Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Wait what (Off I go to revise my popcorn recipe AGAIN) 000
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A good rule is: Don't have sex with someone who isn't *enthusiastic* about having sex with you. The sex will be better and so will your lives. 1536
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Literally -- what do they think the play is? How are these people who pay for Obamacare (and have high deductibles) scamming us out of our tax dollars? 5491
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 21/09/2026uh-oh that happened to my yogurt yesterday when I dropped it on the kitchen floor 030
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Happy anniversary! Wishing you endless love and happiness together. 000
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"a ludicrously capacious bag.... it's monstrous; it's gargantuan" 000
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Everyone who votes for me gets a personal sincere compliment 001
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 08/09/2026He called in to a Fox News show that day from uptown. THE TAPE EXISTS. He talked about looking out his window south to the Empire State Building and beyond to where the Twin Towers had fallen. Please, reporters, ask him WHEN he was supposedly pulled from the rubble. Ask him about this stolen valor. 001
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A small victory: A friend in his 60s remarked that a subplot in a novel I wrote was “unrealistic” bc it concerned a boy needing to ask permission before kissing a girl he liked - “would never happen!” His sons and mine didn’t understand his objection and said they would always ask first 1121
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 03/09/2026also that bodega turned into a bank, not the other way around 000
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 25/08/2026May her memory be a blessing... and an inspiration 010
Reposted by Rachel VailTina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026When the Gatlinburg Wildfires happened in 2016, Dolly gave impacted families $1,000/month to help them get back on their feet. This included my father-in-law, who lost everything in the fire. Dolly gave children in TN free books each month, from birth to the age of five. She was a goddamn saint. 153508762
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 25/08/2026A brilliant writer. Had the sweetest voice. Her humor was original, kind, unfailing. Gave away >300 million books to kids. Funded covid & cancer research. Loved with generosity and a twinkle in her eye. The family asks for donations to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library: www.imaginationlibrary.comimaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas. 010
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 20/08/2026cheat on one with with the shiny object over there; then when that one gets impossible ooo look your original love beckons 000
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 07/08/2026if you ignore all the money I lost at the casino and only count the hands I won, I actually had a very successful night 100
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Easy lately to find fault with the NYT but they are kinda crushing it today with the perfectly eloquent blank spaces 1170
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 07/07/2026“THEY DON’T KNOW” is, in hindsight, quite the slogan 000
Reposted by Rachel VailDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/06/2026From @timothysnyder.bsky.social: “The war began not with a plan, or… any sense of the national interest. The attack on Iran began with a longing--a subjective sense that violence is pleasurable and can bring a utopia in which desires become reality.” snyder.substack.com/p/utopias-of-vi… 311544
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 28/04/2026When I can make it to a shower as the wave hits, hallelujah Crying in a ladies’ room stall, horrible But yeah, surrender anyway 000
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 24/04/2026What is Jared Kushner’s job in the US Government? Whose interests is he responsible for representing there? 120
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 20/04/2026That’s pretty sound advice even if you don’t want a drug from tv, to be fair 000
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I'm so sorry, Karen. I'm in this place, too, for my mom. As a writer, I too want this to be an honor and a catharsis, and to capture her truly in my words. How, though? I'm so untethered, now, and need to discuss it with HER. Hoping for you and for myself that we find our way there. 120
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 03/02/2026but.. do they mean, like... people are POINTING at them? 100
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Hey Minneapolis has a lot of very talented people in theater The Guthrie is a top notch What? Oh 000
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 23/01/2026my younger child is also named Liam my fury if they'd kidnapped him at 5yo like they did this child would burn it all down taking him to a drive-thru and using him as bait would be accelerants not mitigation 000
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 15/01/2026How beautiful! Did not expect these guys to celebrate an advance like What? Oh 030
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 09/01/2026My dad insisted I always have a dime in my pocket in case of emergency 000
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 08/01/2026ahahaha the times we're living in tbf she probably is colluding with that teddy bear 020
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Here's a photo of my tortoise Lightning cuddling her teddy bear 2201
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Elmo is so much older than ICE Elmo could be ICE's grandpa 030
Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 03/01/2026What do we want? A BRIEFING! When do we want it? FORTHWITH! 070
