Elizabeth Tate
@pseudonymist.bsky.social
Worker, queer gal, and friend. Currently in NC, with an eventual move to CO planned. She/her.
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The Pope living just long enough to have JD Vance visit the Vatican so his Secretary of State could tell Vance to his face that he doesn’t understand Catholicism is a level of hating I could only aspire to in my wildest dreams.
April 21, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The Pope living just long enough to have JD Vance visit the Vatican so his Secretary of State could tell Vance to his face that he doesn’t understand Catholicism is a level of hating I could only aspire to in my wildest dreams.
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the only way out of this is if people who don't consider themselves politically active to start taking action. and we *all* need to kick it up a notch, whether it's more letters, more phone banking, protests, showing up at town halls, etc.
March 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
the only way out of this is if people who don't consider themselves politically active to start taking action. and we *all* need to kick it up a notch, whether it's more letters, more phone banking, protests, showing up at town halls, etc.
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EXCLUSIVE: In his first public remarks since being detained by federal immigration authorities, Mahmoud Khalil criticizes the conditions in US detention and says he is being targeted by the Trump administration for his political beliefs.
Read here:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Read here:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘I am a political prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil says he’s being targeted for political beliefs
Exclusive: Palestinian activist and green card holder speaks out from Louisiana detention for first time
www.theguardian.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
EXCLUSIVE: In his first public remarks since being detained by federal immigration authorities, Mahmoud Khalil criticizes the conditions in US detention and says he is being targeted by the Trump administration for his political beliefs.
Read here:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Read here:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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man people dismiss or ignore or talk shit about south carolina as they do with so many places in the south, it's one of those places liberals say "move away!" about but that's nonsense talk and this is a beautiful expression of righteous anger
🔥 SOUTH CAROLINA Rep. Jermaine Johnson: “You don’t like being called racist in here, but every time we give you a chance to show us something different you show us who you are.”
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DHRKJy_...
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DHRKJy_...
March 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
man people dismiss or ignore or talk shit about south carolina as they do with so many places in the south, it's one of those places liberals say "move away!" about but that's nonsense talk and this is a beautiful expression of righteous anger
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The fact congressional Democrats have not hired three dozen D&D rules lawyers with oppositional defiant disorder and turned them loose on parliamentary procedure with the goal of maximum obstruction is such a fucking missed opportunity
I’m bringing this up because this is a simple procedural way to fuck with republicans even if they’re in the majority. Call them out of order, rise to a point of personal privilege, use the very procedural rules that organize their meetings to strangle them. It fucking works.
March 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The fact congressional Democrats have not hired three dozen D&D rules lawyers with oppositional defiant disorder and turned them loose on parliamentary procedure with the goal of maximum obstruction is such a fucking missed opportunity
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Mahmoud's wife recounts ICE following them into their building as they returned from an Iftar dinner.
She refused to leave Mahmoud. Officers threatened to arrest her too.
The officers barricaded Mahmoud from her. They didn't show a warrant. They hung up the phone on their lawyer.
She refused to leave Mahmoud. Officers threatened to arrest her too.
The officers barricaded Mahmoud from her. They didn't show a warrant. They hung up the phone on their lawyer.
NEW—Mahmoud Khalil's wife:
"I was born & raised in the Midwest. My parents came here from Syria…They believed living in the US would bring a sense of safety & stability. But here I am…weeks before I’m due to give birth to our first child…I feel more unsafe & unstable than I have in my entire life."
"I was born & raised in the Midwest. My parents came here from Syria…They believed living in the US would bring a sense of safety & stability. But here I am…weeks before I’m due to give birth to our first child…I feel more unsafe & unstable than I have in my entire life."
March 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Mahmoud's wife recounts ICE following them into their building as they returned from an Iftar dinner.
She refused to leave Mahmoud. Officers threatened to arrest her too.
The officers barricaded Mahmoud from her. They didn't show a warrant. They hung up the phone on their lawyer.
