Emily Behlmann
@ebehlmann.bsky.social
Journalist-turned-software dev. Working in civic tech at VoteAmerica. Queer and mad. | she/her
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If you’re trying to make it harder for people to vote, stop pretending to give a shit about democracy.
Every American - regardless of their political views - deserves to have their voice heard.
Every American - regardless of their political views - deserves to have their voice heard.
August 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
If you’re trying to make it harder for people to vote, stop pretending to give a shit about democracy.
Every American - regardless of their political views - deserves to have their voice heard.
Every American - regardless of their political views - deserves to have their voice heard.
This is probably obvious if you’ve read your Martin Niemöller, but this gives a good breakdown of why attacks on trans people are not just hateful but also strategic, and why Dems abandoning them is not just shitty but also counterproductive
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/attacks-on...
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/attacks-on...
Attacks on Vulnerable Groups Are Revolutionary Acts
Authoritarian movements target marginalized communities not out of simple prejudice, but as a deliberate strategy to transform the entire social and political order.
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com
July 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is probably obvious if you’ve read your Martin Niemöller, but this gives a good breakdown of why attacks on trans people are not just hateful but also strategic, and why Dems abandoning them is not just shitty but also counterproductive
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/attacks-on...
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/attacks-on...
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I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator
very grim
very grim
July 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator
very grim
very grim
And they all lived happily ever after.
Nice to see Cuomo finally being a team player and campaigning for Zohran
July 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
And they all lived happily ever after.
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a congress full of hookers who want to seize all means of production sounds like a marked improvement tbh
![Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer
This is another communist candidate running for Congress in Illinois.
If DSA@DemSocialists had their way, Congress would be full of jihadists and wannabe hookers who want to seize all means of production.
Not only is she running for Congress, but she's also dating @oneunderscore_Ben Collins, the CEO of the Onion.
These are not serious people.
Please cover your cooch @KatAbughazaleh.
kabughazaleh.
[picture from my Instagram of me on the fridge behind the bar in fishnets, shorts, and a top being goofy with my coworkers]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ats4shmeia7i7ildqm3denmd/bafkreigf75no4e77xs6gp2vufvwp34cslnt74oig3dg2sjf4toqkjgcaee@jpeg)
July 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
a congress full of hookers who want to seize all means of production sounds like a marked improvement tbh
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Incredible news for trans people - the Medicaid provision is out of the Trump horror bill. It did not require a point of order vote, and instead, Republicans pulled it out on their own, likely knowing they would lose the vote.
Good job to everyone for calling their Senators.
Good job to everyone for calling their Senators.
News: The most recent GOP reconciliation bill no longer has the provision to ban Medicaid from being used on gender-affirming care
The parliamentarian had disqualified the provision, but Republicans had left it on the text — it now has been removed
The parliamentarian had disqualified the provision, but Republicans had left it on the text — it now has been removed
July 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Incredible news for trans people - the Medicaid provision is out of the Trump horror bill. It did not require a point of order vote, and instead, Republicans pulled it out on their own, likely knowing they would lose the vote.
Good job to everyone for calling their Senators.
Good job to everyone for calling their Senators.
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Rep. Ron Estes supports the evil bill that will takeaway healthcare from his own people. He also refuses to hold a Townhall and face them. His constituents had just one question..
July 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Rep. Ron Estes supports the evil bill that will takeaway healthcare from his own people. He also refuses to hold a Townhall and face them. His constituents had just one question..
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Hot take: Not only are work requirements for Medicaid bad, tying health care to work at all is cruel and we should be doing it less not more.
Everyone deserves health care. Everyone.
Everyone deserves health care. Everyone.
July 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Hot take: Not only are work requirements for Medicaid bad, tying health care to work at all is cruel and we should be doing it less not more.
Everyone deserves health care. Everyone.
Everyone deserves health care. Everyone.
Seeing reports that Sen. Jerry Moran of KS has reservations about Republicans' harmful budget reconciliation bill — particularly about cuts to clean energy programs and the impact Medicaid changes would have on the KS health care system. Kansas, call TODAY and tell him to vote no! (316) 269-9257
June 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Seeing reports that Sen. Jerry Moran of KS has reservations about Republicans' harmful budget reconciliation bill — particularly about cuts to clean energy programs and the impact Medicaid changes would have on the KS health care system. Kansas, call TODAY and tell him to vote no! (316) 269-9257
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Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings
June 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings
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Just want to shout out the reporters and photojournalists of the @latimes.com. They have a shitty owner, and as a result there are far fewer of them than a few years before, but on this story, as with the fires, they are giving it their all.
