Elenca
@kkelenca.bsky.social
KKElenca of Tumblr and twitter. She/they. Self-taught.
"God damn it, you've got to be kind." -Kurt Vonnegut
"God damn it, you've got to be kind." -Kurt Vonnegut
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Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)
February 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)
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young posters, the use of language changed before you were born, so in case you didn't know this:
the reason things like Social Security and Medicare are called "entitlements" isn't (derogatory) it's because access is *guaranteed* in exchange for your advance payments into the program
the reason things like Social Security and Medicare are called "entitlements" isn't (derogatory) it's because access is *guaranteed* in exchange for your advance payments into the program
February 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
young posters, the use of language changed before you were born, so in case you didn't know this:
the reason things like Social Security and Medicare are called "entitlements" isn't (derogatory) it's because access is *guaranteed* in exchange for your advance payments into the program
the reason things like Social Security and Medicare are called "entitlements" isn't (derogatory) it's because access is *guaranteed* in exchange for your advance payments into the program
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another great example along with Wired and Teen Vogue of how real journalism these days can be a lot braver at outlets where no one is trying to get in good with the White House press secretary
they’re out here with us, reporting on what’s happening to us all, instead of trying to get inside access
they’re out here with us, reporting on what’s happening to us all, instead of trying to get inside access
It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids
What Should You Do if ICE Comes to Your Restaurant?
We spoke to legal experts about what restaurant owners and workers can do to protect themselves from immigration raids
www.eater.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
another great example along with Wired and Teen Vogue of how real journalism these days can be a lot braver at outlets where no one is trying to get in good with the White House press secretary
they’re out here with us, reporting on what’s happening to us all, instead of trying to get inside access
they’re out here with us, reporting on what’s happening to us all, instead of trying to get inside access
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I keep seeing "Why aren't the Americans striking" and "Because our healthcare is tied to our jobs" and it never gets less true or less depressing
February 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I keep seeing "Why aren't the Americans striking" and "Because our healthcare is tied to our jobs" and it never gets less true or less depressing
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Also because of the way the US is structured, only federal employee strikes would impact the federal government and they're currently suing to stop what's happening. A lot of the general strike discourse skirts the violence issue too. Cops have no problem using their unions as shields for murder
I keep seeing "Why aren't the Americans striking" and "Because our healthcare is tied to our jobs" and it never gets less true or less depressing
February 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Also because of the way the US is structured, only federal employee strikes would impact the federal government and they're currently suing to stop what's happening. A lot of the general strike discourse skirts the violence issue too. Cops have no problem using their unions as shields for murder
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That’s rich, coming from the guy who used his power as a federal judge to start making (at least) interns and clerks sign nondisclosure agreeements because he was afraid of being outed as a sexual harasser.
I can only read this preposterous piece by a disgraced federal appeals court judge intimating that Democrats may cancel elections as pure projection so to lay the groundwork for Trump's "defensively" cancelling elections. www.wsj.com/opinion/coul...
February 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
That’s rich, coming from the guy who used his power as a federal judge to start making (at least) interns and clerks sign nondisclosure agreeements because he was afraid of being outed as a sexual harasser.
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So.
It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year.
I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.
It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year.
I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.
February 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
So.
It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year.
I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.
It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year.
I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.
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This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op
February 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op
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If you're screaming at a hospital about teen trans care, keep screaming.
Incredible news. After immense pressure and threats of protest, Children's Wisconsin has reinstated treatment for at least one trans teen under its care.
Several hospitals across the country determined their fear of Trump's illegal EO was more important than their trans patients.
Several hospitals across the country determined their fear of Trump's illegal EO was more important than their trans patients.
UPDATE: Children’s Wisconsin hospital reinstates gender-affirming care for trans teen after canceling in wake of Trump’s executive order
The order is being challenged in court as illegal and unconstitutional.
wisconsinwatch.org
February 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
If you're screaming at a hospital about teen trans care, keep screaming.
