Eliza Byard
@ebyard.bsky.social
LGBTQ+ lives; racial, gender, and disability justice; economic opportunity; and schools that challenge children to think for themselves. Also, women’s sports.
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The Underground Archivist: 50 Years of Saving New York History - www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Px...
The Underground Archivist: 50 Years of Saving New York History
YouTube video by The Museum of Modern Art
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Underground Archivist: 50 Years of Saving New York History - www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Px...
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It turns out the “culture war” was the point all along, just like Black people said it was.
December 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It turns out the “culture war” was the point all along, just like Black people said it was.
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I do not think he should be mayor, but this is so much healthier of an approach to take toward a democratic election than anything we are hearing from Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo is going to leave NYC the moment he loses. Sliwa seems to truly want to stay in this great city.
November 4, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I do not think he should be mayor, but this is so much healthier of an approach to take toward a democratic election than anything we are hearing from Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo is going to leave NYC the moment he loses. Sliwa seems to truly want to stay in this great city.
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Important conversation with @ebyard.bsky.social who clearly and concisely explains what you've been feeling in your gut all along.
On this week’s TLP episode, @imarajones.bsky.social talks with @ebyard.bsky.social about how anti-trans attacks in schools fit the right-wing authoritarian project, & with @neapresident.bsky.social on how communities and educators are responding.
https://open.spotify.com/show/3bKZAZDRPlB8ZRyUSpJ6t8
https://open.spotify.com/show/3bKZAZDRPlB8ZRyUSpJ6t8
November 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Important conversation with @ebyard.bsky.social who clearly and concisely explains what you've been feeling in your gut all along.
Red flag = consumer boycotts work, DEI is popular, and if you turn on your community partners shoppers will vote with their feet.
Target just sent up a giant red flag about the U.S. consumer. A 30% stock plunge, collapsing store traffic, and margin pressure all point to the same thing: Affluent shoppers are rattled and recession fears are rising qz.com/tgt-wmt-earn...
Target just sent up a giant red flag about the U.S. consumer
A 30% stock plunge, collapsing store traffic, and margin pressure all point to the same thing: Affluent shoppers are rattled and recession fears are rising
qz.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Red flag = consumer boycotts work, DEI is popular, and if you turn on your community partners shoppers will vote with their feet.
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If you see any business owners belittling SNAP recipients for accepting government money to get through tough times, maybe look them up on @propublica.org's PPP Loan Tracker to see if they got any of the $793B in bailout money (96% of which was forgiven)
projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/...
projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/...
Tracking PPP: Search Every Company Approved for Federal Loans - ProPublica
As part of the Paycheck Protection Program, the federal government has provided hundreds of billions in financial support to banks to make low-interest loans to companies and nonprofit organizations i...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
If you see any business owners belittling SNAP recipients for accepting government money to get through tough times, maybe look them up on @propublica.org's PPP Loan Tracker to see if they got any of the $793B in bailout money (96% of which was forgiven)
projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/...
projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/...
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This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
November 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
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On this week’s TLP episode, @imarajones.bsky.social talks with @ebyard.bsky.social about how anti-trans attacks in schools fit the right-wing authoritarian project, & with @neapresident.bsky.social on how communities and educators are responding.
https://open.spotify.com/show/3bKZAZDRPlB8ZRyUSpJ6t8
https://open.spotify.com/show/3bKZAZDRPlB8ZRyUSpJ6t8
October 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
On this week’s TLP episode, @imarajones.bsky.social talks with @ebyard.bsky.social about how anti-trans attacks in schools fit the right-wing authoritarian project, & with @neapresident.bsky.social on how communities and educators are responding.
https://open.spotify.com/show/3bKZAZDRPlB8ZRyUSpJ6t8
https://open.spotify.com/show/3bKZAZDRPlB8ZRyUSpJ6t8
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October 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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ok he deserves the win
Will Klein in a "Rapinoe/Kaepernick 2020" shirt
October 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
ok he deserves the win
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The new state superintendent in Oklahoma is already working to “calm the waters” after Ryan Walters left the state’s public schools in chaos. I am told that many in Oklahoma are celebrating that he left. www.foxnews.com/media/were-t...
