Rebecca Bailey
@rbailey.bsky.social
mom, librarian, Jeopardy!🥈, liberal activist, clarinetist, verbivore, kid-at-heart. she/her/hers.
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My expert political opinion is that killing the job market, raising grocery prices, kicking people off their health care, stealing taxpayer money, and trying to starve 40 million Americans is pretty damn unpopular.
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
My expert political opinion is that killing the job market, raising grocery prices, kicking people off their health care, stealing taxpayer money, and trying to starve 40 million Americans is pretty damn unpopular.
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WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
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Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
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Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
September 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
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Reminder: In his first term, President Trump ordered his then Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to shoot protestors.
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September 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Reminder: In his first term, President Trump ordered his then Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to shoot protestors.
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via @lincolnsquare.media
🚨 Federal ICE THUGS on top of the Broadview, IL federal building ROOF are SHOOTING non-lethal rounds, including pepper balls and tear gas, at protesters AND the media who pose no threat behind a locked fence.
Americans are being shot at for exercising their rights.
🚨 Federal ICE THUGS on top of the Broadview, IL federal building ROOF are SHOOTING non-lethal rounds, including pepper balls and tear gas, at protesters AND the media who pose no threat behind a locked fence.
Americans are being shot at for exercising their rights.
September 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
via @lincolnsquare.media
🚨 Federal ICE THUGS on top of the Broadview, IL federal building ROOF are SHOOTING non-lethal rounds, including pepper balls and tear gas, at protesters AND the media who pose no threat behind a locked fence.
Americans are being shot at for exercising their rights.
🚨 Federal ICE THUGS on top of the Broadview, IL federal building ROOF are SHOOTING non-lethal rounds, including pepper balls and tear gas, at protesters AND the media who pose no threat behind a locked fence.
Americans are being shot at for exercising their rights.
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Terry Moran told the truth about the hateful Stephen Miller. ABC News hid behind the worn-out claim that their journalist failed to show sufficient neutrality—& fired him. “Neutrality” rather than truth-telling has helped deliver a fascist regime—and legacy media capitulating to a despot’s demands.
June 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Terry Moran told the truth about the hateful Stephen Miller. ABC News hid behind the worn-out claim that their journalist failed to show sufficient neutrality—& fired him. “Neutrality” rather than truth-telling has helped deliver a fascist regime—and legacy media capitulating to a despot’s demands.
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This is a shockingly mistaken understanding of due process by Stephen Miller. It is likely this misunderstanding that is informing the President’s misunderstanding.
May 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is a shockingly mistaken understanding of due process by Stephen Miller. It is likely this misunderstanding that is informing the President’s misunderstanding.
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Trump's full answer transcribed: Well, I guess I was supposed to be a movie maker. We're talking—we started with the movie making and will end. I mean, it—it represents something very strong, very powerful in terms of law and order. Our country needs law and order. 1/
Reporter: How did you decide to reopen Alcatraz?
Trump: I was supposed to be a movie maker… Nobody ever escaped. One person almost got there but they found his clothing rather badly ripped up, a lot of shark bites…
Trump: I was supposed to be a movie maker… Nobody ever escaped. One person almost got there but they found his clothing rather badly ripped up, a lot of shark bites…
May 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Trump's full answer transcribed: Well, I guess I was supposed to be a movie maker. We're talking—we started with the movie making and will end. I mean, it—it represents something very strong, very powerful in terms of law and order. Our country needs law and order. 1/
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👀 Stunning poll data coming out of - checks notes - Georgia:
- 51.9% disapprove of Trump on immigration
- 56.9% disapprove of Trump’s attacks on DEI
- 80.9% want Trump to follow court’s orders
This ought to make every Republican bootlickers in GA & all over nervous www.axios.com/local/atlant...
- 51.9% disapprove of Trump on immigration
- 56.9% disapprove of Trump’s attacks on DEI
- 80.9% want Trump to follow court’s orders
This ought to make every Republican bootlickers in GA & all over nervous www.axios.com/local/atlant...
May 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
👀 Stunning poll data coming out of - checks notes - Georgia:
- 51.9% disapprove of Trump on immigration
- 56.9% disapprove of Trump’s attacks on DEI
- 80.9% want Trump to follow court’s orders
This ought to make every Republican bootlickers in GA & all over nervous www.axios.com/local/atlant...
- 51.9% disapprove of Trump on immigration
- 56.9% disapprove of Trump’s attacks on DEI
- 80.9% want Trump to follow court’s orders
This ought to make every Republican bootlickers in GA & all over nervous www.axios.com/local/atlant...
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I want politics to be about a better everyday life.
Here's what that can look like:
Here's what that can look like:
April 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I want politics to be about a better everyday life.
Here's what that can look like:
Here's what that can look like:
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Trump on cutting government-funded research into cancer and Alzheimer’s: “Well maybe we didn't think they were right.”
April 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Trump on cutting government-funded research into cancer and Alzheimer’s: “Well maybe we didn't think they were right.”
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1. Jose Hermosillo is US citizen who was wrongly jailed in an immigration detention facility for 10 days
The administration says he "turned himself in" to the Border Patrol and told them he was a Mexican who crossed the border illegally.
I interviewed Hermosillo.
He says the government is lying.
The administration says he "turned himself in" to the Border Patrol and told them he was a Mexican who crossed the border illegally.
I interviewed Hermosillo.
He says the government is lying.
U.S. citizen wrongly detained by Border Patrol says government account is false
Jose Hermosillo was held in a detention facility for undocumented immigrants for 10 days. In his first media interview, he tells his story.
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April 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
1. Jose Hermosillo is US citizen who was wrongly jailed in an immigration detention facility for 10 days
The administration says he "turned himself in" to the Border Patrol and told them he was a Mexican who crossed the border illegally.
I interviewed Hermosillo.
He says the government is lying.
The administration says he "turned himself in" to the Border Patrol and told them he was a Mexican who crossed the border illegally.
I interviewed Hermosillo.
He says the government is lying.
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Someone should ask Homan if it would be ok to send him to a gulag if a completely different white guy he has nothing to do with commits murder bsky.app/profile/atru...
Homan on Abrego Garcia: "He got more due process than Laken Riley got."
April 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Someone should ask Homan if it would be ok to send him to a gulag if a completely different white guy he has nothing to do with commits murder bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Really need journalists to push back on this bullshit. When they say this, just ask them point blank: "Are you saying that because one Latino man committed a murder, another Latino man deserves a life sentence? Do you think all Latino men interchangeable?"
Homan on Abrego Garcia: "He got more due process than Laken Riley got."
April 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Really need journalists to push back on this bullshit. When they say this, just ask them point blank: "Are you saying that because one Latino man committed a murder, another Latino man deserves a life sentence? Do you think all Latino men interchangeable?"
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Remeber, the real villains are graduate students who say this is morally wrong.
April 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Remeber, the real villains are graduate students who say this is morally wrong.
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"There is no greater privilege than to work for an institution whose mandate is to do the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons. We will not abandon this principle to keep our jobs. We resign."
April 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"There is no greater privilege than to work for an institution whose mandate is to do the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons. We will not abandon this principle to keep our jobs. We resign."
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Profiles in courage. The federal prosecutors in NY who resigned rather than obey political orders to falsely confess to wrongdoing in the Eric Adams case.
"There is no greater privilege than to work for an institution whose mandate is to do the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons. We will not abandon this principle to keep our jobs. We resign."
April 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Profiles in courage. The federal prosecutors in NY who resigned rather than obey political orders to falsely confess to wrongdoing in the Eric Adams case.
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The Gerald F. and Marjorie G. Fitzgerald Professor of Economic History at Northwestern University. There will be many more and we will all be poorer and worse off because of it.
30 years after arriving in the US, I just resigned from Northwestern and we sold our house.
We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.
We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.
April 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The Gerald F. and Marjorie G. Fitzgerald Professor of Economic History at Northwestern University. There will be many more and we will all be poorer and worse off because of it.
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wrote about the importance of ambition and political leadership
Opinion | Trump Wants You to Think Resistance Is Futile. It Is Not. (Gift Article)
Every time we make ourselves into obstacles, we also make it a little less likely that the administration’s authoritarian fantasy becomes our reality.
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April 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
wrote about the importance of ambition and political leadership
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Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
April 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
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Stay loud
stay visible
stay brave
stay visible
stay brave
Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
April 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Stay loud
stay visible
stay brave
stay visible
stay brave
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To put a finer point on it. Trump’s contention isn’t just that he can deport people without them appearing before a judge, but that he can render them into a life sentence in a foreign dungeon with no process whatsoever.
President Trump asserted on Tuesday that undocumented immigrants should not be entitled to trials, insisting that his administration should be able to deport them without appearing before a judge.
Trump Says Undocumented Immigrants Shouldn’t Get Trials Before Deportation
The president claimed that countries were sending their prisoners to the United States and that he needed to bypass the constitutional demands of due process to expel them quickly.
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April 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
To put a finer point on it. Trump’s contention isn’t just that he can deport people without them appearing before a judge, but that he can render them into a life sentence in a foreign dungeon with no process whatsoever.
Disgusting
Ah, I see that we now have a Goebbels in place to remove all of our degenerate art, but in Trumpian fashion, she’s a former pageant queen who thinks Trump is just like the inmates who are part of the Innocence Project www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
She told Trump the Smithsonian needs changing. He’s ordered her to do it.
Who is Lindsey Halligan, the attorney assigned to help remove “improper ideology” from Washington’s most important cultural institution?
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April 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Disgusting