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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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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

Greatest movie ever

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Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 19h

@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

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

JFC

Can SOMEONE in the media or in the legislature raise some holy hell about this???

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Greg Howard Jr @forthefuturepac.com · 1d

Just send the damn meteor

Dumbass folks didn't realize Lays chips were made from potatoes

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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

As I keep saying:

When not voting, *the most powerful thing that we can do* is to simply be good, observant, welcoming neighbors and citizens.
Provide shelter and comfort.

**Believe in kindness.**

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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

I knew Jews were on the move, always and forever, and that they helped to establish and maintain trade routes that were 2,000 years old. I had just thought that Jews *of the Pale of Settlement* specifically were painfully isolated. But it’s awesome that they weren’t!

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

*My* party hasn’t been denigrating public workers since 1970. I don’t need to be reminded.

The same can be said about everyone here.

Post this on Truth Social.

Rachel (loves LA, always will) @rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 2d

Which is the point I have been making since we first interacted.