rainiersixpac
@rainiersixpac.bsky.social
Lover of WA, music, movies, art, travel, animals and politics.
Twi fan and AT alum. Where’s my peeps?
Twi fan and AT alum. Where’s my peeps?
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Tweet of the Day! 🏆
Idiocracy was unrealistic only because we got dumber quicker than the movie anticipated
Trump: "On June 14 next year we're gonna have a big UFC fight at the White House, right at the White House, on the grounds of the White House."
October 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Tweet of the Day! 🏆
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I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
September 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
trump is this close to talking about losing the ‘rigged’ election at all times. It’s all he thinks about. He can barely tamp it down to discuss anything else.
August 19, 2025 at 2:11 AM
trump is this close to talking about losing the ‘rigged’ election at all times. It’s all he thinks about. He can barely tamp it down to discuss anything else.
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ALERT: Emil Bove declines to rule out 3rd Trump term or denounce Jan. 6 rioters in Senate questionnaire, as he seeks lifetime appointment to federal court
Just filed ====>
www.cbsnews.com/news/emil-bo...
Just filed ====>
www.cbsnews.com/news/emil-bo...
Emil Bove declines to rule out 3rd Trump term or denounce Jan. 6 rioters in Senate questionnaire
Emil Bove declined to rule out the possibility of a third Trump term and did not denounce the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in a questionnaire submitted to a Senate panel.
www.cbsnews.com
July 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
ALERT: Emil Bove declines to rule out 3rd Trump term or denounce Jan. 6 rioters in Senate questionnaire, as he seeks lifetime appointment to federal court
Just filed ====>
www.cbsnews.com/news/emil-bo...
Just filed ====>
www.cbsnews.com/news/emil-bo...
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Trump's imposition of a "$1 spending limit on government credit cards... was done apparently with no knowledge of how essential the cards are to operations. There was no mechanism, for example, to pay for gas for vehicles used to transport patients’ blood samples..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science
Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Trump's imposition of a "$1 spending limit on government credit cards... was done apparently with no knowledge of how essential the cards are to operations. There was no mechanism, for example, to pay for gas for vehicles used to transport patients’ blood samples..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
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"At the N.I.H.’s hospital devoted to clinical research on its Bethesda campus" Trump's firings "included the staff of the intensive care unit and members of the code blue team that responds when a patient has a cardiac arrest..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science
Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"At the N.I.H.’s hospital devoted to clinical research on its Bethesda campus" Trump's firings "included the staff of the intensive care unit and members of the code blue team that responds when a patient has a cardiac arrest..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
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The ACA was cool because before the ACA you could hit your lifetime maximum before you were a month old and be denied insurance for the rest of your life and after the ACA that’s illegal.
March 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The ACA was cool because before the ACA you could hit your lifetime maximum before you were a month old and be denied insurance for the rest of your life and after the ACA that’s illegal.
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All you need to know about Twitter
March 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
All you need to know about Twitter
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NEW: Erdogan has banned protests in Turkey. He has threatened to arrest anyone attending one.
This is the people’s response.
Fighting for their democracy with another vast gathering in Istanbul tonight. #Turkey 🇹🇷
(🎥 Credit: Özgür Özel - Chairman, Republican People’s Party)
This is the people’s response.
Fighting for their democracy with another vast gathering in Istanbul tonight. #Turkey 🇹🇷
(🎥 Credit: Özgür Özel - Chairman, Republican People’s Party)
March 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
NEW: Erdogan has banned protests in Turkey. He has threatened to arrest anyone attending one.
This is the people’s response.
Fighting for their democracy with another vast gathering in Istanbul tonight. #Turkey 🇹🇷
(🎥 Credit: Özgür Özel - Chairman, Republican People’s Party)
This is the people’s response.
Fighting for their democracy with another vast gathering in Istanbul tonight. #Turkey 🇹🇷
(🎥 Credit: Özgür Özel - Chairman, Republican People’s Party)
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🚨I converted the list of terminated #NIH grants (as of 3/22) into a google sheet. I added activity codes and award jurisdictions (see tabs for grant count and $ by each). Note this HHS list likely does not include all planned/completed terminations as of this date.🚨 Please use, share and distribute!
March 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
🚨I converted the list of terminated #NIH grants (as of 3/22) into a google sheet. I added activity codes and award jurisdictions (see tabs for grant count and $ by each). Note this HHS list likely does not include all planned/completed terminations as of this date.🚨 Please use, share and distribute!
Probably a bigger issue than most people realize.
‘Department of Defense ordered NPR and other news organizations to give up their offices at the Pentagon. Breitbart News will occupy NPR’s space.’
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/npr-...
‘Department of Defense ordered NPR and other news organizations to give up their offices at the Pentagon. Breitbart News will occupy NPR’s space.’
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/npr-...
NPR faces a real threat in defunding fight that’s coming | Opinion
NPR has always been a source of ground-breaking journalistic practices and superb reporting. In mounting a defense, it should look back at its wins and losses.
www.seattletimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Probably a bigger issue than most people realize.
‘Department of Defense ordered NPR and other news organizations to give up their offices at the Pentagon. Breitbart News will occupy NPR’s space.’
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/npr-...
