Rachel DL
@racheldl.bsky.social
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Disabled cartoonist, journalist, and youth advocate based in Madison, WI. Comics and writing in The Washington Post, The Nib, Disability Visibility, Tone. #endyouthhomelessness Melt ICE 🧊 She/Her Website: https://www.racheldl.com/
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racheldl.bsky.social
Deep thanks to @desibility.bsky.social for working with me on this essay. I'm so happy to be given a space to talk about what the past 6 months have looked like me, from a long time in the hospital, losing my ability to walk, and now - although mostly trapped - home.
desibility.bsky.social
"My disabled life is not glamorous, nor is it particularly beautiful. This life is unbearably lonely, often painful, and filled with fear of the unknown about the future. But it deserves to be witnessed."

– Rachel Litchman on poverty and chronic illness

www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/forg...
Forgotten
Finding my own worth in a frightening shadow world
www.disabilitydebrief.org
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aljazeera.com
BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
blipstress.bsky.social
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
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vickyacab.bsky.social
Please, Ruaa is SO CLOSE to her goal, can you get her over the line? chuffed.org/project/...

itsmeio.bsky.social
Less than 900 only 🎉
itsmeio.bsky.social
We are in urgent need of protection and a safe place to live. We’re raising support to help us escape danger and rebuild our lives in safety. Every contribution, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to security and hope. 💛
kindly give :
#BringRuaaHome #SafetyForRuaa #HumanitarianAid
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giannamarie.bsky.social
I don’t rep GNs, but I’m really rooting for Rachel to get signed! I loved her recent essay in the Disability Debrief newsletter and would love to see more people have access to her art!
racheldl.bsky.social
18-yr-old Rachel wants to enjoy college like her peers–seemingly housing & food secure, with family. Instead, an ex-homeless runaway youth, Rachel is thrust into adulthood on her own. To survive, she must rebuild community & confront a dark secret at the root of her new independence. #DVpit #GN #DIS
Two graphic novel pages, representing rachel scribbling in a notebook a cartoon about food insecurity rachel at university health services, the doctor inquiring why she doesn't have health insurance
racheldl.bsky.social
Oh wow thanks! I’m really glad you enjoyed that essay! Thank you for sharing & thank you @desibility.bsky.social for editing & publishing it! May be in touch in the (distant) future if I ever have the spoons to attempt an essay collection.
racheldl.bsky.social
18-yr-old Rachel wants to enjoy college like her peers–seemingly housing & food secure, with family. Instead, an ex-homeless runaway youth, Rachel is thrust into adulthood on her own. To survive, she must rebuild community & confront a dark secret at the root of her new independence. #DVpit #GN #DIS
Two graphic novel pages, representing rachel scribbling in a notebook a cartoon about food insecurity rachel at university health services, the doctor inquiring why she doesn't have health insurance
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gbrockell.bsky.social
Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
racheldl.bsky.social
the #DVpit hashtag isn't working for me for some reason... anyone else?
racheldl.bsky.social
I feel like I've been down this exact one 😆
joydavenport.bsky.social
Chicago's alleyways are so good
photo of a neighborhood alleyway in Chicago in late afternoon
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altwatcher.bsky.social
The Alt National Park Service has spent months stealing from journalists, directly plagiarizing the work of others more than a hundred times.

With more than 4.3 million followers on Facebook and nearly 900k here on Bluesky, they've built a massive following on theft.
The "Alt National Park Service:" On Plagiarism, Part 1
The first in a three-part series.
jjoycelynch.substack.com
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bencollins.bsky.social
history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
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marcofoster.bsky.social
Mark Kelly: “lf you are undocumented in our country, you cannot get healthcare from the Affordable Care Act exchange. You are not eligible for Medicare. You are not eligible for Medicaid. They’re just making that up. They just like to blame brown people.”
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unraveledpress.com
The Sun-Times *is reporting these were live rounds* fired at a vehicle.

There's been much confusion in the immediate aftermath of this about whether whether they were that or pepper balls, and whether person in vehicle was hit by them. This is the most current info we have *at this time.*
Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities on Chicago's South Side
Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," prompting...
chicago.suntimes.com
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unraveledpress.com
Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition.

A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.
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ellenahzulu.bsky.social
There's a larger play going on. ICE/slumlord coordinated rousting of tenants, damaging/stealing their stuff, destroying the bldg. so it's uninhabitable--triggering legal emergency evictions, jacked-up insurance claims & sale to developers.
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sesmith.lol
You know who ELSE broke into people’s homes to terrorize them and steal their belongings…
kristinacooke.bsky.social
I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
tedhesson.bsky.social
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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itsmeio.bsky.social
Urgent! Need 800 for medicine today.
racheldl.bsky.social
Also boycott U-Haul for renting out their vans to these pigs
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itsmeio.bsky.social
Again We are truly the afflicted, yearning only to survive. If you recognize our right to survive as victims, please spend 50 for my family so we can evacuate befor time runs out. 😩

Here ⬇️⬇️
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lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social
OMB Director Russ Vought canceled billions in Energy Department funding to 16 states all of which voted for Kamala Harris. This isn't budget cuts, it's partisan punishment. Federal resources weaponized against Americans based on how their state voted. Authoritarianism in plain sight.
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