Elsa Westerlund
@elsawesterlund.com
jd candidate @ harvard, recovering lobbyist, lover of vermont. interests: LPE, digital taxation, transnational corporations. 🇫🇮 in 🇭🇰🇺🇸.
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Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window
February 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window
Read this today.
This is so good - @vermontgmg.bsky.social takes a stab at imagining how the US press would be covering overseas what's happening inside the U.S. right now:
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Read this today.
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The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
CDCGuidelines.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
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Please kill me
February 1, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Please kill me
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If I were a fed govt employee, I’d hold out until they threw in $200 for your first bet on Draftkings.
January 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
If I were a fed govt employee, I’d hold out until they threw in $200 for your first bet on Draftkings.
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It is v interesting that altho most of the legal convo on this site yesterday about the OMB freeze of federal funding focused on impoundment issues, the complaint that led to the administrative stay of the freeze last night instead made a 1A argument. 🧵
January 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It is v interesting that altho most of the legal convo on this site yesterday about the OMB freeze of federal funding focused on impoundment issues, the complaint that led to the administrative stay of the freeze last night instead made a 1A argument. 🧵
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This shows an astounding lack of understanding of what government is.
The phrase continuity of government, for example, exists because the whole point is that government is not a company. It doesn't stop. It is the compact we have made to protect our people and our rights.
Trump is failing us.
The phrase continuity of government, for example, exists because the whole point is that government is not a company. It doesn't stop. It is the compact we have made to protect our people and our rights.
Trump is failing us.
Trump is doing what you do after you acquire a company. Crazy I know. But reality. The Dir of NIH should reach out to DOGE and offer to bring them in to remove inefficiencies.
There are always some and the Director know what they are.
DOGE gets a win. NIH gets back to work.
There are always some and the Director know what they are.
DOGE gets a win. NIH gets back to work.
Hi Mark, how do you feel about cancer research being canceled.
January 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This shows an astounding lack of understanding of what government is.
The phrase continuity of government, for example, exists because the whole point is that government is not a company. It doesn't stop. It is the compact we have made to protect our people and our rights.
Trump is failing us.
The phrase continuity of government, for example, exists because the whole point is that government is not a company. It doesn't stop. It is the compact we have made to protect our people and our rights.
Trump is failing us.
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I'm going to write something new today, but the white media quest to normalize the idea of ending birthright citizenship has been going on for some time. Yesterday was the capstone of the white supremacist project on this issue. Here's me from 6 years ago on @abovethelaw.com
Post Runs White Nationalist Propaganda Masquerading As Law-Talkin’
The quest to make revoking birthright citizenship a 'mainstream' view needs to end.
abovethelaw.com
January 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I'm going to write something new today, but the white media quest to normalize the idea of ending birthright citizenship has been going on for some time. Yesterday was the capstone of the white supremacist project on this issue. Here's me from 6 years ago on @abovethelaw.com
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Everything happening with TikTok this weekend is a show and happening outside the legal system. I’m looking at it this way: TikTok shut down to send the message to users that Trump wanted to fix it; TikTok is coming back up before the inauguration because Trump wants it up for his inauguration.
January 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Everything happening with TikTok this weekend is a show and happening outside the legal system. I’m looking at it this way: TikTok shut down to send the message to users that Trump wanted to fix it; TikTok is coming back up before the inauguration because Trump wants it up for his inauguration.
Reasons to love the EU… GDPR 🤝🏼
Better idea: pass a comprehensive data privacy bill that applies across the board... and maybe *DON'T* mimic Chinese authoritarianism by creating a "Great Firewall" of apps that aren't allowed to operate here.
You can actually fix things AND not abuse the 1st Amendment in one shot!
You can actually fix things AND not abuse the 1st Amendment in one shot!
I’m concerned that Americans are flocking to a number of adversary-owned social media platforms. We still need a comprehensive and risk-based approach to assessing and mitigating the risks of foreign-owned apps.
January 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Reasons to love the EU… GDPR 🤝🏼
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By “free speech” they meant “make it illegal to dislike me”
January 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
By “free speech” they meant “make it illegal to dislike me”
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what if I told you there was this annual amount you could pay every march that would cover this
“Will pay any amount.”
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
January 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
what if I told you there was this annual amount you could pay every march that would cover this
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low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.
Zuckerberg says people who leave his platforms are "virtue signaling"
January 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.
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I know I’m a broken record, but the people who are hoarding the resources and infrastructure that could theoretically rebuild the planet are focusing on space colonies, bunkers, and shock collars. Earth is being abandoned by people who can afford to leave. www.theguardian.com/news/2022/se...
