Rachel Parker
@msraitchetp.bsky.social
Content marketing expert, co-host of PolitiGood podcast. Person who will not suffer fools. Ride or die St. Louis native. Former Los Angeles. Lover of sunshine, roses, St. Louis pizza, and extreme amounts of coffee.
This is classic A-list Hollywood. Go on strike, fight the good fight, make the Netflix battle all about the integrity of your art form.
Fine. But?
Accept 6-figure checks f/a deeply censorious regime that commissioned the 2018 murder of a journalist?
Uhhhh?
contrarian.substack.com/p/hollywood-...
Fine. But?
Accept 6-figure checks f/a deeply censorious regime that commissioned the 2018 murder of a journalist?
Uhhhh?
contrarian.substack.com/p/hollywood-...
Hollywood Stars Flock to Saudi Film Festival
Everyone has a price
contrarian.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This is classic A-list Hollywood. Go on strike, fight the good fight, make the Netflix battle all about the integrity of your art form.
Fine. But?
Accept 6-figure checks f/a deeply censorious regime that commissioned the 2018 murder of a journalist?
Uhhhh?
contrarian.substack.com/p/hollywood-...
Fine. But?
Accept 6-figure checks f/a deeply censorious regime that commissioned the 2018 murder of a journalist?
Uhhhh?
contrarian.substack.com/p/hollywood-...
Does someone want to tell him the whole thing about state's rights and how that's the driving force of the dark money that undergirds his entire stupid party?
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Trump Signs Executive Order That Threatens to Punish States for Passing AI Laws
The order creates a Justice Department task force to challenge state AI laws and directs the Commerce Department to pull future broadband funding from states that pass “onerous” legislation.
www.wired.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Does someone want to tell him the whole thing about state's rights and how that's the driving force of the dark money that undergirds his entire stupid party?
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Predatory sociopaths like RFK Jr don't just think they're thirst traps. They need *you* to tell them they are. RFK Jr and Trump are exactly the same. You always have to fold "predator" into your calculus of both. Constantly parading their fake manhood in front of us for validation.
Disgusting.
Disgusting.
Saladino: "The goal here is not for people to get sweaty in airports. Nobody wants to be sitting next to somebody smelling on an airplane. But ... "
December 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Predatory sociopaths like RFK Jr don't just think they're thirst traps. They need *you* to tell them they are. RFK Jr and Trump are exactly the same. You always have to fold "predator" into your calculus of both. Constantly parading their fake manhood in front of us for validation.
Disgusting.
Disgusting.
Exactly. Precisely. 1,000%. Totally.
If Hunter Biden had blown his nose in a Fox News bathroom w/a tissue an ambassador from the UK or France handed him, they would have lost their shit for four years.
Nearly $30B in foreign assets to buy up a media conglomerate? Sure. NBD. Why not?
If Hunter Biden had blown his nose in a Fox News bathroom w/a tissue an ambassador from the UK or France handed him, they would have lost their shit for four years.
Nearly $30B in foreign assets to buy up a media conglomerate? Sure. NBD. Why not?
Imagine if Hunter Biden tried a hostile takeover of Fox News using foreign funding to get more favorable coverage of his dad. The Trump family is the most corrupt administration in US history.
Christ on a cracker. Can we please just play the "if this were the Biden admin?" game long enough to digest how corrupt this is? Please?
December 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Exactly. Precisely. 1,000%. Totally.
If Hunter Biden had blown his nose in a Fox News bathroom w/a tissue an ambassador from the UK or France handed him, they would have lost their shit for four years.
Nearly $30B in foreign assets to buy up a media conglomerate? Sure. NBD. Why not?
If Hunter Biden had blown his nose in a Fox News bathroom w/a tissue an ambassador from the UK or France handed him, they would have lost their shit for four years.
Nearly $30B in foreign assets to buy up a media conglomerate? Sure. NBD. Why not?
Christ on a cracker. Can we please just play the "if this were the Biden admin?" game long enough to digest how corrupt this is? Please?
1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.
It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner and Saudis back hostile takeover of Hollywood giant
Jared Kushner is funneling $24 billion from Middle Eastern governments to back a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—all while advising President Trump on foreign policy.
popular.info
December 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Christ on a cracker. Can we please just play the "if this were the Biden admin?" game long enough to digest how corrupt this is? Please?
What I'm realizing about the WBD/Netflix deal is that many of you are not old enough to remember a time when production companies (MAJOR companies) went belly up. The home entertainment business (cable and rentals) changed all of that.
Consumer habits, in turn, shrank that income to a trickle.
Consumer habits, in turn, shrank that income to a trickle.
