Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 4hRepublicans wouldn't be running insane anti-trans ads if they could instead run ads about the economy, an end to the Iran War, lower gas prices, or a positive job outlook. All they have is a culture war no one is fighting but them. 000
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 4hA reminder that Missouri's 6-2 map is ALREADY a gerrymandered map. We haven't had fair maps in a fucking generation. We need to end the MO supermajority so we can *get* fair maps after the next census when the population probably drops again. Don't lose the plot, family!!!! 010
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Since the nation is waking up this morning to be reminded about what an absolute shill of an idiot Missouri's junior Sen. Eric Schmitt is, I went searching for one of his more egregious campaign ads. Found his current YouTube page instead. The total views warmed my bitter, cold heart. 020
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Great reporting here on why Bailey is leaving the FBI. I post this humbly for you, fellow Missourians. www.ms.now/news/fbis-co...ms.nowFBI’s co-deputy director resigns after agents assigned to case on Stephen Miller’s wife demotedAndrew Bailey was frustrated with the recent demotion of veteran FBI counterterrorism agents, according to sources. 000
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It says a lot that Wagner didn't bother showing up. What's fucking annoying is that the 2nd district (no matter where lines have been drawn) don't seem to care that she never, ever shows up. Fred did a great job. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iu1...youtube.comFact check on live TV: Fred Wellman answers for his ad and Ann Wagner'sYouTube video by KSDK News 000
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Missourians? I want your LOL memes, your epic ratios slamming this clown a$$ f*ckwit for failing so spectacularly in less than a year. We've earned this moment. As my favorite reality TV show host says: The floor is yours. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...nbcnews.comAndrew Bailey, who joined FBI in unusual ‘co-deputy’ position, to leave bureauThe former Missouri attorney general joined the bureau in a newly created “co-deputy director” position last year before the departure of Dan Bongino. 000
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Since she's in the news today for being a general badass, I'd like to submit the moment the Academy Awards literally peaked. 1991. Singing Sondheim, wearing Bob Mackie. It never, ever got better than this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Yh...youtube.comMadonna - Sooner or Later (Live at Academy Awards 1991) [4K]YouTube video by Madonna MX 000
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Re: Warner Bros/Paramount: Be more mad at the failures to regulate at the Federal level than you are at Rob Bonta. There's only so much you can do as the only adult in the room when we have no fucking federal law enforcement in place. This isn't like AGs suing to protect the ACA. 010
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Even if you don't live in St. Charles (let alone where that is) PLEASE consider making a donation to my friend Jewel Kelly. He's in a district that is suddenly up for grabs, and a win would mean Dems could end the super majority in Missouri's legislature: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVpx...youtube.comFighting For You | Jewel Kelly for Missouri House District 106YouTube video by Citizens To Elect Jewel Kelly For 106 113
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Get the actual fuck out. Get. The. Fuck. Out. (Not The Onion, etc.) www.axelspringer.com/en/ax-press-...axelspringer.comLive Broadcast on September 24: Axel Springer Award 2026 Presented to Peter ThielCeremony at the Axel Springer headquarters in Berlin / Livestream available from 7:00 p.m. (CEST) on YouTube via go2.as/award and WELT.de 100
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Susan Collins isn't a moderate Republican. She's standard-issue neocon. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...propublica.orgThe FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the WayAfter the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini... 000
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This WHOOOOOLLLLLE thread. I second all of it, esp. the Dore analogy and the Chorus bullshit which I'm still questioning why Wired published). She's an online personality who suffers the same pathological fame addiction as anyone. She shouldn't be trusted, quoted, or shared. Bye, girl. 010
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I am *genuinely* saddened that more people aren't helping this story trend online. The amount of work that goes into sourcing stories like this is astonishing. Please care as much about this as you do the guy who got kicked off the tour. Yes, they're related. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comTrump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant childrenExclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist 000
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026No shade but do we really have to care what Bill Maher says or does anymore? His biggest enemy is his failing relevance and he knows it. He's always been a problematic, third rail, contrarian asshole. It just used to be less obvious. 111
