Rachel RU
@rachelru.bsky.social
Jersey girl, mom to humans and fur seniors, not going backwards
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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The heavy metal band has not only changed lives with their music; they've also changed lives with their philanthropy – from donations to food banks and disaster relief, to their charity, All Within My Hands, which has donated to workforce education and other critical services.
Metallica's gift of giving
The heavy metal band has not only changed lives with their music; they've also changed lives with their philanthropy – from donations to food banks and disaster relief, to their charity, All Within My Hands, which has donated to workforce education and other critical services.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The heavy metal band has not only changed lives with their music; they've also changed lives with their philanthropy – from donations to food banks and disaster relief, to their charity, All Within My Hands, which has donated to workforce education and other critical services.
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Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
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This is so big, seriously, the biggest scandal we’ve ever seen‼️👀👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
This is so big, seriously, the biggest scandal we’ve ever seen‼️👀👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Elections attorney Marc Elias knows voter suppression when he sees it.
Catch up on everything you missed at #crookedcon2025 at crookedcon.com/program!
Catch up on everything you missed at #crookedcon2025 at crookedcon.com/program!
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Elections attorney Marc Elias knows voter suppression when he sees it.
Catch up on everything you missed at #crookedcon2025 at crookedcon.com/program!
Catch up on everything you missed at #crookedcon2025 at crookedcon.com/program!
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“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”
apnews.com/article/pope...
apnews.com/article/pope...
Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
apnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”
apnews.com/article/pope...
apnews.com/article/pope...
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ICE killed a dad who had just dropped off his kids at day care.
Waiting for the All Lives Matter folks to rally behind his family...
Waiting for the All Lives Matter folks to rally behind his family...
October 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
ICE killed a dad who had just dropped off his kids at day care.
Waiting for the All Lives Matter folks to rally behind his family...
Waiting for the All Lives Matter folks to rally behind his family...
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Also, it probably shouldn't escape our notice that the aging, mentally declining despot just explicitly ordered the US military to arrest US citizens on American soil:
October 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Also, it probably shouldn't escape our notice that the aging, mentally declining despot just explicitly ordered the US military to arrest US citizens on American soil:
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@morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social with all due respect…I know you need to fill time but you said DJT doesn’t care about crime and then go into a debate about policing. Please start having strategic discussions to reach the MAGA base and call out the truth
September 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
@morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social with all due respect…I know you need to fill time but you said DJT doesn’t care about crime and then go into a debate about policing. Please start having strategic discussions to reach the MAGA base and call out the truth
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Hey @maddow.msnbc.com these people are true patriots!! #motorcade #usopen #bebravewithus #visibilitybrigade
On the Grand Central Parkway today in #newyork the Forest Hills Indivisible group gave the passing #orangemenace the overpass finger and the message #notroopsinNYC!! #VisibilityBrigade #BEBRAVEWITHUS www.visibilitybrigade.com
September 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Hey @maddow.msnbc.com these people are true patriots!! #motorcade #usopen #bebravewithus #visibilitybrigade
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Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, PBS News is interested in hearing from people who left Southeast Louisiana to make a new life somewhere else.
If you'd like to share your experience for an upcoming story, please fill out our questionnaire: https://bit.ly/3JrYx53
If you'd like to share your experience for an upcoming story, please fill out our questionnaire: https://bit.ly/3JrYx53
August 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, PBS News is interested in hearing from people who left Southeast Louisiana to make a new life somewhere else.
If you'd like to share your experience for an upcoming story, please fill out our questionnaire: https://bit.ly/3JrYx53
If you'd like to share your experience for an upcoming story, please fill out our questionnaire: https://bit.ly/3JrYx53
Netanyahu is an evil person
August 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Netanyahu is an evil person
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One of the Democrats who left Texas to block an effort to redraw the state’s congressional maps to favor Republicans says “we’re willing to face whatever consequences.”
Democrat who fled Texas over redistricting says "we're willing to face whatever consequences"
Three Democrats who fled Texas to block a GOP effort to redraw congressional maps told CBS News they'll stay out of the state for at least two weeks.
cbsn.ws
August 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
One of the Democrats who left Texas to block an effort to redraw the state’s congressional maps to favor Republicans says “we’re willing to face whatever consequences.”
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"Our sleeves are rolled up, and we're ready to take this fight wherever it's going to take us."
Texas Democratic lawmakers speak after fleeing the state to block Republicans from proceeding with the party's plan to redraw the state’s congressional lines.
Texas Democratic lawmakers speak after fleeing the state to block Republicans from proceeding with the party's plan to redraw the state’s congressional lines.
August 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
"Our sleeves are rolled up, and we're ready to take this fight wherever it's going to take us."
Texas Democratic lawmakers speak after fleeing the state to block Republicans from proceeding with the party's plan to redraw the state’s congressional lines.
