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Rachel Larris

@rachellarris.bsky.social
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I'm about studying & explaining all things Communications, Culture & Technology because that was my graduate degree. A media expert/disinformation type who will always rant about Aaron Sorkin’s impact on American politics. More Ohioan than JD. she/her.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22m
shes saying this on the same network that just interviewed a guy who said he spent 18 days in heaven chilling with jesus christ
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 20h
Found out yesterday that one of the first pet cats whose name we know belonged to Crown Prince Thutmose of the 18th dynasty pf Egypt. She was named Ta-Miu, which translates, roughly, as "Miaow Girl".
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yglesias has lost his mind. This is not "progressive economic thinking," this is what you see on Twitter. substack.com/@matthewygle...
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Holly ⏸️ Elmore @ilex-ulmus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My ex-husband is one of the rapists at Aella’s simulated rape orgies that John Wentworth, Nate Soares, and I’ve heard Eliezer Yudkowsky also attended. He was an emotionally abusive partner and, until I left EA/rationality, he used the cult to keep me trapped. Journalists please DM.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Simply caring about victims can change everything.
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Rachel Larris @rachellarris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Also Holy Shit!! Mr. Terrific is in Twilight!!
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Rachel Larris @rachellarris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Because Robert Pattinson is having “a moment” I’m rewatching Twilight. Once you understand that he’s an actor who *always* changes his voice what he’s doing with Edward Cullen’s mannerisms is much more interesting to watch.
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Edward Cullen Robert Pattinson
ALT: Edward Cullen Robert Pattinson
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
My investigators have confirmed the Trump administration is hiding interview documents it conducted with some of Epstein’s banks, and there could be more. There’s no limit to how far Scott Bessent, Kash Patel and Todd Blanche will go to continue this cover up.
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/10/2026
Ate them. They were okay. If you want the actual chickeny flavor (and being barely a whisper at that), twist it and just eat one of the wafers without the filling. Otherwise, the maple-y filling flavor is really the dominant note.
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eddiethebulldog.bsky.social @eddiethebulldog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
All this thread. Stop blaming the victims and stop shaping the story to shame them.
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Rachel Larris @rachellarris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tried my hand at making a decorative cookie because it’s a pretty simple concept: the Coin Cookie. Basically a lemon-y shortbread
Coin Cookie: from Cooking With Disney. A stack of cookies painted gold to look like coin
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every single newspaper that reported that Jane Doe “changed her story” should be rushing to publish retractions right now. This case should be a lesson in taking a DA’s victim-blaming statements at face value. Victims do not report to the police because they thought nothing happened to them.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 01/10/2026
It would be entirely possible for Elon Musk to tweak the model ahead of a meeting like this so it would feed Trump ideas that benefitted Musk himself. Not saying that's what happened, but we know he's tweaked the X algorithm to boost his own tweets and preference ideas he likes...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And what real man wants to be on a platform filled with GIRLS?!?! EW GROSS
Geiger Capital: Officially deleted instagram.

An inherently female app. Zero benefit.

Elon Musk: Instagram is for girls.
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is really three developments. It's (1) a notice filed in the ongoing mifepristone litigation at the Fifth Circuit — storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... — about (2) a new attack on abortion providers and (3) a new states v. states lawsuit filed directly at the Supreme Court.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mattel chairman Ynon Kreiz has joined the newly merged company and will serve as co-CEO alongside David Ellison. ir.paramount.com/news-release...
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This man is doing more harm to the US military through screaming incompetence than most foreign adversaries could manage through the use of force.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i know it is a small thing but do these tech oligarchs not read before signing something from the unites states president
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
not including Schmitt, there were probably at least a half-dozen people who had to agree that these texts had some kind of significance bc they were sent the day after the announcement about Fani Willis and Nathan Wade, and that proving that Smith was in ATL would get them a Moment
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2026
I actually don't think the Republican Senator mixed up "Hawks" and "Hawkeyes." Going by his own statements, it appears his staff saw he went to a basketball game on that date and googled basketball games and found the only men's game that night in the whole country was in Atlanta.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it is important to realize that many reporters for mainstream outlets are enthusiastic cogs in this elite-coordinated propaganda machine. don't print lies in the newspaper
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chat is it a sign of a healthy democracy when the second most-powerful elected leader is standing behind the president while two tech billionaires are seated on either side of him?
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The lesson of the last 20 months isn't and can't be that taking needed action before you can be stopped is a recipe for political failure. It only looks like that if you don't have deeply held, non-negotiable commitments. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...
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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Really no way to interpret this as anything other than a years long attempt to scare literally all rape victims from ever coming forward
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Rachel Larris @rachellarris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s a lot in here I’m thinking about. The idea that to leave MAGA there has to be somewhere the person is going to now, 🤔
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Rachel Larris @rachellarris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What dropped? He wouldn't make this change otherwise
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Rachel Larris @rachellarris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At hospital in Cleveland because my Uncle is in surgery and found this cool little piece of Art by Bill Waterson
Wall of art contributed by newspaper cartoonists. Bill Waterson of Calvin & Hobbes is bottom row, second right Bill Waterson of Calvin & Hobbes drew a T-Rex Contributing cartoonists to was from 2016

