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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Like people shit on Mike for his politics but he has put out less anti-Dem moaning into the world in the last 10 years than Bill has

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I love Rifftrax and MST3K but ugh Bill Corbett becoming a Dem-downer poaster is so annoying. Thank God the other guys got offline

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Of course we did. We learned it is great for engagement.

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No seriously people On Here were insisting that she ran as some skull-cracking fighter because she had ads showing herself shooting targets in an FBI vest and like...honey my Republican mom used to set fires to military vessels to test firefighting robots. This is #justNOVAthings<3

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The funniest thing about Abigail Spanberger's election was seeing all the non-Virginians going "SHE IS EMPHASIZING HER PAST IN THE CIA TO SHOW SHE WILL BE RUTHLESS AGAINST TRUMP" when anyone who has lived here knows she was just branding herself as a relatable NOVA mom "Hello fellow feds!"

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I mean yes I think in general people need to stop caring so much about celebrities.

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"Surely if we just give the imperialist despot what he wants, he will stop on the honor system"

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I wish people would just admit that this is about what they find gratifying and not whether it's effective. And that's fine! It's ok to want to see bad people taken down!

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I just can't help but notice that depending on the day and who is doing it, people fawn over candidates who "reach out to disaffected Republicans and win them over" and "tell all Republicans they should be shot" with equal enthusiasm Ofc there is a difference between electeds and voters, but

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Eh. This "small business" is also owned by millionaires. This is a lateral punch.

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

See my toxic trait is that I am currently hyperfixating on an Italian who barely squeaks into this category on the basis that he PROBABLY killed fewer people, and only if he didn't actually help establish the mass heroin trade in the US

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I really, really hate how people who learned queer history from Tumblr think it goes by "Stonewall happened and then the gays were liberated" with MAYBE a bit about AIDS thrown in

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

idk maybe it's worse because this phonebanking session is during dinnertime

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

God I haven't phonebanked since the last midterms. Forgot how depressing it is.

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm not complaining because it means I can get gay married in my church should I want to! Take that pope

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Nah my family has been getting baptized in the same Episcopal church since the 18th century

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"companies don't REALLY care about queer people when they do pride marketing!" No shit. I also don't think they market during Christmas to spread the good news of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but it still indicates something about the cultural power of Christianity that they do

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yeah, that was how it worked for my mom growing up (60s/70s NOVA). She was the only girl so she was the only one with her own room. bsky.app/profile/daze...

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My mom was the oldest of 4 siblings and she was the only one to get her own room as a teen because she was the only girl. Grandfather owned a local gas station.

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My grandmother was considered having married up in the 40s because grandfather's family had indoor plumping and a real bath in their home. This was northern Virginia, literally 30 minutes outside DC.

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Once again stop claiming that Trump will respect you if you show strong progressive convictions. He's an evil racist man who hates you

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The DOJ raided Ilhan Omar's house omg

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Betting on elections being this normalized to the point of being treated as equivalent to polling is underrated as a dystopian aspect of modern politics

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Also there have been many, many times when the result has been far worse off than polls but they are just quietly ignored because people make money promoting the betting markets

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Keeping my cishet offline sister cultured

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I mean I can name at least one normie Dem who literally did give up a likely enormously lucrative career in the private sector to do public service in his shitty home state, and certain people will never stop accusing him of evil because of it

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Most of the major queer publications, including the Advocate, recently got gutted with layoffs. So an increasingly small and poorly paid staff are going to churn out the hits, aka both sidesing

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"but Rachel your friends' instastories are a bubble!!!" I promise that a feed of everyone I have met over the course of my life is less of a bubble than bluesky

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nothing that happens on election twitter or this entire site matters. Normal people are not in either of those places, only us freaks You know this site has actually 0 sauce because I'm unusual for bringing up obscure shit like "Taylor Swift" and "shitposts about dating"

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

NGL people on here love to talk about what has X impact on the electorate but my general rule of thumb is "assume it will have no electoral impact until and unless you start seeing it referenced in your IRL friend's instastories." It has yet to steer me wrong

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It was around when Roe got struck down and "Biden LET them strike roe down!" was being astroturfed hard online

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Brett’s football club are champions of Europe, sort of* @brett006.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Dems should have never disbanded their pretorian guard that swoops in and stops republicans from doing terrible things.

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I textbanked for the 2022 midterms in PA and yeah, it was very popular to shit on Biden even then. I had someone say they weren't voting in 2022 because "fuck joe biden" and I gently reminded them that he was not on the ballot

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

hmmmmmm if anything I would think the nonbinary group is Sopranos fans because it has both a macho male self-insert and is a prestige HBO drama with major female characters, Sopranos encompasses all genders

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Democrats have not personally invaded other states to stop Republicans from committing executions, so who is really at fault here?"

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A lot of people saw Mamdani in a necessary position of obeisance (kissing ass to a man he calls a fascist, giving him cameras when he wasn't getting any) and convinced themselves that it was a position of power. But Mamdani never had the power in this relationship, any more than any other executive

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I just can't believe we are 11 years into this man's reign of terror over our national psyche and there are still, STILL, people who want to believe he could be a force for good if only Democrats Had The Courage And Skill

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Again, NOT Mamdani's fault. But there was only so far photoshoots were going to go and Trump was always going to get bored and go full despot again, it was only a matter of time

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Trump is so impressed by Mamdani's progressive convictions that he isn't committing evil" has always been delusional but it was a bonkers narrative when ICE has been on the streets of NYC already and admin pressure has hurt trans healthcare in the city

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump is not Mamdani's kooky mildly racist uncle who can be tricked into goodness. He is not a force of nature who can be controlled with the right skill. He is a deeply deeply evil man who runs an evil, bloodthirsty admin and he holds power over Mamdani, not the other way around

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Again I DO NOT BLAME MAMDANI FOR WHAT HE HAS TO DO AT ALL but the shooting in Marble Hill and Mamdani not being able to get the guy out of custody is exactly why I thought it was dangerous for people on social media to whitewash Trump to try and boost Mamdani's profile

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There are two genders: Godfather Bro or Boardwalk Empire Girlie

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Vegetable Human is odd in that she really wants to be a ruthless edgelord who doesn't care about your little liberal feelings, but she gets any pushback and goes "pls pls pls don't think I'm a bad person pls I didn't mean it" Commit, girl! You can put people against the wall OR be a smol bean

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He wins because he killed both American troops and innocent people abroad for absolutely nothing but feeding his masculinity complex and bloodlust. RFK Jr has an insane ideology but it is, at least, an ideology. Hegseth is a sociopath 12 year old torturing small animals to feel big.

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pete Hegseth being a bloodthirsty 12-year-old really, really sucks

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