Elizabeth Le Fen
@fenbeast.bsky.social
Martial artist with creaky knees. Only functioning pancreas in the fam. Fiber arts & STEM editing. She/her. Language NSFW. Opinions mine. My cat Anakin stares at you.
Yes, I listened to the Les Miserables soundtrack while driving to Massachusetts to collect my spouse. Why do you ask?
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Yes, I listened to the Les Miserables soundtrack while driving to Massachusetts to collect my spouse. Why do you ask?
There is ample evidence that helping others benefits the helper as well as the helped.
Yes, even in capitalism.
Yes, even in capitalism.
How U.S. Foreign Aid Policies Affect Global Business Operations
Aid reductions will have ripple effects across aid-enabled infrastructure and operations in developing markets.
mitsmr.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
There is ample evidence that helping others benefits the helper as well as the helped.
Yes, even in capitalism.
Yes, even in capitalism.
If you suspend someone without telling them why, you give them no opportunity to appeal.
and
If you suspend someone who researches authoritarianism and you don't tell them (or anyone else) why, you're going to be presumed to be objecting to their work.
Is it really so hard to be transparent?
and
If you suspend someone who researches authoritarianism and you don't tell them (or anyone else) why, you're going to be presumed to be objecting to their work.
Is it really so hard to be transparent?
False attribution. If a person is suspended it is because of their identity? Could it not be because of their content? I wrote about it here aaron.leaflet.pub/3m52nqqmk322v
Moderating With Humans, For Humans - Trust Issues
aaron.leaflet.pub
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
If you suspend someone without telling them why, you give them no opportunity to appeal.
and
If you suspend someone who researches authoritarianism and you don't tell them (or anyone else) why, you're going to be presumed to be objecting to their work.
Is it really so hard to be transparent?
and
If you suspend someone who researches authoritarianism and you don't tell them (or anyone else) why, you're going to be presumed to be objecting to their work.
Is it really so hard to be transparent?
Happy side effect of my husband having to quit smoking for his surgery: Several of his longtime smoking friends, having seen him do it, have now determined that they shall do the same.
Because none of them, apparently, thought he could.
(That includes the surgeon, btw.)
Because none of them, apparently, thought he could.
(That includes the surgeon, btw.)
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Happy side effect of my husband having to quit smoking for his surgery: Several of his longtime smoking friends, having seen him do it, have now determined that they shall do the same.
Because none of them, apparently, thought he could.
(That includes the surgeon, btw.)
Because none of them, apparently, thought he could.
(That includes the surgeon, btw.)
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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The money is so stacked against us that we have 0% of the Senate representing us.
They did. My god. They are fast tracking the vote.
Every single one of them.
Every single one of them.
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The money is so stacked against us that we have 0% of the Senate representing us.
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Opinion | Eight Democratic senators just sold their constituents out for nothing more than a pat on the head from Joe Scarborough. Even Judas asked for 50 pieces of silver.
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Opinion | Eight Democratic senators just sold their constituents out for nothing more than a pat on the head from Joe Scarborough. Even Judas asked for 50 pieces of silver.
Just fetched my spouse home from the hospital at the start of what has been, and will be, a very long and difficult road to recovery. I am absolutely incensed by the lack of commitment.
We wanted you to fight for our health care @senangusking.bsky.social
You freaking blew it.
#MEPolitics
You freaking blew it.
#MEPolitics
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Just fetched my spouse home from the hospital at the start of what has been, and will be, a very long and difficult road to recovery. I am absolutely incensed by the lack of commitment.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Just as Louis Leakey advocated for Jane Goodall and other women scientists, today’s leaders can create lasting impact through authentic sponsorship and inclusion.
https://mitsmr.com/3Xn0mnm
https://mitsmr.com/3Xn0mnm
What Jane Goodall's Career Teaches Us About Allyship and Sponsorship
Leaders can apply five time-tested lessons to help elevate people whose talents might otherwise go unrecognized.
mitsmr.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Just as Louis Leakey advocated for Jane Goodall and other women scientists, today’s leaders can create lasting impact through authentic sponsorship and inclusion.
https://mitsmr.com/3Xn0mnm
https://mitsmr.com/3Xn0mnm
I’ve administered medication via a PICC line for the very first time.
