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Rachel B

@asterisktrash.bsky.social
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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
They’re still lying to us. www.startribune.com/close-to-650...
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Close to 650 federal agents remain in Minnesota weeks after border czar announced end of operation
There are still more than quadruple the 150 agents Tom Homan said there would be in the state by the end of last week.
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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
If you're wondering about US Capitol Police's opinion on Senator Tim Sheehy after he attacked a protesting veteran that they were in the process of also attacking... they gave him a patch. This is what the Capitol Police think of protesters. Remember j6th with that in mind.
Screenshot of a tweet from Mike Berg, Sen Sheehy's staffer saying "Our excellent Capitol Police dropped off a patch for Senator Sheehy after he helped them remove this unhinged protestor from the hearing." with a photo of the patch.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
This is disgusting. Rationalizing the bombing of a school that reportedly killed 108 girls. But since she asked, "Currently, 161 public schools operate on military installations across the United States." www.militaryonesource.mil/education-em...
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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 05/11/2025
Nobody is immune to propaganda, and that's why I left that place in Nov 2022. There's no "winning" or "fighting the good fight" against an algorithm that is designed to warp reality
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Rachel B @asterisktrash.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Overhearing my dad's phone conversation with my grandma Dad: just because he was anti-trump doesn't mean he was a good person! Dad: he was still a very bad guy! Dad: he shot his friend! Dad: he thought his friend looked like a bird! And that's how I found out Dick Cheney died
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
1) pic of Melissa and Mark Hortman 2) pic of Melissa Hortman and dog Gilbert
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Leaving FilmStruck @leavingfilmstrk.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
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Rosa Roisinblit, Who Championed the Missing in Argentina, Dies at 106
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⚡⚡MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE⚡⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Good god, this. This is so important, has been used to hurt so many trans kids, and dealing with this exact thing--where people skim scholarly articles and wildly misunderstand what they say--is a big reason why I do science articles on Stained Glass Woman.
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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
All historians know the sinking feeling of tracking an "authoritative" reference back through several generations of writers to an unsourced assertion by someone nobody's ever heard of. Now AI can make up new ones in no time at all.
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 29/07/2025
"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest
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Rachel B @asterisktrash.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
This book is so good and important!!!
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
As Dem politicians like Pete Buttigieg throw trans athletes under the bus and efforts grow to erase their records, I highly recommend this book on how fascism shaped modern sports to ostracize queer and BIPOC people and naturalize gender hierarchies.
The Other Olympians: Fascism Queerness and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 27/07/2025
I've been thinking a lot about Albert Memmi and Judeopessimism lately I think I'm becoming a Judeopessimist, alas You just can't convince most Gentiles (OR Jews!) to bother learning what antisemitism really is or how it works, let alone combat it in themselves Anyway, I wrote this a while back:
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The Jewish Pessimist — Josephine Riesman // Writer
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
an anonymous source that goes by the neutral name "jeffersondavisfan" has leaked that, as a child, Zohran Mamdani drew this hate-filled symbol in over eight notebooks and on two different desks
That weird inter-connected "S" type symbol everyone drew in notebooks and on desks in school.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/07/2025
American Jewish institutions will never wash their hands clean of this sanctioning of the murder of children. Of men. Of brothers. Of women. Of aunties. Of grandfathers. Of mothers. Of people. Shande shande shande on all of you
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I just sent this out. The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment. It is a choice not to heed them. Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
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to Jews, on the Gaza famine
an open letter: we have been commanded
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This project needs your support — Please consider donating and sharing this project. Pardon Tracker is an independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, documenting the statements, activities, and networks of the Capitol Rioters pardoned by Donald Trump.
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Pardon Tracker
Pardon Tracker is an independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, documenting the statements, activities, and networks of the individuals that received pardons charges related ...
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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Ugh. My doctor has requested more blood tests. My veins are really hoping this will be it, but finding final answers for my ongoing issues is taking forever. If you could throw a few bucks my way, I'd be grateful. I'm at 95% of my goal. Thank you & please boost! www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
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Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar
Hi everyone, I'm Rhonda, also known as R. S. A. Garcia, a speculative … Arula Ratnakar needs your support for Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 24/07/2025
Chatterton is a beneficiary of what I call placeholder writing. Folks like Nikole Hannah-Jones & Ta-Nehisi earned a following & then started talking about reparations & the 1619 project. And those pieces were popular, shifting the conversation in their favor. 1/
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Summer of Our Discontent by Thomas Chatterton Williams review – the liberal who hates leftists
In his caustic critique of identity politics, Williams ends up condemning every kind of collective action
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
On the one hand, this is great. But I feel about this like I do about heartwarming "go fund me" campaigns. It's great that people are stepping up, but public goods should be supported with public funds.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The summary is that they are trying to criminalize every aspect of homelessness so they can arrest & forcibly commit unhoused people. Currently(/before), there are not enough mental health & substance use treatment beds/facilities, and this does not add anything, which only leaves imprisoning people
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the late great hannibal lizova @yanoforsure.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
tw hockey canada, sexual assault with the verdict of the hockey canada trial being read today, a reminder to everyone to take care of yourselves. i see you i hear you and i believe you. i stand with survivors. i believe survivors.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/07/2025
Deeply sorry for every non-white-supremacist educator and student at Columbia. bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
AFTER he was released, instead of an apology: "On Tuesday morning, while boarding his flight to Vermont, Chavarria said he received an email from U.S. Customs and Border Protection: his Global Entry permission had been revoked. No reason was given."