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Look for the helpers? Yes, but also BE the helper, at least once today.
February 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Look for the helpers? Yes, but also BE the helper, at least once today.
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One of these days we're gonna have to reckon with the fact that "money that I spend which does not directly benefit me is a waste" is a popular sentiment.
I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face.
And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.
I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face.
And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.
February 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
One of these days we're gonna have to reckon with the fact that "money that I spend which does not directly benefit me is a waste" is a popular sentiment.
I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face.
And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.
I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face.
And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.
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Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.
Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.
6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance.
For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.
For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.
February 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.
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Because this is getting downplayed in some of the coverage, the racist staffer DOGE rehired isn’t a case of “stupid things he wrote years ago as a teen.” He posted about how we should “normalize Indian hate” IN SEPTEMBER.
February 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Because this is getting downplayed in some of the coverage, the racist staffer DOGE rehired isn’t a case of “stupid things he wrote years ago as a teen.” He posted about how we should “normalize Indian hate” IN SEPTEMBER.
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As the expected Christian Nationalism EO came in, I’m seeing a bunch of “this isn’t real Christianity” noise in my mentions.
Nope.
Christian friends. 1/x 🧵
This is 💯 part of the history of Christianity, dating to Constantine, to the Holy Roman Empire, forced conversions, Inquisitions, +
Nope.
Christian friends. 1/x 🧵
This is 💯 part of the history of Christianity, dating to Constantine, to the Holy Roman Empire, forced conversions, Inquisitions, +
February 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
As the expected Christian Nationalism EO came in, I’m seeing a bunch of “this isn’t real Christianity” noise in my mentions.
Nope.
Christian friends. 1/x 🧵
This is 💯 part of the history of Christianity, dating to Constantine, to the Holy Roman Empire, forced conversions, Inquisitions, +
Nope.
Christian friends. 1/x 🧵
This is 💯 part of the history of Christianity, dating to Constantine, to the Holy Roman Empire, forced conversions, Inquisitions, +
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It’s pretty obvious that the movement that overthrew apartheid in SA continues to make a lot of white American moderates and liberals uncomfortable and that’s why we get sanitized Teddy Bear Mandela the same way we get sanitized Panda Bear King but uh it’s all right there
February 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
It’s pretty obvious that the movement that overthrew apartheid in SA continues to make a lot of white American moderates and liberals uncomfortable and that’s why we get sanitized Teddy Bear Mandela the same way we get sanitized Panda Bear King but uh it’s all right there
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I know the Apartheid Clyde jokes may be unfamiliar to folks not friendly with Black Twitter but I keep finding it odd that so much of the analysis re Musk’s behavior and goals is being framed through other systems of organized kleptocracy and supremacy and not via the one he comes from
February 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I know the Apartheid Clyde jokes may be unfamiliar to folks not friendly with Black Twitter but I keep finding it odd that so much of the analysis re Musk’s behavior and goals is being framed through other systems of organized kleptocracy and supremacy and not via the one he comes from
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An important first-person account from someone inside OPM:
I Work in the Office Carrying Out the Government Purge. Here’s What I Want You to Know.
We’re as freaked out and angry as everyone else.
slate.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
An important first-person account from someone inside OPM:
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low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.
Zuckerberg says people who leave his platforms are "virtue signaling"
January 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.
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Americans, please call your senators and tell them to vote no on the confirmation of Russ Vought as head of OMB— it’s scheduled for 7 tonight and Vought is the co-author of Project 2025
February 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Americans, please call your senators and tell them to vote no on the confirmation of Russ Vought as head of OMB— it’s scheduled for 7 tonight and Vought is the co-author of Project 2025
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ICE is Gaming Google Search
U.S. Immigration is Gaming Google to Create a Mirage of Mass Deportations
13,000 archived ICE press releases timestamped to 24 January 2025. "Every article was updated on the 24th ... causing the Google SEO to...rank it higher."
