Rachel Blume (she/her/hers)

Aspiring to be Manic Pixie Dream Girl but usually just succeeding at being manic

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses. https://t.co/uYom4BthnT

[hope hopes hoping @hopes_revenge]

alright i’ll say what’s on everyone’s mind— he’s kinda fuckable for a 72 year old

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

The Democratic Party should be in every major city and small rural area running food drives and registering people to vote right now.

But they wont. Because “at least we’re not Trump” doesnt require any thoughts or demands. It’s just “shut up and vote for us.”

And that is a losing strategy

[Rachel Blume (she/her/hers) @ratchrach277]

EDUCATION RESEARCH MATTERS

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

wrote today about how even if you've heard of Mississippi's surge in reading scores, you're probably underestimating it:

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

💡Crazy fact—Huntington’s Disease was infamously the worst disease with 100% genetic penetrance—ie you were 100% doomed to develop it with no treatment/cure if you carried the gene 🧬—but now there is finally a treatment for it, thanks to science. Don’t defund medical research!

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Many studies suggest a major cause of autism is the mutated sperm of elderly fathers, but in a centuries old tradition (see everything from schizophrenia to eating disorders), men have decided to blame women for taking Tylenol while pregnant (despite no valid supporting studies).

[Daniel Biss @DanielBiss]

Federal forces just tear gassed myself and the other peaceful protestors here at the Broadview ICE facility. This is a terrifying escalation, but we will not back down.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Hannah Einbeinder on saying “Free Palestine” during her #Emmys acceptance speech:

“It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel because our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state.”

[Jezebel @Jezebel]

We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk https://t.co/1zjr6QycWd

[Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn]

Because it's the one painkiller women can safely take while pregnant and there's a deeply held cultural belief that suffering mothers produce happier kids.

[Rachel Blume (she/her/hers) @ratchrach277]

Rare W for Brandon

CPS designates 16 new ‘sustainable community schools’ https://t.co/0ddlXRPrP1

[horse dentist @equine__dentist]

doing some research

[Inequality Media Civic Action @imcivicaction]

Trump’s proposed budget:

-Guts a nutrition program that helps 6.7M mothers, infants, and children under 5 access healthy food

-Cuts housing programs that help 5.6M families afford rent

-Eliminates funding entirely for Preschool Development Grants

“Pro-family” values at work.

[a series of tubes @cbdmoonrock]

men should kiss each other for women's attention more often

[Vautism Speaks 🔞 🐴 @VautismSpeaks]

Republican voters when they see literally any research grant they don’t understand

[Rachel Blume (she/her/hers) @ratchrach277]

I know my anger is misplaced rn but can we please cancel Taylor until she agrees to stop dating this awful man?

[bald ann dowd @ali_sivi]

fuckkkk i thought he was a marxist

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis

[Rachel Blume (she/her/hers) @ratchrach277]

I have both and they take turns hissing and blinking at me

[🔎Al🔍 @SweatieAngle]

Don’t understand cat people - if I wanted to live with something evil that acted weird and hated me I’d get a boyfriend?

[michelle @tenderviolencee]

rewatched nosferatu at the cinema this morning. listened to ‘perverts’ by ethel cain on my drive home. rewatching nbc hannibal tonight. life is so beautiful when you’re a freak. never kill yourself.