Elizabeth Majerus
@emajerus.bsky.social
Teacher, poet, punk, feminist; author of Songs Are Like Tattoos, co-editor of Can I Teach That; anti-white-supremacy; pro-climate action, -reproductive justice, and -preserving democracy; 1/3 of Motes; private citizen, She/her, opinions my own
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Elizabeth Majerus
@emajerus.bsky.social
· Oct 27
Art Works: Mixtapes and Modernism with Elizabeth Majerus - Arts
We planned to meet at Urbana’s Caffé Paradiso, but with Paradiso’s truncated summer hours, we ended up a block away at Caffé Bene, its wide-open tables offering the perfect setting for an unhurried co...
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Honored by Amy Penne's beautiful profile––deft & lovely readings of the poems in Songs Are Like Tattoos & great snapshot of interwoven strands of an utterly enjoyable cafe conversation! #SongsAreLikeTattoos www.smilepolitely.com/arts/art-wor...
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“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
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Republicans use the "I'm not familiar with that" dodge several times a day now, and if a reporters or anchor isn't ready and willing to shut them down as soon as they try it, that means they're either incompetent at their job or a willing accomplice to the lies.
Either way, never trust them again.
Either way, never trust them again.
If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there.
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
December 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Republicans use the "I'm not familiar with that" dodge several times a day now, and if a reporters or anchor isn't ready and willing to shut them down as soon as they try it, that means they're either incompetent at their job or a willing accomplice to the lies.
Either way, never trust them again.
Either way, never trust them again.
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When I said the response from #economics would determine the future of the profession, this is what I meant.:
Banning him for life will impact how #economics is viewed and whether (prominent) economists engage in harassment moving forward. The decision sends a powerful WARNING. #econsky
Banning him for life will impact how #economics is viewed and whether (prominent) economists engage in harassment moving forward. The decision sends a powerful WARNING. #econsky
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
When I said the response from #economics would determine the future of the profession, this is what I meant.:
Banning him for life will impact how #economics is viewed and whether (prominent) economists engage in harassment moving forward. The decision sends a powerful WARNING. #econsky
Banning him for life will impact how #economics is viewed and whether (prominent) economists engage in harassment moving forward. The decision sends a powerful WARNING. #econsky
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Since the news broke, my friends and I have talked A LOT about what it means to be young economists and whether we feel comfortable at all.
The AEA's statement is necessary and a step in a direction that centers long overdue accountability and safety. This is the way. #economics #econsky
The AEA's statement is necessary and a step in a direction that centers long overdue accountability and safety. This is the way. #economics #econsky
December 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Since the news broke, my friends and I have talked A LOT about what it means to be young economists and whether we feel comfortable at all.
The AEA's statement is necessary and a step in a direction that centers long overdue accountability and safety. This is the way. #economics #econsky
The AEA's statement is necessary and a step in a direction that centers long overdue accountability and safety. This is the way. #economics #econsky
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Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire.
The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth isn't because we can't feed the poor — it's because we can't satisfy the rich.
We should tax trillionaires out of existence.
The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth isn't because we can't feed the poor — it's because we can't satisfy the rich.
We should tax trillionaires out of existence.
December 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire.
The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth isn't because we can't feed the poor — it's because we can't satisfy the rich.
We should tax trillionaires out of existence.
The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth isn't because we can't feed the poor — it's because we can't satisfy the rich.
We should tax trillionaires out of existence.
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And so it begins. Please remember (just like in Chicago, LA, and Charlotte) get organized and protect your communities. We’re already hearing that people are traveling to New Orleans to help, just as many did in Charlotte.
December 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
And so it begins. Please remember (just like in Chicago, LA, and Charlotte) get organized and protect your communities. We’re already hearing that people are traveling to New Orleans to help, just as many did in Charlotte.
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Also worth noting that we know the solutions for these problems, and we have a large amount of extremely strong evidence proving that they are very solvable issues, but we choose to let corporate interests and the super rich keep us from living better lives
We face a climate emergency, a housing/affordabikity/homelessness emergency, a public health emergency, an equity emergency, an infrastructure cost emergency, all tied to too low densities, not enough housing, & far too much car dependency.
