Eliza
@eliza2024.bsky.social
Herbs and verbs. ✌️
Anti-fascist, vegan, reader, walker, painter and printmaker, gardener, yogini, cat person but open to dogs. Sex and relationship therapist/Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist.
Anti-fascist, vegan, reader, walker, painter and printmaker, gardener, yogini, cat person but open to dogs. Sex and relationship therapist/Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist.
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Every day there are multiple instances of blatant corruption. Our government policy is for sale to the highest bidder and every bad actor in the world knows it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Every day there are multiple instances of blatant corruption. Our government policy is for sale to the highest bidder and every bad actor in the world knows it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
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The tide is turning @zackpolanski.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The tide is turning @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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In my experience, the preening peacocks and grunting baboons who serve them can cause a lot of damage.
But it's the quiet folks in the back with great minsd and terrible ideas that whisper to the peacocks that you really have to watch out for.
Tolkien wrote Wormtongue for a reason.
But it's the quiet folks in the back with great minsd and terrible ideas that whisper to the peacocks that you really have to watch out for.
Tolkien wrote Wormtongue for a reason.
a man with long hair and a beard is looking at another man
ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is looking at another man
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
In my experience, the preening peacocks and grunting baboons who serve them can cause a lot of damage.
But it's the quiet folks in the back with great minsd and terrible ideas that whisper to the peacocks that you really have to watch out for.
Tolkien wrote Wormtongue for a reason.
But it's the quiet folks in the back with great minsd and terrible ideas that whisper to the peacocks that you really have to watch out for.
Tolkien wrote Wormtongue for a reason.
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It's clear this idea has wide support. An objective International Panel on Inequality with experts from around the world to advise governments, examine current inequality data and look for areas that need more research. Similar to the IPCC. The time is now.
apnews.com/article/glob...
apnews.com/article/glob...
Top economists call on world leaders to set up an international panel on inequality
Hundreds of top economists and other experts including former U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen are calling for the world to set up an independent international panel on income and wealth inequalit...
apnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It's clear this idea has wide support. An objective International Panel on Inequality with experts from around the world to advise governments, examine current inequality data and look for areas that need more research. Similar to the IPCC. The time is now.
apnews.com/article/glob...
apnews.com/article/glob...
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Ken Clarke endorses the idea of banning social media for children under 16 as Australia is doing #BBCQT
"I find it incomprehensible that anybody of any age can spend literally hours each day on a phone exchange views and insults with people they don't know"
"I find it incomprehensible that anybody of any age can spend literally hours each day on a phone exchange views and insults with people they don't know"
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Ken Clarke endorses the idea of banning social media for children under 16 as Australia is doing #BBCQT
"I find it incomprehensible that anybody of any age can spend literally hours each day on a phone exchange views and insults with people they don't know"
"I find it incomprehensible that anybody of any age can spend literally hours each day on a phone exchange views and insults with people they don't know"
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Jeffrey Epstein in 2018: "i know how dirty donald is."
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Jeffrey Epstein in 2018: "i know how dirty donald is."
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#BBCQT We need to stop the right wing from conflating the 'wealthy' and the 'super rich'.
People earning high salaries are not the problem.
Tax income, capital gains, dividends etc, at the same rate and classify loans secured against unrealized gains as income.
People earning high salaries are not the problem.
Tax income, capital gains, dividends etc, at the same rate and classify loans secured against unrealized gains as income.
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
#BBCQT We need to stop the right wing from conflating the 'wealthy' and the 'super rich'.
People earning high salaries are not the problem.
Tax income, capital gains, dividends etc, at the same rate and classify loans secured against unrealized gains as income.
People earning high salaries are not the problem.
Tax income, capital gains, dividends etc, at the same rate and classify loans secured against unrealized gains as income.
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A great interview with Professor Mahmood Mamdani in which he discusses his new memoir, the shortcomings of the boycott as a political tool and its implementation in the anti colonial movement, academic freedom, libraries, and the relationship between scholarship and politics.
