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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Since 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.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A 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).

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

OK so I'm maybe a little too excited about this.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Wesley Bell's campaign lit proudly features a quote from the same exact people who are dismantling CBS News and censoring journalists at 60 Minutes. Is "fighting Trump" also carrying water for the Ellisons? We have one more opportunity to vote him out this cycle. St. Louis? Do the right thing.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Wesley Bell is a fucking republican, y'all. In my mailbox today.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Happy Monday, St. Louis. I bring you the most peak St. Louis post of all time. This is the Imo's Pizza of social media posts in that if you have no idea what those words mean then we don't have time to explain it to you. To my locals: Bask in our glory. I really do truly love us.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Cool cool cool so you can ruin your life in seconds within the comfort of your own home. Great. Everything's great.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This didn't work with the repeal of the right to work repeal redux, you fucking moron. But you'd know that if you actually paid attention to Missouri political history, Mike. See you in August!!! We're going to enjoy wiping the floor with you.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

From about 2 weeks ago. Dimmitt won the endorsement of the Brentwood BOA, I think.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

When you can't disable the "for you" feed on Threads and this happens. What's the fucking point if this is the outcome? Meta can't even make good social software anymore. But ok. I'm sure your AI lab is going to be gangbusters. (No shade to @ohhthatsrich.bsky.social who is awesome.)

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Hey family? This is what happens when good creators do journalism. It's this. Fuckin A, this is amazing.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Christ on a fucking cracker, he already left.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Get the actual fucking fuck out of here with this absolutely reckless dangerous bullshit. Coinbase backed mortgages???? If only we knew from history how fucking badly this will go.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Good thing that Murkowski, Fetterman, and Collins have zero problem spending this money for no apparent reason with no apparent end in sight. (From a story in Politico.)

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Because this was announced with so much fanfare, I want to make sure we don't miss the outcome which is, to be succinct: NOTHING.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I am not an AI doomer. I think there are AI tools that will make it much harder for assholes like Brockman to decide who gets money to build new tech products. That said: Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you, and fuck you. Fuck your company. Fuck your IPO.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Sorry, I misread. This idiot said he'd vote third party if the candidates were *JD Vance* and Newsom. (Coffee hadn't kicked in). He can still go fuck himself, btw. I'm voting for a slab of raw meat in 2028 over JD fuckin Vance. Here's the screenshot from a story; link follows. What a smug asshole.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I'm going to start dreaming in curse words now. thehill.com/homenews/med...

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

We are living during a time of the unmasking of truly horrible people. Shout out to @status.news and @nataliekorach.bsky.social for working your sources to get this story out this fast. I really don't know what else to say. The Post is officially dead.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Good morning to the very good people of Missouri's first district. This was the last public statement Rep. #WesleyBell made about ICE. Anywhere. I combed through his social accounts as well as his official congressional website. He hasn't issued a presser *about anything* since January 9th.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

You know what comes after cracks like this in the ship's hull? Leaks. A lot of leaks. (FWIW, Noam is a piece of shit but she's also telling the truth. Of course this is what he fucking told her to do.)

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Huh. Wonder how many of those billionaires are having some serious buyer's remorse right about now. If only they were all hanging out together right now at some annual summit? Too bad that can't happen so they all can't scream about this in real life. Oh well.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I wrote this (link in thread) in 2019. Most people weren't taught (me included) that segregation included blood. Were you Black, you would be denied blood drawn from a white person in pre-Civil Rights, segregated America. King nearly died from a stabbing due to this racist horrific bullshit.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

As an ardent supporter of Sanders and the left wing of the Democratic base, I just want to say this forcefully and vociferously: Fuck this logic. It belongs in 2016. If your only contribution to this crisis is to bitch about !!!THE DEMS!!! on social media, I can't take you seriously.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

A picture tells a thousand words. Here's a picture that clearly why Donald Trump is so obsessed with overturning law and order in Minnesota.

A screenshot of Mike Lindell's campaign site. He is running to become the next Governor of Minnesota and supports Donald Trump's Big Lie about the 2020 election.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

What the actual F is happening with @davidleavitt.bsky.social profile??? Seriously @bsky.app?

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

From today's Semafor Business newsletter: the oil industry isn't coming back to Venezuela even if the demented delusional man running our country thinks he handed them a prize. He didn't.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Who's going to tell her? (From Nov. 1...of 2025.)

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I'm going to dine out on this paragraph (from the Variety story today re: her dumb town halls no one will watch) for a month. Girl they ran chia pet ads like it was the fourth hour of the Today Show...a real face flop for prime time.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

No, but we'll for sure ask how much time you spent in hair and make up this morning, because honestly who wears a bandana like that unless it's staged, my girl?

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

And none of those 150M will be able to do shit if we get locked out of our accounts because you still haven't figured out a disciplined methodology to support your users, Adam. This is me, clapping with one hand. I hate myself a little more every day for still using a Meta-owned platform.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Is this the shortest article ever written?

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

All hail @sarahfenske.bsky.social for what can only be described as this "peak St. Louis" story. Ah, man. I love it here.

Story from St. Louis Daily Magazine: O'Connell's pub calls bullshit on foliage notice it got from the city. David beats Goliath!!!

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Good god that this story isn't even getting discussed today shows you that we live in the fucking upside down. If Twitter were still public, this would be on the front page of the WaPo and the WSJ. That is a lot of money for anyone to pay, even him. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Ahhh and speaking of. (Right on time as per usual.) And I do subscribe and pay for this work (currently only to Wired).

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

My friends and I lived through this bullshit in the 90s. These ideas are not new. These assholes just have bigger platforms now. Bearing children and getting married are not measures of success (duh, but it bears repeating). Full-throated misogyny, however, is an abject moral failing.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Legit forgot she existed after she launched her weird "Alo for Gun Owners" weird-as-fuck clothing line way back during Trump 1.0 when Milo still had a day job.

Screenshot of Tomi Lahren's on Threads because Gavin Newsom is dragging Trump successfully.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

This week, my US House Rep Wesley Bell quibbled in front of a heated crowd about what the definition of “genocide” is. Can someone please send him this? Because it’s this.

Headline from The Guardian: According to Israel’s own data, the death rate in Gaza is 83%.

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Rachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

If you lived in a red state, you’d never write a headline as dumb as this. How about we stop doing it? “These Rubes Will Feel it the Most!” Is a shockingly stupid narrative and one that needs to get tossed. It’s a good story, too. It’s the framing I take issue with.

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