Rachel Rosolina
@rachelrosolina.com
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Writer. Traveler. Appalachian (East TN). Appalshop alum. Berea College & WVU grad.
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The Tennessee Holler
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Rep.
@brotherjones.bsky.social
: “Abolishing ice is the bare minimum… it’s an agency acting like an American Gestapo.”
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On a nostalgia kick lately 🪀
2 days ago
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Today’s doodle 🎨
7 days ago
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Big Dipper for today’s doodle
8 days ago
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A dino donut for today’s doodle 🍩
9 days ago
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Today’s doodle 🎈
10 days ago
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Today’s doodle 🪟
11 days ago
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Cloudy brain 🎨
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Drew a tree because I felt like it
19 days ago
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“Tomorrow’s Potatoes” is a good band name
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Why are we not referring to him as Florida Man in these headlines? “Florida Man’s Combative Prime Time Speech” “Florida Man touts bringing country back from ‘brink of ruin’” “Florida Man Used Big Speech to Angrily Insist the Economy is Great”
22 days ago
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That empty chair feels funerial. And Karoline Leavitt is the cousin who always misreads the room.
24 days ago
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On one of our first dates, we watched The Princess Bride, a favorite movie for both of us. Years later, we had “as you wish” engraved in our wedding bands. Those chosen words rest against my skin every day.
24 days ago
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Thrilled to have a sonnet about Great Aunt Norma in this collection from Backwoods Literary Press! Preorder here:
www.backwoodsliterarypress.com
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Getting ready for tomorrow’s forecast ❄️
about 1 month ago
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December 19, 1997 in the homeschool journals
about 2 months ago
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🌲🌳🌲🌳
about 2 months ago
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Makin stuff 🕯️
3 months ago
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Preach, kid.
5 months ago
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Overheard in Bermuda: *Tourist Girl goes to grab wild rooster* Mother: You’re an idiot. That’s a rooster. We didn’t sign up for medical coverage.
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The Cheese Squeaks would be a good band name
6 months ago
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🥄
6 months ago
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Very cool project out of Hendersonville, NC, where award-winning comic artists team up with Appalachians who experienced Helene to tell their stories.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/app...
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/appalachiacomics/appalachia-comics-project
6 months ago
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As soon as we figure out how to make a replicator, all the piles of cash the billionaires are hoarding will be useless.
6 months ago
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Kaleb E. Goldschmitt
6 months ago
In addition to many other important programs, IU Bloomington is eliminating its Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department, one of the most storied and successful in the country.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Today’s good band name: Blank Paige
7 months ago
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Today’s band name: Assassin Magicians
7 months ago
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The New York Times
7 months ago
At least three people died and several others were missing in West Virginia after flash flooding destroyed homes and washed away roads, officials said on Sunday.
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West Virginia Flash Flooding Kills at Least 3
Up to four inches of rain fell in a 30-minute period in Ohio County on Saturday night, destroying homes and submerging vehicles, an official said.
https://trib.al/vKN8mqv
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Today’s good band name: A More Efficient Disaster
7 months ago
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Liberal Jane
7 months ago
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Berea, KY
7 months ago
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Finished such a good book this morning. Thanks for your artistry,
@avashianeema.bsky.social
. Here are my thoughts.
rachelrosolina.com/blog/another...
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Another Appalachia — Rachel Rosolina
Identity, especially Appalachian identity, has been on my mind a lot lately. I work at Appalshop , an Eastern Kentucky arts organization that serves concentric circles of community—local Letcher Cou...
https://rachelrosolina.com/blog/another-appalachia
7 months ago
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LinkedIn feels like the post-classroom version of Blackboard, especially with its suggested responses. I’m having “write a post and respond to two classmates” flashbacks.
7 months ago
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Appalshop
7 months ago
Can't make it to #Seedtime2025? Don't worry - we're livestreaming! 🎥🎶 You can watch all main stage performances from June 7th between 11AM - 9PM(ish) LIVE on our Facebook and YouTube pages. See the second graphic for the schedule and join us for a full day of music! 🎵💚 appalshop.org/seedtime
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Honored to have a flash fiction piece in the new issue of Heuristic Halo!
hhpresscom.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/s...
(Tremont Writers Workshop friends got a sneak peek at this one!)
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Swarm
Junie is a hornet’s nest.
https://hhpresscom.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/swarm/
8 months ago
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🎉My essay "Forest Ghosts" came out in
@hellbendermag.bsky.social
today! See p. 17, and p. 68 for a Q&A with Me:
hellbendermag.com/2025-issues/
🎉 This one is about American chestnut trees and what women sacrifice, including the important women in my own life.
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2025 ISSUES
Hellbender Magazine Vol. 2 Issue 1:”Moving On” Cover Art: “Moving On” by Shelbey Leco (Coming Soon) Vol. 2 Issue 2: “Amplifying Incarcerated Voices” Cover Art: &…
https://hellbendermag.com/2025-issues/
8 months ago
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In a last-minute edit, IN legislators pushed through a budget bill that gives the governor sole appointing power of the IU trustees, makes the faculty board just an advisory body, and adds "diploma mill" requirements to tenured faculty. Academic freedom is in peril. This is not a democracy, y’all.
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'Complete takeover': Lawmakers exert control over university policy in 11th hour
They appeared near the bottom of the 220-page budget bill Wednesday evening, and rose to the forefront of the heated debate Friday morning.
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/25/indiana-lawmakers-indiana-university-control-mike-braun/83265418007/
9 months ago
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Acyn
9 months ago
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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Liberal Jane
9 months ago
Reminder for
#EarthDay
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The Tennessee Holler
9 months ago
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October 23, 1996
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Liberal Jane
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George Takei
9 months ago
Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
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I don't know what is going on in my neighborhood but I grabbed my conch shell just in case.
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The Tennessee Holler
9 months ago
The cruelty is the point
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Singing poetry from my favorite author brought a tad bit of joy to my day.
10 months ago
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Important opinion piece by my brother.
www.knoxnews.com/story/opinio...
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Dismantling a key EPA function would be incomprehensible | Letter
EPA monitors your water for toxins linked to cancer. No matter what side of the political aisle you're on, you should want that to continue.
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/opinion/readers/2025/03/25/dismantling-a-key-epa-function-would-be-incomprehensible-letter/82641779007/
10 months ago
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The Tennessee Holler
10 months ago
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @MatttDavies)
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Poem for today
10 months ago
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Anyone at
#appstudies2025
? Come see me at the
@appalshop.bsky.social
booth! I have candy!
10 months ago
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