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~writer, mom, teacher, ✡️, spouse to @grumpykelson.bsky.social~ There’s no one to blame but the voters.

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · Sep 9

“Here in America it’s not a question of if we tolerate minorities. America IS minorities.”

This absolutely slaps, and everyone should watch it. Especially that fucker JD Vance.

Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · Sep 9

We're living the college classroom scene from the WWII US Army film "Don't Be A Sucker" in which a professor is dragged out of a classroom for teaching ideas forbidden by the State. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ0c...

still from US Army film "Don't Be A Sucker." scene is a college classroom and in the background arestudents at desks with two armed men approaching the professor who is teaching students the forbidden idea "there is no master race." The armed then men drag the professor out while students sit and watch.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 18h

THESE are the promises I want to hear.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 18h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 12h

It felt really really satisfying to send Nazis flying into walls. I want everyone to experience that same blend of peace and joy around the death of klansmen 🙂☠️

Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 12h

It was—I think—an early first-person shooter game, and you just wandered around hallways blowing away Nazis. Animation was amazing for its time but little better than Minecraft 😂. And you weren’t encountering Jewish victims. Just soldiers at some Eagles Nest type place.

Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 12h

Oh, I should make myself clear: The Castle Wolfenstein version that I played—the only one I ever saw—was a much much much earlier version! Sorry, I had no idea that the game had changed that much!

Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 12h

been?” And those are the consumers Ubisoft should be listening to, 100%.
Again, thank you for your response.

Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 12h

were insensitive…but I absolutely see your point about the Black protagonist. And I greatly appreciate you responding to me.
In the end, everywhere I looked I saw Black posters expressing frustration, and no one was saying, “Thank goodness, we dodged a bullet, can you imagine how bad that could have

Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 12h

The setting in Wolfenstein seemed relatively “safe”: The version I played ages ago was just a lot of stone hallways. It wasn’t like hunting Nazis in the field where they were doing violent Nazi work (like, say, in a camp or a ghetto). Hunting the klan in the south could be different if the creators

Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

So which Chicago IL lawmakers are taking this case on and raising hell???

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

So it’s not just me???

I’ve been like that *forever*—if I can’t have a foot out I think I’m suffocating

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

Greatest movie ever

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

@kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social How did it go?

Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

You might not be qualified to be an antisemitic tool. You might want to read a bit more before you do *that*.

This was a thread about atheism. You decided to hop on and lay into Jews specifically. It’s noticeable to *everyone.*

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

There were little girls and young women who were computer nerds back then, and we should have
1) taught all of them Krav Maga, and
2) given all of them flame throwers.

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

Why why why???

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

I mean THESE PEOPLE.

*So* proud to have left Baptism behind, but he made a point of carefully packing the antisemitism away in his suitcase and taking it with him as his favorite fucking souvenir.

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

You keep citing the Five Books of Moses. There are *19 more books in the Hebrew Bible*. There are another *63 Tractates in the Talmud*, which amount to anywhere from 45 to 80 volumes, depending on publisher and edition.

We get it: You understand Judaism.
An entire 5% of Judaism.

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

“It says that in the Pentateuch” is in no way a proof that Hindus or Buddhists or the believers of various animist religions, etc., believe they are “chosen”. Quite the contrary.
You know a few small things about Judaism and from that you’re extrapolating a LOT.

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

Hey Grant, you’re being a tool.

Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

There are SO MANY parents in red states who will be out—riding like Valkyries looking for heads—if this touches their kids *at all*.

Does this administration think that Pervasive Developmental Disorders, speech problems, ADHD, hearing issues, Dyslexia, etc., only hit blue states?

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

I know Trump and his minions all have sneering contempt for kids with special needs, but trust me when I say that their parents will absolutely fucking destroy anyone who messes with the special education supports to which they are entitled by law.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

😭😭😭welcome home!😭😭😭

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

*Don’t feel as if you have to answer this*, but have you already said what this meeting is about?

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 1d

Shared! So lovely to see you here!

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Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 1d

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Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 1d

Hi everyone! #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth is here. Please support by spreading the word! www.phaidon.com/en-us/produc...

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