Rachel Navarre
@rnavarre.bsky.social
Displaced South Louisianan. Associate prof of PoliSci @Bridgewater StateU (MA), studies Populism, immigration policy and other depressing things. Newest book The Age of Discontent is out now.
I miss properly seasoned seafood
She/ her
I miss properly seasoned seafood
She/ her
Pinned
Rachel Navarre
@rnavarre.bsky.social
· Mar 23
Boycott any company that sponsors. Let make sure it’s just Balance of nature, my pillow and relief factor and whatever else Foxnews one
Hey @democrats.org yet another story for your ad campaign that I’m really sure you’re going to start any second now.
Really “alright then, I’ll go to hell” true American vibes.
"you're gonna get in trouble for that"
*stone-faced*
"okay"
goddamn son
*stone-faced*
"okay"
goddamn son
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
February 13, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Really “alright then, I’ll go to hell” true American vibes.
This is a violation of my religious principles; I refuse the mark of the beast.
This is a serious statement of my deeply held beliefs that has congressional precedent originalists.
This is a serious statement of my deeply held beliefs that has congressional precedent originalists.
Trump’s follow up post says he’s going to issue an executive order on voter ID.
“If we can't get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted. I will be presenting them shortly, in the form of an Executive Order.”
“If we can't get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted. I will be presenting them shortly, in the form of an Executive Order.”
February 13, 2026 at 11:50 PM
This is a violation of my religious principles; I refuse the mark of the beast.
This is a serious statement of my deeply held beliefs that has congressional precedent originalists.
This is a serious statement of my deeply held beliefs that has congressional precedent originalists.
Can’t believe a wine mom did the tweet before any internet leftist actually did.
February 13, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Can’t believe a wine mom did the tweet before any internet leftist actually did.
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In the air for three hours did it happen?
February 13, 2026 at 11:44 PM
In the air for three hours did it happen?
God, how we need a Sumner, not Schumer now: “[Sumner] believed that conviction not concession was the key to political success…. Lydia Marie Childs said “the Republican Party don’t know how to appreciate his honesty and moral courage… 1/2
February 13, 2026 at 10:32 PM
God, how we need a Sumner, not Schumer now: “[Sumner] believed that conviction not concession was the key to political success…. Lydia Marie Childs said “the Republican Party don’t know how to appreciate his honesty and moral courage… 1/2
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Important story by @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social
“We had reached a saturation point”... ICE agents were “literally swarming all over the schools, day in and day out, in the morning, in the middle of the day ... on the weekends. We just decided that we couldn't even have a bigger target on our back.”
“We had reached a saturation point”... ICE agents were “literally swarming all over the schools, day in and day out, in the morning, in the middle of the day ... on the weekends. We just decided that we couldn't even have a bigger target on our back.”
When U.S. Immigration and Customs agents first descended on families in Columbia Heights schools, superintendent Zena Stenvik smoldered but stayed quiet.
Then federal agents came for 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, and silence was no longer an option.
Then federal agents came for 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, and silence was no longer an option.
‘Time to speak up’: In Columbia Heights, school leaders stepped in to protect families as ICE surged
As federal immigration agents descended on Columbia Heights families, the school superintendent expected to stay silent. Then federal agents came for 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, and s...
www.mprnews.org
February 13, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Important story by @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social
“We had reached a saturation point”... ICE agents were “literally swarming all over the schools, day in and day out, in the morning, in the middle of the day ... on the weekends. We just decided that we couldn't even have a bigger target on our back.”
“We had reached a saturation point”... ICE agents were “literally swarming all over the schools, day in and day out, in the morning, in the middle of the day ... on the weekends. We just decided that we couldn't even have a bigger target on our back.”
This is so gross especially from the people that have been lecturing us about duty, responsibility, and morality. They want us to be subject to their religion, but only when it controls us, never to uplift. The Lord may hear the cry of the poor, but these guys never do.
there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:25 PM
This is so gross especially from the people that have been lecturing us about duty, responsibility, and morality. They want us to be subject to their religion, but only when it controls us, never to uplift. The Lord may hear the cry of the poor, but these guys never do.
