Renee
@rasekel.bsky.social
Suburban mom and public school advocate. Co-host, Advocacy Bites podcast. Deputy TroubleNation Program Director, Red Wine & Blue. Posts are my own opinions.
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What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced
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800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel.
Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire.
Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year.
Glad everything worked out for them.
How about you?
Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire.
Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year.
Glad everything worked out for them.
How about you?
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel.
Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire.
Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year.
Glad everything worked out for them.
How about you?
Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire.
Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year.
Glad everything worked out for them.
How about you?
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People want life to be affordable, they want their local schools to be decent and well-defended, they want to have a job and a place to call home.
Basic values won last night, across party lines and across ideologies inside the parties.
Life. Liberty. Pursuit of Happiness.
Basic values won last night, across party lines and across ideologies inside the parties.
Life. Liberty. Pursuit of Happiness.
November 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
People want life to be affordable, they want their local schools to be decent and well-defended, they want to have a job and a place to call home.
Basic values won last night, across party lines and across ideologies inside the parties.
Life. Liberty. Pursuit of Happiness.
Basic values won last night, across party lines and across ideologies inside the parties.
Life. Liberty. Pursuit of Happiness.
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After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.
Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.
Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
buff.ly/nTvLlFI
Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
buff.ly/nTvLlFI
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Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
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The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.
This was beautifully written.
This morning I woke up and saw that Mamdani ad about Vito Marcantonio and was so stunned and excited by it that I wrote my first newsletter in months about Zohran, voting, Maine, New York socialism and my late grandmother. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
It's been forever...and yet: today!
Maine, New York City, Murphy Brown, Zohran Mamdani and the first Rebecca Traister
substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This was beautifully written.
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"The so-called Big Beautiful Bill was hailed by Republicans as a model of fiscal responsibility. In reality, it was a Trojan horse packed with provisions designed to quietly sabotage SNAP, one of the most effective anti-poverty programs in the nation." - Kristen Crowell
Read more: bit.ly/3LjVMnl
Read more: bit.ly/3LjVMnl
November 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"The so-called Big Beautiful Bill was hailed by Republicans as a model of fiscal responsibility. In reality, it was a Trojan horse packed with provisions designed to quietly sabotage SNAP, one of the most effective anti-poverty programs in the nation." - Kristen Crowell
Read more: bit.ly/3LjVMnl
Read more: bit.ly/3LjVMnl
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Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.
ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
November 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.
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When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.
October 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
Whew, Newby. One of the most unethical jurists I have ever observed. Iirc, he believes that nothing requires elections in NC to be fair. He declared his re-election campaign 8 years early to skirt judicial ethics rules. And he’s been denying NC’s kids their Constitutional rights for almost 2 years.
Few people outside North Carolina have heard of Paul Newby, the chief justice of the state’s Supreme Court.
But Newby has had a huge impact on America and his state. He’s done this with the goal of delivering what he’s called “biblical justice, equal justice, for all.”
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But Newby has had a huge impact on America and his state. He’s done this with the goal of delivering what he’s called “biblical justice, equal justice, for all.”
THREAD 👇
October 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Whew, Newby. One of the most unethical jurists I have ever observed. Iirc, he believes that nothing requires elections in NC to be fair. He declared his re-election campaign 8 years early to skirt judicial ethics rules. And he’s been denying NC’s kids their Constitutional rights for almost 2 years.
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Trump's DOJ is targeting House candidate @katmabu.bsky.social — who went viral earlier this year after video emerged of ICE agents slamming her to the ground — with conspiracy charges.
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✍️ @jesswash.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com
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✍️ @jesswash.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com
Trump’s DOJ Charged This House Candidate With Conspiracy For Protesting ICE #politics #trump
YouTube video by The Intercept
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October 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Trump's DOJ is targeting House candidate @katmabu.bsky.social — who went viral earlier this year after video emerged of ICE agents slamming her to the ground — with conspiracy charges.
Read more: interc.pt/4ns4JrW
✍️ @jesswash.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com
Read more: interc.pt/4ns4JrW
✍️ @jesswash.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com
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A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto
She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card
Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.
She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.
It’s retaliation & it’s wrong
She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card
Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.
She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.
It’s retaliation & it’s wrong
October 29, 2025 at 3:22 AM
A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto
She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card
Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.
She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.
