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Ilissa Gold

@goldni.bsky.social
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Los Angeles via Nashville. Union-side labor lawyer, YIMBY, feminist. I belong to no organized political party - I’m a Democrat. Titan Up/Anchor Down

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Ilissa Gold @goldni.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again - treating shade/shadow as a negative impact that needs to be limited or mitigated is a relic from the days when Boomers thought that rubbing on baby oil and laying out in direct sun was a healthy thing to do.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 01/10/2026
People are going to clown on this but we need to remember that planning for local context is important: a city with Los Angeles, California’s semi-arid Mediterranean climate only gets sunshine ~300 days a year; so it’s important to make sure you can never ever find shade in the middle of the day.
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Ilissa Gold @goldni.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
To anyone who is remotely normal, teen pregnancies sharply declining is a good thing. Another reminder that when Tim Walz called these people weird, he was being generous.
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Ilissa Gold @goldni.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Well... We're Waiting Meme
ALT: Well... We're Waiting Meme
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It’s going to be stuffed to the rafters with surveillance devices of unknown provenance. It will need to be destroyed as a matter of national security.
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Connor Webb @connorwebb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Why is @asmrickzbur.bsky.social hosting a fundraiser for Karen Bass with former Ticketmaster CEO Fred Rosen, who is opposing the Sepulveda line in AD51 and has a long history of berating civil servants and electeds with misogynistic hate— including these messages to @lindseyphorvath.bsky.social?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A few months ago this campaign was a long shot. Now, we're advancing to the general election. We got here because people across Los Angeles believe in something better: a city where Angelenos can afford to live, work, and build a future. Join our movement at nithyaforthecity.com
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
get ready for this
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Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove @kamlager-dove.house.gov · 06/06/2026
Sore loser doing sore loser things. CA allows up to a week after election day for mail-in ballots arrive—and every voter receives a mail-in ballot so they can vote by mail like Donald Trump. There's no conspiracy. Stop complaining about things you're too dumb to understand.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I do not think it is ageism to point out that a slim congressional majority will be at risk if we nominate a bunch of representatives in their 80s and 90s
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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 07/05/2026
This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..
BREAKING: Tennessee Republicans pass map splitting up state's lone majority-Black district

NBC NEWS

SUBSCRIBE

SUPREME COURT

Chief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as 'political actors'

In remarks at a judicial conference, Roberts bemoaned what he characterized as the American public's misconceptions about the Supreme Court.

