Rachel T
@rachelthibault.bsky.social
Cinephile, vegan, collage artist, ex-academic, 80s music lover, passionate thrifter and news junkie.
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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Insulating Republicans from consequences is never the answer
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Insulating Republicans from consequences is never the answer
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LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.
Oh, this is wild.
DOJ went to SCOTUS *before* we got the First Circuit's administrative stay denial. (We know this because DOJ just filed a letter at SCOTUS about the admin stay denial.)
So, DOJ went to SCOTUS b/c the First Circuit did not meet its less-than-seven-hour "deadline" for a ruling.
DOJ went to SCOTUS *before* we got the First Circuit's administrative stay denial. (We know this because DOJ just filed a letter at SCOTUS about the admin stay denial.)
So, DOJ went to SCOTUS b/c the First Circuit did not meet its less-than-seven-hour "deadline" for a ruling.
November 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.
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On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
November 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
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The stuff on Grokpedia relating to immigration is terrible. Lots of serious errors, lots of fake facts, lots of citations to a single biased source, lots of nakedly biased writing... it's just as bad as you'd expect.
Musk effectively copied over all of Wikipedia and had Grok go over it to give it a far right bias in its framing in articles to turn it into a propaganda tool. It's conservapedia 2.0 backed by the world's richest man.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points
The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.
www.wired.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The stuff on Grokpedia relating to immigration is terrible. Lots of serious errors, lots of fake facts, lots of citations to a single biased source, lots of nakedly biased writing... it's just as bad as you'd expect.
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It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.
October 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.
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Don’t Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House? Asking for a friend.
Mike Johnson: "Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying, 'Republicans are in charge of government.' We aren't!"
October 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Don’t Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House? Asking for a friend.
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Democrats should just start rolling out ad after ad of Reagan voiceovers.
October 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Democrats should just start rolling out ad after ad of Reagan voiceovers.
:) Doing so will cut your grocery bills in half, if you don't overdo the processed stuff and eat beans, tofu, lentils. tempeh. 🌱
"we're in an economy right now where beef prices are soaring and American farmers have soybeans. The simple solution is, of course, more vegetarians."
...And this is one of those times when I can't tell if I'm giving serious economic advice, or having fun. Perhaps both.
...And this is one of those times when I can't tell if I'm giving serious economic advice, or having fun. Perhaps both.
October 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
:) Doing so will cut your grocery bills in half, if you don't overdo the processed stuff and eat beans, tofu, lentils. tempeh. 🌱
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DON’T FORGET THEM:
This shutdown will severely hurt federally contracted workers, who WILL NOT GET back-pay.
This includes thousands of SEIU members who are security officers, office cleaners, and food service workers.
These workers will be forced to rely on public assistance (what’s left of it).
This shutdown will severely hurt federally contracted workers, who WILL NOT GET back-pay.
This includes thousands of SEIU members who are security officers, office cleaners, and food service workers.
These workers will be forced to rely on public assistance (what’s left of it).
October 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
DON’T FORGET THEM:
This shutdown will severely hurt federally contracted workers, who WILL NOT GET back-pay.
This includes thousands of SEIU members who are security officers, office cleaners, and food service workers.
These workers will be forced to rely on public assistance (what’s left of it).
This shutdown will severely hurt federally contracted workers, who WILL NOT GET back-pay.
This includes thousands of SEIU members who are security officers, office cleaners, and food service workers.
These workers will be forced to rely on public assistance (what’s left of it).
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“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
September 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
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this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life
Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."
September 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life
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Hegseth is on an extended riff about how "war" is a better word than "defense" and it's like listening to a 7-year-old
September 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Hegseth is on an extended riff about how "war" is a better word than "defense" and it's like listening to a 7-year-old
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I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
September 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
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News organizations need to stop calling “immigration judges” — executive branch employees — judges in headlines.
Doing so does virtually the only thing a headline should never do: It confuses the reader.
Doing so does virtually the only thing a headline should never do: It confuses the reader.
