Rachel Keating Rott
@turnsmith.bsky.social
Unitarian Universalist by faith and profession / protect trans kids / 🍉 / crochet / Adirondacks / SoCal / New Mexico
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
Just to be absolutely clear, this bill will kill people both passively and directly.
July 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Just to be absolutely clear, this bill will kill people both passively and directly.
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
revolutionary optimism will keep me going these next 4 years. it can keep you going too.
fascism depends on a lie that it is inevitable & cannot be stopped. in reality it is weak, unstable, & paranoid. it eats itself.
find solidarity & trans joy even in times of despair. All Power to the People. 🏳️⚧️
fascism depends on a lie that it is inevitable & cannot be stopped. in reality it is weak, unstable, & paranoid. it eats itself.
find solidarity & trans joy even in times of despair. All Power to the People. 🏳️⚧️
December 10, 2024 at 9:11 PM
revolutionary optimism will keep me going these next 4 years. it can keep you going too.
fascism depends on a lie that it is inevitable & cannot be stopped. in reality it is weak, unstable, & paranoid. it eats itself.
find solidarity & trans joy even in times of despair. All Power to the People. 🏳️⚧️
fascism depends on a lie that it is inevitable & cannot be stopped. in reality it is weak, unstable, & paranoid. it eats itself.
find solidarity & trans joy even in times of despair. All Power to the People. 🏳️⚧️
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
My new campaign is the “make ICE agents so demoralized they quit” campaign.
July 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
My new campaign is the “make ICE agents so demoralized they quit” campaign.
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language.
Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
June 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language.
Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
I want to hear more things like this. Who are the lawyers who can offer tangible ways that people can fight back?
The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
June 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I want to hear more things like this. Who are the lawyers who can offer tangible ways that people can fight back?
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
The Supreme Court is definitely not my lane. I look forward to hearing what radical lawyers and law scholars offer as strategies for gumming up the works, causing legal chaos, and generally how to fuck this shit up. In the meantime, the rest of us need to be focused on our lanes and fucking shit up.
June 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The Supreme Court is definitely not my lane. I look forward to hearing what radical lawyers and law scholars offer as strategies for gumming up the works, causing legal chaos, and generally how to fuck this shit up. In the meantime, the rest of us need to be focused on our lanes and fucking shit up.
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
I am begging everyone to please make a pledge to refuse to be demagogued again re "crime" and "law and order." Let this be the last time you fall for the bullshit.
June 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I am begging everyone to please make a pledge to refuse to be demagogued again re "crime" and "law and order." Let this be the last time you fall for the bullshit.
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
For people who don't know L.A. geography, Boyle Heights is in East L.A. which is a traditionally Chicanx and Mexican community and home to people from around Central America too.
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
June 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
For people who don't know L.A. geography, Boyle Heights is in East L.A. which is a traditionally Chicanx and Mexican community and home to people from around Central America too.
Far from the first. I would love to see the day that the left stops going for the football that Peppermint Bernie pulls away every time.
I am really fully done with Bernie.
He is not rising to meet the moment here, and this is not the first major misstep
He is not rising to meet the moment here, and this is not the first major misstep
June 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Far from the first. I would love to see the day that the left stops going for the football that Peppermint Bernie pulls away every time.
Actually this is brilliant.
Today I called schumer and got a live human so at the end of my call I told her in the most inarticulate way possible that legislative staff should consider organizing to hold their legislators accountable to actually doing something against facism, cause they can't run their offices without them
June 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Actually this is brilliant.
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
I agree with those who say that by attacking sanctuary cities, the administration was trying to provoke a response they could exploit. But here's the thing: there is no perfect move for a community under siege. Cooperation and the passive absorption of violence are also highly exploitable moves.
June 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I agree with those who say that by attacking sanctuary cities, the administration was trying to provoke a response they could exploit. But here's the thing: there is no perfect move for a community under siege. Cooperation and the passive absorption of violence are also highly exploitable moves.
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
This is the protest that Trump has sent the flippin Marines to break up.
Outrageous!
Thanks to @jesscraven101.bsky.social for the video.
Outrageous!
Thanks to @jesscraven101.bsky.social for the video.
June 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This is the protest that Trump has sent the flippin Marines to break up.
Outrageous!
Thanks to @jesscraven101.bsky.social for the video.
Outrageous!
Thanks to @jesscraven101.bsky.social for the video.
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever
June 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
"I hereby call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard ... to temporarily protect ICE & other [USG] personnel who are performing Federal functions ... at locations where protests ... are occurring or are likely to occur based on current threat assessments and planned operations"
Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
www.whitehouse.gov
June 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
"I hereby call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard ... to temporarily protect ICE & other [USG] personnel who are performing Federal functions ... at locations where protests ... are occurring or are likely to occur based on current threat assessments and planned operations"
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
We are learning in real time which colleges & universities are for real & which are not.
It's not something we necessarily wanted to learn, but DAMN! Let's make the most of it!
Tufts shames the Ivies, for damn sure. And stays true to it's Universalist roots.
