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USMC vet & Disability/ US National fellow @nytimes formerly: @reuters @militarytimes Send tips: Rachel.nostrant @nytimes .com

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Rachel Nostrant
7 months
Being a journalist is a great and terrible privilege. Reporting this story was just that. Read how the military daycare policies systemically fail military families and their kids in instances of abuse or harm, with @Militarydotcom
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Steve Beynon
7 months
New Investigation: How children are hurt, abused & traumatized at military daycares, and how the services skirt norms, laws and weaponize ignorance to protect itself and keep parents in the dark. with @KToropin & @rachelnostrant
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Rachel Nostrant
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Baby’s first day at The New York Times. Middle school Rachel fell in love with journalism after visiting the Virginian-Pilot newsroom in ‘07/‘08 and swore she’d be a journalist in New York one day. So proud of how far I’ve come and what’s up next! @nytimes
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Rachel Nostrant
7 months
Thrilled to announce that come June I’ll be joining the @nytimes as the ‘24-25 disability reporting fellow and a member of the National desk! Feeling beyond grateful for this opportunity:
@NYTimesPR
NYTimes Communications
7 months
We’re pleased to introduce the 2024–25 @nytimes fellowship class.
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Rachel Nostrant
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Hours after we published our investigation, Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, told us that the DoD Office of the Inspector General will be investigating issues @StevenBeynon @KToropin and I raised in our reporting. Immensely proud, and hopeful for the families
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Military.com
7 months
Unsupervised: Military Child Care Centers Slow to Report Abuse with Little Oversight
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2 years
The importance of local news
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2 years
My first freelance piece! For @NYMag
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
Covering the #ArmyNavy game for @NavyTimes @MilitaryTimes , the vibes are electric!
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Rachel Nostrant
2 years
I lost another friend and fellow service member this week to suicide, putting me in the double-digits for friends lost since I got out of the Marine Corps in December 2018. Please take care of your mental health, your life matters.
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
My short piece for @MilitaryTimes on Veterans & Athletes United’s beautiful GWOT memorial got me a mention in @politico today, how cool!
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
Inspiring words from my friend and journalism fairy godmother @JimLaPorta : “Your goal towards journalism is equivalent to “I mean, I was Josh Safdie's muse when he wrote Uncut Gems.””
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9 months
Today I finished my Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, hiking 413 miles (662 km) from Lisbon to Santiago de Compostela. I often bristle at being put in the box of “disabled veteran,” but this month was a reminder that disabled is not synonymous with incapable. Buen Camino everyone 🤙🏼
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
Still going strong with the updates for @MilitaryTimes ; for those I love, I will doomscroll Twitter
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Military Times
3 years
Events of the invasion have played out in real time on social media platforms. Sources on the ground in Ukraine are reporting live on Twitter. Military Times is chronicling these accounts and will continue to provide live updates.
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5 months
@RadWill_ @nytimes I’ll be covering disability issues and US news!
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2 years
I am dead tired but after almost three months I’m home 🇺🇸
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
Super excited to go to my first Army Navy game this year and to see these uniforms in person!
@FromTheOP
OP
3 years
In the annual football uniform dispute, 2021 Army trumps Navy
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1 year
Great work by my former colleague @davis_winkie and his partner from @TexasTribune
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ArmyTimes
1 year
SPECIAL REPORT: An 18-month investigation by Military Times and @TexasTribune reveals how a group of intelligence officers from the Texas National Guard mishandled classified information and used WhatsApp to spy on migrants in Mexico.
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5 months
Thrilled to see the continued attention on this issue from within the DoD and Congress, and so proud of @KToropin @StevenBeynon for the continued coverage they continue to push out. The @Militarydotcom newsroom is incredible.
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Zachary Fryer-Biggs
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The impact of @StevenBeynon @KToropin @rachelnostrant 's reporting on abuse at base daycare facilities is becoming overwhelming. Can't say enough about the fantastic journalism they've been doing.
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Rachel Nostrant
2 years
Today was my last day at @MilitaryTimes as I dedicate myself more to my master’s degree and freelancing. So grateful for every opportunity the great people at MilTimes gave me along the way.
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I don’t usually post personal things but today, I’m feeling like it. @nyuniversity had its all-university commencement at Yankee Stadium this morning/ afternoon. What ensued was chaos and a huge letdown for every graduate. A 🧵:
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2 years
Friendly reminder as the summer season starts that the least interesting thing about you is your body, so wear those shorts and eat that ice cream at the beach ☀️
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Rachel Nostrant
7 months
“My body is a subway station, not a temple.” - @df_lawrence , ace reporter and philosopher
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
Every time friends reach out about an article of mine they’ve read, my heart hurts a bit. 8th grade me wanted to be a journalist more than anything, and somehow—even after every step I’ve taken straying away from who I was—I’ve still somehow made it.
