Rachel Maria
@radiantrachel.bsky.social
Sober, solo mom in the far east SF Bay Area. Educator, Swiftie, Supernatural (TV show) fan, passionate about health for mind, body, & spirit.
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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
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Pay attention. Something dark might be coming.
The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.
1/ Here's what's happening.
The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.
1/ Here's what's happening.
Stephen Miller: "The last message that Charlie Kirk gave to me before he joined his creator in heaven was he said that we have to dismantle and take on the radical left organizations in this country that are fomenting violence. That was the last message that he sent me ... we are gonna do that."
September 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Pay attention. Something dark might be coming.
The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.
1/ Here's what's happening.
The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.
1/ Here's what's happening.
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We did it!!!
SB 2880, an extreme anti-abortion bill that would have had nationwide impact, and SB 16, Texas’ version of the SAVE Act, are dead.
We ran the clock out. They won’t even get a vote in the House. That’s a HUGE fucking win! #txlege
SB 2880, an extreme anti-abortion bill that would have had nationwide impact, and SB 16, Texas’ version of the SAVE Act, are dead.
We ran the clock out. They won’t even get a vote in the House. That’s a HUGE fucking win! #txlege
May 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We did it!!!
SB 2880, an extreme anti-abortion bill that would have had nationwide impact, and SB 16, Texas’ version of the SAVE Act, are dead.
We ran the clock out. They won’t even get a vote in the House. That’s a HUGE fucking win! #txlege
SB 2880, an extreme anti-abortion bill that would have had nationwide impact, and SB 16, Texas’ version of the SAVE Act, are dead.
We ran the clock out. They won’t even get a vote in the House. That’s a HUGE fucking win! #txlege
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the kids are alright but the rest of us are sus af
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
the kids are alright but the rest of us are sus af
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if you're letting your freak flag fly, time to lower it to half mast. CDC shut the office which tracks outbreaks/clusters of STIs
If you ever wonder how indiscriminate cuts affect your life, here's today's example. I consulted on a case of disseminated gonococcal infection. These isolates used to get automatically sent to cdc for testing and nationwide tracking. The lab was shut last month.
www.healio.com/news/infecti...
www.healio.com/news/infecti...
HHS closes CDC lab that tracks STIs, alarming experts
The Trump administration has shut down a CDC laboratory dedicated to tracking STIs, which experts said could weaken the country’s ability to keep an eye on drug-resistant infections, including g...
www.healio.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
if you're letting your freak flag fly, time to lower it to half mast. CDC shut the office which tracks outbreaks/clusters of STIs
Read this thread!
Such a crucial point. Whenever someone says “democracy,” the first question we need to ask is: What kind of democracy, and for whom?
Everyone, across the political spectrum, talks about defending “democracy” – but the MAGA Right obviously means something very different by that.
Everyone, across the political spectrum, talks about defending “democracy” – but the MAGA Right obviously means something very different by that.
It’s really important to keep saying the obvious part out loud: this administration is advancing a white supremacist project that’s been long in the making. Their problem isn’t just with democracy. It’s with multiracial democracy, specifically.
May 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Read this thread!
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Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
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I don’t think people fully appreciate the resource cost of “AI.” Searching with perplexity uses literally 120,000x (ish) the amount of water than the same search in classic google, and the only reason it can link you to answers is because it already plagiarized the sources and won’t admit it
March 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I don’t think people fully appreciate the resource cost of “AI.” Searching with perplexity uses literally 120,000x (ish) the amount of water than the same search in classic google, and the only reason it can link you to answers is because it already plagiarized the sources and won’t admit it
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My family found a home here in America after fleeing the massacre of Jews in Ukraine.
Like so many refugees, they found work and contributed to their community.
It’s wrong that Donald Trump wants to deport families, just like mine, who fled violence.
Like so many refugees, they found work and contributed to their community.
It’s wrong that Donald Trump wants to deport families, just like mine, who fled violence.
Exclusive: Trump plans to revoke legal status of Ukrainians who fled to US, sources say
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation.
www.reuters.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
My family found a home here in America after fleeing the massacre of Jews in Ukraine.
