Liz
@tinygreentundra.bsky.social
abolitionist, cool aunt, mutual aid. she/her/queer
I have a section of my bookcase that over time became home to my (still growing) @annaleen.bsky.social collection. Discovering a favorite author was a big moment for me - big into reading as a kid - to get back into the groove as an adult 📕
August 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I have a section of my bookcase that over time became home to my (still growing) @annaleen.bsky.social collection. Discovering a favorite author was a big moment for me - big into reading as a kid - to get back into the groove as an adult 📕
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"defund the police" was so obviously correct. I really don't care if it doesn't poll well. it's like telling me that I should stop saying I like vaccines if they stopped polling well.
June 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"defund the police" was so obviously correct. I really don't care if it doesn't poll well. it's like telling me that I should stop saying I like vaccines if they stopped polling well.
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The logical and inevitable end of a system that worships at the altar of the "rule of law," where if you break the law you deserve what you get so it's okay to make prisons and jails as cruel as possible, is that the people in power will simply define certain people as breaking the law by existing.
April 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The logical and inevitable end of a system that worships at the altar of the "rule of law," where if you break the law you deserve what you get so it's okay to make prisons and jails as cruel as possible, is that the people in power will simply define certain people as breaking the law by existing.
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We have allowed ourselves to believe that it's normal to have 4% of the world's population and 25% of the world's prisoners. We have allowed prisons that violate multiple basic provisions of international humanitarian law. Our prisons are filled with people being literally tortured.
April 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
We have allowed ourselves to believe that it's normal to have 4% of the world's population and 25% of the world's prisoners. We have allowed prisons that violate multiple basic provisions of international humanitarian law. Our prisons are filled with people being literally tortured.
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I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.
April 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.
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One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
November 20, 2024 at 2:10 AM
One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
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Trans day of remembrance. Don't just focus on those trans people who have been murdered by strangers in public. Also remember the trans people who were denied healthcare, allowed to die in prison, encouraged to kill themselves by their loved ones, buried under the wrong name by their families.
November 20, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Trans day of remembrance. Don't just focus on those trans people who have been murdered by strangers in public. Also remember the trans people who were denied healthcare, allowed to die in prison, encouraged to kill themselves by their loved ones, buried under the wrong name by their families.
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If anyone is looking for book recommendations to understand the current moment, I’d like to suggest Stories are Weapons by @annaleen.bsky.social, which goes deep into how propaganda works, and Wild Faith by @swordsjew.bsky.social, which sheds light on the psychology of Christian nationalism.
November 6, 2024 at 10:03 PM
If anyone is looking for book recommendations to understand the current moment, I’d like to suggest Stories are Weapons by @annaleen.bsky.social, which goes deep into how propaganda works, and Wild Faith by @swordsjew.bsky.social, which sheds light on the psychology of Christian nationalism.
I stumbled across this and it’s a good read. Made me think of the You’re Wrong About episode on Exxon Valdez + how corporations will never willingly do the right thing, they must be forced by regulation/law.
So yeah, universal healthcare forever.
www.vox.com/health-care/...
So yeah, universal healthcare forever.
www.vox.com/health-care/...
The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms
Private equity decimated emergency care in the United States — without you even noticing.
www.vox.com
October 7, 2024 at 2:26 AM
I stumbled across this and it’s a good read. Made me think of the You’re Wrong About episode on Exxon Valdez + how corporations will never willingly do the right thing, they must be forced by regulation/law.
So yeah, universal healthcare forever.
www.vox.com/health-care/...
So yeah, universal healthcare forever.
www.vox.com/health-care/...
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throughout the Trump immunity decision, the Court champions the idea of an unfettered, uninhibited President. the darkest part of the opinion isn’t that it paves the way for an authoritarian leader, it’s that it yearns for one
July 1, 2024 at 3:54 PM
throughout the Trump immunity decision, the Court champions the idea of an unfettered, uninhibited President. the darkest part of the opinion isn’t that it paves the way for an authoritarian leader, it’s that it yearns for one
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You shouldn’t have been drinking raw milk before H5N1. You definitely shouldn’t be drinking it now.
