relizabeth4
@relizabeth4.bsky.social
Writing teacher. Parent of two teenagers. Friend to all cats. Interests: pedagogy, books, libraries, free speech, democracy, high-quality television, unions, and feminism. Team Fight.
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This is unconscionable @nytimes.com. An abdication of journalistic responsibility and judgment.
September 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This is unconscionable @nytimes.com. An abdication of journalistic responsibility and judgment.
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which is true? who can say, we're just a news outlet
Democratic lawmakers and more than a thousand current and former HHS staff say Kennedy's actions are endangering America's health. Kennedy says he came to clean house and he's delivering.
RFK Jr. to face questions about chaos at the CDC
Democratic lawmakers and more than a thousand current and former HHS staff say Kennedy's actions are endangering America's health. Kennedy says he came to clean house and he's delivering.
n.pr
September 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM
which is true? who can say, we're just a news outlet
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We are very far over the cliff here folks
August 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
We are very far over the cliff here folks
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Judge Hannah Dugan has spent much of her career working with legal aid organizations to support poor and marginalized people. She was just arrested by FBI agents for standing up to ICE agents. Fascism is here.
April 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Judge Hannah Dugan has spent much of her career working with legal aid organizations to support poor and marginalized people. She was just arrested by FBI agents for standing up to ICE agents. Fascism is here.
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I keep returning to, “what makes him flinch?” (I’m not sure I can say, but it’s not nothing)
It’s not the usual things. It’s not SCOTUS. It’s not the markets - at least not in the usual way.
So what’s the pattern in the flinches, if there is one? That’s what shows you the end game.
It’s not the usual things. It’s not SCOTUS. It’s not the markets - at least not in the usual way.
So what’s the pattern in the flinches, if there is one? That’s what shows you the end game.
April 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I keep returning to, “what makes him flinch?” (I’m not sure I can say, but it’s not nothing)
It’s not the usual things. It’s not SCOTUS. It’s not the markets - at least not in the usual way.
So what’s the pattern in the flinches, if there is one? That’s what shows you the end game.
It’s not the usual things. It’s not SCOTUS. It’s not the markets - at least not in the usual way.
So what’s the pattern in the flinches, if there is one? That’s what shows you the end game.
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Nazi shit. This is literally Nazi shit.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is pushing agencies to turn over information on where people work, study and live.
The data is normally protected from dissemination.
The data is normally protected from dissemination.
DOGE is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs
The administration is pushing agencies to turn over information on where people work, study and live. The data is normally protected from dissemination.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Nazi shit. This is literally Nazi shit.
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This is a now or never moment. The way we respond over the next few days, as individuals and institutions, is crucial. And currently we're missing the mark. If we don't act now we will lose everything.
Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely.
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines
Emergency Triad: Are we now a country of political prisoners and gulags?
www.thebulwark.com
April 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is a now or never moment. The way we respond over the next few days, as individuals and institutions, is crucial. And currently we're missing the mark. If we don't act now we will lose everything.
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
Every day of this administration is bad. But today marks a particularly dangerous turn. Let’s see if the two co-equal branches of our government will respond. If they do not or cannot, we are in full-blown authoritarian rule. Terrifying.
People really do not understand the depravity or scope/endpoint of an accelerationist Nazi movement having the full reins of power and the largest surveillance and repression system ever created. Disappearing dissidents into an offshore series of concentration camps is a beginning not an ending.
April 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Every day of this administration is bad. But today marks a particularly dangerous turn. Let’s see if the two co-equal branches of our government will respond. If they do not or cannot, we are in full-blown authoritarian rule. Terrifying.
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None of this damage by Trump or Musk would be possible without the full and unwavering support of the Republican Party. This is like pretending that the problem with the Civil War was that Jefferson Davis thought too much of himself.
One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months.
I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
April 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
None of this damage by Trump or Musk would be possible without the full and unwavering support of the Republican Party. This is like pretending that the problem with the Civil War was that Jefferson Davis thought too much of himself.
