Irene Rettenmaier
@ladybugeffect.bsky.social
Analyst in Finance by day, writer by night, & enjoys life to the fullest. Wife, mom, & comic book fan. She/Her #WritingCommunity #BLM #Hydrocephalus #BrainTumor #Mastectomy
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Double mastectomy took a toll on me but this too shall pass. I feel like a cyborg dealing with the drains. I’m excited to see the flat styles I’ll wear & tats I’ll get. I am so incredibly thankful for my husband, as my partner & man who loves me unconditionally. I am blessed to have him in my life.
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GEORGIA: Rodney Taylor, a double amputee barber here his whole life was 2 days away from getting new legs when Trump’s ICE goons grabbed him. He has been held almost a year, facing deportation to Liberia.
What are we doing?
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
What are we doing?
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
November 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
GEORGIA: Rodney Taylor, a double amputee barber here his whole life was 2 days away from getting new legs when Trump’s ICE goons grabbed him. He has been held almost a year, facing deportation to Liberia.
What are we doing?
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
What are we doing?
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Thank you, Rene! 💙
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November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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GM, YSVW & TY, Sandy! 💙
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November 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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I swear WHEN the Democrats take over, and they WILL, they better prosecute ALL involved in crimes against humanity! 🤬
This report is the best, please subscribe to her Substack and follow her on all social media platforms. @hcrichardson.bsky.social is the voice of reason we all needed.
This report is the best, please subscribe to her Substack and follow her on all social media platforms. @hcrichardson.bsky.social is the voice of reason we all needed.
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I swear WHEN the Democrats take over, and they WILL, they better prosecute ALL involved in crimes against humanity! 🤬
This report is the best, please subscribe to her Substack and follow her on all social media platforms. @hcrichardson.bsky.social is the voice of reason we all needed.
This report is the best, please subscribe to her Substack and follow her on all social media platforms. @hcrichardson.bsky.social is the voice of reason we all needed.
Believe in yourself
It's not an if, it's a when
And it will happen
-Irene Rettenmaier
#LadybugEffect ❤️🐞
It's not an if, it's a when
And it will happen
-Irene Rettenmaier
#LadybugEffect ❤️🐞
November 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Believe in yourself
It's not an if, it's a when
And it will happen
-Irene Rettenmaier
#LadybugEffect ❤️🐞
It's not an if, it's a when
And it will happen
-Irene Rettenmaier
#LadybugEffect ❤️🐞
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#FirstPost Happy #internationalflatday! Earlier this year I had a double mastectomy & went flat. Grateful to be alive. It’s also Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so get those bodacious tatas checked! Now it’s time for bed: no makeup, no contacts, & no boobs. Just me. Wishing you all a peaceful night.🩷
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
#FirstPost Happy #internationalflatday! Earlier this year I had a double mastectomy & went flat. Grateful to be alive. It’s also Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so get those bodacious tatas checked! Now it’s time for bed: no makeup, no contacts, & no boobs. Just me. Wishing you all a peaceful night.🩷
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity.
October 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity.
“Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who lives in hiding, won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting dictatorship in the country, receiving the award.”
Looks like they’re antifa too!
www.reuters.com/world/nobel-...
Looks like they’re antifa too!
www.reuters.com/world/nobel-...
www.reuters.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
“Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who lives in hiding, won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting dictatorship in the country, receiving the award.”
Looks like they’re antifa too!
www.reuters.com/world/nobel-...
Looks like they’re antifa too!
www.reuters.com/world/nobel-...
Busy day at our house! Dogs were barking up a storm. Looked at the video and we had a lot of visitors. Deer, squirrel, another one on the right side grass by my neighbors house, birds, bees, and a rabbit. 🦌 🐦 🐝 🐇
October 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Busy day at our house! Dogs were barking up a storm. Looked at the video and we had a lot of visitors. Deer, squirrel, another one on the right side grass by my neighbors house, birds, bees, and a rabbit. 🦌 🐦 🐝 🐇
Happy #internationalflatday! Earlier this year I had a double mastectomy & went flat. I’m grateful to be alive. It’s also Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so get those bodacious tatas checked! Now it’s time for bed: no makeup, no contacts, & no boobs. Just me. Wishing you all a peaceful night. 🩷
October 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Happy #internationalflatday! Earlier this year I had a double mastectomy & went flat. I’m grateful to be alive. It’s also Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so get those bodacious tatas checked! Now it’s time for bed: no makeup, no contacts, & no boobs. Just me. Wishing you all a peaceful night. 🩷
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Columbia canceled my class on race and media, but I'm teaching the people anyway.
