Rachel Van Patten
Theatre Kid. SF Giants Lifer. Fishkeeper, Bookworm, Curiosity Junkie. Swears a lot.
- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenNEW: lawmakers in new york rolled out a proposed data center moratorium bill today, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce legislation pausing data center development in the past few *weeks*:
- Reposted by Rachel Van Pattenme, librarian: I think information should be organized and structured logically so that searches are high in precision and recall tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get … tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text
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- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenVirginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level
- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenGM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenSo about TrumpRx: We crunched the numbers today and about half of the drugs on there have cheaper generics available already. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/t...
- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenKetanji Brown Jackson attended because she was a Grammy nominee for best audiobook.
- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenSo absurd — with all the corruption on the supreme court, @MarshaBlackburn wants Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson investigated for going to the Grammys, because they said mean stuff about her puppet master’s goons (As Marsha passes laws to stuff her own pockets with taxpayer cash)
- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenThe federal government is anti-union. Dollar general doesn't recognize unions. Amazon is anti-union. Waffle House is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. Let’s be clear: This administration and its mega business allies are not on your side.
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- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenThis is a very, very bad decision from one of the two Reagan judges left on the Fifth Circuit, joined by one of the two most extreme Trump appointees on the court. And, it is about the issue I walked through at Law Dork earlier this week, in the context of Minnesota: www.lawdork.com/i/186796727/...
- BREAKING: A 5th Circuit panel has backed ICE's mass detention policy, a decision that clears the way for the administration to lock up people who are in immigration proceedings It's a 2-1 ruling Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump) Minority: Douglas (Obama) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenCybersecurity professionals 🤜🏻🤛🏾 Tech journalists Spontaneously being unemployed en masse by billionaires, landing in the resistance, and yelling about the fascists
- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenI just learned the sad news that Chip Berlet has passed away. If you're up on the study of the religious right in America you know who he is. If you don't please read this obituary. He was on this before all of the rest of us. It's a sad loss idavox.com/index.php/20...
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- Reposted by Rachel Van Pattensomething notable here is that he's actually getting pressed on it, which he normally does not, in part because you actually had Republicans express some outrage today that doesn't happen if there isn't the realization, at some level, that he is now a deeply unpopular drag on all of them
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- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenToday's edition of the newsletter has already raised more than $1,400 to help communities affected by ICE pay their utility bills. If you'd like to support a good cause and Public Notice, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.
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- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenA small landlord is a person who rents out their basement apartment in their house. A person who owns a building is just a landlord-landlord.
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- Reposted by Rachel Van Patten"Twitter is cooking their brains" theory looking pretty strong
- Trump job approval rating by news platform 🟢 Twitter/X: +9 🔴 Facebook: -7 🔴 Cable TV: -10 🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14 🔴 Local TV: -17 🔴 Instagram: -21 🔴 Broadcast TV: -28 🔴 TikTok: -28 🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33 🔴 Reddit: -40 www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...
- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenIch thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love [twangy, jaunty lute arpeggio] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love
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- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenIf I was a Democratic politician I would consider that the thousands of brave patriots in this city are America’s most visible and hardened cohort of anti-Trump resisters, and if you tell them you’re going to stand with ICE, they will never care about anything else you ever do again
- Reposted by Rachel Van Patten(FT) - Canada will open a consulate in Greenland on Friday in a show of support for the Arctic island after US threats to take control of the country. @financialtimes.com 🇨🇦 www.ft.com/content/7c78...
- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenBreaking MS NOW: The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official. At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance. www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...
- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenUPDATE: The court granted Ramos' family a continuance at today’s asylum hearing, per school officials in his district. "Today’s ruling provides additional time, and with that, continued uncertainty for a child and his family," says Zena Stenvik, superintendent of Columbia Heights public schools.
- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenRegarding the Discourse, lemme just say that if you can't draw, yes you can. Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop. Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵 www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...
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- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenWhen your representative says "Don't talk to me about my own morality," I suggest talking to them about their own morality INCESSANTLY.
- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenAbolish ICE and DHS. Shut it all down.
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- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenDecades of social science and health research show that curtailing access to safe abortions does not reduce abortions; it just makes them more dangerous. The Trump Administration’s new rules to "promote families and human flourishing” will increase that needless suffering and death.
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- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenI read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/
- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenFederal judge: "The presumption of regularity that has previously extended to [the United States Government] that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds." This is in a case where the Trump admin sued Oregon.
- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenI sincerely hope that JD Vance gets this reaction every single place he goes.
- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenDEVELOPING: Federal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/2026/02/06/f...
- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenMaria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
- Reposted by Rachel Van PattenThis is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
