Rachel
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Rachel
@xstentialdread.bsky.social
She/her
Teacher/Person
Happy Bad Bunny Day to all who celebrate.
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February 8, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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February 2, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
January 30, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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"Let us go." Immigration attorney Eric Lee shares a drawing by his five-year-old client, stuck in an immigration prison.
January 27, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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I am seeing quite a few nurses calling for a nationwide strike over the killing of Alex Pretti. I think we are seeing one of the largest workforces being radicalized before our very eyes.
January 25, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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This is Alex Pretti.

This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA.

Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE.

#ScientistsAgainstICE
January 24, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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Democrats need to call unanimously for ICE to be abolished. They are a terrorist group laying siege to an American city. There is no room to reform them.
January 24, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
January 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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I think a good strategy for your non-leftist social media presence (ie everywhere but here) is to give this photo - the remains of Danish soldiers returning in coffins after being killed in America's war in Afghanistan - as wide an audience as possible. Remind people who we're betraying
January 19, 2026 at 4:32 PM
My weekend plans
##caturday
January 17, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I have watched 3 limited series in a row where a woman gets away with murder with a bit of a shrug because the victim(s) kinda deserved it? I don't know how I feel about this.
January 14, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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UNARMED WOMAN: “Shame on you.”

ICE GOON: “Have you not learned from the past few days?”

UNARMED WOMAN: “Learned what? What’s our lesson?”

ICE GOON: *VIOLENTLY SNATCHES HER PHONE*

(H/T @Mollyploofkins)
January 10, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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I would write a poem
about what it makes you
if you look Good in the face
and fire your gun
But she was the poet who wrote about making room for wonder
And you are the one who took her words
January 8, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Okay, Greenland. You are up.

Come in the dead of night and kidnap Trump and Melania. You don't even have to bomb the White House, as it is already half demolished.

The operation will pay for itself. You can take Mar-a-lago and seize Elon Musk's assets.
January 3, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.
January 3, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Ben Affleck used to ooze around my college campus---a grown ass celebrity hitting on college freshmen. He got in line behind me at the campus coffee shop, and I got out of line to avoid him.
Please quote this from the time you didn't interact with someone famous.

I was visiting with family in New Bedford, Massachusetts, at the same time that Mother Theresa was there visiting her Missionaries of Charity. The bishop held a Mass for her at the church where I was baptized. I didn't go.
Catching a train from Bristol Temple Meads, but they shifted the service along the platform because a scene from THE OUTLAWS was being shot where it would usually come in. The scene featured Christopher Walken and Stephen Merchant, but my train came before they shot it so I didn't see either of 'em.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Family review of #StrangerThings:

Me: [weeping]
My kid: I've seen StrAnger Things.
Our cat:
December 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Merry Chrisas to all (who celebrate), and to all a good night.
December 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Every job should have little rooms to cry in and offer mid-day meltdown breaks.
December 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The world is on fire, my students are burning, and my English department is holding a meeting about standardizing fonts and headings.

Who fucking cares? Let's make sure they can read and avoid deportation first. #teachersky
December 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I've read 4 memoirs about escaping cults in a row. How many more can I read before I accidentally start my own cult? #booksky
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 AM