June 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Just want to shout out the reporters and photojournalists of the @latimes.com. They have a shitty owner, and as a result there are far fewer of them than a few years before, but on this story, as with the fires, they are giving it their all.
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.
So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
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So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow
Organizers demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.
www.erininthemorning.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.
So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Imagine living 88 years on this earth and one of the last people you talk to is JD Vance
April 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Imagine living 88 years on this earth and one of the last people you talk to is JD Vance
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It is SO unusual for the Supreme Court to issue an order this late at night and honestly incredible only Thomas and Alito noted their dissents.
Also fascinating that SCOTUS rushed out the order before Alito could finish writing his dissent. That basically never happens! Again—majority seems pissed.
Also fascinating that SCOTUS rushed out the order before Alito could finish writing his dissent. That basically never happens! Again—majority seems pissed.
April 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It is SO unusual for the Supreme Court to issue an order this late at night and honestly incredible only Thomas and Alito noted their dissents.
Also fascinating that SCOTUS rushed out the order before Alito could finish writing his dissent. That basically never happens! Again—majority seems pissed.
Also fascinating that SCOTUS rushed out the order before Alito could finish writing his dissent. That basically never happens! Again—majority seems pissed.
I feel like it’s important to make this clear. In business, connecting data sets and making data easily accessible via API are often treated as unquestionably beneficial. But this info is siloed not because of incompetence or lack of creativity, but to protect people
www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
April 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I feel like it’s important to make this clear. In business, connecting data sets and making data easily accessible via API are often treated as unquestionably beneficial. But this info is siloed not because of incompetence or lack of creativity, but to protect people
www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
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A reminder that there is no human being in the United States whom it would be legal to disappear to a Salvadoran prison without due process of law.
April 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
A reminder that there is no human being in the United States whom it would be legal to disappear to a Salvadoran prison without due process of law.
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If you're in congress and you aren't publicly in favor of banning the trading of individual stocks by people in congress, get your head out of your fucking ass.
April 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
If you're in congress and you aren't publicly in favor of banning the trading of individual stocks by people in congress, get your head out of your fucking ass.
Amazing resource, thank you @bbkogan.bsky.social
The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich.
THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.
Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.
Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
April 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Amazing resource, thank you @bbkogan.bsky.social
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BREAKING: In a 220-208 vote, with four Democrats voting in favor, the House passes the SAVE Act, a bill that could strip voting rights from millions of Americans.
From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
SAVE Act: House Passes GOP Voting Bill That Could Disenfranchise Millions
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
BREAKING: In a 220-208 vote, with four Democrats voting in favor, the House passes the SAVE Act, a bill that could strip voting rights from millions of Americans.
From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
So impressed by Cory Booker. 20 hours in, he’s still speaking passionately about relevant topics.
Yes, it’s theatre. Of course it is. It has no direct practical impact. But have you never been moved by a performance before?
He’s one guy doing one thing. May all of us be moved to do our part too.
Yes, it’s theatre. Of course it is. It has no direct practical impact. But have you never been moved by a performance before?
He’s one guy doing one thing. May all of us be moved to do our part too.
April 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
So impressed by Cory Booker. 20 hours in, he’s still speaking passionately about relevant topics.
Yes, it’s theatre. Of course it is. It has no direct practical impact. But have you never been moved by a performance before?
He’s one guy doing one thing. May all of us be moved to do our part too.
Yes, it’s theatre. Of course it is. It has no direct practical impact. But have you never been moved by a performance before?
He’s one guy doing one thing. May all of us be moved to do our part too.
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REMINDER: Wisconsin has same-day voter registration.
So, if you haven’t registered or recently moved or anything like that, you can register at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY.
Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.
So, if you haven’t registered or recently moved or anything like that, you can register at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY.
Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.
April 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
REMINDER: Wisconsin has same-day voter registration.
So, if you haven’t registered or recently moved or anything like that, you can register at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY.
Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.
So, if you haven’t registered or recently moved or anything like that, you can register at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY.
Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.
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yall we can’t collectively screech that “no one’s doing anything!” and then say “no not like that” when someone actually does something.
is Booker’s filibuster gonna save the world? of course not. but since courage begets courage it could lead to more. I’m fucking cynical as hell but come on.
is Booker’s filibuster gonna save the world? of course not. but since courage begets courage it could lead to more. I’m fucking cynical as hell but come on.
April 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
yall we can’t collectively screech that “no one’s doing anything!” and then say “no not like that” when someone actually does something.
is Booker’s filibuster gonna save the world? of course not. but since courage begets courage it could lead to more. I’m fucking cynical as hell but come on.
is Booker’s filibuster gonna save the world? of course not. but since courage begets courage it could lead to more. I’m fucking cynical as hell but come on.