Rachel
@rachel-t.bsky.social
Software Dev, Python, Texas, Hardcore Liberal, she/her
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I'll say this again. ALL VOTING is tactical. YOU WILL NEVER have candidates to give you everything. That is the same for any party. The difference is being able to live with results. Having said that, it is a responsibility to USE YOUR VOTE. Otherwise you may not have another. Your current path...
April 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I'll say this again. ALL VOTING is tactical. YOU WILL NEVER have candidates to give you everything. That is the same for any party. The difference is being able to live with results. Having said that, it is a responsibility to USE YOUR VOTE. Otherwise you may not have another. Your current path...
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Hell yes Canada 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
April 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Hell yes Canada 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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Free Palestine, Uncommitted, Arabs and Rashida for Trump where are you? Why the silence? You were so vocal before Nov5.
April 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Free Palestine, Uncommitted, Arabs and Rashida for Trump where are you? Why the silence? You were so vocal before Nov5.
The biggest delusion of accelerationist leftists is the fantasy that somehow if there was a revolution that there would be communism. In America it will end up as fascism every single time and they are trying to force that into becoming a reality.
April 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The biggest delusion of accelerationist leftists is the fantasy that somehow if there was a revolution that there would be communism. In America it will end up as fascism every single time and they are trying to force that into becoming a reality.
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April 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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I’m shocked, SHOCKED to find right-wing commentators all of a sudden discovering their deep-seated opposition to the combination of forum-shopping and nationwide injunctions.
It’s almost like folks who have been writing about this previously were genuinely concerned about the systemic effects…
It’s almost like folks who have been writing about this previously were genuinely concerned about the systemic effects…
February 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I’m shocked, SHOCKED to find right-wing commentators all of a sudden discovering their deep-seated opposition to the combination of forum-shopping and nationwide injunctions.
It’s almost like folks who have been writing about this previously were genuinely concerned about the systemic effects…
It’s almost like folks who have been writing about this previously were genuinely concerned about the systemic effects…
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The biggest story in the country right now is how many lawsuits DOJ is losing trying to defend Musk and Trump. I've never seen so many courts, so clearly outraged at the federal government. The latest one, blocks cuts at HHS and FDA.
Visit www.democracydocket.com to stay informed.
Visit www.democracydocket.com to stay informed.
February 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The biggest story in the country right now is how many lawsuits DOJ is losing trying to defend Musk and Trump. I've never seen so many courts, so clearly outraged at the federal government. The latest one, blocks cuts at HHS and FDA.
Visit www.democracydocket.com to stay informed.
Visit www.democracydocket.com to stay informed.
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BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![TOTE ASTRICT COLOR
DOCTORS FOR AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
Civil Action No. 25-322 (JDB)
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT et al.,
Defendants.
ORDER
Upon consideration of [6] Plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order, [8]
Plaintiff's supplemental declarations, [9] Defendants' opposition, [10] Plaintiff's reply, the
hearing on February 10, 2025, and the entire record herein, and for the reasons stated in the
accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that
1. Defendants Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and Food
and Drug Administration (hereinafter "defendants") shall, by not later than 11:59 pm on
February 11, 2025, restore to their versions as of January 30, 2025, each webpage and dataset
identified by Plaintiff on pages 6-12 of its Memorandum of Law in Support of the Motion for
a Restraining Order [ECF No. 6-1];
2. Defendants shall, in consultation with Plaintiff, identify any other resources that DF A members
rely on to provide medical care and that defendants removed or substantially modified on or
after January 29, 2025, without adequate notice or reasoned explanation; and defendants shall,
by February 14, 2025, restore those resources to their versions as of January 30, 2025;](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifoaihlyxzbiko32lmralzpicfxnzwfoxp3ki5w4wniiihonzxira@jpeg)
February 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I love you bluesky but I admit I don’t totally understand the rabid and uncritical AI hate that predominates here
January 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I love you bluesky but I admit I don’t totally understand the rabid and uncritical AI hate that predominates here
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Ceding techno optimism to the right is a generational scale mistake
January 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Ceding techno optimism to the right is a generational scale mistake
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Techno optimism has enabled the most enormous increase in overall material well being for humans on this planet ever. There is no way we live here with 8 billion neighbors without the benefits of technology.