I wish I could go back in time and slap some sense into the “oh I could never do that job” kid I was when I started college because dammit, a nursing degree would’ve come in handy.
I wish I could go back in time and slap some sense into the “oh I could never do that job” kid I was when I started college because dammit, a nursing degree would’ve come in handy.
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I’ve administered medication via a PICC line for the very first time.
I wish I could go back in time and slap some sense into the “oh I could never do that job” kid I was when I started college because dammit, a nursing degree would’ve come in handy.
I wish I could go back in time and slap some sense into the “oh I could never do that job” kid I was when I started college because dammit, a nursing degree would’ve come in handy.
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Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades due to its failure to curb a year-long outbreak, the country's public health agency said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was 50 years ago today and I'm obliged by the Law of the Midwest to share this.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
YouTube video by josePHulton
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November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was 50 years ago today and I'm obliged by the Law of the Midwest to share this.
I shouldn't have looked
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I shouldn't have looked
Apparently when I put opera on, the kids look at it the same way as Morticia, Wednesday and Pugsley looked at Gomez playing with his trains.
a girl in a hat says " be afraid "
ALT: a girl in a hat says " be afraid "
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Apparently when I put opera on, the kids look at it the same way as Morticia, Wednesday and Pugsley looked at Gomez playing with his trains.
In the interests of my mental health at this time I am (1) not looking at anything related to Congress and the ACA yet, and (2) putting Pretty Yende's YouTube videos on continuous loop.
That is all.
That is all.
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In the interests of my mental health at this time I am (1) not looking at anything related to Congress and the ACA yet, and (2) putting Pretty Yende's YouTube videos on continuous loop.
That is all.
That is all.
They pepper sprayed a baby. No warning, no reason.
Every last one of them belongs in shackles.
Every last one of them belongs in shackles.
This story now includes video, released by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, of the baby being exposed to chemical irritants fired by federal agents from their convoy into the car she was riding in with members of her family near 26th Street and Ogden Avenue in Cicero.
Federal officials accused someone of firing shots at agents conducting an aggressive immigration raid led by Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino through Little Village Saturday. No one was injured.
Agents used chemical agents to disperse the crowd, @sigchofor25.bsky.social said.
@wttw.bsky.social
Agents used chemical agents to disperse the crowd, @sigchofor25.bsky.social said.
@wttw.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
They pepper sprayed a baby. No warning, no reason.
Every last one of them belongs in shackles.
Every last one of them belongs in shackles.
When I wrote this I started hearing the Persuasions' cover of Zappa's "Any Way the Wind Blows" in my brain, so I went to YouTube to find it so I could play it out, which let me to the HadesTown song of the same name, and anyway now I'm listening to the HadesTown soundtrack for the first time.
🎶 somebody's been doing his homework 🎶
I'm not a fan of Newsom, I think he's the sort of unprincipled, any way the wind blows kind of politician we absolutely DO NOT need more of, but I acknowledge that his communications capacity is superb.
I'm not a fan of Newsom, I think he's the sort of unprincipled, any way the wind blows kind of politician we absolutely DO NOT need more of, but I acknowledge that his communications capacity is superb.
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
When I wrote this I started hearing the Persuasions' cover of Zappa's "Any Way the Wind Blows" in my brain, so I went to YouTube to find it so I could play it out, which let me to the HadesTown song of the same name, and anyway now I'm listening to the HadesTown soundtrack for the first time.
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Mark Wolf???
I mean, I know who this guy IS.
This is... wow.
I mean, I know who this guy IS.
This is... wow.
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mark Wolf???
I mean, I know who this guy IS.
This is... wow.
I mean, I know who this guy IS.
This is... wow.
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They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Nine years ago today:
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Nine years ago today:
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Overheard on the train from a 4-5 year old child, “oh look there’s a police officer, he’s going to shoot us.”
Even the children know.
Even the children know.
November 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Overheard on the train from a 4-5 year old child, “oh look there’s a police officer, he’s going to shoot us.”
Even the children know.
Even the children know.
Melatonin, Vicks, and a humidifier are now being employed against congestion related insomnia and dammit I’m still very much awake
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Melatonin, Vicks, and a humidifier are now being employed against congestion related insomnia and dammit I’m still very much awake