Elizabeth Klisiewicz
@eklisiewicz.bsky.social
I'm a lifelong superfan of music who writes for The Big Takeover and Echoes and Dust. I produce a monthly music podcast called The Kitchen Sink Radio podcast. I'm also enamored of nature photography and birding.
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On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.
January 26, 2026 at 3:47 AM
On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.
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Yes, the GOP controls Congress. That's why it's key to show Congress COULD stop the madness. And it's not just the DHS bill. Congress could repeal the prior multi-year $75b for DHS; set up a special investigative committee (cf. Watergate); amend the Insurrection Act; etc.
January 25, 2026 at 1:11 PM
My January music podcast is now live:
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ksi...
playlist is also posted in three images below.
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ksi...
playlist is also posted in three images below.
The Kitchen SInk Radio Podcast #167 with your host Elizabeth Klisiewicz
The Kitchen Sink #167 playlist@ - LettersJesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter – A New MediumSunday Artist – Company TownBreak 1Set 1 tristen – Skin of Our TeethWinter Hours – Hyacinth GirlShoes – Overn...
www.podomatic.com
January 24, 2026 at 8:38 PM
My January music podcast is now live:
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ksi...
playlist is also posted in three images below.
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ksi...
playlist is also posted in three images below.
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“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”
-Edward R. Murrow
-Edward R. Murrow
January 23, 2026 at 8:01 PM
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”
-Edward R. Murrow
-Edward R. Murrow
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It's a sign of the times that callousness is now dressed up as intellectualism. That empathy is framed as being as morally problematic as prejudice. That bigotry and hatred is just honesty. That solidarity is treason.
February 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
It's a sign of the times that callousness is now dressed up as intellectualism. That empathy is framed as being as morally problematic as prejudice. That bigotry and hatred is just honesty. That solidarity is treason.
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Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."
January 21, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."
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You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 6:17 PM
You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.
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The longer *this* all goes on and it is not aggressively called out by Dem AND GOP politicians—even if “nothing happens—the more the rest of the world will know the US can never be trusted again to make reliable trade deals or be military allies
We are fucking around with the fundamental trust in the decency of Americans and it is farcical.
No one seems to understand that trust can be lost, and that lost trust takes active effort and significant cost to regain (or maintain in the face of betrayal).
No one seems to understand that trust can be lost, and that lost trust takes active effort and significant cost to regain (or maintain in the face of betrayal).
i feel like Americans don't get the level of eye-rolling this is getting from Europe
January 19, 2026 at 5:09 AM
The longer *this* all goes on and it is not aggressively called out by Dem AND GOP politicians—even if “nothing happens—the more the rest of the world will know the US can never be trusted again to make reliable trade deals or be military allies
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Sarasota Ferret Rescue is the name of my new band.
January 18, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Sarasota Ferret Rescue is the name of my new band.
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One of the most popular and crowd-pleasing arias in classical opera, "Perché non c'è cibo nella mia ciotola, donna?" tells an emotional tale of a desperately malnourished waif and translates into English as "Why Is There No Food In My Bowl, Woman?"
January 17, 2026 at 3:28 PM
One of the most popular and crowd-pleasing arias in classical opera, "Perché non c'è cibo nella mia ciotola, donna?" tells an emotional tale of a desperately malnourished waif and translates into English as "Why Is There No Food In My Bowl, Woman?"
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We don’t want Greenland.
We want healthcare.
We want healthcare.
January 16, 2026 at 4:51 AM
We don’t want Greenland.
We want healthcare.
We want healthcare.
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I find Gmail’s new “write this for me” feature deeply sinister. They’re trying to convince you that you are dumb and helpless. Don’t let them steal your ability to formulate thoughts and communicate. You were capable of writing an email in 2022 and you’re capable now.
January 15, 2026 at 7:49 PM
I find Gmail’s new “write this for me” feature deeply sinister. They’re trying to convince you that you are dumb and helpless. Don’t let them steal your ability to formulate thoughts and communicate. You were capable of writing an email in 2022 and you’re capable now.
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1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
January 14, 2026 at 3:43 AM
1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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Fans are cancelling tickets.
