Rachael Sparks
@sparkytheauthor.bsky.social
Anti-Nazis, pro-choice, pro-vax. 💙 NC Democrat, ex Texan. Past microbiologist & transplant specialist, now marketer and pharma tech startup co-founder.
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a suicide note whose existence and content federal authorities appear to have concealed for years while conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death in their custody raged out of control
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
a suicide note whose existence and content federal authorities appear to have concealed for years while conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death in their custody raged out of control
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HASSETT: If the Supreme Court doesn't find with us, refunds would go to whoever cut the check for the tariff
BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?
HASSETT: Uhh --
BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?
HASSETT: Uhh --
December 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
HASSETT: If the Supreme Court doesn't find with us, refunds would go to whoever cut the check for the tariff
BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?
HASSETT: Uhh --
BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?
HASSETT: Uhh --
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The Kennedy Center is its birth name. Maybe the Kennedy Center is just confused. It’s just a phase. Republicans have made very clear that such self-renamings don’t count, and that we have the right—nay, the duty—to call the Kennedy Center by its legal name.
December 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The Kennedy Center is its birth name. Maybe the Kennedy Center is just confused. It’s just a phase. Republicans have made very clear that such self-renamings don’t count, and that we have the right—nay, the duty—to call the Kennedy Center by its legal name.
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vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans
December 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans
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"but ladies, you wouldn't need safety in numbers if you'd just play by the rules of captivity"
December 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"but ladies, you wouldn't need safety in numbers if you'd just play by the rules of captivity"
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Have you told your low info or MAGA family about this story of #ICELawlessness where #immigration officers who knew this woman was pregnant forced her on her stomach during detention & put their knee on her!
This is rough, but we must bear witness! We must speak up, call Congress & tell others.
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This is rough, but we must bear witness! We must speak up, call Congress & tell others.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Have you told your low info or MAGA family about this story of #ICELawlessness where #immigration officers who knew this woman was pregnant forced her on her stomach during detention & put their knee on her!
This is rough, but we must bear witness! We must speak up, call Congress & tell others.
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This is rough, but we must bear witness! We must speak up, call Congress & tell others.
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Cool that he broke ranks but I'm betting on a defenestration in his future
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The Putin Confidant Who Pushed Back Against the War
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December 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Cool that he broke ranks but I'm betting on a defenestration in his future
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overall, in 2017, just over 11 percent of journalists across newsrooms of all sizes were people of color. americanpressinstitute.org/survey/avera...
Average representation of journalists of color by newspaper circulation size - American Press Institute
How did newsroom diversity vary based on newspaper circulation size?
This data shows the average percentage of journalists of color in newsrooms across different circulation sizes, from small local p...
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December 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
overall, in 2017, just over 11 percent of journalists across newsrooms of all sizes were people of color. americanpressinstitute.org/survey/avera...
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ghosts are not enough, some of you need to be visited by three swift taps from a shovel
December 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
ghosts are not enough, some of you need to be visited by three swift taps from a shovel
I know that every day brings a new low, but this is a "Grandpa needs an intervention" red flag
Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.
December 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I know that every day brings a new low, but this is a "Grandpa needs an intervention" red flag
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don bongo, we hardly knew ye
FBI’s No. 2 quietly tells colleagues he’s moving on
Controversial deputy director has cleared out his office, sources tell MS NOW.
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December 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
don bongo, we hardly knew ye
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Over here surrounding Texas with an armada.
December 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Over here surrounding Texas with an armada.
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there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
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When Europe and Russia disagree on an issue at the UN, it's long been the case that the US sides with Europe. This year, not so much. www.howtoreadthisch.art/data-is-anti...
December 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
When Europe and Russia disagree on an issue at the UN, it's long been the case that the US sides with Europe. This year, not so much. www.howtoreadthisch.art/data-is-anti...
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This is part of what Trump said at Charlie Kirk's memorial service.
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is part of what Trump said at Charlie Kirk's memorial service.
RFK just killing it* at preserving health in the US. Measles will definitely get those kids off their screens and couches!
*Kids.
*Kids.
Really hope the Trump Admin gets back to following science & data…
December 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
RFK just killing it* at preserving health in the US. Measles will definitely get those kids off their screens and couches!
*Kids.
*Kids.
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Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
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If you want to do something like this, why not buy a $150k home in a small town in Italy, France, Spain, or Mexico, instead of having nine people share one bathroom after they eat at a restaurant called "Stinky's?"
December 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
If you want to do something like this, why not buy a $150k home in a small town in Italy, France, Spain, or Mexico, instead of having nine people share one bathroom after they eat at a restaurant called "Stinky's?"
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If that gravel-voiced, steroid-abusing, roadkill-munching, worm-brained fuckmuppet fucks this up, I will ensure that he will not know a single moment of peace in this life or the next.
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:41 AM
If that gravel-voiced, steroid-abusing, roadkill-munching, worm-brained fuckmuppet fucks this up, I will ensure that he will not know a single moment of peace in this life or the next.
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my everyday speech is still sprinkled with lines from chappelle’s show, tbh
the 6-7 phenomenon is in no way different from any other catchphrase that kids have yelled out at any point in the last hundred years, there's no daylight between that and when i was in high school, the year straight where every guy kept yelling "i'm rick james bitch"
December 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
my everyday speech is still sprinkled with lines from chappelle’s show, tbh
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An underappreciated method for survey research.
we asked people that like us whether they like us
December 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
An underappreciated method for survey research.
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shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights
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Musk still has two weeks to meet his deadline to sell a new Roadster that is part rocket, so advanced that it’s “not really a car.” Next year will be the tenth year that this car is supposedly coming out!
Never give an interview when you’re tripping balls electrek.co/2024/03/18/t...
![The CEO reiterated that the new Roadster will be a collaboration between SpaceX and Tesla. "You can expect some rocketry stuff there," said Musk.
When Lemon asked if it's going to be a flying car, Musk answered, "maybe" and then added:
“It's going to have some rocket technology in it. I think the only way to do something cooler than Cybertruck is to combine Tesla and SpaceX technology to create something that's not even really a car. [.] Something that's never existed before.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7vmqlqtvqkkmuegzp7efeptu/bafkreic43xwxo3ofcbnky3onzfar7zdjftux6i2bmdvhiazx4fzbum4k2u@jpeg)
December 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Musk still has two weeks to meet his deadline to sell a new Roadster that is part rocket, so advanced that it’s “not really a car.” Next year will be the tenth year that this car is supposedly coming out!
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Many Americans are far more scared of imaginary vaccine complications than they are of real disease complications.
December 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Many Americans are far more scared of imaginary vaccine complications than they are of real disease complications.