Elizabeth Austin
@elizabethaustin.bsky.social
Mistress of Public Policy
I am renowned for my rational exuberance.
I am renowned for my rational exuberance.
I was on the instructor’s side until I saw that calibri was one of the two acceptable fonts
Conservatives believe getting an A for nonsense is a human right but food isn’t.
OU student says essay grade was a violation of her rights. Read the essay
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November 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I was on the instructor’s side until I saw that calibri was one of the two acceptable fonts
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@sanders.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov
@madgreek2024.bsky.social
Senators,
Please review this article. Is there a way that you can force ICE agents to take proper training about what IDs are acceptable, who they are allowed to stop, and the proper way to ask for ID? Thank you. Mike Krieg
@madgreek2024.bsky.social
Senators,
Please review this article. Is there a way that you can force ICE agents to take proper training about what IDs are acceptable, who they are allowed to stop, and the proper way to ask for ID? Thank you. Mike Krieg
Just a few miles from my home, in Redmond, WA, ICE detained folks yesterday. One of the women questioned was Indigenous actor Elaine Miles, known for her role in "Northern Exposure." ICE called her tribal ID ‘fake’. WTF! She's NATIVE AMERICAN you fuck'n idiots!
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
November 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
@sanders.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov
@madgreek2024.bsky.social
Senators,
Please review this article. Is there a way that you can force ICE agents to take proper training about what IDs are acceptable, who they are allowed to stop, and the proper way to ask for ID? Thank you. Mike Krieg
@madgreek2024.bsky.social
Senators,
Please review this article. Is there a way that you can force ICE agents to take proper training about what IDs are acceptable, who they are allowed to stop, and the proper way to ask for ID? Thank you. Mike Krieg
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One of the biggest barriers to implementing pro-housing policy is the folk wisdom that building new market rate/mixed-income housing increases rents even though study after study shows that the opposite is the case:
building more housing lowers rents
building more housing lowers rents
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
One of the biggest barriers to implementing pro-housing policy is the folk wisdom that building new market rate/mixed-income housing increases rents even though study after study shows that the opposite is the case:
building more housing lowers rents
building more housing lowers rents
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I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
I’ve been reading Color of Law this long weekend. Down zoning is often a polite term for white zoning
What happens when you downzone?
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Downzoning Chicago: How Local Land Use Policy Has Reduced Housing Construction and Reinforced Segregation | Published in Findings
By Yonah Freemark, George Kisiel. Downzonings were used by US cities in the postwar period to preserve neighborhood character. These land-use policies were associated with lower housing supply, higher...
findingspress.org
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I’ve been reading Color of Law this long weekend. Down zoning is often a polite term for white zoning
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Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
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This is beyond desperate. So since Republicans can’t stop people from voting, they send mailers with the wrong date for the special election on 12/2.
Tennessee, we will see ya’ll on Tuesday! Let’s do this for @aftynbehn.bsky.social
#TeamAftyn
Tennessee, we will see ya’ll on Tuesday! Let’s do this for @aftynbehn.bsky.social
#TeamAftyn
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This is beyond desperate. So since Republicans can’t stop people from voting, they send mailers with the wrong date for the special election on 12/2.
Tennessee, we will see ya’ll on Tuesday! Let’s do this for @aftynbehn.bsky.social
#TeamAftyn
Tennessee, we will see ya’ll on Tuesday! Let’s do this for @aftynbehn.bsky.social
#TeamAftyn
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h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
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Would vote for anyone who proposes doing something even half as good as this. Desperate for some backbone.
“In 2029 we will rebuild the White House and pay for it by seizing assets from Trump, his family, and all of his companies and organizations. We publicize the name of every contractor involved with this project and permanently ban them as corporate entities and individuals from public contracts.”
Trump fighting with his architect about wanting to build a ballroom bigger than the actual White House feels very on brand
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November 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Would vote for anyone who proposes doing something even half as good as this. Desperate for some backbone.
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America’s civic institutions have to address the full monstrosity of this. So too do democratic governments elsewhere in the world. It’s not happening. It’s being allowed to pass - so as not to rock the boat. Rock the boat, guys, rock it hard, rock it now.
