@lizzylouwho.bsky.social
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I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
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Exactly.
And we cannot placate them because they do not actually want the things they say they want. They do not want to be heard (they are heard) or to be treated fairly in politics (they are in control of the country). They want to feel victimized so they can retaliate.
September 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Exactly.
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This. Times a thousand. Again and again.
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
September 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This. Times a thousand. Again and again.
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Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.
September 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.
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It’s really not appreciated how committed our institutional elites are to making sure there’s never ever another moment like 2020 and the George Floyd protests. They believe this was the lowest point of their lives, they’re embarrassed it happened and they think *they* fueled/started it.
August 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
It’s really not appreciated how committed our institutional elites are to making sure there’s never ever another moment like 2020 and the George Floyd protests. They believe this was the lowest point of their lives, they’re embarrassed it happened and they think *they* fueled/started it.
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there is a massive recuperative effort going on right now, both on social media and across traditional media to paint any true pushback to fascism as radical leftist propaganda corporate/establishment Democrats cannot actually fight fascism because if they do, it will curtail their own power.
July 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
there is a massive recuperative effort going on right now, both on social media and across traditional media to paint any true pushback to fascism as radical leftist propaganda corporate/establishment Democrats cannot actually fight fascism because if they do, it will curtail their own power.
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the administration don’t think the budget bill or the iran bombing will be popular. they don’t really have a plan for becoming popular again. it might not be possible. this is just them doing the things they wanted to do, while they can
June 22, 2025 at 5:03 AM
the administration don’t think the budget bill or the iran bombing will be popular. they don’t really have a plan for becoming popular again. it might not be possible. this is just them doing the things they wanted to do, while they can
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Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?"
The right, meanwhile, is vigorously *attempting to shape* how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.
The right, meanwhile, is vigorously *attempting to shape* how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.
June 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?"
The right, meanwhile, is vigorously *attempting to shape* how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.
The right, meanwhile, is vigorously *attempting to shape* how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.
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Every time they say “we can’t afford that,” remember: they could afford armored tanks, a dictators birthday parade, and enough tear gas to choke a city. They just don’t want you fed, safe, or alive.
June 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Every time they say “we can’t afford that,” remember: they could afford armored tanks, a dictators birthday parade, and enough tear gas to choke a city. They just don’t want you fed, safe, or alive.
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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Trump Republicans move bill to gut healthcare for millions of Americans and starve millions of kids. People are going to die unnecessarily bc of this monstrosity.
They are all in to give away billions to the ultra rich in tax breaks while robbing the poor.
They are all in to give away billions to the ultra rich in tax breaks while robbing the poor.
215-214, House Republicans vote to PASS their multi-trillion-dollar MAGA bill, sending it to the Senate
Massie & Davidson vote NO.
Andy Harris votes PRESENT.
Garbarino & Schweikert miss the vote.
All other Republicans vote YES.
Democrats vote NO.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Massie & Davidson vote NO.
Andy Harris votes PRESENT.
Garbarino & Schweikert miss the vote.
All other Republicans vote YES.
Democrats vote NO.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House passes sweeping domestic policy package after Trump and Speaker Johnson win over holdouts
The multi-trillion-dollar tax-cut and spending bill now heads to the Senate, where Republicans have vowed to make changes.
www.nbcnews.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Trump Republicans move bill to gut healthcare for millions of Americans and starve millions of kids. People are going to die unnecessarily bc of this monstrosity.
They are all in to give away billions to the ultra rich in tax breaks while robbing the poor.
They are all in to give away billions to the ultra rich in tax breaks while robbing the poor.
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still unclear to me why people who work in restaurants shouldn't have to pay taxes but teachers should
May 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
still unclear to me why people who work in restaurants shouldn't have to pay taxes but teachers should
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covid threw into high relief how many working class people are absolutely necessary to keeping society functional, and rather than that sparking a renewed commitment to an economy that rewards such workers, we've seen an elite backlash against even modest increases in their market power
May 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
covid threw into high relief how many working class people are absolutely necessary to keeping society functional, and rather than that sparking a renewed commitment to an economy that rewards such workers, we've seen an elite backlash against even modest increases in their market power
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This is an astoundingly good interview. The LA Port Director explains very clearly how profoundly trade is coming to a screeching halt. This summer will be tough.
Is this bad? I'm no international shipping expert, but this sounds bad.
May 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is an astoundingly good interview. The LA Port Director explains very clearly how profoundly trade is coming to a screeching halt. This summer will be tough.
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TBH scariest possibility here might be that he actually believes it. This is simply not going to happen, not even close.
If he's blustering like usual and retreats, some damage can be undone.
If he believes it, we're trapped on this difficult course until he realizes he was wrong. If he ever does.
If he's blustering like usual and retreats, some damage can be undone.
If he believes it, we're trapped on this difficult course until he realizes he was wrong. If he ever does.
April 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
TBH scariest possibility here might be that he actually believes it. This is simply not going to happen, not even close.
If he's blustering like usual and retreats, some damage can be undone.