It’s almost #RexComus night!!!!
a woman is standing in a living room with her mouth open and a lamp in the background .
Alt: Lucille Bluth is very excited and happy
media.tenor.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:25 AM
It’s almost #RexComus night!!!!
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The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.
If you’re looking for an academic explanation, there are much worse places to start than with. People don’t know how the system works, but even worse, don’t know they don’t know. academic.oup.com/book/55770?l...
February 12, 2026 at 3:01 PM
If you’re looking for an academic explanation, there are much worse places to start than with. People don’t know how the system works, but even worse, don’t know they don’t know. academic.oup.com/book/55770?l...
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This is as good a description as you'll see of the abuse of process and conspiracy against the Constitution going on right now.
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
1/
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
1/
February 12, 2026 at 12:31 PM
This is as good a description as you'll see of the abuse of process and conspiracy against the Constitution going on right now.
For all that is holy Dems, run on anti-corruption. Promise to ban individual stock trading; a constitutional amendment on campaign finance and that applies the same corruption laws to low level employees to all elected or nominated + publicize how the budget is PUBLIC as is the debates about it!
Jackson’s Rebecca Bextel gave campaign checks to some lawmakers on the House floor Monday. The move quickly became the chatter of the Capitol. Then, on Wednesday, quiet rumors spilled into a tense confrontation in the House when a lawmaker raised concerns. wyofile.com/conservative...
Conservative activist hands checks to lawmakers on Wyoming House floor. Controversy erupts. - WyoFile
Rebecca Bextel of Jackson admitted to “delivering lawful campaign checks from Teton County donors.” Republican, Democratic lawmakers cry foul.
wyofile.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:39 AM
For all that is holy Dems, run on anti-corruption. Promise to ban individual stock trading; a constitutional amendment on campaign finance and that applies the same corruption laws to low level employees to all elected or nominated + publicize how the budget is PUBLIC as is the debates about it!
This. It really does only take a few people and you have more fun that way. Also, it helps break up group think! Sometimes newbs ideas don’t work, or were already tried, but many times they just we able to look at it without the build up of how we approach this sort of thing.
i'm pretty sure I was the only non-STEM person who'd ever joined the club at the time, and they were all VERY nice.
it really just takes a few people to craft a welcoming culture capable of overcoming so much stupid shit we're culturally subjected to about who gets to be good at certain things.
it really just takes a few people to craft a welcoming culture capable of overcoming so much stupid shit we're culturally subjected to about who gets to be good at certain things.
February 11, 2026 at 5:17 PM
This. It really does only take a few people and you have more fun that way. Also, it helps break up group think! Sometimes newbs ideas don’t work, or were already tried, but many times they just we able to look at it without the build up of how we approach this sort of thing.
If your rep is a Republican here’s how to hit the greatest hits of right-wing projecting: “well how will they know I’m not an immigrant? They don’t have to bring you to court now so how do they know? I got to carry papers now? Or the Feds got a giant database of us? What do they need that for?”
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:13 PM
If your rep is a Republican here’s how to hit the greatest hits of right-wing projecting: “well how will they know I’m not an immigrant? They don’t have to bring you to court now so how do they know? I got to carry papers now? Or the Feds got a giant database of us? What do they need that for?”
Just found out someone I know who’s always been incredibly nice to me has a job at one of those free speech centers. You know, the ones that exist because there’s discrimination in higher ed but they are the only ones that hire on an explicitly ideological basis?
February 11, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Just found out someone I know who’s always been incredibly nice to me has a job at one of those free speech centers. You know, the ones that exist because there’s discrimination in higher ed but they are the only ones that hire on an explicitly ideological basis?
Police who live in their communities often park their cars outside their home. Some agencies put full government names on patrol cars. CBP/ICE get paid more and do a whole lot less.
Todd Lyons, Trump's ICE chief, is testifying this morning in a House hearing.
