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Rachel Rushefsky

@rachelrushefsky.bsky.social
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Artist, cat herder, knitter, project manager

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/08/2026
Mamdani: "If a New Yorker looks at what ICE is doing and wants to see more of it, they should vote for Bruce Blakeman, who has created his own militia in Nassau County. If they look at what ICE is doing and they are shocked by the inhumanity and cruelty, they should vote for Gov. Kathy Hochul."
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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Worse than I thought. I saw Kushner’s Albania resort up close — it is an environmental disaster. The damage at Vjosa-Narta is not fake news. Bulldozers are tearing into one of Europe’s most precious wetlands www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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I saw Kushner’s Albania resort up close — it is an environmental disaster
The damage at Vjosa-Narta is not fake news. Bulldozers are tearing into one of Europe’s most precious wetlands.
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Literally every American should see this ad. Spread it everywhere. #TrumpLovesTheInflation
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/06/2026
"We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They’re called Ponzi schemes." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...
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Elon Musk, Human Ponzi Scheme
With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 11/06/2026
He promised to end inflation. He won on groceries. He took your vote. Then he started a war, drove energy up 23.5%, gutted SNAP, tanked your real wages — and when asked about YOUR suffering, he grinned and said ‘I love the inflation.’ You were never anything to him. Not ever. #TrumpLovesTheInflation
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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Learn what the "salami strategy" is — cutting your opposition into small enough slices where nobody really bothers fighting any one tiny element — and how well the Trump admin is using it to pillage our public lands: www.republic.land/the-salami-s...
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The Salami Strategy
The Trump administration's transfer of national forest management to the states is hiding in plain sight—a coordinated strategy visible only if you're tracking all of it at once.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Staggering levels of corruption. They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families. And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care.
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US Political Politics News 💙🌈🦋The Fighting Liberal @us-political-news.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Trump Team Wanted to Force Immigrants Out by Declaring Them Dead A whistleblower revealed the horrific plan at the Social Security Administration. ...
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Trump Team Wanted to Force Immigrants Out by Declaring Them Dead
A whistleblower revealed the horrific plan at the Social Security Administration.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 05/06/2026
They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
DOJ says Trump has the right to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty and no one can stop him #AlterNet
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DOJ says Trump has the right to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty and no one can stop him
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/06/2026
Air conditioning is unapologetically a good thing because it helps people not die. And one good thing about air conditioning is that it largely needs to run during the day when solar power is at its maximum: it can and should align with clean energy goals.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
In 2024, experts said that as many as 1,360 children remained separated from their parents six years after the first Trump admin’s zero tolerance policy. Under mass deportation we now run the risk of repeating this permanent family separation—but on an even larger scale:
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The New Family Separation Crisis Is Here
A horrific number of U.S. citizen children have been separated from a parent under the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda, a new study reveals.
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Michael @michaelnaphys.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
On Day 7 of the anti-ICE protest/hunger strike, things only continue to escalate outside of ICE's Delaney Hall concentration camp, with reports of injuries sustained by protestors due to the terrorism tactics deployed by ICE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘We are not criminals’: protests erupt as hunger strike rocks New Jersey ICE jail
A day after ICE officials pepper-spray senator, tensions ramp up outside facility on fifth day of hunger and labor strike
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Queen_Potato @queenpotato.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
And there you have it. The anti trans campaign in Maine was never some "grassroots movement." It was bankrolled by billionaire Richard Uihlein, who poured over $800,000 into targeting trans kids over sports and bathrooms.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The obsession with the birth rate, though, isn’t and has never actually been about the birth rate, any more than the “pro-life” movement was ever about babies. It’s about locking women down and chaining them to male partners.
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Amy @tangentsafari.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is the same company building a colossus of a data center in York County, SC. They’re telling locals water won’t be an issue because it’s on a closed loop or something. But that is the same water system used in Georgia. South Carolina candidates need to be talking about this. #SCpol #SCnews
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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.lol · 22/05/2026
Good morning and happy Friday to everyone. Honestly, voting is like taking a bus. If there isn't one going exactly to your destination, you don't stay at home and sulk—you take the one going closest to where you want to be. We can vote better than they can cheat. 💙🗳️
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is exactly the way. Find some awful Jan6 story from your state, your CD, and start talking relentlessly about it, asking people if they want to pay that criminal.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Two of the "journalists" who helped cover up these pedophiles' crimes by driving a young trans woman into hiding are Dareh Gregorian, who works at NBC News, and Lucy Carne, who continues to write trans panic articles nearly 20 years later.

