Rachel Kent

Lover of the great outdoors 🥾 Amateur CrossFit’er 💪 Marketing Director for brands that do good by People & Planet.

[Climate First Bank @climate1stbank]

We’re proud to be a bank that not only puts the Climate First, but our customers as well... So, when we get reviews like this, we know we're doing something right! 🌟🌎

Want to bank with us? Learn more here: https://t.co/b3kZlKt82V 🔗 #climatecrisis #sustainability #finance

[Rachel Kent @RachelKenty]

Rediscovered bouldering… I’d forgotten the buzz. 🧗‍♀️💪 @centralrock

[Rachel Kent @RachelKenty]

It was awesome to represent @climate1stbank last week while speaking at @salesforce FINS Fest, Atlanta! 🤓🩵

Ps. I got to keep the mug. ☕️

[Rachel Kent @RachelKenty]

Happy Pride Month! Proud to be part of an organization that embraces individuality! 🌈🌈🌈 @stpetepride @climate1stbank

[Rachel Kent @RachelKenty]

Smiles all round at Florida Solar Energy Industries Association (FLASEIA) Solar Storage Summit this week!! Thanks to the FlaSEIA team for looking after us so well. 💙💙

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.

And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT is out now: https://t.co/PzuwWnatO7

[Rachel Kent @RachelKenty]

Happy IDEAS For Us Day to @climate1stbank friends @IDEAStweetsUs …great to celebrate with you yesterday at @meadgarden 💚 💙 👏

[Rachel Kent @RachelKenty]

Another day in paradise. 😎 ☀️

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Climate First Bank @climate1stbank]

Last week, we appeared in on @TraeCrowder's YouTube channel to promote our 5.34% APY* Choice Checking 🥳

Crowder, better known as The Liberal Redneck, is a comedian and author! 🎤Watch it here! https://t.co/7NPl9HWb91 🔗 *Full terms on our website #ClimateCrisis #Crowder

[Rachel Kent @RachelKenty]

@willguyatt It’s a quick hop and skip from London!

[Rachel Kent @RachelKenty]

Hello again, Miami! ☀️ 🌴

[Climate First Bank @climate1stbank]

Last night the team got together to celebrate the spirit of inclusivity & joy at the Down to Party Gala with the Down Syndrome Association of Central Florida! 🎉 We are so grateful to be part of such a wonderful community! 💙 #fintech #climatechange #investment #ClimateFirstBank

[Climate First Bank @climate1stbank]

Climate First Bank CEO & Founder, Ken LaRoe shared our 2024 Stakeholder Letter yesterday. This years' letter summarizes some of the amazing business and operational highlights the Bank has had over the last year https://t.co/VwUz7WhbNO #climatecrisis #investment #ClimateFirstBank

[Climate First Bank @climate1stbank]

💙Shaping a future of environmental responsibility and financial accessibility with our new partner, @Allpoint 💳 We're proud to offer 40,000 Surcharge-Free ATM’s and 1,900 cash deposit ATM’s across the US. Read more https://t.co/GTBMzyEeu9 🔗 #climatecrisis #ATM #sustainability

[Rachel Kent @RachelKenty]

G'morning ☀️

[Climate First Bank @climate1stbank]

Join us for the next Climate First Fireside Chat 🌍 Ken LaRoe, and John Fullerton, Founder of @CapInstitute!

📅 Thu, Mar 14th
⏰ 12:00-1:00 PM EST
📍 Register here https://t.co/BgBOeOs5m8

#FiresideChat #Sustainability #ClimateAction #RegisterNow #ClimateFirstBank

[BBC Radio 2 @BBCRadio2]

We’re incredibly saddened to announce that our friend and colleague Steve Wright MBE has passed away.

We’ll miss you greatly Steve. 🧡

[Climate First Bank @climate1stbank]

We're serious about our commitment to sustainability. We don't just talk the talk, we walk the walk. 🌎 We believe in doing the right thing for our community and we're excited to join the ranks of #EVALcertified organizations 🤝 #climatecrisis #sustainability #ClimateFirstBank

[Rachel Kent @RachelKenty]

This is huge: We've reached the number of validated signatures needed to put abortion access on Florida's ballot!💗Everyone deserves the freedom to make personal medical decisions, free of government intrusion. 👊https://t.co/yw3jD2Axdv