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Global population the year Musk was born: 3.759 Billion
Global population today: 8.062 Billion
When he says "civilization" he means white people.
Global population today: 8.062 Billion
When he says "civilization" he means white people.
Baier: What's the biggest thing that keeps you up at night?
Musk: The birth rate is very low in almost every country. And unless that changes, civilization will disappear. America had the lowest birth rate
Musk: The birth rate is very low in almost every country. And unless that changes, civilization will disappear. America had the lowest birth rate
March 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Global population the year Musk was born: 3.759 Billion
Global population today: 8.062 Billion
When he says "civilization" he means white people.
Global population today: 8.062 Billion
When he says "civilization" he means white people.
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A tiny, easy thing you can do: wherever you’re traveling, buy the local paper and boost the news of how fascism is trickling down and how everyday people are pushing back. From today’s Caledonian-Record of St. Johnsbury, VT.
March 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
A tiny, easy thing you can do: wherever you’re traveling, buy the local paper and boost the news of how fascism is trickling down and how everyday people are pushing back. From today’s Caledonian-Record of St. Johnsbury, VT.
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some more congestion pricing Ws:
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
March 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
some more congestion pricing Ws:
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
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"Yes, there’s danger in opening our gates to this statue. But there’s also danger in keeping it out… the danger of eroding the sanctity of the gift-giving process."
Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
“In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...
www.mcsweeneys.net
March 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"Yes, there’s danger in opening our gates to this statue. But there’s also danger in keeping it out… the danger of eroding the sanctity of the gift-giving process."
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Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...
kffhealthnews.org
March 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.
March 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.
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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region.
We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant
survival over the past 50...
www.thelancet.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Do not give up cloture, @democrats.senate.gov! Do not sign onto something you disagree with. Your voters do not want you to cede power. Stand your ground!
March 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Do not give up cloture, @democrats.senate.gov! Do not sign onto something you disagree with. Your voters do not want you to cede power. Stand your ground!
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Musk-Trump are illegally imprisoning Canadians – out of outright malice/sadism, yes – but also to use them as leverage against the Canadian government in the US-initiated Trade/Tariff war. Human beings are not pawns. Free Jasmine Mooney. Please amplify.
vancouversun.com/news/bc-woma...
vancouversun.com/news/bc-woma...
B.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona detention facility in chains
Her mother says 35-year-old Jasmine Mooney has been detained in inhumane conditions since March 3, and is pleading for help. Read more.
vancouversun.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Musk-Trump are illegally imprisoning Canadians – out of outright malice/sadism, yes – but also to use them as leverage against the Canadian government in the US-initiated Trade/Tariff war. Human beings are not pawns. Free Jasmine Mooney. Please amplify.
vancouversun.com/news/bc-woma...
vancouversun.com/news/bc-woma...
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I appreciate the late discovery of a spine by @schumer.senate.gov
Now be prepared to go even harder in the future - this is the first step, but there are a lot more to take
Now be prepared to go even harder in the future - this is the first step, but there are a lot more to take
Schumer on the Senate Floor just now:
"Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR."
"Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR."
March 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I appreciate the late discovery of a spine by @schumer.senate.gov
Now be prepared to go even harder in the future - this is the first step, but there are a lot more to take
Now be prepared to go even harder in the future - this is the first step, but there are a lot more to take
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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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When Trump says "We're going to become so rich you're not going to know where to spend all that money"
He's not talking to you.
He's talking to himself and his fellow billionaires -- to Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg.
THEY'RE going to get richer. With YOUR money.
He's not talking to you.
He's talking to himself and his fellow billionaires -- to Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg.
THEY'RE going to get richer. With YOUR money.
March 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
When Trump says "We're going to become so rich you're not going to know where to spend all that money"
He's not talking to you.
He's talking to himself and his fellow billionaires -- to Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg.
THEY'RE going to get richer. With YOUR money.
He's not talking to you.
He's talking to himself and his fellow billionaires -- to Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg.
THEY'RE going to get richer. With YOUR money.
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the sound of all my English professors crying out at once
March 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
the sound of all my English professors crying out at once