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rachel-t.bsky.social
Software Dev, Python, Texas, Hardcore Liberal, she/her
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I’m shocked, SHOCKED to find right-wing commentators all of a sudden discovering their deep-seated opposition to the combination of forum-shopping and nationwide injunctions. It’s almost like folks who have been writing about this previously were genuinely concerned about the systemic effects…

submitted 11 days ago • 68 comments

The biggest story in the country right now is how many lawsuits DOJ is losing trying to defend Musk and Trump. I've never seen so many courts, so clearly outraged at the federal government. The latest one, blocks cuts at HHS and FDA. Visit www.democracydocket.com to stay informed.

submitted 11 days ago • 347 comments

BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 11 days ago • 305 comments

I love you bluesky but I admit I don’t totally understand the rabid and uncritical AI hate that predominates here

submitted 27 days ago • 40 comments

Another reason to ❤️ Costco. While Target and others cancel diversity to appease Trump, Costco’s investing in the community—building apartments above its stores, starting in LA. This $425M project includes 184 low-income units, with key services, plus a rooftop pool and fitness center.

submitted 14 days ago • 452 comments

Discworld QOTD, from Mort

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Enough horseshit. The hype of "Genocide Joe" from too many led to some measure of the normative Dem base staying home. Given the realities, it was shit-ignorant politics - the bill not to be paid by US voters, but by Palestinians and Palestinian aspiration. Shrugging this off is for mooks.

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

Because anyone who isn't a fuckwit understands there will be a hard, binary choice on a November Tuesday four years from now. And if we don't acknowledge those people who failed that choice in this moment -- when the cost falls on the very people they claim to care about -- they will fail yet again.

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

"You fool, calling your representative doesn't work. Unlike protests and direct action, which I am also not doing"

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

pretty sure President Kamala wouldn't be calling for the expulsion of all Palestinians from Gaza but what the hell do I know

submitted 18 days ago • 224 comments

It bears repeating and repeating ad nauseum: If you withheld support from Biden/Harris as a means of advocating for Palestinian nationhood and the aspirations of the Palestinian people and you did not see this moment coming: You are a performative, sloganeering and politically incompetent rube.

submitted 26 days ago • 627 comments

Thank you. Yes. All of this. There's a tendency in certain circles to say "oh Elon was always a Nazi you just didn't notice," and, no. I used to spend a lot of time watching how people go from alienated to MAGA to outright Nazi. I've written about it. And that is the trajectory of Elon.

submitted 52 days ago • 27 comments