Rachel Payne
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Rachel Payne
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Let Gaza live
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this is my favorite example ever of an interactive clearly, creatively illustrated concept
October 5, 2026 at 4:32 AM
this is my favorite example ever of an interactive clearly, creatively illustrated concept
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A right wing fever dream has consumed our culture. None of us can escape it grasp.
In Power Map, we look at how fascism is spreading through all of our minds and how we can keep our sanity.
powermapmag.substack.com/p/the-fascis...
In Power Map, we look at how fascism is spreading through all of our minds and how we can keep our sanity.
powermapmag.substack.com/p/the-fascis...
The Fascist Mind Virus will Destroy You
Fascism is ruining our culture and our brains.
powermapmag.substack.com
September 10, 2026 at 2:14 PM
A right wing fever dream has consumed our culture. None of us can escape it grasp.
In Power Map, we look at how fascism is spreading through all of our minds and how we can keep our sanity.
powermapmag.substack.com/p/the-fascis...
In Power Map, we look at how fascism is spreading through all of our minds and how we can keep our sanity.
powermapmag.substack.com/p/the-fascis...
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On the one hand, the press hound a black scholar to death, on the other hand, on this one, where the academic fraud is front and centre and the dude is an Epstein pal... crickets...
www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud
New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...
www.dukechronicle.com
September 3, 2026 at 10:39 AM
On the one hand, the press hound a black scholar to death, on the other hand, on this one, where the academic fraud is front and centre and the dude is an Epstein pal... crickets...
www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
I just wrote a @socialists.nyc letter: NYC council Pied-à-Terre Tax 8/18/26 hearing. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/nyc-...
NYC council Pied-à-Terre Tax 8/18/26 hearing
Mayor Zohran Mamdani was able to secure a huge win recently with a pied-à-terre (PAT) tax on the rich! This means NYC is able to secure over $500 million dollars in extra revenue to fund the affordabi...
actionnetwork.org
August 17, 2026 at 10:09 PM
I just wrote a @socialists.nyc letter: NYC council Pied-à-Terre Tax 8/18/26 hearing. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/nyc-...
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With Ohio’s Haitian refugees losing their protected status Monday, Springfield’s large population has begun being terminated from their jobs, a pastor who works with the community said on Tuesday.
via @ohiocapitaljournal.com
via @ohiocapitaljournal.com
Ohio Haitians lose jobs, face terror — and impossible choices
With Ohio’s Haitian refugees losing their protected status Monday, Springfield’s large population has begun being terminated from their jobs, a pastor who works with the community said on Tuesday.
www.newsfromthestates.com
July 30, 2026 at 12:00 PM
With Ohio’s Haitian refugees losing their protected status Monday, Springfield’s large population has begun being terminated from their jobs, a pastor who works with the community said on Tuesday.
via @ohiocapitaljournal.com
via @ohiocapitaljournal.com
I just took action with @publicpowerny.bsky.social: Sign up to demand public renewables in public hearings and comments! . Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...
Sign up to demand public renewables in public hearings and comments!
This fall, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) will hold a public comment period and public hearings on their plan for public renewables. We are demanding 15 GW--enough to power 12 million households,...
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July 30, 2026 at 12:19 PM
I just took action with @publicpowerny.bsky.social: Sign up to demand public renewables in public hearings and comments! . Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...
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it's not "detained," it's false imprisonment and kidnapping by an armed terrorist militia which exists explicitly to ethnically cleanse the West Bank of Palestinians.
Rep. Ro Khanna says he was detained by Israeli settlers during West Bank visit.
Rep. Ro Khanna detained by Israeli settlers during West Bank visit
Asked if he was running for president, Khanna said: “I’m strongly considering it, and I’m more resolved to consider it after this trip.”
www.nbcnews.com
July 11, 2026 at 10:52 PM
it's not "detained," it's false imprisonment and kidnapping by an armed terrorist militia which exists explicitly to ethnically cleanse the West Bank of Palestinians.
