Rachel Veltman

Rachel Veltman

@rveltman-greenleaf.bsky.social

Chocolatier, bumblebee surveyor, restoration ecologist. 🏳️‍🌈

70 Followers 121 Following 10 Posts Joined Nov 2024
3 months ago

Just read it, it's amazing. Very well crafted.

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4 months ago
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DHS Wants to Make Some Immigrants and Visitors Take a DNA Sex Test The public comment period for the proposal has begun.

6 Nov 2025 -- Homeland Security (DHS) opens public comment on new rule allowing it to impose mandatory “biological sex” DNA testing on millions of immigrants as part of its mass biometric surveillance program, putting targets on the backs of trans & intersex people. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

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6 months ago
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This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people.

Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it.

We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.

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7 months ago
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In the last week alone, Rush University Medical Center, UChicago Medical, and Children's National announced closures of their gender affirming care programs.

Today, Kaiser Permanente announced a pause on surgeries and Connecticut Children's Medical Center announced the closure of their program.

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10 months ago

Let's do a roundup of all the letters from different professional sectors objecting to the supreme court ruling & the EHRC's bathroom ban, and promising to defend trans people in their spaces!

For anyone feeling alone in this, look at how many people will stand with us:

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10 months ago

ultimately the question is not is Donald Trump popular but can you organize the anger against him in a way that matters

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11 months ago

Fucking liars and thieves.

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11 months ago
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A lot of people noticed the Hands Off protests were mostly white women—and peaceful.

Isn’t it interesting how protests are peaceful when there aren’t a bunch of cops in riot gear… or white supremacist militia groups lurking around?

Listen to this…

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11 months ago

It’s weird* that the president can just decide to put a huge tax on American businesses without congress even being a little bit involved.

* very unconstitutional

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11 months ago

I know I'm biased because it's my team but this video is very very funny

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11 months ago

I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email MKwrites4000@proton.me
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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11 months ago

Oh, this is great info! Looks like for Canada, there is one in Victoria at the terminus of the Seattle and Port Angeles ferries, if you're not into flying.

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11 months ago
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Drawing ideas for future rebuilding from here.

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11 months ago
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Wondering why you're not seeing the American people's rising up across the country?

Because suppression of information is what the 5 dictators across the world want.

We're here. We're getting loud. We're getting rowdy. We're not backing down.🇺🇸🏴‍☠️

#SheShed #Voices4Victory #DemocracyWarriors

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1 year ago

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

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1 year ago

I am now hearing from multiple folks in the past two hours (including some who have personally been fired) that mass firings have now commenced within NOAA--including, yes, at the National Weather Service.

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1 year ago
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MAGA Floods Trump’s Replies With Rage Over AI Gaza Video Dear Humans,

"Those that voted for you are not happy with this Trump. You’re sick and unhinged."

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1 year ago
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Macklemore - fucked up. YouTube video by ANRed Audiovisual

youtu.be/kS5BMZon2Xs

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1 year ago
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Here is a quick guide by our outstanding graphics team. Malika Khurana; Andrew Wilson and Lily Boyce.

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1 year ago

Maybe if the Trump campaign is running effective propaganda against trans people the Democrats should put more (or even some at all) effort into running counter propaganda with actual facts in it. Just conceding on one of their winning issues doesn't help you win does it

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1 year ago

AOC pointed out that the tax cut to the wealthy is up for renewal this year, and they need to find trillions to support it. Chop chop goes the public services.

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1 year ago
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Meet two lawyers leading the fight for trans people's lives against Trump's anti-trans attacks Chase Strangio and Shannon Minter talk with Law Dork. "How this story comes out does depend to a great degree on what we do right now."

Law Dork [con't.] Minter: "We will slow this down. We will stop some of it. Every one of those is a huge victory. Even in this hell storm, we are holding our own... We're under attack in a terrifying way, but we still have a lot of power. And how this comes out depends on what we do right now."

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1 year ago
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Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base Overnight, Wired reported that, contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at...

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

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1 year ago
Solar and wind growth in China has ramped up to 1400 GW of installed capacity.

The news getting you down? I invite you to stare at this chart of solar and wind deployed capacity in China.

They blew past their ambitious 2030 target... last July.

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1 year ago
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Leaked Memo Reveals Renewables Permitting Chaos Under Trump The American Clean Power Association wrote to its members about federal guidance that has been “widely variable and changing quickly.”

from my @heatmap.news story tonight:

emails from the fish and wildlife service’s migratory bird protection office now all apparently have boilerplate language saying…

they are not allowed to talk to wind companies.

lots o’ news on renewables permitting in this story! heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

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1 year ago

USAID source tells me, "This is so harmful, I can't even explain it." Says the human cost is "shocking", not to mention the "extraordinary" financial cost.

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1 year ago
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Trump and Musk demand termination of federal office leases through General Services Administration One of the next moves in President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s effort to fire government employees and curtail operations is using the agency that manages federal employee worksites around the countr...

This may not sound shocking, but it is one of the most shocking parts of this coup: why would you shut down all the federal offices unless you're nihilists who've decided we don't need a government? apnews.com/article/trum...

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1 year ago
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Perfectly captured.

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