Elayna
@elaynat.bsky.social
Former indie bookseller, Master's student in sustainability & environment @UNCG
Well there's your problem right there! You got a whole bunch of capitalism stuck in your human rights. Gotta clear that shit out.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Well there's your problem right there! You got a whole bunch of capitalism stuck in your human rights. Gotta clear that shit out.
Can you imagine how LONG it would take to do this kind of deep dive social media review?? And the taxpayer dollars all those reviewers will cost?? This, from the admin obsessed with "waste, fraud, and abuse" 🙃
Q: Are you concerned that if the proposal to review 5 years of social media to get a tourist visa is implemented that there will be a decline in tourism?
TRUMP: No. We're doing so well. We want to make sure we're not letting the wrong people into our country.
TRUMP: No. We're doing so well. We want to make sure we're not letting the wrong people into our country.
December 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Can you imagine how LONG it would take to do this kind of deep dive social media review?? And the taxpayer dollars all those reviewers will cost?? This, from the admin obsessed with "waste, fraud, and abuse" 🙃
Then you probably shouldn't have reproduced.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Then you probably shouldn't have reproduced.
Monopolies just get bigger and bigger and it's the customer and employees who suffer. We have laws to stop this, they're just being ignored. Corporate consolidation is eating away at American culture and economics and the people in charge are gleeful about it.
The proposed merger between two of Hollywood's biggest players will have seismic impacts on the industry and the thousands upon thousands of workers that it supports across Los Angeles and California.
December 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Monopolies just get bigger and bigger and it's the customer and employees who suffer. We have laws to stop this, they're just being ignored. Corporate consolidation is eating away at American culture and economics and the people in charge are gleeful about it.
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1. Hard to believe, but Amazon has persuaded schools and cities across the country to abandon competitive bidding and fixed price contracts. Instead, they're signing contracts with Amazon that specify dynamic pricing. The result: Paying $37 for 12 pens or $74 for 36 markers.
December 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
1. Hard to believe, but Amazon has persuaded schools and cities across the country to abandon competitive bidding and fixed price contracts. Instead, they're signing contracts with Amazon that specify dynamic pricing. The result: Paying $37 for 12 pens or $74 for 36 markers.
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I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.
I am once again begging every public speaker to record themselves practicing so they can hear how often they say uh and um. It is SO distracting to listen to!
December 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I am once again begging every public speaker to record themselves practicing so they can hear how often they say uh and um. It is SO distracting to listen to!
JFC people!! Get your damn vaccines and protect your community!!
Oregon Health Authority Communicable Disease and Immunization Medical Director Howard Chiou told OPB that around 9% of Oregonians, or 360,000 people, had received this season’s COVID-19 vaccine. Chiou said that figure is 21% lower than this time last year.
Oregon’s COVID-19 vaccine rate is 21% lower than this time last year
Rates for both COVID-19 and flu immunization are down heading into the holiday season.
www.opb.org
November 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
JFC people!! Get your damn vaccines and protect your community!!
But please, do explain how unregulated capitalism and corporate consolidation is good for everyone
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 30, 2025 at 5:13 AM
But please, do explain how unregulated capitalism and corporate consolidation is good for everyone
Cool guess let's just waltz right back into Nazi Germany jfc
A Tennessee legislator has ordered all Tennessee public libraries to shut down for two weeks to review their childrens collections and ensure they do not contain any books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
The Harper's letter crew is going to be *furious* about this.
The Harper's letter crew is going to be *furious* about this.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or...
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Cool guess let's just waltz right back into Nazi Germany jfc
He gets one vote just like the rest of us. Get money out of politics NOW.
With the donation, first reported by the Oregon Journalism Project, Knight is signaling once again that he is fed up with Democratic dominance in Oregon.
Phil Knight is once again rooting for Oregon Republicans next year
A recent $3 million donation to back GOP candidates is the largest single contribution by an individual in state history.
www.opb.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
He gets one vote just like the rest of us. Get money out of politics NOW.