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Rachel Nostrant
9 months
And to complete this thought, it’s not that being disabled, a veteran, or a disabled veteran are bad things to be; it just feels very limiting and shuts out every other aspect of who I am as a person. That said, doing this hike with the injuries I have feels like a HUGE win
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Rachel Nostrant
9 months
Today I finished my Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, hiking 413 miles (662 km) from Lisbon to Santiago de Compostela. I often bristle at being put in the box of “disabled veteran,” but this month was a reminder that disabled is not synonymous with incapable. Buen Camino everyone 🤙🏼
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
I’ve felt incredibly lost for years now, and finally, finally I’m starting to feel like myself again. It’s such an amazing thing, and while I still want to do and be more, I’m just really f*cking grateful I’ve reached this point.
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Rachel Nostrant
2 years
Today I interviewed Leon Panetta, packed up my life into my car, and made it to Boston for a last hoorah weekend before starting my next chapter in NYC. I feel incredibly lucky right now for the opportunities I’ve been given
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Rachel Nostrant
2 years
Obligatory “this is my actual account, whether I lose my checkmark or not” tweet:
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Rachel Nostrant
5 months
Stellar reporting from @EdDavey1 on a series of planned gas power stations that would severely impact the people and natural landscape of the Philippines, despite cleaner energy options available.
@EdDavey1
Ed Davey
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The Philippines likely has enough renewable energy potential for all the new power it'll need in the coming decades. Yet it's planning almost two dozen gas power stations, threatening world famous coral reefs and fishing villages. Our latest investigation:
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
Hello twitterverse, happy to be here. 🤞🏼my account doesn’t get hacked and turned into a J-Law fan account like the last one I had in 2013 did
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
A great, important read from a great guy
@JimLaPorta
Jim LaPorta
3 years
Maybe fiction can offer the lesson of how wars of the mind should end — with a connection made, with something added and a path forward in sight, rather than just a tale of all that was lost along the way. A sense that even when we’re not OK, we could be.
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Rachel Nostrant
8 months
""We've spent our entire life savings and my entire salary to make these embryos without a single dollar help from Tricare," Boreham said. "And then they're gonna rip them away when we wouldn't choose to be [stationed] there."" For @Militarydotcom
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
Me, doomscrolling Twitter all day every day since Thursday to live-update @MilitaryTimes readers:
@ExumAM
Andrew Exum
3 years
“Your screen time was up 32% last week.” NOT NOW, APPLE
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Rachel Nostrant
2 years
On today’s episode of Angry Emails Rachel Gets: (and no this isn’t fake because of the time difference, I’m just in Europe atm)
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Rachel Nostrant
2 years
At the Germany/ Poland border our train was stopped. The Germans were here looking for Ukrainians, passing out food bags and water and asking if anyone needed shelter 🇺🇦
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Rachel Nostrant
5 months
More exceptional, crucial reporting from @TomNovelly @Militarydotcom
@KToropin
Konstantin Toropin
5 months
“The expectation that maintainers would simply accept being doused in known, deadly chemicals and continue to carry out their duty was rampant.” Don’t miss @TomNovelly ’s latest excellent, frustrating, and tragic report on the hazards of being a missileer
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
"Prepositioned equipment and rations is a Cold War-era idea that would have helped U.S. forces rapidly respond to a Soviet assault in West Germany without having to wait on their own units’ shipments of gear." It's now being used in response to Ukraine.
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Rachel Nostrant
6 months
Had such a lovely, insightful night! I can’t recommend this enough, from both a networking and a mental health-get your yourself out of the apartment and personal bubble-aspect
@philrosenn
Phil Rosen
6 months
Earlier this week I hosted 9 business reporters for an epic @JournalistsClub dinner. Guests came from the Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, NY Times, Fortune, Forbes + more New York media is better when journalists know each other IRL
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Rachel Nostrant
4 months
“But what about my dreams?” “What dreams? Ladies do not have dreams; they have husbands.” Ugh, Bridgerton, my heart.
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
Hey, it’s my little big sister!
@USArmyEURAF
U.S. Army Europe and Africa
3 years
We're crawlin' into this weekend with a purpose... Who's with us? #StrongerTogether
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Rachel Nostrant
4 months
Found an accurate depiction of what I must look like sitting away from the other National desk fellows and reporters, tucked into one of the last open desks nearby:
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
Thank you, United Airlines, for booking me a 25-hour, four-flight trip home that also just had me land at JFK and now haul ass to LGA for my next connection 👍🏽 the character building is 💯
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Rachel Nostrant
5 months
And @nyuniversity has yet to acknowledge this to any of us. I made it in around an hour and a half into the ceremony, and managed to still smile some pictures, because this doesn’t take away from our achievements as academics.
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
@davis_winkie @ArmyTimes doing work that matters and getting the recognition deserved 👏🏼
@davis_winkie
Davis Winkie
3 years
Now the @nytimes has cited our reporting on Operation Lone Star.
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Rachel Nostrant
7 months
@JimLaPorta @nytimes Thanks, James. You know I always credit your mentorship for getting me to the places I go
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
Told my mom I wanted to learn more about Ukrainian geography, and she suggested I google Ukrainian vacations. My little FBI guy is about to be super confused
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
@davis_winkie proving why good journalism matters 👏🏼
@davis_winkie
Davis Winkie
3 years
“The tide changed dramatically last month with an investigation from the Army Times.” Soldier welfare matters.
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
Love seeing this 👏🏼
@DeptofDefense
Department of Defense 🇺🇸
3 years
Ten @USAirforce female fighter pilots assigned to the 36th & 25th Fighter Squadrons, fly a historic all-female flight at @51stFW , Republic of Korea. The benchmark flight is the 1st time 10 female Airmen have planned, led & flown in a formation while being assigned to Team Osan.
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
On today’s episode of “horrible emails Rachel gets at work”:
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Rachel Nostrant
2 years
Woke up exhausted today and decided to do nothing but read 📖 Now I’m just sitting at Barnes and Noble thinking about lucky I am to be literate and how I wish the same could be said for young girls everywhere—especially those in Afghanistan losing that gift right now
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Rachel Nostrant
1 year
NYC in the summer:
@thesarahsicard
Sarah Sicard
1 year
I’m not Betty Spaghetti. I’m Betty Sweaty Already
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Rachel Nostrant
5 months
Beautiful work by @df_lawrence
@df_lawrence
Drew F. Lawrence
5 months
Anguish, Uncertainty: 66 Families Wait to Bury Loved Ones Amid Suspension of Horse-Drawn Funeral Services at Arlington
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Rachel Nostrant
7 months
@StevenBeynon Army reporter extraordinaire:
@StevenBeynon
Steve Beynon
7 months
BREAKING: In a rare move, after @Militarydotcom 's investigation -- the Army suspended a 4-star general, referred him to DoD investigators after our reporting found he may have leveraged his power to subvert the command assessment process for a subordinate
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
Happy 246th birthday my fellow devil pups 🍻 you may not feel 246 but I know your joints do 🥳
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
Unfortunately, we’ve had some technical difficulties with the @MilitaryTimes and @defense_news Early Bird Brief this morning. You can still find today’s edition online, however, here:
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
“Peacekeeping”
@NPR
NPR
3 years
Russia has dispatched troops to eastern Ukraine’s breakaway regions to conduct what it called “peacekeeping” operations — raising fears that Putin is paving the way for an attack in Ukraine.
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
💀💀💀
@mroller17u
Uncle Mark
3 years
@AccountableGOP @RepMTG Whatever you do, don’t get her started on the Luftwaffle.
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Rachel Nostrant
4 months
A wonderful article from fellow Fellow @teddyrosenbluth !
@teddyrosenbluth
Teddy Rosenbluth
4 months
On today's front page of the @nytimes : how doctors are using A.I. chatbots to fight insurance denials.
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Rachel Nostrant
2 years
Nothing forces me to reflect on my life more than taking long-distance German trains 🚆
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Rachel Nostrant
2 years
“For the parents and caregivers, however, having to wait for security upgrades to be made at an unspecified date is not good enough. “I’m not going to wait for [a shooting] to happen on this base and have my kids be an example,” McNeil said.”
@Marinetimes
Marine Corps Times
2 years
“I walked in that day and just started questioning what the protocols were and I realized how easy it was to get in the building."
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Rachel Nostrant
8 months
Some truly stellar reporting @TomNovelly
@TomNovelly
Thomas Novelly
8 months
It was an open secret among missileers that the Cold War-era facilities they'd spent days staying on alert in case of nuclear armageddon might get them sick. With the @pulitzercenter , @Militarydotcom spent months reporting on their struggles with cancer.