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
What I'm realizing about the WBD/Netflix deal is that many of you are not old enough to remember a time when production companies (MAJOR companies) went belly up. The home entertainment business (cable and rentals) changed all of that.
Consumer habits, in turn, shrank that income to a trickle.
Consumer habits, in turn, shrank that income to a trickle.
You don't have to post about complex court opinions, entertainment studio mergers, or technology platforms/products if you don't know anything about the law, the entertainment business, or how tech platforms/products actually work.
You just don't.
Also, please don't.
You just don't.
Also, please don't.
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
You don't have to post about complex court opinions, entertainment studio mergers, or technology platforms/products if you don't know anything about the law, the entertainment business, or how tech platforms/products actually work.
You just don't.
Also, please don't.
You just don't.
Also, please don't.
No one will watch this. More people will watch the clips dragging both of them on social the day after.
That's not how you save a flailing network.
Weiss is so inexperienced and inept, she thinks this will save her news division. She's naive and not nearly as smart as she thinks she is.
That's not how you save a flailing network.
Weiss is so inexperienced and inept, she thinks this will save her news division. She's naive and not nearly as smart as she thinks she is.
Bari Weiss has a CBS town hall set with Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk.
If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.
The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”
Via Jeremy Barr
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.
The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”
Via Jeremy Barr
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
Bari Weiss to moderate CBS News town hall with Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk
Exclusive: event, scheduled to air on 13 December, will focus on ‘grief, faith, politics, and more’, according to internal files
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
No one will watch this. More people will watch the clips dragging both of them on social the day after.
That's not how you save a flailing network.
Weiss is so inexperienced and inept, she thinks this will save her news division. She's naive and not nearly as smart as she thinks she is.
That's not how you save a flailing network.
Weiss is so inexperienced and inept, she thinks this will save her news division. She's naive and not nearly as smart as she thinks she is.
St. Louis: our mayor ran on a platform of snow removal and potholes using money from a former St. Louis-based developer's money.
If I were Mayor Spencer, I'd be visible AF. I would:
If I were Mayor Spencer, I'd be visible AF. I would:
December 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
St. Louis: our mayor ran on a platform of snow removal and potholes using money from a former St. Louis-based developer's money.
If I were Mayor Spencer, I'd be visible AF. I would:
If I were Mayor Spencer, I'd be visible AF. I would:
This week: People can no longer access Pornhub in Missouri, but hey at least they can easily place sports bets anywhere any time.
What a state.
What a state.
December 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This week: People can no longer access Pornhub in Missouri, but hey at least they can easily place sports bets anywhere any time.
What a state.
What a state.
Beato is no stranger to the music industry or YouTube. His take on AI is as good as it gets IMO. His analysis likely applies to other industries with reliable data sets. IDC how you feel about AI, just watch this. Thx.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECLy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECLy...
The AI Music Race is Over
YouTube video by Rick Beato
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Beato is no stranger to the music industry or YouTube. His take on AI is as good as it gets IMO. His analysis likely applies to other industries with reliable data sets. IDC how you feel about AI, just watch this. Thx.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECLy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECLy...
We have a president who pressured a motion picture studio into releasing a (probably) terrible film made by a credibly accused sexual predator.
Happy Thanksgiving, America.
Happy Thanksgiving, America.
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We have a president who pressured a motion picture studio into releasing a (probably) terrible film made by a credibly accused sexual predator.
Happy Thanksgiving, America.
Happy Thanksgiving, America.
Are we all finally learning the lesson that fascists in DC can harm you even if you live in a blue state? Have you learned that voting for a Dem supports not just you but those of us who live in the MAGA middle???
No?
Then please block me. I'm done w/you.
No?
Then please block me. I'm done w/you.
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Are we all finally learning the lesson that fascists in DC can harm you even if you live in a blue state? Have you learned that voting for a Dem supports not just you but those of us who live in the MAGA middle???
No?
Then please block me. I'm done w/you.
No?
Then please block me. I'm done w/you.
I am the wrong person to lead--let alone engage in--a conversation about open source AI but please please please if you are such a person maybe start screaming this from the rooftops:
www.wired.com/story/us-nee...
www.wired.com/story/us-nee...
The US Needs an Open Source AI Intervention to Beat China
Depending on foreign-made open models is both a supply chain risk and an innovation problem, experts say.
www.wired.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I am the wrong person to lead--let alone engage in--a conversation about open source AI but please please please if you are such a person maybe start screaming this from the rooftops:
www.wired.com/story/us-nee...
www.wired.com/story/us-nee...
There is a special brand of white supremacy that's still lingering in St. Louis County that makes me want to punch a puppy.