It’s retaliation & it’s wrong
She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card
Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.
She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.
It’s retaliation & it’s wrong
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I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
October 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
Reports are that the “Antifa Lieutenant” goes by Emanuel Goldstein, and he will be the subject of today’s two minute hate.
FOX NEWS: "Antifa...took their anarchist cookbooks and gas masks up the street to a new safe house but the feds are on their tails. We just arrested a Portland Antifa lieutenant"
October 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Reports are that the “Antifa Lieutenant” goes by Emanuel Goldstein, and he will be the subject of today’s two minute hate.
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Lakeview Street Tear-Gassed By Agents Amid North Side Immigration Surge: 'It Hit Home'
Our story in @blockclubchi.bsky.social
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/24/l...
Our story in @blockclubchi.bsky.social
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/24/l...
October 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Lakeview Street Tear-Gassed By Agents Amid North Side Immigration Surge: 'It Hit Home'
Our story in @blockclubchi.bsky.social
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/24/l...
Our story in @blockclubchi.bsky.social
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/24/l...
No time to pass a budget, all the time in the world to harrass public schools.
Did NC school district ‘defy’ Parents’ Bill of Rights? House leader seeks answers. Rep. Brenden Jones says he’ll call Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board chair to testify at his committee if they’re defying SB49. (Via Twumasi Duah-Mensah) www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e... #ncpol #nced #ncga
Did NC school district ‘defy’ Parents’ Bill of Rights? House leader seeks answers
The X account Libs of TikTok posted a video of the CHCCS chair explaining why the district refused parts of the 2023 Parents’ Bill of Rights.
www.newsobserver.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
No time to pass a budget, all the time in the world to harrass public schools.
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BREAKING: Per new reporting, ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting under Kristi Noem. One was discovered to have a history of robbery and battery related to domestic violence while already in training.
October 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
BREAKING: Per new reporting, ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting under Kristi Noem. One was discovered to have a history of robbery and battery related to domestic violence while already in training.
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NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting
The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...
www.nbcnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Who approved the demolition of the fucking White House?
Congress isn’t even in session.
Congress isn’t even in session.
October 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Who approved the demolition of the fucking White House?
Congress isn’t even in session.
Congress isn’t even in session.
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Speaker Hall just said there likely won’t be any more recorded votes in the NC House this year.
Translation: Republicans are clocking out without passing a budget (their core responsibility).
..but they found time to rig maps for the 7th time.
Translation: Republicans are clocking out without passing a budget (their core responsibility).
..but they found time to rig maps for the 7th time.
October 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Speaker Hall just said there likely won’t be any more recorded votes in the NC House this year.
Translation: Republicans are clocking out without passing a budget (their core responsibility).
..but they found time to rig maps for the 7th time.
Translation: Republicans are clocking out without passing a budget (their core responsibility).
..but they found time to rig maps for the 7th time.
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a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
October 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
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It is an absolute scandal. An embarrassment. A tribute to the long history of state terrorism that codifies power. Shame, shame, shame.
Breaking News: North Carolina state senators approved a new congressional map that could give Republicans an extra seat. The state House is expected to pass it.
North Carolina State Senate Approves New Congressional Map in Effort to Add a Seat
The Trump administration has pushed Republican leaders to redraw House district maps before the midterm elections next year.
nyti.ms
October 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It is an absolute scandal. An embarrassment. A tribute to the long history of state terrorism that codifies power. Shame, shame, shame.
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If you think Republicans should stop rigging our maps, share this.
October 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
If you think Republicans should stop rigging our maps, share this.
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“Racist maps make racist reps! Racist maps make racist reps!”
After dozens of North Carolina voters gave public comment on proposed maps aimed at erasing Black voting power in CD1, lawmakers proceeded to kick those folks out #ncpol
After dozens of North Carolina voters gave public comment on proposed maps aimed at erasing Black voting power in CD1, lawmakers proceeded to kick those folks out #ncpol
October 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“Racist maps make racist reps! Racist maps make racist reps!”
After dozens of North Carolina voters gave public comment on proposed maps aimed at erasing Black voting power in CD1, lawmakers proceeded to kick those folks out #ncpol
After dozens of North Carolina voters gave public comment on proposed maps aimed at erasing Black voting power in CD1, lawmakers proceeded to kick those folks out #ncpol