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Elise

@elisehz.bsky.social
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Hoosier trying to find my way in a shitstorm of crazy politics and aging. Horse fanatic. 🚫 DMs unless I know you.

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Sally @toastygirl.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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A Smol Birb @sakota-atokary.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
If you are in the National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens call the GI Rights Hotline, 877-447-4487 Please share 🙏🏼
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Blue Texas @turntexasblue.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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Elise @elisehz.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Sherrod Brown really nails it here (gift link, no paywall): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/o...
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Opinion | Sherrod Brown: Trump’s Tariffs Do Nothing for Workers (Gift Article)
Democrats should not confuse Trump’s tariff disaster for a trade policy that helps workers.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
There are no moderates among the Republicans, even the ones you may have hoped would have stayed moderate. This will apply more and more to far right antisemitism, as well. Although all the other racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and transphobia should have been enough to understand this.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 16/04/2025
Exclusive: The US consumer product safety agency will stop collecting data on injuries from incidents like car accidents and adverse drug effects due to CDC staff cuts, according to an agency email seen by Reuters and a source familiar with the situation reut.rs/4lvPWN4
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Exclusive: US consumer safety agency to stop collecting swaths of data after CDC cuts
The U.S. consumer product safety agency will stop collecting data on injuries from incidents like car accidents and adverse drug effects due to staff cuts at the CDC, according to an agency email seen by Reuters and a source familiar with the situation.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 15/04/2025
A New Hampshire real estate attorney and American citizen returning home from Canada says he was detained at the border without an explanation and "treated like a criminal."
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 15/04/2025
The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products.
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US Economy Is Set to Lose Billions as Foreign Tourists Stay Away
The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products, adding to a growing list of headwinds keeping recession risk ...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14/04/2025
Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...
Old mobile phones and keyboards. Overlaid text reads: FT Exclusive: EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones to avoid espionage
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/04/2025
#ICYMI: Staffers at 18 rape crisis centers told ProPublica that payments were delayed for months after North Carolina’s state legislature directed $15 million for sexual assault survivors away from Democratic-led agencies that had long overseen such money. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
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A Political Power Grab Redirected Funds for North Carolina’s Sexual Abuse Survivors. Women in Crisis Paid the Price.
The move, which led to disruptions in services for sexual assault and domestic violence survivors, provides a glimpse of the consequences when a branch of government assumes unprecedented control.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Honestly, I don't even know what to say. This is literally perfect.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10/04/2025
What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security's "death master file," which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead. As a result of being added to the death database, they would be blacklisted from a coveted form of identity that allows them to make and spend money.
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NPR @npr.org · 09/04/2025
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
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U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/04/2025
NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony. Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.
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I'm Beth @nursejungabel.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
How does that help the everyday American? America first?... Oh you meant American banks first! Ohhhh derp. 😐
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 04/04/2025
For anyone who is traveling to the U.S., and even for U.S. citizens returning to the U.S.: ACLU: Can Border Agents Search Your Electronic Devices? It’s Complicated www.aclu.org/news/privacy... 1/2
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Can Border Agents Search Your Electronic Devices? It’s Complicated. | ACLU
We’ve been getting a lot of questions about when border agents can legally conduct searches of travelers’ electronic devices at international airports and other ports of entry. Unfortunately, the answ...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/04/2025
Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said that the US had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized US President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like ‘a Roman emperor’ reut.rs/4iRDMfK
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Costa Rican former President Oscar Arias says US revoked his visa
Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like "a Roman emperor."
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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 03/04/2025
This is very clear and honest, at a time when honesty and clarity seem increasingly hard to come by.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Historians of white supremacy passing the flame to historians of the Great Depression in the world's saddest Olympic torch relay.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🚨 51-48, Senate PASSES a measure to terminate Trump’s tariffs on Canada. Four Republicans join Democrats to deliver a rare rebuke to the president: Susan Collins Lisa Murkowski Rand Paul Mitch McConnell
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𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷 @jastuart68.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
69 MILLION American women will be DISFRANCHISED by the SAVE Act. Married women who've changed their names will be forced to jump through hoops just to cast their ballots. This is a WAR ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS. #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/DRXwTabl
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Contact Your Members of Congress
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Cory Booker has taken over the Senate floor for what is planned to be a marathon stand against Trump. You can watch live here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen... And you can read about the story behind it on TPM. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
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Inside Cory Booker’s Plan To Disrupt ‘Business As Usual’ On The Senate Floor
A member of the U.S. Senate took the floor at 7:00 p.m....
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
If you're in Wisconsin, please know that Judge Susan Crawford will protect YOUR rights and freedoms. Find your polling place and make a plan to vote tomorrow: vote.wisdems.org
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Find Your Voting Locations | WISDEMS Voter Protection Team
This searchable map shows you early voting and dropbox info for hundreds of villages, towns, and cities across Wisconsin. Enter the address you're registered at and your options will pop up!
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
the people who told you to calm down about Roe are the same people telling you to calm down about Social Security, in case you hadn't noticed
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Elise @elisehz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I called Rep Carson’s office asking him to get a group of Representatives and Press to go to that prison in El Salvador to demand to see the prisoners deported/conditions they are being held in. Let’s bring attention to the folks who are absolutely not criminals and are being treated as such.
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tmel1219.bsky.social @tmel1219.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory I’m going to keep saying it… The treatment for an ectopic pregnancy is an abortion The treatment for a septic uterus is an abortion The treatment for a miscarriage that doesn’t release is an abortion If you don’t get these procedures YOU DIE YOU. DIE.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
There's a reason why they're freaking out over what's happening to Tesla. It's working. There's a reason they're threatening absurd consequences. They need to scare you back into civility and compliance. As long as we're reluctant to cross the lines they ignore daily, they have the upper hand.
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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Holy shit. US citizens potentially deported to El Salvador?
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Mark Bechtel @markymark757.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
#SpinelessCowards
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
BREAKING The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders. The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.
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Trump maintains funding freeze at NIH, defying court order
The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.
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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. 

Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Okay, pardon us, but F this. America, you’ve got to stand up.
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
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Elise @elisehz.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is fantastic. It’s long but totally worth it: www.instagram.com/reel/DForuR_...
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 05/02/2025
President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening said the United States “will take over the Gaza Strip,” and “we’ll own it.”
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Trump says U.S. will own and develop Gaza Strip
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Rumors are flying that Musk and his DOGE dickheads have appeared at the Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters in DC. They are about to fuck 16 million veterans.
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Elise @elisehz.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This was heartening today: open.substack.com/pub/dlitt/p/...
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Do Not Be Disappointed In Advance
It takes courage to have faith in people, especially when they've let you down before. But that's what saving the country will require.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/01/2025
BERNIE SANDERS: Vaccines do not cause autism. Do you agree? RFK Jr: As I said, I'm not going into HHS with any preordained-- SANDERS: I asked you a simple question, Bobby RFK Jr: If you show me those studies ... SANDERS: That is a very troubling response
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Elise @elisehz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! buttondown.com/5calls 5 calls is great for keeping you on task making calls every day.
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5 Calls Newsletter
The 5 Calls Newsletter breaks down what your representatives are voting on and what you can do to influence them. From your friends at 5 Calls
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...
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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 29/01/2025
Thanks. This clarifies nothing.
Tweet from the White House Press Secretary: “This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze. 

It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo.

Why? To end any confusion created by the court's injunction.

The President's EO's on federal funding remain in full force and effect, and will be rigorously implemented.”
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
This is perfection.
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Elise @elisehz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Today I called my state rep & state senator to oppose SB 143 and SB 123 as well as to support HB 1167 and SB 142. This took approximately 7 minutes and they were both pleasant conversations. If you need help making these efforts, holler.
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MADVoters @madvoters.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Please review HB 1002. We'll release more info soon - we are reviewing it too. This is a monster bill that just dropped that would gut and deregulate public ed in Indiana. Strike-throughs are what they want to cut: iga.in.gov/pdf-document...
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