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I know I’m a broken record, but the people who are hoarding the resources and infrastructure that could theoretically rebuild the planet are focusing on space colonies, bunkers, and shock collars. Earth is being abandoned by people who can afford to leave. www.theguardian.com/news/2022/se...
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An Alabama mom hit by the Bourbon Street attacker's truck then shot in the attack, who still has a bullet lodged in her foot, told a @nolanews.bsky.social reporter that the Amazon warehouse where she works denied her request for a leave of absence.
Alabama mom hit by truck, then shot in Bourbon Street attack: 'It's just so disturbing'
A night of revelry was coming to a close for Alexis Scott-Windham and her friends in the early hours of New Year's Eve after they came from Mobile, Alabama to
www.nola.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
An Alabama mom hit by the Bourbon Street attacker's truck then shot in the attack, who still has a bullet lodged in her foot, told a @nolanews.bsky.social reporter that the Amazon warehouse where she works denied her request for a leave of absence.
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Every time I see someone talk about the freedom of “self driving cars” I want to yell “YOU WANT A TRAIN”
Air travel is miserable and cars are emotional cages; the only way to restore American communities is through rail. Make Chicago a great central rail hub again!
December 30, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Every time I see someone talk about the freedom of “self driving cars” I want to yell “YOU WANT A TRAIN”
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realizing i never posted it here….but too long have we been limited by the 2-dimensional political alignment chart. i think by using my new tool we can truly map another person's politics. here it is: The Ideology Cube
December 27, 2024 at 10:17 PM
realizing i never posted it here….but too long have we been limited by the 2-dimensional political alignment chart. i think by using my new tool we can truly map another person's politics. here it is: The Ideology Cube
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ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
This is what they wrote.
This is what they wrote.
December 27, 2024 at 12:00 PM
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
This is what they wrote.
This is what they wrote.
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If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages:
December 19, 2024 at 4:12 PM
If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages:
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At The Verge, @lopatto.bsky.social reports on how AI-generated answers to search queries are feeding into “the large-scale degradation of our information environment,” and asks: “What good is an answer machine that nobody can trust?” www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...
Stop using generative AI as a search engine
Sometimes ChatGPT spits out something original — and wrong, like fake presidential pardons.
www.theverge.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:17 PM
At The Verge, @lopatto.bsky.social reports on how AI-generated answers to search queries are feeding into “the large-scale degradation of our information environment,” and asks: “What good is an answer machine that nobody can trust?” www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...
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This is despicable. They're forcing people to choose whether it's worth risking deportation to:
Go to their child's parent-teacher conference
Get treatment for an illness or injury
Celebrate holidays and weddings and funerals with their loved ones
Turn to church food pantries for aid
Go to their child's parent-teacher conference
Get treatment for an illness or injury
Celebrate holidays and weddings and funerals with their loved ones
Turn to church food pantries for aid
Trump plans to rescind a longstanding policy within ICE that prevents unauthorized arrests of undocumented immigrants in sensitive places — including schools, hospitals and places of worship.
Trump Plans to End ICE Policy Against Raids in Churches, Schools and Hospitals
The policy change “will impact every person in our country — immigrant and U.S.-born alike,” one critic said.
truthout.org
December 13, 2024 at 12:09 AM
This is despicable. They're forcing people to choose whether it's worth risking deportation to:
Go to their child's parent-teacher conference
Get treatment for an illness or injury
Celebrate holidays and weddings and funerals with their loved ones
Turn to church food pantries for aid
Go to their child's parent-teacher conference
Get treatment for an illness or injury
Celebrate holidays and weddings and funerals with their loved ones
Turn to church food pantries for aid
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My take on the Hunter Biden news is that trump has proposed creating a network of concentration camps to deal with the undocumented millions in our country
December 2, 2024 at 2:08 AM
My take on the Hunter Biden news is that trump has proposed creating a network of concentration camps to deal with the undocumented millions in our country
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I want to abolish health insurance companies and create a single-payer system. Trump wants to feed the last shreds of the public safety net to billionaires. You might say we both want to "shake up health care"
December 2, 2024 at 5:45 PM
I want to abolish health insurance companies and create a single-payer system. Trump wants to feed the last shreds of the public safety net to billionaires. You might say we both want to "shake up health care"
Worst part of law school has to be that you start writing things like (supra) and just pretend that’s okay and normal
December 2, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Worst part of law school has to be that you start writing things like (supra) and just pretend that’s okay and normal
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If he's going there for his son, he had better do this. www.lawdork.com/p/joe-biden-...
December 2, 2024 at 12:21 AM
If he's going there for his son, he had better do this. www.lawdork.com/p/joe-biden-...