Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This 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...nytimes.comBefore Trump’s Catering Container Ruse, Other Presidents Obscured Risky Travel PlansPresident Trump was part of a particularly elaborate deception last month, boarding one jet before being spirited away to another. 010
Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 23/06/2026@prattworkers.bsky.social PWU Union Jeopardy No one should be in jeopardy at the public library 100
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 000
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 000
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 020
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 000
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 000
Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 24/01/2026@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @fetterman.senate.gov 000
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 000
Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 03/01/2026@pelosi.house.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov 010
Reposted by Debra ElfenbeinHelen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Carl 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”. 46518
Reposted by Debra ElfenbeinD. Parker Kelley, PhD @sequencemyneuro.bsky.social · 03/11/2025ADHD 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... 16727
Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Thank you very much indeed for the instructions #privacy #AI #problemswithAI 000
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 110
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 120
Reposted by Debra ElfenbeinGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/10/2025One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends. #NoKings #Manhattan 133123959
Reposted by Debra ElfenbeinDanielle Froom 🏳️🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 18/09/2025The 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. 2144741421
Reposted by Debra ElfenbeinData & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 18/08/2025We’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... 15125
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 011
Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 22/06/2025On 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. 110
Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 13/06/2025@nytimes.com @ericlipton.nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com @nytimeses.nytimes.com 000
Reposted by Debra ElfenbeinLeague of Women Voters of Williamsburg Area @lwvwilliamsburg.org · 14/05/2025UPDATE: "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 5289116
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...washingtonpost.comShe tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up deadA consortium of international journalists continued the work of Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was investigating reports of torture and detention of Ukrainian civilians in occupied Ukraine. 010
Reposted by Debra ElfenbeinSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/04/2025And here we are. 561290579
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 000
Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 09/02/2025US 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. 000
Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 01/02/2025eotarchive.org #research #HistoryMatterseotarchive.orgEnd of Term Web ArchiveThe 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. 000
Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Library 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 110
Reposted by Debra ElfenbeinSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Please 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. 13537911244
Reposted by Debra ElfenbeinStone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 03/08/2024NEW 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 01211
Reposted by Debra ElfenbeinSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I’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...open.substack.comWhy Are We Here?A Dispatch from the Nadir 29447150