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Elizabeth Bennett

@elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social
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Old-timey congressional staff, herder of regulations and writer.

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 14h
Does anybody ever ask, “What interest would a school or even a blue state have in changing a child’s gender?”
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I just went through the settings and couldn’t figure out how to auto-delete. Is that through a different app?
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If only the Constitution had provided us with some remedy for all this corruption…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The area around Puget Sound. Maps couldn’t prepare me for how beautiful and unusual and surprising all that water and the need for ferries and the way locals navigate it was. I’ve never encountered geography remotely like it.
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My concern, of course, is that if Dems had been impeaching all along, that question would be moot. It should be. The fact that she can even ask it is a massive failure of Dems to characterize and publicize Trump’s crimes properly.
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I love her directness!
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
There are so many possible answers, where do you even start? But a prioritized list is good to have handy for a candidate…
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I went to law school to study the Constitution. A professor called on me about rights, but the only one I could think of was free speech. I drew a blank. That’s what popped into mind here. Welker’s dumb Q had so many answers, he couldn’t land on specifics. I think.
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Exactly!
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
@citizensimpeachment.com, please shove Welker’s absurd question into the eye holes of every shithead who says impeachment isn’t worthwhile.
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Also—and Dem officials tend to forget this immediately upon taking the oath of office—it’s their *job*.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We used to make shit, build shit in this country. Now we put our hand in the next guy's pocket. Or so I was once told. This shit is going to make the mortgage-backed securities scandal look like a time of modulated economic growth and sober investment opportunity.
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 07/10/2026
The campaign has asked us to keep eyes on her story and her tenacity and courage during this time of trauma and recovery, so that's what we'll do. As an organization led by women, we know how common it is to be assaulted and we are heartbroken that it has happened, yet again, to one of us.
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The issue is characterizing criticism of policy/officials as “tearing down Dems.” How else are they to know what we expect? Apparently, it’s never OK to criticize Dems, but during their job interviews is when we have leverage. I’ve been a Dem for 40 years. This is how democracy is supposed to work.
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Clearly, he has seen that writing on the wall, and this is part of his strategy for a very cushy landing.
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
There’s lots of power in the majority Dems didn’t bother to use. There’s lots of power in the minority Dems don’t bother to use. Do you see the very troubling pattern? Blue MAGA will make excuses that nothing can be done w/o a supermajority, but “Fetterman/Manchinema” will be the excuse then, too.
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yeah, but we’ll be the ones who suffer for it. The perps will just rebrand. I mean, I fully expect it to go down this way, and I’m tired of making predictions that come true. I pray they’ll prove me wrong each time…
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
McConnell managed to obstruct just about everything Biden tried to do. Please describe the constitutional mechanism by which Dems have less power in the same minority. “Vote harder” is making excuses for feckless, complicit Dems. Those excuses enable fascism.
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This song was my gateway to becoming a Deadhead which is ironic since they never played it live. But it remains one of the best songs ever.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is an infuriating narrative. Appalling in every sense but one: This young woman at the center was and is relentlessly heroic.
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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Remember when McConnell said the GOP would obstruct everything the Dems/Biden wanted to do, even if it would hurt the country? Then he did that. Dems won’t obstruct even when it’s the best thing for the country. Some call that complicity.
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Funny he thinks fighting a war—win or lose—means he’s promoting peace. He’s never even thought about what this prize he covets so desperately is about.
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 09/10/2026
In awarding this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wants to remind the world that the rule of law – national and international – underpins the system we have set up to ensure peace and resolve conflicts non-violently. Peace requires justice.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The two Democratic leaders are Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. They had a duty to step up and say something about this. They have chosen instead to be silent. Both should be dismissed from their leadership positions.
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
animals-crushing-pumpkins season is actually so important to me. spiritually www.tiktok.com/t/ZTyVBE2hL/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026
In this world of "surveillance pricing," every traveler (or customer) sees a different price, in a kind of cod-Marxist dystopia whose motto is "from each according to their ability (to pay), to each according to their (desperate) needs": pluralistic.net/2025/01/11/s...
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Pluralistic: The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 3) (11 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Grateful Dead Lyrics Bot @deadlyrics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung, Would you hear my voice come through the music, Would you hold it near as it were your own?
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
FUCK IT. Let's give away 3 more signed paperbacks of my latest novel, each with fab linoprint bookmarks, made by my mum Jo. Repost & reply to enter! You might like it if you like: Folkloric creatures Old records Intricate psychedelic stories The idea of circular time All shares much-appreciated!
My latest novel Everything Will Swallow You, next to the sea, where some of it takes place.
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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Two post. One replies to the other, with a great dunk. 

richthetruth

Autism:
1 in 10,000. 1990
1 in 30. 2026
Vaccines cause autism.

This post got 2.6 thousand likes 

Reply by 
spacehabs

Near Earth Asteroids:
1960, 20
2026, 40k+
Telescopes cause asteroids

This post got 86.7 thousand likes 

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Vaccines don’t cause autism we just have better ways to doctjnebt and observe autism since 1990 just like Telescopes have gotten better at observing asteroids since 1960.
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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here is some great Democratic messaging created by a group of activists that designed signs in red with simple and yet devastating anti-Republican messaging. You can order the signs on-line.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do you suppose he’ll magically lose the hick accent?
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
lol
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Can’t wait to hear John Oliver comment on this.
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Only a man who’s never had an actual conversation with a woman would think such a dumb thing.
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s different in every state, but generally, yes.
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’ve always wondered who tacked on the “pie” to pizza, but now I see the reason clearly… That thing would kill folks if you dropped it on their head!
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We used the Costco app, primitive but effective, and we put the photos in the right time period with his stories which I mainly left in his own words. The hardback books were about $25 each, and we printed one for each immediate family member. They’re cherished now. Don’t lose your family story.
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A friend just went through 3 months of watching her father die, and it reminds me of doing that with my stepdad a dozen years ago. In his last weeks, my mom asked me to get his life story from him—we talked in depth about new things—and when he was gone, we took photos and made the Book of (him).
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, your thesis is that PVD Jews have cause to be scared b/c Morales might…divest from Israeli investments? Or say “Free Palestine”? Are you suggesting he might send the police to commit pogroms or institutionalize antisemitism? What, precisely, is scary in RI about policy re: another country?
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We can’t begin to solve our existential problems until we accept this simple Truth. Current Democratic leadership is part of these problems. Our charge is to force them out and install officials who will fight the scourge.
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There should be a separate impeachment article for each crime. Make the press give attention to each one. Make the American people be faced with the thousands of crimes, individually. Make his lawyers cope with giant piles of shit he flooded the zone with.
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And you can see the young shitheads behind him, lapping it up…
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
it is in fact a moral and societal imperative that you not pretend the people attempting to end democratic pluralism are just people with different opinions within the frame of democratic pluralism
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Never let Republicans tell you there’s no money for the society-changing services government can provide again.
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If Dems win, her divorce settlement could end up in the Treasury.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/10/2026
Stop putting off that thing you wanted to do
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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hmmm, I wonder if GOP members of Congress (and their aides) realize they don’t work for Trump and therefore don’t have to do what he wants…
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