What we DON’T face is a “community character” emergency.
What we DON’T face is a “community character” emergency.
Despite a well-recognized housing emergency in Puget Sounds, cities continue to wield their emergency powers in ways that are related to...anything but that crisis.
A latest example: Bellevue is considering an emergency control tonight to protect the "character" of Old Bellevue from development.
A latest example: Bellevue is considering an emergency control tonight to protect the "character" of Old Bellevue from development.
December 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Also worth noting that we know the solutions for these problems, and we have a large amount of extremely strong evidence proving that they are very solvable issues, but we choose to let corporate interests and the super rich keep us from living better lives
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No, you’re not imagining it. Your Thanksgiving dinner was more expensive this year, thanks to Donald Trump’s “give billionaires more yacht money” economic policies.
December 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
No, you’re not imagining it. Your Thanksgiving dinner was more expensive this year, thanks to Donald Trump’s “give billionaires more yacht money” economic policies.
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Federal agents shouldn’t be chasing, arresting, or shooting crowd control munitions at journalists or anyone else for one simple act: recording them in public.
It’s a First Amendment right, and often the only tool we have to hold powerful agencies accountable.
It’s a First Amendment right, and often the only tool we have to hold powerful agencies accountable.
Reckless federal agents are the threat, not cameras • NC Newsline
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials swept into North Carolina, Governor Josh Stein urged people to pull out their phones and record any inappropriate behavior. It’s good advice.
ncnewsline.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Federal agents shouldn’t be chasing, arresting, or shooting crowd control munitions at journalists or anyone else for one simple act: recording them in public.
It’s a First Amendment right, and often the only tool we have to hold powerful agencies accountable.
It’s a First Amendment right, and often the only tool we have to hold powerful agencies accountable.
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"He would not specify the criteria agents were using to justify pulling people over during the operation, which has been ongoing in the Key Largo area for the past few weeks." www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
‘I’m a U.S. citizen.’ Agents pull woman from car in Keys. Feds said she wouldn’t show ID
In Key Largo, in front of Pink Plaza at mile marker 103.4, agents stopped a woman driving a white Toyota Corolla and surrounded the vehicle.
www.miamiherald.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"He would not specify the criteria agents were using to justify pulling people over during the operation, which has been ongoing in the Key Largo area for the past few weeks." www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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Credit: Phillip Jackson / Tulsa Flyer
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Credit: Phillip Jackson / Tulsa Flyer
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Actually, the likelihood is 100%. In US jurisprudence, accused people are innocent until proven guilty. Hegseth's victims were not proven guilty; they were not even tried. Therefore they were ALL, to the last man, legally innocent. Hegseth ordered the murders of several dozen innocent men.
Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Actually, the likelihood is 100%. In US jurisprudence, accused people are innocent until proven guilty. Hegseth's victims were not proven guilty; they were not even tried. Therefore they were ALL, to the last man, legally innocent. Hegseth ordered the murders of several dozen innocent men.
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There’s a lot of angst about climate not being at the forefront anymore but this issue is squarely a climate issue and every climate person should be able to make that case/link.
And, hell yeah, public power!
And, hell yeah, public power!
Electricity is the new price of eggs.
Voters need your political position on the price of electricity and utility bills.
A real solution? Publicly-owned utilities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Voters need your political position on the price of electricity and utility bills.
A real solution? Publicly-owned utilities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
‘The New Price of Eggs.’ The Political Shocks of Data Centers and Electric Bills
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:59 AM
There’s a lot of angst about climate not being at the forefront anymore but this issue is squarely a climate issue and every climate person should be able to make that case/link.
And, hell yeah, public power!
And, hell yeah, public power!
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Millions of workers are toiling away from their families this holiday weekend.
So thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail.
Pay all workers a living wage.
So thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail.
Pay all workers a living wage.
November 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Millions of workers are toiling away from their families this holiday weekend.
So thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail.
Pay all workers a living wage.
So thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail.
Pay all workers a living wage.