New test results released by the FDA found that bird flu virus is making its way from dairy farms and into milk processing plants but also confirmed that the commonly used flash pasteurization method fully neutralizes the virus.
FDA’s testing of raw milk finds H5N1 bird flu in half of samples but confirms flash pasteurization kills virus | CNN
New test results released by the US Food and Drug Administration on Friday found that bird flu virus is making its way from dairy farms and into milk processing plants but also confirmed that the comm...
cnn.it
June 28, 2024 at 11:11 PM
You shouldn’t have been drinking raw milk before H5N1. You definitely shouldn’t be drinking it now.
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the Kent State massacre was metabolized as a tragedy in history books, but it was cheered by reactionaries at the time. the fantasy of delivering violence to naive young liberals is foundational to the modern right. they never learned the lesson of Kent State because they never stopped supporting it
April 24, 2024 at 6:16 PM
the Kent State massacre was metabolized as a tragedy in history books, but it was cheered by reactionaries at the time. the fantasy of delivering violence to naive young liberals is foundational to the modern right. they never learned the lesson of Kent State because they never stopped supporting it
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it’s weird to say in 2024, but i think a lot of people still haven’t really processed how violent American police really are. watching them do crowd control just once will shake any residual trust in them out of you
April 26, 2024 at 5:34 AM
it’s weird to say in 2024, but i think a lot of people still haven’t really processed how violent American police really are. watching them do crowd control just once will shake any residual trust in them out of you
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one constant in protests are the well-meaning people who haven’t spent much time around cops and try to reason with them, only to be met with immediate violence
April 26, 2024 at 5:23 AM
one constant in protests are the well-meaning people who haven’t spent much time around cops and try to reason with them, only to be met with immediate violence
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Headlines from April 17 2020
April 18, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Headlines from April 17 2020
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If you're going to listen to one episode of this show make it this one
www.npr.org/2024/04/01/1...
www.npr.org/2024/04/01/1...
Opening : Lost Patients
In the middle of the last century, a movement to free patients from state-run psychiatric hospitals swept the U.S. This movement — deinstitutionalization — is widely blamed for seriously mentally ill ...
www.npr.org
April 2, 2024 at 8:03 PM
If you're going to listen to one episode of this show make it this one
www.npr.org/2024/04/01/1...
www.npr.org/2024/04/01/1...
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the other part of this is that while Nazis might make some factual claims, the central claim of fascist movements is not an objective or falsifiable one. they’re claiming that they, the ingroup, are the rightful inheritors of power. you can’t argue with that, you can only fight it
People who say of Nazis “deal with bad ideas is by defeating them in the marketplace of ideas” are smuggling in the notion that Nazi ideas have not already been defeated on the merits, and are still valid and worthy to consider, or that Nazi "ideas" involve bloodless debate.
December 23, 2023 at 10:49 PM
the other part of this is that while Nazis might make some factual claims, the central claim of fascist movements is not an objective or falsifiable one. they’re claiming that they, the ingroup, are the rightful inheritors of power. you can’t argue with that, you can only fight it
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guys like SBF and Elon have spent their entire lives being able to talk their way into or out of just about anything, which causes them to struggle in situations where it would be useful to shut the fuck up
October 30, 2023 at 9:55 PM
guys like SBF and Elon have spent their entire lives being able to talk their way into or out of just about anything, which causes them to struggle in situations where it would be useful to shut the fuck up
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Random people are going to say and do ill-advised things in a country of 330 million people. They just are.
Journalists can't control that but we can control which random people we dedicate attention to and which random acts we cast as representative.
Journalists can't control that but we can control which random people we dedicate attention to and which random acts we cast as representative.
October 26, 2023 at 12:40 PM
Random people are going to say and do ill-advised things in a country of 330 million people. They just are.
Journalists can't control that but we can control which random people we dedicate attention to and which random acts we cast as representative.
Journalists can't control that but we can control which random people we dedicate attention to and which random acts we cast as representative.
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the real bottom line is this: we should not have to draft a blueprint for a workable Middle East peace plan before we’re allowed to stand against a campaign of mass murder
October 29, 2023 at 10:04 PM
the real bottom line is this: we should not have to draft a blueprint for a workable Middle East peace plan before we’re allowed to stand against a campaign of mass murder