Elizabeth Carson
@ennuinyc.bsky.social
New Yorker, ex-journalist, amateur historian. We have a lot of work to do.
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The founding fathers did not live and die to see this moment. It’s time for all of us to stand up peacefully.
June 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The founding fathers did not live and die to see this moment. It’s time for all of us to stand up peacefully.
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@boone.bsky.social and I just updated our WIRED Guide to safe protests—which I first wrote with @louryn.bsky.social back in 2020, and we've been updating since—and it includes new considerations for citizens and non-citizens alike. Please read www.wired.com/story/how-to...
How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid
If you’re planning to hit the streets, here’s what you need to know.
www.wired.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
@boone.bsky.social and I just updated our WIRED Guide to safe protests—which I first wrote with @louryn.bsky.social back in 2020, and we've been updating since—and it includes new considerations for citizens and non-citizens alike. Please read www.wired.com/story/how-to...
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The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke.
It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
April 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke.
It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
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The credibility of the US government is completely shot.
Gone.
Annihilated.
Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this Administration.
Ever.
Gone.
Annihilated.
Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this Administration.
Ever.
April 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The credibility of the US government is completely shot.
Gone.
Annihilated.
Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this Administration.
Ever.
Gone.
Annihilated.
Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this Administration.
Ever.
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There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com
March 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com
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This is great - and what every Dem leader needs to be doing.
And Jeffries and Schumer and the whole Dem leadership should be calling for a day of action when millions stream into DC and many millions more all turn out for parallel events in every state with local Dem leaders.
And Jeffries and Schumer and the whole Dem leadership should be calling for a day of action when millions stream into DC and many millions more all turn out for parallel events in every state with local Dem leaders.
Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
March 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This is great - and what every Dem leader needs to be doing.
And Jeffries and Schumer and the whole Dem leadership should be calling for a day of action when millions stream into DC and many millions more all turn out for parallel events in every state with local Dem leaders.
And Jeffries and Schumer and the whole Dem leadership should be calling for a day of action when millions stream into DC and many millions more all turn out for parallel events in every state with local Dem leaders.
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#NY #Westchester #Rockland #NY17
🗓️Tomorrow, Sat 3/22
⏰1pm
📍900 Main St, Peekskill, NY
MAGA Mike Lawler might not show up to listen to NY-ers affected by the devastating budget cuts he voted for. 🤬 But Indivisibles & @fightlawler.bsky.social will! 💪
📺🎥 So will the media! So help fill up the room!
🗓️Tomorrow, Sat 3/22
⏰1pm
📍900 Main St, Peekskill, NY
MAGA Mike Lawler might not show up to listen to NY-ers affected by the devastating budget cuts he voted for. 🤬 But Indivisibles & @fightlawler.bsky.social will! 💪
📺🎥 So will the media! So help fill up the room!
March 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
#NY #Westchester #Rockland #NY17
🗓️Tomorrow, Sat 3/22
⏰1pm
📍900 Main St, Peekskill, NY
MAGA Mike Lawler might not show up to listen to NY-ers affected by the devastating budget cuts he voted for. 🤬 But Indivisibles & @fightlawler.bsky.social will! 💪
📺🎥 So will the media! So help fill up the room!
🗓️Tomorrow, Sat 3/22
⏰1pm
📍900 Main St, Peekskill, NY
MAGA Mike Lawler might not show up to listen to NY-ers affected by the devastating budget cuts he voted for. 🤬 But Indivisibles & @fightlawler.bsky.social will! 💪
📺🎥 So will the media! So help fill up the room!
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When these institutions — big law firms, Ivy League universities —bow to Trump rather than fighting what appear to be illegal orders, do they think he’ll just be satisfied and stop? Do they just expect others to fight where they won’t?
March 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
When these institutions — big law firms, Ivy League universities —bow to Trump rather than fighting what appear to be illegal orders, do they think he’ll just be satisfied and stop? Do they just expect others to fight where they won’t?
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As today's originalists sit idle while the world's richest man and his minor billionaire patron run the US government with no regard for checks or balances, it's worth remembering that in 1787 the fairly conservative Noah Webster noted that great accumulations of wealth could destroy a republic.
March 21, 2025 at 5:32 AM
As today's originalists sit idle while the world's richest man and his minor billionaire patron run the US government with no regard for checks or balances, it's worth remembering that in 1787 the fairly conservative Noah Webster noted that great accumulations of wealth could destroy a republic.
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The Onion is on it
March 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The Onion is on it
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If your excuse as an elected official, here in 2025, for not doing something that is in the interest of Dems who elected you is that Republicans might weaponize it, you are not living in 2025. They are going to weaponize anything you do, either way. They have demonstrated this over and over.
March 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If your excuse as an elected official, here in 2025, for not doing something that is in the interest of Dems who elected you is that Republicans might weaponize it, you are not living in 2025. They are going to weaponize anything you do, either way. They have demonstrated this over and over.
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And there it is.
Accommodation and acquiescence. Learned helplessness and preemptive surrender. Retreat and complicity.
In the midst of an unprecedented assault on the constitutional order, the nominal opposition party fails to use the one key tool in its arsenal to push back. What a disaster.
Accommodation and acquiescence. Learned helplessness and preemptive surrender. Retreat and complicity.
In the midst of an unprecedented assault on the constitutional order, the nominal opposition party fails to use the one key tool in its arsenal to push back. What a disaster.
The final tally to advance the CR is 62-38.
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
March 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
And there it is.
Accommodation and acquiescence. Learned helplessness and preemptive surrender. Retreat and complicity.
In the midst of an unprecedented assault on the constitutional order, the nominal opposition party fails to use the one key tool in its arsenal to push back. What a disaster.
Accommodation and acquiescence. Learned helplessness and preemptive surrender. Retreat and complicity.
In the midst of an unprecedented assault on the constitutional order, the nominal opposition party fails to use the one key tool in its arsenal to push back. What a disaster.
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If we are honest, we are ready to throw our phones at Senators, but we still need to push them. This bill cannot pass.
📱 (202) 224-3121
📱 (202) 224-3121
We are getting a LOT of messages asking "why say the Democratic Senators need to be pressured, aren't they doing everything they can?"
No, they are not. Not close.
Democrats in the Senate are going along with what Republican Senators want, because they want to be buddy-buddy with those R's. 1/2
No, they are not. Not close.
Democrats in the Senate are going along with what Republican Senators want, because they want to be buddy-buddy with those R's. 1/2
March 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
If we are honest, we are ready to throw our phones at Senators, but we still need to push them. This bill cannot pass.
📱 (202) 224-3121
📱 (202) 224-3121
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“…the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.” - FDR, 1938
March 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“…the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.” - FDR, 1938
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Learn from history- rights to peaceful protest & assembly CANNOT be taken for granted. Use them or lose them! For that to be effective, we need to create safety in large numbers. They can arrest/intimidate a few of us, but not ALL of us! 💪
Keep showing up! ✊
📆Next 50501 Day of Action is Sat 4/5!
Keep showing up! ✊
📆Next 50501 Day of Action is Sat 4/5!
I know a lot of us are pissed at Dems today, myself included lol,
I’ve found shouting at protests to be one of the best ways to release anger! 🪧
See you at the @50501movement.bsky.social protests on Sat, April 5th! 🗽
www.fiftyfifty.one/
I’ve found shouting at protests to be one of the best ways to release anger! 🪧
See you at the @50501movement.bsky.social protests on Sat, April 5th! 🗽
www.fiftyfifty.one/
March 7, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Learn from history- rights to peaceful protest & assembly CANNOT be taken for granted. Use them or lose them! For that to be effective, we need to create safety in large numbers. They can arrest/intimidate a few of us, but not ALL of us! 💪
Keep showing up! ✊
📆Next 50501 Day of Action is Sat 4/5!
Keep showing up! ✊
📆Next 50501 Day of Action is Sat 4/5!
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We have been complacent, trusting the system, for far too long.
We have to be more vocal & stay that way…
Keep ☎️📱💻✉️📠
Use every form of contact your Reps have; as many as you can find; as often as you can.
Take advantage of helpers like @5calls.org & @resist.bot
Overwhelm them with feedback
We have to be more vocal & stay that way…
Keep ☎️📱💻✉️📠
Use every form of contact your Reps have; as many as you can find; as often as you can.
Take advantage of helpers like @5calls.org & @resist.bot
Overwhelm them with feedback
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez states that calling your reps does make a difference! Download the free “5 Calls” app. It gives you the numbers for your Representatives & scripts to use for many subjects if you don’t know what to say.
March 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
We have been complacent, trusting the system, for far too long.
We have to be more vocal & stay that way…
Keep ☎️📱💻✉️📠
Use every form of contact your Reps have; as many as you can find; as often as you can.
Take advantage of helpers like @5calls.org & @resist.bot
Overwhelm them with feedback
We have to be more vocal & stay that way…
Keep ☎️📱💻✉️📠
Use every form of contact your Reps have; as many as you can find; as often as you can.
Take advantage of helpers like @5calls.org & @resist.bot
Overwhelm them with feedback
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The problem with Democratic Party is that no one takes them seriously because they don’t take themselves seriously.
You can’t simultaneously argue Trump is a fascist intent on destroying democracy but your major response is to wear a pink suit to a speech, and expect to be taken seriously.
You can’t simultaneously argue Trump is a fascist intent on destroying democracy but your major response is to wear a pink suit to a speech, and expect to be taken seriously.
March 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
The problem with Democratic Party is that no one takes them seriously because they don’t take themselves seriously.
You can’t simultaneously argue Trump is a fascist intent on destroying democracy but your major response is to wear a pink suit to a speech, and expect to be taken seriously.
You can’t simultaneously argue Trump is a fascist intent on destroying democracy but your major response is to wear a pink suit to a speech, and expect to be taken seriously.
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Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement
FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS
FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS
March 5, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement
FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS
FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS
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As clear a sign as any that congressional Dems either don’t fully grasp or are incapable of confronting the constitutional crisis.
March 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
As clear a sign as any that congressional Dems either don’t fully grasp or are incapable of confronting the constitutional crisis.
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Trump hails his first month as the greatest first month of any president and he's more popular than ever. But...
March 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Trump hails his first month as the greatest first month of any president and he's more popular than ever. But...
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It is time for more Democrats to get themselves thrown out of this room
March 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
It is time for more Democrats to get themselves thrown out of this room
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Trump didn't win 50% of the popular vote.
The GOP has slim margins in both the House and Senate.
His approval ratings are tanking.
He does not have a mandate.
Do not let him gaslight you into believing he is all powerful.
He's not.
The GOP has slim margins in both the House and Senate.
His approval ratings are tanking.
He does not have a mandate.
Do not let him gaslight you into believing he is all powerful.
He's not.
March 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Trump didn't win 50% of the popular vote.
The GOP has slim margins in both the House and Senate.
His approval ratings are tanking.
He does not have a mandate.
Do not let him gaslight you into believing he is all powerful.
He's not.
The GOP has slim margins in both the House and Senate.
His approval ratings are tanking.
He does not have a mandate.
Do not let him gaslight you into believing he is all powerful.
He's not.
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Democrats should have a hundred video editors doing rapid response on everything that's about to happen but just not clear if there's the organization or energy for any of that absent a campaign.
March 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Democrats should have a hundred video editors doing rapid response on everything that's about to happen but just not clear if there's the organization or energy for any of that absent a campaign.
At first I thought this was an Onion headline. Unless we all rise up and protest, we are all doomed. I’ve given up on the Dems.
Democratic lawmakers are expected to communicate their opposition to Donald Trump during the president’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday night by color-coordinating.
Democrats Plan to Protest Trump’s Speech by Wearing Pink
Democratic lawmakers are expected to communicate their opposition to Donald Trump during the president’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday night by color-coordinating.
www.thecut.com
March 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
At first I thought this was an Onion headline. Unless we all rise up and protest, we are all doomed. I’ve given up on the Dems.