Like so many refugees, they found work and contributed to their community.
It’s wrong that Donald Trump wants to deport families, just like mine, who fled violence.
Like so many refugees, they found work and contributed to their community.
It’s wrong that Donald Trump wants to deport families, just like mine, who fled violence.
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“Musk let a bunch of Dunning-Kruger kids…loose on federal agencies, where they began firing workers without trying to understand what these workers do or why it might be important…who turn out to have been doing things like, um, securing the nation’s nuclear weapons.”
March 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“Musk let a bunch of Dunning-Kruger kids…loose on federal agencies, where they began firing workers without trying to understand what these workers do or why it might be important…who turn out to have been doing things like, um, securing the nation’s nuclear weapons.”
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JUST IN: Judge rules Trump's firing of NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox was illegal. Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, zings Trump for acting like a king & notes his backers in case said he should have a king's powers. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
March 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
JUST IN: Judge rules Trump's firing of NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox was illegal. Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, zings Trump for acting like a king & notes his backers in case said he should have a king's powers. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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let's see if the appeal can pull 2 out of 3 Rs from the 4 of 11 on DC Circuit
BREAKING: the U.S. District Court in D.C. has found that Trump’s firing of former NLRB Chair Gwynne A. Wilcox’s firing was unlawful, and ruled that she must be immediately reinstated to serve out the rest of her term as a board member.
She was appointed and confirmed to a 5-year term in 2023.
She was appointed and confirmed to a 5-year term in 2023.
March 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
let's see if the appeal can pull 2 out of 3 Rs from the 4 of 11 on DC Circuit
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Senator Elissa Slotkin: Grocery and home prices are going up, not down. Trump hasn't laid out a credible plan to deal with either of those. His tariffs will start a trade war that will hurt manufacturing and farmers
March 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Senator Elissa Slotkin: Grocery and home prices are going up, not down. Trump hasn't laid out a credible plan to deal with either of those. His tariffs will start a trade war that will hurt manufacturing and farmers
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Sen. Sanders: This is a government that could care less about ordinary Americans and working families.We are no longer moving toward oligarchy. We are living in an oligarchic society.
March 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Sen. Sanders: This is a government that could care less about ordinary Americans and working families.We are no longer moving toward oligarchy. We are living in an oligarchic society.
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Donald Trump is lying to you.
March 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Donald Trump is lying to you.
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Some of us have been warning about this and calling for anti-SLAPP laws (both federal and state) for years and years and years. And I'm not stopping now.
Defamation law has been so widely abused to chill speech and so few people know it.
Defamation law has been so widely abused to chill speech and so few people know it.
January 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Some of us have been warning about this and calling for anti-SLAPP laws (both federal and state) for years and years and years. And I'm not stopping now.
Defamation law has been so widely abused to chill speech and so few people know it.
Defamation law has been so widely abused to chill speech and so few people know it.
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I get that part of this is making people feel afraid and crazy, but the fact that this dispshit and his pet criminal are remodeling by wildly swinging a sledgehammer and only pausing after they obliterate a load-bearing wall should be the final death of the idea that having money means you're smart.
We'll see how many times I end up updating this story.
The latest update: after firing hundreds of Food and Drug Administration workers, the Trump admin is scrambling to hire back dozens of people who work on food safety, medical device reviews and other key areas. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The latest update: after firing hundreds of Food and Drug Administration workers, the Trump admin is scrambling to hire back dozens of people who work on food safety, medical device reviews and other key areas. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
All The Times DOGE S**t Had To Be Cleaned Up
Trump keeps racing to rehire federal workers he fired because — surprise! — we need experts on nuclear weapons, bird flu prevention and park management.
www.huffpost.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I get that part of this is making people feel afraid and crazy, but the fact that this dispshit and his pet criminal are remodeling by wildly swinging a sledgehammer and only pausing after they obliterate a load-bearing wall should be the final death of the idea that having money means you're smart.
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NEWS: Donald Trump closes key military base in Greece at the request of Putin and Erdogan, the CIA sounds the alarm over Trump's cuts leading to exposure of secrets, and Ukraine remembers three years of war. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
Donald Trump Closes Key Military Base as the CIA Sounds the Alarms | Morning Rundown
Donald Trump closes key military base in Greece at the request of Putin and Erdogan, the CIA sounds the alarm over Trump's cuts leading to exposure of secrets, and Ukraine remembers three years of war
open.substack.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
NEWS: Donald Trump closes key military base in Greece at the request of Putin and Erdogan, the CIA sounds the alarm over Trump's cuts leading to exposure of secrets, and Ukraine remembers three years of war. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
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Your regular reminder McConnell could have taken care of this in January 2021
Mitch McConnell on the Ukraine war:
"Blame for this human catastrophe rests solely on Vladimir Putin … If Russian forces laid down their arms, Europe would be at peace. If Ukrainian forces laid down theirs, Putin's aims would not stop … Mistaking this fact is as embarrassing as it is costly."
"Blame for this human catastrophe rests solely on Vladimir Putin … If Russian forces laid down their arms, Europe would be at peace. If Ukrainian forces laid down theirs, Putin's aims would not stop … Mistaking this fact is as embarrassing as it is costly."
February 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Your regular reminder McConnell could have taken care of this in January 2021
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"Having one person in charge of whether or not the US government actually spends the money that’s been legally obligated by Congress is not just a democratic disaster, it is absolutely a recipe for economic crisis," says EPI's @joshbivens-econ.bsky.social:
www.epi.org/blog/before-...
www.epi.org/blog/before-...
Before DOGE, the debt ceiling used to be the only quick way political extremists could cause a financial crisis
The U.S. statutory debt ceiling is an absurd, arbitrary, and worthless political institution, yet it also poses a profound danger of throwing the economy into a full-blown crisis whenever it looms. El...
www.epi.org
February 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"Having one person in charge of whether or not the US government actually spends the money that’s been legally obligated by Congress is not just a democratic disaster, it is absolutely a recipe for economic crisis," says EPI's @joshbivens-econ.bsky.social:
www.epi.org/blog/before-...
www.epi.org/blog/before-...
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Price 👏 fixing 👏
*Cal-Maine is the biggest egg co, in the US but it only grows about 10-15% of the US's eggs.
The top 5 egg co's (Cal-Maine, Rose Acre, Daybreak, Hillandale, Versova) control about 1/3 of the US egg market.
*Cal-Maine is the biggest egg co, in the US but it only grows about 10-15% of the US's eggs.
The top 5 egg co's (Cal-Maine, Rose Acre, Daybreak, Hillandale, Versova) control about 1/3 of the US egg market.
Cal-Maine (who control 90% of the egg market) is gloating about price fixing. Costs are flat, so profits are exploding:
February 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Price 👏 fixing 👏
*Cal-Maine is the biggest egg co, in the US but it only grows about 10-15% of the US's eggs.
The top 5 egg co's (Cal-Maine, Rose Acre, Daybreak, Hillandale, Versova) control about 1/3 of the US egg market.
*Cal-Maine is the biggest egg co, in the US but it only grows about 10-15% of the US's eggs.
The top 5 egg co's (Cal-Maine, Rose Acre, Daybreak, Hillandale, Versova) control about 1/3 of the US egg market.
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Link to original threads of import...
On the egregious accounting errors I found within a few minutes of scanning through DOGE's itemized "savings": threadreaderapp.com/thread/18918...
On DOGE quietly adjusting numbers in response to the first thread: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18924...
On the egregious accounting errors I found within a few minutes of scanning through DOGE's itemized "savings": threadreaderapp.com/thread/18918...
On DOGE quietly adjusting numbers in response to the first thread: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18924...
February 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Link to original threads of import...
On the egregious accounting errors I found within a few minutes of scanning through DOGE's itemized "savings": threadreaderapp.com/thread/18918...
On DOGE quietly adjusting numbers in response to the first thread: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18924...
On the egregious accounting errors I found within a few minutes of scanning through DOGE's itemized "savings": threadreaderapp.com/thread/18918...
On DOGE quietly adjusting numbers in response to the first thread: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18924...