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Rachel

@thistlewind.bsky.social
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Involved mom, wife, daughter, sister, human. Kansas City sports.❤️ 💙 Striving for kindness...with a potty mouth.

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Sarah Cupcakes @cupcakesarenice.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Anytime a CEO claims that workers are being laid off because AI is doing the job instead, ask them to specify which jobs are being replaced, what tasks those jobs entail, and specifics on how AI is replacing those tasks. They won't be able to answer honestly.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
NEW: Trump, Vance, Noem and the MAGA influence network are not just pushing a version of the Minnesota ICE shooting, they are trying to rewrite reality www.wired.com/story/maga-t...
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MAGA Is Already Rewriting the ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
The federal government’s narrative of the Minneapolis shooting conflicts wildly with video footage of the incident shared online.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Make it viral.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
If this is true, it is the most impeachable offense ever.
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Rachel @thistlewind.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I guess this qualifies as a foggy Christmas Eve. I would rather have a bit of snow, though.
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Rachel @thistlewind.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I haven't finished up the stocking stuffers purchases. Ugh.
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Boughs of Anthony Joshua holly about to deck the Jake Paul halls
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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
YOU CANNOT 
‘BOTH SIDES’
FASCISM AND 
DEMOCRACY.
(FUCK THE CORPORATE MEDIA)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Firing over 100 immigration judges. Arresting immigrants outside of their immigration hearings. Pausing asylum decisions. And now? Cancelling citizenship ceremonies, the final step to becoming a U.S. citizen. Just remember that Trump never cared about "legal immigration."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/12/2025
excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend
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Rachel @thistlewind.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
My kid is taking Latin I his Senior year of high school. He loves it, which just blows my mind. Anyway...just got an email from his teacher. He has this in his signature block: tū nē cēde malīs, sed contrā audentior ītō “Do not give in to misfortunes, but advance more boldly against them”
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 05/12/2025
Hepatitis B is a serious liver infection that can be transmitted during childbirth and have long-lasting effects. The vaccine has been shown to be effective in preventing the disease. The CDC's guidance has been in place since 1991, and hepatitis B cases in children have dropped.
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Rachel @thistlewind.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I need some joy-scrolling to offset the doom. Anything Happy happening that you'd like to share?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
an example of starting to believe your own bullshit. does anyone think being a drug smuggler is a "fight"? It's a business. they're so deep into this "narco-terrorist" language they're thinking these are some kind of hardened cocaine ideologues. theyre all eager to join Mar a Lago.
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Fasten your seat belts... @lesjfrie.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Skip it and watch John Oliver's exposé on Bari Weiss, her billionaire-bankrolled 'university', and her Free Press employing two worthless hires in what looks to be mostly empty office space. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
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Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Rachel @thistlewind.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Roger Marshall is a tool. The very definition of an old, white guy who continues to fail upward.
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Laurie True Blue, PHR, SHRM-CP @laurietrueblue.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...
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Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder
Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...
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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
"Underbussing" is a word I have only seen in print in the last two days, & gotta say, as neologisms go this is a good one. From @hcrichardson.bsky.social's (invaluable) Letters from an American:
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Alan Stamm @alanstamm.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
"Every soldier is taught from week one of basic training that the Constitution outranks any individual. And they learn, early and often, that their duty includes refusing unlawful commands—even from senior officers, even from civilian officials." -- Retired Army lt. general below at @thebulwark.com
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Pete Hegseth, Moral Failure, and the Erosion of Military Legitimacy
Congress needs to find out if any laws were broken and who is responsible.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
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Rachel @thistlewind.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Holidays, days off, long weekends...it sure makes it more and more difficult to want show up to a day job.
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Gregory A. Wilson @gregoryawilson.com · 19/11/2025
Oh my God. Bluesky, you know what to do!! @shakespeare.lol beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
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Shakespeare's Globe | LEGO® Ideas
Shakespeare's Globe is a world famous theatre in London. This set recreates it's iconic shape and style, whilst celebrating the many plays of William Shakespear…
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
And if you've previously picked a side, you don't have to stay there. Whatever you may have thought Trump was, he's proven his unfit. Let's be pro-democracy now. We can go back to party politics when we get through this.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/11/2025
NEW: ProPublica has identified dozens of instances in which the Trump administration’s DOT has moved to cut, weaken or delay safety regulations for cars, trucks, planes, trains and even oil pipelines. Experts say the changes will cost lives.