CONTRIBUTING CARTOONISTS (IN ORDER): Jim Allen, Mark
Anderson, Sunny Artanis, Tom Batiuk, Jim Borgman, Charles Brubaker, Jenny Campbell, Dave Coverly, Brian Crane, Rich Diesslin, Scott Ebisch, Hy Eisman, Jan Eliot (2 pieces), Graham Harrop, Bill Holbrook, Scott Jensen, Polly Keener, Rick Kirkman, Jeff Knurek, Terri Libenson, Mike Lynch, Jef Mallett, Mark Parisi, Jeff Parker, Stephan Pastis, Lincoln Peirce, Hilary Price, John Rose, Pat Sandy, George Schill, Maria Scrivan, John Steventon, Mark Tatulli, Bill Watterson,
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Comics Collage
Mixed medium on bristol board 2016
GIFT OF TERRI LIBENSON, MICHAEL DAVIS AND THE ARTISTS
2016.14.1
In 2015, my daughter, Nicole Davis, celebrated a Bat Mitzvah. Part of her milestone included performing a charitable service. She decided to gather a large group of friends to paint small canvases to give to patients at UH Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital. My husband, Michael Davis, suggested we do an adjoining project: gather fun sketches from other professional cartoonists to form a collaborative collage. This would be hung in the hospital for patients and families to enjoy. I agreed it was a great idea.
We received many responses, and here is our fantastic result. So much thanks goes to my family and all the great creators who contributed.
-Terri Libenson, cartoonist of the syndicated comic strip, "The Pajama Diaries," 2016
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
It's frustrating because everything you need to understand Trump you can get from watching him for 5 minutes. It's all right there. The falsehoods are just an extremely predictable outgrowth of it. It's just that the media shies away from clearly stating *what kind of person he is*.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
Love Daniel Dale & his work, but this piece is very frustrating. There's nothing in here about *why* Trump behaves the way he does, what it says about his psyche or his personality, how it ought to inform the way reporters or voters should deal with him. It's just, "gosh, he lies a lot!"
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Rachel Larris @rachellarris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He weirdly resembles the literary device of “anti-Christ” in his own delusional apocalyptic theories
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mild consideration & curiosity might lead one to think that putting Peter Thiel at the heart of 🇬🇧’s NHS and military logistics might not be prudent…
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They can't all be this stupid. It's obviously a tactic to send the ACA into a death spiral.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This guy is about to make my life wayyyy worse
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Rachel Larris @rachellarris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sometimes I want to track down the details of the sad anti-trans activist in the Anti-Sherrod Brown ads who talks about being unhappy with a transition. But I’m not gonna learn anything about Sherrod Brown that way, would I?
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Rachel Larris @rachellarris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fwiw I enjoy the sweat everyone puts into hating the NYT list
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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cat mode is one of the most difficult in pinball
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BREAKING WaPo: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just slammed the Supreme Court's use of its "emergency docket" — suggesting the court has misused the process in allowing the Trump admin to move forward with a host of controversial policies while challenges play out in lower court.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticizes Supreme Court’s use of emergency docket
In a public appearance, Jackson said the high court’s use of the emergency docket was “problematic” and called for more restraint from her colleagues when using it.
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Rachel Larris @rachellarris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dropped by for another well-decorated cookie.
Cookie that says DJT shits his PANTS.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026
"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Hannity's list of "TRUMP'S TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS" includes restoring Confederate names to military bases and releasing dietary guidelines
cap from Hannity
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 23/09/2026
There have been lots of malevolent Supreme Court justices, but there's not really a precedent for a Supreme Court justice who is as *dumb* as Brett Kavanaugh. A complete rube. Shows his ass every time he tries to write down more than two sentences of original thought.
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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day
The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.
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Rachel Larris @rachellarris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Now that it’s fall Princess Caroline stay inside after dark
Princess Caroline sits in a cardboard replica of an adorable cotton
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Rachel Larris @rachellarris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is already a dystopian YA novel without the SA implications
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