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Renee

@rasekel.bsky.social
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Suburban mom and public school advocate. Co-host, Advocacy Bites podcast. Deputy TroubleNation Program Director, Red Wine & Blue. Posts are my own opinions.

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Anderson Clayton ☀️ @abreezeclayton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Imma need everyone in North Carolina to stay LOCKED tf in for the next 29 days of this election cycle!!!! All gas, no brakes, everyone still getting everyone you know plus the people you don’t out to vote like we are 20 points down.
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How do so many of North Carolina's politicians get away with rampant official corruption? Simple: first, they changed the rules. Then, they picked their own investigators.
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Renee @rasekel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
At the WCPSS meeting again. There’s this creepy guy who’s been coming here for years, almost always to attack trans people. Now he’s claiming that WCPSS hired a trans teacher specifically to evade NC’s Don’t Say Gay bill. The guy is delulu.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sarah Stevens co-sponsored the infamous 2013 North Carolina law that courts said was designed with “surgical precision” to exclude Black voters. She backed GOP gerrymanders. Chaired the House elections committee when NCGOP advanced its latest voting restrictions. Now? Running for Supreme Court.
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They’ve Long Clashed on Voting Rights. Now They’re Facing Off for a Supreme Court Seat. - Bolts
North Carolina Justice Anita Earls, a former voting rights lawyer, and Sarah Stevens, a longtime legislator, have been on opposite sides of election issues for over a decade.
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Keung Hui @keunghui.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NC lawmakers beef up US attorneys’ staffs, leave Wake County DA with no new prosecutors. Understaffing could make it harder for Wake DA to focus on public corruption cases involving state officials. (Via @dpkane.bsky.social & Nolan Wilkinson) www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c... #ncpol #wakepol
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NC lawmakers beef up US attorneys’ staffs, leave Wake DA with no new prosecutors
A state study says the Wake County District Attorney’s Office has 45 prosecutors, but needs 70 to effectively handle caseloads.
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Keung Hui @keunghui.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A former GOP chair told election official in North Carolina how to vote at meeting, texts show. Former Granville County GOP leader coached board members to reject early voting sites where Democrats had fared better in 2024. (Via @kyleingram.bsky.social) www.newsobserver.com/news/politic... #ncpol
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A former GOP chair told election official in NC how to vote at meeting, texts show
“Just vote no,” Magnanti messaged one Republican board member during the meeting on early voting plans, “you can do it.”
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Growing all the things... @tarynj19.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social explains the importance of the moment we are in and the potential ramifications...
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NC Budget & Tax Center @ncbudget.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Once again, North Carolina ranks as the WORST state for workers. NC's workforce deserves better policies that support their needs and well-being because they fuel our economy. www.oxfamamerica.org... @oxfamamerica.bsky.social
Infographic of NC being last in the nation for workers right, according to Oxfam America's Best States for Work 2026 with photos of workers looking sad
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NC Budget & Tax Center @ncbudget.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Another example of our current state budget containing hidden agenda items for certain lawmakers. How to fix this issue? Make sure our state budget process is transparent to the public so we have a say where our tax dollars go in our state!
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NC budget includes $5M digital credential project that appears to favor politically connected vendor • NC Newsline
North Carolina's budget sets technical requirements for a statewide digital credential system that closely resemble features offered by DigiCred.
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Alice @nolas-socks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Every one of those brave and inspiring people you hear about on the news was exhausted and terrified the whole time. They were sad and angry and wanted to crawl into a hole and not come out. They wished they could have stayed in bed. Then they did it anyway. But they did it scared and sad and tired.
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Indivisible Guilford NC ❌️ 👑 @indivisiblegconc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Help us STOP THE CORRUPTION! See link in graphic or below for more information! 👇👇👇 www.mobilize.us/thejusticepr... #ncpol #judicialracesmatter #DemocracyintheBalance⚖️⚖️⚖️
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Renee @rasekel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Whew, lots of temper tantrums on display at the WCPSS school board meeting tonight. Parents screaming, slamming the podium and begging Trump to harm our schools. Apparently someone got a little taste of that sweet, sweet Fox News attention and is courting more of it.
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Joe Morelle @morelle.house.gov · 01/09/2026
These whistleblower allegations are extraordinary. If Trump Administration officials knowingly built a system designed to prevent Americans from receiving their ballots, that is not election security. It is a betrayal of our Constitution and the American people.
nytimes.com
Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Renee @rasekel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I need to talk about what’s happening in Wake County, NC. We now have a candidate for House who’s literally making “reaction” posts to…things that never happened. (This may be a thread). The screenshot on the left is from Winn Decker. It’s a sweet, anodyne post about Dolly Parton.
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Renee @rasekel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Board member Cheryl Caulfield keeps listing important information about our schools that she didn’t know about. Ignorance is very much on brand for her, but usually she doesn’t brag about it so loudly.
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Renee @rasekel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
WCPSS school board member Lynn Edmonds correctly pointed out that our legislature passed its budget a year late after drafting it in secret. School boards must, by law, pass a budget each spring, months (or a year) before they know what the state will provide. We need better lawmakers in NC.
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Renee @rasekel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Of course, the bigots said their piece in public comment and immediately left before the School Board delved into the actual business of running our schools. They couldn’t give a flying fig about the schools in any meaningful sense, except as they can be used as stages for their culture war garbage.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.
forever-wars.com
The Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBP
Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026
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Renee @rasekel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So the new line for bigots who hate Trans people is that expecting kids to address their teachers respectfully is “compelled speech.” Which is, of course, nonsense. (I’m at the WCPSS school board meeting). But the local NAACP showed up in support of the teacher. Respect.
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Renee @rasekel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A woman with no kids in school and clearly no idea of what goes on in schools just claimed that our schools don’t teach science and that’s why it’s bad that a trans teacher exists. School board meetings are wild, y’all.
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Renee @rasekel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
What kind of sick person do you have to be to get up at a school board meeting and cheer budget cuts? I guess the same kind of person who demands that schools provide parents a description of the genitalia of each teacher in the school before their kid attends.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
NEWS: Knox County is Tennessee's 3rd largest county, and it voted for Trump by 20%. It has a GOP-run school board known for banning books & approving controversial charter schools. Democrats last night flipped control of the school board in Knox County.
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NC Budget & Tax Center @ncbudget.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
North Carolinians are stressed over rising costs, and inadequate access to affordable childcare, housing, and health care. #NCGA lawmakers' solution? An income tax cap that would give millionaires thousands of dollars in tax cuts.
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Lowering the income tax limit in the state constitution would lock future North Carolinians into today’s bad tax policy - NC Budget & Tax Center
Updated: June 22, 2026 The NC General Assembly has passed a bill to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot in November that, if approved by voters, would lower the maximum allowable income tax rate to 3.5 percent. The state constitution already limits the maximum income tax rate, but this new, even lower income tax cap would lock in tax…
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Renee @rasekel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
At the WCPSS board meeting watching board member Cheryl Caulfield cape for a hateful bigot who spent the last week ginning up harassment against against an elementary school teacher. I wonder if elected officials are allowed to spend public time campaigning? @carolinaforward.bsky.social
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Here's what happened this week in North Carolina politics. [July 31, 2026] Yes, they really did give her a million bucks of your money. If you're in Wake County, just remember: Winn Decker for House District 37. 👍
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
16-year-old Emely Charloth Suaza Chambo was taken by ICE on her way to church. ICE told her dad Fernando Suaza Ortiz to come take her home or they’d send her out of state. When he showed up for his daughter they took him too.
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The core economic argument from opponents of immigration is that immigrants - documented and not - depress wages for native-born Americans. But is that really true? Full article: carolinaforward.org/news/impact-und…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/07/2026
the real discrimination is doing anything to fight discrimination, you see apnews.com/article/eeoc...
apnews.com
US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years
The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 17/07/2026
The ICE agent who shot and killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero this week in Maine had a long history of abusive behavior including dragging his daughter around the house and saying his ex-wife should have her throat slit. He is exactly who ICE wants terrorizing our communities.
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c...
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eddiesheehy.bsky.social @eddiesheehy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🧵 North Carolina’s Republican State Auditor Dave Boliek has been in charge of our elections for a little over a year. He’s the ONLY state auditor in America with that power. And in just over a year, Dave Boliek has turned our election system into a partisan sewer. Let’s review. #ncpol
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/07/2026
SHOCK NYT REPORT: DHS now admits the man ICE killed in Houston wasn't even their target. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 35-year U.S. resident, was just driving to work when agents — with no body cameras — shot him dead searching for two other men who weren't even in the van. Gift link in reply.