‘Department of Defense ordered NPR and other news organizations to give up their offices at the Pentagon. Breitbart News will occupy NPR’s space.’
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/npr-...
Are your parents in elder care housing? You may need to find new space for them soon-many of these folks work as attendants, etc.
ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-revoke...
ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-revoke...
Trump revokes legal status for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a ...
ca.news.yahoo.com
March 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Are your parents in elder care housing? You may need to find new space for them soon-many of these folks work as attendants, etc.
ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-revoke...
ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-revoke...
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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It is impossible to capture how catastrophic Trump’s recent moves and statements are for US defense contractors—this will have a huge trickle-down industrial effect given supply chains and subcontractors.
March 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It is impossible to capture how catastrophic Trump’s recent moves and statements are for US defense contractors—this will have a huge trickle-down industrial effect given supply chains and subcontractors.
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People don’t get that you can’t really crowdsource long term care for terminally ill people or those who need assisted living.
These systems were in place for a reason and they already weren’t properly funded. The levels of disaster we’re facing is beyond comprehension.
These systems were in place for a reason and they already weren’t properly funded. The levels of disaster we’re facing is beyond comprehension.
March 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
People don’t get that you can’t really crowdsource long term care for terminally ill people or those who need assisted living.
These systems were in place for a reason and they already weren’t properly funded. The levels of disaster we’re facing is beyond comprehension.
These systems were in place for a reason and they already weren’t properly funded. The levels of disaster we’re facing is beyond comprehension.
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If you beat a Capitol police officer with their own shield in an effort to overturn a free & fair election, you go free, but if you vandalize an electric car, you get 20 years in an infamously brutal El Salvadoran prison.
March 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
If you beat a Capitol police officer with their own shield in an effort to overturn a free & fair election, you go free, but if you vandalize an electric car, you get 20 years in an infamously brutal El Salvadoran prison.
Trump taking unearned credit, again. Rewriting history.
I give this sign hours, not days.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
I give this sign hours, not days.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Signs of the shameless times pop up in Seattle
Signs in the Sodo neighborhood suggesting an infrastructure project is due to the leadership of President Trump beg a question: Can simple signs alter reality?
www.seattletimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Trump taking unearned credit, again. Rewriting history.
I give this sign hours, not days.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
I give this sign hours, not days.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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After Trump narrowly won Wisconsin in 2016, then-Attorney General Brad Schimel said the state's new strict voter IDs made the margin of difference for Trump.
Now, Schimel is running to join the state supreme court, flip to conservatives, & uphold GOP voting laws:
boltsmag.org/wisconsin-20...
Now, Schimel is running to join the state supreme court, flip to conservatives, & uphold GOP voting laws:
boltsmag.org/wisconsin-20...
A Supreme Court Race May Shuffle the Rules of Wisconsin's Democracy, Again - Bolts
T.R. Edwards grew up with stories from his grandmother Kathleen about her struggle to vote as a Black woman in Wisconsin: A child of the Jim Crow south, she’d moved... Read More
boltsmag.org
March 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
After Trump narrowly won Wisconsin in 2016, then-Attorney General Brad Schimel said the state's new strict voter IDs made the margin of difference for Trump.
Now, Schimel is running to join the state supreme court, flip to conservatives, & uphold GOP voting laws:
boltsmag.org/wisconsin-20...
Now, Schimel is running to join the state supreme court, flip to conservatives, & uphold GOP voting laws:
boltsmag.org/wisconsin-20...
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Pritzker: The question I ask is: if you’re willing to hand the keys to Europe over to Putin, what’s next? How does the US retain its leadership in the world when he’s essentially retreating to our own borders? He’s even made enemies of the Canadians—I can’t imagine anything more telling than that.
March 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Pritzker: The question I ask is: if you’re willing to hand the keys to Europe over to Putin, what’s next? How does the US retain its leadership in the world when he’s essentially retreating to our own borders? He’s even made enemies of the Canadians—I can’t imagine anything more telling than that.
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It won’t make up for the loss of science funding and positions in the US, but other countries would be stupid not to try to lure American scientists to their institutions right now.
Netherlands launches fund to lure top scientists, like those fleeing the U.S.
As political pressures and funding cuts drive some researchers out of the United States, the Netherlands is moving to position itself as a refuge for top scientific talent. Education Minister Eppo Bru...
nltimes.nl
March 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
It won’t make up for the loss of science funding and positions in the US, but other countries would be stupid not to try to lure American scientists to their institutions right now.
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Trump's Commerce Secretary went on FOX to tell Americans to buy Tesla stock.
Tesla's Elon Musk spent $$ HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS to get Trump elected.
Has corruption EVER been this blatant in American history?
Tesla's Elon Musk spent $$ HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS to get Trump elected.
Has corruption EVER been this blatant in American history?
March 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Trump's Commerce Secretary went on FOX to tell Americans to buy Tesla stock.
Tesla's Elon Musk spent $$ HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS to get Trump elected.
Has corruption EVER been this blatant in American history?
Tesla's Elon Musk spent $$ HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS to get Trump elected.
Has corruption EVER been this blatant in American history?
Demented. Completely
Trump is using kids sitting at school desks as props as he eliminates the Department of Education
March 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Demented. Completely