January 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Techno optimism has enabled the most enormous increase in overall material well being for humans on this planet ever. There is no way we live here with 8 billion neighbors without the benefits of technology.
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Another reason to ❤️ Costco.
While Target and others cancel diversity to appease Trump, Costco’s investing in the community—building apartments above its stores, starting in LA.
This $425M project includes 184 low-income units, with key services, plus a rooftop pool and fitness center.
While Target and others cancel diversity to appease Trump, Costco’s investing in the community—building apartments above its stores, starting in LA.
This $425M project includes 184 low-income units, with key services, plus a rooftop pool and fitness center.
February 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Another reason to ❤️ Costco.
While Target and others cancel diversity to appease Trump, Costco’s investing in the community—building apartments above its stores, starting in LA.
This $425M project includes 184 low-income units, with key services, plus a rooftop pool and fitness center.
While Target and others cancel diversity to appease Trump, Costco’s investing in the community—building apartments above its stores, starting in LA.
This $425M project includes 184 low-income units, with key services, plus a rooftop pool and fitness center.
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It’s absolutely maddening. We’ve created this discourse machine that, when someone says something you find inconvenient, such as “the radical left is not the unimpeachable protagonist of modern politics,” you simply make it clear that agreeing with that point is social suicide and it goes away.
February 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It’s absolutely maddening. We’ve created this discourse machine that, when someone says something you find inconvenient, such as “the radical left is not the unimpeachable protagonist of modern politics,” you simply make it clear that agreeing with that point is social suicide and it goes away.
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Discworld QOTD, from Mort
February 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Mort
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Enough horseshit. The hype of "Genocide Joe" from too many led to some measure of the normative Dem base staying home. Given the realities, it was shit-ignorant politics - the bill not to be paid by US voters, but by Palestinians and Palestinian aspiration. Shrugging this off is for mooks.
its funny because uncommitted still effectively told its followers to vote for harris over trump, begged to allow a Palestinian American a spot on the DNC to make the the endorsement in real time, an still they get blamed as the reason why people were disgusted by the biden admin. its scapegoating.
February 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Enough horseshit. The hype of "Genocide Joe" from too many led to some measure of the normative Dem base staying home. Given the realities, it was shit-ignorant politics - the bill not to be paid by US voters, but by Palestinians and Palestinian aspiration. Shrugging this off is for mooks.
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2. While NSF and NIH indeed have a mission to fund specific research innovations via grantmaking, they do a lot more than that.
Their principal role is support a scientific ecosystem in the United States, that includes everything from education and training to infrastructure and communication.
Their principal role is support a scientific ecosystem in the United States, that includes everything from education and training to infrastructure and communication.
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
2. While NSF and NIH indeed have a mission to fund specific research innovations via grantmaking, they do a lot more than that.
Their principal role is support a scientific ecosystem in the United States, that includes everything from education and training to infrastructure and communication.
Their principal role is support a scientific ecosystem in the United States, that includes everything from education and training to infrastructure and communication.
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Because anyone who isn't a fuckwit understands there will be a hard, binary choice on a November Tuesday four years from now. And if we don't acknowledge those people who failed that choice in this moment -- when the cost falls on the very people they claim to care about -- they will fail yet again.
Fuckwits keep coming down on the people with the least amount of power exercising the little power they had instead of the people who actually had the power to stop a genocide but didn’t
Nice deflection hey?
Nice deflection hey?
It bears repeating and repeating ad nauseum: If you withheld support from Biden/Harris as a means of advocating for Palestinian nationhood and the aspirations of the Palestinian people and you did not see this moment coming: You are a performative, sloganeering and politically incompetent rube.
February 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Because anyone who isn't a fuckwit understands there will be a hard, binary choice on a November Tuesday four years from now. And if we don't acknowledge those people who failed that choice in this moment -- when the cost falls on the very people they claim to care about -- they will fail yet again.
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"You fool, calling your representative doesn't work. Unlike protests and direct action, which I am also not doing"
February 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"You fool, calling your representative doesn't work. Unlike protests and direct action, which I am also not doing"
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pretty sure President Kamala wouldn't be calling for the expulsion of all Palestinians from Gaza but what the hell do I know
February 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
pretty sure President Kamala wouldn't be calling for the expulsion of all Palestinians from Gaza but what the hell do I know
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It bears repeating and repeating ad nauseum: If you withheld support from Biden/Harris as a means of advocating for Palestinian nationhood and the aspirations of the Palestinian people and you did not see this moment coming: You are a performative, sloganeering and politically incompetent rube.
here's audio of Trump saying he wants to "clear out" Gaza and move Palestinians elsewhere
January 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It bears repeating and repeating ad nauseum: If you withheld support from Biden/Harris as a means of advocating for Palestinian nationhood and the aspirations of the Palestinian people and you did not see this moment coming: You are a performative, sloganeering and politically incompetent rube.
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People complain that I act like Dems are entitled to their vote. But it's not Harris who was owed their vote, it's migrants and Ukrainians and the poor and heck, gazans, who were owed our votes for Harris
January 31, 2025 at 3:12 AM
People complain that I act like Dems are entitled to their vote. But it's not Harris who was owed their vote, it's migrants and Ukrainians and the poor and heck, gazans, who were owed our votes for Harris
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Thank you. Yes. All of this.
There's a tendency in certain circles to say "oh Elon was always a Nazi you just didn't notice," and, no.
I used to spend a lot of time watching how people go from alienated to MAGA to outright Nazi.
I've written about it.
And that is the trajectory of Elon.
There's a tendency in certain circles to say "oh Elon was always a Nazi you just didn't notice," and, no.
I used to spend a lot of time watching how people go from alienated to MAGA to outright Nazi.
I've written about it.
And that is the trajectory of Elon.
Elon Musk is a good example of how terrible people become increasingly radicalized into the far right simply because the far right is a community that accepts cruel, terrible people.
It's tempting to say Elon is going "mask off", but I'd wager Elon didn't know who Tommy Robinson was 5 years ago. 1/
It's tempting to say Elon is going "mask off", but I'd wager Elon didn't know who Tommy Robinson was 5 years ago. 1/
January 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Thank you. Yes. All of this.
There's a tendency in certain circles to say "oh Elon was always a Nazi you just didn't notice," and, no.
I used to spend a lot of time watching how people go from alienated to MAGA to outright Nazi.
I've written about it.
And that is the trajectory of Elon.
There's a tendency in certain circles to say "oh Elon was always a Nazi you just didn't notice," and, no.
I used to spend a lot of time watching how people go from alienated to MAGA to outright Nazi.
I've written about it.
And that is the trajectory of Elon.
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I'll say it before, and I'll say it again: if you are a socialist, you must concede that the government can, in principle, do good stuff. That's like the whole point of socialism.
Why are we fighting about changing seating arrangements. This is horseshit. Fuck.
Why are we fighting about changing seating arrangements. This is horseshit. Fuck.
January 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I'll say it before, and I'll say it again: if you are a socialist, you must concede that the government can, in principle, do good stuff. That's like the whole point of socialism.
Why are we fighting about changing seating arrangements. This is horseshit. Fuck.
Why are we fighting about changing seating arrangements. This is horseshit. Fuck.
A thousand times this.
I have to say this leftist tendency to believe that if anyone profited anywhere from something it becomes inherently morally wrong is the dumbest shit in the world and is just arguing that perfect is the enemy of better
So true, Queen! The nine most terrifying words in the English launguage are, "I"m from the Government and I'm here to help!" 👏👏👏👏👏
January 2, 2025 at 5:47 AM
A thousand times this.