Rachel J
@racheljackson.bsky.social
“They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them….The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving” -Solnit ✊🏻🏳️🌈☮️💙
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How many ICE goons does it take to change a lightbulb? 50 and 48 billion dollars in the budget + a sniper rifle. This clownish swarm of heavily armed and armored clowns chasing children off a soccer field while apparently not dying of the shame and ridiculousness and banality of their own evil....
This is footage from today in MacArthur Park.
Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through.
The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW.
Absolutely outrageous.
Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through.
The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW.
Absolutely outrageous.
July 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
How many ICE goons does it take to change a lightbulb? 50 and 48 billion dollars in the budget + a sniper rifle. This clownish swarm of heavily armed and armored clowns chasing children off a soccer field while apparently not dying of the shame and ridiculousness and banality of their own evil....
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medieval times gestapo
CBP horses now walking up to Wilshire at MacArthur Park and staging on the corner of Wilshire and Alvarado here in Los Angeles
July 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
medieval times gestapo
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The Senate is currently debating over Trump’s Tax Scam before moving to vote-a-rama and a final vote.
We need GOP senators’ phones to be ringing off the hooks: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
And when their voicemails fill up, use this tool to send an email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
We need GOP senators’ phones to be ringing off the hooks: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
And when their voicemails fill up, use this tool to send an email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
June 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The Senate is currently debating over Trump’s Tax Scam before moving to vote-a-rama and a final vote.
We need GOP senators’ phones to be ringing off the hooks: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
And when their voicemails fill up, use this tool to send an email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
We need GOP senators’ phones to be ringing off the hooks: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
And when their voicemails fill up, use this tool to send an email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
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what they said.
The reason we fight against fascism is because of love. Love for our friends and family. Our children deserve better than this. They deserve not to live in a place where they must fear getting shot. We love them. So we have to win. And in time, we will. The axe forgets but the tree remembers.
June 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
what they said.
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More of this.
THIS JUST HAPPENED: Brad Lander walked through the fire, got burned, and came back with a fucking gasoline can.
ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.
ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.
June 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
More of this.
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“The fundamental civic unit in this nation is neighbor.” - @jelaniya.bsky.social 🇺🇸
June 20, 2025 at 4:02 AM
“The fundamental civic unit in this nation is neighbor.” - @jelaniya.bsky.social 🇺🇸
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I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.
June 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.
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Sorry to step away from the catfight, but we’ve got a win! A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle AmeriCorps halting the termination of grants and its volunteer network!
June 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Sorry to step away from the catfight, but we’ve got a win! A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle AmeriCorps halting the termination of grants and its volunteer network!
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The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.
May 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.
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“.. would also mark the first time in the history of SNAP that the federal government would no longer ensure children in every state have access to food benefits ..”
@cnbc.com
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@cnbc.com
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May 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“.. would also mark the first time in the history of SNAP that the federal government would no longer ensure children in every state have access to food benefits ..”
@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/s...
@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/s...
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NEWS: The courts have decided against DOGE and the US government in their legal battle to take full control of the United States Institute of Peace, including a headquarters building with an estimated value of $500 million. www.wired.com/story/usip-d...
DOGE Loses Battle to Take Over USIP—and Its $500 Million Headquarters
A federal judge called DOGE’s actions at the United States Institute of Peace ‘unlawful.’
www.wired.com
May 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
NEWS: The courts have decided against DOGE and the US government in their legal battle to take full control of the United States Institute of Peace, including a headquarters building with an estimated value of $500 million. www.wired.com/story/usip-d...
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I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”
April 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”
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It only takes 4 Republicans in the House, or 4 in the Senate to stop this.
April 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
It only takes 4 Republicans in the House, or 4 in the Senate to stop this.
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This is lifted pretty much verbatim out of the Putin/Orban playbook, it might constitute copyright infringement… www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Transparency Regarding Foreign Influence at American Universities
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
April 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This is lifted pretty much verbatim out of the Putin/Orban playbook, it might constitute copyright infringement… www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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This is what happens when the Supreme Court effectively allows a bunch of teenage losers to take over the #NIH payment system.
This is also what Viktor Orban did as he consolidated autocracy in Hungary: he centralized control over money and payments.
This is truly a red alert.
This is also what Viktor Orban did as he consolidated autocracy in Hungary: he centralized control over money and payments.
This is truly a red alert.
Second (takes deep breath)
It appears that PAYMENTS FOR ALL GRANTS THROUGH THE PAYMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ARE BEING FROZEN.
If this is correct, then no funds will be transferred to any grantee institution, at least at this time.
It appears that PAYMENTS FOR ALL GRANTS THROUGH THE PAYMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ARE BEING FROZEN.
If this is correct, then no funds will be transferred to any grantee institution, at least at this time.
a cartoon of a chicken with its mouth open and a drop of blood coming out of it
ALT: a cartoon of a chicken with its mouth open and a drop of blood coming out of it
media.tenor.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This is what happens when the Supreme Court effectively allows a bunch of teenage losers to take over the #NIH payment system.
This is also what Viktor Orban did as he consolidated autocracy in Hungary: he centralized control over money and payments.
This is truly a red alert.
This is also what Viktor Orban did as he consolidated autocracy in Hungary: he centralized control over money and payments.
This is truly a red alert.
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I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you.
The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
April 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you.
The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
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Very important thread to read!!!!!!! Thanks to @altairforce.altgov.info for putting this thread together!!!! Interagency collaboration for the win y’all 👏👏👏👏
IMPORTANT INFO ABOUT THE SAVE ACT!
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H.R. 22 “SAVE Act” | Amended & Passed U.S. House – April 10, 2025
H.R. 22 is a mass deportation bill masquerading as an election integrity bill.
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H.R. 22 “SAVE Act” | Amended & Passed U.S. House – April 10, 2025
H.R. 22 is a mass deportation bill masquerading as an election integrity bill.
April 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Very important thread to read!!!!!!! Thanks to @altairforce.altgov.info for putting this thread together!!!! Interagency collaboration for the win y’all 👏👏👏👏
The chaos and cruelty is the point
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The chaos and cruelty is the point
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
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These cuts will have immediate impact, experts say. “We’re going to have patients die,” says Jade Pagkas-Bather, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Chicago who also specializes in HIV prevention. “Unnecessary, preventable death.” www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...
The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
These cuts will have immediate impact, experts say. “We’re going to have patients die,” says Jade Pagkas-Bather, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Chicago who also specializes in HIV prevention. “Unnecessary, preventable death.” www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...
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"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