Erin Thomas
@erincthomas.bsky.social
Tech Director @ Data for Progress
Making music as chelliah
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Making music as chelliah
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I will go to the mat for this song, but get a load of how insane this video was. This is why my generation is a mess - we saw this stuff every day and people just accepted it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDXi...
October 31, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I will go to the mat for this song, but get a load of how insane this video was. This is why my generation is a mess - we saw this stuff every day and people just accepted it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDXi...
Super proud of Ryan and really excited for this new era at Data for Progress!
We are thrilled to announce that @rodonnell.bsky.social has been named the next executive director of Data for Progress!
Ryan is an expert in survey methodology with a long history in progressive and union politics — he has worked with DFP since 2019 to shape our electoral polling.
Ryan is an expert in survey methodology with a long history in progressive and union politics — he has worked with DFP since 2019 to shape our electoral polling.
October 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Super proud of Ryan and really excited for this new era at Data for Progress!
Thank you @chirpradio.org for playing my new album :)
The BPM, the third album from singer/violinist Sudan Archives takes the top spot on this week's CHIRP Charts. Rounding out the #top5 are good flying birds, chelliah, Say She She, and Cate Le Bon!
Full charts: chirpradio.org/charts
Full charts: chirpradio.org/charts
October 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Thank you @chirpradio.org for playing my new album :)
My new album 'an oceanic feeling' is out now! Give it a listen :) chelliah.bandcamp.com/album/an-oce...
an oceanic feeling, by chelliah
8 track album
chelliah.bandcamp.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My new album 'an oceanic feeling' is out now! Give it a listen :) chelliah.bandcamp.com/album/an-oce...
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Entirely too many of y'all not caring or talking about what's happening in Chicago right now and it sucks and when it comes to your doorstep, because it's coming, you stupidly won't be prepared. They are targeting black American families as well btw...
October 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Entirely too many of y'all not caring or talking about what's happening in Chicago right now and it sucks and when it comes to your doorstep, because it's coming, you stupidly won't be prepared. They are targeting black American families as well btw...
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i just can’t get over ICE going into the streets of the city i live in, throwing gas at citizens, invading people who live here. this is state sponsored terrorism being enacted on americans
October 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
i just can’t get over ICE going into the streets of the city i live in, throwing gas at citizens, invading people who live here. this is state sponsored terrorism being enacted on americans
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ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.
October 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.
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🚨 NEW WEDNESDAY ALBUM 🚨
wednesdayband.bandcamp.com/album/bleeds
wednesdayband.bandcamp.com/album/bleeds
Bleeds, by Wednesday
12 track album
wednesdayband.bandcamp.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
🚨 NEW WEDNESDAY ALBUM 🚨
wednesdayband.bandcamp.com/album/bleeds
wednesdayband.bandcamp.com/album/bleeds
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RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.
RFK Jr.-Backed Vaccine Panel Advises Against MMRV Vaccine for Young Children
New members of a key committee tweak routine childhood vaccine guidance as some states and insurers go their own way.
www.wsj.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.
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LBGTQ rights is the greatest cultural victory that Democrats have won in most of our lifetimes, a cause that went from controversial to completely mainstream and wildly popular, making Republicans look old-fashioned and bigoted.
Naturally the centrist Dems are scared of it
Naturally the centrist Dems are scared of it
September 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
LBGTQ rights is the greatest cultural victory that Democrats have won in most of our lifetimes, a cause that went from controversial to completely mainstream and wildly popular, making Republicans look old-fashioned and bigoted.
Naturally the centrist Dems are scared of it
Naturally the centrist Dems are scared of it
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if there’s anything obvious in this moment about democratic politics in the US, it’s that the center left has utterly failed as a bulwark against the extreme right, and there is nowhere to go but the progressive left.
June 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
if there’s anything obvious in this moment about democratic politics in the US, it’s that the center left has utterly failed as a bulwark against the extreme right, and there is nowhere to go but the progressive left.
If you're not a trans person, a doctor who has actually studied trans care, or a parent or caregiver to a trans person, your opinion on trans healthcare is fucking useless. Hope that helps!
June 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
If you're not a trans person, a doctor who has actually studied trans care, or a parent or caregiver to a trans person, your opinion on trans healthcare is fucking useless. Hope that helps!
Them: WERK honey you totally don't need HRT to be fabulous
Me, 5 years after a national ban on gender affirming care: I have osteoporosis
Me, 5 years after a national ban on gender affirming care: I have osteoporosis
Really creepy to talk about kids and being sexy. Biiiiiig red flag. 🚩 🚩 🚩
"Normalize non-HRT transness"
Um
"Normalize non-HRT transness"
Um
June 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Them: WERK honey you totally don't need HRT to be fabulous
Me, 5 years after a national ban on gender affirming care: I have osteoporosis
Me, 5 years after a national ban on gender affirming care: I have osteoporosis
I'm technically someone who transitioned in adulthood and turned out quite well I think, but I was literally suicidal in high school. Just cause you CAN make it to adulthood before receiving gender affirming care doesn't mean its good or in any way preferable.
June 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I'm technically someone who transitioned in adulthood and turned out quite well I think, but I was literally suicidal in high school. Just cause you CAN make it to adulthood before receiving gender affirming care doesn't mean its good or in any way preferable.
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The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.
Heightened Scrutiny, a very good doc about the Supreme Court case that was just ruled on, does an impeccable and infuriating job laying out just how culpable the NYT and Atlantic are for the nation’s transphobia www.avclub.com/sundance-202...
June 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.
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The only ethical position is for full bodily autonomy for absolutely everyone.
June 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The only ethical position is for full bodily autonomy for absolutely everyone.
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I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE
June 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles
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deeply weird to be in the healthiest and most stable period of your life thus far precisely as the wider world seems to be falling apart
June 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
deeply weird to be in the healthiest and most stable period of your life thus far precisely as the wider world seems to be falling apart
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feels a little irresponsible to (correctly) identify the ways the internet distorts people's understanding of trans people and creates echo chambers of vitriol, and then leave open a comments section full of the most psychotic shit you've ever read www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
Opinion | Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
feels a little irresponsible to (correctly) identify the ways the internet distorts people's understanding of trans people and creates echo chambers of vitriol, and then leave open a comments section full of the most psychotic shit you've ever read www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
my dog is like 200% more obedient on walks when I'm not listening to a podcast or an album on my noise cancelling headphones, maybe I'm the problem
June 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
my dog is like 200% more obedient on walks when I'm not listening to a podcast or an album on my noise cancelling headphones, maybe I'm the problem
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everyone coming out in defense of cuomo is just absolutely giving the game away re: caring about crushing socialists over literally anything else
June 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
everyone coming out in defense of cuomo is just absolutely giving the game away re: caring about crushing socialists over literally anything else