Ilissa Gold
@goldni.bsky.social
Los Angeles via Nashville. Union-side labor lawyer, YIMBY, feminist. I belong to no organized political party - I’m a Democrat.
Titan Up/Anchor Down
Titan Up/Anchor Down
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
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Reminder: we are in this together. Whether you accept it or not, they’ll eventually remind you.
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Reminder: we are in this together. Whether you accept it or not, they’ll eventually remind you.
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This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates
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Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
Dems are perfectly capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time!
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Dems are perfectly capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time!
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The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
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CONFIRMED: Georgia Democrats have won their first statewide elections for non-federal offices since *2006.*
The two Dem challengers, Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, have ousted two GOP Republican commissioners on the state's utility commission.
The two Dem challengers, Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, have ousted two GOP Republican commissioners on the state's utility commission.
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
CONFIRMED: Georgia Democrats have won their first statewide elections for non-federal offices since *2006.*
The two Dem challengers, Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, have ousted two GOP Republican commissioners on the state's utility commission.
The two Dem challengers, Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, have ousted two GOP Republican commissioners on the state's utility commission.
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If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore
If there’s any theme to take from tonight it’s that the base is fresh out of fucks to give, regardless of policy stances.
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
If there’s any theme to take from tonight it’s that the base is fresh out of fucks to give, regardless of policy stances.
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Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor’s race.
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.
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once again posting The Chart
October 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
once again posting The Chart
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California has fast tracked $80 million to 50 food banks across the Golden State
More than 300 volunteers from @calvolunteers.bsky.social out serving
And members of The Cal Guard doing good work — where they are wanted — helping provide logistics and support
Simply put: California is stepping up
More than 300 volunteers from @calvolunteers.bsky.social out serving
And members of The Cal Guard doing good work — where they are wanted — helping provide logistics and support
Simply put: California is stepping up
October 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
California has fast tracked $80 million to 50 food banks across the Golden State
More than 300 volunteers from @calvolunteers.bsky.social out serving
And members of The Cal Guard doing good work — where they are wanted — helping provide logistics and support
Simply put: California is stepping up
More than 300 volunteers from @calvolunteers.bsky.social out serving
And members of The Cal Guard doing good work — where they are wanted — helping provide logistics and support
Simply put: California is stepping up
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I hope they stay home, but one thing GOPers are better at is, like, voting for someone they don't like because they're better than someone they really don't like.
It's a skill many of you need to learn
It's a skill many of you need to learn
oh he goes a step beyond, he calls trump the anti christ, using biblical scripture, this is a sign that trump is unpopular even in the Christian nationalist community
will these people ever vote dem....no i don't think so
will these people just stop voting, leaving the GOP to its fate...Maybe
will these people ever vote dem....no i don't think so
will these people just stop voting, leaving the GOP to its fate...Maybe
October 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I hope they stay home, but one thing GOPers are better at is, like, voting for someone they don't like because they're better than someone they really don't like.
It's a skill many of you need to learn
It's a skill many of you need to learn
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This is literally everything the Democratic Party has been doing for the last 40 years, what exactly are they asking to change? You practically have to threaten a Dem elected with being drawn and quartered to talk about anything other than health care (in the vaguest terms possible, of course).
i'm fine with a deeper focus on economic issues over social issues but man does plank 2 give the game away
October 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This is literally everything the Democratic Party has been doing for the last 40 years, what exactly are they asking to change? You practically have to threaten a Dem elected with being drawn and quartered to talk about anything other than health care (in the vaguest terms possible, of course).
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i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this
October 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this
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I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.
October 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.
No Kings except for this king:
October 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
No Kings except for this king:
I LOVE LA (WE LOVE IT!) 🧹🧹🧹
October 18, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I LOVE LA (WE LOVE IT!) 🧹🧹🧹
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The funniest part is, at this point Vandy wouldn’t take James Franklin back
October 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The funniest part is, at this point Vandy wouldn’t take James Franklin back
Hey, you know what might have helped solve this issue? Passing a citywide ordinance to speed up construction of 100% affordable projects so private developers could build them without city funding, and NOT promptly walking it back at the first squawk of NIMBY opposition.
Bass' housing budget
City’s affordable housing financing to drop 80%
laist.com
September 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Hey, you know what might have helped solve this issue? Passing a citywide ordinance to speed up construction of 100% affordable projects so private developers could build them without city funding, and NOT promptly walking it back at the first squawk of NIMBY opposition.
Me: “Man, I’d give anything just to see one really great season of Vandy football in my lifetime.”
Monkey’s paw: *curls*
Monkey’s paw: *curls*
September 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Me: “Man, I’d give anything just to see one really great season of Vandy football in my lifetime.”
Monkey’s paw: *curls*
Monkey’s paw: *curls*
WE WANT BAMA #AnchorDown
a mascot is standing in front of a building
ALT: a mascot is standing in front of a building
media.tenor.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
WE WANT BAMA #AnchorDown