Elizabeth Bennett
@elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social
Old-timey congressional staff, herder of regulations and writer.
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I wrote a thread in 2021 imagining life in Nazi America as a thought experiment. The goal was to get people to think about how it would affect *them* and not just think about it historically hoping maybe they’d rage against it. Oh well…
It’s the only thing I wanted to salvage from the old place.
It’s the only thing I wanted to salvage from the old place.
I worked on the emergency teams preparing for 2 Super Bowls in previous decades. We were focused on international terrorist threats, not threats from our own federal government.
Maybe Dems in Congress should consider doing something about that.
Maybe Dems in Congress should consider doing something about that.
As the Patriots take the field tonight, every fan should be able to enjoy the game without fear.
Like the patriots of 1776, we must demand a future free from authoritarian violence.
Defund and abolish this violent agency and keep them out of the Super Bowl.
Like the patriots of 1776, we must demand a future free from authoritarian violence.
Defund and abolish this violent agency and keep them out of the Super Bowl.
February 8, 2026 at 3:31 PM
I worked on the emergency teams preparing for 2 Super Bowls in previous decades. We were focused on international terrorist threats, not threats from our own federal government.
Maybe Dems in Congress should consider doing something about that.
Maybe Dems in Congress should consider doing something about that.
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Taxing billionaires out of existence may be the most critical domestic policy fight of our lifetimes.
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Taxing billionaires out of existence may be the most critical domestic policy fight of our lifetimes.
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Well, I ain't often right but I've never been wrong.
It seldom turns out the way it does in the song.
Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
It seldom turns out the way it does in the song.
Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
February 8, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Well, I ain't often right but I've never been wrong.
It seldom turns out the way it does in the song.
Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
It seldom turns out the way it does in the song.
Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
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Like his Confederate forebears, Ted Cruz talked a big game, started a fight, got absolutely dog walked, then cried about how unfair it all was. A story in four images.
February 7, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Like his Confederate forebears, Ted Cruz talked a big game, started a fight, got absolutely dog walked, then cried about how unfair it all was. A story in four images.
This explains a lot.
February 5, 2026 at 1:14 AM
This explains a lot.
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in order to save this country we are probably going to have to do things that make rich men sad 😔
February 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM
in order to save this country we are probably going to have to do things that make rich men sad 😔
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This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
February 4, 2026 at 12:53 AM
This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
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Lilac rain, unbroken chain, Song of the sawhet owl.
Out on the mountain, it'll drive you insane, Listening to the winds howl
Out on the mountain, it'll drive you insane, Listening to the winds howl
February 3, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Lilac rain, unbroken chain, Song of the sawhet owl.
Out on the mountain, it'll drive you insane, Listening to the winds howl
Out on the mountain, it'll drive you insane, Listening to the winds howl
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Our entire government is starting to feel like Make-A-Wish for a dying narcissist.
February 2, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Our entire government is starting to feel like Make-A-Wish for a dying narcissist.
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This Member of Congress finally got access to the Minneapolis detention center and her report is genuinely appalling. Please watch and share.
My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis.
This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg
This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg
Rep. Morrison details her oversight of the federal Whipple building
YouTube video by Rep. Kelly Morrison
youtu.be
February 2, 2026 at 12:47 AM
This Member of Congress finally got access to the Minneapolis detention center and her report is genuinely appalling. Please watch and share.
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It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies
February 2, 2026 at 7:15 AM
It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies
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Schumer is dangerous for us. Not merely unfit to lead.
February 1, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Schumer is dangerous for us. Not merely unfit to lead.
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Blue light rain, whoa unbroken chain,
Looking for familiar faces in an empty window pane.
Looking for familiar faces in an empty window pane.
February 1, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Blue light rain, whoa unbroken chain,
Looking for familiar faces in an empty window pane.
Looking for familiar faces in an empty window pane.
I worked for a congressman, and before he left office, I asked him to sign my pocket copy of the Constitution b/c he was a constitutional officeholder.
…like Chuck Grassley has been for a millennium.
…like Chuck Grassley has been for a millennium.
Suddenly republicans have forgotten what the constitution says 🤷🏼 🇺🇸
February 1, 2026 at 1:45 PM
I worked for a congressman, and before he left office, I asked him to sign my pocket copy of the Constitution b/c he was a constitutional officeholder.
…like Chuck Grassley has been for a millennium.
…like Chuck Grassley has been for a millennium.
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When do we start talking about Schumer not as spineless but as an active saboteur?
Because I feel like we maybe crossed that line years ago and I genuinely do not understand how he is not being swirlied in a historically important toilet by some ranking member of some subcommittee right now.
Because I feel like we maybe crossed that line years ago and I genuinely do not understand how he is not being swirlied in a historically important toilet by some ranking member of some subcommittee right now.