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Rachel B @asterisktrash.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
If anyone tries to tell you that to look up the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as a way of telling you Israel is not starving Gaza...
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US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza
American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Asso...
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator very grim
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/07/2025
Columbia functionally returning to its original name King’s College
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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We sent @timdonnelly.com to the Italian-vs-Italian rally in Astoria and he got a whole bunch of people to talk to him about who should replace Columbus as America's honorary Italian who gets you a day off from work nygroove.nyc/italians-for...
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Chanting ‘Danny DeVito,’ Italians for Zohran tell protesters to get over Columbus already
Mamdani fans propose some other Italians to venerate instead of Columbus
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
What’s not mentioned is Venus is in need of her insurance bc she has primary Sjögren’s, a systemic autoimmune disease much like Lupus and often secondary, in tandem with, as mine is. She’s battles on many fronts and conquers! 💜👑 The champion trying to slam Sjögren’s www.cnn.com/2014/03/20/s...
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Venus Williams: The champion trying to slam Sjogren’s syndrome | CNN
Everyone has had one of those mornings – you wake up groggy, can’t face going to work, dive back under the covers and go back to sleep.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
They smashed his window & beat him & left him bloodied with 9 stitches because he didn’t have his lights on. During the day.
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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
In essence, Jon Stewart on Monday night told people like LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong to “go f**k yourself” for corporate cowardice—and then handed one of them a comfortable platform on national television minutes later. www.status.news/p/jon-stewar...
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Softballs for Soon-Shiong
Jon Stewart torched media executives for bowing to Trump—then handed Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, one of the worst offenders, an unchallenging interview minutes later.
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I haven't made a comic in 20 years. But I'm really proud of this one, and so grateful to @flaminghydra.com for publishing it and to the Migrant Media Project for commissioning it. (I'm told it reads better in Portuguese -- that version will go up tomorrow in ‪@jornalexpresso.bsky.social‬).
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TRANSMIGRATIONS
a fiery writer-owned cooperative
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 22/07/2025
What are the odds that There's a history of domestic abuse here? So far, every dude in texas (that i know of) who has sued because their partners got abortions has been credibly accused of domestic violence.
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 20/07/2025
This is probably the best campaign ad I've ever seen
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Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Two Harry Potter fanfics are on the NYT bestseller list. The author of one was uninvited from Romance Con because readers believe she's helping to keep JK Rowling relevant and profitable. The issue has exposed how HP fandom may never truly be separate from the bigot. I wrote about it for Pajiba.
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Pajiba @pajiba.com · 17/07/2025
At Romance Con, the Shadow of J.K. Rowling and Questions of Fan Culpability Loom Overhead
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At Romance Con, the Shadow of J.K. Rowling and Questions of Fan Culpability Loom Overhead
This year, there are no fewer than three novels receiving wide releases from major publishers that started out life as Harry Potter fanfictions. After 50 Shades of Grey opened the floodgates and made it socially and (sorta) legally acceptable for... Read more...
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Damn.
My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach, and one that I resisted as long as I could. But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Have just realized that the silly “Bezos wants to buy Vogue as a lavish wedding gift for his bride” story that’s been circulating is inaccurate - Bezos wants to buy Condé Nast which owns The New Yorker,Teen Vogue, Wired & Arts Technica because he is an oligarch who wants to crush all dissent.
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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Looking to support #TransBooks but not Bezos? BEHOLD
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I almost can't believe that Elon Musk's AI called for the extermination of the Jewish people yesterday, and today not a single Congressional Democrat announced they were leaving his media network. A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 08/07/2025
You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/07/2025
somehow i don’t think vance is imagining the descendants of veterans of the US Colored Troops when he is speaking about people whose ancestors fought in the civil war
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Earlier this year, my office secured $16.75 million from DoorDash for misleading its delivery workers out of their hard-earned pay.   I'm urging Dashers in New York to file a claim now to get their money back before the deadline on September 30, 2025.
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Home - NY AG v DoorDash Settlement
You may be eligible to claim a benefit in a class action settlement. Find out if you are eligible & visit our website to file a claim today!
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