Rachel Payne
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Rachel Payne
@rachelpayne.bsky.social
· Jul 25
Let Gaza live
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They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
"The Department of Homeland Security plans to pause operations in Chicago — where Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official, has led controversial arrest efforts — to support the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota."
Trump Administration Deploying More Border Patrol Agents to Minnesota
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:17 PM
They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
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This isn't a series of independent zero-sum games.
We don't need to win every battle. We do need to exact a price every time they raid our communities.
Reduce harm as much as you can. Make sure they leave more weary than they came.
Trust that comrades in other cities will pick up the baton.
We don't need to win every battle. We do need to exact a price every time they raid our communities.
Reduce harm as much as you can. Make sure they leave more weary than they came.
Trust that comrades in other cities will pick up the baton.
January 8, 2026 at 10:21 PM
This isn't a series of independent zero-sum games.
We don't need to win every battle. We do need to exact a price every time they raid our communities.
Reduce harm as much as you can. Make sure they leave more weary than they came.
Trust that comrades in other cities will pick up the baton.
We don't need to win every battle. We do need to exact a price every time they raid our communities.
Reduce harm as much as you can. Make sure they leave more weary than they came.
Trust that comrades in other cities will pick up the baton.
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dark times ahead. but we are going to win.
January 9, 2026 at 2:31 AM
dark times ahead. but we are going to win.
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Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!
January 8, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!
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Telling people that they should be scared doesn't usually motivate them to take constructive action. It's more likely to make them more reactionary.
January 7, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Telling people that they should be scared doesn't usually motivate them to take constructive action. It's more likely to make them more reactionary.
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I'm old enough to remember when the right wing pretended to care about academic freedom
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:18 PM
I'm old enough to remember when the right wing pretended to care about academic freedom
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Heat pumps *and* balcony solar.
This is the way to start the new year! thank you @scottwiener.bsky.social Senator Wiener!
This is the way to start the new year! thank you @scottwiener.bsky.social Senator Wiener!
I'm so excited to be introducing TWO new energy affordability bills today!
January 6, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Heat pumps *and* balcony solar.
This is the way to start the new year! thank you @scottwiener.bsky.social Senator Wiener!
This is the way to start the new year! thank you @scottwiener.bsky.social Senator Wiener!
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🌊 Microplastics are undermining the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/micropl...
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/micropl...
Microplastics are undermining the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon - Oceanographic
Research reveals microplastics may impair the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide, weakening a natural buffer against climate change.
oceanographicmagazine.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:42 PM
🌊 Microplastics are undermining the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/micropl...
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/micropl...
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Reposted by Rachel Payne
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
January 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
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Wind, solar, and electric vehicles made huge strides in 2025.
For the first time, wind and solar supplied more power than coal worldwide, while EVs accounted for more than a quarter of new car sales.
For the first time, wind and solar supplied more power than coal worldwide, while EVs accounted for more than a quarter of new car sales.
A Year of Clean Energy Breakthroughs
Even as the Trump administration rolled back support for renewable energy in the U.S., wind, solar, and electric vehicles made huge strides globally in 2025. For the first time, wind and solar supplied more power than coal worldwide, while plug-in vehicles accounted for more than a quarter of new car sales.
e360.yale.edu
January 5, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Wind, solar, and electric vehicles made huge strides in 2025.
For the first time, wind and solar supplied more power than coal worldwide, while EVs accounted for more than a quarter of new car sales.
For the first time, wind and solar supplied more power than coal worldwide, while EVs accounted for more than a quarter of new car sales.
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The silence from many media-hyped 2028 contenders today is shocking.
If you cannot oppose this regime change war for oil, you don't have the moral clarity or guts to lead our party or nation.
If you cannot oppose this regime change war for oil, you don't have the moral clarity or guts to lead our party or nation.
January 4, 2026 at 12:07 AM
The silence from many media-hyped 2028 contenders today is shocking.
If you cannot oppose this regime change war for oil, you don't have the moral clarity or guts to lead our party or nation.
If you cannot oppose this regime change war for oil, you don't have the moral clarity or guts to lead our party or nation.
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Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become
1
They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
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"We make our own sacred spaces — spaces on no maps — through repeated rituals of resistance whose meanings stretch beyond borders. Because our “grief knows no borders.”"
Another vital offering from @cbmilstein.bsky.social which is well worth the time. 💜
Another vital offering from @cbmilstein.bsky.social which is well worth the time. 💜
Today is the official start of my season to urge the abolition of Xtian supremacist holidays.
Reclaim sacred, heretical, liberatory spiritual practices, stolen for 500+ yrs by colonialism, capitalism, states & yes, Christianity.
itsgoingdown.org/ritual-as-re...
kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...
Reclaim sacred, heretical, liberatory spiritual practices, stolen for 500+ yrs by colonialism, capitalism, states & yes, Christianity.
itsgoingdown.org/ritual-as-re...
kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...
Cindy Milstein (they) (@[email protected])
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Today is the official start of my season to encourage the abolition of Xtian supremacist holidays.
Let’s reclaim our sacred, heretical, liberatory spiritual practices, stolen for ...
kolektiva.social
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"We make our own sacred spaces — spaces on no maps — through repeated rituals of resistance whose meanings stretch beyond borders. Because our “grief knows no borders.”"