Texas Democratic lawmakers speak after fleeing the state to block Republicans from proceeding with the party's plan to redraw the state’s congressional lines.
@maddow.msnbc.com spelling out the authoritarianism happening now, today, here
August 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
@maddow.msnbc.com spelling out the authoritarianism happening now, today, here
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Gas is $3.50 a gallon, butter is $6 bucks a pound, eggs are $4 bucks a dozen, we’re at war with Iran, South African Nazis stole all our data, and ICE is throwing citizens in detention camps.
But hey, at least those 3 trans kids can’t play volleyball anymore.
But hey, at least those 3 trans kids can’t play volleyball anymore.
June 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Gas is $3.50 a gallon, butter is $6 bucks a pound, eggs are $4 bucks a dozen, we’re at war with Iran, South African Nazis stole all our data, and ICE is throwing citizens in detention camps.
But hey, at least those 3 trans kids can’t play volleyball anymore.
But hey, at least those 3 trans kids can’t play volleyball anymore.
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Don't let them tell you that this day wasn't a peaceful, joyous celebration of our FREEDOMS under the U.S. Constitution!
Let's honor our flag by defending our DEMOCRACY - today and everyday forward. 🇺🇸
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, June 14, 2025.
#FuckFascism
#FuckHate
#FuckGunViolence
#NoKings
Let's honor our flag by defending our DEMOCRACY - today and everyday forward. 🇺🇸
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, June 14, 2025.
#FuckFascism
#FuckHate
#FuckGunViolence
#NoKings
June 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Don't let them tell you that this day wasn't a peaceful, joyous celebration of our FREEDOMS under the U.S. Constitution!
Let's honor our flag by defending our DEMOCRACY - today and everyday forward. 🇺🇸
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, June 14, 2025.
#FuckFascism
#FuckHate
#FuckGunViolence
#NoKings
Let's honor our flag by defending our DEMOCRACY - today and everyday forward. 🇺🇸
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, June 14, 2025.
#FuckFascism
#FuckHate
#FuckGunViolence
#NoKings
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BREAKING: LA solidarity protesters in Austin are occupying JJ Pickle Federal Building, which houses local ICE processing center
June 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
BREAKING: LA solidarity protesters in Austin are occupying JJ Pickle Federal Building, which houses local ICE processing center
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Facts:
- Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass both publicly stated they did not request National Guard assistance.
- Under normal circumstances, National Guard deployment requires state approval unless the Insurrection Act is invoked, which Trump has not done.
- Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass both publicly stated they did not request National Guard assistance.
- Under normal circumstances, National Guard deployment requires state approval unless the Insurrection Act is invoked, which Trump has not done.
June 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Facts:
- Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass both publicly stated they did not request National Guard assistance.
- Under normal circumstances, National Guard deployment requires state approval unless the Insurrection Act is invoked, which Trump has not done.
- Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass both publicly stated they did not request National Guard assistance.
- Under normal circumstances, National Guard deployment requires state approval unless the Insurrection Act is invoked, which Trump has not done.
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Plowed through THE STAND by @stephenking.bsky.social
Riveting for all 1153 pages. If you haven’t, read it and as soon as you can.
#reading #booksky #recommend
Riveting for all 1153 pages. If you haven’t, read it and as soon as you can.
#reading #booksky #recommend
June 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Plowed through THE STAND by @stephenking.bsky.social
Riveting for all 1153 pages. If you haven’t, read it and as soon as you can.
#reading #booksky #recommend
Riveting for all 1153 pages. If you haven’t, read it and as soon as you can.
#reading #booksky #recommend
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How a British citizen has been left ‘to die’ in a Dubai prison: I plead for justice for Ryan Cornelius who has been wrongfully detained in Dubai for more than 17 years in one of the most shocking cases of injustices I’ve ever seen.
youtu.be/2tJe6KyWJTo
youtu.be/2tJe6KyWJTo
How a British citizen has been left ‘to die’ in a Dubai prison: Sir Bill Browder pleads for justice
YouTube video by Times Radio
youtu.be
April 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
How a British citizen has been left ‘to die’ in a Dubai prison: I plead for justice for Ryan Cornelius who has been wrongfully detained in Dubai for more than 17 years in one of the most shocking cases of injustices I’ve ever seen.
youtu.be/2tJe6KyWJTo
youtu.be/2tJe6KyWJTo
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trump, who will not obey Supreme Court orders, just had a judge arrested on 'suspicion" of helping an undocumented person evade arrest.
We're no longer sliding toward autocracy; we're there.
We're no longer sliding toward autocracy; we're there.
April 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
trump, who will not obey Supreme Court orders, just had a judge arrested on 'suspicion" of helping an undocumented person evade arrest.
We're no longer sliding toward autocracy; we're there.
We're no longer sliding toward autocracy; we're there.
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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
April 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?