Elise
@eliserobinson.bsky.social
Queer neurodivergent Buddhist feminist leftist theatre mama professor. I work/teach in Women’s & Gender Studies. In my fuck-it fifties and no longer tolerating bullshit OR shenanigans. Humor + kindness are my aphrodisiacs of choice.
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Democrats at every level of power could simply repeat "he must resign" over and over and over again. It's what the GOP would do if the situation were reversed. Further erode his power by pushing him to lash out more.
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Democrats at every level of power could simply repeat "he must resign" over and over and over again. It's what the GOP would do if the situation were reversed. Further erode his power by pushing him to lash out more.
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It’s amazing how much existing institutions and the people profiting from Trump’s presidency lean toward a trivialization and normalization of something that in any other context nearly everyone would treat with horror
Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It’s amazing how much existing institutions and the people profiting from Trump’s presidency lean toward a trivialization and normalization of something that in any other context nearly everyone would treat with horror
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After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
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The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen
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I don’t understand anything
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I don’t understand anything
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This pretty much sums it up. It's hard to find any way to salvage hope for the future. The people spoke loudly and nobody in power cares. I'd say I hope every last one of them gets primaried, but it's hard to believe in elections at this point. @democrats.senate.gov betrayed us.
Americans listened to Senate Democrats promises to fight against Trump’s asinine actions and secure affordable healthcare & voters ensured Democrats swept the Elections last week. Tonight the @democrats.senate.gov f*cked us all and bowed down before the Orange Overlord and his goons. #Weak #Useless
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This pretty much sums it up. It's hard to find any way to salvage hope for the future. The people spoke loudly and nobody in power cares. I'd say I hope every last one of them gets primaried, but it's hard to believe in elections at this point. @democrats.senate.gov betrayed us.
Y’all get out there and make those calls to these damn senators. NO DEAL WITH THE GOP. Looking at you, @ossoff.senate.gov
Call them:
Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542
Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224
King (ME)
202 224-5344
Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324
Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451
Masto (NV)
202 224-3542
Warner (VA)
202 224-2023
Fetterman (PA)
No Point
Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542
Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224
King (ME)
202 224-5344
Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324
Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451
Masto (NV)
202 224-3542
Warner (VA)
202 224-2023
Fetterman (PA)
No Point
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Y’all get out there and make those calls to these damn senators. NO DEAL WITH THE GOP. Looking at you, @ossoff.senate.gov
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I'm legitimately confused about the play here. No person who now is going to go without coverage in the ACA is going to just blame the GOP. They will rightly blame the Democrats too. Dems won't get "points" for "fighting" if they cave. It makes little sense.
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I'm legitimately confused about the play here. No person who now is going to go without coverage in the ACA is going to just blame the GOP. They will rightly blame the Democrats too. Dems won't get "points" for "fighting" if they cave. It makes little sense.
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"It's not a deal. It’s an unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double," says Rep. @ritchietorres.bsky.social.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrats-co...
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrats-co...
Democrats Consider GOP Deal to Reopen Government, With Promise of Later Vote on ACA Subsidies
Democrats are considering a Republican offer to reopen the government with a promise of a later vote on extending ACA health-care tax credits.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
"It's not a deal. It’s an unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double," says Rep. @ritchietorres.bsky.social.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrats-co...
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrats-co...
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Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
Here is a poem for you by one of my favorite poets. Feels relevant right now.
November 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Here is a poem for you by one of my favorite poets. Feels relevant right now.
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ChatGPT is pedagogically harmful.
Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least.
It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people.
And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.
Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least.
It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people.
And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.
this story is horrifying and universities NEED to accept that ChatGPT is actively harmful
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
ChatGPT is pedagogically harmful.
Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least.
It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people.
And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.
Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least.
It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people.
And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.
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1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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USA rebooting old-timey race science, but now for every 1,000 scanned faces, a river is drained and a forest burned down.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
USA rebooting old-timey race science, but now for every 1,000 scanned faces, a river is drained and a forest burned down.
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Thinking this level of inequality is unsustainable isn’t radical, thinking it isn’t is
November 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Thinking this level of inequality is unsustainable isn’t radical, thinking it isn’t is
What the fucking fuck.
This, in particular, is spectacularly hideous. It's like something you'd see on the wall of a car dealership where they put pictures of their top salespeople every month
November 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
What the fucking fuck.
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“The destruction of U.S.A.I.D. [caused] public man-made death. And the cruelty and lethality will only grow as the Administration expands its rollback of public-health advances to the homeland.”
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“The destruction of U.S.A.I.D. [caused] public man-made death. And the cruelty and lethality will only grow as the Administration expands its rollback of public-health advances to the homeland.”
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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SCOTUS just granted an emergency order to let an anti trans Trump policy go into effect while the case goes through the courts. The policy requires passports reflect sex assigned at birth. This is very dangerous for trans people & should not be ignored
November 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
SCOTUS just granted an emergency order to let an anti trans Trump policy go into effect while the case goes through the courts. The policy requires passports reflect sex assigned at birth. This is very dangerous for trans people & should not be ignored
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"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."
Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope
His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."
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Because of the Trump shutdown, the United States has closed the dining facility at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and told US troops stationed in Germany to seek supplies from German food pantries.
All while Trump maintains threats of military action against multiple US cities and foreign countries.
All while Trump maintains threats of military action against multiple US cities and foreign countries.
November 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Because of the Trump shutdown, the United States has closed the dining facility at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and told US troops stationed in Germany to seek supplies from German food pantries.
All while Trump maintains threats of military action against multiple US cities and foreign countries.
All while Trump maintains threats of military action against multiple US cities and foreign countries.
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I am repeating myself, but ICE is (and has since its inception) inflicting generational trauma that will express itself epigenetically in the very DNA of the children of these victims, and of their children, and theirs after.
Every single day.
Every single day.
ICE should be rightly called child abusers for doing stuff like this in front of children.
It's bad on its own for its brutality toward adults, but they are traumatizing kids.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
It's bad on its own for its brutality toward adults, but they are traumatizing kids.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
ICE forcibly detains daycare worker amid scrutiny over excessive force use
Videos show ICE agents dragging woman out of Chicago daycare and appearing to slam her face against glass doors
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I am repeating myself, but ICE is (and has since its inception) inflicting generational trauma that will express itself epigenetically in the very DNA of the children of these victims, and of their children, and theirs after.
Every single day.
Every single day.
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Sheinbaum calls for review of sexual harassment laws, as attack shines light on Mexico's poor record on women's safety.
Mexico’s President Sheinbaum presses charges after groping attack on street
Sheinbaum calls for review of sexual harassment laws, as attack shines light on Mexico's poor record on women's safety.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Sheinbaum calls for review of sexual harassment laws, as attack shines light on Mexico's poor record on women's safety.
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742 things, but I'll start w these two:
1. The Dem Party doesn't have to have one face! STOP with the setting the winners from last night against one another.
2. I long for the fucking day when a woman running a joyful campaign is treated half as respectful as a man running a joyful campaign.
1. The Dem Party doesn't have to have one face! STOP with the setting the winners from last night against one another.
2. I long for the fucking day when a woman running a joyful campaign is treated half as respectful as a man running a joyful campaign.
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
742 things, but I'll start w these two:
1. The Dem Party doesn't have to have one face! STOP with the setting the winners from last night against one another.
2. I long for the fucking day when a woman running a joyful campaign is treated half as respectful as a man running a joyful campaign.
1. The Dem Party doesn't have to have one face! STOP with the setting the winners from last night against one another.
2. I long for the fucking day when a woman running a joyful campaign is treated half as respectful as a man running a joyful campaign.