Rachel Eggers
@racheleggers.bsky.social
I turn Stuff into Things into That.
“I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.” –Zora Neale Hurston
“I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.” –Zora Neale Hurston
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
A 🧵 from Rick Steves, who remains the best.
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
🧵 1 of 9
🧵 1 of 9
December 21, 2025 at 4:39 AM
A 🧵 from Rick Steves, who remains the best.
🧵 about Christopher Anderson's (Vanity Fair) 2000 photojournalism in Haiti.
We're all on a sinking boat, always. *That's* when you make pictures. When you are aware of it and want to try to understand.
We're all on a sinking boat, always. *That's* when you make pictures. When you are aware of it and want to try to understand.
A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
December 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🧵 about Christopher Anderson's (Vanity Fair) 2000 photojournalism in Haiti.
We're all on a sinking boat, always. *That's* when you make pictures. When you are aware of it and want to try to understand.
We're all on a sinking boat, always. *That's* when you make pictures. When you are aware of it and want to try to understand.
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One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
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Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
Happy Muntadhar al-Zaidi Day to all those who celebrate! 👞👞
two men standing at podiums with flags behind them and a sign that says ap on it
Alt: A GIF of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar Al-Zaidi throwing both of his shoes at President George W. Bush during a press conference on December 14, 2008. He yelled, "This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog." He later served nine months in prison where he was tortured.
media.tenor.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Happy Muntadhar al-Zaidi Day to all those who celebrate! 👞👞
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
December 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
Cataloging and packing my books for a move; forgot I got a signed copy of Claudia Rankine's "Just Us" mailed from the virtual event (September 2020!). Check out this time capsule of a title verso page. Target: Not Getting a Dime of Mine Since January 2025.
December 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Cataloging and packing my books for a move; forgot I got a signed copy of Claudia Rankine's "Just Us" mailed from the virtual event (September 2020!). Check out this time capsule of a title verso page. Target: Not Getting a Dime of Mine Since January 2025.
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If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder
No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted.
www.thenation.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
brb joining Bong Joon Ho's army
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
brb joining Bong Joon Ho's army
I feel bad for our country. But this is tremendous THIRD AMENDMENT content. (!!!!!!)
Idk if I'm right. Here's what I think I'm seeing:
Police are using her lawn as a staging area. She wants them off. The say she's obstructing them and they'll arrest her. She keeps repeating that it's her property and she won't let them on it without a warrant.
They stay!
Police are using her lawn as a staging area. She wants them off. The say she's obstructing them and they'll arrest her. She keeps repeating that it's her property and she won't let them on it without a warrant.
They stay!
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I feel bad for our country. But this is tremendous THIRD AMENDMENT content. (!!!!!!)
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I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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And thus the hands of fate gifted us all
Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
And thus the hands of fate gifted us all
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When Frustration Threatens Desire, by Kerry James Marshall, 1990, 📸 by @drewhallowell
November 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
When Frustration Threatens Desire, by Kerry James Marshall, 1990, 📸 by @drewhallowell
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MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
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my wife just said "the larry summers of our discontent" and i had to sit down for a minute
August 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
my wife just said "the larry summers of our discontent" and i had to sit down for a minute
Just another woman ruining the workplace to the NYT.
This kind of bitter nonsense has to be taken as a badge of honor, I guess. We are winning and hit dogs are hollerin'
This kind of bitter nonsense has to be taken as a badge of honor, I guess. We are winning and hit dogs are hollerin'
Katie Wilson, Seattle’s next mayor, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing.
Seattle Elects a Left-Wing Mayor With a Light Résumé but Mamdani Appeal
Katie Wilson, who narrowly defeated the incumbent, Bruce Harrell, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing.
nyti.ms
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Just another woman ruining the workplace to the NYT.
This kind of bitter nonsense has to be taken as a badge of honor, I guess. We are winning and hit dogs are hollerin'
This kind of bitter nonsense has to be taken as a badge of honor, I guess. We are winning and hit dogs are hollerin'
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I never knew that my emails, filled to the brim with complete sentences and a coherent narrative, were such a work of art. I'm bout to start printing these out and hanging them on the walls.
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I never knew that my emails, filled to the brim with complete sentences and a coherent narrative, were such a work of art. I'm bout to start printing these out and hanging them on the walls.
When Michael Caine sells his voice to an AI company
November 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
When Michael Caine sells his voice to an AI company
"What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be."
@winterjessica.bsky.social on Scott Galloway BS etc.
@winterjessica.bsky.social on Scott Galloway BS etc.
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be."
@winterjessica.bsky.social on Scott Galloway BS etc.
@winterjessica.bsky.social on Scott Galloway BS etc.
"TURN THE VOLUME UP"
Whoever came up with that line is a legend
Whoever came up with that line is a legend
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
"TURN THE VOLUME UP"
Whoever came up with that line is a legend
Whoever came up with that line is a legend
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All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
As a treat I would like to watch The Daily Show’s coverage of the time Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face with birdshot during a quail hunt. What a time it was to be alive.
P.S.: Cheney was a war criminal who should have been held accountable rather than getting free hearts all over the place
P.S.: Cheney was a war criminal who should have been held accountable rather than getting free hearts all over the place
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
As a treat I would like to watch The Daily Show’s coverage of the time Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face with birdshot during a quail hunt. What a time it was to be alive.
P.S.: Cheney was a war criminal who should have been held accountable rather than getting free hearts all over the place
P.S.: Cheney was a war criminal who should have been held accountable rather than getting free hearts all over the place