Rachel
@rachelmachel.bsky.social
Feminist, atheist, mother, vegan, Ph.D. Living in the Free State of Oregon, where we don't put up with bans on speech, healthcare, or books.
Just assume every redacted face of a man is Donald Trump.
Only public figure I've seen they didn't blur out so far is Bill Clinton, which we probably should've expected.
Anyway a couple interesting ones. These photos are directly next to redacted child pornography in the files.
Anyway a couple interesting ones. These photos are directly next to redacted child pornography in the files.
December 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Just assume every redacted face of a man is Donald Trump.
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Re gender affirming care for youth: They will come for the haircuts and the clothes next. And it won’t stop with kids or trans people. And I’ve been telling people this for a decade and now here we are with lots of cis people shrugging and saying it’s unfortunate. How are you going to save a life?
December 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Re gender affirming care for youth: They will come for the haircuts and the clothes next. And it won’t stop with kids or trans people. And I’ve been telling people this for a decade and now here we are with lots of cis people shrugging and saying it’s unfortunate. How are you going to save a life?
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
December 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
Our economy just isn't cratering quite fast enough for Trump and his handlers.
An incomprehensibly stupid own goal. Healthcare, eldercare, and childcare are about to get a hell of a lot more expensive. And it's going to hit rural areas especially hard.
Hope the racism was worth it!
Hope the racism was worth it!
NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.
December 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Our economy just isn't cratering quite fast enough for Trump and his handlers.
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
Is antifa in the room with you now?
Thompson's smackdown at the end was even more brutal.
Thompson's smackdown at the end was even more brutal.
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Is antifa in the room with you now?
Thompson's smackdown at the end was even more brutal.
Thompson's smackdown at the end was even more brutal.
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I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
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sex criminals stick together
🚨 New York Times reports more details than we've had before on how Donald Trump's administration pulled strings to pressure Romania to allow Andrew Tate to travel while he was charged with crimes including trafficking minors and violently beating and raping a 15-year-old girl.
December 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
sex criminals stick together
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
December 8, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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I don't think transgender athletes are the problem facing girls and women in sports.
Investigators say former coach Sean Gardner created videos showing close-up images of at least 10 minors naked or undressing, which they recovered from his computers last year while investigating reports of sexual abuse.
Gardner has pleaded not guilty and has been jailed pending trial.
Gardner has pleaded not guilty and has been jailed pending trial.
Olympics Sports Watchdog Failed to Stop Mississippi Coach's Sexual Abuse, Women Allege
Two gymnasts who say they were sexually abused at an elite academy in Iowa filed lawsuits Monday against the sport’s oversight bodies.
www.mississippifreepress.org
December 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I don't think transgender athletes are the problem facing girls and women in sports.
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Of all the locations where they could have done something so obscene, this might be one of the most profane. These people hate America in every sense that matters.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Of all the locations where they could have done something so obscene, this might be one of the most profane. These people hate America in every sense that matters.
Strong pelvic floor, no peeing.
So far the worst I can manage is “Make America Trickle Down Again”
I could have spent a year and would never have come up with a worse slogan than “Strong Floor, No Ceiling.”
December 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Strong pelvic floor, no peeing.
Letting Dick Cheney die a free man helped create Pete Hegseth. The only way to stop the cycle is prosecution and prison for war criminals.
December 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Letting Dick Cheney die a free man helped create Pete Hegseth. The only way to stop the cycle is prosecution and prison for war criminals.
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In college, I had to read the Department of Defense’s Law of War manual.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In college, I had to read the Department of Defense’s Law of War manual.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
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Okay so what I’m reading here, if this account is to be believed, is that Lizza and Nuzzi are complicit in withholding major dark political actions that have had insane implications for like, everybody. Journalistic malpractice doesn’t even begin to cover it
While there are often some ethical issues with making free PDFs of paywalled content, in this case it seems entirely justifiable, given the author, the subject, and the journalistic imperative to provide the widest possible audience for the verb "Michael Wolffed"
gofile.io/d/Ap4v35
gofile.io/d/Ap4v35
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Okay so what I’m reading here, if this account is to be believed, is that Lizza and Nuzzi are complicit in withholding major dark political actions that have had insane implications for like, everybody. Journalistic malpractice doesn’t even begin to cover it
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
I often think about a neighbor who was telling me about raising her sons with her current wife, ex, and her partner. The kids got 4 moms. There was a sporty mom, a teacher mom, an outdoorsy mom--they had it all covered. Happily married to a man, but that sounds like the perfect setup.
November 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I often think about a neighbor who was telling me about raising her sons with her current wife, ex, and her partner. The kids got 4 moms. There was a sporty mom, a teacher mom, an outdoorsy mom--they had it all covered. Happily married to a man, but that sounds like the perfect setup.
Thanks to a week off of school for Thanksgiving, I'm currently at a kids indoor playground in Portland, and I swear I keep hearing people talk to/about a kid named "Spliff," lol.
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Thanks to a week off of school for Thanksgiving, I'm currently at a kids indoor playground in Portland, and I swear I keep hearing people talk to/about a kid named "Spliff," lol.
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i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
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Im so sorry if you've seen this 500 times and you were playing off it, but its my favorite thing maybe in the world. www.youtube.com/shorts/fPatc...
Samsung Washing Machine Song Turned Into Beat
YouTube video by Buckets the Drummer
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Im so sorry if you've seen this 500 times and you were playing off it, but its my favorite thing maybe in the world. www.youtube.com/shorts/fPatc...
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Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
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Here an underage girl testifies that Epstein vaginally and anally raped her before beating her in fury because Trump had taken her virginity before he could.
November 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Here an underage girl testifies that Epstein vaginally and anally raped her before beating her in fury because Trump had taken her virginity before he could.
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What they don’t seem to get is that normal people hate pedophiles regardless of their political affiliation.
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
What they don’t seem to get is that normal people hate pedophiles regardless of their political affiliation.