And I really love puppies.
But systemic racism and (literal) provincial AF wanna-be elitism? Not so much.
I'm so sick of it. And it's gonna get worse before it gets better.
And I really love puppies.
But systemic racism and (literal) provincial AF wanna-be elitism? Not so much.
I'm so sick of it. And it's gonna get worse before it gets better.
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
There is a special brand of white supremacy that's still lingering in St. Louis County that makes me want to punch a puppy.
And I really love puppies.
But systemic racism and (literal) provincial AF wanna-be elitism? Not so much.
I'm so sick of it. And it's gonna get worse before it gets better.
And I really love puppies.
But systemic racism and (literal) provincial AF wanna-be elitism? Not so much.
I'm so sick of it. And it's gonna get worse before it gets better.
Yeah...this is the literal definition of a surveillance state.
White people? This is coming for you next if you don't show up and vote for candidates who vow to abolish ICE.
White people? This is coming for you next if you don't show up and vote for candidates who vow to abolish ICE.
NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE
“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Yeah...this is the literal definition of a surveillance state.
White people? This is coming for you next if you don't show up and vote for candidates who vow to abolish ICE.
White people? This is coming for you next if you don't show up and vote for candidates who vow to abolish ICE.
In what I can only imagine is a trend that's about to get worse for newer entrants into the social space (such as it is): I deleted this app from my phone. I stopped using Meta apps on my phone years ago. I'll remain active on Threads for now.
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
In what I can only imagine is a trend that's about to get worse for newer entrants into the social space (such as it is): I deleted this app from my phone. I stopped using Meta apps on my phone years ago. I'll remain active on Threads for now.
To all of you who constantly trash "the mainstream media" on this platform: please remind yourselves that it was a Miami Herald journalist who uncovered the extent of Epstein's abuses by interviewing dozens of victims.
Her name: Julie K. Brown.
Her name: Julie K. Brown.
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
To all of you who constantly trash "the mainstream media" on this platform: please remind yourselves that it was a Miami Herald journalist who uncovered the extent of Epstein's abuses by interviewing dozens of victims.
Her name: Julie K. Brown.
Her name: Julie K. Brown.
I'm asking you to re-examine the critical and historic work of the Julie K. Brown and how she spent years exposing Epstein. Starting...here.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime
Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. Prosecutors, including future Trump labor secretary Alexander Acosta, cut Epstein an extraordinary...
www.miamiherald.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I'm asking you to re-examine the critical and historic work of the Julie K. Brown and how she spent years exposing Epstein. Starting...here.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
Only during a Trump administration do the home pages of national and international newspapers become one long trigger warning.
I really hope you all are doing okay.
Also holy shit this story.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I really hope you all are doing okay.
Also holy shit this story.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Steve Bannon advised Jeffrey Epstein for years on how to rehab his reputation, texts show
Pair devised responses to public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history, his treatment by the justice system, and his friendships with powerful people
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Only during a Trump administration do the home pages of national and international newspapers become one long trigger warning.
I really hope you all are doing okay.
Also holy shit this story.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I really hope you all are doing okay.
Also holy shit this story.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Maybe we need to accept that social platforms at scale peaked and it's time to make different choices in terms of how we connect and communicate w/each other.
Unless we want to continue eating at the same restaurant that serves terrible food and complaining about how bad it is in the restaurant?
Unless we want to continue eating at the same restaurant that serves terrible food and complaining about how bad it is in the restaurant?
at a freakin minimum the censors should disclose this detail about their chilling, de-platforming choices
Bluesky should really specify whether a suspension is temporary or permanent.
@pfrazee.com @aaron.bsky.team
@pfrazee.com @aaron.bsky.team
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Maybe we need to accept that social platforms at scale peaked and it's time to make different choices in terms of how we connect and communicate w/each other.
Unless we want to continue eating at the same restaurant that serves terrible food and complaining about how bad it is in the restaurant?
Unless we want to continue eating at the same restaurant that serves terrible food and complaining about how bad it is in the restaurant?
Hey, Team. I'm starting to realize the problem with this platform is that there just aren't enough people using it. I would love to see some DAU graphs for the last quarter.
I am losing hope that spending my time on here is remotely constructive or has a future.
Welcome your thoughts.
I am losing hope that spending my time on here is remotely constructive or has a future.
Welcome your thoughts.
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Hey, Team. I'm starting to realize the problem with this platform is that there just aren't enough people using it. I would love to see some DAU graphs for the last quarter.
I am losing hope that spending my time on here is remotely constructive or has a future.
Welcome your thoughts.
I am losing hope that spending my time on here is remotely constructive or has a future.
Welcome your thoughts.