ElieNYC
@elienyc.bsky.social
Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
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ElieNYC
@elienyc.bsky.social
· Jan 7
On March 25, my new book comes out. It's called "Bad Law: 10 Popular Laws That Are Ruining America"
This is my Bill of Wrongs.
Instead of saying "orange man bad," I drilled down on 10 laws most people like that are actually destroying us.
You can preorder below:
www.amazon.com/Bad-Law-Popu...
This is my Bill of Wrongs.
Instead of saying "orange man bad," I drilled down on 10 laws most people like that are actually destroying us.
You can preorder below:
www.amazon.com/Bad-Law-Popu...
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Me: So early for Christmas music
Uber Driver: I’m Muslim
Me: Cool.
Uber: I’m told customers like it.
Me: … You can listen to what you want.
Uber: I don’t care man.
Me [internal screaming]: [I CARE] Cool.
Uber: …
Uber Driver: I’m Muslim
Me: Cool.
Uber: I’m told customers like it.
Me: … You can listen to what you want.
Uber: I don’t care man.
Me [internal screaming]: [I CARE] Cool.
Uber: …
November 23, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Me: So early for Christmas music
Uber Driver: I’m Muslim
Me: Cool.
Uber: I’m told customers like it.
Me: … You can listen to what you want.
Uber: I don’t care man.
Me [internal screaming]: [I CARE] Cool.
Uber: …
Uber Driver: I’m Muslim
Me: Cool.
Uber: I’m told customers like it.
Me: … You can listen to what you want.
Uber: I don’t care man.
Me [internal screaming]: [I CARE] Cool.
Uber: …
All right, Session 0 is a go. See you all Monday. :)
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 AM
All right, Session 0 is a go. See you all Monday. :)
November 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Lawful Good Paladin with a giant holy stick up his butt. :)
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Lawful Good Paladin with a giant holy stick up his butt. :)
Man, I have a D&D game tonight. I need to NOT be sucked into social media just because Unfrozen Caveman Congresswoman resigned.
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Man, I have a D&D game tonight. I need to NOT be sucked into social media just because Unfrozen Caveman Congresswoman resigned.
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I don’t know what her next act will be but please keep in mind you do not ever have to hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I don’t know what her next act will be but please keep in mind you do not ever have to hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene
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Tom, having the one elected official expected to represent the entire nation be elected by a national popular vote does not “unravel federalism.” It’s just a common sense approach to electing a national politician that isn’t based in the protection of slavery.
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Tom, having the one elected official expected to represent the entire nation be elected by a national popular vote does not “unravel federalism.” It’s just a common sense approach to electing a national politician that isn’t based in the protection of slavery.
Stay and fight the man you now know is evil?
“Nah. I’ma check out like the punk you always knew I was.”
“Nah. I’ma check out like the punk you always knew I was.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Stay and fight the man you now know is evil?
“Nah. I’ma check out like the punk you always knew I was.”
“Nah. I’ma check out like the punk you always knew I was.”
This woman did one good thing in her entire public life and that was TOO MUCH for the Republican Party
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This woman did one good thing in her entire public life and that was TOO MUCH for the Republican Party
Just a little FYI from @jaywillis.net
Antonin Scalia Was a Diversity Hire
The late justice spent his career ridiculing the notion that elite institutions had any interest in diversity. He might not have made the Supreme Court without it.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Just a little FYI from @jaywillis.net
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My takeaway from the 2025 elections for 2026 primary voters, this time with @elienyc.bsky.social and the backstory to "Unfuck our Country"
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November 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
My takeaway from the 2025 elections for 2026 primary voters, this time with @elienyc.bsky.social and the backstory to "Unfuck our Country"
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Correct Answer
CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Correct Answer
I know what I need to do before Destiny 2: Renegades launches. I need to boot up SWTOR again. I haven't touched it since it went soft maintenece mode, and I miss it so much I'm about to dive into freaking Destiny again.
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I know what I need to do before Destiny 2: Renegades launches. I need to boot up SWTOR again. I haven't touched it since it went soft maintenece mode, and I miss it so much I'm about to dive into freaking Destiny again.
Thank you, student journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
Lawrence Summers to Stop Teaching at Harvard While It Investigates His Epstein Ties
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Thank you, student journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
This dissent in the Texas gerrymandering case is batshit crazy and SCOTUS is going to eat it up
Judge Jerry Smith (Reagan appointee) is out with his dissent in the Texas redistricting case, and it is WILD
www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
November 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This dissent in the Texas gerrymandering case is batshit crazy and SCOTUS is going to eat it up
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It's not even a morality issue---it's an equity issue.
In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.
Women in his classes are not getting the same class.
In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.
Women in his classes are not getting the same class.
I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed?
The revelations about the economist’s attempts to pressure a women into a “relationship”—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students.
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
It's not even a morality issue---it's an equity issue.
In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.
Women in his classes are not getting the same class.
In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.
Women in his classes are not getting the same class.
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I know the meetings at the highest level of Harvard are like "But if we fire Larry Summers for sexually harassing a grad student and emailing with Jeffrey Epstein, we'd have to fire all the other 'distinguished professors' who did that too!"
I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed?
The revelations about the economist’s attempts to pressure a women into a “relationship”—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students.
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I know the meetings at the highest level of Harvard are like "But if we fire Larry Summers for sexually harassing a grad student and emailing with Jeffrey Epstein, we'd have to fire all the other 'distinguished professors' who did that too!"
I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed?
The revelations about the economist’s attempts to pressure a women into a “relationship”—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students.
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Now onto SCOTUS
Here is the federal district court's 2–1 ruling, authored by a very conservative Trump appointee, striking down Texas' new Republican gerrymander on the grounds that it unlawfully discriminates against racial minorities. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Now onto SCOTUS
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November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Love it when Jasmine is on🔥
“Mike Johnson is full of shit. We know that he didn't even bring the House back in because he was trying to avoid us dealing with Epstein. He would not even swear in a duly elected member of Congress to avoid this. So miss me on pretending that this is about the victims.”
“Mike Johnson is full of shit. We know that he didn't even bring the House back in because he was trying to avoid us dealing with Epstein. He would not even swear in a duly elected member of Congress to avoid this. So miss me on pretending that this is about the victims.”
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Love it when Jasmine is on🔥
“Mike Johnson is full of shit. We know that he didn't even bring the House back in because he was trying to avoid us dealing with Epstein. He would not even swear in a duly elected member of Congress to avoid this. So miss me on pretending that this is about the victims.”
“Mike Johnson is full of shit. We know that he didn't even bring the House back in because he was trying to avoid us dealing with Epstein. He would not even swear in a duly elected member of Congress to avoid this. So miss me on pretending that this is about the victims.”
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The panel is Obama, Trump, Trump, but signed as a "per curiam" opinion, which means "by the court."
That's usually reserved for when judges want to speak with one voice, especially in political cases, and the name of the opinion's author is not really relevant. Or else the law is well settled.
That's usually reserved for when judges want to speak with one voice, especially in political cases, and the name of the opinion's author is not really relevant. Or else the law is well settled.
Eleventh Circuit affirms dismissal of Trump defamation lawsuit against CNN for calling his election denialism the "Big Lie"
Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![Trump’s argument is unpersuasive. First, although he concedes that CNN’s use of the term “Big Lie” is, to some extent, ambiguous, he assumes that it is unambiguous enough to constitute a
statement of fact. This assumption is untenable. Although we haven’t squarely addressed the point, case law from other circuits is
persuasive. In Buckley v. Littell, 539 F.2d 882 (2d Cir. 1976), cert.