She refused to leave Mahmoud. Officers threatened to arrest her too.
The officers barricaded Mahmoud from her. They didn't show a warrant. They hung up the phone on their lawyer.
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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
english.elpais.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
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Once again I am suggesting that you break some rules for practice. Get comfortable with breaking rules. When the rules are hurting other people, the right thing to do is break them. We need people who follow their moral code over the rules of their society, university, employer, and government.
March 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Once again I am suggesting that you break some rules for practice. Get comfortable with breaking rules. When the rules are hurting other people, the right thing to do is break them. We need people who follow their moral code over the rules of their society, university, employer, and government.
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Listen…
If you got elders in your life who depend on that Social Security check and not much else?
Best start figuring out now, how you are going to pool financial resources, move them to affordable housing etc
If you got elders in your life who depend on that Social Security check and not much else?
Best start figuring out now, how you are going to pool financial resources, move them to affordable housing etc
"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
March 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Listen…
If you got elders in your life who depend on that Social Security check and not much else?
Best start figuring out now, how you are going to pool financial resources, move them to affordable housing etc
If you got elders in your life who depend on that Social Security check and not much else?
Best start figuring out now, how you are going to pool financial resources, move them to affordable housing etc
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I'm not sure people understand what's happening. Israel stopped all aid trucks from entering Gaza until Hamas agrees to sign a rewrite of the original ceasefire agreement, which will allow Israel to continue the war indefinitely...and the whole world is quiet about it www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/m...
Gaza truce hangs by a thread as Israel sets new conditions. Here’s what to know | CNN
A delicate truce between Israel and Hamas hangs by a thread after Israel blocked humanitarian aid into Gaza, in response to Hamas rejecting a new Israeli proposal to extend the ceasefire without any c...
www.cnn.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I'm not sure people understand what's happening. Israel stopped all aid trucks from entering Gaza until Hamas agrees to sign a rewrite of the original ceasefire agreement, which will allow Israel to continue the war indefinitely...and the whole world is quiet about it www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/m...
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All this business I am reading about social security is nonsense. My mom died on 2/18. My dad got a letter yesterday informing him her benefits were ending and he had to repay the February payment because they don’t give a payment in the month someone dies. They know where every dollar is.
March 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
All this business I am reading about social security is nonsense. My mom died on 2/18. My dad got a letter yesterday informing him her benefits were ending and he had to repay the February payment because they don’t give a payment in the month someone dies. They know where every dollar is.
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🍽️ BLACK-OWNED RESTAURANTS: Go local and support small businesses while you’re eating out. From food trucks to fine dining, you’ll find it all.
www.charlotteobserver.com/charlottefiv...
www.charlotteobserver.com/charlottefiv...
Charlotte’s Black-owned restaurants offer seafood, soul food, sweet treats and more
Go local and support small businesses while you’re eating out. From food trucks to fine dining, you’ll find it all.
www.charlotteobserver.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🍽️ BLACK-OWNED RESTAURANTS: Go local and support small businesses while you’re eating out. From food trucks to fine dining, you’ll find it all.
www.charlotteobserver.com/charlottefiv...
www.charlotteobserver.com/charlottefiv...
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Printing RFK Jr's lies about infectious disease kills children. Every journalist who has a conscience - and as hard as it to believe there are some of them even at Fox News - should think really hard about how they report on this subject because misinformation here has direct deadly consequences.
RFK Jr. said in his Fox News OpEd that “Good nutrition remains a best defense against most chronic and infectious illnesses”.
The best diet in the world will not prevent infection if you are unvaccinated and sharing air with someone who has measles.
The best diet in the world will not prevent infection if you are unvaccinated and sharing air with someone who has measles.
March 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Printing RFK Jr's lies about infectious disease kills children. Every journalist who has a conscience - and as hard as it to believe there are some of them even at Fox News - should think really hard about how they report on this subject because misinformation here has direct deadly consequences.