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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a father of three who built houses in Houston, started his own business, and raised his family here for 35 years. His son became a teacher. ICE agents killed him in cold blood. 🧵
July 11, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a father of three who built houses in Houston, started his own business, and raised his family here for 35 years. His son became a teacher. ICE agents killed him in cold blood. 🧵
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as someone from a country with multiple annual heat waves if you're mad at Mamdani for that super boilerplate statement on energy saving, you better get cracking on fixing climate change pronto, because you're really not going to enjoy the way advisories are phrased in hot places
July 2, 2026 at 12:55 PM
as someone from a country with multiple annual heat waves if you're mad at Mamdani for that super boilerplate statement on energy saving, you better get cracking on fixing climate change pronto, because you're really not going to enjoy the way advisories are phrased in hot places
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I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure.
Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
July 3, 2026 at 3:50 PM
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure.
Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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People should know that NYPL alone has 100 vacancies and that this doesn't include the 160 vacancies at BPL & QPL. Library workers also need higher pay. Meanwhile the libraries ARE NOT RECEIVING ENOUGH FUNDING. We need @mayor.nyc.gov and the @council.nyc.gov to fund libraries at 0.5% of budget now.
June 26, 2026 at 6:34 PM
People should know that NYPL alone has 100 vacancies and that this doesn't include the 160 vacancies at BPL & QPL. Library workers also need higher pay. Meanwhile the libraries ARE NOT RECEIVING ENOUGH FUNDING. We need @mayor.nyc.gov and the @council.nyc.gov to fund libraries at 0.5% of budget now.
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In a real society, in a real country where laws were applied to everyone and consequences were a thing, saying "I will protect the pedophiles and crooks in this room from justice" would be the end of this guy's career and he'd be in jail
Johnson: If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.
June 26, 2026 at 5:14 PM
In a real society, in a real country where laws were applied to everyone and consequences were a thing, saying "I will protect the pedophiles and crooks in this room from justice" would be the end of this guy's career and he'd be in jail
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I don't care. Shut down the bitcoin farms first.
June 26, 2026 at 7:00 PM
I don't care. Shut down the bitcoin farms first.
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I remember when non-binding language suggestions from university HR departments were national news, subject to repeated outraged columns in multiple media outlets.
Do you see any of that national outrage about this real, bona fide, state-enforced intimidation & censorship?
Do you see any of that national outrage about this real, bona fide, state-enforced intimidation & censorship?
Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why?
They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...
They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...
Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE
She believes the warning was related to a post about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.
www.syracuse.com
June 25, 2026 at 5:34 AM
I remember when non-binding language suggestions from university HR departments were national news, subject to repeated outraged columns in multiple media outlets.
Do you see any of that national outrage about this real, bona fide, state-enforced intimidation & censorship?
Do you see any of that national outrage about this real, bona fide, state-enforced intimidation & censorship?
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Tomorrow, democratic socialism is on the ballot. All across the City we have a chance to send new leaders to Albany and DC to tax the rich, block the bombs, and build an affordable New York for all.
Find your poll site and candidates at dsa.nyc/vote 🌹
Find your poll site and candidates at dsa.nyc/vote 🌹
June 22, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Tomorrow, democratic socialism is on the ballot. All across the City we have a chance to send new leaders to Albany and DC to tax the rich, block the bombs, and build an affordable New York for all.
Find your poll site and candidates at dsa.nyc/vote 🌹
Find your poll site and candidates at dsa.nyc/vote 🌹
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When James Dolan cancels the watch party outside MSG, we bring the watch party to you.
Thanks to the @nba.com, Knicks Game 4 is now playing on dozens of LinkNYC screens across our city.
LGK.
Thanks to the @nba.com, Knicks Game 4 is now playing on dozens of LinkNYC screens across our city.
LGK.
June 11, 2026 at 1:57 AM
When James Dolan cancels the watch party outside MSG, we bring the watch party to you.
Thanks to the @nba.com, Knicks Game 4 is now playing on dozens of LinkNYC screens across our city.
LGK.
Thanks to the @nba.com, Knicks Game 4 is now playing on dozens of LinkNYC screens across our city.
LGK.
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Pro-Palestine marches will openly be called "hate marches" in the press, but these arsonist pogroms, illustrated by a burned-out bus, are simply "disorder"
reporting on the aftermath of the anti-immigrant “disorder” in belfast- www.bbc.com/news/article...