denied, 429 U.S. 1062 (1977), the Second Circuit held that, by using
the terms “fascist,” “fellow traveler,” and “radical right” to describe
William F. Buckley, Jr., the defendant was not publishing “statements of fact.” Buckley, 539 F.2d at 893. Rather, the court ruled,
the terms were “so debatable, loose and varying[] that they [we]re
insusceptible to proof of truth or falsity.” Id. at 894. Similarly, in
Ollman v. Evans, 750 F.2d 970 (D.C. Cir. 1984) (en banc), cert. denied,
471 U.S. 1127 (1985), the D.C. Circuit held that when the defendant
called the plaintiff “an outspoken proponent of political Marxism,”
his statement was “obviously unverifiable.” Ollman, 750 F.2d at
987. Trump argues that the term “Big Lie” is less ambiguous than
the terms “fascist,” “fellow traveler,” “radical right,” and “outspoken proponent of political Marxism.” But he does not explain
this assertion. If “fascist”—a term that is, by definition, political—](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7r477jd7q7p2mzmyqfm7jmp7/bafkreifzrcycynll6e4vval5gho3ixmpdo4odqha5cgw4zjydntc5yhtxm@jpeg)
![is ambiguous, then it follows that “Big Lie”—a term that is facially
apolitical—is at least as ambiguous.
Second, Trump’s argument hinges on the fact that his own
interpretation of his conduct—i.e., that he was exercising a constitutional right to identify his concerns with the integrity of elections—is true and that CNN’s interpretation—i.e., that Trump was
peddling his “Big Lie”—is false. However, his conduct is susceptible to multiple subjective interpretations, including CNN’s. As we
held in Turner, one person’s “subjective assessment” is not rendered false by another person’s “different conclusion.” 879 F.3d at
1264. In Turner, the defendants stated that, on at least one occasion,
the plaintiff, James Turner, offensive line coach of the Miami Dolphins, participated in the “homophobic taunting” of one of his players. Id. Turner argued that this statement was false because his
conduct was a “harmless ‘joke,’ as opposed to homophobic taunting.” Id. We rejected his argument, concluding that the statement
“[wa]s the [d]efendants’ subjective assessment of Turner’s conduct
and [wa]s not readily capable of being proven true or false.” Id.
Just as the Turner defendants described Turner’s conduct as “homophobic taunting,” CNN described Trump’s conduct as his “Big
Lie.” Just as Turner viewed his own conduct as a “harmless ‘joke,’”
Trump viewed his own conduct as the exercise of a constitutional
right. As in Turner, so too here. CNN’s subjective assessment of
Trump’s conduct is not readily capable of being proven true or
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November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The panel is Obama, Trump, Trump, but signed as a "per curiam" opinion, which means "by the court."
That's usually reserved for when judges want to speak with one voice, especially in political cases, and the name of the opinion's author is not really relevant. Or else the law is well settled.
That's usually reserved for when judges want to speak with one voice, especially in political cases, and the name of the opinion's author is not really relevant. Or else the law is well settled.
I am once again asking white people to handle their Nuzzi/Lizza business in the privacy of their own pumpkin spiced brunch table and leave the rest of us the fuck alone with this poorly written bullshit
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I am once again asking white people to handle their Nuzzi/Lizza business in the privacy of their own pumpkin spiced brunch table and leave the rest of us the fuck alone with this poorly written bullshit
Anyway, afte 24 hours of car related madness, I'm heading to the Poconos with the fam college friends (and their families) related shennanigans. My license and registration are up to date. Car has recently been serviced. And all my weirdness is behind me.
OPERATION: CANNOT POSSIBLY FAIL is a go!
OPERATION: CANNOT POSSIBLY FAIL is a go!
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Anyway, afte 24 hours of car related madness, I'm heading to the Poconos with the fam college friends (and their families) related shennanigans. My license and registration are up to date. Car has recently been serviced. And all my weirdness is behind me.
OPERATION: CANNOT POSSIBLY FAIL is a go!
OPERATION: CANNOT POSSIBLY FAIL is a go!