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Rachel W

@carolinarachel.bsky.social
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Canes fan, avid reader, bookseller.

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Rachel W @carolinarachel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Why can’t we have nice things too???
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Troels Halken 🍉🇱🇧 🇪🇺 🇬🇪🇷🇸🇺🇦🌻 @halken.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026
You can move your bsky accounts/AT-protocol and existing posts & history to EUropean servers, EUropean jurisdiction and EUropean moderation. Everything else stays the same. No sovereignty as long as we still rely on foreign social media. @eurosky.social @sebastian.eurosky.social move.eurosky.tech
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EU-HAUL - Start Account Migration
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Bob’s my uncle @bobdabalina.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Not sure if Mitch McConnell is dead but journalism certainly is.
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Powerful and critically important read from the brilliant @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Carolina Hurricanes (Bot) @notcanes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The Pope: Huge Caniac
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Rachel W @carolinarachel.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Hi! The Marching Bulldogs of South East Raleigh Magnet High School are selling popcorn to support our 2026 Fall Marching Season. Half of all sales proceeds will go directly to our band to help us afford travel to competitions and parades. Thank you so much! s.dgpopup.com/6y8oe80b .
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Support Christopher’s Pop-Up Store
Click here to buy our delicious popcorn and 50% of your purchase benefits this fundraiser. #doublegood #dgpopup
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
“His is a special kind of loathsomeness: a blend of historical deafness, grotesque stupidity, and comically ludicrous self-importance. As if the little people’s rage against immigration somehow is superior to the war with the Third Reich and entitles this comic-book nobody to lecture actual heroes.”
theguardian.com
Pete Hegseth’s D-day speech on immigration condemned as ‘grotesque stupidity’
Historians and campaigners accuse US defence secretary of desecrating memory of soldiers who fell in Normandy
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Basketball Fan, of the Sixers and LeBron James lmao! @drewhamm5.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This Sens/Canes game is a legitimate “I went to a brawl in a back alley and a hockey game broke out” type of affair lmao
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Bill J @caniacjerk.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Live look at the refs for this game
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Rachel W @carolinarachel.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Pollen haze. It’s brutal out here in central NC.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I completely agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene is a sentence I never thought I would ever write.
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Rachel W @carolinarachel.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should!
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Rachel W @carolinarachel.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
He’s correct, but not in the way he thinks.
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Rachel W @carolinarachel.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Sure… It was ‘accidental’….
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud Dept.-Kinda sounds like he's admitting he interfered in the election with VERY specific statistics. I quit Twitter because he bought it, way before his confession he stole the election for the Orange Atrocity. 🍊💩 Now I'm SURE I made the right decision! 👍
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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 22/03/2026
*stares at camera in Cheerwinian*
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Alison the Resister @alisonwhite3.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
He’s “fixed” it alright, just not for the majority of us.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Cooper: So my opponent, Michael Whatley, will be nothing but a rubber stamp for Trump. He says what Trump says. He does what Trump wants him to do. So if Trump is in this foreign war—even though he said he wasn’t going to enter such wars—then Michael Whatley is going to be for it.
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Rachel W @carolinarachel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Don’t let history call you a MAGA!
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Alli Baldwin @allibaldwin.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
It is unfathomable how low some people go.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Did my mom take me to Prince's Purple Rain tour in the Orange Bowl when I was seven? Yes. Was it potentially age-inappropriate? Yes. But did she buy a tee at the concert and hermetically seal it in a box in the garage for me to find 41 years later? Also yes
A never-worn Prince and the Revolution Purple Rain tour tee, Miami, April 7, 1985 (front)A never-worn Prince and the Revolution Purple Rain tour tee, Miami, April 7, 1985 (back)
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“To the "I didn't vote for this" folks. You voted for a convicted felon. A twice-impeached president. A man found liable for sexual abuse. A man who tried to overthrow an election. And now gas prices are surging, we're at war, and soldiers are coming home in coffins. This is what you voted for…” 🖕
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/03/2026
I spent the last week writing up this essay on what it means to be trans in this moment. What it means to live under authoritarianism as the scapegoated minority of the moment and how it feels inescapable as an infinite loop. www.thedissident.news/exit-conditi...
thedissident.news
Exit Condition
On Alderson Loops, Billionaire Cruelty, and Living Inside the Trap “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.” — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks[1] I. The Loop In computer science, there ...