Oct. 5 is the *last day* to register for my online live + recorded classes on Race, Media & International Affairs!
We have more than 500 students enrolled. Let's gooo!
www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
Oct. 5 is the *last day* to register for my online live + recorded classes on Race, Media & International Affairs!
We have more than 500 students enrolled. Let's gooo!
www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series
A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.
www.resistancesummerschool.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Columbia canceled my class on race and media, but I'm teaching the people anyway.
Oct. 5 is the *last day* to register for my online live + recorded classes on Race, Media & International Affairs!
We have more than 500 students enrolled. Let's gooo!
www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
Oct. 5 is the *last day* to register for my online live + recorded classes on Race, Media & International Affairs!
We have more than 500 students enrolled. Let's gooo!
www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
Democrats tell the truth but can’t communicate it well. Republicans lie constantly and know exactly how to sell those lies. That’s the real problem in America.
October 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Democrats tell the truth but can’t communicate it well. Republicans lie constantly and know exactly how to sell those lies. That’s the real problem in America.
WELP… I heard the rapture happened… aaand apparently I missed it. Again. 🙃
BUT on the bright side, it’s weirdly quiet around here, soooo maybe y’all actually made it? 👀👏
Guess I’ll just hold down the fort… and your Amazon packages. 😇📦
BUT on the bright side, it’s weirdly quiet around here, soooo maybe y’all actually made it? 👀👏
Guess I’ll just hold down the fort… and your Amazon packages. 😇📦
September 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
WELP… I heard the rapture happened… aaand apparently I missed it. Again. 🙃
BUT on the bright side, it’s weirdly quiet around here, soooo maybe y’all actually made it? 👀👏
Guess I’ll just hold down the fort… and your Amazon packages. 😇📦
BUT on the bright side, it’s weirdly quiet around here, soooo maybe y’all actually made it? 👀👏
Guess I’ll just hold down the fort… and your Amazon packages. 😇📦
I had my double mastectomy this past January and we “thought” all the bills were taken care of. But this past week I’ve received a few letters that state “we are adjusting your claim”. And guess what? It’s to pay MORE! This isn’t going to happen next year, this is retroactively happening!
Health insurance costs are about to rise by a record amount.
This is happening after the seven largest publicly traded health insurance companies reported a combined $71 BILLION in profits in 2024.
Instead of addressing this, Trump is spreading misinformation about Tylenol.
This is happening after the seven largest publicly traded health insurance companies reported a combined $71 BILLION in profits in 2024.
Instead of addressing this, Trump is spreading misinformation about Tylenol.
September 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I had my double mastectomy this past January and we “thought” all the bills were taken care of. But this past week I’ve received a few letters that state “we are adjusting your claim”. And guess what? It’s to pay MORE! This isn’t going to happen next year, this is retroactively happening!
