Rachel Dean-Ruzicka (She/Her)
@drracheldr.bsky.social
PhD in Cultural Studies. Currently researching Stranger Things (and always strange(r) things). Cat lover. Tasty food cooker and eater. Game player. Cryptid admirer. Podcast afficianado.
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I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.
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“One of the attorneys said part of the operational plan involves undercover ICE and FBI agents attending and documenting church security plans.”
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“One of the attorneys said part of the operational plan involves undercover ICE and FBI agents attending and documenting church security plans.”
Waymos are so weird. So very weird. But I can listen to the new Nature Trail to Hell episode out loud and it doesn't smell like weed, so there are some bonuses.
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Waymos are so weird. So very weird. But I can listen to the new Nature Trail to Hell episode out loud and it doesn't smell like weed, so there are some bonuses.
Some days you get dressed in the morning and then spend the whole day wondering "AM I a vest person? Am I?"
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Some days you get dressed in the morning and then spend the whole day wondering "AM I a vest person? Am I?"
Top five movie genres:
1. True love but also swordfighting, please.
2. Heck, that was odd. I mean really, truly odd.
3. Twee as all get out.
4. Space opera. Sometimes a musical space western.
5. Murder most period-piece.
1. True love but also swordfighting, please.
2. Heck, that was odd. I mean really, truly odd.
3. Twee as all get out.
4. Space opera. Sometimes a musical space western.
5. Murder most period-piece.
Top five movie genres:
1. Samurai (broadly construed) are philosophical (VERY broadly construed)
2. Godzilla (narrowly construed)
3. Space is like, big, man. Like real big. So big. It's big, is what I am saying.
4. Everybody dies, beauty still exists
5. Actually Just Colors on Celluloid
1. Samurai (broadly construed) are philosophical (VERY broadly construed)
2. Godzilla (narrowly construed)
3. Space is like, big, man. Like real big. So big. It's big, is what I am saying.
4. Everybody dies, beauty still exists
5. Actually Just Colors on Celluloid
The top five movie genres are:
1. Buddy con/grift/heist
2. Magical toys/creatures (traditional animation or puppets strongly preferred)
3. Totally juvenile sex comedy
4. Smart, beautiful people slowly growing apart
5. Revenge
1. Buddy con/grift/heist
2. Magical toys/creatures (traditional animation or puppets strongly preferred)
3. Totally juvenile sex comedy
4. Smart, beautiful people slowly growing apart
5. Revenge
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Top five movie genres:
1. True love but also swordfighting, please.
2. Heck, that was odd. I mean really, truly odd.
3. Twee as all get out.
4. Space opera. Sometimes a musical space western.
5. Murder most period-piece.
1. True love but also swordfighting, please.
2. Heck, that was odd. I mean really, truly odd.
3. Twee as all get out.
4. Space opera. Sometimes a musical space western.
5. Murder most period-piece.
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Thing that rattles around in my head:
Fifteen or so years go I attended a book event for two ghost hunters. One of them just casually said, "As we all know, ghosts can't move anything heavier than a five-pound bag of flour."
I think about this ALL. THE. TIME.
Fifteen or so years go I attended a book event for two ghost hunters. One of them just casually said, "As we all know, ghosts can't move anything heavier than a five-pound bag of flour."
I think about this ALL. THE. TIME.
November 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Thing that rattles around in my head:
Fifteen or so years go I attended a book event for two ghost hunters. One of them just casually said, "As we all know, ghosts can't move anything heavier than a five-pound bag of flour."
I think about this ALL. THE. TIME.
Fifteen or so years go I attended a book event for two ghost hunters. One of them just casually said, "As we all know, ghosts can't move anything heavier than a five-pound bag of flour."
I think about this ALL. THE. TIME.
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👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
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November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
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To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
Doing my very best to put together a class on AI Ethics in Fiction and Film that cites 0 white guys. I can't entirely have a cast of women or bipoc creators due to the writers/directors of some necessary films, but I'm doing well on theory, fiction, & comics.
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Doing my very best to put together a class on AI Ethics in Fiction and Film that cites 0 white guys. I can't entirely have a cast of women or bipoc creators due to the writers/directors of some necessary films, but I'm doing well on theory, fiction, & comics.
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Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!
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feel like not nearly enough people are talking about this — apparently the democratic “yes” votes have effectively agreed to having the u.s. government write 6 republican senators $500k checks?
Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
feel like not nearly enough people are talking about this — apparently the democratic “yes” votes have effectively agreed to having the u.s. government write 6 republican senators $500k checks?
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Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
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My book was one the books these kids saved. They are absolute heroes. But I'm so enraged that ignorant adults put them in this position.
Last month, eight books were removed from Georgia's statewide reading book for students. It was teenagers who brought this censorship to the spotlight–even though it's not their job to clean up grown-up messes.
Get to know 3 of those teens here.
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
Get to know 3 of those teens here.
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
Meet the High Schoolers Who Overturned a State Reading Bowl Book Ban: Book Censorship News, November 7, 2025
A Georgia statewide reading bowl banned eight books. These students led the charge to get the bans overturned and succeeded.
bookriot.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
My book was one the books these kids saved. They are absolute heroes. But I'm so enraged that ignorant adults put them in this position.
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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I spent a good chunk of the past 11 months angry, angry at what this regime is doing to this country.
But im feeling levels of unbridled rage that I have not felt in years after watching the democrats negate their biggest win in years with a deal that gives the regime an even bigger victory
But im feeling levels of unbridled rage that I have not felt in years after watching the democrats negate their biggest win in years with a deal that gives the regime an even bigger victory
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I spent a good chunk of the past 11 months angry, angry at what this regime is doing to this country.
But im feeling levels of unbridled rage that I have not felt in years after watching the democrats negate their biggest win in years with a deal that gives the regime an even bigger victory
But im feeling levels of unbridled rage that I have not felt in years after watching the democrats negate their biggest win in years with a deal that gives the regime an even bigger victory
Yeah, no more money goes from me to the Democrats. Y'all deserve whatever losses you get after this. Even you, @warnock.senate.gov and @ossoff.senate.gov . Get rid of @schumer.senate.gov and maybe, maybe you can win a few of us back.
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Yeah, no more money goes from me to the Democrats. Y'all deserve whatever losses you get after this. Even you, @warnock.senate.gov and @ossoff.senate.gov . Get rid of @schumer.senate.gov and maybe, maybe you can win a few of us back.
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they avoided talking about fascism all year by being like “healthcare healthcare healthcare” and then they blew up our healthcare??? and you think you’re entitled to my vote why exactly???
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
they avoided talking about fascism all year by being like “healthcare healthcare healthcare” and then they blew up our healthcare??? and you think you’re entitled to my vote why exactly???
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Just thinking about this scene today
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Just thinking about this scene today
What are @democrats.senate.gov even thinking? I hope these promises to cave are all from a mistaken GOP leak. You had a great election this week. Throwing away all that good will is beyond foolish. @schumer.senate.gov leadership remains beyond suspect.
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
What are @democrats.senate.gov even thinking? I hope these promises to cave are all from a mistaken GOP leak. You had a great election this week. Throwing away all that good will is beyond foolish. @schumer.senate.gov leadership remains beyond suspect.