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Was browsing the Eisenhower Library site this morning trying to find a quote I remembered. President Eisenhower, WW2 military hero: “In my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war… none has yet explained how war prevents war.”
"War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington -- not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict."
Graduation Exercises at the United States
Military Academy, 6/3/47
"Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war.
Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war."
Remarks at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 10/19/50 [DDE's Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal File, Box
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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
2/3 www.standupforscience.net
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I feel like the one thing most everyone can agree on is that nothing Trump and Hegseth say can be trusted, from casualty figures to claims that Iran is begging for a negotiation, from the prospective timeline of the war to whether either man gives a shit about the Iranian people
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
47 years is the *opposite* of imminent (which means "something that will happen soon"). These people are so stupid.
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Rachel W @carolinarachel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I call bullshit
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 04/03/2026
Thank you, Boston.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
People who believe in an imminent Rapture/Armageddon don't have anything invested in what happens to you here on Earth. You are irrelevant to them and will be treated accordingly.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Some U.S. military commanders have reportedly been accused of telling their troops the Iran war is part of a biblical plan to trigger the end times
huffpost.com
Military Commander Tells Troops Bombing Iran Is ‘Part Of God’s Divine Plan’
One commander had a “big grin” on his face while saying Donald Trump “has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran," a service member said.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026
Kaine Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby: "You are uncomfortable having your own words read to you, and you're uncomfortable saying the assassination of a leader and arrest of a leader is regime change. I think that's very instructive."
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Some questions that no one has asked: Why Kristi Noem put an inexperienced 20-something in charge of terrorist prevention. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/03/2026
Translation: he didn't have enough weapons to fight his war of choice and so he is blaming Ukraine
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Mena Burke @menaburke.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This war was built on corruption. Israel, Saudi Arabia and UAE all leading Trump around like he’s a servant.
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Rachel W @carolinarachel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Barron should gladly volunteer!
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.
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Rachel W @carolinarachel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Surprising no or who’s paid the slightest attention to things. These bastards are going to get us all killed to fulfill their Whir Christian Nationalist wet dreams.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
(Reuters) — US Marines opened fire on demonstrators during the storming of the Karachi consulate over the weekend. www.reuters.com/world/asia-pa...
reuters.com
Exclusive: U.S. Marines fired on protesters storming consulate in Karachi, officials say
U.S. Marines opened fire on demonstrators during the storming of the Karachi consulate over the weekend, two U.S. officials said on Monday—a rare use ​of force at a diplomatic post that could sharply escalate tensions in the country ‌amid widespread protests over the killing of Iran's leader.
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NPR @npr.org · 03/03/2026
U.S. first lady Melania Trump presided over a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday focusing on children in conflict, as the United States has joined Israel in attacking Iran. n.pr/4l2DfcO
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Melania Trump presides at UN Security Council meeting as U.S. attacks Iran
U.S. first lady Melania Trump presided over a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday focusing on children in conflict, as the United States has joined Israel in attacking Iran.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/03/2026
“If I go, I think it’ll really make me look strong, like I’m fully in charge of this whole operation,” said President Donald Trump
theonion.com
Trump On Fence About Attending Ayatollah’s Funeral
WASHINGTON—Carefully weighing the implications of his presence at a particularly tense moment in relations between Iran and the United States, President Trump told reporters Monday that he remained on...
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God @thegodshow.com · 03/03/2026
Republicans spent 17 months on Benghazi because 4 Americans were killed. It’s been 3 days and Trump’s illegal Iran attack has already gotten 6 American soldiers killed. He promises more will die soon. And Republicans don’t care.
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Rachel W @carolinarachel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Jesus Christ, what hell is this??
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 01/03/2026
The US has also pulled funding from the Global Measles and Rubella Laboratory Network which is run by WHO. It helps identify measles cases globally and prevent travel related transmission. Measles is extremely contagious and can easily jump countries via international travel.
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 28/02/2026
The Trump administration’s global havoc is unending. My latest story is about how the Trump admin is amplifying anti vaxx conspiracies just as measles outbreaks are spreading across the globe; many countries have just lost elimination status, and others are on the brink.
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‘Viruses don’t know borders’: US anti-vaccine rhetoric could impact global measles crisis
Experts say global measles vaccination rates are falling as Trump officials signal a deprioritization of the virus
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Terence @topolk.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
What a shitshow of a government we’ve got going right now.
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