Rachel Tabachnick

Researcher/writer/speaker on history of conservative infrastructure and impact of Religious Right on policy, former fellow with Political Research Associates

[Rachel Tabachnick @RTabachnick]

Frederick Clarkson is an expert on religious freedom and how this progressive concept is abused. He warns that calls "for civility sound suspiciously like an effort to mute the voices of those most likely to suffer should this vision of religious freedom be fully realized."

[Frederick Clarkson @FredClarkson]

Check out my story @RDispatches on a forthcoming manifesto on religious freedom -- which alleges the Left and Right are imperiling religious freedom. They don't say who, and they don't say how -- but the authors may be talking about themselves. https://t.co/wBw5IJ8KDC

[People's Policy Project @PplPolicyProj]

"Given the country’s level of wealth, the government spends far too little — at least $1.6 trillion a year too little — on social welfare."

https://t.co/wcaTAszIVK

[Peter Montgomery @petemont]

MS Gov Phil Bryant signs 15-week abortion ban, wants Mississippi to be "safest place in America for an unborn child." MS ranks 50th in health of women, 50th in health of children, 50th in health of infants, 1st in infant mortality. #priorities

[Rachel Tabachnick @RTabachnick]

@DianeRavitch @BisforBerkshire @coopmike48 And now that we know who he was, Sarah Sanders is certainly not going to call someone a terrorist who was homeschooled by his Amway emerald-level distributor parents.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Tonight we're going to look at why the middle class has been in decline for 30 years while oligarchy is on the rise. #InequalityTownHall

[Ari Berman @AriBerman]

58 years ago this month, 4 North Carolina A&T students held first major sit-in of civil rights movement at Greensboro Woolworth. They were 18 & 19 at time. A reminder of the power young activists have

[Amy Greenbaum @RabbiAmyG]

There is no such thing as an innocent bystander. If we are standing by, we are guilty. Last 4 years: 1) 2,710 U.S. children under 12 killed by guns, 2) 1,333 mass shootings (30 in 2018), & 3) 8 at schools. Prayer alone is not enough, we must act. #PrayerAndPolicy @PrevGunViolence

[Rachel Tabachnick @RTabachnick]

Very sad to hear of the death of BLM activist Muhiyidin d'Baha from Charleston SC. He was shot and killed in New Orleans on Monday night.
https://t.co/7OPxw0z0Am

[Rachel Tabachnick @RTabachnick]

@Briannaehley The Copelands' ministry empire was also at center of a measles outbreak in 2013. https://t.co/aJQ9ZObyZQ

[Rachel Tabachnick @RTabachnick]

Is this #SOTU or a reality tv show?

[Jo Ellen Kaiser @jgksf]

Trump just announces he wants to restart the nuclear arms race. Atomic clock:tick tick

[Senator Jeff Merkley @SenJeffMerkley]

Everyone feels incredible sympathy for those poor parents. But Trump's scapegoating of immigrants is just disgusting. #SOTU

[Bob Hardt @bobhardt]

What does "remove federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American people" mean exactly?

[Rep. Mark Pocan @RepMarkPocan]

Weird that @realDonaldTrump is claiming that the prices of prescription drugs will come down when he picked a big pharma executive to be Secretary of HHS.

The same guy who raised the price of insulin by more than 1000%. #SOTU

[@hayesbrown.bsky.social @HayesBrown]

...Call me paranoid, but this bit of the #SotU sounds like a call for Congress to allow a purge of civil servants, yes?

[Rachel Tabachnick @RTabachnick]

And they also failed to connect it to another current issue, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, in hot water for the "Reason as Racism" oped by ownership. PG endorsed Reschenthaler even though they had audio reported in breaking CNN article.

[Rachel Tabachnick @RTabachnick]

CNN also missed fact that the other cohost on that radio show was Guy Reschenthaler, now a PA state senator.

[Rachel Tabachnick @RTabachnick]

How can it be that none of the stories on the Trump appointee Carl Higbie, who spouted racist garbage on a radio show he hosted, mention that his position included being spokesperson for Americorp MLK Day projects? Does that seem like an accident? https://t.co/kLrKCt3d0H

[Rachel Tabachnick @RTabachnick]

@Bakari_Sellers CNN missed major points. 1) Higbie was spokesperson for Americorp MLK Day programs, apparently someone's (Trump?) idea of a joke 2) Other co-host of the radio show was Guy Reschenthaler, now PA state Senator, endorsed by Pittsburgh Post Gazette even though they had audio clips

[Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh 🗞 @PGHGuild]

John Robinson Block, the @PittsburghPG publisher who was behind the reprehensible editorial "Reason for Racism," will not allow this letter to the editor to appear in the newspaper. We offer it here.