AMBER Alert
JASMIN ZAPATA - 16 YO HISPANIC FEMALE BRO EYE/BLK HAIR LAST SEEN 9/22/25 AT 8:00PM IN BOULDER. WAS FORCED INTO 2-DOOR GREY CHEVY SILVERADO CO PLATE AXW-L52 BY JUAN BRETADO - 19 YO HISPANIC MALE BRO EYE BLK HAIR AND ANOTHER UNK MALE. VEH LAST SEEN NEAR THORNTON PKWY/GALE BLVD 09/22/25
JASMIN ZAPATA - 16 YO HISPANIC FEMALE BRO EYE/BLK HAIR LAST SEEN 9/22/25 AT 8:00PM IN BOULDER. WAS FORCED INTO 2-DOOR GREY CHEVY SILVERADO CO PLATE AXW-L52 BY JUAN BRETADO - 19 YO HISPANIC MALE BRO EYE BLK HAIR AND ANOTHER UNK MALE. VEH LAST SEEN NEAR THORNTON PKWY/GALE BLVD 09/22/25
September 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
AMBER Alert
JASMIN ZAPATA - 16 YO HISPANIC FEMALE BRO EYE/BLK HAIR LAST SEEN 9/22/25 AT 8:00PM IN BOULDER. WAS FORCED INTO 2-DOOR GREY CHEVY SILVERADO CO PLATE AXW-L52 BY JUAN BRETADO - 19 YO HISPANIC MALE BRO EYE BLK HAIR AND ANOTHER UNK MALE. VEH LAST SEEN NEAR THORNTON PKWY/GALE BLVD 09/22/25
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Anyone that thinks fair elections will happen is living in a fantasy world. They’ve changed the narrative and pretty much legally can hunt us down.
I just don’t want to hear any complaints when Democrats are in charge in 3 years, and all the co-hosts on Fox, Newsmax and the rest find themselves canceled or suspended. We’ll be like, oh well, that’s a shame….
September 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Anyone that thinks fair elections will happen is living in a fantasy world. They’ve changed the narrative and pretty much legally can hunt us down.
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Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous.
It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."
Because that's not how America works.
play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."
Because that's not how America works.
play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The Washington Roundtable is joined by the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo, the dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, to discuss...
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September 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous.
It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."
Because that's not how America works.
play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."
Because that's not how America works.
play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
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If you are feeling frightened or disoriented, you have every reason.
Yet we have learned several lessons about how to deal with this tyrant, and we must practice them. Let me explain... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-e69
Yet we have learned several lessons about how to deal with this tyrant, and we must practice them. Let me explain... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-e69
September 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
If you are feeling frightened or disoriented, you have every reason.
Yet we have learned several lessons about how to deal with this tyrant, and we must practice them. Let me explain... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-e69
Yet we have learned several lessons about how to deal with this tyrant, and we must practice them. Let me explain... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-e69
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Poland just scrambled jets after Russia launched one of its biggest aerial assaults yet: hundreds of drones + missiles raining down across Ukraine, with airspace near Poland on edge. NATO & allies now in high alert. This isn’t a drill…global stability is being teste
September 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Poland just scrambled jets after Russia launched one of its biggest aerial assaults yet: hundreds of drones + missiles raining down across Ukraine, with airspace near Poland on edge. NATO & allies now in high alert. This isn’t a drill…global stability is being teste
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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We're witnessing the culminating rot of shareholder capitalism in real time.
Some of the most powerful corporations in America have sided with an authoritarian regime in order to protect their short term profits — the fundamental rights of everyone else be damned.
Some of the most powerful corporations in America have sided with an authoritarian regime in order to protect their short term profits — the fundamental rights of everyone else be damned.
September 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We're witnessing the culminating rot of shareholder capitalism in real time.
Some of the most powerful corporations in America have sided with an authoritarian regime in order to protect their short term profits — the fundamental rights of everyone else be damned.
Some of the most powerful corporations in America have sided with an authoritarian regime in order to protect their short term profits — the fundamental rights of everyone else be damned.
Finish this sentence: When we lose the ability to laugh at ourselves…
September 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Finish this sentence: When we lose the ability to laugh at ourselves…
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September 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Denver7 an ABC affiliate station o & o by The E.W. Scripps Company. The decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show was made at the network level and independent of local ABC affiliates. You can contact ABC by calling 818-460-7477 or using this contact form: support.abc.com/hc/en-us/art...
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Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.
September 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.
“To justify suspension of civil liberties and an authoritarian takeover” seems to already be happening and I highly doubt he will allow the next No Kings Day on October 18th.
open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...
open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...
Is Charlie Kirk Their Reichstag Moment?
Trump and the GOP are itching to exploit Kirk’s murder to expand their authoritarian aims
open.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
“To justify suspension of civil liberties and an authoritarian takeover” seems to already be happening and I highly doubt he will allow the next No Kings Day on October 18th.
open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...
open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...