Listen to this article
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
No idea who this reporter is but if that's what you're seeing ... maybe write that, rather than waiting for TMZ? nymag.com/intelligence...
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Ilissa Gold @goldni.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I’m undecided in the CA Gov race but want to vote for a committed YIMBY candidate. Katie Porter and Tom Steyer both appear to be that. My issue with Xavier Becerra is - when he was AG it was already clear that some cities had no intention of following state housing law without being forced to…
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
It’s so creepy that these people see major declines in teen pregnancy as a bad thing.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Orban, Bolsonaro, Trump, and all the rest of these goons want you to believe they are inevitable and, once in power, invincible. They are not.
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Ilissa Gold @goldni.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
At some point I might want to write about how treating shade and shadow as a negative under CEQA is a relic from a time when people thought sunbathing with baby oil was healthy.
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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The DNC Resolutions Committee has passed my resolution to hold Trump Administration officials legally accountable for their crimes. Assuming the whole packet passes on Friday, it will become the official position of the national Democratic Party.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
There's nothing more insufferable than the shitheads who spent the entirety of 2024 sinking the Dem nominee trying to claim the moral high ground because they thought they were doing it for the sake of the Gazans. They all unironically have the blood of those 150+ Iranian schoolgirls on their hands
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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Los Angeles’ housing crisis is self-inflicted.  For decades, city leaders have taken deliberate actions to limit new housing. Today, we announced our plan to fix this and triple housing production.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Netanyahu sucks, AIPAC sucks, but "we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby" is just code for "blame Jews." Trump wasn't forced to do this. Trump's supporters—like Kent—weren't forced to elect him and embolden him. They're not absolved of any responsibility.
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Katie Porter @katieporterca.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
No more aspirational goals. We need homes, we need them now, and we need them for the next generation. California was built on the future, but the future doesn't build itself. Let’s get to work.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I was saying this the other day, but for all the thinkpieces about liberal echo chambers, no one discusses the right-wing echo chamber that enables people to think one of the most popular musicians in the world is some niche and offensive selection for the Super Bowl halftime show
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Fooch @davidfucillo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I don't speak Spanish, so maybe I missed something, but with this kind of show, he didn't need to make any kind of explicit comment about ICE or whatever. The show itself was a rebuke to the bullshit going on right now.
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mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 08/02/2026
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
No idea what Bad Bunny is even saying, but this is the biggest fuck you to MAGA ever imaginable
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Enough with this garbage about "healing the divide." This is America and it looks pretty damn united to me. Real patriots turn out for one another and that's why we'll bury this new Confederacy in the same trash heap as their ancestors.
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Rep. Diana DeGette @degette.house.gov · 21/01/2026
ICE should be dismantled immediately.  I will not support funding for the Department of Homeland Security when ICE and Border Patrol agents are assaulting protestors, detaining and arresting people with impunity, inciting violence, and shooting and killing American citizens.  Read my statement:
Purple-toned, high-contrast graphic showing two figures side by side. On the left, a woman, Kristi Noem, speaking into a microphone, partially visible. On the right, a masked ICE agent in tactical gear with an “ICE” patch visible on the chest. White overlaid text reads: The Trump administration has weaponized ICE and Border Patrol, turning those agencies into masked, hostile police forces that are terrorizing the American people.
ICE has become a rogue agency that has gone far beyond its original mandate. It should be immediately dismantled.Purple-toned, high-contrast graphic showing two figures side by side. On the left, a woman, Kristi Noem, speaking into a microphone, partially visible. On the right, a masked ICE agent in tactical gear with an “ICE” patch visible on the chest. White overlaid text reads: I will not support funding for the Department of Homeland Security when ICE and Border Patrol agents are assaulting protestors, detaining and arresting people with impunity, inciting violence, and shooting and killing American citizens.
Furthermore, Secretary Kristi Noem and her thugs have been acting in violation of court orders and in contempt of Congress, and she should be impeached.

At the bottom, a white signature of Congresswoman Diana DeGette
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Literal gestapo shit. I don't know what to say other than that it happened here.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This might sound like snark but it's just an honest reply: The state's right to carry out violence at will is a top priority of any state, but certainly of a state that's a white supremacist patriarchy. And the use & abuse of women's & children's bodies is a feature, not a bug, in such a system.
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Ilissa Gold @goldni.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Hey, some of us came in second!
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
When a cop murdered my big brother at a road block 21 years ago, their post-facto justification was that he tried to run over a cop. His foot released the brake after the officer shot him in the chest, and the car bumped an officer.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Need this energy when Trump leaves office. Take a fucking bulldozer to his bribe ballroom and rip his name off the Kennedy Center and whatever else he slaps his name on.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS
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Ilissa Gold @goldni.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
This is especially a problem postpartum. “Sleep when the baby sleeps” well, can’t do that if you’re waking me up every hour!
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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 09/12/2025
LA quietly stopped repaving all streets last July to avoid fulfilling its ADA obligations. The federal govt says when you repave a street, you have to update all the curb ramps. LA has tons of out of date curb ramps, so the rule makes repaving much more expensive. The city's solution: stop repaving!
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LA has stopped repaving our streets
The reason why is probably illegal
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/11/2025
a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless
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Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
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Ilissa Gold @goldni.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Does MTG’s change of heart feel like a pro wrestling shoot to anyone else?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Reminder: we are in this together. Whether you accept it or not, they’ll eventually remind you.
A tweet by Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis shows a photo of Zohran Mamdani wearing a white kippah while sitting beside Brad Lander at an event with candles behind them. The caption reads, “So this is the Muslim Mayor of New York lol.” The tweet implies mockery and hostility by suggesting that Mamdani—who is Muslim—is symbolically subservient to Jews because he is wearing a kippah, invoking an antisemitic trope about Jewish control and an Islamophobic framing of divided loyalty.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates
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