Belfast knife attack: Clean-up after disorder across Northern Ireland as man due in court
A night of disorder in Belfast saw people forced to flee their homes, in protests that followed a knife attack in the north of the city.
www.bbc.com
June 10, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Pro-Palestine marches will openly be called "hate marches" in the press, but these arsonist pogroms, illustrated by a burned-out bus, are simply "disorder"
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History shows us there are 2 options when faced with a rising far right.
1. Deal with it quickly and decisively.
2. Let it win.
The great majority reject it. But it doesn't need majority support: just enough thugs to intimidate everyone else. Weakness and indecision by government let it rise.
1. Deal with it quickly and decisively.
2. Let it win.
The great majority reject it. But it doesn't need majority support: just enough thugs to intimidate everyone else. Weakness and indecision by government let it rise.
The government must treat this as the emergency it is. Our sovereignty, democracy, and the lives of some of those who live here are threatened by a deadly combination of US billionaires, Russian interests and homegrown fascists. Step 1: Get the money out of politics.🧵
bylinetimes.com/2026/06/10/r...
bylinetimes.com/2026/06/10/r...
Revealed: The Russian Neo-Nazi Network Pushing ‘White Lives Matter’ Division in Britain – Promoted by Tommy Robinson
As riots spread across Belfast, Tommy Robinson promoted a movement founded by a sanctioned Russian oligarch, which has pushed white supremacist propaganda about the death of Henry Nowak
bylinetimes.com
June 11, 2026 at 12:02 PM
History shows us there are 2 options when faced with a rising far right.
1. Deal with it quickly and decisively.
2. Let it win.
The great majority reject it. But it doesn't need majority support: just enough thugs to intimidate everyone else. Weakness and indecision by government let it rise.
1. Deal with it quickly and decisively.
2. Let it win.
The great majority reject it. But it doesn't need majority support: just enough thugs to intimidate everyone else. Weakness and indecision by government let it rise.
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Mayor Who’s Going To Be Okay
June 11, 2026 at 5:19 AM
Mayor Who’s Going To Be Okay
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Want to share some thoughts. I know the rioting in Belfast has had lots of coverage. But I still think more needs to be said. This was so incredibly shocking.
*people burned out of their homes because of the colour of their skin*.
*people burned out of their homes because of the colour of their skin*.
June 11, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Want to share some thoughts. I know the rioting in Belfast has had lots of coverage. But I still think more needs to be said. This was so incredibly shocking.
*people burned out of their homes because of the colour of their skin*.
*people burned out of their homes because of the colour of their skin*.
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THE STRIKE INSIDE DELANEY HALL IS STILL GOING ON
2 WEEKS LATER!!!
2 WEEKS LATER!!!
June 5, 2026 at 4:56 PM
THE STRIKE INSIDE DELANEY HALL IS STILL GOING ON
2 WEEKS LATER!!!
2 WEEKS LATER!!!
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Kathy Hochul is killing New York’s future – sending us higher bills, toxic air, and deadlier weather.
New Yorkers say NO. With public renewables we can end these crises and take our power back.
New Yorkers say NO. With public renewables we can end these crises and take our power back.
June 1, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Kathy Hochul is killing New York’s future – sending us higher bills, toxic air, and deadlier weather.
New Yorkers say NO. With public renewables we can end these crises and take our power back.
New Yorkers say NO. With public renewables we can end these crises and take our power back.
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If I were a Democratic leader, I would see oil prices about to shoot up, while people are already upset. I would see Republicans blowing off people's concerns. I would anticipate a massive midterm victory, and I would be thinking about how to use all that momentum to do *big, ambitious things*.
May 29, 2026 at 11:51 PM
If I were a Democratic leader, I would see oil prices about to shoot up, while people are already upset. I would see Republicans blowing off people's concerns. I would anticipate a massive midterm victory, and I would be thinking about how to use all that momentum to do *big, ambitious things*.
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Tell City Council: NYC needs green and healthy public schools!. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Tell City Council: NYC needs green and healthy public schools!
Walk into any NYC public school and you'll find dedicated teachers, hardworking staff, and kids eager to learn. But look closer at the buildings themselves, and you'll see the real problem: Students...
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May 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Tell City Council: NYC needs green and healthy public schools!. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...