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Debra Elfenbein

@debraelfenbein.bsky.social
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Librarian. Editor. Audience member. Identify as New Yorker but live proud in Baltimore

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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Vote, Maryland, vote
First page of Maryland voter education pamphlet with QR codeInformation on Maryland voter registration and election dates and times.
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This NYT article tries to normalize the Trump secret catering truck escapade by comparing it to Clinton‘s, Bush’s, and Obama’s secret flights—but Trump‘s ruse endangered civilians. Huge, contemptible, cynical difference www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/w...
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Before Trump’s Catering Container Ruse, Other Presidents Obscured Risky Travel Plans
President Trump was part of a particularly elaborate deception last month, boarding one jet before being spirited away to another.
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
@prattworkers.bsky.social PWU Union Jeopardy No one should be in jeopardy at the public library
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
“So it’s raining but most of us are dry. It proves we don’t need an umbrella. The wet folk need to buy their own umbrella.” (Not a direct quote) #VRA #VotingRights @vanhollen.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov Get on the Floor & spit
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
@nytimes.com
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
@fetterman.senate.gov @welch.senate.gov #MarkwayneMullin is being considered for a job, not friendship however long you know him. He has made himself ineligible. Do right by your Democratic voters and all Americans. Vote No #MarkwayneFailedHisJobInterview
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
@welch.senate.gov
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
@welch.senate.gov
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
@welch.senate.gov
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
@repcuellar.govpeeps.us You failed your state and country today—and whatever vestige of honor you had—with your craven vote. Shame on you, shame
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
@schumer.senate.gov
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
@schumer.senate.gov I ask you to not never nohow rename Dulles, Penn Station, or any other public site after Trump. You will do more than enable him; you will be complicit in Trump’s corruption. His withholding money allocated by Congress is why you impeached him. @booker.senate.gov
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
#singleparty #RepublicanRule #TrumpDoesNotLeave #sedition @schumer.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @whitehouse.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov Act now
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @fetterman.senate.gov
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
@wyden.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @hassan.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social Vote No. Please. Don’t cooperate. #StopVotingYes It’s not bipartisan, it’s immoral WADR
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
@pelosi.house.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov
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Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Carl Reiner gave Rob Reiner a copy of The Princess Bride, and Rob Reiner loved it and its father/son love story so much he turned it into a movie (with a grandfather and grandson). Three days before Carl’s death in 2020, he and Rob reenacted the final scene and “As you wish”.
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D. Parker Kelley, PhD @sequencemyneuro.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
ADHD increases dementia risk, but the available epidemiological data suggests that stimulant medications may normalize risk. Totally fascinating Thanks @hologramvin.bsky.social for this post! I did not know this so I hunted down the original paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Thank you very much indeed for the instructions #privacy #AI #problemswithAI
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
@womensmarch.com @indivisible.org @sanders.senate.gov @democracynow.org @wajali.bsky.social @samseder.bsky.social @unicornriot.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social @atrupar.com @npr.org Speechmakers, podcasters, social media mensches, legacy media: Please broadcast 10/18 #NoKings speeches
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
@ericfoner.bsky.social Dear Dr. Foner, I’m so sorry to miss your appearance at Enoch Pratt Free Library on October 29. I admire your work very much. I hope all is well is well with you and your family. I look forward to a rescheduled Writers Live! interview. Sincerely, One of your fans
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/10/2025
One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends. #NoKings #Manhattan
Hand drawn sign reads ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The thing with designating a group that doesn't actually exist as a terrorist organization is that they can then say anyone they want is a part of that group.
@realDonaldTrump

I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We’re thrilled to be hosting a 4-part fall event series in collaboration with the New York Public Library, exploring the social implications of AI & its impacts on democracy, the environment, & human labor. Learn more and RSVP to attend live in NYC or via livestream! datasociety.net/events/under...
Text on an blue, green, orange, and purple background with the title of the event series, Understanding AI, which is a collaboration with the New York Public Library. It says, “Join us online or live in NYC at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL).” It continues with the dates and titles of the four events in this series; the event on September 5, 2025 is titled Understanding AI: What the Public Needs to Know; the event on September 23, 2025 is titled The Environmental Costs of AI Are Surging — What Now?; the event on October 29, 2025 is titled Reorienting AI in the Public Interest; and the event on November 20, 2025 is titled Standing Up for Human Value in the AI Economy.
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
On a transcontinental flight, window seat. The aisle seats of my row & the row directly opposite are filled with 2 suffering people. Serious wet wracking repeating wracking coughs. She stopped coughing into her elbow hours ago. A cold or flu or covid.
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
@nytimes.com @ericlipton.nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com @nytimeses.nytimes.com
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
As comedian Nate Bargatze says…
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League of Women Voters of Williamsburg Area @lwvwilliamsburg.org · 14/05/2025
UPDATE: "The executive order and the SAVE Act try to make it more difficult for American voters, particularly women voters, to participate in our elections, but the League hasn't and will not back down.”-Marcia Johnson, Chief Counsel for the LWV Work with us! @lwvus.bsky.social @lwvva.bsky.social
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
@prattworkers.bsky.social
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
“Any indication of Ukrainian patriotism became an invitation for abuse, incl speaking Ukrainian, having pro-Ukraine tattoos or refusing to acknowledge Russia’s annexation of Crimea.” Trump proposes US recognition of Crimea as Russian. #Complicit #Trump www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
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She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead
A consortium of international journalists continued the work of Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was investigating reports of torture and detention of Ukrainian civilians in occupied Ukraine.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
And here we are.
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
@nytimes.com @ericlipton.nytimes.com @davidfrum.bsky.social @marcelias.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
US Congress switchboard: 202-224-3121 White House switchboard: 202-456-1414 White House Comments Line: 202-456-1111 Scribble down what you want to say first. Be cool, use your chest voice. Speak up.
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
eotarchive.org #research #HistoryMatters
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End of Term Web Archive
The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative initiative that collects, preserves, and makes accessible United States Government websites at the end of presidential administrations.
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Library book & media selection is a professional practice. One source for selectors (actual job title) is an adjudicated annual award (eg adults, PEN/Bellwether & Booker; kids, Jane Addams & Newbery) Not to romanticize…there’s a reason why “library science” is not what Rep. Tom Massie prolly thinks
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Please arm yourself with knowledge. Birthright citizenship is not a policy choice it is a constitutional imperative (14th Amendment). It can no more be signed away by Executive Order than the First Amendment.
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 03/08/2024
NEW POEM #153: "Making the Best of It" by Martha Silano (@marthasilano.bsky.social) "Today I learned Keats was only five feet tall. A compact corpse, / says Di Suess in “Romantic Poetry,” shorter than Prince, / which I so love knowing..." stonecirclereview.com/making-the-b... #Poem #Poetry
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I’m reading more “takes” about how we got here. And they all begin and end with Trump and myopically refuse to see what’s right in front of us. Oh, America. We may be fully lost, but we need to face why. So, I’m reposting my take. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Why Are We Here?
A Dispatch from the Nadir
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