “fraud” story about ABC Learning Center.
I’m sure MAGAs will still find a way to deny the facts, because they don’t care about justice, they care about white supremacy.
youtube.com/shorts/1bAzC...
I’m sure MAGAs will still find a way to deny the facts, because they don’t care about justice, they care about white supremacy.
youtube.com/shorts/1bAzC...
Loca CBS Minnesota Fully Debunks Nick Shirley
YouTube video by Qasim Rashid
youtube.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Local CBS Minnesota story proves America’s been duped by right wing propagandist Nick Shirley & his “fraud” story about ABC Learning Center.
I’m sure MAGAs will still find a way to deny the facts, because they don’t care about justice, they care about white supremacy.
youtube.com/shorts/1bAzC...
I’m sure MAGAs will still find a way to deny the facts, because they don’t care about justice, they care about white supremacy.
youtube.com/shorts/1bAzC...
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Heartbreaking ... it is important we don't look away from the genocide in Gaza
This is a ten minute video broken up into parts for Bluesky from two australian doctors who made it into Gaza. The video starts with them saying the baby formula they brought with them was taken away and that Israel bombing the hospital in front of them and lying about giving warnings
September 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Heartbreaking ... it is important we don't look away from the genocide in Gaza
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Trump wants Lindsey Halligan as US Attorney for the E.D. of VA.
Halligan spent 8 years defending insurance companies. In 2022 she joined Trump's legal team & is currently removing mentions of Black history from the Smithsonian.
She's NEVER tried a Federal Case.
This is MAGAs "meritocracy." smh
Halligan spent 8 years defending insurance companies. In 2022 she joined Trump's legal team & is currently removing mentions of Black history from the Smithsonian.
She's NEVER tried a Federal Case.
This is MAGAs "meritocracy." smh
September 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Trump wants Lindsey Halligan as US Attorney for the E.D. of VA.
Halligan spent 8 years defending insurance companies. In 2022 she joined Trump's legal team & is currently removing mentions of Black history from the Smithsonian.
She's NEVER tried a Federal Case.
This is MAGAs "meritocracy." smh
Halligan spent 8 years defending insurance companies. In 2022 she joined Trump's legal team & is currently removing mentions of Black history from the Smithsonian.
She's NEVER tried a Federal Case.
This is MAGAs "meritocracy." smh
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Trump's DOJ is reportedly considering dropping a criminal case against Boeing over two deadly 737 MAX crashes
Reminder that the Trump admin has halted or withdrawn enforcement actions against 130+ corporate offenders since inauguration day.
Is this being "tough on crime"?
Reminder that the Trump admin has halted or withdrawn enforcement actions against 130+ corporate offenders since inauguration day.
Is this being "tough on crime"?
May 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Trump's DOJ is reportedly considering dropping a criminal case against Boeing over two deadly 737 MAX crashes
Reminder that the Trump admin has halted or withdrawn enforcement actions against 130+ corporate offenders since inauguration day.
Is this being "tough on crime"?
Reminder that the Trump admin has halted or withdrawn enforcement actions against 130+ corporate offenders since inauguration day.
Is this being "tough on crime"?
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“Employees are requested to please notify” the EPA or the Office of Personnel Management “of any other agency office, sub-unit, personnel position description, contract, or program focusing exclusively on DEI.”
Nobody used the tip line.
Nobody used the tip line.
NEW: When Trump took office, the administration set up a tip line for employees to identify and assist in slashing programs focused on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.
Not one of the EPA’s more than 15,000 employees used it.
Not one of the EPA’s more than 15,000 employees used it.
Trump Asked EPA Employees to Snitch on Colleagues Working on DEI Initiatives. They Declined.
EPA staff didn’t use a tip line set up by the Trump administration to identify and assist in slashing programs focused on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.
www.propublica.org
May 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
“Employees are requested to please notify” the EPA or the Office of Personnel Management “of any other agency office, sub-unit, personnel position description, contract, or program focusing exclusively on DEI.”
Nobody used the tip line.
Nobody used the tip line.
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When will voters ever learn that the GOP is not the fiscally responsible party?
May 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
When will voters ever learn that the GOP is not the fiscally responsible party?
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Younger folks around here might shocked to learn that once upon a time Bill Clinton let a few campaign donors have a sleepover at the White House & the national media spent months treating it as the greatest scandal in the history of the republic
President Trump is quite literally selling seats to a private dinner and White House tours to foreign nationals for $4 million+ a piece.
Much of the money goes into his own pocket.
This is corruption to the highest degree.
Much of the money goes into his own pocket.
This is corruption to the highest degree.
May 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Younger folks around here might shocked to learn that once upon a time Bill Clinton let a few campaign donors have a sleepover at the White House & the national media spent months treating it as the greatest scandal in the history of the republic
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500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
May 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
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Obama wasn't born in America -> Haitians eat pets -> White Africans are the only deserving refugees
It's racist turtles all the way down.
It's racist turtles all the way down.
May 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Obama wasn't born in America -> Haitians eat pets -> White Africans are the only deserving refugees
It's racist turtles all the way down.
It's racist turtles all the way down.
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Trump is literally taking credit for things that were announced when Biden was still in office.