January 31, 2026 at 11:46 PM
When do we start talking about Schumer not as spineless but as an active saboteur?
Because I feel like we maybe crossed that line years ago and I genuinely do not understand how he is not being swirlied in a historically important toilet by some ranking member of some subcommittee right now.
Because I feel like we maybe crossed that line years ago and I genuinely do not understand how he is not being swirlied in a historically important toilet by some ranking member of some subcommittee right now.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Road to the Holocaust
2. Intro to Pharmacy
3. Parliamentary Political Systems
4. Technology’s Effect on History
5. Tudor England
1. Road to the Holocaust
2. Intro to Pharmacy
3. Parliamentary Political Systems
4. Technology’s Effect on History
5. Tudor England
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Road to the Holocaust
2. Intro to Pharmacy
3. Parliamentary Political Systems
4. Technology’s Effect on History
5. Tudor England
1. Road to the Holocaust
2. Intro to Pharmacy
3. Parliamentary Political Systems
4. Technology’s Effect on History
5. Tudor England
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All I know is something like a bird within her sang,
All I know she sang a little while and then flew on,
Tell me all that you know,
I'll show you snow and rain.
All I know she sang a little while and then flew on,
Tell me all that you know,
I'll show you snow and rain.
January 31, 2026 at 12:20 PM
All I know is something like a bird within her sang,
All I know she sang a little while and then flew on,
Tell me all that you know,
I'll show you snow and rain.
All I know she sang a little while and then flew on,
Tell me all that you know,
I'll show you snow and rain.
Public servant
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Public servant
How did your vote advance that bullshit “goal,” @gluesenkampperez.house.gov ?
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (one of 7 Democrats who just voted to fund DHS) defends her stance.
Argues funding for ICE "is not the question." Instead, Senate Democrats have leverage for various demands.
"I think they could negotiate to replace Noem with someone that doesn't skirt the filibuster."
Argues funding for ICE "is not the question." Instead, Senate Democrats have leverage for various demands.
"I think they could negotiate to replace Noem with someone that doesn't skirt the filibuster."
January 28, 2026 at 10:25 PM
How did your vote advance that bullshit “goal,” @gluesenkampperez.house.gov ?
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There's no ICE accountability without ending qualified immunity.
They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.
My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.
They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.
My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.
January 27, 2026 at 9:02 PM
There's no ICE accountability without ending qualified immunity.
They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.
My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.
They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.
My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.
This is the correct approach, @whitehouse.senate.gov @reed.senate.gov.
I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:
So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?
January 27, 2026 at 9:40 PM
This is the correct approach, @whitehouse.senate.gov @reed.senate.gov.
Is this OK with y’all?
Of course we expect you not to fund this—that’s the bare minimum. We also expect you to burn it to the ground.
@amo.house.gov
@magaziner.house.gov
@whitehouse.senate.gov
@reed.senate.gov
Of course we expect you not to fund this—that’s the bare minimum. We also expect you to burn it to the ground.
@amo.house.gov
@magaziner.house.gov
@whitehouse.senate.gov
@reed.senate.gov
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
Story: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
January 27, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Is this OK with y’all?
Of course we expect you not to fund this—that’s the bare minimum. We also expect you to burn it to the ground.
@amo.house.gov
@magaziner.house.gov
@whitehouse.senate.gov
@reed.senate.gov
Of course we expect you not to fund this—that’s the bare minimum. We also expect you to burn it to the ground.
@amo.house.gov
@magaziner.house.gov
@whitehouse.senate.gov
@reed.senate.gov
This is perfection.
For sale: Nazi coat, gently worn
(Size small)
(Size small)
January 27, 2026 at 1:25 AM
This is perfection.
This perfectly encapsulates the absurdity of the pro-2A NRA nut arguments we’ve been subjected to all my life.
I hope someone is marking all this down for the aftertimes.
I hope someone is marking all this down for the aftertimes.
Americans must have the right to bear arms so that they can resist tyranny. But if they exercise that right in a time of tyranny, they should expect to be shot and killed.
January 26, 2026 at 4:31 PM
This perfectly encapsulates the absurdity of the pro-2A NRA nut arguments we’ve been subjected to all my life.
I hope someone is marking all this down for the aftertimes.
I hope someone is marking all this down for the aftertimes.
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Hey @governorwalz.mn.gov, I hear for about $50 G’s in a Cava bag, Tom Homan will do just about whatever you want. I’m sure you could raise that amount of money with one post in about 15 seconds.
January 26, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Hey @governorwalz.mn.gov, I hear for about $50 G’s in a Cava bag, Tom Homan will do just about whatever you want. I’m sure you could raise that amount of money with one post in about 15 seconds.