Brilliant work @darakerr.bsky.social!
U.S. Immigration is Gaming Google to Create a Mirage of Mass Deportations
13,000 archived ICE press releases timestamped to 24 January 2025. "Every article was updated on the 24th ... causing the Google SEO to...rank it higher."
Brilliant work @darakerr.bsky.social!
February 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
ICE is Gaming Google Search
U.S. Immigration is Gaming Google to Create a Mirage of Mass Deportations
13,000 archived ICE press releases timestamped to 24 January 2025. "Every article was updated on the 24th ... causing the Google SEO to...rank it higher."
Brilliant work @darakerr.bsky.social!
U.S. Immigration is Gaming Google to Create a Mirage of Mass Deportations
13,000 archived ICE press releases timestamped to 24 January 2025. "Every article was updated on the 24th ... causing the Google SEO to...rank it higher."
Brilliant work @darakerr.bsky.social!
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This @melissagiragrant.com piece takes on social media narratives about protesting ('why aren't people in the streets?'), and highlights the fact that many communities have BEEN protesting, never STOPPED protesting, are ALWAYS fighting for their lives.
The #Resistance Lives. It Just Looks Different This Time.
Defying mainstream media narratives about the exhausted opposition, protests are picking up in D.C. and across the country, led by protesters who never hung up their placards to begin with.
newrepublic.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This @melissagiragrant.com piece takes on social media narratives about protesting ('why aren't people in the streets?'), and highlights the fact that many communities have BEEN protesting, never STOPPED protesting, are ALWAYS fighting for their lives.
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Srsly. Appeasement has never worked to curb fascism. Thought we finally learned this for good in the run-up to WWII, but clearly not.
Incredible to think how hard Merrick Garland worked for four years to avoid even the remotest appearance of partisanship or ideological commitments, and literally on her first day as AG Pam Bondi is like "Diversity is now illegal, we will be putting all the libs in prison"
Breaking from me and @mjsdc.bsky.social : Newly installed AG Pam Bondi sent out more than a dozen memos in a 15 minute period on Wednesday. One of them told staffers to come up with "proposals for criminal investigations" of large companies that have DEIA initiatives. slate.com/news-and-pol...
February 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Srsly. Appeasement has never worked to curb fascism. Thought we finally learned this for good in the run-up to WWII, but clearly not.
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Portland nursing instructors slap back at Providence, Musk's DOGE boy-toys eff around and find out, and anti-Trump protesters bring the righteous noise to Salem. It's GOOD MORNING, NEWS! 👋🗞️
Good Morning, News: Nursing Instructors Slap Back at Providence, Trouble for Musk's DOGE Boy-Toys, and Protesting King Fool in Salem
If you’re reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury’s news reporting, arts and culture coverage, event calendar, and the bevy of events we host throughout the year. The work we do helps...
www.portlandmercury.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Portland nursing instructors slap back at Providence, Musk's DOGE boy-toys eff around and find out, and anti-Trump protesters bring the righteous noise to Salem. It's GOOD MORNING, NEWS! 👋🗞️
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We've warned for years that on-campus surveillance (the explosion of CCTV cameras, schools using facial recognition, keycards that track student movements, etc etc) would be weaponized by a future government to chill speech and attack vulnerable students
Welp... www.democracynow.org/2025/2/4/tru...
Welp... www.democracynow.org/2025/2/4/tru...
Trump Threatens to Deport Pro-Palestinian International Student Protesters
An executive order that purports to combat antisemitism on university campuses is likely to chill free speech and target students for pro-Palestine, antiwar and anti-racist views. The order, signed by...
www.democracynow.org
February 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
We've warned for years that on-campus surveillance (the explosion of CCTV cameras, schools using facial recognition, keycards that track student movements, etc etc) would be weaponized by a future government to chill speech and attack vulnerable students
Welp... www.democracynow.org/2025/2/4/tru...
Welp... www.democracynow.org/2025/2/4/tru...
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I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...