Rainyknits
@rainyknits.bsky.social
Knitter, learner, servant to cats. 3rd gen NYC transplanted to Green Bay. Post and Twitter refugee. 🌊🌻🧶
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Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care."
So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents.
It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2148...
So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents.
It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2148...
What Darline Graham’s Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals
The senator’s parents died when she was a kid. That’s tragic. But it’s also tragic that she’s against the kind of care that could help untold numbers of people avoid that fate today.
newrepublic.com
August 28, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care."
So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents.
It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2148...
So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents.
It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2148...
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@rickhasen.bsky.social on the "disgusting gall" of the timing game the federal government is playing to restrict mail voting — first saying that its' too premature to rule against Trump, running out the clock, and now saying it's too late. electionlawblog.org/2026/in-temp...
August 28, 2026 at 3:40 AM
@rickhasen.bsky.social on the "disgusting gall" of the timing game the federal government is playing to restrict mail voting — first saying that its' too premature to rule against Trump, running out the clock, and now saying it's too late. electionlawblog.org/2026/in-temp...
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I think it's grimly amusing that the only food that won't kill you these days in America is the ultra processed neon-colored stuff.
August 28, 2026 at 1:17 AM
I think it's grimly amusing that the only food that won't kill you these days in America is the ultra processed neon-colored stuff.
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USPS can't even deliver my utility bill on time
Now we're told it's going to screen every mail-in voter & every ballot in the country?
Not happening. It's grossly unconstitutional, & we @democracydefendersfund.org & partners have gone to court to stop it
I explained on @cnn.com -TN
Now we're told it's going to screen every mail-in voter & every ballot in the country?
Not happening. It's grossly unconstitutional, & we @democracydefendersfund.org & partners have gone to court to stop it
I explained on @cnn.com -TN
August 27, 2026 at 11:04 PM
USPS can't even deliver my utility bill on time
Now we're told it's going to screen every mail-in voter & every ballot in the country?
Not happening. It's grossly unconstitutional, & we @democracydefendersfund.org & partners have gone to court to stop it
I explained on @cnn.com -TN
Now we're told it's going to screen every mail-in voter & every ballot in the country?
Not happening. It's grossly unconstitutional, & we @democracydefendersfund.org & partners have gone to court to stop it
I explained on @cnn.com -TN
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It's BEYOND BIZARRE to treat RAPE😡on the same level as a WORKPLACE🤕INJURY.
"US Navy Captain Padilla entered Elsie Dominguez's locked room at night to rape her. BUT Judge Edward Kiel of New Jersey agreed with Trump's DOJ & ruled her rape must be treated as a workers’ comp claim." WGTC
VOTE💙 #Pinks
"US Navy Captain Padilla entered Elsie Dominguez's locked room at night to rape her. BUT Judge Edward Kiel of New Jersey agreed with Trump's DOJ & ruled her rape must be treated as a workers’ comp claim." WGTC
VOTE💙 #Pinks
Judge rules alleged rape of US Navy civilian engineer by ship’s captain was ‘within her duties’, should be treated as a ‘work injury’ - NewsBreak
Judge rules that it should be treated like a dislocated shoulder.
share.newsbreak.com
August 28, 2026 at 2:10 AM
It's BEYOND BIZARRE to treat RAPE😡on the same level as a WORKPLACE🤕INJURY.
"US Navy Captain Padilla entered Elsie Dominguez's locked room at night to rape her. BUT Judge Edward Kiel of New Jersey agreed with Trump's DOJ & ruled her rape must be treated as a workers’ comp claim." WGTC
VOTE💙 #Pinks
"US Navy Captain Padilla entered Elsie Dominguez's locked room at night to rape her. BUT Judge Edward Kiel of New Jersey agreed with Trump's DOJ & ruled her rape must be treated as a workers’ comp claim." WGTC
VOTE💙 #Pinks
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
August 28, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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I can’t afford Starbucks.
I go to coffee shops and restaurants using gift cards people have given to me.
Sewing clothes rather than donating.
I go to coffee shops and restaurants using gift cards people have given to me.
Sewing clothes rather than donating.
Minnesota Senate nominee Michele Tayofa on the Iran war: "Maybe you take one less trip to Starbucks and so that gas goes a little further. Until this thing is over and these gas prices come back down again, let's just try to be patriots about this."
August 12, 2026 at 10:29 PM
I can’t afford Starbucks.
I go to coffee shops and restaurants using gift cards people have given to me.
Sewing clothes rather than donating.
I go to coffee shops and restaurants using gift cards people have given to me.
Sewing clothes rather than donating.
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"christians"
August 12, 2026 at 10:17 PM
"christians"
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It really seems that his objective is to destroy our country.
August 5, 2026 at 9:25 PM
It really seems that his objective is to destroy our country.
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Is it good when the secretary of defense is so fixated on making sure everyone is white and has tv ready abs that he forgets about munitions bsky.app/profile/carl...
August 6, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Is it good when the secretary of defense is so fixated on making sure everyone is white and has tv ready abs that he forgets about munitions bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.
(Published April 2025)
(Published April 2025)
“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
www.propublica.org
August 6, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.
(Published April 2025)
(Published April 2025)
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When your party leader is a president with historically low approval ratings, who has raised prices through tariffs and wars, uses disaster relief and science grants to punish states that didn’t vote for him, and has agents shooting people in the streets, this is what you do.
August 5, 2026 at 5:39 PM
When your party leader is a president with historically low approval ratings, who has raised prices through tariffs and wars, uses disaster relief and science grants to punish states that didn’t vote for him, and has agents shooting people in the streets, this is what you do.
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I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave.
The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.
The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.
July 12, 2026 at 11:34 PM
I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave.
The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.
The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.
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This strip is, no exaggeration, a formative element of my life. Read it young; remembered it forever.