Lyons will say in his opening remarks that ICE is somehow the victim of ICE's reign of terror and violence in Minnesota, not the immigrants too traumatized to go outside or the American citizens ICE/CBP have killed.
Lyons will say in his opening remarks that ICE is somehow the victim of ICE's reign of terror and violence in Minnesota, not the immigrants too traumatized to go outside or the American citizens ICE/CBP have killed.
February 11, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Police who live in their communities often park their cars outside their home. Some agencies put full government names on patrol cars. CBP/ICE get paid more and do a whole lot less.
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Last week, I published a report - the "Political Disconnect" -based on interviews with 144 low-income & working-class people, across racial groups, who don't usually vote. They are the experts on why, and today I want to share their words.
www.swarthmore.edu/u...
www.swarthmore.edu/u...
February 10, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Last week, I published a report - the "Political Disconnect" -based on interviews with 144 low-income & working-class people, across racial groups, who don't usually vote. They are the experts on why, and today I want to share their words.
www.swarthmore.edu/u...
www.swarthmore.edu/u...
Read the thread if you don’t know who this person is, but once again, I’m more than willing to take a 99% tax rate in exchange for a billion dollars.
February 10, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Read the thread if you don’t know who this person is, but once again, I’m more than willing to take a 99% tax rate in exchange for a billion dollars.
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1/ This type of government spending is well within my area of expertise, so let me offer my two cents. Long story short, there's a very important and somewhat dangerous way in which this pattern of spending isn't normal, and a one interesting way in which it is very normal. 🧵
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 10:43 PM
1/ This type of government spending is well within my area of expertise, so let me offer my two cents. Long story short, there's a very important and somewhat dangerous way in which this pattern of spending isn't normal, and a one interesting way in which it is very normal. 🧵
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Riffing on this idea…
We need security force defections. We do not win until rank and file ICE agents quit and join us.
So how do we accomplish that? How do we create a message that will “encourage” this result?
And I may have stumbled on an idea…
We need security force defections. We do not win until rank and file ICE agents quit and join us.
So how do we accomplish that? How do we create a message that will “encourage” this result?
And I may have stumbled on an idea…
Why protest at an ICE detention center if you’re gonna face the speakers toward the street and talk about the horrors of ICE?
They know more about conditions in those buildings than we do. We should be pounding on them that THEY are the monsters but THEY can change that.
They know more about conditions in those buildings than we do. We should be pounding on them that THEY are the monsters but THEY can change that.
February 8, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Riffing on this idea…
We need security force defections. We do not win until rank and file ICE agents quit and join us.
So how do we accomplish that? How do we create a message that will “encourage” this result?
And I may have stumbled on an idea…
We need security force defections. We do not win until rank and file ICE agents quit and join us.
So how do we accomplish that? How do we create a message that will “encourage” this result?
And I may have stumbled on an idea…
If you want more antebellum and Civil War Era knowledge that seems eerily familiar with today, I strongly suggest this book. My most recent heavy sigh and staring at the wall was caused by “but even condemning a physical attack became partisan….”
bookshop.org/p/books/char...
bookshop.org/p/books/char...
February 9, 2026 at 5:09 PM
If you want more antebellum and Civil War Era knowledge that seems eerily familiar with today, I strongly suggest this book. My most recent heavy sigh and staring at the wall was caused by “but even condemning a physical attack became partisan….”
bookshop.org/p/books/char...
bookshop.org/p/books/char...
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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A confidential agreement provides yet more evidence of the administration’s campaign to interfere with upcoming elections. bit.ly/46tX4nd
“Confidential” Agreements Show Trump Administration’s Plans for States’ Voter Data
At least 10 states have handed over their full voter files to the Justice Department.
www.brennancenter.org
February 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
A confidential agreement provides yet more evidence of the administration’s campaign to interfere with upcoming elections. bit.ly/46tX4nd
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From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵
First shot: sugarcane
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
February 9, 2026 at 3:54 AM
From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