The Courier Mail:
Transgender athletes in women's sport have unfair advantage, writes Lucy Carne
Instead of pushing for better pay, we have national guidelines asking for males to be allowed to compete as females, writes Lucy Carne.
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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 10/01/2026
Every current & former law enforcement officer says the same thing: It was totally against protocol, their training is shit & it was a bad shooting. Everyone says it was murder. Everyone says she was trying to turn the car away. The ONLY PEOPLE who disagree are Trump supporters. Weird, huh.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/01/2026
ICE/CBP just shot two people in Portland.
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Justin Seagull @pocketseagull.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Every Democrat needs to take notes. You have to run on immediately undoing all of this shit.
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
seems incredibly obvious by now that these should not be consumer-facing tech but that is what the companies making them want them to be
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Rachel Rushefsky @rachelrushefsky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Finished this a little while ago, but finally got a picture of it. Polychromos colored pencil on Bristol vellum, 8”x10”.
Baby Macaque monkey held by its mother, sucking its thumb.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Until we have replicators, we will need wealth redistribution.
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
It's scary how so many are fighting so hard against their own best interests with those who dont give a damn about them, theirs, or anyone's intere$t$ other than their OWN! Please educate yourself and others; share.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Texans who get insurance from healthcare.gov can now see how much their plan will cost in 2026. Prices are higher for MILLIONS because Republicans are getting rid of critical tax credits. I asked Texans to share what this would mean for their family. ⬇️
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Politico @politico.com · 12/11/2025
Jeffrey Epstein claims he gave Russians insight into Trump
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Jeffrey Epstein claims he gave Russians insight into Trump
Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
BlackRock will buy AES, one of the largest publicly traded utility companies in the U.S. AES is a major power provider for Big Tech companies building out data centers. Yes: while these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
In the first quarter of 2025, farm bankruptcies increased by 95% Remember: the policies leading to bankruptcy are purposeful. Our food supply is in danger…there is no better way to bring a country to its knees than having control of its food supply.
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Respectfully: it’s worse than that. They are reveling in the fact that Americans will die because of Russ Vought’s Project 2025 agenda. The Grim Reaper doesn’t come just to do mass layoffs or cut social welfare programs.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This is absolutely Brownshirt business.
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Congressman Chris Deluzio @deluzio.house.gov · 04/10/2025
Here’s what inaction on ACA tax credits means: A 60-year-old Western PA couple making $80,000/year seeing health insurance premiums go up $12,000 per year. It could be a crushing blow. That's what's coming, unless the Republicans work with Democrats to fix the healthcare crisis they've created.
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Scott Easterly @scotteasterly.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The cruelty is the point.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
James Madison was elected in 1812 during the War of 1812. Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1864 during the Civil War. FDR was elected in 1944 during WWII. JBJ & Nixon were elected in 1964 & 1972 during the Vietnam War. George W. Bush was elected in 2004 during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 19/08/2025
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Trump just vowed to ban mail-in ballots and voting machines, citing debunked lies about voter fraud. Anyone that wants to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump pledges to scrap mail ballots and voting machines before 2026 midterms
Announcement on Truth Social comes after Putin told Trump US elections were rigged because of postal ballots
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I know rural America because I live here. I know rural inside and out and I speak on it often because almost no one else does. I have the market on rural politics cornered because not many think it’s worth cornering. But it is. jesspiper.substack.com/p/they-cant-...
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They Can't See What I See
Because they aren't from where I'm from
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2025
"Newsom’s threat to retaliate in kind is not a divisive attack on good governance. It is, instead, the only hope for democracy. Bipartisanship right now is appeasement. Democrats cannot and should not hide behind neutrality and fairness as MAGA incinerates the remaining tatters of our republic."
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Gavin Newsom's moment
Democrats have found their fight. Newsom is leading the charge.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/08/2025
Putin told him to do this. That’s a very important piece of the story. Im not kidding. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Pledges Unconstitutional Order to Limit Mail-In Voting After Putin Chat
President Trump pledged to eliminate mail-in voting and the use of voting machines following a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2025
TRUMP: President Stubb of Finland. He's uh, somebody that, where are we here? Huh? STUBB: I'm right here TRUMP: Oh.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Notice they don’t deny it. Corruption and grift at every turn. 🇺🇸
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Crime is down…he’s testing the waters. Wants to see how we will react to the militarization in DC.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
This is no time to go high. If GOP states redraw maps, then Democratic states should redraw maps. Give the same energy. They will never play fair or by the rules. Ever.
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Carl @subzidion.com · 12/07/2025
What??? DOL is apparently providing ICE with access to private driver's license and vehicle information.
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Exclusive: A Washington state agency is sharing drivers' private data with ICE
The KING 5 Investigators find Washington's Department of Licensing has been sharing driver's license data with federal immigration agents, sparking privacy concerns.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Bass: I just signed an executive directive that puts all city departments and leadership on notice to protect Angelenos—essentially from the federal government. We’re also filing a FOIA request because we want to know: Who are these masked men, and why are they masked in the first place?
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