Nick Rattray
@nickrattray.bsky.social
spatial anthropologist of health and bodily differences, health services researcher / #ImpSci #DisAnthro #MedAnthro (https://x.com/nickrattray) :: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MT5y-bMAAAAJ&hl=en
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
What a factual and critical reframing of an absurd question.
How to answer a loaded question.
(This is Joe Neguse, Congressman for Colorado's 2nd District.)
(This is Joe Neguse, Congressman for Colorado's 2nd District.)
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
What a factual and critical reframing of an absurd question.
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Every race. It’s basically been every race.
Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers.
Just everything.
Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers.
Just everything.
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Every race. It’s basically been every race.
Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers.
Just everything.
Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers.
Just everything.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
October 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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New 20 just dropped to commemorate the Trump presidency
October 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
New 20 just dropped to commemorate the Trump presidency
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Yet Trump ignored every step, acting unilaterally through executive order, bypassing oversight, and ordering demolition as if he were a monarch. The result: the people’s house, altered without the people’s consent.
October 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Yet Trump ignored every step, acting unilaterally through executive order, bypassing oversight, and ordering demolition as if he were a monarch. The result: the people’s house, altered without the people’s consent.
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This is what No Kings Day felt like 🐸🐔🦄🐿️✨
“Tʜɪs ɪs ᴡʜᴀᴛ Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ ʟᴏᴏᴋs ʟɪᴋᴇ!“ 🗣️✨
This country belongs to the people.
#StandTALL 🚀🗣️
(Prints at www.Nikkolas.Art)
“Tʜɪs ɪs ᴡʜᴀᴛ Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ ʟᴏᴏᴋs ʟɪᴋᴇ!“ 🗣️✨
This country belongs to the people.
#StandTALL 🚀🗣️
(Prints at www.Nikkolas.Art)
October 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is what No Kings Day felt like 🐸🐔🦄🐿️✨
“Tʜɪs ɪs ᴡʜᴀᴛ Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ ʟᴏᴏᴋs ʟɪᴋᴇ!“ 🗣️✨
This country belongs to the people.
#StandTALL 🚀🗣️
(Prints at www.Nikkolas.Art)
“Tʜɪs ɪs ᴡʜᴀᴛ Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ ʟᴏᴏᴋs ʟɪᴋᴇ!“ 🗣️✨
This country belongs to the people.
#StandTALL 🚀🗣️
(Prints at www.Nikkolas.Art)
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This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.
October 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.
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The war zone in Portland is out of control.
October 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The war zone in Portland is out of control.
No Kings, Indianapolis!
October 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
No Kings, Indianapolis!
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Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.
Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.
The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism
In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.
The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism
In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
October 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.
Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.
The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism
In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.
The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism
In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
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wizard frog is insane
October 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
wizard frog is insane
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this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset
We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
"The ambiguity is calculated. They never said, “We are declaring a dictatorship.” Instead, they spoke in terms elastic enough to give cover." poignant point, Dr. Greenberg
I am in mourning for America. At Quantico, Trump and Hegseth didn’t announce a dictatorship — they performed it. Words reclassified dissent as insurgency, turning citizens into enemies. #MourningAmerica #Quantico #Authoritarianism #Democracy
Mourning America: Quantico and the Drift Toward Military Rule
How Trump and Hegseth’s Quantico speeches blurred the line between politics and war, recasting dissent as insurgency and democracy as a battlefield
jamesbgreenberg.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"The ambiguity is calculated. They never said, “We are declaring a dictatorship.” Instead, they spoke in terms elastic enough to give cover." poignant point, Dr. Greenberg
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Remember that this is what the Trump-Republican big, ugly bill was all about. It's Robin Hood in reverse.
Why would any Democrat vote for a continuing resolution that greenlights this regime's cruelty?
Why would any Democrat vote for a continuing resolution that greenlights this regime's cruelty?
October 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Remember that this is what the Trump-Republican big, ugly bill was all about. It's Robin Hood in reverse.
Why would any Democrat vote for a continuing resolution that greenlights this regime's cruelty?
Why would any Democrat vote for a continuing resolution that greenlights this regime's cruelty?
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Einsteins theory has been proven.
September 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Einsteins theory has been proven.
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The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year, the first time the agency has seen net losses in years.
At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled.
By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social
At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled.
By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social
Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals
Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...
www.propublica.org
September 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year, the first time the agency has seen net losses in years.
At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled.
By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social
At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled.
By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social
An excellent piece for deeper understanding of autism and the danger of false theories
Thank you, Richard Grinker, for setting the record straight.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
An excellent piece for deeper understanding of autism and the danger of false theories
Viewing political violence as infrastructural: "Kirk’s death cannot be dismissed as the act of a lone individual. It is the culmination of a political ecosystem that cultivates hostility long before blood is spilled."
The murder of Charlie Kirk is more than rupture—it’s a warning. Violence doesn’t erupt from nowhere; it’s cultivated through division, intimidation, and speed. Can democracy survive when hostility becomes infrastructure?
#Democracy #PoliticalViolence #Authoritarianism #CivicLife
#Democracy #PoliticalViolence #Authoritarianism #CivicLife
Against the Murder of Charlie Kirk: Political Violence and the Architecture of Division
How assassination, intimidation, and division threaten the fragile practice of civic life in America.
jamesbgreenberg.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Viewing political violence as infrastructural: "Kirk’s death cannot be dismissed as the act of a lone individual. It is the culmination of a political ecosystem that cultivates hostility long before blood is spilled."
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And non-violence works, from @chenoweth.bsky.social: "between 1900 and 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts." "Violent insurgency is rarely justifiable on strategic grounds." 5/ www.ericachenoweth.com/research/wcrw
Why Civil Resistance Works
Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan. Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, August 2011). ~Winner of the 2013 Grawemeyer A…
www.ericachenoweth.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
And non-violence works, from @chenoweth.bsky.social: "between 1900 and 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts." "Violent insurgency is rarely justifiable on strategic grounds." 5/ www.ericachenoweth.com/research/wcrw
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This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.
Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman remembered as funny, savvy and 'a true leader'
Friends and colleagues remembered her as grounded, kind and compassionate.
www.pbs.org
September 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.