Rachel Votes Blue
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President Biden fought for student loan borrowers and made it possible to have their debt forgiven.
Meanwhile the MAGA regime says they will start garnishing paychecks from borrowers who are in default aka raiding people’s bank accounts.
They are not the same.
Meanwhile the MAGA regime says they will start garnishing paychecks from borrowers who are in default aka raiding people’s bank accounts.
They are not the same.
December 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
President Biden fought for student loan borrowers and made it possible to have their debt forgiven.
Meanwhile the MAGA regime says they will start garnishing paychecks from borrowers who are in default aka raiding people’s bank accounts.
They are not the same.
Meanwhile the MAGA regime says they will start garnishing paychecks from borrowers who are in default aka raiding people’s bank accounts.
They are not the same.
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These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
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Try to live your life in such a way that you don't get fascist techniques named after you.
Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand.
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
December 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Try to live your life in such a way that you don't get fascist techniques named after you.
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The point was never to save money. That was only ever a convenient justification for an effort to decimate the public sector and dismantle the US social safety net.
On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The point was never to save money. That was only ever a convenient justification for an effort to decimate the public sector and dismantle the US social safety net.
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The US government has deported a US citizen with a Maryland birth certificate they claim is fake.
This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.
This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.
bit.ly
December 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The US government has deported a US citizen with a Maryland birth certificate they claim is fake.
This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.
This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.
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Sean Duffy says he'll spend money as he likes, and if you live in a state that opposes Trump and the GOP, you're not seeing any of it.
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Sean Duffy says he'll spend money as he likes, and if you live in a state that opposes Trump and the GOP, you're not seeing any of it.
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The current crop of fascists don’t just ignore the veil of ignorance, they fail to understand it even when it’s slapped in their faces
In our deep dive into Stephen Miller, we report that Miller praised Coolidge's 1924 restrictions even though an unpublished history of Miller's ancestry authored by his grandmother explicitly talked about how it closed the door on people like Miller's relatives:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The current crop of fascists don’t just ignore the veil of ignorance, they fail to understand it even when it’s slapped in their faces
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Translation: “Why won’t you people give up being bourgeoisie?! Go back to being serfs and be happy about! *fingers crossed behind back* We won’t even institute prima nocta!”
Peter Navarro: "In an age of AI when all the white collar jobs are going away pretty damn quick, I think maybe it's a good time for people to think about having good blue collar jobs ... give tariffs a chance, because they're working"
December 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Translation: “Why won’t you people give up being bourgeoisie?! Go back to being serfs and be happy about! *fingers crossed behind back* We won’t even institute prima nocta!”
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Wow! Letter from Epstein to a convicted sex offender Larry Nassar right before Epstein’s death.
This was in the files the DOJ released last night and then removed from their site.
This was in the files the DOJ released last night and then removed from their site.
December 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Wow! Letter from Epstein to a convicted sex offender Larry Nassar right before Epstein’s death.
This was in the files the DOJ released last night and then removed from their site.
This was in the files the DOJ released last night and then removed from their site.
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US quietly removes sanctions from firms accused of supplying Russia’s military
Treasury offers no explanation for lifting restrictions on Cyprus, Dubai, Turkish, and Finnish companies.
#StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini #Ukraine
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/19/u...
Treasury offers no explanation for lifting restrictions on Cyprus, Dubai, Turkish, and Finnish companies.
#StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini #Ukraine
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/19/u...
US quietly removes sanctions from firms accused of supplying Russia's military - Euromaidan Press
Treasury dropped sanctions on Cyprus, Dubai, Turkish, and Finnish firms tied to Russian military supplies - without explanation.
euromaidanpress.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
US quietly removes sanctions from firms accused of supplying Russia’s military
Treasury offers no explanation for lifting restrictions on Cyprus, Dubai, Turkish, and Finnish companies.
#StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini #Ukraine
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/19/u...
Treasury offers no explanation for lifting restrictions on Cyprus, Dubai, Turkish, and Finnish companies.
#StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini #Ukraine
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/19/u...
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Ripping children away from caring parents is inhumane. It's horrific that Trump's out of control immigration agents are deporting parents without due process and leaving young children traumatized and without their families.
Oregon couple deported, forced to leave toddler behind
The separation is one of dozens happening in Oregon, with ICE detaining both parents or single parents, leaving small children in the care of relatives, family friends, babysitters and in the foster c...
www.oregonlive.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Ripping children away from caring parents is inhumane. It's horrific that Trump's out of control immigration agents are deporting parents without due process and leaving young children traumatized and without their families.