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Andy Bowline, the Democratic candidate for State Senate District 31 (Forsyth & Stokes), created this remarkable dashboard where you can break down the new budget by topic, provision, browse appropriations and earmarks, and more. Super impressive! andycantwin.com/budget
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Red Wine & Blue @redwine.blue · 29/06/2026
Heather Cox Richardson (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) is joining us on Zoom this Wednesday, July 1, at 7:30 PM ET for a conversation about reclaiming America’s 250th in a way that honors our full history and helps us build a better future for all of us. Hope to see you there!
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Join Heather Cox Richardson and let's reclaim America's 250th. Sign up here!
Join historian and bestselling author Heather Cox Richardson to talk about how we can reclaim America's 250th birthday in a way that honors our full history and helps us build a better future for all...
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
John Roberts will want you to forget everything that happened this week at SCOTUS after he confirms that the first sentence of the 14th Amendment means what it says, please do not fall for it
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Red Wine & Blue @redwine.blue · 22/06/2026
It's been four years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Join us on June 24 at 7:30 p.m. ET for a conversation with Heather Booth and Jessica Valenti about where we've been, what's happening now, and how people across the country are fighting back and building what's next.
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Want to learn where reproductive rights are four years after the Dobbs decision? Sign up here!
Four years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the fight for reproductive freedom is far from over. Join us as we look at the impact of the Dobbs decision, reflect on the lessons learned, and discuss what comes next.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
ICE/Geo drove into a demonstrator today.
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
No competitive bidding. No independent review of the evidence. No teachers consulted during drafting. Just a contract written into statute for a single named vendor. #nced notesfromthechalkboard.com/2026/06/15/n...
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NC Legislators Want to Put an Unproven AI Bot in Your Child's Classroom in August - Notes from the Chalkboard
The North Carolina General Assembly is moving a bill that would spend more than $10 million in recurring state money every year to put an AI chatbot in front of students in grades six through twelve. ...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The plaintiffs are represented by the Becket Fund whose board includes Leonard Leo, a longtime member of the Council for National Policy (CNP), the Christian Right’s umbrella organization. The CNP was co-founded by the late Gary North who explained the Christian schooling agenda as follows:

"Everyone talks about religious liberty, but no one believes it. So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political, and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God."
~ GARY NORTH
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Billy Corriher @billycorriher.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I'll have more to say next week about the NC Supreme Court approving Duke Energy's rate hike. For now, I'll just point out that Chief Justice Newby owns Duke Energy stock, so the rate hike will make him wealthier. #ncpol He could've recused himself and got the same result. But he's too corrupt.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)
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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I’m in Montgomery, Alabama, today to stand with my colleagues against the attack on representation spreading across this nation. The fight for our democracy starts in the South, but must be fought in every state across this nation. We will not give in. We will fight back.
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Black Voters Matter Fund @blackvotersmatterfund.org · 11/05/2026
The Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act is not the end of the story—it’s the reason we’re moving. On May 16, we’re organizing a National Day of Action in Alabama. 📍 Selma — 9AM at the Edmund Pettus Bridge 📍 Montgomery — 1–5PM at the State Capitol allroadsleadtothesouth.com
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.
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How Virginia Democrats can overturn the redistricting ruling: Retire the Supreme Court
The state Constitution gives lawmakers complete latitude to set the judicial retirement age. They should use it.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Texas eliminated 5 Democratic seats with no voter approval. Louisiana suspended election with no voter approval. Tennessee erased last majority-Black district with no voter approval. But VA Supreme Court blocks redistricting map approved by 3 million voters www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Republicans don’t need to win elections anymore. They just need their judges.
The Virginia Supreme Court nullifies three million votes, boosting Trump’s effort to rig the midterms.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/05/2026
Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.
cnn.com
Exclusive: Inmates describe being punished for speaking out about Ghislaine Maxwell | CNN
Ghislaine Maxwell’s fellow inmates speak to CNN about Maxwell’s special treatment in prison and how they were punished for criticizing Maxwell. MJ Lee reports on OutFront.
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Keung Hui @keunghui.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
12,252 of North Carolina's 106,704 Opportunity Scholarship students previously went to public schools. If lawmakers follow up on promise, they'll reinvest $35.8M to public schools. Majority of former public school students were white & not economically disadvantaged. #ncpol #nced
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/05/2026
The Trump Administration has been using law enforcement to target elected leaders, particularly Black elected leaders, since they singled out Ras Baraka and LaMonica McIver when they tried to inspect a detention center.
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