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026From the not-that-long ago era of 2017, aka his first term when he did this, too. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...theguardian.comTrump press ban: BBC, CNN and Guardian denied access to briefingThe Guardian, New York Times, CNN and more were barred from ‘gaggle’ hours after Trump once again called much of the media an ‘enemy of American people’ 000
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Can someone tell me what Dylan Byers has been smoking lately? 000
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Never, ever underestimate the impact of discovery. Lawsuits are deeply important in that they can uncover documents during the discovery phase that are damning and can be referenced and used in future claims. We owe the NYT a lot for sticking its neck out for this. 000
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Rent free in my head forever: www.semafor.com/article/09/1...semafor.comExclusive: Senate Republicans weigh whether to keep investing in North Carolina and Georgia racesWith the majority on the line and the battleground map expanding, hard choices may be coming soon. 000
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026At a time when Hollywood is under threat of extinction, they are behaving in ways that make the entire industry less and less defensible. This is also just bad, bad business. They've already paid for the movie. Dumb, amoral cowards. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...hollywoodreporter.comUniversal Is Getting Cold Feet on Releasing the Elon Musk Documentary (Exclusive)The Comcast-owned studio is not yet committing to rolling out Alex Gibney's movie that it paid millions to acquire for non-North American release before the political winds shifted. 000
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026And I would still like those alarms to be taken seriously and for the people ringing them to testify in front of Congress, treated as whistleblowers replete with documentation, patterns of fact, and credible evidence. 010
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026No matter what side of what perspective you happen to share here's what we need to do: Congressional testimony with documentation. You say you're a whistleblower? Do a Frances Haugen. Bring those receipts to DC and share them with the public. 010
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Does anyone in St. Louis want to seriously tell me again that the progressive movement doesn't exist here anymore? This is what happens when you HAVE progressives running your city. 000
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I genuinely would like to travel to a parallel universe where I could see the media's response if Joseph Robinette Biden or Barack Hussein Obama made up a fucking easily verifiable lie of being "rescued" on 9/11. 001
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'm so deeply disappointed that with so much on the line in Missouri that national news outlets still haven't developed relationships with local sources here yet. I know there have been a lot of cuts, but this is national politics and MO kicked off this process. Do better. Honestly. 000
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Even Missouri is like "Fuck you, fuck your bullshit, and fuck your chaos." www.stlmag.com/news/trump-k...stlmag.comTrump, Kehoe are both underwater in Missouri, poll showsPresident Donald Trump is underwater in Missouri—and now so is Gov. Mike Kehoe. A SLU/YouGov poll of 900 likely voters released this morning shows that for the first time in six years, the number of M... 021
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Congress should pass a law (amending the ACA) requiring all Marketplace plans to cover the major national pharmacies: Walmart, Walgreens, and CVS (at a minimum). ACA plans often change annually. I'm deeply sick of switching back and forth between one pharmacy to the other. 100
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Each and every AI denialist on this app needs to read this. This isn't marketing. This is a cover up. Yes, these models are powerful and yes, they need to be regulated. Badly. We can't do a Big Tech 2.0. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...theverge.comOh good, looks like yet another swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAIOpenAI denies lawyers discouraged disclosing a scheming swarm on a German language wiki. 020
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Sometimes (okay most times) I want to tell every single voter who sent Denny Hoskins to Jeff City as Missouri's Secretary of State to go fuck themselves. Today is one of those days. 020
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A rare STL/LA crossover moment for me (I lived in LA for 20 years; I'm originally from St. Louis and live here now) from the STL Daily Newsletter. This genuinely made me snort laugh (the Angels are in Anaheim, which is something like 70-ish miles south of Los Angeles). 010
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Just a reminder that if you walk up to a normal (ish) person and say the words "Taylor Lorenz is a crazy person and says some really batshit stuff to bully and ruin people's lives," the response 99.9% of the time will be: "Who the fuck is that?" Normies don't care, Fam. 020