Maybe it's the confirmation bias bubble I'm in but the only people happy about data centers seem to be the people insisting they must be built and the rest of the country is horrified and like, hello?? So sick of this paternalistic "trust us, it's good for you" bullshit. Fuck AI.
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Maybe it's the confirmation bias bubble I'm in but the only people happy about data centers seem to be the people insisting they must be built and the rest of the country is horrified and like, hello?? So sick of this paternalistic "trust us, it's good for you" bullshit. Fuck AI.
It's been a month. The batteries are still working. FYI.
Sex is great but have you ever made two dead batteries work again by rubbing them together in your hands really hard?
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
It's been a month. The batteries are still working. FYI.
I know we're all operating at breakneck news cycle speeds these days but I'm literally BEGGING newsletter writers to get ANYONE to read their piece before hitting send. The errors, my god the ERRORS. The missing words alone haunt me.
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I know we're all operating at breakneck news cycle speeds these days but I'm literally BEGGING newsletter writers to get ANYONE to read their piece before hitting send. The errors, my god the ERRORS. The missing words alone haunt me.
Kinda feel like that's the plan, to sow chaos and do crazy shit while everyone's distracted just trying to survive
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer warned that the president was “lighting a match in a country soaked with political gasoline.”
Trump accuses Democratic lawmakers of sedition ‘punishable by death’
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer warned that the president was “lighting a match in a country soaked with political gasoline.”
www.oregonlive.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Kinda feel like that's the plan, to sow chaos and do crazy shit while everyone's distracted just trying to survive
What a fun way to find out AI is basically just fan fiction written by the same person who forgot to log into their alt account
*laughs in historian* “… ranks among the 10 minds in history, rivalling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton…”
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
What a fun way to find out AI is basically just fan fiction written by the same person who forgot to log into their alt account
E. B. White rolling in his grave no doubt
Community organizations are training volunteers to monitor federal immigration enforcement activities as operation “Charlotte’s Web” enters its third day in the Charlotte area.
Community groups train volunteers to monitor Border Patrol operations in Charlotte
Residents learned to document immigration enforcement activities as operation "Charlotte's Web" continues
www.wbtv.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
E. B. White rolling in his grave no doubt
There is not NEARLY enough discussion around the very real possibility it will be the collapse of insurance markets that brings us down.
grist.org/economics/in...
grist.org/economics/in...
They survived the hurricane. Their insurance company didn't.
Hurricane Ida revealed a fragile insurance industry ill-prepared for the consequences of climate change. More than four years later, what's changed?
grist.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
There is not NEARLY enough discussion around the very real possibility it will be the collapse of insurance markets that brings us down.
grist.org/economics/in...
grist.org/economics/in...
My constant reaction to literally everything on my feed today (and most days!)
a close up of a barbie doll with a surprised look on her face ..
ALT: a close up of a barbie doll with a surprised look on her face ..
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
My constant reaction to literally everything on my feed today (and most days!)
The fuck is this shit
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The fuck is this shit
DON'T DO IT @wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov!!! The GOP are committing political suicide, LET THEM SINK.
I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
DON'T DO IT @wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov!!! The GOP are committing political suicide, LET THEM SINK.
What freaks me out is that they're doing shit they KNOW will get them hammered in the midterms which makes it pretty clear they fully intend to rig them or just straight up not have them. America, we need an emergency toolkit and we need to place it by the front door right now.
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 AM
What freaks me out is that they're doing shit they KNOW will get them hammered in the midterms which makes it pretty clear they fully intend to rig them or just straight up not have them. America, we need an emergency toolkit and we need to place it by the front door right now.
And we'd do it all over again if we could!!!
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
And we'd do it all over again if we could!!!
The question is have we become monsters or were we really this monstrous all along?
Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.
Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.
Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.
He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.
A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.
www.inquirer.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
The question is have we become monsters or were we really this monstrous all along?
Pure fucking evil
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Pure fucking evil