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@rasekel.bsky.social

Suburban mom and public school advocate. Co-host, Advocacy Bites podcast. Deputy TroubleNation Program Director, Red Wine & Blue. Posts are my own opinions.

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It shocks (but doesn’t surprise me) that the Leandro case has been languishing at the Court for almost two years. Very much a case of justice delayed being justice denied.

17.11.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The NC GOP, folks: you can’t make us do our jobs if we don’t wanna, and we don’t wanna! See also: Leandro.

14.11.2025 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The president of the united states is a pedophile rapist who was best buddies with Jeffrey Epstein and spent hours with an underage victim at Epstein's home. Now he's currently huddled in the situation room directing a cover up about it like it's a seal team 6 operation. Do I have that right?

12.11.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4373    πŸ” 1116    πŸ’¬ 113    πŸ“Œ 52
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🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.

Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.

12.11.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5511    πŸ” 2035    πŸ’¬ 192    πŸ“Œ 298
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Kash Patel’s β€˜Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation squeezed in a trip to the β€˜Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.

Nothing says you’re a Very Serious FBI Director quite like taking the bureau’s plane, during a government shutdown, to a hunting lodge called … The Boondoggle Ranch.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

12.11.2025 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 824    πŸ” 243    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 13
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"There's an expectation from everybody that the Dems are always going to swoop in and be the adults in the room and save the Republicans from the disastrous policies that they themselves put forward... It's so outside the realm of possibility to EVER imagine Republicans might do the right thing."

12.11.2025 03:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1383    πŸ” 228    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 13
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C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao

x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

12.11.2025 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 8409    πŸ” 2757    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 2
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DHS takes credit for crime being down in Chicago. Data shows that was happening before they arrived. Immigration officials on Tuesday said a drop in crime numbers was thanks to their work. Police data show the decrease was taking place before federal agents arrived in the city.

Trump is a liar. Tear gassing kids in peaceful neighborhoods makes no one safer.

He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight β€” long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

12.11.2025 03:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4421    πŸ” 1257    πŸ’¬ 142    πŸ“Œ 30

What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced

10.11.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3425    πŸ” 888    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 38

800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel.

Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire.

Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year.

Glad everything worked out for them.

How about you?

07.11.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 7172    πŸ” 2480    πŸ’¬ 186    πŸ“Œ 86

People want life to be affordable, they want their local schools to be decent and well-defended, they want to have a job and a place to call home.

Basic values won last night, across party lines and across ideologies inside the parties.

Life. Liberty. Pursuit of Happiness.

05.11.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 106    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.

Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
buff.ly/nTvLlFI

05.11.2025 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6118    πŸ” 1546    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 232

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

05.11.2025 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 16006    πŸ” 3003    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 52

The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.

05.11.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3465    πŸ” 860    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 29

This was beautifully written.

04.11.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"The so-called Big Beautiful Bill was hailed by Republicans as a model of fiscal responsibility. In reality, it was a Trojan horse packed with provisions designed to quietly sabotage SNAP, one of the most effective anti-poverty programs in the nation." - Kristen Crowell

Read more: bit.ly/3LjVMnl

02.11.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 257    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 7

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about β€œweaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

01.11.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 6016    πŸ” 1928    πŸ’¬ 174    πŸ“Œ 93

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and β€œwe need them for intellectual diversity.”

30.10.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5579    πŸ” 1867    πŸ’¬ 118    πŸ“Œ 146

Whew, Newby. One of the most unethical jurists I have ever observed. Iirc, he believes that nothing requires elections in NC to be fair. He declared his re-election campaign 8 years early to skirt judicial ethics rules. And he’s been denying NC’s kids their Constitutional rights for almost 2 years.

30.10.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Trump’s DOJ Charged This House Candidate With Conspiracy For Protesting ICE  #politics #trump
YouTube video by The Intercept Trump’s DOJ Charged This House Candidate With Conspiracy For Protesting ICE #politics #trump

Trump's DOJ is targeting House candidate @katmabu.bsky.social β€” who went viral earlier this year after video emerged of ICE agents slamming her to the ground β€” with conspiracy charges.

Read more: interc.pt/4ns4JrW

✍️ @jesswash.bsky.social πŸ“Ή @jordanuhl.com

29.10.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto

She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card

Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.

She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.

It’s retaliation & it’s wrong

29.10.2025 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 11677    πŸ” 5736    πŸ’¬ 318    πŸ“Œ 243

I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."

28.10.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 12981    πŸ” 2968    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 88

Reports are that the β€œAntifa Lieutenant” goes by Emanuel Goldstein, and he will be the subject of today’s two minute hate.

28.10.2025 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lakeview Street Tear-Gassed By Agents Amid North Side Immigration Surge: 'It Hit Home'
Our story in @blockclubchi.bsky.social
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/24/l...

24.10.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4

No time to pass a budget, all the time in the world to harrass public schools.

24.10.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

BREAKING: Per new reporting, ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting under Kristi Noem. One was discovered to have a history of robbery and battery related to domestic violence while already in training.

23.10.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2380    πŸ” 1049    πŸ’¬ 226    πŸ“Œ 113
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Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

23.10.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 9162    πŸ” 4195    πŸ’¬ 784    πŸ“Œ 820
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Who approved the demolition of the fucking White House?

Congress isn’t even in session.

22.10.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1500    πŸ” 429    πŸ’¬ 151    πŸ“Œ 32

Speaker Hall just said there likely won’t be any more recorded votes in the NC House this year.

Translation: Republicans are clocking out without passing a budget (their core responsibility).

..but they found time to rig maps for the 7th time.

22.10.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4
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a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

22.10.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 6339    πŸ” 3092    πŸ’¬ 1287    πŸ“Œ 1024

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