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Rachel Nostrant
5 months
But the university was so seemingly worried about protestors, or who-knows-what tbh, that they failed us. @nyu_journalism is an incredible institute to which I am so grateful. But NYU, as with other schools across the country, needs to do better.
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
In Stuttgart, fundraising efforts are still going strong! Locals can help humanitarian efforts directly just by buying a box of Warenyky ingredients grown by local farmers, with all of the proceeds going to Ukrainian refugees. #makewarenykynotwar
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
@LyonsReports @cparkernews Only because they aren’t reporting on themselves, but you could be the change you want to see in the world
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Rachel Nostrant
2 years
Not how I thought my Monday was going to go:
@UNdiplomatStyle
U.N. Style
2 years
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Rachel Nostrant
2 years
Me, trying to decide which books to move with me to NY:
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Rachel Nostrant
5 months
@_rachelbraun I am SO envious!
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
@davis_winkie I think this means you made it
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2 years
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2 years
@halbritz Oh my god, you have to do it
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
@davis_winkie You deserve to be cancelled for that 😭
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Rachel Nostrant
2 years
@rachelkaras Writers & Lovers by Lily King, heartbreakingly good
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Rachel Nostrant
2 years
Check out some of the reporting done by my classmates and me ahead of the midterm elections in Scranton, PA! @nyu_journalism
@nyu_journalism
NYU Journalism
2 years
Ahead of tomorrow's elections, our Business & Economic Reporting grads traveled to Scranton, PA to report on the economy, jobs, politics and culture | 48 Hours in Electric City asks 'What does it mean to be from Scranton?' and much more: #midterms 1/
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Rachel Nostrant
2 years
@smsicard If loving those videos is weird then I don’t want to be…not weird
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
@ruleoflawlady Hey I put that in the EBB this week!
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
@JournoGeoffZ Thanks Geoff, happy to be tweeting what I’m sure will be super original thoughts 🤙
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Rachel Nostrant
2 years
Absolutely peak humor
@AletheaKontis
Princess General Alethea Kontis 알리티아
2 years
A small % of the population will laugh as hard as I did at this…
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Rachel Nostrant
4 months
@onlykailyn killing it at the @WSJ
@onlykailyn
Kailyn Rhone
4 months
Above the fold in the business and finance section of @WSJ paper :)
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Rachel Nostrant
3 months
@claireeverett1 @brennanjp @ManagerTactical @claireeverett1 I’m a reporter with the New York Times covering what happened yesterday and would love to chat, please give me a follow back if you’re free to talk
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
I know I’m a little late to the game but @shangchi is 🔥
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Rachel Nostrant
5 months
And no, it was not the fault of pro-Palestine or Israel protesters, the former of whom were only seen en masse around the end of the ceremony, outside, protesting in an entirely peaceful fashion, as the First Amendment gives them every right to do so.
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Rachel Nostrant
2 years
This definitely all feels very ‘blessed be the fruit’
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Rachel Nostrant
2 years
I'm all about free speech but I'm not sure what my alma mater was thinking with this one:
@NPR
NPR
2 years
Penn State is hosting the founder of the Proud Boys at an event paid for with thousands of dollars in student fees. Students have launched a petition to protest the event.
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Rachel Nostrant
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@MilitaryTimesOP Let’s be honest, the whole world is interested in this one 🤴
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
@joyfillednomads Totally forgot there are only GUYS in the military. Strange 💁🏻‍♀️
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
One of my favorite professors, I loved his class and how much he cared about us. So sad to read of his passing.
@mariehardinpsu
Marie Hardin (she/her)
3 years
‘A man of a million stories’: Penn State community mourns the loss of professor Curt Chandler
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Rachel Nostrant
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
Yes 🙌
@MeghannMyers_
Meghann Myers
3 years
I gotta say, it might be time for senior leadership to retire "There is no room in our [insert service here] for sexual assault." There clearly is. Time for a new mantra.
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Rachel Nostrant
7 months
“I can appreciate the effort to address the quality of life of living conditions…certainly the condition of those barracks is important, but if you fear being sexually assaulted…then your quality of life…is poor.” Rep. Wasserman-Schultz during today’s House hearing
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Rachel Nostrant
5 months
Graduates started giving up around the 30 min mark of the ceremony. Students chanted “let us in” to no avail. This video was taken about an hour into the ceremony, and after almost two hours of waiting
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Rachel Nostrant
2 years
@rachelkaras Pour que no los dos, yolo
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Rachel Nostrant
3 years
The only street art you need to see today, reportedly from Poznan, Poland:
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