Racheline Maltese
@racheline.bsky.social
Award-winning romance author writing happily ever afters about difficult people with complicated lives. SAG-AFTRA. Figure skater. Former journalist/media analyst.
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Racheline Maltese
@racheline.bsky.social
· Aug 25
This was definitely how A QUEEN FROM THE NORTH got built. A defaced government poster about unity in a train station. It opened up the whole plot to us before we even knew what we were about https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XBPDJPM?ref=KC_GS_GB_US
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this feels like a good time to remind people about @annaleen.bsky.social’s Four Lost Cities.
We (humans) have abandoned cities before because of climate change - we’re going to have to do it again. Read up and be prepared for this future.
www.thriftbooks.com/w/four-lost-...
We (humans) have abandoned cities before because of climate change - we’re going to have to do it again. Read up and be prepared for this future.
www.thriftbooks.com/w/four-lost-...
As taps run dry, Iran’s president raises the unthinkable: abandoning the capital
As taps run dry, Iran’s president raises the unthinkable: abandoning the capital
Decades of mismanagement, climate extremes and vanishing rainfall have pushed the capital to the brink
www.irishtimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
this feels like a good time to remind people about @annaleen.bsky.social’s Four Lost Cities.
We (humans) have abandoned cities before because of climate change - we’re going to have to do it again. Read up and be prepared for this future.
www.thriftbooks.com/w/four-lost-...
We (humans) have abandoned cities before because of climate change - we’re going to have to do it again. Read up and be prepared for this future.
www.thriftbooks.com/w/four-lost-...
The Administration’s Thanksgiving message is basically that they’re going to try to pull green cards from 19 countries’ nationals because they want America to be whiter and more afraid.
This is, as per usual, Nazi shit.
This is, as per usual, Nazi shit.
November 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The Administration’s Thanksgiving message is basically that they’re going to try to pull green cards from 19 countries’ nationals because they want America to be whiter and more afraid.
This is, as per usual, Nazi shit.
This is, as per usual, Nazi shit.
If I never ever hear the word “homeland” in regard to anything involving the US government ever again, it won’t be soon enough. That shit was always gonna be Nazi branding and so it is.
November 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If I never ever hear the word “homeland” in regard to anything involving the US government ever again, it won’t be soon enough. That shit was always gonna be Nazi branding and so it is.
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The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
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This makes me even more rageful that a friend just had to pay $800 because her insurance denied coverage of her 19 year old's HPV vaccine, claiming that it is no longer recommended. Appeals were denied. I can only assume RFK Jr had something to do with this???
This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This makes me even more rageful that a friend just had to pay $800 because her insurance denied coverage of her 19 year old's HPV vaccine, claiming that it is no longer recommended. Appeals were denied. I can only assume RFK Jr had something to do with this???
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
I’m one of the ppl who works on Thanksgiving. Not in retail, but pet sitting so people - and especially people with medically fragile animals - can still travel for the holidays. I don’t mind it because I run my own business and it’s my choice, my labor, and my earnings. it’s also super lucrative
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I’m one of the ppl who works on Thanksgiving. Not in retail, but pet sitting so people - and especially people with medically fragile animals - can still travel for the holidays. I don’t mind it because I run my own business and it’s my choice, my labor, and my earnings. it’s also super lucrative
I’m going to Arizona in January to visit family and am investigating what I’m going to use for practice ice there and one of the rinks has a bar, with alcohol, that as a skater you can drink before going on the ice?!? This seems bad?
November 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I’m going to Arizona in January to visit family and am investigating what I’m going to use for practice ice there and one of the rinks has a bar, with alcohol, that as a skater you can drink before going on the ice?!? This seems bad?
Just saw a super femme fitness tracker device marketed to men to gift to women with “know her better than she knows herself” and can we just say absolutely fucking not?
November 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Just saw a super femme fitness tracker device marketed to men to gift to women with “know her better than she knows herself” and can we just say absolutely fucking not?
Dunno what’s up w that shooting in DC but if you follow these things at all the only sure bet is that the perp’s politics are likely to be at least somewhat incoherent. A lot more of these shootings are “I have no side and I’m furious” than they are “I’m on this side and hate the other side.”
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Dunno what’s up w that shooting in DC but if you follow these things at all the only sure bet is that the perp’s politics are likely to be at least somewhat incoherent. A lot more of these shootings are “I have no side and I’m furious” than they are “I’m on this side and hate the other side.”
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An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
ICE Detained an 18-Year-Old U.S. Citizen. This Is His Story.
YouTube video by The Hometown Holler
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
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The Washington Post is now exactly as reliable and trustworthy as the New York Post.
Proceed accordingly.
Proceed accordingly.
very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The Washington Post is now exactly as reliable and trustworthy as the New York Post.
Proceed accordingly.
Proceed accordingly.
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I am ready to go beyond implication and say after reading the facts here that one of the most recognizable people working in the White House almost certainly had ICE arrest her nephew's mother as a favor to her brother
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I am ready to go beyond implication and say after reading the facts here that one of the most recognizable people working in the White House almost certainly had ICE arrest her nephew's mother as a favor to her brother
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"It was supposed to be a celebratory milestone, the final step in the process to obtain U.S. permanent residency. Instead, as each interview with an immigration officer wrapped up, federal agents swooped in, handcuffed the foreign spouse and took him or her away."
“I had to take the baby from my crying wife’s arms.“ It hasn’t even been a year, and this is not a scandal anymore? What is wrong with us?
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"It was supposed to be a celebratory milestone, the final step in the process to obtain U.S. permanent residency. Instead, as each interview with an immigration officer wrapped up, federal agents swooped in, handcuffed the foreign spouse and took him or her away."
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From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
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fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
I don’t go to a lot of in-person awards season screenings because they are often annoying but I just leapt at the one with the Sinners cast panel afterwards.
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I don’t go to a lot of in-person awards season screenings because they are often annoying but I just leapt at the one with the Sinners cast panel afterwards.
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This is very interesting (and yeah, I also had an initial “oh come on, that’s nuts” reaction to the first part of this article, but as I read on, I realized he was making some pretty compelling points)
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
This is very interesting (and yeah, I also had an initial “oh come on, that’s nuts” reaction to the first part of this article, but as I read on, I realized he was making some pretty compelling points)
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
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also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
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So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
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This seems like a play to cut NPS profitability to make it easier to open these lands up to extraction. 35% of NPS visitors are from overseas
US triples national park fee for non-residents, amid ‘new’ fee for Americans
Interior department, which has defunded conservation organizations, claims fee hike is for conservation
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This seems like a play to cut NPS profitability to make it easier to open these lands up to extraction. 35% of NPS visitors are from overseas
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
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Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?”
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?”
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
Right now it looks like me and my baby figure skating program are doing comps in January, February, March, and April. I have lost my dang mind. Also we’re 90% choreographed and I’m already unable to get the damn music out of my head which is definitely a problem I need to combat
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Right now it looks like me and my baby figure skating program are doing comps in January, February, March, and April. I have lost my dang mind. Also we’re 90% choreographed and I’m already unable to get the damn music out of my head which is definitely a problem I need to combat