'We're taking schools back.' Ryan Walters' TPUSA expansion marks new front in culture war
Ryan Walters spoke with Fox News Digital about why he believes TPUSA should be in every high school in his state and his efforts against teachers' unions he described as "marxist."
www.foxnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The new state superintendent in Oklahoma is already working to “calm the waters” after Ryan Walters left the state’s public schools in chaos. I am told that many in Oklahoma are celebrating that he left. www.foxnews.com/media/were-t...
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Just leaving this here if you don't mind
www.masshist.org/database/1668
www.masshist.org/database/1668
MHS Collections Online: Diagram to show the drill the Anti-Man-Hunting League had for the running off of a slave or man-hunter
Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections Online: Diagram to show the drill the Anti-Man-Hunting League had for the running off of a slave or man-hunter
www.masshist.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Just leaving this here if you don't mind
www.masshist.org/database/1668
www.masshist.org/database/1668
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Things to consider:
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
October 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Things to consider:
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
"Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Angela is saying here in 1970 what Ta-Nehisi was trying to say to E. Klein last week and what Baldwin was saying in 1962. At some point people are going to have to listen.
youtu.be/26CVcA2678k
youtu.be/26CVcA2678k
The Black Power Mixtape Angela Davis Interview
YouTube video by Anais B
youtu.be
October 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Angela is saying here in 1970 what Ta-Nehisi was trying to say to E. Klein last week and what Baldwin was saying in 1962. At some point people are going to have to listen.
youtu.be/26CVcA2678k
youtu.be/26CVcA2678k
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EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!
reactormag.com/reading-rain...
reactormag.com/reading-rain...
Reading Rainbow Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! - Reactor
The butterfly is back in the sky; can’t wait to fly twice as high.
reactormag.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!
reactormag.com/reading-rain...
reactormag.com/reading-rain...
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Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
September 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
Every accusation is a confession.
Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
www.whitehouse.gov
September 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Every accusation is a confession.
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Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.
• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
September 25, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.
• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
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Have a teenager in your life? In many places, you can pre-register a 16 or 17 year olds to vote when they turn 18. This is true in Florida. Check the rules with your local board of elections. More Labor Day homework: pre-register your teens to vote. 🗳️ registertovoteflorida.gov/home #registertovote
a sticker that says register to vote with popsicles on it
ALT: a sticker that says register to vote with popsicles on it
media.tenor.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Have a teenager in your life? In many places, you can pre-register a 16 or 17 year olds to vote when they turn 18. This is true in Florida. Check the rules with your local board of elections. More Labor Day homework: pre-register your teens to vote. 🗳️ registertovoteflorida.gov/home #registertovote
Love everything about this scavenger hunt except the below detail ….. (yes, I am a curmudgeon of an historian)
#ZcavengerHunt
#ZcavengerHunt
I can’t participate in the #ZcavengerHunt today, but I gotta say that the location of the first clue is world-class trolling of tired old machine politics. (That said, the clue was incorrectly worded: the site where people are lining up is not the one where that mayor hung out: they moved in 1928.)
August 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Love everything about this scavenger hunt except the below detail ….. (yes, I am a curmudgeon of an historian)
#ZcavengerHunt
#ZcavengerHunt
Angela Davis laid this all out in 2015 in Freedom is a Constant Struggle. Now is a good time to read it if you have not yet.
I kept staring at Israel's weaponized famine in Gaza and Trump's military occupation of DC until I realized they're two expressions of the same thing.
New Racket.
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New Racket.
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Critical conditions
Whether starving civilians or deploying troops against their citizens, the US and Israel are using force against “internal outsiders" considered rivals for power
theracket.news
August 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Angela Davis laid this all out in 2015 in Freedom is a Constant Struggle. Now is a good time to read it if you have not yet.
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Dozens of protests planned for Labor Day [for all of the people constantly asking where protests are. I assume they will all be joining] - maydaystrong.org
MAY DAY STRONG
maydaystrong.org
August 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Dozens of protests planned for Labor Day [for all of the people constantly asking where protests are. I assume they will all be joining] - maydaystrong.org
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Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
Ketanji Brown Jackson Stops Just Short of Saying the Supreme Court Is Breathtakingly Full of Shit
“Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”
www.ballsandstrikes.org
August 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...