If he believes it, we're trapped on this difficult course until he realizes he was wrong. If he ever does.
If he's blustering like usual and retreats, some damage can be undone.
If he believes it, we're trapped on this difficult course until he realizes he was wrong. If he ever does.
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Let's wake up. He's REALLY unpopular for this early in a term or really ever. President's this unpopular are already losing. Power becomes harder to assert when your power is fading.
April 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Let's wake up. He's REALLY unpopular for this early in a term or really ever. President's this unpopular are already losing. Power becomes harder to assert when your power is fading.
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People sometimes ask "what are the crimes" and let me tell y'all, as a lawyer, that intentionally copying, altering, destroying, or disrupting government computer systems is super-duper illegal if you don't have a spotless paper trail authorizing it, which none of these DOGE people do.
my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison
This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail
April 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
People sometimes ask "what are the crimes" and let me tell y'all, as a lawyer, that intentionally copying, altering, destroying, or disrupting government computer systems is super-duper illegal if you don't have a spotless paper trail authorizing it, which none of these DOGE people do.
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One issue is that while there are conservative people one can have interesting discussions with (some of my best friends and cetera) if you go to spaces dominated by the contemporary right they are *unfathomably* inane. Even other conservatives struggle with it! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
April 16, 2025 at 4:52 AM
One issue is that while there are conservative people one can have interesting discussions with (some of my best friends and cetera) if you go to spaces dominated by the contemporary right they are *unfathomably* inane. Even other conservatives struggle with it! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
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he wants to abolish the income tax and fund the government almost entirely through tariffs, thereby delivering the most regressive bonanza to the rich in the history of American taxation. He has said this many many times. He said it *at the announcement* and yet pieces like this just ignore it.
April 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
he wants to abolish the income tax and fund the government almost entirely through tariffs, thereby delivering the most regressive bonanza to the rich in the history of American taxation. He has said this many many times. He said it *at the announcement* and yet pieces like this just ignore it.
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I think there is going to be a Red Rural Recession and soon if all the cuts continue as is
All the firings, cancelling of grants and contracts with companies , the closing of offices, disproportionately impact small towns, cities and states.
Their finances will be turned upside
All the firings, cancelling of grants and contracts with companies , the closing of offices, disproportionately impact small towns, cities and states.
Their finances will be turned upside
March 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I think there is going to be a Red Rural Recession and soon if all the cuts continue as is
All the firings, cancelling of grants and contracts with companies , the closing of offices, disproportionately impact small towns, cities and states.
Their finances will be turned upside
All the firings, cancelling of grants and contracts with companies , the closing of offices, disproportionately impact small towns, cities and states.
Their finances will be turned upside
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more and more i think the trump's actual revenge tour is against the american people www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/b...
‘How Are We Going to Afford This?’ U.S. Companies Face Tariff Reality. (Gift Article)
Business owners told The Times that President Trump’s tariffs could lead to higher costs and expressed frustration at the sudden uncertainty about policy.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
more and more i think the trump's actual revenge tour is against the american people www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/b...
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I've said it before and will say it again -- the Trump administration is not acting like one that fears democratic accountability next year or in 2028. Draw your own conclusions.
it's still just striking to me that we're five weeks into this, and neither trump nor musk are offering up any treats, to anyone. everything is bad news. everything makes life harder. the only thing they're offering is a tax cut for *extremely* wealthy people, at the expense of *everyone* else.
February 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I've said it before and will say it again -- the Trump administration is not acting like one that fears democratic accountability next year or in 2028. Draw your own conclusions.
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DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b
TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b
Annual increase in deficit: $900b
Cuts to Medicare: $880b
TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b
Annual increase in deficit: $900b
Cuts to Medicare: $880b
February 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b
TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b
Annual increase in deficit: $900b
Cuts to Medicare: $880b
TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b
Annual increase in deficit: $900b
Cuts to Medicare: $880b
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Some “moderate” Republicans flipped & ended up supporting this evil budget resolution. They voted to cut Medicaid & services their constituents depend on. The budget fight isn’t over. But if you are represented by any of these people that voted yes.. make sure they hear from you.
Congressional Republicans tried to pull a fast one. They called off the budget vote that cuts healthcare for over 38 million children and just put it back up after everyone left to try and make some Democrats miss the vote. Many Dems are voting by card to keep the vote open. I just did mine.
February 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Some “moderate” Republicans flipped & ended up supporting this evil budget resolution. They voted to cut Medicaid & services their constituents depend on. The budget fight isn’t over. But if you are represented by any of these people that voted yes.. make sure they hear from you.
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BREAKING: House Republicans just passed their budget resolution 217-215 that would virtually guarantee deep cuts to Medicaid and food stamps, all to fund a major tax break for the ultrawealthy... and still add trillions to the national debt.
February 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
BREAKING: House Republicans just passed their budget resolution 217-215 that would virtually guarantee deep cuts to Medicaid and food stamps, all to fund a major tax break for the ultrawealthy... and still add trillions to the national debt.