It's not something we necessarily wanted to learn, but DAMN! Let's make the most of it!
Tufts shames the Ivies, for damn sure. And stays true to it's Universalist roots.
Tufts University petitions a federal judge to release student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was grabbed off the street by immigration officials.
The move is some of the strongest public pushback by a school against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.
The move is some of the strongest public pushback by a school against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.
Tufts University pushes for release of student grabbed off the street by immigration officials
The school's declaration in federal court on behalf of Rümeysa Öztürk is some of the strongest pushback by a university against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.
nbcnews.to
April 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
We are learning in real time which colleges & universities are for real & which are not.
It's not something we necessarily wanted to learn, but DAMN! Let's make the most of it!
Tufts shames the Ivies, for damn sure. And stays true to it's Universalist roots.
It's not something we necessarily wanted to learn, but DAMN! Let's make the most of it!
Tufts shames the Ivies, for damn sure. And stays true to it's Universalist roots.
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
Really remarkable how Wall Street keeps defaulting back to 'he can't really be serious, it can't just be Tariff Man Wants Tariffs' -- www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
April 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Really remarkable how Wall Street keeps defaulting back to 'he can't really be serious, it can't just be Tariff Man Wants Tariffs' -- www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi's real name: Richard Tichard Taviwicz
April 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi's real name: Richard Tichard Taviwicz
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'
March 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
One of the things that is totally lost on Carville is that conservatives will never believe that you aren’t secretly connected with <insert marginalized group>.
It’s just that when you trash them, you send the message that you won’t fight for what you believe in and you’re a fake piece of shit.
It’s just that when you trash them, you send the message that you won’t fight for what you believe in and you’re a fake piece of shit.
And everyone, when evaluating James Carville's winning advice, please consider what Gavin Newsom's anti-trans swing has done for his numbers:
March 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
One of the things that is totally lost on Carville is that conservatives will never believe that you aren’t secretly connected with <insert marginalized group>.
It’s just that when you trash them, you send the message that you won’t fight for what you believe in and you’re a fake piece of shit.
It’s just that when you trash them, you send the message that you won’t fight for what you believe in and you’re a fake piece of shit.
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
❤️ WISCONSIN: “I’d like to apologize. My eyes were opened. I’ve learned a very lot about this group of people.”
Larry came to testify against the anti-trans youth health care bill, but had an epiphany and changed his mind.
Context: www.pride.com/politics/ant...
Larry came to testify against the anti-trans youth health care bill, but had an epiphany and changed his mind.
Context: www.pride.com/politics/ant...
March 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
❤️ WISCONSIN: “I’d like to apologize. My eyes were opened. I’ve learned a very lot about this group of people.”
Larry came to testify against the anti-trans youth health care bill, but had an epiphany and changed his mind.
Context: www.pride.com/politics/ant...
Larry came to testify against the anti-trans youth health care bill, but had an epiphany and changed his mind.
Context: www.pride.com/politics/ant...
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
When pressed about what exact conduct led to Columbia anti-war protester Mahmoud Khalil being arrested and stripped of his U.S. permanent resident status for “supporting terrorism,” the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security answered: “basically pro-Palestinian activity.”
www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
March 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
When pressed about what exact conduct led to Columbia anti-war protester Mahmoud Khalil being arrested and stripped of his U.S. permanent resident status for “supporting terrorism,” the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security answered: “basically pro-Palestinian activity.”
www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
what is this shit? the tariffs don't pay for anything! why are we pretending that tariffs generate revenue?!
jfc. wtf is wrong with you?
jfc. wtf is wrong with you?
Trump promised America a "Golden Age" on Day 1
It's Day 50, where is it?
Inflation is up
The stock market plunged
Pure chaos, no stability, total confusion
All thanks to Trump's tariffs to pay for tax cuts for billionaires
We won't stop fighting to stop these harmful tariffs
It's Day 50, where is it?
Inflation is up
The stock market plunged
Pure chaos, no stability, total confusion
All thanks to Trump's tariffs to pay for tax cuts for billionaires
We won't stop fighting to stop these harmful tariffs
March 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
what is this shit? the tariffs don't pay for anything! why are we pretending that tariffs generate revenue?!
jfc. wtf is wrong with you?
jfc. wtf is wrong with you?
Reposted by Rachel Keating Rott
Sorry, we broke money. It doesn’t work anymore. The green rectangles, the metal
circles, they’re all busted. Doesn’t do anything at the store. We’re gonna try to get bartering started up again after we figure out how many tomatoes a house is worth
circles, they’re all busted. Doesn’t do anything at the store. We’re gonna try to get bartering started up again after we figure out how many tomatoes a house is worth
March 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Sorry, we broke money. It doesn’t work anymore. The green rectangles, the metal
circles, they’re all busted. Doesn’t do anything at the store. We’re gonna try to get bartering started up again after we figure out how many tomatoes a house is worth
circles, they’re all busted. Doesn’t do anything at the store. We’re gonna try to get bartering started up again after we figure out how many tomatoes a house is worth