Rach Gonzalez
@rachgonzalez.bsky.social
Midwesterner in NYC. Just trying to make you proud!!! Neuroscientist, if you could believe that.
Any pronouns are fine, she/her is precedent.
Any pronouns are fine, she/her is precedent.
Secondary to the physical injury they're inflicting, can you imagine if any of the property damage we're seeing constantly, casually happened to you under other circumstances? If even just my car window shattered it would be rough due to financial & logistical stress, even before the state terror.
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Secondary to the physical injury they're inflicting, can you imagine if any of the property damage we're seeing constantly, casually happened to you under other circumstances? If even just my car window shattered it would be rough due to financial & logistical stress, even before the state terror.
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Thank you for this generosity, @dishsoapquart.bsky.social!
Gorgeous piece about cabbages and your place in the world. Lose yourself in "Wake" from @m-demarco-words.bsky.social
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/2-10-26
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/2-10-26
February 11, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Thank you for this generosity, @dishsoapquart.bsky.social!
"El pueblo unido jamás será vencido" (the people united will never be defeated) was popularized as a protest chant in support of socialist Chilean presidential candidate, later pres., Salvador Allende. Allende was coup-ed by the CIA to allow for the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 5:23 PM
"El pueblo unido jamás será vencido" (the people united will never be defeated) was popularized as a protest chant in support of socialist Chilean presidential candidate, later pres., Salvador Allende. Allende was coup-ed by the CIA to allow for the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
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There's apparently body cam footage of Alex's murder. Do people know this?
This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.
This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.
January 27, 2026 at 12:37 PM
There's apparently body cam footage of Alex's murder. Do people know this?
This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.
This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.
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Body cams for ICE is such an inane demand. 5 different angles of citizen footage can tell you they’ll carry out state-sanctioned kidnapping & murder w/ eyes on them or not. So you’re going to add one more source, but this time they can selectively withhold and manipulate the footage? Cool, smart.
January 27, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Body cams for ICE is such an inane demand. 5 different angles of citizen footage can tell you they’ll carry out state-sanctioned kidnapping & murder w/ eyes on them or not. So you’re going to add one more source, but this time they can selectively withhold and manipulate the footage? Cool, smart.
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
Everyone at this TurboTax presents Anderson .Paak event has nicer phones than I do, which is why I don’t have any pictures and they do, but I’m here, too. Me and TurboTax and Aaron Judge, we’re here.
January 16, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Everyone at this TurboTax presents Anderson .Paak event has nicer phones than I do, which is why I don’t have any pictures and they do, but I’m here, too. Me and TurboTax and Aaron Judge, we’re here.
The first time I went to a major city pride parade (very tame, extremely corporate,) a ~20yo, maybe 5' woman next to me started to step up on a barricade to see better and a cop screamed "GET THE FUCK BACK" and shoved her off.
I have to be honest. this isn't meant to downplay the seriousness of what's happening now, and this isn't meant to be glib. But this is also how ALL cops act. The first time I got screamed at like this by a cop, I was 16, because of a traffic jam in the school parking lot. Every single one of them
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
January 10, 2026 at 1:19 PM
The first time I went to a major city pride parade (very tame, extremely corporate,) a ~20yo, maybe 5' woman next to me started to step up on a barricade to see better and a cop screamed "GET THE FUCK BACK" and shoved her off.
Authoritarianism 🙂
January 8, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Authoritarianism 🙂
Truly bonkers acronym-ing here. (fwiw, per the originating paper, it's Transparency In The reporting of Artificial iNtelligence.) Also, please don't worry, the paper only used AI for formatting, and organizing background information, and checking for language consistency.
January 6, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Truly bonkers acronym-ing here. (fwiw, per the originating paper, it's Transparency In The reporting of Artificial iNtelligence.) Also, please don't worry, the paper only used AI for formatting, and organizing background information, and checking for language consistency.
One frustrating thing about the current American political landscape is that you reach the “no more useful information” point so fast.
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 PM
One frustrating thing about the current American political landscape is that you reach the “no more useful information” point so fast.
Anyone know how to predict what might happen when the US forcibly removes a South American governmental leader and announces open season for American oil companies to take over and privatize the sector? Anyone have a "the last half of the 20th century" to consult as reference?
January 3, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Anyone know how to predict what might happen when the US forcibly removes a South American governmental leader and announces open season for American oil companies to take over and privatize the sector? Anyone have a "the last half of the 20th century" to consult as reference?
This guy is so incredibly odious.
December 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This guy is so incredibly odious.
Tough day for the “calibri is a font for ghouls” community. You really hate to have such poor company.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Tough day for the “calibri is a font for ghouls” community. You really hate to have such poor company.
I am confident in my “ready and willing to move back to Chicago” position, but my brother and parents are currently just listing street names, so there *are* also things to worry about about the prospect.
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I am confident in my “ready and willing to move back to Chicago” position, but my brother and parents are currently just listing street names, so there *are* also things to worry about about the prospect.
Seems fairly clear that for a while until 2016ish, the common wisdom was that the median person was (relatively) fiscally conservative and socially liberal and the trump election revealed a flipped alignment. People want social safety nets and welfare, but in a way that benefits them.
this is just a wild thing to tweet a week after democrats won a statewide in Georgia by 20 points. completely divorced from the current electoral environment
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Seems fairly clear that for a while until 2016ish, the common wisdom was that the median person was (relatively) fiscally conservative and socially liberal and the trump election revealed a flipped alignment. People want social safety nets and welfare, but in a way that benefits them.
This is a Lin Manuel Miranda freestyle.
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is a Lin Manuel Miranda freestyle.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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I thought this was a really good and cogent analysis of the problem with pundits saying Dems have to moderate by @gelliottmorris.com and @onthemedia.bsky.social! www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Do Moderates Win More Elections? | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Why moderation might not be the silver bullet Democratic strategists seemed to crave.
www.wnycstudios.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I thought this was a really good and cogent analysis of the problem with pundits saying Dems have to moderate by @gelliottmorris.com and @onthemedia.bsky.social! www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
The Zohran Effect.
November 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The Zohran Effect.
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This election night, I’m glad to make my loyalties known. @hellgatenyc.com (and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) 4 NYC!!
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This election night, I’m glad to make my loyalties known. @hellgatenyc.com (and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) 4 NYC!!
I wonder, too, if the manner the info is conveyed is relevant. Had the dems *actually* talked about LGBTQ+ issues, they would have done it in a "we should support people who deserve it" way instead of a "these people absolutely don't deserve support, which is why we won't support them" way.
Yeah this drives me insane. Democrats didn't run on LGBTQ+ issues, the GOP did. By pushing anti-LGBTQ+ and lying that Democrats were campaigning on LGBTQ+.
October 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I wonder, too, if the manner the info is conveyed is relevant. Had the dems *actually* talked about LGBTQ+ issues, they would have done it in a "we should support people who deserve it" way instead of a "these people absolutely don't deserve support, which is why we won't support them" way.