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Rachel Weaver (she/her)
@dorothylnaysayer.bsky.social
Erstwhile bookseller, once and future crafter, dog mom. Audiobooks are books, you judgy neurotypicals. 🍉🇵🇸
I am American and I have never in my life heard the phrase “loaded for bear” until now. Maybe because I’ve only lived in larger northern cities without a gun or hunting culture?
December 10, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Convinced this song is just someone using auto-tune and repeating "sexy mime" approximately once every 10 seconds.
December 7, 2024 at 9:40 PM
The longest, most chaotic security lines, and it’s impossible to tell how close you are to making it through. I love London, but I literally have regular anxiety dreams about missing my flight at Heathrow.
November 25, 2024 at 12:27 PM
I don't really expect to agree with any OpEd section at all times, and they are nonprofit journalism, which is important. I think they're better on global issues than most U.S.-based news, actually often better on U.S. politics TBH. They're on notice, but I'm not ready to dump them quite yet.
November 21, 2024 at 3:27 PM
They've funded specific projects relating to poverty, homelessness, and global health. I see your point, but I doubt this affects their political reporting.
November 21, 2024 at 3:21 PM
I mean, at least they're not owned by a billionaire hoping to be Trump's next pet tech bro.
November 21, 2024 at 11:47 AM
And this idea that he'll go after big pharma? If there's one thing that will stop him from getting Senate confirmation, that's the deal breaker. They're all bought and paid for by big pharma. It's a question of who they're more afraid of, Trump, or their sugar daddy.
November 21, 2024 at 11:31 AM
I'm sorry, why did I just switch my WaPo subscription money to the Guardian?
November 21, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Ah. IMO that was a perfectly reasonable protest vote for a solidly blue state voter in 2016.
November 19, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Kamau didn't vote for Stein. He wrote about his entire thought process for choosing to vote for Kamala in his substack. open.substack.com/pub/wkamaube...
Not An Endorsement, A Reality
The story behind my new political ad "Who's Gonna Catch Your Kid?"
open.substack.com
November 19, 2024 at 4:16 PM