rachel @rachlke.bsky.social · 8hI just saw a doctor on TikTok (before I deleted the app again) talking about me/cfs and saying like it’s ridiculous that someone couldn’t shower for a month. 140
Reposted by rachelRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12habcnews.com/US/18-year-i...abcnews.com18-year-old in ICE detention for more than 200 days: 'They just took me away'Elder Chavez Carranza has spent more than 200 days in an immigration detention center in Louisiana, hundreds of miles from his home in Albertville, Alabama. 631226573
Reposted by rachelWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026welp another thing to worry about if you're a source worried about AI. read the whole thread: 229273
Reposted by rachelDev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A plea to all you wonderful folks who are thinking to adopt (not buy) a dog or cat… The shelters are FILLED with animals who’ve been surrendered. Yesterday they had a bed and a family and now they are confused and terrified through no fault of their own. Consider giving them a next chapter. 781925553
Reposted by rachelKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Nicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor. 131608446
Reposted by rachelJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 03/10/2026That is an incredible series of words to say aloud. 31098
Reposted by rachelArden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole. 2564252406
Reposted by rachelAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved. 622116412031
Reposted by rachelPhoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 01/10/2026Inevitable outcome of a society that tells little girls that boys hurt/hit/harm you when they like you. Except now the boys are men using and using state surveillance tools to terrorize women 212035
Reposted by rachelMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media. 9534281072
Reposted by rachelMike 📺 @michaelcollado.bsky.social · 01/10/2026#survivor51 Producer: You can’t vote for yourself Rob: This is going to ruin the tour 0206
rachel @rachlke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I feel like it took the medic a long time to come? #survivor 100
Reposted by rachelHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h... 1211775551
Reposted by racheljj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026like i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape” 11032245
Reposted by rachelPiper Furiosa 🇵🇸🏴🌲🏴☠️ @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's very important that none of us share her name. Not even in "awareness" of what has been done to her. Not in sharing images of her doxxing. She's Jane Doe unless *she* chooses not to be. Then, we pursue vengeance against all rapists & their enablers until none of them are fucking left. 7417135
Reposted by racheloctober "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this investigation on long COVID inside of prisons is out today at the Sick Times! I worked on this piece for months and am so grateful to the folks who shared their experiences with me. I'll write up a real thread a little later, but you can read it now: thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/i...thesicktimes.orgI interviewed five people with Long COVID in prison. They are invisible in the system. - The Sick TimesWhile there are no data sources on Long COVID in prison, experts suspect rates of the disease may be higher there than in the general population. They face high reinfection risks and poor access to me... 415685
Reposted by rachelCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us 7831175
Reposted by rachelJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The reward for standing up to your social group is usually isolation and being told you’re a killjoy, I’m sorry to say. 920831
Reposted by rachelSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths. 4929240
Reposted by rachelKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’m genuinely worried that he weakened her civil case with this statement out of petty fury that he’s rightfully getting heat for not pressing charges against rapists. He clearly isn’t interested in seeing her succeed and he basically called her a liar—a huge gift to the civil defense 231208267
Reposted by rachelNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear: 81162547
Reposted by rachelJ. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label. 11650435
Reposted by rachelJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I wish my job was to wake up and start talking 612010
Reposted by rachelPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia — the oldest natural history museum in the U.S. — has closed its doors after nearly 200 years 6abc.com/post/philade... 22441282
Reposted by rachelKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support. 443079691
Reposted by rachelJes the human @jesthehuman.itch.io · 28/09/2026Good morning to everyone who believes that you can eat dinner foods for breakfast (and breakfast foods for dinner), and to them only. 104107145
Reposted by rachelRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem. 412411524
Reposted by rachelUrvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which. 142518874
Reposted by rachelSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.coautonomynews.coNew Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to LifeLawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense. 12447825
Reposted by rachelAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Lanterns is extremely well acted, excellently directed, and I really wish it spend exponentially less time with characters on screen catching other characters up with the events that we, the viewers, have already seen on screen. 3162
Reposted by rachelKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen 252868661
rachel @rachlke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the start of the new lanterns episode is so heavy handed on the theme. I don’t think it’s good writing! 010
Reposted by rachelMia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There is strong historical connection between disabled people in Palestine and disabled people in the U.S. Both governments are utilizing the same policy framework of eugenics. That is why you can't free one group without gaining freedom for all. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...abc.net.auIsrael blocks wheelchairs bound for Gaza - ABC listenAustralian-made wheelchairs intended for injured children in Gaza have been barred from entering the territory by the Israeli government. Hundreds of wheelchairs have been sitting in Jordan waiting f... 01812
Reposted by rachelJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I don’t even know what to say anymore. The only thing Covid conscious people are trying to do, truly, is not get sick. That we’ve become the country’s newest freak show is predictable given the pandemic, but truly despicable on a base human level. 14840186
Reposted by rachelAstra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.” 282158855
Reposted by rachelRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies. 251373408
Reposted by rachelJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just gonna say in 24 hours I have not seen a single apology at any level by anyone who used the article as an excuse to bash Covid cautious people or queer people as a whole. I have not seen a word from people who gleefully referred to disabled people as “wreckers”. Not one single oops. 1230687
rachel @rachlke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026TikTok is sooo bad right now with the bar story and it’s bleeding into saying all people who still mask are anti science and have OCD. well fuck. 140
Reposted by rachelMatthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 26/09/2026alt-text: headline reading "Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher" subhead: "The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care" 1115
Reposted by rachelSen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 26/09/2026For months, I’ve been raising the alarm about the loss of staff at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and how it is imperiling their work protecting our wildlife and public lands. In December, 25% of the agency was gone. Now, it’s nearly 40%. But FWS still refuses to address the staffing crisis. 23417112
Reposted by rachelC.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Examples of researchers talking about how many people volunteering for studies as healthy controls turn out to have Long Covid: 07129
Reposted by rachelThinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 19/09/2026Beware Meta smart glasses: “Certain companies have used accessibility & disability rights as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy & security threats—& the privacy concerns affect disabled people too.” Mother Jones's @juliametraux.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comIs Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance. 411154
Reposted by rachelKarla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sincerely believe autoimmune disease would be so much more understood if a) they weren’t so populated by women. B) if medical research on women hadn’t only started in 1993! 325578
Reposted by rachelZohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Nothing unites people across the political spectrum like deciding an invisible illness that disproportionately affects women is actually hysteria 830585
Reposted by rachelBraces Truther @jackoften.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The Boston Globe: Take a look at these freaks. The economy's bad folks but wouldn't woke 2 be worse? Ted Cruz: Fuck yes! Leftists: Fuck yes! 164
Reposted by rachelCharlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 21/09/2026modern medicine is one of the greatest things about human civilization, and simultaneously, doctors are somehow on average violently opposed to using it to help people 4448108
