Elisabeth Bayer
@ejbayer.bsky.social
#alpacaexpert and live performance enthusiast, camera fan, women's sports booster. But mostly #alpacaexpert. Current LA resident. she/her
consistency and predictability are important for economic growth but that's not actually what this administration cares about.
"If bad policy wasn’t enough, US manufacturers must also contend with the Trump administration’s unpredictability, which has made long-term investment decisions nearly impossible."
'The Tariffs Haven't Helped': 72,000 Manufacturing Jobs Obliterated Since Trump's Liberation Day—and Counting
President Trump's promises of a manufacturing revival have fallen flat, with job losses and higher costs for American families. Are his constantly changing tariffs really helping the economy, or just causing chaos?
www.commondreams.org
February 4, 2026 at 5:11 AM
consistency and predictability are important for economic growth but that's not actually what this administration cares about.
that's a very sexy leadership team
Hilary Knight, about to be in her USA record 5th Olympics, has been named captain (she’s been the Americans’ captain since the 2023 worlds).
Alex Carpenter and Megan Keller, in their 3rd Olympics, will wear the A’s.
Team USA women open the tournament against Czechia Thursday.
Alex Carpenter and Megan Keller, in their 3rd Olympics, will wear the A’s.
Team USA women open the tournament against Czechia Thursday.
February 3, 2026 at 4:21 AM
that's a very sexy leadership team
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Everything moves so fast now. It's impossible to give every event the care and attention it deserves, especially when the bar is "at least no one died."
But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalation—and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.
But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalation—and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.
What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids
Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack
www.thehandbasket.co
February 3, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Everything moves so fast now. It's impossible to give every event the care and attention it deserves, especially when the bar is "at least no one died."
But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalation—and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.
But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalation—and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.
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Yes, I'm totally reading newsletters while eating my lunch. Next up, another fab newsletter from @thefrankiedlc.news
@theathletic.com should retract their Britta Curl redemption story.
www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/the-athlet...
@theathletic.com should retract their Britta Curl redemption story.
www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/the-athlet...
the athletic should retract their britta curl redemption story
and links from the week in queer sports
www.thefrankiedlc.news
February 2, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Yes, I'm totally reading newsletters while eating my lunch. Next up, another fab newsletter from @thefrankiedlc.news
@theathletic.com should retract their Britta Curl redemption story.
www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/the-athlet...
@theathletic.com should retract their Britta Curl redemption story.
www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/the-athlet...
“Legal” and “illegal” are made up categories that can be redefined at will by those in power
Firstly, Jews were not, in fact, citizens in Europe at the time. Under the Reich Citizenship Law, Jews were explicitly stripped of citizenship, that legal category which Hannah Arendt terms "the right to have rights."
This reveals that citizenship is fundamentally an arbitrary, political category.
This reveals that citizenship is fundamentally an arbitrary, political category.
February 2, 2026 at 8:42 PM
“Legal” and “illegal” are made up categories that can be redefined at will by those in power
guess they're not booking much.
Trump: "I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass anything."
February 2, 2026 at 12:54 AM
guess they're not booking much.
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The person to watch is David Rubenstein, who has poured millions in philanthropy into the Kennedy Center, is not going to be pleased about this, and has money, ego, and patriotism long enough to sustain a long-ass legal battle.
Particularly since his cash isn't crypto.
Particularly since his cash isn't crypto.
Trump: "I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass anything."
February 1, 2026 at 11:53 PM
The person to watch is David Rubenstein, who has poured millions in philanthropy into the Kennedy Center, is not going to be pleased about this, and has money, ego, and patriotism long enough to sustain a long-ass legal battle.
Particularly since his cash isn't crypto.
Particularly since his cash isn't crypto.
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Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists.
Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews.
All Black. All doing their jobs.
Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews.
All Black. All doing their jobs.
January 30, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists.
Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews.
All Black. All doing their jobs.
Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews.
All Black. All doing their jobs.
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In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...
www.haymarketbooks.org
January 30, 2026 at 3:50 PM
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
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Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
![Not unrelatedly, I am noticing that a lot of--oftentimes even well-intentioned--people are spending time trying to delineate exactly which historical referent best captures what's going on now, as if we have to pick only one. There is the now well-circulated meme that says: no, ICE isn't the Gestapo, it's actually American--it's slave catchers. But this is a kind of odd distinction: the Nazis were themselves influenced by the Americans (if you're curious read the excellent book by James Whitman, _Hitler's American Model_). Nazis came here and studied American legal systems and statutes ... and remarkably a group of "liberal" Nazis decided that they couldn't make German laws as *extreme* as American ones (and this "liberal" group in fact won the day; German laws weren't as extreme as many of ours). Equally, Nazi jurists and theorists like Carl Schmitt were deeply influenced by American notions of manifest destiny. So the Nazi and American contexts were already fused. The idea of foreign/domestic is already quite complex in this context. (And this is before we even speak of the many actual Nazis that existed here and the many people who materially supported Hitler and the regime).
We can complicate this picture more by noting that Nazism itself, even apart from these American influences, wasn't something that sprouted up out of thin air: it, too, had a(n experimental) history. Many of its barbaric practices and aims were developed and tested on colonial and imperial victims (as I have written elsewhere: there is a direct line from Shark Island concentration camp [called frequently simply "Death Island" where the Germans committed genocide against the Herero and Nama people] to the entire Nazi camp system). Thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Aimé Césaire drew our attention to this already in the middle of the last century.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreifucubotcz54scclzmnpxlnv6x5olf2zb6ow5xufzdyqbflhuzcn4@jpeg)
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
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This is the kind of government innovation I want www.amtrak.com/trak-suit
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January 29, 2026 at 4:29 PM
This is the kind of government innovation I want www.amtrak.com/trak-suit
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I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
Today, Luke Farrell (@lukef.bsky.social) explains how complex eligibility requirements have turned America’s safety net into a lucrative revenue stream for monopolistic private contractors.