September 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
News organizations need to stop calling “immigration judges” — executive branch employees — judges in headlines.
Doing so does virtually the only thing a headline should never do: It confuses the reader.
Doing so does virtually the only thing a headline should never do: It confuses the reader.
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Tommy Tuberville, arguably the dumbest senator to ever be elected, figured out how to hold up hundreds of military promotions for almost a year because he had a tantrum about abortion.
Dems need to treat this like the emergency it is and use the tools that normal citizens don’t have.
Dems need to treat this like the emergency it is and use the tools that normal citizens don’t have.
The wild thing, to me, is how Mitch McConnell—when he was Minority Leader—did so much to constantly fuck up what the dems—WHO HAD THE MAJORITY—wanted/tried to do, and now minority dem leaders do not have (or use) that same power/tactics.
Wtf.
Wtf.
September 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Tommy Tuberville, arguably the dumbest senator to ever be elected, figured out how to hold up hundreds of military promotions for almost a year because he had a tantrum about abortion.
Dems need to treat this like the emergency it is and use the tools that normal citizens don’t have.
Dems need to treat this like the emergency it is and use the tools that normal citizens don’t have.
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As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout.
Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
August 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout.
Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
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Let’s be clear about what is happening: This man is being punished — and disappeared — because he embarrassed our pretender king.
They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
Breaking news: Kilmar Abrego García was detained by ICE on Monday after arriving at the agency’s Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in after his release pending trial on human smuggling charges, his attorney said.
Kilmar Abrego García detained by ICE days after release from custody
Kilmar Abrego García was detained by ICE after arriving at the agency’s Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in after his release pending trial on human smuggling charges, his attorney s...
wapo.st
August 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Let’s be clear about what is happening: This man is being punished — and disappeared — because he embarrassed our pretender king.
They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
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85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani.
79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani.
67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.
65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.
Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?
79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani.
67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.
65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.
Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?
July 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani.
79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani.
67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.
65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.
Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?
79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani.
67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.
65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.
Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?
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One fascinating thing about the most self-serious newspaper in America with its staff of the winning journalistic meritocrats is that it routinely, institutionally publishes completely made-up bullshit speculation about pure abstractions, based on zero reporting, written as if it were plain facts
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July 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
One fascinating thing about the most self-serious newspaper in America with its staff of the winning journalistic meritocrats is that it routinely, institutionally publishes completely made-up bullshit speculation about pure abstractions, based on zero reporting, written as if it were plain facts
Photos of Venezuelan men returning home after four-month ordeal in El Salvador prison
Photos of Venezuelan men returning home after four-month ordeal in El Salvador prison
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — An emotional homecoming awaited Venezuelan men who spent four months in prison in El Salvador, where the U.S. government transferred them, accusing them of being members of a...
apnews.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Photos of Venezuelan men returning home after four-month ordeal in El Salvador prison
Andry is home! I wish him peace, safety, and justice.
Venezuelan makeup artist returns home, describes torture during El Salvador detention
A makeup artist who became the face of more than 250 Venezuelan migrants deported by the U.S. to El Salvador's most notorious prison arrived home to his family on Wednesday after what he described as "an encounter with torture and death."
www.reuters.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Andry is home! I wish him peace, safety, and justice.
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the lowest average gas price in america is in mississippi at $2.70/gallon. this is way beyond george hw bush not knowing how much milk costs
Trump: "The gas has gone to the lowest level in decades. You're seeing $1.99, $1.98, I saw $1.95 at certain states."
July 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
the lowest average gas price in america is in mississippi at $2.70/gallon. this is way beyond george hw bush not knowing how much milk costs
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Kim: I'm very concerned that if a hurricane hits, are we going to have to be begging Kristi Noem to be able to get off Instagram, to be able to actually go and do her job
July 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Kim: I'm very concerned that if a hurricane hits, are we going to have to be begging Kristi Noem to be able to get off Instagram, to be able to actually go and do her job