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How Trump’s Transportation Department Is Loosening Safety Rules Meant to Protect the Public
ProPublica has identified dozens of instances in which the Trump administration’s DOT has moved to cut, soften or delay safety regulations for cars, trucks, planes, trains and even oil pipelines. Experts say the changes will cost lives.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
ESQUIRE: “ICE is hiring literally anybody, and it’s terrifying… people who flunk the exam, criminal records… yet they’re allowed to tear children from their beds at night.” www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/11/2025
1. Texas A&M has voted that Professors must seek out official permission to talk about trans people, sexuality, or race. One of the professors said that the new policy would make routine lessons on things like the Holocaust impossible. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Texas A&M Votes That Professors Must Have Permission To Discuss Trans People, Sexuality or Race
The Texas Board of Regents said it wasn’t restricting “teaching,” but professors—and a university press release—says otherwise.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19/11/2025
my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center we're really not prepared for what's coming
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Rachel @thistlewind.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Small towns, man. I don't want to live in one but it's not the worst place to be from. Just got a random text from the heating and plumbing guy asking if we needed to winterize the barn at Mom's this year. I didn't remember if we'd even turned the water on but had him double-check. (1/2)
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Rachel @thistlewind.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
My wish for you today. Happy Wednesday!
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
40 years working in a male dom field. Been subject to rude degrading comments many times. Not once did a man say a word in response. The idea that men are gallant or protective is pure fantasy. All men enable all men.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Still wild to me that Trump pointed in a woman’s face and said “Quiet, Piggy!” and literally no one who witnessed it was like “Whoa, there bro” either because they didn’t care or they weren’t surprised, or both.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
All joking aside, the heartbreaking thing about this story is seeing how a white “journalist” with poor prose & worst journalist ethics gets to repeatedly crash out & land plum jobs while so many poor, trans, Black, Native journalists never get in journalism’s door. Like…
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
“How is it that NO ONE in the press corps stands up when Trump slanders a reporter?” Just got this from a reader of @columjournreview.bsky.social
Hi -
How is it that NO ONE in the press corps stands up when Trump slanders a reporter? The latest incident, in which Trump called a female reporter a "piggy," is especially egregious, coming amidst the Epstein debacle.
At the very least, this reporter's colleagues ought to be challenging the president about his remarks, with follow-ups that demand he answer her question.
And every damn news agency ought to be harping on this with reports and analysis of the president's lack of comportment.
Anything less both underscores the White House press corps' complete
obsequiousness and its acceptance of the president's failure as a leader.
Their lack of professional integrity is a big reason America is in this mess.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18/11/2025
How do you land Vanity Fair west coast editor at age 32 after having affairs with two presidential candidates you were covering as a journalist. That is some prime white lady shit.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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REMALONE @ipasa.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Domo151 @domo151.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Child marriage is heinous, but one thing I never see brought up in those discussions is that if you are under 18, you cannot file for divorce. If you are under 18 and married to an adult, they are your legal guardian and make decisions for you. That is not a partnership.
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Most Minors Who Are Married Can't File for Divorce — Even if They Want To
The final installment of Wedlocked, our series about child marriage in the U.S., explores divorce.
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God @thegodshow.com · 17/11/2025
President Epstein walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground.
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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I know that this site leans quite left, so I very much hope that people will recognize the significance of this news. The right is cleaving, and the side triumphing — in terms of sheer numbers and media coverage — needs to be understood for exactly what it is: authoritarian and bigoted.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/11/2025
"By its own definition, the alt-right is no more. Because it’s no longer an alternative to the right. It is the right." From the archives:
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The Alt-Right Is Now the Entire Right
The voices of reason, reality, and responsibility are a cowering minority in the Republican party.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
YOU WERE IN A POSITION OF AUTHORITY AND HAD SEX WITH A CHILD THAT IS NOT A “CONSENSUAL ENCOUNTER” WHAT THE HELL ARE WE DOING HERE
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Jane Doe @keepingsanewth4.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
You cannot be stagnant and expect to continue to be great.
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hi, no thanks @hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
oh my fucking god he is 100% confusing cadillac insurance plans with people buying cadillacs "and it's gonna be locked so they can't go out and buy, uh, a cadillac, they can go out and buy health insurance"
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16/11/2025
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
If you’re feeling a bit sad it might help a little to know that this painting exists. It’s called Dynamism of a dog on a leash, by Giacomo Galla, 1912:
A painting of a dachshund on a lead, it’s leggies & tail painting many times on the same animal to depict the action of it walking with its owner
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