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Rachel Navarre

@rnavarre.bsky.social

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Displaced South Louisianan. Associate prof of PoliSci @Bridgewater StateU (MA), studies Populism, immigration policy and other depressing things. Newest book The Age of Discontent is out now. I miss properly seasoned seafood She/ her

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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · Mar 23

Hey @democrats.org yet another story for your ad campaign that I’m really sure you’re going to start any second now.

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · Mar 23

Boycott any company that sponsors. Let make sure it’s just Balance of nature, my pillow and relief factor and whatever else Foxnews one

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 1h

Yes, and let's also remember #YourSlipIsShowing, the Black women activists who predicted all of this first and received no credit.

"Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color... If only more people had paid attention."

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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 2h

@50501movement.bsky.social seriously, maybe bring this up in interviews and the like.

Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 2h

It seems like we really need to be reminding people why this is being called a no kings march because this has been memoried holed pretty badly www.snopes.com/fact-check/w...

Yes, the White House posted an image of Trump captioned 'Long live the king'

An AI-generated image depicted Trump wearing a crown and the slogan "Long live the king" on a Time magazine cover.

www.snopes.com

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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 2h

It seems like we really need to be reminding people why this is being called a no kings march because this has been memoried holed pretty badly www.snopes.com/fact-check/w...

Yes, the White House posted an image of Trump captioned 'Long live the king'

An AI-generated image depicted Trump wearing a crown and the slogan "Long live the king" on a Time magazine cover.

www.snopes.com

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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 6h

This may be useful for some people if anyone cares abouf facts anymore apnews.com/article/reco...

Records rebut claims of unequal treatment of Jan. 6 rioters

Some people charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and their Republican allies claim the Justice Department is treating them harshly because of their political views.

apnews.com

Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 8h

This rhetoric both scares me but on the other hand, he’s calling people like my 60 something Southern Baptist Mother-in-law who is highly involved in her church, sent two sons of to the forever wars (one injured) and was a colonel’s wife this- the discrepancy is getting too big to hide.

Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 1d

I really hope this is it because I don’t want to defend this loser.

Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 1d

There might be something too it but I’m too tired to figure it out.

Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 1d

OH MY GOD IT MIGHT BE LEGITIMATE?! I can’t yall.

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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 1d

Y’all. Like Y’all. Y’ALL. This shit is super bad but I am never going to stop laughing that he went after these guys before the Clintons.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Breaking news: The US Department of Justice has indicted John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, with charges related to Bolton’s handling of classified documents. on.ft.com/47siBxz

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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 3d

Wait why is Maine holding a primary? Aren’t they doing ranked choice?

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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 3d

The most dangerous thing about Gillette stadium is that there is a Trader Joe’s parking lot next to it filled with Masshole drivers.

The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 3d

President Trump said that he could “take away” the 2026 World Cup games scheduled in the Boston area if he feels there are “unsafe conditions.” trib.al/SA9rK0a

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 3d

Once again struck by how many prominent "heterodox" thinkers split off and create their own institutions not because of academic censoriousness but because no one who closely examines their methodology can possibly take them seriously.

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 3d

Just gonna leave this here.

In survey data, LGBT young people report consistently worse mental health than heterosexual young people.
Whether this is because LGBT causes mental illness (i.e. the minority stress or anomie hypotheses), or because
mental illness causes individuals to be LGBT is beyond the scope of this work.2

Footnote 2: Meyer, I. H. (1995). "Minority stress and mental health in gay men." Journal of health and social behavior: 38-56; Michael Bailey, J.
(2020). "The Minority Stress Model Deserves Reconsideration, Not Just Extension." Archives of Sexual Behavior 49(7): 2265-2268.

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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 3d

Look, if it’s true that they trained this on fanfic, I cannot emphasize enough to you how much you do not want this adult feature.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 3d

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

Part of the reason many Germans supported the Nazis was that there really was a lot of violence in the streets & they wanted order. But much of that violence was carried out by the Nazi paramilitary SA.

So the Nazis presented themselves as the solution to a problem they intentionally created

NPR @npr.org · 3d

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

n.pr

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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 4d

And his recipes are good too!

Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 4d

I really really want a follow up to all those cops that took up DeSantis’s offer to come down and work for Florida wages with Florida work protection AND the completely different expectation of how police will interact with average person.

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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 4d

FYI, I’m not interested in any defense of calling it Columbus Day if the defender has never had to read his journals — in the original Spanish

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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 4d

18 more signatures will get this to 1,000. I know there are UT alumni on here who care about their school and academic freedom. Spread the word! www.change.org/p/alumni-urg...

Sign the Petition

Alumni urging UT Austin to reject the federal funding compact

www.change.org

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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 5d

I really need the church to stop doing stuff like this because I’m going to have to start going to mass again (no, I don’t suddenly believe in God, but fun fact, sola fe isn’t something Catholics worry about- despite what the charismatics (*cough* Catholic Pentecostals) say.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 5d

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 6d

Once upon a time I got a “come back home” packet from the Catholic Church and to this day, no one I know will admit they did it as a prank or as a way to try and get me to go back to church.

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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 6d

This is great because “I’ve never met anyone who got in trouble because of the Star Card” is something anyone that knows any enlisted folks absolutely cannot say.

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 6d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 6d

I went to an all girls high school in South Louisiana (1,200 or so of us) and I’m just imagining what the halls would smell like in August with non-vegan tampons.

Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 6d

I mean, this is really desperate shit, isn’t it? I am a great deal more woke-sceptic than pretty much all of Bluesky but I honestly can’t be bothered to care about the National Trust putting vegan tampons in the men’s toilets and neither should you

Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 6d

GMOs are getting out of hand.

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