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Rachel Cholst
@rachelcholst.bsky.social
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Queer country music nerd and journalist, printmaking, Mets convert, yr butch aunt. Editor of www.rainbowrodeomag.com

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As always, it's a privilege to write about queer country for @NoDepression.bsky.social This month, I write about how trans artists like Bells Larsen and Abigail Austin teach us how to trans-scend time. (See what I did there?)

nodepression.org/queer-countr...
A person with ski goggles, a leather luchador mask, and a sleeveless leather vest holds a wooden paddle behind her head. She has elaborately tattooed arms. The jacket has pink and white studs and the ski googgles are hot pink, white, and light blue -- the colors of the trans pride flag.
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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truthout.org
A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.
Boycott Campaign Targets Companies Tied to ICE Ahead of Black Friday
The Not With My Dollars campaign takes aim at Amazon, Whole Foods, Dell, Microsoft, Home Depot, Spotify, and Target.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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colindickey.com
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
vulture.com Vulture @vulture.com · 9h
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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emhilly.bsky.social
It was an honor to review & blurb the legendary Alice Gerrard's new memoir, out now w/ @uncpress.bsky.social!

I was trying to work in a mention of how she taught her dog to grab her a beer from the fridge (as just one example of her legendary status) but I couldn't quite make it work
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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nodepression.bsky.social
Record Store Day is a great way to support your local record store and score some great music at the same time!

This Black Friday, a dizzying number of releases are available – to help you sort through, we've collected our top 10 recs from ND editors and writers.

nodepression.org/10-roots-mus...
10 Roots Music Releases for Your 2025 Record Store Black Friday Shopping List
Official website of No Depression's stories, columns, album reviews, artist voices, and roots music journalism
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November 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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janapochop.bsky.social
Like at this point if your music line up announcement (venue calendar, festival, etc.) isn't 50%+ women / nonbinary folks I'm just not interested.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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sjjphd.bsky.social
I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
carnage4life.bsky.social Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.

I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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beedelores.bsky.social
6 days, a creepy voice tells me over the phone 😂

Please share! 💚
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
rachelcholst.bsky.social
The #wpbl content the people yearn for

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November 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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dollarcountry.org
New blog post where I talk about Nick Shoulders, volunteering with dollar country, and the 14,000 records I bought this month.

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November 25, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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elongreen.bsky.social
That’s right
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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jortsthecat.bsky.social
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
PITTSBURGH'S Public Source Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh journalists return to their jobs at the Post-Gazette after three years on strike After a court ruling in their favor, long-striking journalists declared victory and returned to a pivotal Southwestern Pennsylvania newsroom. They return as union organizing continues throughout the region. Stephanie Strasburg November 24, 2025 Natalie Duleba, local secretary of the guild, hugs Jon Schleuss, president of the NewsGuild Communications of America, as she hands him the mic. "The first day of this strike, our folks went over across the street and they sat down at a table, and they started talking about that they were going to take care of each other," said Schleuss, acknowledging the guild could not have known how long the path back to work would be. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh's Public Source)
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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rainbowrodeo.bsky.social
BOOK REVIEW: Editor @rachelcholst.bsky.social reviews The Hours Are Long But the Pay is Low, the memoir of Bloodshot Records co-founder @Millerscave.bsky.social Miller impresses on us a devotion to authenticity, independence, and community.

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A white man with grey hair sits in an easy chair with his legs stretched out in front of him. He wears grey flannel and khaki work pants. He is surrounded by a collection of vintage country and punk LPs and posters.
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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illinoispress.bsky.social
Editor @rachelcholst.bsky.social reviews THE HOURS ARE LONG, BUT THE PAY IS LOW, the memoir of Bloodshot Records co-founder @millerscave.bsky.social. Miller impresses on us a devotion to authenticity, independence, and community.
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READ A BOOK: The Hours are Long But the Pay is Low
Editor Rachel Cholst reviews The Hours Are Long But the Pay is Low, the memoir of Bloodshot Records co-founder Rob Miller. Miller impresses on us a devotion to authenticity, independence, and…
rainbowrodeomag.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
rachelcholst.bsky.social
It just came to my attention that someone is impersonating me (????) @rachelcholst01.bsky.social is a fake person!!! Please report the account!
November 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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alanallport.bsky.social
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
jackiantonovich.bsky.social Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 3d
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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theserfstv.bsky.social
Zohran Mamdani standing beside the President of the United States just said that the US is funding Israel's genocide and yet can't take care of its own unhoused children on live television.

