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Rachel Haimowitz

@rachelhaimowitz.bsky.social

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Restorative market farmer & genre novelist. Owner of @riptidepublishing.bsky.social and Healthy Plantet Homestead. Jersey gal transplant to WNC. Proudly Jewish (free Palestine!), queer, & AudDHD. She/her.

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Rachel Haimowitz @rachelhaimowitz.bsky.social · Jun 22

A long thread of #lgbtq romance novels I love across genres and pairings :)

Rachel Haimowitz @rachelhaimowitz.bsky.social · Jun 22

Ok so all of these are @riptidepublishing.bsky.social books because that's where I work and so what I've widely read, and also the quality there is just *chef's kiss*

Fluff: Are You Kitten Me by Quinn Anderson. F/F contemp: Night Life by @sjhartsfield.bsky.social.

Cover art for Are You Kitten Me by Quinn Anderson. Two young men lying beneath a white blanket with pastel pawprints on it, the top halves of their faces peeking out. Between them is an orange cat, also with the top half of its face peeking out.

Cover art for Night Life by SJ Hartsfield, featuring a drawing of a city skyline against a starry night. The windows in the skyscrapers are in the colors of the bisexual flag (pink, purple, blue), and one set of windows forms a heart.

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 15h

If you're the praying sort, throw one up for Dolly Parton. Word is she's not doing well, and fuck, this world needs her goodness in it for a while longer.

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Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 21h

ICE, who spends their days abusing, kidnapping, & dragging crying children from their homes in the dark of night to zip tie them, are being denied service at restaurants in Chicago..........monsters should always be denied service.

#Pinks

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21h

Woman shot by ICE has been released from custody, body cam footage revealed an agent saying
"do something bitch" while holding his rifle at her

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

www.wbez.org

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 21h

INBOX: The Chicago News Guild joined others in suing ICE for attacking journalists at the Broadview facility.

“Our members have a right, protected by the First Amendment, to do their jobs and report the news. They should not be targeted, injured or arrested for doing their jobs.”

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 21h

Actually, it really matters whether your electeds are progressive. We are often frustrated on the left at what electeds can deliver, but we have to remember moments like this. Paul Vallas would NOT have created ICE free zones.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 1d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE

Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

thetriibe.com

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Adrian Teal @tealcartoons.bsky.social · 22h

Studies of contemptible little turd Lindsey Graham.

#caricature #art

Six caricature head studies of Lindsey Graham, from various angles.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

MORE: You can find live video of press coverage of this situation, in which media confirms that rubber bullets are being fired at peaceful protesters who are not trespassing. It's merely unfettered fascist violence being unloaded on Americans for the crime of exercising their First Amendment rights.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

MORE: Minutes after this happened, video emerged of ICE officers on the roof of a facility in Portland firing rubber bullets at protesters outside the facility—not on facility grounds—who were merely standing and looking at the building.

No violence, no crimes, no disruptions. They were fired upon.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Stephen Miller—both Trump Administration capo and de facto head of DHS, ICE, and DOJ, has just declared that peaceful protesters are "street terrorists." Under an executive order signed by Trump just days ago, that means he is saying that all protesters in America can be arrested on sight.

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Rachel Haimowitz @rachelhaimowitz.bsky.social · 1d

I know it's vanishingly unlikely this cop will face any consequences for this egregiously unnecessary use of force, but I think it's important that we keep pointing out how ILLEGAL this all is anyway. It's happening so often people might just... assume otherwise. Don't let them normalize this.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 3d

Either the police are mighty and fearless warriors, or they’re scared enough of a sassy 20-something woman to unload a canister of pepper spray in her face from 2 feet away, but they cannot be both.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 1d

Police violence is rooted in cowardice. Every time. This was not the action of a man who is brave, honorable or good. And unfortunately, this kind of low-quality character is more common than not. Why must we pay for cowards to harm our citizens?

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 3d

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 1d

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 1d

I hard co-sign this one.

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 1d

Bed [4/4]

The crow is adrift in comfort. A caption reads: sleep can't fix all the kinds of tired you feel. Build or find that wondrous snooze nest anyways!

The crow emerges from the thick blankets after a snooze. The caption reads: Because after sleep... it's always a new day.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Miller, basically: "How dare you evil, America-hating communist antifa insurrectionist domestic terrorists call us bad names. And if you scumbag cockroach enemies of the state DO call us bad names, any violence that occurs anywhere in the country is your fault."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

CNN: Isn't that hyperbolic to call them terrorists?

STEPHEN MILLER: No. If anything I'm understating the severity of the situation

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

trib.al

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

The America First movement was tired of seeing American troops deployed in foreign countries. We want them deployed in America First.

by Stephen Miller

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Great LakesQ @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social · 1d

Here are the signs that will go up around #Chicago

Great reporting @thetriibe.com

City of Chicago sign that says "This property is owned and/or controlled by the City of Chicago. It may not be used for Civil Immigration Enforcement as a: Staging area, processing location or operations base."

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Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 8d

I sure am glad we have a president who will send a pilot making $80k/yr to kill a Colombian fisherman making $3k/yr in a boat worth $500 with a missile that costs $1,000,000 to keep the public from learning about all the times he sexually assaulted underage human trafficking victims.

#Epstein

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 16d

Get in losers, we’re grieving

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 15d

my favorite step in the scientific method: gossip

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15d

Trump: There's a rumor and I don't know if it's so or not—that Cuba, they don't have tylenol because they don't have the money for tylenol, and they have virtually no autism

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 2d

Cartoon-woman on the street begging for money because she can’t afford groceries. Trump taking the money from her hat, thinking “thanks, I need a $200 million ballroom.”

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Miller in Canada 🦋🇨🇦 @sueinkelowna.bsky.social · 2d

This is America now.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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