Another vital offering from @cbmilstein.bsky.social which is well worth the time. 💜
Another vital offering from @cbmilstein.bsky.social which is well worth the time. 💜
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This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
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'Tis the season of New Year's resolutions! But, if you, like me, are guessing that 2026 will be full of uncertainty and disruption I'd offer a slight twist. Think about how, in the year to come, you can invest in your coping capacity.
December 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
'Tis the season of New Year's resolutions! But, if you, like me, are guessing that 2026 will be full of uncertainty and disruption I'd offer a slight twist. Think about how, in the year to come, you can invest in your coping capacity.
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If I was to set an intention on this Hogmanay, it would be a continuation rather than a resolution. To aim to move within my various environments with intention, care, self-reflection, and compassion, in a way which hopefully nurtures ripples into the wider world. 💜 Lang may yer lum reek. 💜
December 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
If I was to set an intention on this Hogmanay, it would be a continuation rather than a resolution. To aim to move within my various environments with intention, care, self-reflection, and compassion, in a way which hopefully nurtures ripples into the wider world. 💜 Lang may yer lum reek. 💜
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Recent survey data show that Americans have lost their faith in the future.
Socialism can restore it.
Socialism can restore it.
Socialism Should Give Us Hope for Tomorrow
Recent survey data show that Americans have lost their faith in the future. Socialism can restore it.
jacobin.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Recent survey data show that Americans have lost their faith in the future.
Socialism can restore it.
Socialism can restore it.
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Woody Guthrie’s New Year's resolutions for 1943.
“Wake up and fight.”
“Wake up and fight.”
December 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Woody Guthrie’s New Year's resolutions for 1943.
“Wake up and fight.”
“Wake up and fight.”
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More of this in 2026, please!
Meanwhile in Ottawa part deux: ottawacitizen.com/news/uber-to... a very cute story
Ottawa man takes his Uber driver tobogganing for first time
Dave Nguyen discovered his Uber driver, Chance Niryomugabo, had never been tobogganing. A few days later, the two new friends were ripping down the Charlie Rogers Place hill in Kanata
ottawacitizen.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
More of this in 2026, please!
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👥 [who] You, me, and hundreds more
🚪 [what] Tax the rich field op
👶🏽 [why] For universal childcare
🗓️ [when] Sat, Jan 10 @ 12-3pm
✍🏽 [how] ourtime.nyc/act/events
Organized by @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social + @socialists.nyc
🚪 [what] Tax the rich field op
👶🏽 [why] For universal childcare
🗓️ [when] Sat, Jan 10 @ 12-3pm
✍🏽 [how] ourtime.nyc/act/events
Organized by @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social + @socialists.nyc
![Screenshot of the "Events" page from Our Time's website (ourtime [dot] nyc).
On the left is a column of text in a color scheme resembling that used by the Zohran for NYC campaign; this column of text lists, by neighborhood, the specific canvassing events planned for Sunday, January 10, 2026.
On the right is a map of New York City in light gray, with balloon-shaped icons in blue denoting the locations of the canvassing events; there are 15 such icons visible, with the greatest number clustered in Brooklyn but at least one in each borough.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qjwdvmjdkvtjffx6ju2j4fy5/bafkreiezfbzxm7xnqafhnr3actc7yugbl5ccca2w6hdjzx2pnkxqngviwu@jpeg)
December 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
👥 [who] You, me, and hundreds more
🚪 [what] Tax the rich field op
👶🏽 [why] For universal childcare
🗓️ [when] Sat, Jan 10 @ 12-3pm
✍🏽 [how] ourtime.nyc/act/events
Organized by @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social + @socialists.nyc
🚪 [what] Tax the rich field op
👶🏽 [why] For universal childcare
🗓️ [when] Sat, Jan 10 @ 12-3pm
✍🏽 [how] ourtime.nyc/act/events
Organized by @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social + @socialists.nyc
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WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people.
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people.
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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[Just to painfully spell it out for those not paying attention...What they're "sometimes disagreeing" on that Jew-controlled drones have no tolerance for is e.g. whether the Holocaust happened]
JD Vance: "Wouldn't you rather lead a movement of freethinkers who sometimes disagree than a bunch of drones who take their orders from George Soros?"
December 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
[Just to painfully spell it out for those not paying attention...What they're "sometimes disagreeing" on that Jew-controlled drones have no tolerance for is e.g. whether the Holocaust happened]
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Oh, look there: an editorial-interference canary.
December 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Oh, look there: an editorial-interference canary.
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"Among the crowd was a 17-year-old high school student from Astoria who attended P.S. 166.
'Kids shouldn’t be kidnapped,' he said. 'I used to go to 166 and want to show up because I hate seeing this happen in my neighborhood, in my school and in my country'...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/n...
'Kids shouldn’t be kidnapped,' he said. 'I used to go to 166 and want to show up because I hate seeing this happen in my neighborhood, in my school and in my country'...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/n...
Hundreds Rally for Boy, 6, Who Was Separated From His Father by ICE
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"Among the crowd was a 17-year-old high school student from Astoria who attended P.S. 166.
'Kids shouldn’t be kidnapped,' he said. 'I used to go to 166 and want to show up because I hate seeing this happen in my neighborhood, in my school and in my country'...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/n...
'Kids shouldn’t be kidnapped,' he said. 'I used to go to 166 and want to show up because I hate seeing this happen in my neighborhood, in my school and in my country'...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/n...