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.
lpeproject.org
January 28, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
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I hope by now everyone gets that all struggles are intertwined, but if you had any doubt—
this bounty hunter model is based off of Texas’ SB8, which was the death knell for Roe—
& allowed ppl to pull these same vigilante lawsuits against anyone assisting in someone getting abortion care.
this bounty hunter model is based off of Texas’ SB8, which was the death knell for Roe—
& allowed ppl to pull these same vigilante lawsuits against anyone assisting in someone getting abortion care.
Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.
January 28, 2026 at 11:52 PM
I hope by now everyone gets that all struggles are intertwined, but if you had any doubt—
this bounty hunter model is based off of Texas’ SB8, which was the death knell for Roe—
& allowed ppl to pull these same vigilante lawsuits against anyone assisting in someone getting abortion care.
this bounty hunter model is based off of Texas’ SB8, which was the death knell for Roe—
& allowed ppl to pull these same vigilante lawsuits against anyone assisting in someone getting abortion care.
anyway go Sirens. #pwhl
New York Sirens forward Taylor Girard’s PWHL suspension reduced to 3 games upon appeal
https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ny/115683/
New York Sirens forward Taylor Girard’s suspension for leaving the bench to join an altercation was reduced to…
https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ny/115683/
New York Sirens forward Taylor Girard’s suspension for leaving the bench to join an altercation was reduced to…
New York Sirens forward Taylor Girard's PWHL suspension reduced to 3 games upon appeal - New York News Beep
New York Sirens forward Taylor Girard’s suspension for leaving the bench to join an altercation was reduced to three games Wednesday following an appeal.
www.newsbeep.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:54 PM
anyway go Sirens. #pwhl
the PWHL did let their player comment here, and let their footage be used. So some political topics are allowable, apparently.
I am aware that the political leanings of PWHL fans are somewhat to the left of many of the players, and certainly the owners.
I am aware that the political leanings of PWHL fans are somewhat to the left of many of the players, and certainly the owners.
Britta Curl-Salemme recently collaborated on a video with anti-trans organization FIERCE Athlete, a video liked and commented on by members of the PWHL and Minnesota Frost. The video was in part shot on PWHL ice and utilized in-game footage.
More: thehockeynews.com/womens/pwhl/... #PWHL
More: thehockeynews.com/womens/pwhl/... #PWHL
Britta Curl-Salemme Partners With Anti-Trans Organization FIERCE Athlete, Video Liked My Many PWHL Players
Britta Curl-Salemme, a member of the PWHL's Minnesota Frost who received public backlash, issued a public apology, and who continues to be booed in every PWHL market, has partnered with anti-Trans org...
thehockeynews.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:54 PM
the PWHL did let their player comment here, and let their footage be used. So some political topics are allowable, apparently.
I am aware that the political leanings of PWHL fans are somewhat to the left of many of the players, and certainly the owners.
I am aware that the political leanings of PWHL fans are somewhat to the left of many of the players, and certainly the owners.
Sean Doolittle has always been a good guy. Disappointed in the PWHL blocking comment.
“I’m really mad so thank you for letting me vent.
Abolish ICE.
We keep us safe.”
@seandoolittle.bsky.social and other athletes opened up to us about the DHS murders and the campaign of state terror being waged in Minneapolis and beyond.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
Abolish ICE.
We keep us safe.”
@seandoolittle.bsky.social and other athletes opened up to us about the DHS murders and the campaign of state terror being waged in Minneapolis and beyond.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
‘Fascism is here now’: the US athletes pushing back on Trump’s America
World Series winner Sean Doolittle, Super Bowl champion Doug Baldwin and college star McKenzie Forbes have strong opinions on a troubled era
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Sean Doolittle has always been a good guy. Disappointed in the PWHL blocking comment.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"
“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti
In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: the culture war is an actual war.
www.vanityfair.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"
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This is too important for folks to miss, so I'm just going to screenshot my reporting below. But if you don't already subscribe to Abortion, Every Day please do—we catch stories like this every day.
January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
This is too important for folks to miss, so I'm just going to screenshot my reporting below. But if you don't already subscribe to Abortion, Every Day please do—we catch stories like this every day.
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From the Minnesota Frost home game in St Paul
January 25, 2026 at 9:38 PM
From the Minnesota Frost home game in St Paul
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Especially if your senators are GOP, call them. Just say "I'm asking the senator to vote no on any further Department of Homeland Security funding."
It's worth working to peel off any GOP senators who might be wavering and constituent pressure will give them cover.
It's worth working to peel off any GOP senators who might be wavering and constituent pressure will give them cover.
ICE funding has passed the house, but it still has to go through the senate, now is your chance to call!
5calls.org makes it very easy to find the contact info for your reps, and provides scripts.
#abolishice #callyourreps #usapolitics #iceout #politicalart
5calls.org makes it very easy to find the contact info for your reps, and provides scripts.
#abolishice #callyourreps #usapolitics #iceout #politicalart
January 25, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Especially if your senators are GOP, call them. Just say "I'm asking the senator to vote no on any further Department of Homeland Security funding."
It's worth working to peel off any GOP senators who might be wavering and constituent pressure will give them cover.
It's worth working to peel off any GOP senators who might be wavering and constituent pressure will give them cover.
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hey everybody lifelong tech expert here
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
January 25, 2026 at 5:26 PM
hey everybody lifelong tech expert here
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility
that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
This is the wildest library offer ever
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm
via hearts530
via hearts530
January 25, 2026 at 7:07 PM
This is the wildest library offer ever
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In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 25, 2026 at 3:50 PM
In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.