Rachel Rosenthal
@rrosenthal.bsky.social
Yes, I'm the rrosenthal you know and love on Twitter. IU alum, Alpha Phi Omega, JCI, MeFite, Welsh Terrier owner, Bears/Cubs/Bulls/Blackhawks/Hoosiers fan, 83 Nation, occasional writer, fluent in sarcasm.
Ruin a book by adding a word: The Cat In The MAGA Hat
Melissa & 🦈SYVIE🦈@muppybean.bsky.social · last wk.Ruin a book by adding a word: Are you there God? It's me, Margaret Thatcher.
One of my least favorite fundraising email tactics: the fake “open letter.” They can be thank-you letters, demands (like this one), or hate letters, but they all end with some variation of “I’m signing this letter & chipping in $3 to ____.” This crap must work, but why?
"lindsey graham lives." mitch mcconnell's last words, 7:50pm july 12, 2026
I spoke with Mitch McConnell for about 20 minutes tonight and then he was like "Oh, wait Lindsey Graham just showed up, wanna talk to him?"
So we did get official confirmation of a Republican Senator's death - just not the one we were expecting!
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 4w agoSudden, major news tonight: Senator Lindsay Graham has passed away. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
A late entry for #TerrierTuesday: here's Ping Pong on his first day home in January 2024. (He'd just turned 1 in December 2023.) #Gotcha
I spoke to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes this morning, and he wants to know why everyone is calling him "Schrödinger's Turtle."
Frank Conniff@frankconniff.bsky.social · 4w agoI spoke to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes this morning and he told me that many funny people online have already done this bit and that I’m late to the party and should fuck off.
I talked to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes today.
Horror Ouija Board Session
ALT: Horror Ouija Board Session
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Live your life so that your Nazi tattoo is not the least problematic thing about you Also don't get a fucking Nazi tattoo
As Pride Month ends, a reminder. (Also, fuck SCOTUS.)
(1) The party of Jeffrey Epstein wants genital inspections for teen athletes. (2) Every time conservative justices can destroy a campaign finance law, they will. (3) Upholding birthright citizenship should have been unanimous. That it wasn't shows how extreme the Court conservatives are.
A terrible ruling, but sadly not surprising.
ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · last mo.Goddamn it. Kavanaugh also has the campaign finance case. 6-3, spending limits on dark money violate the First Amendment. Peter Theil's boy comes through for him, throwing WIDE the gates on the billionaire class buying elections.
The Eagles (group and solo), The Beatles (group and solo), Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, The Cars, Queen, Boz Scaggs, Carole King, Doobie Brothers, Elton John, George Benson, The Police, Fleetwood Mac, Kenny Loggins...these were all on heavy rotation.
Charles Louis Richter@richterscale.bsky.social · last mo.what's the music your parents played all the time when you were a kid? for me, it's a dead heat between Neil Diamond and Linda Ronstadt
Translation: Nixon's only crime was that Watergate happened 50 years too soon.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."
Over/under on how long before Trump has the Statue of Liberty demolished and replaced with a giant gold statue of himself holding a giant KEEP OUT sign?
Stephen Wunderlich@swonder.bsky.social · last mo.At this point it's a requirement to have your own grift in order to be in Trump's Cabinet.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2mo agoMarkwayne Mullin had the FDA delete warnings about the dangers of kratom, an addictive and sometimes lethal drug found in gas stations. Mullin holds an up to $1 million stake in a major kratom company.
And here comes the Friday before a holiday weekend news dump...
Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3mo agoSecond (and last) #SCOTUS ruling is the big one, Louisiana v. Callais. For a 6-3 majority (Rs v. Ds), Justice Alito purports to narrow the ability of states to draw majority-minority districts as a remedy for race-based vote dilution, but, per Kagan's dissent, comes pretty close to gutting the VRA: