Rachel Baxtresser
@rachelbaxtresser.bsky.social
Lawyer, wife, stay-at-home mom. Ice cream enthusiast. She/her.
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What he said I agree with.
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
September 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
What he said I agree with.
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Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
September 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
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Them: even if he dies, nothing with change
Me: except he’s dead and I’ll be glad he’s dead and everyone will be glad he’s dead. Now give me my tambourine back, Susan
Me: except he’s dead and I’ll be glad he’s dead and everyone will be glad he’s dead. Now give me my tambourine back, Susan
August 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Them: even if he dies, nothing with change
Me: except he’s dead and I’ll be glad he’s dead and everyone will be glad he’s dead. Now give me my tambourine back, Susan
Me: except he’s dead and I’ll be glad he’s dead and everyone will be glad he’s dead. Now give me my tambourine back, Susan
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This is Heritage Foundation Chief Economist EJ Antoni, Trump's new nominee for Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner.
And THAT is his Nazi battleship wall art/Zoom background.
And THAT is his Nazi battleship wall art/Zoom background.
August 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This is Heritage Foundation Chief Economist EJ Antoni, Trump's new nominee for Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner.
And THAT is his Nazi battleship wall art/Zoom background.
And THAT is his Nazi battleship wall art/Zoom background.
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THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
BEFORE SUNSET
CASABLANCA
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN
CONTACT
JURASSIC PARK
FINDING NEMO
THE BIRDCAGE
SEX LIES AND VIDEOTAPE
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
BEFORE SUNSET
CASABLANCA
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN
CONTACT
JURASSIC PARK
FINDING NEMO
THE BIRDCAGE
SEX LIES AND VIDEOTAPE
in your opinion, completely subjective, no metrics and no judgment, what are the best written movies of all time? I don't care if you have never seen a screenplay in your life, just which story itself is the most moving and complete and perfect to you?
August 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
BEFORE SUNSET
CASABLANCA
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN
CONTACT
JURASSIC PARK
FINDING NEMO
THE BIRDCAGE
SEX LIES AND VIDEOTAPE
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
BEFORE SUNSET
CASABLANCA
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN
CONTACT
JURASSIC PARK
FINDING NEMO
THE BIRDCAGE
SEX LIES AND VIDEOTAPE
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Are the Texas floods Biden’s Katrina?
July 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Are the Texas floods Biden’s Katrina?
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It's so weird how everyone who says they're "politically homeless" is a far right winger who lives in NY or CA and still wants to get invited to parties
July 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It's so weird how everyone who says they're "politically homeless" is a far right winger who lives in NY or CA and still wants to get invited to parties
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Is it because he’s a little bitch?
After deriding the massive price tag of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" for weeks, Sen. Mike Lee voted to pass it anyway. He isn't saying why.
Mike Lee thought the megabill was ‘debt slavery for the American people.’ He voted for it anyway.
After deriding the massive price tag of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" for weeks, Sen. Mike Lee voted to pass it anyway. He isn't saying why.
www.sltrib.com
July 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Is it because he’s a little bitch?
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We're going to need Nuremberg trials when this is over, yes, and to send a significant number of people currently in the federal government to prison. But we're going to need an unwavering commitment to ostracizing the supporters of it, as well. Never accept them again in polite society.
“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”
July 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
We're going to need Nuremberg trials when this is over, yes, and to send a significant number of people currently in the federal government to prison. But we're going to need an unwavering commitment to ostracizing the supporters of it, as well. Never accept them again in polite society.
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You don't have to like her but when she cooks she's Anthony Bourdain
June 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
You don't have to like her but when she cooks she's Anthony Bourdain
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stephen miller won't see your mean tweets about his appearance but your friends with lifeless eyes - black eyes, like a doll's eyes... and he doesn't seem to be livin until he bites ya and the black eyes roll over white - will
June 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
stephen miller won't see your mean tweets about his appearance but your friends with lifeless eyes - black eyes, like a doll's eyes... and he doesn't seem to be livin until he bites ya and the black eyes roll over white - will
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It’s part of habeas corpus.
I have yet to see anybody explain how it's legal for the US government to simply slap a tariff on an individual company
May 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It’s part of habeas corpus.
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And only Luigi is being charged with murder
May 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
And only Luigi is being charged with murder
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This is a definitive refutation of any idea of a deliberate coverup of Biden cognitive decline.
Remember: It was *his own staff* the pushed for the earliest presidential debate in decades because they were so confident his performance would jolt the race in his direction! This was obviously a colossal miscalculation but also that's in some considerable tension with the cover-up framing.
May 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is a definitive refutation of any idea of a deliberate coverup of Biden cognitive decline.
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THIS THIS THIS
put all that cash into alt weeklies in every city so they can keep politics reporters employed
put all that cash into alt weeklies in every city so they can keep politics reporters employed
You don't want to build a liberal news giant (swing voters don't read much political news) you want to build a bunch of just local trusted places which every year do an endorsement list for every elected office.
May 21, 2025 at 5:58 AM
THIS THIS THIS
put all that cash into alt weeklies in every city so they can keep politics reporters employed
put all that cash into alt weeklies in every city so they can keep politics reporters employed
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eat shit, fascists
So therefore the court finds that she does not pose danger to community or present risk of flight.
THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY.
"Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."
THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY.
"Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."
May 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
eat shit, fascists
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My dude, you ruled that he was free to commit as many crimes as he wants.
Chief Justice John Roberts tonight spoke about how an independent judiciary has to "check the excesses" of the president:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Chief Justice John Roberts defends independent judiciary as Trump officials criticize courts
Speaking in Buffalo, the Supreme Court justice said judges sometimes have to "check the excesses" of the president and Congress.
www.nbcnews.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
My dude, you ruled that he was free to commit as many crimes as he wants.
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World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
wck.org
May 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
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From this column for @haaretzcom.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
From this column for @haaretzcom.bsky.social
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love how every time I see the word “woke” I get to be reminded that for maybe eight whole months out of the entire time I’ve been alive, making an effort to be kind to one another was trendy, and now we’re all going to spend the rest of our lives being punished for it
May 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
love how every time I see the word “woke” I get to be reminded that for maybe eight whole months out of the entire time I’ve been alive, making an effort to be kind to one another was trendy, and now we’re all going to spend the rest of our lives being punished for it
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Opinion | American students must be taught that communist Soviet system was wrong and evil. Here’s why I support food rationing in Trump’s command economy.
May 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Opinion | American students must be taught that communist Soviet system was wrong and evil. Here’s why I support food rationing in Trump’s command economy.
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can't spell tariffs without ffs
April 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
can't spell tariffs without ffs
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Too bad. Nine strong questions and Trump would have broke.
Schumer on the Democratic response to Trump's shakedown of Harvard: "We sent him a very strong letter just the other day asking eight very strong questions."
April 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Too bad. Nine strong questions and Trump would have broke.
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these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism
April 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.