FIFA has called an emergency meeting over the World Cup backlash.
Boycott the Olympics too.
Trump's Gestapo will round up and shoot anyone.
No one is safe in America.
FIFA has called an emergency meeting over the World Cup backlash.
Boycott the Olympics too.
Trump's Gestapo will round up and shoot anyone.
No one is safe in America.
‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott US-hosted FIFA World Cup over Trump admin
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup set to be hosted in the United States this summer, calls have grown for a global boycott and ticket cancellations in protest of the Trump administration and its increasing...
www.rawstory.com
January 11, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Fans are cancelling tickets.
FIFA has called an emergency meeting over the World Cup backlash.
Boycott the Olympics too.
Trump's Gestapo will round up and shoot anyone.
No one is safe in America.
FIFA has called an emergency meeting over the World Cup backlash.
Boycott the Olympics too.
Trump's Gestapo will round up and shoot anyone.
No one is safe in America.
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A career federal agent says that in 25 years, a fleeing vehicle has never justified killing its occupant, and officers should never stand in front of a running car. CBS reportedly pulled the interview, but it posted on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Retired ICE agent breaks down deadly Minneapolis shooting
YouTube video by CBS Evening News
www.youtube.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:55 AM
A career federal agent says that in 25 years, a fleeing vehicle has never justified killing its occupant, and officers should never stand in front of a running car. CBS reportedly pulled the interview, but it posted on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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PBS News notes this Sunday will be “PBS News Weekend’s” last due to federal budget cuts
January 10, 2026 at 1:46 AM
PBS News notes this Sunday will be “PBS News Weekend’s” last due to federal budget cuts
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TONIGHT, and all weekend, we're spinning up Callière, Whitelands, Waving Blue, ghost girl in my bed, Sleep Keeper, Scorche, Daniel Land, Winter Sun, mariin k., Crux of Faith, Glister and more! 🥂
New Tracks Weekend, January 9-11, 2026 - DKFM Shoegaze Radio
Didn't expect the whole bushel of new tracks for the weekend's festivities, and we got behind sorting and batching all of them! Headliners this weekend include Whitelands, Callière, Waving Blue, ghost girl in my bed, Scorche, Daniel Land, Sleep Keeper (pictured above), winter sun, mariin k., Crux of Faith. and glister. But there's so much
decayfm.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:38 AM
TONIGHT, and all weekend, we're spinning up Callière, Whitelands, Waving Blue, ghost girl in my bed, Sleep Keeper, Scorche, Daniel Land, Winter Sun, mariin k., Crux of Faith, Glister and more! 🥂
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He’s not wrong
GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER:
“.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish ..
“.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”
“.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish ..
“.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”
January 9, 2026 at 11:52 AM
He’s not wrong
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Excellent, clarifying piece on the (real) legal pathway that Minnesota has to prosecute the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman today.
No, federal agents do not have absolute immunity from start charges, no matter what the Trump administration claims.
No, federal agents do not have absolute immunity from start charges, no matter what the Trump administration claims.
Wrote a piece for @slate.com explaining that states have a long history of prosecuting federal officers when they allegedly use excessive force. Federal officers are only immune from such prosecutions when they act reasonably in carrying out lawful duties.
Minnesota Could Prosecute the ICE Shooter. Trump Can’t Pardon Him.
Shortly after an ICE officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, city leaders began looking into whether the officer had violated state criminal law.
slate.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Excellent, clarifying piece on the (real) legal pathway that Minnesota has to prosecute the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman today.
No, federal agents do not have absolute immunity from start charges, no matter what the Trump administration claims.
No, federal agents do not have absolute immunity from start charges, no matter what the Trump administration claims.
When will it end?
They think they can murder anyone.
Don’t forget, Trump said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose any votes.
They shot a scared mom in the face three times.
And they’re lying about her, calling her a domestic terrorist.
They think they can literally do anything.
Anything.
Don’t forget, Trump said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose any votes.
They shot a scared mom in the face three times.
And they’re lying about her, calling her a domestic terrorist.
They think they can literally do anything.
Anything.
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
January 8, 2026 at 10:10 AM
When will it end?