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The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
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Bari Weiss and these academics claim that universities/TV networks are biased because they’re unbiased & don’t seek to indoctrinate people into conservatism & then use these false claims of bias to promote their own conservative biases.
See what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS News? This is what she and ideologically driven conservative activist academics have been trying to do to higher ed. And I’m going to keep on highlighting this.
December 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Bari Weiss and these academics claim that universities/TV networks are biased because they’re unbiased & don’t seek to indoctrinate people into conservatism & then use these false claims of bias to promote their own conservative biases.
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Except that we won’t. The social Darwinism and eugenics are a huge part of MAHA. After all, a key idea behind the antivax movement is that vaccine-preventable diseases can’t harm you if you’re healthy and that if you’re not healthy it’s your fault.
My segment on CNBC today
Gottlieb: ‘If We Go to the Danish Model and We Substantially Reduce Vaccination … We’re Going to Have to Build New Pediatric Hospitals’
grabien.com/story?id=562...
Gottlieb: ‘If We Go to the Danish Model and We Substantially Reduce Vaccination … We’re Going to Have to Build New Pediatric Hospitals’
grabien.com/story?id=562...
Gottlieb: ‘If We Go to the Danish Model and We Substantially Reduce Vaccination … We’re Going to Have to Build New Pediatric Hospitals’
‘These aren’t benign diseases’
grabien.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Except that we won’t. The social Darwinism and eugenics are a huge part of MAHA. After all, a key idea behind the antivax movement is that vaccine-preventable diseases can’t harm you if you’re healthy and that if you’re not healthy it’s your fault.
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This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
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Damn, Bill Clinton just called Trump & Pam Bondi's bluff. Clinton released a statement calling on Bondi to release all of the Epstein files that mention him - including photos.
This is what a president with a spine looks like.
Meanwhile, Trump is having the FBI scrub his name from the files.
This is what a president with a spine looks like.
Meanwhile, Trump is having the FBI scrub his name from the files.
December 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Damn, Bill Clinton just called Trump & Pam Bondi's bluff. Clinton released a statement calling on Bondi to release all of the Epstein files that mention him - including photos.
This is what a president with a spine looks like.
Meanwhile, Trump is having the FBI scrub his name from the files.
This is what a president with a spine looks like.
Meanwhile, Trump is having the FBI scrub his name from the files.
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Battleships were permanently retired in the 1990's because modern warfare w/ aircraft carriers & guided missiles made them too vulnerable, expensive, & less versatile than airpower & other ships for projecting force.
Trump wants to revive them. Bet he'll name the 1st one after himself.
#ProudBlue
Trump wants to revive them. Bet he'll name the 1st one after himself.
#ProudBlue
President Trump will announce on Monday a new type of large warship he is calling “battleships,” marking a step toward achieving the president’s vision for a new “Golden Fleet.”
Trump To Announce Navy Will Buy New ‘Battleship’
The new warship will be the latest in what the White House envisions as a “Golden Fleet.”
on.wsj.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Battleships were permanently retired in the 1990's because modern warfare w/ aircraft carriers & guided missiles made them too vulnerable, expensive, & less versatile than airpower & other ships for projecting force.
Trump wants to revive them. Bet he'll name the 1st one after himself.
#ProudBlue
Trump wants to revive them. Bet he'll name the 1st one after himself.
#ProudBlue
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this isn't a list of editorial suggestions or improvements, this is a list of derailers intended to kill the story. i doubt they ever air it. the whole thing is also deeply offensive to the veteran investigative reporters who know how to do this job that bari weiss has absolutely no experience in.
The full Weiss memo is dogshit
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
December 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
this isn't a list of editorial suggestions or improvements, this is a list of derailers intended to kill the story. i doubt they ever air it. the whole thing is also deeply offensive to the veteran investigative reporters who know how to do this job that bari weiss has absolutely no experience in.
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The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
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If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism.
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
CBS Pulled a “60 Minutes” Story Because the White House Refused to Comment — That’s a Veto on Journalism
Pulling a finished investigation because the administration refused to comment isn’t journalism. It’s submission.
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism.
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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Thank you #MackenzieScott for all that you do! We need more billionaires like you 💓
December 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Thank you #MackenzieScott for all that you do! We need more billionaires like you 💓
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Wild — as the community note says, Trump’s DOJ released a publicly available pic of MJ & Clinton & Diana Ross with their own kids and implied it’s them with victims
They aren’t just redacting, they’re doctoring
They aren’t just redacting, they’re doctoring
December 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Wild — as the community note says, Trump’s DOJ released a publicly available pic of MJ & Clinton & Diana Ross with their own kids and implied it’s them with victims
They aren’t just redacting, they’re doctoring
They aren’t just redacting, they’re doctoring