No talk of Zohran!
No talk of Zohran!
Mahmood Mamdani Doesn’t Want to Talk About Zohran
The Columbia scholar, and father of the mayor-elect, on politics, academe, and antisemitism.
www.chronicle.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
A great interview with Professor Mahmood Mamdani in which he discusses his new memoir, the shortcomings of the boycott as a political tool and its implementation in the anti colonial movement, academic freedom, libraries, and the relationship between scholarship and politics.
No talk of Zohran!
No talk of Zohran!
Liberal Elites Kicked the Door Wide Open for Trump’s Flagrant Corruption
theintercept.com/2025/11/09/t...
theintercept.com/2025/11/09/t...
Liberal Elites Kicked the Door Wide Open for Trump’s Flagrant Corruption
The president’s corruption is audaciously out in the open, but decades of letting the wealthy play by their own rules enabled him.
theintercept.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Liberal Elites Kicked the Door Wide Open for Trump’s Flagrant Corruption
theintercept.com/2025/11/09/t...
theintercept.com/2025/11/09/t...
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No first family has used the office to make as much money as Donald Trump’s. We're talking hundreds of millions, if not BILLIONS, of dollars.
Here's How Much The Trump Family Is Worth
President Trump just had the most lucrative year of his life. But percentage-wise, his three sons—Don Jr., Eric and Barron—did even better.
www.forbes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
No first family has used the office to make as much money as Donald Trump’s. We're talking hundreds of millions, if not BILLIONS, of dollars.
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Helpful to keep in mind that lying sack of shit Karoline Leavitt ran for Congress in 2022, and lost.
After a lawsuit against her campaign, she was forced to admit that she hid about $326,000 in undisclosed debt. Roughly 200k came from illegal contributions.
She's dirty AF, just like her boss.
After a lawsuit against her campaign, she was forced to admit that she hid about $326,000 in undisclosed debt. Roughly 200k came from illegal contributions.
She's dirty AF, just like her boss.
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Helpful to keep in mind that lying sack of shit Karoline Leavitt ran for Congress in 2022, and lost.
After a lawsuit against her campaign, she was forced to admit that she hid about $326,000 in undisclosed debt. Roughly 200k came from illegal contributions.
She's dirty AF, just like her boss.
After a lawsuit against her campaign, she was forced to admit that she hid about $326,000 in undisclosed debt. Roughly 200k came from illegal contributions.
She's dirty AF, just like her boss.
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Morris Katz, a senior adviser on Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign and currently a senior strategist working on Graham Platner’s Senate run in Maine, says Democrats need more “reluctant candidates.” He explains what he means below👇
(via Crooked - @crooked.com)
@katz_morris | @alexwagner
(via Crooked - @crooked.com)
@katz_morris | @alexwagner
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Morris Katz, a senior adviser on Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign and currently a senior strategist working on Graham Platner’s Senate run in Maine, says Democrats need more “reluctant candidates.” He explains what he means below👇
(via Crooked - @crooked.com)
@katz_morris | @alexwagner
(via Crooked - @crooked.com)
@katz_morris | @alexwagner
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So damning and so dangerous. We've long known that Fox News is essentially a right wing propaganda outlet that profits from scaring and enraging its audience, but its symbiotic relationship with the Trump regime takes it to a whole new level.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
So damning and so dangerous. We've long known that Fox News is essentially a right wing propaganda outlet that profits from scaring and enraging its audience, but its symbiotic relationship with the Trump regime takes it to a whole new level.
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Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions | Mark Cunliffe
#CentralBylines
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#CentralBylines
centralbylines.co.uk/politics/a-n...
A new survey reveals negative attitudes to Reform UK Ltd
Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions
centralbylines.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions | Mark Cunliffe
#CentralBylines
centralbylines.co.uk/politics/a-n...
#CentralBylines
centralbylines.co.uk/politics/a-n...