July 8, 2026 at 11:29 AM
This strip is, no exaggeration, a formative element of my life. Read it young; remembered it forever.
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In politics, we’re torn between ideals and practicalities, aspirations and realities, the world as we want it, and as we find it
But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge.
A rare moment of clarity and hope
But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge.
A rare moment of clarity and hope
July 7, 2026 at 10:54 PM
In politics, we’re torn between ideals and practicalities, aspirations and realities, the world as we want it, and as we find it
But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge.
A rare moment of clarity and hope
But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge.
A rare moment of clarity and hope
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Nazi Musk’s DOGE has been officially shut down after all this time and experts believe that it actually increased the deficit.
It was a fraud scheme from the very beginning in order to eliminate his own corrupt obstacles, it was never meant to eliminate debt or do any good.
It was a fraud scheme from the very beginning in order to eliminate his own corrupt obstacles, it was never meant to eliminate debt or do any good.
July 6, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Nazi Musk’s DOGE has been officially shut down after all this time and experts believe that it actually increased the deficit.
It was a fraud scheme from the very beginning in order to eliminate his own corrupt obstacles, it was never meant to eliminate debt or do any good.
It was a fraud scheme from the very beginning in order to eliminate his own corrupt obstacles, it was never meant to eliminate debt or do any good.
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absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers
July 8, 2026 at 11:38 AM
absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers
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Whether the shooting was justified isn't the only thing haunting me.
The other issue is why we've reached a place where soldiers are patrolling American streets at all.
Freedom doesn't disappear all at once. It asks us to get used to one unacceptable thing after another.
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The other issue is why we've reached a place where soldiers are patrolling American streets at all.
Freedom doesn't disappear all at once. It asks us to get used to one unacceptable thing after another.
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National Guard members on patrol in Memphis fatally shoot man during pursuit, police say
Tennessee National Guard members assigned by the Trump administration to a crime-fighting patrol in Memphis fatally shot a man who authorities say turned toward the soldiers with a gun during a downto...
apnews.com
July 6, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Whether the shooting was justified isn't the only thing haunting me.
The other issue is why we've reached a place where soldiers are patrolling American streets at all.
Freedom doesn't disappear all at once. It asks us to get used to one unacceptable thing after another.
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The other issue is why we've reached a place where soldiers are patrolling American streets at all.
Freedom doesn't disappear all at once. It asks us to get used to one unacceptable thing after another.
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Wow! What a colossal waste of time and taxpayer money.
DOGE was the waste, fraud, and abuse.
They blew up people’s careers, hollowed out federal agencies, and now the Trump administration is rehiring because they realized the US government needs people in order to function.
DOGE was the waste, fraud, and abuse.
They blew up people’s careers, hollowed out federal agencies, and now the Trump administration is rehiring because they realized the US government needs people in order to function.
July 6, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Wow! What a colossal waste of time and taxpayer money.
DOGE was the waste, fraud, and abuse.
They blew up people’s careers, hollowed out federal agencies, and now the Trump administration is rehiring because they realized the US government needs people in order to function.
DOGE was the waste, fraud, and abuse.
They blew up people’s careers, hollowed out federal agencies, and now the Trump administration is rehiring because they realized the US government needs people in order to function.
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One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the lie that universal healthcare and raising the minimum wage will somehow “cripple the economy” but billionaires not paying the same tax rate as the rest of us is somehow “healthy for the economy.”
July 6, 2026 at 1:48 AM
One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the lie that universal healthcare and raising the minimum wage will somehow “cripple the economy” but billionaires not paying the same tax rate as the rest of us is somehow “healthy for the economy.”
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NEW: Oil tycoon Jeffery Hildebrand gave millions to Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign.
He is set to reap a financial windfall as the EPA moves to weaken restrictions on wells like his that produce very little energy but release vast amounts of methane.
By @alexcuadros.bsky.social
He is set to reap a financial windfall as the EPA moves to weaken restrictions on wells like his that produce very little energy but release vast amounts of methane.
By @alexcuadros.bsky.social
Trump Plans to Protect Methane-Leaking Stripper Wells. This Billionaire Donor Will Benefit.
Oil tycoon Jeffery Hildebrand gave millions to Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign. He is set to reap a financial windfall as the EPA moves to weaken restrictions on wells like his that produce very...
www.propublica.org
June 16, 2026 at 11:27 AM
NEW: Oil tycoon Jeffery Hildebrand gave millions to Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign.
He is set to reap a financial windfall as the EPA moves to weaken restrictions on wells like his that produce very little energy but release vast amounts of methane.
By @alexcuadros.bsky.social
He is set to reap a financial windfall as the EPA moves to weaken restrictions on wells like his that produce very little energy but release vast amounts of methane.
By @alexcuadros.bsky.social
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Michelle Obama appreciation post, our forever First Lady. 💙
June 16, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Michelle Obama appreciation post, our forever First Lady. 💙
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The Dept of Interior claims that the algae in the reflecting pool is left over from rarely used pipes
No.
Painting the pool dark blue means that it absorbs heat much faster than if it were a light color.
Warmer = faster algae growth
That's why you don't see black swimming pools
Science!
No.
Painting the pool dark blue means that it absorbs heat much faster than if it were a light color.
Warmer = faster algae growth
That's why you don't see black swimming pools
Science!
June 15, 2026 at 7:31 PM
The Dept of Interior claims that the algae in the reflecting pool is left over from rarely used pipes
No.
Painting the pool dark blue means that it absorbs heat much faster than if it were a light color.
Warmer = faster algae growth
That's why you don't see black swimming pools
Science!
No.
Painting the pool dark blue means that it absorbs heat much faster than if it were a light color.
Warmer = faster algae growth
That's why you don't see black swimming pools
Science!