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A Backlash Is Brewing Against Companies Helping ICE
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
A Backlash Is Brewing Against Companies Helping ICE
Activists are targeting the reputations of Home Depot, AT&T, and other businesses.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A Backlash Is Brewing Against Companies Helping ICE
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Walz on Trump calling him the r-word: "We all know both as an educator & parent that using that term is just so damaging. It's hurtful. We have fought 3 decades to get this out of our schools. Kids know better. But this is what Donald Trump has done. He's normalized this type of hateful behavior."
November 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Walz on Trump calling him the r-word: "We all know both as an educator & parent that using that term is just so damaging. It's hurtful. We have fought 3 decades to get this out of our schools. Kids know better. But this is what Donald Trump has done. He's normalized this type of hateful behavior."
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While the Trump regime cuts SNAP benefits and plots to profit from war, @AOC is out in the Bronx doing the real work.
She just distributed 1,500+ lbs of produce and 1,600 turkeys to families Trump left behind.
We’ve got the full story—PLUS the latest on Pete Hegseth’s potential war crime scandal.👇
She just distributed 1,500+ lbs of produce and 1,600 turkeys to families Trump left behind.
We’ve got the full story—PLUS the latest on Pete Hegseth’s potential war crime scandal.👇
AOC Distributes Food To Families Abandoned By Trump, Veterans In Congress Demand Accountability For Hegseth, and Mark Kelly Doubles Down Against The Regime’s Illegal Orders and Bullying Tactics
The resistance leads
www.dworkinsubstack.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
While the Trump regime cuts SNAP benefits and plots to profit from war, @AOC is out in the Bronx doing the real work.
She just distributed 1,500+ lbs of produce and 1,600 turkeys to families Trump left behind.
We’ve got the full story—PLUS the latest on Pete Hegseth’s potential war crime scandal.👇
She just distributed 1,500+ lbs of produce and 1,600 turkeys to families Trump left behind.
We’ve got the full story—PLUS the latest on Pete Hegseth’s potential war crime scandal.👇
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The only kind of bigot that will ever make America great.
#ShareGreatNotHate
#ShareGreatNotHate
October 31, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The only kind of bigot that will ever make America great.
#ShareGreatNotHate
#ShareGreatNotHate
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This piece includes a lot of good voices that critique surveillance—but the piece itself also does a lot to normalize and justify the blanket surveillance NYC is under without going into the specifics of the harms it’s capable of.
Mamdani, a Sharp Critic of Police Surveillance, Will Soon Oversee It
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This piece includes a lot of good voices that critique surveillance—but the piece itself also does a lot to normalize and justify the blanket surveillance NYC is under without going into the specifics of the harms it’s capable of.
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Why would Trump pardon a Honduran man who got 45 years for flooding our country with cocaine?
November 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Why would Trump pardon a Honduran man who got 45 years for flooding our country with cocaine?
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Our system is broken. Medicare for All, now.
November 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Our system is broken. Medicare for All, now.
“He boasted he would ‘stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.’ He accepted a $1 mil bribe from El Chapo to get cocaine through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.” Trump pardoned him (but uses drug trafficking as an excuse for extrajudicial killings). www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“He boasted he would ‘stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.’ He accepted a $1 mil bribe from El Chapo to get cocaine through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.” Trump pardoned him (but uses drug trafficking as an excuse for extrajudicial killings). www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
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I noticed this removal of flood risk on Zillow this week. Place here in Florida used to show the flood map and danger, now homebuyers are on their own. Beware people!
Unfortunately removing the risk scores does not remove the risk
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I noticed this removal of flood risk on Zillow this week. Place here in Florida used to show the flood map and danger, now homebuyers are on their own. Beware people!
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The climate crisis won’t wait and neither will we. With this team, we’ll meet it head-on.
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The climate crisis won’t wait and neither will we. With this team, we’ll meet it head-on.
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So grateful to everyone in NYC who mobilized to stop the ICE raid of Canal St. The violence being committed against immigrants is heart-wrenching, but the shows of solidarity we have seen around the country give me so much hope.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
So grateful to everyone in NYC who mobilized to stop the ICE raid of Canal St. The violence being committed against immigrants is heart-wrenching, but the shows of solidarity we have seen around the country give me so much hope.