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I don't take issue w/what Piker says. Good 4 u, bro (srsly!). In reality, he's just another celebrity who's very good at dominating the news cycle because, yeah, that's what celebrities do. For him, attention=money. The moment the attention stops (not that it should!) the $ stops along with it. 000
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Pump this shit into my veins: www.cbsnews.com/news/milo-yi...cbsnews.comMilo Yiannopoulos is in ICE custody facing a final removal order, sources sayFar-right political commentator and deportation advocate Milo Yiannopoulos is currently in ICE custody, the agency's database shows. 121
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026There are way, way, waaayyyy to many too-online lefties who genuinely have no fucking idea what the role of the House Minority leader does, the difference between that role and the whips AND the job of speaker. Honestly, it's embarrassing. Do your homework. 000
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I think the left needs to work on our critique of our healthcare system such that it doesn't sound like we're attacking the providers themselves. The problem is insurance companies and the massive infrastructure we pay for with our premiums. Sometimes, we sound like we're attacking science. 110
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026From yours truly. "Both remained working-class heroes who never, ever abandoned their heritage. Both represented their national identity to the world." medium.com/@raitchparke...medium.comDolly Parton is to America what Edith Piaf is to FranceThe two are each other’s only equivalents 110
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Very few things are as good as this. Music and lyrics by the GOAT. RIP to a true American legend, icon, and hero. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3hJ...youtube.comDo I Ever Cross Your MindYouTube video by Chet Atkins - Topic 100
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026It's now Monday. What, if anything, did you do over the weekend to help the candidates who did nothing but hustle and door knock over the weekend? 010
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Yes, it's the weekend. That means there are thousands of Democrats running for state legislature who are out door knocking today. They're trying to out maneuver and outspend a Republican in a gerrymandered district. What are you willing to do to help people who give up their Saturdays and Sundays? 000
Reposted by Rachel ParkerRachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I get that she was probably traumatized. So were a lot of criminals. We get it. She's a public figure who is clearly pathological, if not an outright sociopath. She's not a private citizen. Taxpayers pay her salary. So sad, too bad. Welcome to the consequence phase of your career, Natalie. 1212
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Every article I read that has the words "opposition to data centers could slow AI growth" I'm like "that's the entire point of the opposition to data centers, bruh." 011
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Fuck living in a country where the political party in power is so dominated by cowards this is allowed to continue. Just please imagine for five seconds if this were Biden. JFC if this were Clinton (as in Bill)? This will haunt the GOP forever. It should. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...the-independent.comTrump aide Natalie Harp lives up to her nickname with telling one-word sign-offTrump’s allies who are hoping to get a message in front of the president will send it to Natalie Harp to print out, according to a new report 000
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I don't know who needs to hear this, but sometimes it's okay to respect brain fog. The last 2 years were w/out question the worst of my life. I don't want to go into detail (I have on other platforms) but it was extreme and I suffered the kinds of losses it will take a lifetime to process. 100
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I know it's a rough time, but at least I woke up to a beautiful day in St. Louis. 020
Reposted by Rachel ParkerRachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The AI denialists taking over this platform may push me off of it. You guys, two things **can be true at the same time**. There probably is an AI bubble *AND* the technology may also be uncontrollable and dangerous. <-- That statement shouldn't be greeted with hostility or suspicion. 001
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The AI denialists taking over this platform may push me off of it. You guys, two things **can be true at the same time**. There probably is an AI bubble *AND* the technology may also be uncontrollable and dangerous. <-- That statement shouldn't be greeted with hostility or suspicion. 001
Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Well. How do you like them apples? missouriindependent.com/2026/08/13/l...missouriindependent.comLabor, progressive groups launch $1M push to flip Missouri legislative seats • Missouri IndependentA $1 million grassroots campaign aims to defeat Republican lawmakers who helped repeal Missouri's paid sick leave requirement. 010