Jessica: We have big headlines, getting investment like $8.5 billion out of Qatar, that was already announced in 2023 and 2024. Abu Dhabi, he says $200 billion… announced during the Biden administration… He likes to show up and take credit for things other people did
May 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Trump is literally taking credit for things that were announced when Biden was still in office.
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I cannot tell you how much this infuriates me. Narcan saved my sibling's life once, giving us several more years with them. RFK's punishment in hell should be experiencing every medical hardship he inflicted on others, both present and future.
www.latintimes.com/rfk-jr-end-g...
www.latintimes.com/rfk-jr-end-g...
RFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin Addiction
Despite overcoming heroin addiction himself, RFK Jr. is backing plans to cut a critical Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths.
www.latintimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I cannot tell you how much this infuriates me. Narcan saved my sibling's life once, giving us several more years with them. RFK's punishment in hell should be experiencing every medical hardship he inflicted on others, both present and future.
www.latintimes.com/rfk-jr-end-g...
www.latintimes.com/rfk-jr-end-g...
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Not disagreeing. This is a good piece. It offers some grounded and useful advice for how to advance free thought and good values in today’s autocratic America.
But wow is it depressing. This is where we are at now. An autocratic America.
Still, we will fight on together.
But wow is it depressing. This is where we are at now. An autocratic America.
Still, we will fight on together.
Not sure of the paywall status with this but really enjoyed this piece in The New Yorker, assembling a practical guide to remaining fully American, even under Trump, w interviews from global dissident movements. Good stuff. www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
So You Want to Be a Dissident?
A practical guide to courage in Trump’s age of fear.
www.newyorker.com
April 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Not disagreeing. This is a good piece. It offers some grounded and useful advice for how to advance free thought and good values in today’s autocratic America.
But wow is it depressing. This is where we are at now. An autocratic America.
Still, we will fight on together.
But wow is it depressing. This is where we are at now. An autocratic America.
Still, we will fight on together.
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“As a 3 time Trump voter I think I'm legit off the Trump train now.”
“He doesn't care because he already won a second term. His "working class" supporters got scammed the hardest. RIP...”
#LeopardsAteMyFace
“He doesn't care because he already won a second term. His "working class" supporters got scammed the hardest. RIP...”
#LeopardsAteMyFace
April 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
“As a 3 time Trump voter I think I'm legit off the Trump train now.”
“He doesn't care because he already won a second term. His "working class" supporters got scammed the hardest. RIP...”
#LeopardsAteMyFace
“He doesn't care because he already won a second term. His "working class" supporters got scammed the hardest. RIP...”
#LeopardsAteMyFace
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Hats off to Maine’s Gov. Janet Mills. Unlike too many others, she refuses to bow to Trump. “I have spent the better part of my career listening to loud men talk tough to disguise their weakness,”.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
Maine Governor, Staring Down Trump, Says She Is Unfazed by ‘Loud Men’
Observers of her political rise — and some who have sparred with her — say Gov. Janet Mills’s refusal to bow to President Trump is right in character.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Hats off to Maine’s Gov. Janet Mills. Unlike too many others, she refuses to bow to Trump. “I have spent the better part of my career listening to loud men talk tough to disguise their weakness,”.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
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The NIH study section I'm serving on for student/postdoc fellowships has been rescheduled for late April (good). But the diversity fellowship apps have been eliminated from the review list (very bad). Extremely frustrating that they couldn't even be reclassified as standard fellowship apps.
March 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The NIH study section I'm serving on for student/postdoc fellowships has been rescheduled for late April (good). But the diversity fellowship apps have been eliminated from the review list (very bad). Extremely frustrating that they couldn't even be reclassified as standard fellowship apps.
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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Howard Lutnick saying that “No one but fraudsters would complain about missed Social Security check” is the modern equivalent of Marie Antoinette saying “Let Them Eat Cake”.
March 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Howard Lutnick saying that “No one but fraudsters would complain about missed Social Security check” is the modern equivalent of Marie Antoinette saying “Let Them Eat Cake”.
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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Ossoff: It was reported that dinner with the President is on sale for $5 million. The whole family is cashing in. Don Jr. is setting up a new business empire. Jared’s investment firm got $2 billion from the Saudi Royal Family. Like Hunter Biden should’ve been more ambitious
March 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Ossoff: It was reported that dinner with the President is on sale for $5 million. The whole family is cashing in. Don Jr. is setting up a new business empire. Jared’s investment firm got $2 billion from the Saudi Royal Family. Like Hunter Biden should’ve been more ambitious
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Important. Either Trump is so far gone mentally he doesn’t know what he’s doing, or people are acting in his name without his knowledge. This was an order with enormous implications, and the President of the United States says he didn’t do it.
President Donald Trump downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn't signed the proclamation, even as he stood by his administration's move.
Trump says he didn’t sign proclamation invoking Alien Enemies Act | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, e...
cnn.it
March 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Important. Either Trump is so far gone mentally he doesn’t know what he’s doing, or people are acting in his name without his knowledge. This was an order with enormous implications, and the President of the United States says he didn’t do it.
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Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.
(Published July 2024)
(Published July 2024)
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state…
propub.li
March 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.
(Published July 2024)
(Published July 2024)