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In their speech, the Palestinian-Israeli group of activists and filmmakers condemned “ethnic cleansing” in Palestine.
The Story Behind The Most Powerful Speech At The Oscars, From Palestinian and Israeli Filmmakers
“No Other Land reflects the harsh reality we have been enduring for decades and still resist.”
www.teenvogue.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
In their speech, the Palestinian-Israeli group of activists and filmmakers condemned “ethnic cleansing” in Palestine.
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i'm on bluesky for the scientific community
March 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
i'm on bluesky for the scientific community
I saw like two movies last year so I have no Oscars predictions but I will take this opportunity to say Nosferatu ruled.
March 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I saw like two movies last year so I have no Oscars predictions but I will take this opportunity to say Nosferatu ruled.
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I think if you don't want to buy things from major retailers today or any day that is great, and I would also love for everyone to remember that successful movements usually need to involve labor, and to start thinking of yourself as a worker first and a consumer second
February 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I think if you don't want to buy things from major retailers today or any day that is great, and I would also love for everyone to remember that successful movements usually need to involve labor, and to start thinking of yourself as a worker first and a consumer second
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it drives me bananas when people say ignore identity politics to focus on class.
CLASS IS A PART OF IDENTITY POLITICS. the women who came up with identity politics are literally socialists!
class oppression is mentioned in the THIRD SENTENCE of the statement! www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
CLASS IS A PART OF IDENTITY POLITICS. the women who came up with identity politics are literally socialists!
class oppression is mentioned in the THIRD SENTENCE of the statement! www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
![We are a collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974. [1] During that time we have been involved in the process of defining and clarifying our politics, while at the same time doing political work within our own group and in coalition with other progressive organizations and movements. The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression, and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking. The synthesis of these oppressions creates the conditions of our lives. As Black women we see Black feminism as the logical political movement to combat the manifold and simultaneous oppressions that all women of color face.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pum3nk6m6xqwqw5e7v5wcbgu/bafkreidzesq5olvkknh2m43tbqprwrzvyxsybel3e2ulgmzvrox2i3rwp4@jpeg)
February 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
it drives me bananas when people say ignore identity politics to focus on class.
CLASS IS A PART OF IDENTITY POLITICS. the women who came up with identity politics are literally socialists!
class oppression is mentioned in the THIRD SENTENCE of the statement! www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
CLASS IS A PART OF IDENTITY POLITICS. the women who came up with identity politics are literally socialists!
class oppression is mentioned in the THIRD SENTENCE of the statement! www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
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With another set of news headlines about political elites using “””Roman salutes””” I just want to note that the Nazi salute means “I want to murder your family” and the n-word means “I want to lynch you.” That’s what they mean, they make me righteously angry, and I won’t let anybody minimize them.
February 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
With another set of news headlines about political elites using “””Roman salutes””” I just want to note that the Nazi salute means “I want to murder your family” and the n-word means “I want to lynch you.” That’s what they mean, they make me righteously angry, and I won’t let anybody minimize them.
Highlight of the in office days, tbh.
February 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Highlight of the in office days, tbh.
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Please understand me when I say that you cannot talk yourself out of criminal charges. You can, however, talk yourself into them.
"I invoke my rights to silence and counsel and will not answer questions without my attorney present" is the ONLY thing you should EVER say to a police officer, EVER.
"I invoke my rights to silence and counsel and will not answer questions without my attorney present" is the ONLY thing you should EVER say to a police officer, EVER.
February 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Please understand me when I say that you cannot talk yourself out of criminal charges. You can, however, talk yourself into them.
"I invoke my rights to silence and counsel and will not answer questions without my attorney present" is the ONLY thing you should EVER say to a police officer, EVER.
"I invoke my rights to silence and counsel and will not answer questions without my attorney present" is the ONLY thing you should EVER say to a police officer, EVER.