“What is remigration, which the Department of Homeland Security is calling for?”
It’s this:
It’s this:
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
America’s civic institutions have to address the full monstrosity of this. So too do democratic governments elsewhere in the world. It’s not happening. It’s being allowed to pass - so as not to rock the boat. Rock the boat, guys, rock it hard, rock it now.
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While the right lose their goddamn minds about a lone wolf doing something horrendous in DC today, let’s not forget that last week in the White House they all gushed over a genocidal, journalist murdering tyrant whose country financed 9/11.
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
While the right lose their goddamn minds about a lone wolf doing something horrendous in DC today, let’s not forget that last week in the White House they all gushed over a genocidal, journalist murdering tyrant whose country financed 9/11.
Dado, dammit
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Dado, dammit
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Trump drops 11 points - 11 points! - in the past month in Gallup. Just a staggering decline. 1/
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Trump drops 11 points - 11 points! - in the past month in Gallup. Just a staggering decline. 1/
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Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
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When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.
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To be clear, the FBI paid nearly $1M in overtime over a FIVE DAY PERIOD last March. And yes, part of it was to find and redact Trump's name. I spoke to sources who reviewed the files for the FBI and DOJ and wrote about it here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...
November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
To be clear, the FBI paid nearly $1M in overtime over a FIVE DAY PERIOD last March. And yes, part of it was to find and redact Trump's name. I spoke to sources who reviewed the files for the FBI and DOJ and wrote about it here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...
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Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
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We Ain't Buying It: Turning our Dollars into Defiance
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We Ain't Buying It: Turning our Dollars into Defiance
Today is day one of the We Ain’t Buying It blackout.
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We Ain't Buying It: Turning our Dollars into Defiance
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Donna Hughes-Brown is a wife, mother and grandmother who’s lived in Missouri for 37 years.
She’s an Irish citizen who’s husband served in the US Navy & voted for Trump
ICE revoked her status because she wrote a bad cheque in 2015 for $25.
She’s being held in a camp in Kentucky
She’s an Irish citizen who’s husband served in the US Navy & voted for Trump
ICE revoked her status because she wrote a bad cheque in 2015 for $25.
She’s being held in a camp in Kentucky
‘She’s been degraded’: A man’s battle in Washington to free his Irish wife from Ice detention
Jim Brown tells representatives about the plight of his wife, Donna Hughes-Brown, who has been detained since July after returning from Ireland
www.irishtimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Donna Hughes-Brown is a wife, mother and grandmother who’s lived in Missouri for 37 years.
She’s an Irish citizen who’s husband served in the US Navy & voted for Trump
ICE revoked her status because she wrote a bad cheque in 2015 for $25.
She’s being held in a camp in Kentucky
She’s an Irish citizen who’s husband served in the US Navy & voted for Trump
ICE revoked her status because she wrote a bad cheque in 2015 for $25.
She’s being held in a camp in Kentucky
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what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it
Came here to say this
lol wasn't there a huge story about a fraudulent MIT study about AI just like, two days ago too?
November 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Came here to say this
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Just rewatched some of this earlier this year. She stole the show.
Just rewatched some of this earlier this year. She stole the show.
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Just rewatched some of this earlier this year. She stole the show.
Just rewatched some of this earlier this year. She stole the show.
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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People dismiss this because they don’t like Biden.
Let’s be clear @nymag.com is actively claiming the person sleeping with a candidate running, like helping him make deals with the opposition & wrote this had no bias:
“An internal review of her published work has found no … evidence of bias.”
Let’s be clear @nymag.com is actively claiming the person sleeping with a candidate running, like helping him make deals with the opposition & wrote this had no bias:
“An internal review of her published work has found no … evidence of bias.”
November 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
People dismiss this because they don’t like Biden.
Let’s be clear @nymag.com is actively claiming the person sleeping with a candidate running, like helping him make deals with the opposition & wrote this had no bias:
“An internal review of her published work has found no … evidence of bias.”
Let’s be clear @nymag.com is actively claiming the person sleeping with a candidate running, like helping him make deals with the opposition & wrote this had no bias:
“An internal review of her published work has found no … evidence of bias.”