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Racheline Maltese

@racheline.bsky.social

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Award-winning romance author writing happily ever afters about difficult people with complicated lives. SAG-AFTRA. Figure skater. Former journalist/media analyst.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · Aug 25

This was definitely how A QUEEN FROM THE NORTH got built. A defaced government poster about unity in a train station. It opened up the whole plot to us before we even knew what we were about https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XBPDJPM?ref=KC_GS_GB_US

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 1h

Met life-long friends, met people I consider family, got my professional writing career started, met my wife

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 15h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 1h

Dolly’s good, yall!

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 6h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 1h

Currenrt least pleasant part of competition prep: skating at rinks I don’t know well or don’t like so I can get desensitized to being on unfamiliar ice. Actually working but brrrrrr yucky.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 1h

In no particular order:
Maitre Gimms
John Darnielle
EmmyLou Harris

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 2d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 2h

This is statistically absolutely wild. Helicopters are death traps.

Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 2h

A couple of nights ago a helicopter crashed onto a freeway in Sacramento and managed to hit a patch without cars. The cars all stopped in time. Folks jumped out and found out that all three of the passengers were alive. The helicopter was on one so they lifted it off.
Wow.
youtu.be/AyqeKzWklEI?...

Bystanders help lift helicopter off injured paramedic after crash onto Sacramento highway

YouTube video by ABC7 News Bay Area

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 9h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 3h

At least 6 unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents since September: 2 have been released, while the status of the remaining 4 is unknown. But the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness is investigating reports of an additional 19 people disappeared.

chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...

Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community

Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.

chicagoreader.com

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 3h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Rose/T.A. Summers @rosepetals1984.bsky.social · 3h

Look, I'll admit I'm on the outside of this looking in, but if the Pope is saying/doing something in the mess that a certain president is creating, that's a pretty big deal.

Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · 4h

The pope has instructed U.S. bishops to take a stronger public stand against the president’s hardline immigration policies

Pope Leo Ramps Up His Trump Feud With Order to American Bishops

The Chicago-born pontiff has sharpened his criticism of the Trump administration and reportedly decided to take action.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 3h

My 80-year-old mother regularly walks that route instead of taking that bus because she’s faster than it!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

projects.propublica.org

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 20h

Whatever that praying means for you, get it done. That includes scientifically cheering for her wellbeing. Don’t fuss about it, just make good thoughts for a good woman.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 21h

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 22h

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 1d

New POLITICO report: Trump admin is “exploring options to sell parts of the government’s $1.6T student loan portfolio to the private market.”

We're announcing our willingness to purchase the portfolio for its market value. We will then subsequently cancel the debt.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt

The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

www.politico.com

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 1d

Options that are less toxic include “discredited practice”

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 1d

I am begging journalists to stop using “discredited therapy” re “conversion therapy” as it merely implies that it doesn’t work vs pushing back against the implication that queerness is a mental disorder (they took it out of the DSM ages) and is something that should be ‘corrected.’

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

it takes a windmill 27.7 hours to generate one transgender athlete

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 1d

With an inflatable frog.

Fuck this lying bastard.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"

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