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Rachel Hale, MA

@rachiemachie.bsky.social
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🍉🌹🌲🍃🌙💙 | Artist, Mainer, cat guardian, recovering academic. MA in Anthropology and Environmental Policy Reading is good for you. • Hope, antifascism, climate change, politics, society, decolonization, Maine news, sarcasm and queer zillenial nerd culture •

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Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 13/07/2026
Lingering tensions from January ICE surge boil over in wake of Biddeford shooting
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Lingering tensions from January ICE surge boil over in wake of Biddeford shooting
Hundreds of protesters marched through downtown following the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old man at the hands of federal immigration agents.
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Maine Public @mainepublic.org · 13/07/2026
One person is reported dead following a shooting involving ICE agents in Biddeford. That's according to a social media post by Maine House Speaker Speaker Ryan Fecteau. bit.ly/3RxVbBN
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Developing: One dead in ICE involved shooting in Biddeford
One person is reported dead following a shooting involving ICE agents in Biddeford. That's according to a social media post by Maine House Speaker Speaker Ryan Fecteau.
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Bangor Daily News @bangordailynews.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
“We cannot allow ourselves to write off people in our communities who have the same needs as us,” the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate told a crowd of at least 400 in Orono.
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Graham Platner urges Democrats not to write off Donald Trump voters
“We cannot allow ourselves to write off people in our communities who have the same needs as us,” the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate told a crowd of at least 400 in Orono.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Because we all need something amazing today. #artemisII
Artemis II photo of a crescent blue and white Earth behind the limb of the closeup Moon, with craters across the gray surface of the Moon
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Republicans in Congress are literally proposing to cut healthcare to fund the war in Iran. What a hideous, shameful waste.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/02/2026
The Republican-controlled US House is set to pass a sweeping voter restriction bill that could potentially disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans.
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The GOP’s “show us your papers” bill Is the latest effort to help Trump take over elections
“If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted"
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The government of the United States has illegally invaded a foreign country and kidnapped its leader. We need to all turn out in opposition to this egregious failure of our government, and stop it.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
ICE whistles work.
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The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
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SteveC @clarkes428.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Happy Epstein Files Release Day to all who celebrate.
Release the Epstein Files
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Member of the Epstein class says what
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The juice is gone
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This morning, I was proud to have joined the Nurses on the picket line at Houlton Regional Hospital. Solidarity forever!
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
It’s the same old same old. Republicans do a tantrum and break the dishes. The Democrats clean it up. It’s an abusive relationship.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11/11/2025
After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run. We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader. If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
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Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/11/2025
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/10/2025
Pritzker: "I sent a letter to Kristi Noem and to DHS leadership asking them to pause all of their federal agent operations for the entirety of the Halloween weekend. I'm asking for basic human decency. I think their response will be revealing. Give the children and families of Illinois a break."
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 21/10/2025
Corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸 #NoKingsInAmerica (From @billbramhall.bsky.social )
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Just a bunch of paid domestic terrorists in Portland, Maine.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism
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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 18/10/2025
Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/10/2025
The No King protests represent a broad popular front. That’s exactly why the president’s allies are demonizing the organizers.
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They’re teachers, nurses, Mennonites, and Marines. The Trump administration calls them antifa.
The No King protests represent a broad popular front. That's exactly why the president's allies are demonizing the organizers.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The American right has picked, or more accurately invented, enemies on the left: blue-haired baristas, “Antifa,” Soros. In the interest of equity, I’m declaring war on suburban Golf Guys, electricians with four poorly paid employees, and MAHA moms. That’s fair, I think.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I'm not sure what's going on, but this year's freshman class is giving me ... what was that word ... hope? They're energized and excited, they're doing the reading and doing it well, they're asking great questions and offering smart answers too. Is this just me or are others seeing it?
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Rachel Hale, MA @rachiemachie.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I have to wonder if having more time at home in their younger years was beneficial in any way, and then having a more socially normal high school experience let them bloom
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
RFK Jr expected to announce that Flintstones vitamins cause gayness.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Gonna pop a Tylenol and look at some trains to see what all the fuss is about.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I find I can’t muster a proper response to either the Tylenol madness or the U.N. appearance. At some point it is just too ridiculous. It would feel insane to offer sane commentary.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 23/09/2025
October 18 is going to be the largest peaceful protest in American history. This is the land of the free and the home of the brave — but if we want to be free, then we’ve got to be brave. Find your local event: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
This ought to be engraved somewhere.
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The thing about Tylenol and autism is that Trump is in the Epstein Files.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
At this point it's a cliche to point out the parallels between the AI bubble and the dotcom bubble but it's fascinating to see AI equivalent of companies buying banner ads from each other. Here it's Nvidia investing $100B in OpenAI which OpenAI will then use to rent datacenter capacity from Nvidia.
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OpenAI and NVIDIA announce strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems
OpenAI and NVIDIA announce a strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters powered by NVIDIA systems, with the first phase launching in 2026.
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God @thegodshow.com · 22/09/2025
THEY DON’T CARE: 1. That Tom Homan took $50,000 bags of cash 2. That their party is protecting all the Epstein pedophiles. 3. That no one is safe from gun violence anywhere. WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT: 1. Punishing innocent brown people for crimes they did not commit.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 22/09/2025
new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."
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How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women
"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Jimmy Kimmel is being brought back for the same reason he was suspended: Corporations only care about money. Which is why boycotts work.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.
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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 21/09/2025
Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X
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Pokémon Gems @pokemongems.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
edit of a Togekiss using metronome and giving the opposing player the middle finger
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
😕 💵
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data
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When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
#Antifa runs in our blood.
Black and white photo shows a group of women soldiers in uniform smiling against a military truck during WW2 labeled “Antifa, circa 1944”
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