I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime
@Acyn Mamdani: I have spoken about the Israeli government committing genocide and our government funding it and I shared about the concern that New Yorkers of wanting their tax dollars to go to the benefit of New Yorkers and what we see right now we are in the ninth consecutive year of children being homeless…
November 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
rachelcholst.bsky.social
By my count New York has the highest bWAR

(Butches above replacement)

#wpbl
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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jenramose.online
Manfred, in the #WPBL video: "We are thrilled that baseball is part of this extraordinarily exciting time for women's sports. Both on the field and in our front offices, baseball is a game for everyone."

also Manfred:
“The diversity pipeline, let me say it this way,” he said in an audio recording journalist Jen Ramos Eisen obtained of Manfred speaking with the BBWAA last week. “There were certain aspects of some of our programs that were very explicitly race-based and/or gender-based. We know because there were public comments to the effect that people in Washington were aware of that and we felt it was important to recast our programs in a way to make sure that we can continue on with our programs, to continue to pursue the values that we have always adhered to without tripping what could be legal problems that would interfere with that process.” “You know, that’s a judgment, my judgment. At the end of the day, I think I made the right one.”
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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kdcaseywrites.bsky.social
Hello, Breakout Year is in the New York Times as a book for sad Mariners fans (it's also for sad Jays fans, sad Tigers fans, sad...etc.) Big thank yous to @oliviawaite.com for the lovely write up!!!
Breakout Year by KD Casey This has been a wild year for baseball fans — Mariners, you were so close! — but thankfully we have a terrific baseball book to carry us through until spring training. Casey’s BREAKOUT YEAR (Self-published, ebook, $4.99) is a high-concept contemporary about a newly traded third baseman, Eitan Rivkin, who spontaneously comes out during a press conference. Hiring a fake boyfriend to take on very visible dates seems like the best way to get the media talking about his love life instead of why his last team traded him so abruptly. His audition call connects him with Akiva, the first Orthodox Jewish ballplayer and a former minor league teammate who now cobbles together a living out of ghostwriting, editing, modeling and anything else he can turn his hand to. He needs the money, and Eitan’s thrilled to be spending time with someone he already knows and likes, so the contract is signed. And immediately becomes a problem. Both Eitan and Akiva are used to being alone, and playing their cards close to the vest. This is not a book where triumphant resolutions tie up every loose thread in a neat little bow, because baseball doesn’t allow for that kind of ending. Sometimes the only thing you can do is your best, and hope you get a second chance.
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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beedelores.bsky.social
Orville Peck’s Appaloosa EP is stunning and easily one of 2025’s best releases. His version of “Maybe This Time” (from Cabaret) works far better than it has any right to. Top to bottom 🤌🏻

My review for @rainbowrodeo.bsky.social 🤠 rainbowrodeomag.com/orville-peck...
Orville Peck - Appaloosa
Bee Delores tips her hat to Orville Peck's stunning Appaloosa EP -- according to Bee, it's one of the best of the year.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Please share/donate if you can! I have ~10 days! 🤞🏻💛 gofund.me/596fde0bf
Donate to Support Bee and Cats Through Tough Times, organized by Bee Delores
Hello, all you cool cats and kittens! My name is Bee, and I'm a freelance… Bee Delores needs your support for Support Bee and Cats Through Tough Times
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November 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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amandamarcotte.bsky.social
A fascinating aspect of this is how much the anti-trans panic is about displacing fears that are far more real: of male coaches who abuse female athletes.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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dijondarling.bsky.social
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Did some light research on the #wpbl baseball ops manager.
What is Golden Rule Entertainment, the WPBL's 2026 baseball operations manager?
"Eliot Spitzer night," the sale of Robin Roberts Stadium, issues with the field, and what is baseball ops, anyway?
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November 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM