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Rachel

@rachelmachel.bsky.social
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Feminist, atheist, mother, vegan, Ph.D. Living in the Free State of Oregon, where we don't put up with bans on speech, healthcare, or books.

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Rachel @rachelmachel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So far today I've talked to AI on the phone, which sent me a tow truck driver who yelled at me in person, and then I accused another person(??) on the phone of being AI. They said they weren't, but that's what AI would say. We need laws that AI must ID itself, and must answer truthfully if asked.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 28/09/2026
"With each falling leaf, you feel a strange desire building in the area beneath your left pectoral. You think lady-people sometimes call this area the 'heart.' You long for flavor infused with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and — could it be — allspice?" buff.ly/Jt8xHF9
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Pumpkin Spice: Now For Men
“You’re a man. You’re into man stuff, like weed wackers, sports that cause brain damage, and getting hired by your dad’s golf friends. But it’s autumn. And s...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026
"You’re a man. You’re into man stuff, like weed whackers, sports that cause brain damage, and getting hired by your dad’s golf friends. But it’s autumn. And something feels different." buff.ly/Jt8xHF9
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Pumpkin Spice: Now For Men
“You’re a man. You’re into man stuff, like weed wackers, sports that cause brain damage, and getting hired by your dad’s golf friends. But it’s autumn. And s...
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 09/09/2026
really a case in point in how maga asks women to debase themselves at the altar of the patriarchy through ritual mutilation
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Why should my tax dollars go to giving houses to people who can't afford them?" Why should MY tax dollars should go to satisfying your desire to see desperate people living desperate lives? I'd rather save money and solve the problem, rather than spend money to exacerbate it.
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Rachel @rachelmachel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Saw an ad for something cool that my kiddo might like, but the ad explicitly mentioned "boy moms," so I guess they don't want me as a customer. What dumb marketing.
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Rachel @rachelmachel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I damn sure hope that the state of Oregon is making alternative plans to get ballots to voters in November if the USPS is compromised. @tobiasread.bsky.social
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone.
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Rachel @rachelmachel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
They can pry my mail-in ballot out of my cold, dead hands.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/08/2026
That cardboard box in your home is fueling election denial... A boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country. (Published 2022)
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That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
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Rachel @rachelmachel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Geez Trader Joe's, you really think we want to be smelling more burning woodlands right now?
A picture of a shelf in a Trader Joe's displaying "Woodlands scented candles $3.99"
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid.
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Rachel @rachelmachel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
When you live in Portland, Oregon, even the graffiti is woke. I fucking love it.
Graffiti in black paint on a Jersey barrier along the side of a road that says "♥️ PROTECT TRANS KIDS"
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.
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U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)
Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I will reiterate: Christians in the West evangelize in public for the same reason men catcall. Neither is trying to persuade you; both are reminding you that the public sphere belongs to them and you exist in it at their sufferance.
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Rachel @rachelmachel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Lol, yep, he sure was there. For a long time. That's pretty much the best we can say about him.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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Rachel @rachelmachel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I have seen absolutely zero discussion in any mainstream media about how this POS was radicalized to carry out these political assassinations. I hear about Charlie Kirk every other day, but no one wants to talk about how the right-wing created a mass-murderer. apnews.com/article/hort...
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Man who killed Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman sentenced to life as family describes trauma, loss
The Minnesota man who killed Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.
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Rachel @rachelmachel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I have a strong suspicion that the cheap billionaire who bought the Blazers is trying to get a deal for the venue now because he is planning on running them into the ground. If they were winning it would be a lot easier to get public support for funding, but he knows that is never going to happen.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 18/07/2026
They wrote down that their plan is to eliminate *legal* immigration from China and India. They wrote down that university and PhD programs are a big problem, because they create large numbers of legal non-white immigrants. Guess which two countries send the most international PhD students? 🇮🇳🇨🇳♥️🕊️
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Rachel @rachelmachel.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
When the AI searches for a picture of "a parasite that causes explosive diarrhea."
A picture of billionaire Taylor Swift and her football husband above a headline from CBS News that says, "Taylor Farms pulls iceberg lettuce linked to cyclosporiasis outbreak."
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Sorry you can’t breathe this summer, but it would have hurt profits. What you want oxygen? For free? Radical socialism.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/07/2026
So many ways this country is ass, not least of which that we're like "public health? why, when instead we can have PRIVATE WEALTH."
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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Rachel @rachelmachel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Even our bathroom graffiti here in Portland is on point.
Sharpie text on a door that reads, "FDT MAGAT F U"
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Rachel @rachelmachel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Kinda seems like if you're attacking each other, your ceasefire is, by definition, over. But what do I know
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In rape culture, everything a woman says means yes and nothing she says means no. This seems to assert that though she said not to come over, said no repeatedly, struggled against Platner, an ambiguous prior comment constituted irrevocable consent. Not a shocking breach not to include it.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/07/2026
And someone is watching you NOW and thinking "fuck, do I want to go through that if my rapist seeks power?" Shut the fuck up and stop blaming victims if you want women to come forward sooner.
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Rachel @rachelmachel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Last week I was in Denver, and we went to Meow Wolf. It was amazing, and made me think that a much better use of the millions people want to spend on Moda Center would be to employ local artists to build our own PDX giant art installation to rejuvenate downtown. CC @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. He was famously abolitionist and one of the earliest voices to point out the hypocrisy of fighting for independence while keeping slaves. He also firmly believed that keeping any friendship which required compromising your morals made you a bad person.
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PandaMom @pandamom.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I feel like I should repost this every day until everyone reposts it every day and demands this simple change with big impact
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
you know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/06/2026
By the way: if the FBI shows up at your doorstep and is like “I’d just like to ask some questions” they don’t have to read you your Miranda rights. You still have the right to remain silent. You can just say, “no, thank you, I’m not interested in talking to you” and have that be it.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/06/2026
The vast majority of Americans look at this country right now and think that it's on the wrong track. Change IS the actual moderate position for our current electorate.
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David @crookedknight.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
My wife works for a national credit union and one thing she has drilled into us all is that they NEVER call you. The automated system may send you a text or a push alert through the app, and those may prompt you to call a central line, but an unsolicited call about fraud is presumptively a scam.
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Rachel @rachelmachel.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Bernie Sanders being pro-Platner perfectly encapsulates why I have never trusted Sanders. He's happy to throw women and minorities under the bus when a fauxgressive man needs his support.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?
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Rachel @rachelmachel.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Which church, you ask? ALL OF THEM
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Rachel @rachelmachel.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
No jury in the world will convict him
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Officer arrested after allegedly pointing firearm at fellow cop over microwaved fish: Warrant
Michael Debiase was arrested and charged with pointing and presenting a firearm at a person, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.
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Oregon Plates @plat.es · 30/05/2026
The Custom Oregon Plate BOOKS was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=cu… #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #BOOKS
Oregon Standard Tree license plate displaying the text "BOOKS".
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...
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I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 26/05/2026
“And I say: For who are we building? We’re going green now for data centers,” she said. “We’re not going green for Washington and Oregon state mandates. We’re going green for data centers.”
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Air travel hassles are like dreams: the most interesting in the world when happening to you, the most boring thing imaginable in other peoples’ stories.
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