Rachele
@racheldridge.bsky.social
Community builder, knitter, reader, history buff, and Christian who loves trees, democracy, jigsaw puzzles and dancing
If part of the purpose for this administration to blow up boats in the Caribbean is regime change in Venezuela, then what is the purpose of blowing up boats and killing people in the pacific? Is it just to stop the flow of drugs?
December 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
If part of the purpose for this administration to blow up boats in the Caribbean is regime change in Venezuela, then what is the purpose of blowing up boats and killing people in the pacific? Is it just to stop the flow of drugs?
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Nativists love to talk about the costs of immigrants, but each ICE agent is making $213,000 in total compensation to destroy our rights, freedoms, families, friendships, neighborhoods, and economies. Worse than a "welfare queen." It'd be better to pay them to stay home.
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Nativists love to talk about the costs of immigrants, but each ICE agent is making $213,000 in total compensation to destroy our rights, freedoms, families, friendships, neighborhoods, and economies. Worse than a "welfare queen." It'd be better to pay them to stay home.
Visited Big Pete the troll of the River District
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Visited Big Pete the troll of the River District
I am a neglectful gardener. I am pleased as punch that these mums continue to survive and thrive.
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I am a neglectful gardener. I am pleased as punch that these mums continue to survive and thrive.
“To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.” Florence Kelley, National Consumer League.
Outside of voting, how we spend our dollars is our greatest power.
I am trying to use that power responsibly. No Target, no Amazon, no Home Depot, More local
Outside of voting, how we spend our dollars is our greatest power.
I am trying to use that power responsibly. No Target, no Amazon, no Home Depot, More local
November 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
“To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.” Florence Kelley, National Consumer League.
Outside of voting, how we spend our dollars is our greatest power.
I am trying to use that power responsibly. No Target, no Amazon, no Home Depot, More local
Outside of voting, how we spend our dollars is our greatest power.
I am trying to use that power responsibly. No Target, no Amazon, no Home Depot, More local
But what Brown needed was a shepherd, someone to guide him to treatment, to help him figure out how to take his meds, to give him the stability perhaps through housing. We expect family members to do this but that’s a big ask. Who would the police send him to other than behavioral health?
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
But what Brown needed was a shepherd, someone to guide him to treatment, to help him figure out how to take his meds, to give him the stability perhaps through housing. We expect family members to do this but that’s a big ask. Who would the police send him to other than behavioral health?
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We in the city of Charlotte clearly don’t have an effective way to help a person like this. The main tool of the police is to lock people up. Calling 911 is a reasonable response if your problem isn’t solved.
The hospital gave a diagnosis.
We in the city of Charlotte clearly don’t have an effective way to help a person like this. The main tool of the police is to lock people up. Calling 911 is a reasonable response if your problem isn’t solved.
The hospital gave a diagnosis.
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We in the city of Charlotte clearly don’t have an effective way to help a person like this. The main tool of the police is to lock people up. Calling 911 is a reasonable response if your problem isn’t solved.
The hospital gave a diagnosis.
We in the city of Charlotte clearly don’t have an effective way to help a person like this. The main tool of the police is to lock people up. Calling 911 is a reasonable response if your problem isn’t solved.
The hospital gave a diagnosis.
Traffic seems even lighter today on the Border Patrol’s 6th day in Charlotte.
November 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Traffic seems even lighter today on the Border Patrol’s 6th day in Charlotte.
Another beautiful day in the Hornet’s Nest of Rebellion to be welcoming our neighbors
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Another beautiful day in the Hornet’s Nest of Rebellion to be welcoming our neighbors
I just read The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. I had requested it from the library weeks ago. I didn’t expect a book about the French Resistance to be so unfortunately timely. I am processing when do we know when to act, how to resist and survive and what is my role.
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I just read The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. I had requested it from the library weeks ago. I didn’t expect a book about the French Resistance to be so unfortunately timely. I am processing when do we know when to act, how to resist and survive and what is my role.
From today’s reading in church, second cornithians, chapter 4 — persecuted but not forsaken.
May immigrants and people of color in Charlotte feel that and take heart.
May immigrants and people of color in Charlotte feel that and take heart.
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
From today’s reading in church, second cornithians, chapter 4 — persecuted but not forsaken.
May immigrants and people of color in Charlotte feel that and take heart.
May immigrants and people of color in Charlotte feel that and take heart.
I think Charlotte needs to find its equivalent of the whistles used in Chicago and Portland. We are a much car oriented, less dense city. What should we use to alert each other about border patrol and ICE?
November 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I think Charlotte needs to find its equivalent of the whistles used in Chicago and Portland. We are a much car oriented, less dense city. What should we use to alert each other about border patrol and ICE?
