Rachel Van Patten
@southpaw73.bsky.social
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Theatre Kid. SF Giants Lifer. Fishkeeper, Bookworm, Curiosity Junkie. Swears a lot.
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I first posted this on Twitter back in 2020. I stand by it then, now, and always: Fuck fascism — and those who encourage and enable it.
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Mark Harris
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I assume that Swalwell is currently on the phone being told exactly how the end of his political life is going to go and will exit either tonight or tomorrow. Longer than that and it's going to get much uglier for him.
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The Fig Economy
about 1 hour ago
I’m frequently flabbergasted by how politicians will just plow forward, knowing what they’ve got in their past (or present), just hoping it somehow doesn’t come out. Swalwell now, but like, John Edwards had a secret second family while his wife was dying of cancer! People were gonna find out!
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Taniel
about 3 hours ago
The White House is so committed to punishing the Indiana Republicans who voted against gerrymandering in December that they’re spending time to pressure an unknown state senate candidate to drop out to not divide the anti-incumbent vote.
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https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/04/10/calls-messages-show-white-house-attempts-to-get-candidate-out-of-indiana-senate-race/
https://t.co/DeTUV8sOkW
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✪ April Foolishness! ✪
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*US clumsily opens bag* *contents spill everywhere* Iran:
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Wobbledance aka “Tony”
about 5 hours ago
“Made in jest?” Corporate media hasn’t learned a goddamn thing. 🤦♂️
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes
about 3 hours ago
Trump promising his staff mass pardons before he leaves office means he is planning for them to commit a lot of crimes and he wants to enable them all. This is not a government. This is a mob.
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Shoe+
about 1 hour ago
That's enough of him.
www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/u...
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Exclusive: Four women describe sexual misconduct by Rep. Eric Swalwell, including a former staffer who says he raped her | CNN
A former staffer of Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate for California governor, says that the congressman raped her when she was heavily intoxicated, an allegation Swalwell strongly de...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/us/eric-swalwell-sexual-misconduct-allegations-invs
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Alejandra Caraballo
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Robert Reich
about 1 hour ago
Here's How To Counter Trump's $10 Billion Lawsuit Against the IRS
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-counter-trumps-10-billion
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Here's How To Counter Trump's $10 Billion Lawsuit Against the IRS
Sue him!
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-counter-trumps-10-billion
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Robert Reich
about 2 hours ago
Trump isn't just suing the IRS. He's waging a war on it. His regime has... -Shut down the IRS's Direct File program, a huge gift to the tax prep industry -Gutted IRS staff, leaving fewer employees to assist taxpayers -Deprioritized federal tax prosecutions, letting tax cheats off the hook
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Culture Crave 🍿
about 2 hours ago
"I'm just gonna say it, Fuck Trump" "I'd much rather everyone made music as opposed to going and beating the shit out of each other" — Hans Zimmer
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Adam Schwarz
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We just sent humans around the Moon and back. Just imagine what we could achieve as a species if all our leaders believed in science.
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Nicki Washington, Ph.D.
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As the Integrity crew splashed down TO THE MINUTE of their estimated arrival and hit the BULLSEYE, this is a reminder that Katherine Johnson was an absolute genius. My God.
#NASA
#ArtemisII
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Ryan Rosenblatt, Back to Back World Series Champ
about 1 hour ago
THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 252,756 MILES AWAY, WENT FULLY AROUND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO LAND IN THE PRECISE LOCATION THEY WANTED EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS IS THE COOLEST PERSON ON EARTH
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Clara Jeffery
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Science is good. We should fund it.
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Katie Mack
about 1 hour ago
Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!”
#Artemis
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social
about 6 hours ago
*Cries in USA
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Adam Schiff
about 3 hours ago
I have read the San Francisco Chronicle’s account and I am deeply distressed by its allegations. This woman was brave to come forward, and we should take her story seriously. I am withdrawing my endorsement immediately, and believe that he should withdraw from the race.
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The Tonearm
about 2 hours ago
"Dawn choruses are getting shorter and the oceans echo with the din of transcontinental shipping and deep-sea mining. We are, Bunting notes in the poem’s coda, 'long earsick'; and yet, 'a strong song tows us,' still." On the 1966 Poem That Warns of the Destruction of Our Soundscapes:
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On the 1966 Poem That Warns of Bio-Acoustic Die-Off and the Destruction of Our Soundscapes
The poet Basil Bunting was as old as the century when he died in 1985. His life was bookended by the relief of Ladysmith and Thatcher’s defeat of striking miners. He was imprisoned in Wormwoo…
https://lithub.com/on-the-1966-poem-that-warns-of-bio-acoustic-die-off-and-the-destruction-of-our-soundscapes/?ref=thetonearm.com
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Third Rate Podcasts Hat
about 2 hours ago
It's notable to me that Swalwell's backers and supporters are INSTANTLY fleeing him, not fooling around with "this is troubling let's see." It makes me wonder whether he already had a bad rep -- whether this was instantly credible to people familiar with him.
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Adam Schwarz
about 3 hours ago
Tens of thousands chant “Russians, go home!” at tonight’s anti-Orbán concert in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square ahead of Sunday’s Hungarian election.
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Third Rate Podcasts Hat
about 3 hours ago
This vulgar monument to egocentrism. It looks like Godzilla shat third-rate Vegas casino architecture.
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Joolia Ghoulia
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Elf M. Sternberg
about 6 hours ago
HHS guidelines for vaccine approval now contains language about the primacy of avoiding "vaccine harm" over the efficacy of the vaccine in saving lives. Shorter: "Better a thousand people drown in their own pus and vomit than one get a rash from an adjuvant."
www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
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RFK Jr. amends guidelines for key vaccine panel
A federal judge put the panel on ice last month. The changes could help Kennedy find a way around that decision.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/09/rfk-jr-amends-guidelines-for-key-vaccine-panel-00866086
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Covie
about 4 hours ago
trump out here talking about Iran not having the cards when they are the ones holding a strait.
