Rachel
@rachcake.bsky.social
bone collector. I *never* forget.
My biggest weakness is also my biggest strength: I hold grudges.
collecting all the relevant news & info before we no longer can… a hobby of mine that started on twitter back in ‘15 other than that just livin’ the dream
My biggest weakness is also my biggest strength: I hold grudges.
collecting all the relevant news & info before we no longer can… a hobby of mine that started on twitter back in ‘15 other than that just livin’ the dream
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Don't ever forget - the media (not just corporate, either; also WAMU's @politicshour) RELENTLESSLY normalized, whitewashed, etc. this guy. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/sund...
December 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Don't ever forget - the media (not just corporate, either; also WAMU's @politicshour) RELENTLESSLY normalized, whitewashed, etc. this guy. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/sund...
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“There’s power in numbers, and now that people have seen we’ve successfully stopped abductions, I hope they can get out there too...”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘There’s power in numbers’: New Yorkers are banding together to protect street vendors from ICE
With ICE targeting vendors and fear rising, community groups are organising fast to keep New Yorkers working on the streets safe
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:34 AM
“There’s power in numbers, and now that people have seen we’ve successfully stopped abductions, I hope they can get out there too...”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Election returns are coming in from Texas (yup, it’s Election night).
1/ In Houston’s at-large city council race, progressive newcomer Alejandra Salinas leads the more moderate former councilmember looking for a comeback, 57% to 43% with all early and mail in.
1/ In Houston’s at-large city council race, progressive newcomer Alejandra Salinas leads the more moderate former councilmember looking for a comeback, 57% to 43% with all early and mail in.
December 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Election returns are coming in from Texas (yup, it’s Election night).
1/ In Houston’s at-large city council race, progressive newcomer Alejandra Salinas leads the more moderate former councilmember looking for a comeback, 57% to 43% with all early and mail in.
1/ In Houston’s at-large city council race, progressive newcomer Alejandra Salinas leads the more moderate former councilmember looking for a comeback, 57% to 43% with all early and mail in.
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"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
December 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
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Fact-check: true
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Fact-check: true
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The RFK, jr effect.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The RFK, jr effect.
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"We can never unring the bell that has been rung," @judgeluttig.bsky.social says of Trump's impact on the nation. "Never again will the world view America in the same way that it has for the past 250 years."
December 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"We can never unring the bell that has been rung," @judgeluttig.bsky.social says of Trump's impact on the nation. "Never again will the world view America in the same way that it has for the past 250 years."
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This week had more new measles cases than sales of “American Canto”.
Hope the media is proud.
Hope the media is proud.
December 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This week had more new measles cases than sales of “American Canto”.
Hope the media is proud.
Hope the media is proud.
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Don’t worry, CBS News is completely unaffected by the new change in management.
December 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Don’t worry, CBS News is completely unaffected by the new change in management.
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Just a reminder that ICE didn't exist until 2002. It's not some longstanding institution that must be maintained. It was created as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, and it could be gotten rid of as easily as it was created.
December 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Just a reminder that ICE didn't exist until 2002. It's not some longstanding institution that must be maintained. It was created as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, and it could be gotten rid of as easily as it was created.
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VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Lawless, criminal behavior
December 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Lawless, criminal behavior
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AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022.
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
December 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022.
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
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One of the worst parts of the modern condition is having to listen to billionaires airing out the stupidest policy ideas, random musings, and other mental detritus. It’s unbearable.
December 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
One of the worst parts of the modern condition is having to listen to billionaires airing out the stupidest policy ideas, random musings, and other mental detritus. It’s unbearable.
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The Chandler City Council has voted unanimously to reject this AI data center that Kyrsten Sinema was paid to lobby for.
🔗: https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/kyrsten-sinema-is-getting-paid-to-push-for-a-chandler-data-center-40625888/
When the ex-senator threatened Chandler over a data center, she was working as a paid lobbyist. She might suck at it.
When the ex-senator threatened Chandler over a data center, she was working as a paid lobbyist. She might suck at it.
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The Chandler City Council has voted unanimously to reject this AI data center that Kyrsten Sinema was paid to lobby for.
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Appreciate this letter from MN State Sen Jim Abler (R-Anoka) to POTUS
December 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Appreciate this letter from MN State Sen Jim Abler (R-Anoka) to POTUS
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
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so, this right here? this is one of the absolutely most lawless, brazenly unconstitutional impeachable offenses ever committed by any president other than trump in the history of our country.
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
so, this right here? this is one of the absolutely most lawless, brazenly unconstitutional impeachable offenses ever committed by any president other than trump in the history of our country.
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
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NEW: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) says Colorado will not release Tina Peters after President Trump announced he is pardoning her state-level convictions.
"This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."
"This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."
December 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
NEW: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) says Colorado will not release Tina Peters after President Trump announced he is pardoning her state-level convictions.
"This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."
"This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."
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It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
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Just imagine the reaction by right wingers if the Biden administration had done something like this??? bluevirginia.us/2025/12/frid... h/t @christopherjhale.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Just imagine the reaction by right wingers if the Biden administration had done something like this??? bluevirginia.us/2025/12/frid... h/t @christopherjhale.bsky.social
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Notice the pattern: help a narrow group loudly, hurt everyone else quietly. Tariffs help a few steel workers but raise prices for every firm using steel. Tax cuts favor the rich while squeezing social programs. Politically noisy wins, economically costly losses.
December 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Notice the pattern: help a narrow group loudly, hurt everyone else quietly. Tariffs help a few steel workers but raise prices for every firm using steel. Tax cuts favor the rich while squeezing social programs. Politically noisy wins, economically costly losses.
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shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights