Liz Zelnick
@lizzelnick.bsky.social
Here for building an economy that works for everyone. views are my own and correct.
Who could have guessed Republicans have never had a plan to lower health care costs for Americans and instead want to make deeper cuts to the ACA & enact dangerous poison pills to the legislation?? So glad we got a pinky promise for a vote on whatever the fuck this is.
Mike Johnson: "If there was gonna be an extension, you'd be massive reforms. You'd need income caps. You should not be subsidizing healthcare for wealthy people. You'd also need Hyde protections on those things and other innovations."
November 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Who could have guessed Republicans have never had a plan to lower health care costs for Americans and instead want to make deeper cuts to the ACA & enact dangerous poison pills to the legislation?? So glad we got a pinky promise for a vote on whatever the fuck this is.
Choose your fighter 😍
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Choose your fighter 😍
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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 11:33 AM
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
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The Trump regime is declaring that funding for the CFPB is illegal.
Remember: This is the agency that protects Americans from financial predators.
Anti-CFPB oligarchs, who spent millions to re-elect Trump, will now have an easier time padding their pockets by ripping you off.
Remember: This is the agency that protects Americans from financial predators.
Anti-CFPB oligarchs, who spent millions to re-elect Trump, will now have an easier time padding their pockets by ripping you off.
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The Trump regime is declaring that funding for the CFPB is illegal.
Remember: This is the agency that protects Americans from financial predators.
Anti-CFPB oligarchs, who spent millions to re-elect Trump, will now have an easier time padding their pockets by ripping you off.
Remember: This is the agency that protects Americans from financial predators.
Anti-CFPB oligarchs, who spent millions to re-elect Trump, will now have an easier time padding their pockets by ripping you off.
This hair-brained legal theory cropped up after THE SUPREME COURT already ruled that the CFPB's funding structure is constitutional. Russ Vought has been blood-thirsty to destroy the CFPB from the jump, now corporations can crush consumers even more, without recourse.
Trump is closing the CFPB after a bizarre decision to redefine the word “earnings” made it impossible for the agency to even request funding. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/fKDWHN4
Russ Vought Tries to Bankrupt the CFPB - The American Prospect
A legal office in the White House, at the behest of Office of Management and Budget director and Project 2025 architect Russ Vought, has decided to redefine the word “earnings” in order to bankrupt the largely dormant Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
trib.al
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This hair-brained legal theory cropped up after THE SUPREME COURT already ruled that the CFPB's funding structure is constitutional. Russ Vought has been blood-thirsty to destroy the CFPB from the jump, now corporations can crush consumers even more, without recourse.
Fuck Larry Summers
One of my earliest moments of radicalization was in 2005 when Larry Summers said that women biologically have less aptitude for science than men. Following that, scores of equally unimpressive people wrote pieces trying to explain or justify his remarks, when they should have called for his removal.
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Fuck Larry Summers
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Epstein in emails: Trump knew about the girls. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Epstein in emails: Trump knew about the girls. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Finally paid off to have my nerdy aurora borealis tracking app in Newton @universalhub.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Finally paid off to have my nerdy aurora borealis tracking app in Newton @universalhub.com
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Billionaires in America are richer than they've ever been before.
They're buying yachts for their superyachts.
The rest of us can't afford groceries, rent, or healthcare.
And the people in charge just cut healthcare to give billionaires more tax breaks.
We're being played.
They're buying yachts for their superyachts.
The rest of us can't afford groceries, rent, or healthcare.
And the people in charge just cut healthcare to give billionaires more tax breaks.
We're being played.
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Billionaires in America are richer than they've ever been before.
They're buying yachts for their superyachts.
The rest of us can't afford groceries, rent, or healthcare.
And the people in charge just cut healthcare to give billionaires more tax breaks.
We're being played.
They're buying yachts for their superyachts.
The rest of us can't afford groceries, rent, or healthcare.
And the people in charge just cut healthcare to give billionaires more tax breaks.
We're being played.
What a time to work in national politics amirite?
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What a time to work in national politics amirite?
"We'll see" IS NOT AN IRONCLAD AGREEMENT. Senate Dems just gave away the only leverage they had to protect millions of Americans' healthcare subsidies. Absolutely mind boggling.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"We'll see" IS NOT AN IRONCLAD AGREEMENT. Senate Dems just gave away the only leverage they had to protect millions of Americans' healthcare subsidies. Absolutely mind boggling.
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Exhibit #2625 on Dems winning the politics of the shutdown fight. Check out this polling from @groundwork.bsky.social:
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Exhibit #2625 on Dems winning the politics of the shutdown fight. Check out this polling from @groundwork.bsky.social:
The cool thing re: lying about things people materially feel in their everyday lives is that YOU CAN’T BECAUSE PEOPLE KNOW HOW MUCH THINGS COST WHEN THEY BUY THEM.
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The cool thing re: lying about things people materially feel in their everyday lives is that YOU CAN’T BECAUSE PEOPLE KNOW HOW MUCH THINGS COST WHEN THEY BUY THEM.
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They want us to fight, left versus right.
But it’s time to realize that those are the wrong directions.
It’s up versus down.
Billionaires versus the rest of us.
But it’s time to realize that those are the wrong directions.
It’s up versus down.
Billionaires versus the rest of us.
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
They want us to fight, left versus right.
But it’s time to realize that those are the wrong directions.
It’s up versus down.
Billionaires versus the rest of us.
But it’s time to realize that those are the wrong directions.
It’s up versus down.
Billionaires versus the rest of us.
👋🏼 Mom from Massachusetts here whose kid has free school lunch because of a millionaires surtax—it’s amazing and he prefers school lunch to what we pack him most days
School lunches get a bad rap, but they're healthier than the average packed lunch. And making them free for all amplifies academic and health benefits for low-income kids by removing stigma/shame.
So I'm glad Colorado voted to raise taxes on high-income households to make school meals free for all.
So I'm glad Colorado voted to raise taxes on high-income households to make school meals free for all.
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
👋🏼 Mom from Massachusetts here whose kid has free school lunch because of a millionaires surtax—it’s amazing and he prefers school lunch to what we pack him most days
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Just so we are clear: ICE went into a day care center—a private business—without a judicial warrant, and unlawfully kidnapped a worker in front of parents and children.
VIDEO: Day care teacher detained by ICE agents on Chicago’s North Side
A day care teacher was taken into ICE custody Wednesday morning at the Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood.
wgntv.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Just so we are clear: ICE went into a day care center—a private business—without a judicial warrant, and unlawfully kidnapped a worker in front of parents and children.
Already showing that he’s both brilliant at campaigning and now governance.
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, will turn to veterans of City Hall, nonprofit executives and a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission — all of them women — to lead his official transition effort, he said on Wednesday. nyti.ms/4nHdyOP
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Already showing that he’s both brilliant at campaigning and now governance.
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BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
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The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC.
It didn't matter.
Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.
It didn't matter.
Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC.
It didn't matter.
Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.
It didn't matter.
Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.
Everyone please make sure to leave your “billionaire tears” coffee mug out tonight for a celebratory morning of truly inferno takes.
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City after running on a platform centered on making the city affordable for working people.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Everyone please make sure to leave your “billionaire tears” coffee mug out tonight for a celebratory morning of truly inferno takes.
Turns out many Americans are pissed & don’t like the way Republicans are running the country 🤷🏻♀️
Republicans who think your seat is safe: no it's not
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Turns out many Americans are pissed & don’t like the way Republicans are running the country 🤷🏻♀️
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Republicans who think your seat is safe: no it's not
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Republicans who think your seat is safe: no it's not
Jfc
In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Jfc
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New Mexico is now officially the first state to offer free child care to all residents.
Under the program all families, regardless of income, can get their child care fees covered.
Proponents say the program will help the economy, improve education, and boost child welfare.
Under the program all families, regardless of income, can get their child care fees covered.
Proponents say the program will help the economy, improve education, and boost child welfare.
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
New Mexico is now officially the first state to offer free child care to all residents.
Under the program all families, regardless of income, can get their child care fees covered.
Proponents say the program will help the economy, improve education, and boost child welfare.
Under the program all families, regardless of income, can get their child care fees covered.
Proponents say the program will help the economy, improve education, and boost child welfare.