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This will kill the heat pump market.
And that means cuts in investment in the whole system: tech, skills, supply chain, business investment.
And the subsidy is not a *benefit*, it's designed to equalise the choice between gas and electric.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And that means cuts in investment in the whole system: tech, skills, supply chain, business investment.
And the subsidy is not a *benefit*, it's designed to equalise the choice between gas and electric.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan
Exclusive: chancellor plans to fund energy efficiency levies via warm homes plan as part of drive to lower energy bills
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This will kill the heat pump market.
And that means cuts in investment in the whole system: tech, skills, supply chain, business investment.
And the subsidy is not a *benefit*, it's designed to equalise the choice between gas and electric.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And that means cuts in investment in the whole system: tech, skills, supply chain, business investment.
And the subsidy is not a *benefit*, it's designed to equalise the choice between gas and electric.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Rather than protecting the rare earths capacity it already has, Europe is being extorted into sending the production process over to the US for *seemingly no reason*. So that it can be rare-earths-dependent on both China *and* US.
This continent is absolutely determined to dig its own grave.
This continent is absolutely determined to dig its own grave.
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Rather than protecting the rare earths capacity it already has, Europe is being extorted into sending the production process over to the US for *seemingly no reason*. So that it can be rare-earths-dependent on both China *and* US.
This continent is absolutely determined to dig its own grave.
This continent is absolutely determined to dig its own grave.
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Stuart Rojstaczer isn’t holding back! Trump’s name is all over the new Epstein emails. The question now: when the discharge petition passes, will the Senate finally let the truth out? And if it lands on Trump’s desk will he sign it, or bury it like the rest? 👀
#TruthWillComeOut
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
#TruthWillComeOut
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Stuart Rojstaczer isn’t holding back! Trump’s name is all over the new Epstein emails. The question now: when the discharge petition passes, will the Senate finally let the truth out? And if it lands on Trump’s desk will he sign it, or bury it like the rest? 👀
#TruthWillComeOut
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
#TruthWillComeOut
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
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The Supreme Court just refused to stay this young girl's removal to Venezuela, uprooting her from her life in Texas to a foreign country where neither of her parents currently live. Sotomayor and Jackson note their dissents.
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The Supreme Court just refused to stay this young girl's removal to Venezuela, uprooting her from her life in Texas to a foreign country where neither of her parents currently live. Sotomayor and Jackson note their dissents.
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Very strongly, with regard to cognitive
Trump: "Christians and more, think of this, more than twice as likely foster care they'll adopt the general population. They adopt to it so easily. When they get out, they adopt to it like it's become second nature. It's amazing."
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Very strongly, with regard to cognitive
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Guess what Trump did to the U.S. Attorney in Southern Florida who went behind victims' backs, over line prosecutor's head, & approved an arguably-illegal 2008 nonprosecution agreement with Epstein.
Trump made him U.S. Secretary of Labor in 2017.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...
Trump made him U.S. Secretary of Labor in 2017.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...
Alexander Acosta - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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When you have to check if it’s The Onion or a real headline.
November 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
When you have to check if it’s The Onion or a real headline.
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Why would any Democrat surrender unconditionally to Donald Trump after overwhelming Democratic victories in New Jersey and Virginia?
Instead of bailing out Trump politically, we should hold him accountable.
Instead of bailing out Trump politically, we should hold him accountable.
November 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Why would any Democrat surrender unconditionally to Donald Trump after overwhelming Democratic victories in New Jersey and Virginia?
Instead of bailing out Trump politically, we should hold him accountable.
Instead of bailing out Trump politically, we should hold him accountable.
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pedophilia is the president's worst issue
Enten: "Trump is 39 below water on the Epstein case. 39 points in the negative! My goodness gracious. What Trump has been selling on the Epstein files, the Epstein case, the American people have not been buying at all ... less than half of Republicans are buying it. This is his worst issue by far"
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
pedophilia is the president's worst issue