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Justin Wolfers
about 10 hours ago
The reason it feels hard to get ahead right now is because it's hard to get ahead right now. Wages are barely keeping up with prices, and prices are just starting to heat up.
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Robert Reich
about 3 hours ago
This flew under the radar: Trump's new acting AG Todd Blanche shut down major DOJ investigations into crypto companies, dealers, and exchanges as Pam Bondi's second-in-command — all while holding at least $159,000 in crypto assets himself. The fox is guarding the hen house.
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Susan Rinkunas
about 4 hours ago
In an active lawsuit against the FDA, the state of Missouri is arguing that access to the abortion drug mifepristone has reduced teen birth rates, thereby harming its political representation in Congress. It’s an argument being made in federal court not just on Fox
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Global Abortion Rights News
about 5 hours ago
Some websites in Canda are selling unauthorized abortion pills from India by mail and in person, which can pose health risks. The services are targeting newcomers, uninsured people, and those with low health-care literacy. Legitimate pills are FREE in Canada with a prescription.
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Health-care providers warn: Unauthorized abortion pills sellers targeting women in Canada
Health-care providers in British Columbia and Ontario say websites are offering unauthorized and potentially dangerous abortion pills from India by mail and in person.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/health-care-providers-warn-unauthorized-abortion-pills-sellers-targeting-women-in-canada/
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Rachel Maddow
about 4 hours ago
“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..."
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Justin Wolfers
about 8 hours ago
The University of Michigan has been measuring consumer sentiment since 1952. We just got the first Iran-afflicted measure for April, and it's at the lowest level ever recorded.
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Shoe+
about 5 hours ago
This Presidency is a criminal enterprise masquerading as an executive branch.
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Sisuthefin
about 5 hours ago
If you’re a working at the White House and Trump “guaranteed “ you a pardon for the work he is asking you to do… you are committing crimes .
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Katie Mack
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The
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Third Rate Podcasts Hat
about 3 hours ago
If leaders abuse the rule of law to make themselves immune to it, so that they can undermine the rights of others with impunity, by what moral or philosophical argument are they entitled to its protections, once they lose power? By what grace should they be sorted by law instead of by other means?
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Brendel
about 4 hours ago
They spent a decade complaining about safe spaces and then made a robot to give you compliments and tell you your mp3 of farting noises is Brian Eno
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Parker Molloy
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I swear, every single time I hear news about the Democratic candidates running for governor in California it's just like
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#StupidSuez | ليلى
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🚨 Brad Lander announces that he opposes the giving away of Iron Dome munitions to Israel for free, and says that the U.S "need to follow the Leahy Law and condition all of our foreign policy aid on human rights and international law compliance,”.
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Brad Lander joins call to end U.S. aid to Israel, in quest to replace Rep. Dan Goldman
Following AOC's lead, the Jewish New York Democrat says he now seeks to end Iron Dome defense funding, citing Israel’s war conduct
https://forward.com/brad-lander-aid-israel-dan-goldman-iron-dome/
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Robert Reich
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis
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Greg Pak
about 12 hours ago
DO IT
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The Asheville Blade
about 5 hours ago
Buried in Asheville city council's agenda for April 14 meeting is $1.1 million from the feds to massively ramp up APD surveillance of the public with a "real time intelligence center." At a time when even plenty of local governments are scaling back surveillance,
#avlgov
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Consent D - Community Project Funding Award
City Council Staff Report Council Meeting Date April 14, 2026 Subject Asheville Police Department (APD) Community Project Funding (CPF) Award Staff Resource(s) Jackie Stepp - APD Interim Police Chie...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X5D70E_Li5ZfFwBvA3xbkSyCwRS6RIpJa30r0GFGQ2A/edit?usp=drive_link
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Greg Sargent
about 8 hours ago
"What Carter did in his speech was something rare in the annals of democratic government: he confronted the people with the truth—about his own failings, about the reality of the world around them, and most importantly about themselves." Fascinating intervention here:
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Oregon 🕎🎲
about 5 hours ago
Artemis reentry will be 5:07 pacific time
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Third Rate Podcasts Hat
about 5 hours ago
Rahm Emanuel is so desperate to get the Democratic establishment to support his Presidential fantasies that he just got a totenkopf tattoo and posted a comment to Reddit about how sexual harassment is made up
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Adam Serwer
about 12 hours ago
Like I said
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Lindsey Boylan
about 6 hours ago
Amazon wants all the control of an employer without any of the responsibility. It’s time to pass the Delivery Protection Act to say goodbye to Amazon’s union busting loopholes.
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Sammy Roth
about 5 hours ago
What will it take to turn California's Humboldt Bay into a first-of-its-kind offshore wind assembly hub? The work is already getting started at the historic logging port. Great story by
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www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Inside California's audacious bid to build the world's deepest floating wind farm
Readying California for offshore wind power will require a perfect concert of major port upgrades, hundreds of miles of new transmission lines and wind turbines as tall as the Eiffel Tower.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-04-09/california-ocean-wind-power-that-floats-is-forcing-engineering-firsts
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The New Republic
about 5 hours ago
Recent reporting from the Financial Times reveals it was President Trump, not the Iranian government, who was begging for a ceasefire as early as March 21, when he first threatened to bomb Iran’s power plants.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
about 5 hours ago
Read Ed Blum's lawsuit against the Congressional Black Caucus's scholarship program He's suing under one of the nation's very first civil rights laws and, wouldn't you know it, he never actually quotes the whole statute There's a reason for that!
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Robert Reich
about 5 hours ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again: trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
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