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Rachel Navarre
@rnavarre.bsky.social
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Displaced South Louisianan. Associate prof of PoliSci @Bridgewater StateU (MA), studies Populism, immigration policy and other depressing things. Newest book The Age of Discontent is out now.

I miss properly seasoned seafood
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A screenshot of war games where the computer says a strange game the only one move is not to play
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I call it “sibling rivalry”
The dog, but the cat is in the background. Watching.
November 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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I need to get an updated version of this
A gif that says watching pope Francis nowadays with a picture of a stick figure poking pope Francis with a stick saying c’mon excommunicate someone
November 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Oh no
Showing my stats for my last post of 127 reposts, 7 quotes and 638 !!!! Likes
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Y’all the Lego Live Action Phantom of the Opera is on Live right now
It’s a screenshot of the show
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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This one makes me concerned as someone that studies how immigration policy get framed.
URGENT: OFFICIAL ICE SURVEY ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS OUT OF CONTROL ICE AGENTS ARE UNDER DEADLY ATTACK We need to hear from you. Do you support efforts by Tom Homan and ICE agents to keep your community safe from illegal criminals? Our brave ICE & Border Patrol Agents are under assault daily. The Radical Mob is HUNTING these heroes with deadly weapons all across America. That won't stop them. The Radical Left might have fueled this anarchy, but our brave law enforcement agents will continue to remove dangerous drug traffickers
October 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Like how did they send this from 1998 Geocities?
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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(And context: www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the...)
Astronaut looking at earth asking “Wait, Linz was right?” With the astronaut about to shoot saying “always has been”
October 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Sign “ Dinosaurs are nice and they give hugs” with a pirate ship.
October 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Chat, is this good?
September 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Oh my god I found where all our hot dogs come from:
A boat with COSCO Shipping on the side because nothing matters have a dad joke
September 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Anyway, I’m on a boat.
Ok like it’s from early and it’s public transportation in Canada but I’m a coastal elite professor what do you want from me?
September 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Anyway. My heart hurts but I keep coming back to either Puddleglum or Huck Finn- “I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.” And if that means I’ll go to hell, well all right, I’ll go. But it hurts.
One word. All you've been saying is quite right, I shouldn't wonder. I'm a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won't deny any of what you said. But there's one more thing to be said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things-trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play world. I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we're leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for Overland. Not that our lives will be very long, I should think; but that's a small loss if the world's as dull a place as you say. C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
August 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Reported and blocked.
The old facebook reporting box that asks what’s going on and the I’m in this photo and I don’t like it checked.
August 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Bird watching
Black cat watching a bird on a feeder.
July 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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The somehow Palpatine returned meme but it says somehow, he sued the Biden Administration
July 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Chaser: me for all 3 months of the summer:
A dog and cat dressed in their fancy tuxedos laying on a pile of blankets on a window seat, working on their tans while napping.
July 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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This is not a bad rule of thumb:
Tumblr post from homunculus-argument that says A good rule of thumb for AI is "would you trust a trained pigeon to do this?" "We trained a pigeon to recognise cancerous cell clusters and somehow they're really good at it" okay great, that's something that could plausibly be a thing. "We trained a pigeon to recognise good CV:s and left it in charge of sorting through all our job applications" uh perhaps consider not doing that.
July 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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New class idea: it all sucks, no, they aren’t supposed to be able to do that, yes Congress is supposed to stop it, yes, we already settled this, ok, yes, but it’s more complicated, yes, history is rhyming, no I don’t know why they think it’ll be different, look, how bout we just stare at my cat?
My cat investigating why the water is spicy.
June 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Protest in Bridgewater, MA (which went for Trump)
June 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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I’m dead. Deceased. Done. Over. The only think that can make this more ridiculous is if Kanye shows up to be peacemaker.

(Kanye did, in fact, show up to be peacemaker).
June 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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My favorite thing in this timeline is getting texts like this and not knowing if it means weather’s gonna suck tomorrow, drivers license’s now have to be embossed with gold, or I have 25 minutes to get home before fallout renders travel impossible, or RFK is bringing back smallpox.
Text message asking if I’ve been paying attention to the news and know the boys are fighting.
June 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Just replace all the images with this classic.T
Picture of an edited BBC breaking news image to say oh fuck what now.
May 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Pictured: Financial Titans, business leaders, and the editorial boards at big news corps 10 minutes after patting themselves on the back for coming with "TACO" and reminding each other that no-one is going to actually let Trump do what he very plainly says he is going to. Colorized.
It's Lucy ripping the ball from Charlie Brown. Again and again until the heat death of the universe and we all return to the stardust from whence we come.
May 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Look at this Masshole parking job I spotted today.
It’s a kids truck making its own parking spot on a curb with the mulched area.
May 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM