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Rebecca Hains, author

@rchains.bsky.social
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Media studies, feminism, children’s culture, and more. Books: Growing Up With Girl Power The Princess Problem Princess Cultures Cultural Studies of LEGO The Marketing of Children’s Toys Communication in Our Lives Supernatural Youth in Media—just released!

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Why isn’t Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” about praying reverently in church?!? We’ve been duped! —Aaron Lewis, probably.
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I’m home sick, passing the time by watching “Wear Whatever the F you Want,” and this exchange between Clinton and Stacey made me think, “Ah, these are my people”: C: Have you been to Burning Man? S: Never. C: Me either. S: I don’t like dust! C: I don’t like port-a-potties. 😆💀🔥
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
So, 24-hour libraries? I see the merits. More library hours, please!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/07/2025
The builders behind Alligator Alcatraz and other detention sites are top DeSantis donors. They scored no-bid or “emergency” contracts worth tens of millions—while funneling cash into his political machine. Pay-to-play isn’t just speculation—it’s backed by the paper trail. 🧵
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 16/02/2025
"Urgent CDC data and analyses on influenza and bird flu go missing as outbreaks escalate" www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/h...
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Urgent CDC data and analyses on influenza and bird flu go missing as outbreaks escalate | CNN
Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vomiting, and other flu-like symptoms.
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Elon Musk: “I am constantly insulted on this platform.” Also Elon: *retweets ableist slur, using his platform to insult an enormous number of people*
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Women who have married and changed their names could be prevented from voting under the SAVE Act. The same is true of anyone else whose name doesn’t match their birth certificate. The MAGA crew really cherish voter suppression and disenfranchisement, don’t they?
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
In today’s news, Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) introduced a bill thst would authorize President Trump to acquire Greenland and rename it “Red, White, and Blueland.” …No, this is not The Onion.
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Mtn Mystic @mtnmystic.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I’ve said it before. I’m saying it again. Buy hard copies of books - history, science, politics, whatever your interests are. Do it before the books are banned, burned, labeled a “false narrative,” or rewritten to suit the new reich’s agenda. It’s happening. We see it. Fahrenheit 451 is here. Now.
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Point taken.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Also by popular demand:
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
"Call their policies crazy and leftist, but California leaders do in fact understand that climate change is supercharging drought, heat, and wildfires, and they are trying to mitigate the threat." -- @jilldlawrence.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/extorting-...
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Extorting With Disaster: Why Stop At California?
Nice hurricanes you got there, be a shame if you had to expand Medicaid to get help.
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
By popular demand:
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Trump’s appointed FCC chair is trying to defund NPR and PBS. In other news, water is wet. — Source (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...
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F.C.C. Chair Orders Investigation Into NPR and PBS Stations (Gift Article)
Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, recently expressed concern about NPR and PBS’s sponsorships.
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Wait, who did this??
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Have you ever scrolled thru a multi-column, small-print list so long, you can’t tell when it ends?? Here’s a gift link to a NYT list of 2600 federal programs at risk of defunding—“even some, like Medicare, that officials said would not be affected.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #PayAttention
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Which Federal Programs Are Under Scrutiny? The Budget Office Named 2,600 of Them. (Gift Article)
The Trump administration ordered temporary freezes in funding for programs spanning virtually every part of the government. Here’s the full list.
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“Potential appointees to Donald Trump’s new administration are reportedly being asked to prove their past loyalty to the president, including by sharing the moment of their conversion to the Make America Great Again movement,” according to The Independent. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Who *wouldn’t* run towards a TARDIS outside their home at 1 am? (Especially in these times?) I’m with kitty! 🐈‍⬛ #CatTales #JustForFun #DoctorWho
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
….Was that earthquake New England trying to physically secede from the union? 🫨🫨🫨
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Tell me you were born before 2000 without telling me. #PeopleOfThe1900s
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Please repost! We’re trying hard to sort out rumors from truth + would like to hear from anyone affected by the new federal orders + NIH pause. Patients, scientists, health equity researchers: please contact us below. We won’t share anything without your permission. www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...
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Are you affected by the Trump administration’s pause on health communications, science meetings, and reviews?
Have you been affected by the Trump administration’s pause on communications, science meetings, and reviews? @statnews would like to hear from you.
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Sounds like TikTokers took notes during their RedNote exile…! TikTokers have been adopting code phrases to get around the algorithm’s attempts to suppress their conversations on topics that matter more than, say, fashion — with a breakout example, now widely reported, being “cute winter boots.”
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting.”
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Investigative reporter Greg Palast reports that voter suppression won the 2024 presidential election. Read the full report, with numbers and supporting evidence, at www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-v... #VoterSuppression #disenfranchisement #DirtyPolitics
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
On building resilience to political disinformation and information vacuums; developing civic and media literacy; and resisting efforts to undermine our trust in information, government, and democracy: pen.org/report/build...
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Building Resilience - PEN America
People need reliable information to participate fully in the democratic process. Particularly, they need it to choose their next elected representatives, assess policy and policy proposals both locall...
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
🗣️ Just in from Iowa: Recent state law combined with Trump’s January 21 executive order has rendered DEI offices, policies, and staff at public universities “illegal.”
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Why won’t they show us the video? 🧐🕵🏻‍♀️💅
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Pamela Hemphill, nicknamed “MAGA Granny” by social media users, has refused Trump’s pardon for her role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol — making a brave statement about the rioters having been in the wrong, and the pardons being a form of gaslighting. 🧵🧵🧵
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Two large tabletop communities on Reddit — RPG and Dungeons & Dragons — banned links from X today after Elon Musk threw Nazi salutes during Trump’s January 20th inauguration.  What’s the over/under on the Xitter crowd crying about this & their “freedom of speech”…? www.rascal.news/reddits-larg...
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Reddit’s largest tabletop communities say “fuck Nazis”
Twitter/X links banned after platform owner Elon Musk’s threw two Nazi salutes
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AlpenglowDreams @alpenglowdreams.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Of course there’s this as well so citizens caught up in these raids will have minimal to no recourse apnews.com/article/civi...
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Trump's new Justice Department leadership orders a freeze on civil rights cases
The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Right out of the gate they are detaining U.S. citizens and saying their “papers”are fake. It was always a lie.
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
With an executive order, Trump has overturned the 1965 Equal Employment Act, which requires equal opportunity in hiring, promotion, and so on, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Trump’s executive order effectively nullifies that act. www.merca20.com/did-trump-re...
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Did Trump Revoke the Equal Employment Act? - Revista Merca2.0 |
Donald Trump has recently sparked widespread debate with an executive order that many believe reverses progress in employment equity
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
“Schools will no longer be off limits for immigration enforcement operations under a directive announced by the new Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday.“ Source: K-12 Dive www.k12dive.com/news/schools...
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Schools no longer protected from immigration raids
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security lifted the practice of avoiding immigration enforcement at locations where students gather.
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Worcester, a mid-sized “gateway” city in Mass., is known for its diversity and large immigrant population. Now, city officials have warned school bus drivers that ICE agents may be waiting at bus stops. The drivers are not to release any children near them. www.cbsnews.com/amp/boston/n...
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
“A federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order that aims to restrict birthright citizenship, calling it ‘blatantly unconstitutional.’ The order Mr. Trump signed on Monday was an effort to upend the nation’s immigration laws and reverse decades of precedent.” -New York Times
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Fortune reports that, within hours of Trump’s inauguration, “the new administration took down the Spanish-language version of the official White House website.”
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This is not normal. This is not okay.
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Matthew D Albertson @matthewthe1337.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." The same Godwin:
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I’ve been seeing posts suggesting a boycott of Meta/FB, due to its owners’ political pandering and irresponsible corporate practices. But, many value the platform for connections to family, friends, & acquaintances — and many don’t want to cede the space to the far right, either. 🧵🧵🧵
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Oh, yeah, that’ll do it.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Trump just revoked the Equal Employment Opportunity executive order of 1965, rolling back 60 years of progress on civil rights. The order had prohibited employment discrimination in federal hiring based on race, religion, and gender.
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Trump rolls back bedrock 1960s-era civil rights measure
The move abolishes decades of government practices on diversity and equal opportunity.
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Looking for something to celebrate?? Well, I have happy news: My new book has just been released! It’s an edited collection, all about media portrayals of supernatural youth — young people who use ancient magic to save the world. Please celebrate with me — we need to find joy where we can. 🦄🪄🥰
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Looking for an upbeat resistance song with lyrics that feel surprisingly well-suited to the moment? I got you, boo. youtu.be/4BpFqyxEDbo?... What are your best recommendations for songs this week? Let us know.
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
At Trump’s inauguration prayer service, a bishop made this appeal: “In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now”—referencing LGBTQ+, migrant, & undocumented people. His response? “She and her church owe the public an apology!” #PayAttention
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Oops. Those TikTok deathbed-style confessions about everything they faked and fabricated are really going to haunt them…! 😩 #Influencers #SocialMedia #Trends #TikTok
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This just in: NBC News reports, “Meta is countering claims that it boosted President Donald Trump and his administration on its platforms as he returned to the Oval Office on Monday.” 🧵🧵🧵
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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Yesterday, many people were alarmed to find they were following Trump, Vance, and Melania on Facebook, despite having not elected to do so. Here’s what I’ve deduced so far, thanks to your help: 🧵🧵🧵
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