Liz Thornberry
@lizthornberry.bsky.social
African history, law, Baltimore, disability, bikes. End apartheid everywhere.
One guess what this is about
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
One guess what this is about
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Chat, is this good
November 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Chat, is this good
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"Baltimore now faces a choice: Do we want a city that adapts, welcomes new residents and gives longtime neighbors more options to stay? Or do we cling to a past shaped by exclusion and scarcity?" 🔥 from @ohamza.bsky.social
By enabling “gentle density,” @mayorbmscott.bsky.social
zoning legislation will support real people with real needs in my neighborhood. Anxieties about it, while sincere, are misplaced. tinyurl.com/29z4wv3f [OP-ED]
zoning legislation will support real people with real needs in my neighborhood. Anxieties about it, while sincere, are misplaced. tinyurl.com/29z4wv3f [OP-ED]
Scott’s zoning bills will support real people with real needs by enabling “gentle density” | Baltimore Brew
The changes will make Baltimore a city that welcomes new residents and gives longtime neighbors more options to stay. [OP-ED]
tinyurl.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"Baltimore now faces a choice: Do we want a city that adapts, welcomes new residents and gives longtime neighbors more options to stay? Or do we cling to a past shaped by exclusion and scarcity?" 🔥 from @ohamza.bsky.social
Got to find a different guilty pleasure for my weekly trip to the suburbs, I guess.
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Got to find a different guilty pleasure for my weekly trip to the suburbs, I guess.
Imagine spending actual money to admit you're this uncool.
Atlas Restaurant Group to open members-only supper club in Fells Point
Atlas Restaurant Group to open members-only supper club in Fells Point
Atlas Restaurant Group announced the new Rosewater Supper Club, an exclusive social club that will open in Fells Point next year.
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Imagine spending actual money to admit you're this uncool.
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"your passport says you're 5'7" but you were 1'8" when you were born so that's what we're listing" this is what that sounds like
I spit on the reputation of the U.S. Supreme Court, not that it can get much more degraded than it has already become by the repulsive actions of its disgusting GOP members.
You can hear the transphobic sneer in these words.
You can hear the transphobic sneer in these words.
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
"your passport says you're 5'7" but you were 1'8" when you were born so that's what we're listing" this is what that sounds like
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virginia democrats winning the three big offices with a cia agent, an indian muslim immigrant, and a black lawyer who loves committing terms of service violations is real 2025 democratic party moment
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
virginia democrats winning the three big offices with a cia agent, an indian muslim immigrant, and a black lawyer who loves committing terms of service violations is real 2025 democratic party moment
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this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam
if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam
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Citizen and Subject (and Mayor.)
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Citizen and Subject (and Mayor.)
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I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
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I will say though: the shitheads understand that if you pull someone into your epistemic bubble, you can lead them anywhere, get them to believe anything. They consciously & deliberately build those bubbles around powerful people. The left just yells at & alienates them.
Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now.
Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.
Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.
currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter
September 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I will say though: the shitheads understand that if you pull someone into your epistemic bubble, you can lead them anywhere, get them to believe anything. They consciously & deliberately build those bubbles around powerful people. The left just yells at & alienates them.
Incredibly embarrassing that @govwesmoore.bsky.social hasn't withdrawn Maryland's executive order banning entities that do business from boycotting Israel (content.govdelivery.com/attachments/...).
Israel is openly carrying out a genocide in Gaza and MD is celebrating our "collaboration"?
Israel is openly carrying out a genocide in Gaza and MD is celebrating our "collaboration"?
content.govdelivery.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Incredibly embarrassing that @govwesmoore.bsky.social hasn't withdrawn Maryland's executive order banning entities that do business from boycotting Israel (content.govdelivery.com/attachments/...).
Israel is openly carrying out a genocide in Gaza and MD is celebrating our "collaboration"?
Israel is openly carrying out a genocide in Gaza and MD is celebrating our "collaboration"?
Thought this was just me!
Every time I see Butlerian Jihad I think, for a second, it refers to Judith Butler
August 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Thought this was just me!
Mahmood Mamdani’s son!!! What a world.
June 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Mahmood Mamdani’s son!!! What a world.
It’s happening!!!
Big things on the agenda for introduction in Baltimore on Monday:
•Plex Reform
•Single-Stair Reform
•Parking Reform
•Plex Reform
•Single-Stair Reform
•Parking Reform
May 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It’s happening!!!
Congrats to the TWO Baltimore-based historians of American constitutional law who were awarded Guggenheims!
Martha Jones in my dept at Hopkins and Mark Graber at University of Maryland law school--brilliant scholars both.
Martha Jones in my dept at Hopkins and Mark Graber at University of Maryland law school--brilliant scholars both.
April 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Congrats to the TWO Baltimore-based historians of American constitutional law who were awarded Guggenheims!
Martha Jones in my dept at Hopkins and Mark Graber at University of Maryland law school--brilliant scholars both.
Martha Jones in my dept at Hopkins and Mark Graber at University of Maryland law school--brilliant scholars both.
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I'm sorry. I cannot process this and refuse to panic about it until five minutes before the threat is real. There are millions of lives at stake and there are also billions of dollars. I am depending on the greed of psychopharmaceutical industry and it has never let me down before.
"assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs"
good time time become an antipsychiatry grifter in the US
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
good time time become an antipsychiatry grifter in the US
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I'm sorry. I cannot process this and refuse to panic about it until five minutes before the threat is real. There are millions of lives at stake and there are also billions of dollars. I am depending on the greed of psychopharmaceutical industry and it has never let me down before.
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We don't even have to outlast Trump. We merely need to outlast his political capital, and through retaliation we will burn more of his power and credibility than he would have burned on his own. We merely have to stick together till then
February 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
We don't even have to outlast Trump. We merely need to outlast his political capital, and through retaliation we will burn more of his power and credibility than he would have burned on his own. We merely have to stick together till then
Wes Moore is proposing to balance the Maryland state budget by cutting services to our most vulnerable residents. $40 million reduction to the Developmental Disabilities Administration, which already has years-long waiting lists for services, and almost $200 million in cuts to school funding.
January 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Wes Moore is proposing to balance the Maryland state budget by cutting services to our most vulnerable residents. $40 million reduction to the Developmental Disabilities Administration, which already has years-long waiting lists for services, and almost $200 million in cuts to school funding.
This is SUCH a thing in the academic job market, because lots of very smart and deserving people don't get jobs, and feel like there needs to be some kind of explanation other than shear bad luck.
this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What?
For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse.
www.wsj.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This is SUCH a thing in the academic job market, because lots of very smart and deserving people don't get jobs, and feel like there needs to be some kind of explanation other than shear bad luck.
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@safety.bsky.app and @aaron.bsky.team,
@esqueer.net ("Caraballo") blocked user did:plc:232eprew2nyn75ensoah2lg2 ("Singal") approximately four (4) days ago.
Today, on Singal’s X account, I noticed he is sharing screenshots of Caraballo’s Bluesky posts.
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@esqueer.net ("Caraballo") blocked user did:plc:232eprew2nyn75ensoah2lg2 ("Singal") approximately four (4) days ago.
Today, on Singal’s X account, I noticed he is sharing screenshots of Caraballo’s Bluesky posts.
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December 10, 2024 at 8:55 PM
@safety.bsky.app and @aaron.bsky.team,
@esqueer.net ("Caraballo") blocked user did:plc:232eprew2nyn75ensoah2lg2 ("Singal") approximately four (4) days ago.
Today, on Singal’s X account, I noticed he is sharing screenshots of Caraballo’s Bluesky posts.
(1/3)
@esqueer.net ("Caraballo") blocked user did:plc:232eprew2nyn75ensoah2lg2 ("Singal") approximately four (4) days ago.
Today, on Singal’s X account, I noticed he is sharing screenshots of Caraballo’s Bluesky posts.
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@moderation.bsky.app needs to act, otherwise, this is going to be a huge misstep that deters potential new users from joining.
If this is going to be the anti-X, please, mods, act like it.
In the meantime, users? BLOCK SINGAL WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE. Cut off his oxygen. Suffocate him.
If this is going to be the anti-X, please, mods, act like it.
In the meantime, users? BLOCK SINGAL WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE. Cut off his oxygen. Suffocate him.
Bluesky needs to ban Jesse Singal. He’s a notorious bad-faith actor who we *know* uses social media to harass and attack vulnerable people.
Letting Singal remain here is a violation of Bluesky’s own stated policies, IMO.
He should not be allowed to once again work the refs.
Letting Singal remain here is a violation of Bluesky’s own stated policies, IMO.
He should not be allowed to once again work the refs.
December 12, 2024 at 1:32 AM
@moderation.bsky.app needs to act, otherwise, this is going to be a huge misstep that deters potential new users from joining.
If this is going to be the anti-X, please, mods, act like it.
In the meantime, users? BLOCK SINGAL WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE. Cut off his oxygen. Suffocate him.
If this is going to be the anti-X, please, mods, act like it.
In the meantime, users? BLOCK SINGAL WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE. Cut off his oxygen. Suffocate him.
The absolute worst parts of the autism parenting community are really excited about this.
Scientists have already investigated this. The result? The doctor pushing this junk science had his license revoked for spreading deadly lies about vaccines.
December 9, 2024 at 12:53 PM
The absolute worst parts of the autism parenting community are really excited about this.