Rebecca Bik
@bikster.bsky.social
Chicago-adjacent writer and consultant.
https://substack.com/@rebeccabikparker - about mental illness and parenting
https://growthelight.substack.com/ - about my work
https://substack.com/@rebeccabikparker - about mental illness and parenting
https://growthelight.substack.com/ - about my work
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This pumpkin got caught and is having to face the music…
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This pumpkin got caught and is having to face the music…
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Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.
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Count the ways they’re corrupting DOJ: Presidents don’t direct AG’s to open criminal cases, especially ones designating only Dems for investigation when POTUS himself is involved. DOJ doesn’t publicize criminal investigations & the AG definitely doesn’t assign them on Twitter.
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Count the ways they’re corrupting DOJ: Presidents don’t direct AG’s to open criminal cases, especially ones designating only Dems for investigation when POTUS himself is involved. DOJ doesn’t publicize criminal investigations & the AG definitely doesn’t assign them on Twitter.
I can't even.
Well that's an interesting way to cover the story, NYT.
November 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I can't even.
I had to write about Halloween in Evanston (a suburb of Chicago), which is under attack by ICE this year. Please check it out.
The Scariest Halloween Ever
here there be monsters
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November 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I had to write about Halloween in Evanston (a suburb of Chicago), which is under attack by ICE this year. Please check it out.
I've written more about what it's like not being able to allow your kid to be with you.
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Sudden Changes In Pressure
put your oxygen mask on first
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September 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I've written more about what it's like not being able to allow your kid to be with you.
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The old gods are speaking 🐙
September 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The old gods are speaking 🐙
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We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.
September 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
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Already seeing people excise the essential fact that trans existence was the inciting factor in the Texas A&M professor purge. Don't let them. Our lives are on the line and they want to make this solely about academic censorship.
September 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Already seeing people excise the essential fact that trans existence was the inciting factor in the Texas A&M professor purge. Don't let them. Our lives are on the line and they want to make this solely about academic censorship.
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NEW: Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics ran an anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, anti-gay slurs, and far-right conspiracy theories.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...
Trump’s pick to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics ran anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading and bigoted attacks | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics operated a since-deleted Twitter account that featured sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, derogatory remarks about gay...
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September 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
NEW: Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics ran an anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, anti-gay slurs, and far-right conspiracy theories.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...
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This is serious. Very serious.
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
www.texasobserver.org
July 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This is serious. Very serious.
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The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too
July 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too
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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest | US immigration
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets
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July 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest | US immigration
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The reason you stand up for trans youth is because eventually the government will come for your child's healthcare. Next it'll be antidepressants, birth control, vaccines, etc.
The Trump administration is inching closer to banning fluoride tablets and drops often prescribed to kids who don’t have access to fluoridated drinking water and are at high risk for mouths full of decayed teeth.
FDA to review prescription fluoride supplements for kids at risk for tooth decay
Banning supplements would be a double whammy in states that have already banned community water fluoridation, dentists say.
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July 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The reason you stand up for trans youth is because eventually the government will come for your child's healthcare. Next it'll be antidepressants, birth control, vaccines, etc.
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NEWS --> Sen Ron Wyden writes to Pam Bondi, urging DOJ to probe $1.5 billion in Epstein financial transactions that banks flagged for Treasury Dept. He lays out roadmap for DOJ to examine money flow related to sex trafficking. Challenges Bondi in new way.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/1982...
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/1982...
Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb
Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.
newrepublic.com
July 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
NEWS --> Sen Ron Wyden writes to Pam Bondi, urging DOJ to probe $1.5 billion in Epstein financial transactions that banks flagged for Treasury Dept. He lays out roadmap for DOJ to examine money flow related to sex trafficking. Challenges Bondi in new way.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/1982...
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/1982...
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Must read. This is criminal conduct, full stop.
July 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Must read. This is criminal conduct, full stop.
Every day brings more horrors.
🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
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They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
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July 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Every day brings more horrors.
It seems that I am shifting my focus in my "parenting under pressure" Substack from describing my kid with mental illness (and how amazing she is), to digging more into the effects on me and my own life. Let’s see where this goes.
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And Now, More About Me
It's not just the kid being affected by mental illness
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July 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
It seems that I am shifting my focus in my "parenting under pressure" Substack from describing my kid with mental illness (and how amazing she is), to digging more into the effects on me and my own life. Let’s see where this goes.
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Delegation is harder than you might think. I wrote about it in my most recent Grow The Light Substack post.
Share What's In Your Head
don't assume people know what you want
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July 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Delegation is harder than you might think. I wrote about it in my most recent Grow The Light Substack post.
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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Researchers Train Mice To Choose Between Life-Saving Medications And Other Essentials theonion.com/researc...
July 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Researchers Train Mice To Choose Between Life-Saving Medications And Other Essentials theonion.com/researc...
Here's a new (and very short) article from me, about what to do when someone tells you the sky is falling.
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Nice Story. Now Show Me The Data
anecdotes vs impact
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July 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Here's a new (and very short) article from me, about what to do when someone tells you the sky is falling.
open.substack.com/pub/growthel...
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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
June 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
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GOP Lawmakers Watch Silently As Trump Strangles Each Of Their Loved Ones In Turn
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GOP Lawmakers Watch Silently As Trump Strangles Each Of Their Loved Ones In Turn
WASHINGTON—Opting to take more of a wait-and-see approach instead of rushing to pass judgment, Republican lawmakers reportedly looked on in silence Tuesday as President Trump worked his way through each of their families and, one by one, strangled all their loved ones to death. “After I watched the president slowly and methodically squeeze the life out of my wife’s body as she gasped, futilely, for breath, he gave me his personal assurance that he was not responsible for her death, so I continue to stand by this administration,” said Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), who along with every Republican in both the House and Senate stated that while killing off their families in cold blood might not be entirely proper, it was certainly not an impeachable offense, no matter how the media tried to spin it. “Now, this is not an action I would have taken myself. I personally would not have wrapped my hands around my 5-year-old son’s neck and crushed his windpipe. But if Donald Trump’s approach to governing is sometimes a bit outside the ordinary, that’s because Donald Trump is no ordinary president. And maybe that’s not such a bad thing.” Later, with his beloved sister’s face turning purple as the commander-in-chief asphyxiated her with a length of barbed wire, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appeared on several television news networks and said impeaching the president for her imminent death would be “insane.”
theonion.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
GOP Lawmakers Watch Silently As Trump Strangles Each Of Their Loved Ones In Turn
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