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Hope the People’s Market finds the staff it needs quickly. It was busy when I had lunch there the other week. It’s a go to spot for breakfast before church or to do some work after work.
Hope the People’s Market finds the staff it needs quickly. It was busy when I had lunch there the other week. It’s a go to spot for breakfast before church or to do some work after work.
A popular Charlotte market and eatery with two locations is closed
The all-day restaurant with Myers Park and Elizabeth locations has breakfast and coffee, along with pizza, handhelds and cocktails later in the day.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Hope the People’s Market finds the staff it needs quickly. It was busy when I had lunch there the other week. It’s a go to spot for breakfast before church or to do some work after work.
Hope the People’s Market finds the staff it needs quickly. It was busy when I had lunch there the other week. It’s a go to spot for breakfast before church or to do some work after work.
Veterans — thank you for fighting to protect the Constitution.
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Veterans — thank you for fighting to protect the Constitution.
I need Roy Cooper to speak up, to say he wouldn’t have voted yes on this deal and that he doesn’t want Schumer to be the Democratic leader in the Senate. He needs to show that he wants to protect healthcare and be part of a Democratic party focused on workers and not corporations.
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I need Roy Cooper to speak up, to say he wouldn’t have voted yes on this deal and that he doesn’t want Schumer to be the Democratic leader in the Senate. He needs to show that he wants to protect healthcare and be part of a Democratic party focused on workers and not corporations.
Fun to be at the last Charlotte FC season but not a fun result.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Fun to be at the last Charlotte FC season but not a fun result.
The Meck Dems missed an opportunity in District 7. 16% of the voters took the time and trouble to write in another name than vote for Ed Driggs. I bet if a Democratic candidate had run, they would received twice that. It wouldn’t be a win but it would lay the groundwork for 2027.
November 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The Meck Dems missed an opportunity in District 7. 16% of the voters took the time and trouble to write in another name than vote for Ed Driggs. I bet if a Democratic candidate had run, they would received twice that. It wouldn’t be a win but it would lay the groundwork for 2027.
Thrilled that Kimberly Owen’s flipped District 6 in Charlotte and did it decisively. This was not the close contest we were expecting.
November 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Thrilled that Kimberly Owen’s flipped District 6 in Charlotte and did it decisively. This was not the close contest we were expecting.
This book will be sticking with me for a long time. Intertwining stories of indentured servants, enslaved and free Africans and African Americans in the late 1600s. What is love in a society that is creating the system of chattel slavery? Very powerful and vivid
November 3, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This book will be sticking with me for a long time. Intertwining stories of indentured servants, enslaved and free Africans and African Americans in the late 1600s. What is love in a society that is creating the system of chattel slavery? Very powerful and vivid
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If I am reading her correctly,the defunding of SNAP will cost Walmart $14 billion. I would think the Congressional delegation from Arkansas would be concerned about that.
If I am reading her correctly,the defunding of SNAP will cost Walmart $14 billion. I would think the Congressional delegation from Arkansas would be concerned about that.
October 25, 2025
Yesterday the Trump administration said it would not use any of the approximately $6 billion the U.S.
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October 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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If I am reading her correctly,the defunding of SNAP will cost Walmart $14 billion. I would think the Congressional delegation from Arkansas would be concerned about that.
If I am reading her correctly,the defunding of SNAP will cost Walmart $14 billion. I would think the Congressional delegation from Arkansas would be concerned about that.
I spent part of this morning downloading a new podcast player so i will stop using as many Apple products. Now to figure out a new music player and a fitness tracker instead of buying an Apple Watch like I planned. I won’t reach perfection since I own an iphone and ipad. I am aiming for less.
October 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I spent part of this morning downloading a new podcast player so i will stop using as many Apple products. Now to figure out a new music player and a fitness tracker instead of buying an Apple Watch like I planned. I won’t reach perfection since I own an iphone and ipad. I am aiming for less.
I am spending this weekend figuring out how to lessen my interaction with the companies collaborating with the fascist Trump Administration by supporting the destruction of the East Wing. So far, i have joined Bluesky to help me move away from FB, switched to Duck, duck go to stop using Google.
October 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I am spending this weekend figuring out how to lessen my interaction with the companies collaborating with the fascist Trump Administration by supporting the destruction of the East Wing. So far, i have joined Bluesky to help me move away from FB, switched to Duck, duck go to stop using Google.
I am heartsick over the destruction of the East Wing of the White House. Not so much the building but the wanton disregard for the review process, the self centeredness of not acknowledging this is the property of the American people and that it can’t be reversed like a law or policy.
October 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I am heartsick over the destruction of the East Wing of the White House. Not so much the building but the wanton disregard for the review process, the self centeredness of not acknowledging this is the property of the American people and that it can’t be reversed like a law or policy.