Liz Thornberry
@lizthornberry.bsky.social
African history, law, Baltimore, disability, bikes. End apartheid everywhere.
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this increasingly seems like the thousand-dollar bill that's just lying on the sidewalk
tbh i think “build a party media apparatus” goes a long way since it at least lets you achieve a level of perpetual mobilization among part of your base and also communicate to electeds what the red meat of the day should be
December 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this increasingly seems like the thousand-dollar bill that's just lying on the sidewalk
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I'm predicting what's next
December 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I'm predicting what's next
Apologies to Zohran and my DSA comrades, but Mamdani père will always have my principal loyalty.
Once Zohran was on a panel about funding settler colonialism. His dad was there and I started talking to him. I said, You must be proud of your son. He said, I don’t know, let’s see what he says tonight.
December 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Apologies to Zohran and my DSA comrades, but Mamdani père will always have my principal loyalty.
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It would be extremely smart if the Democratic Party held trainings and maybe subsidized equipment for members of local Democratic clubs to start making video content. Given the death of local news, there is a tremendous content void to be filled.
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
It would be extremely smart if the Democratic Party held trainings and maybe subsidized equipment for members of local Democratic clubs to start making video content. Given the death of local news, there is a tremendous content void to be filled.
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You know what? I'm willing to empirically test this as many times as it takes to reach statistical certainty about any conclusions we reach
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
You know what? I'm willing to empirically test this as many times as it takes to reach statistical certainty about any conclusions we reach
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Literally why I support single payer. I have heard the bigger picture economic/health pitch and find it convincing, but if I’m being honest I am primarily motivated by never having to learn about the different kinds of coverage plans and provider networks ever again
This is the same quagmire Rs got stuck in during Trump I. Free market = better, European-style = bad, taxes = bad. The idea that people might just want the government to take care of something so they're not on the phone for months getting fucked over does not compute.
Putting the deafening sexism aside, i still don’t understand this weird US insurance concept that you can choose ahead of time what ills and accidents your family is going to get hit by, and how much you want to pay for it… that’s literally not how life works.
December 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Literally why I support single payer. I have heard the bigger picture economic/health pitch and find it convincing, but if I’m being honest I am primarily motivated by never having to learn about the different kinds of coverage plans and provider networks ever again
Was just noticing that I hadn’t seen this meme format in awhile.
Who can forget this classic piece of winning political messaging
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Was just noticing that I hadn’t seen this meme format in awhile.
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We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.
$8.75M Investment Supports ‘Research Resilience’… | Maryland Today
UMD, MPower Funds Combine to Help Preserve Institutional Capabilities, Lab Operations and More
today.umd.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.
One guess what this is about
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
One guess what this is about
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Chat, is this good
November 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Chat, is this good
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"Baltimore now faces a choice: Do we want a city that adapts, welcomes new residents and gives longtime neighbors more options to stay? Or do we cling to a past shaped by exclusion and scarcity?" 🔥 from @ohamza.bsky.social
By enabling “gentle density,” @mayorbmscott.bsky.social
zoning legislation will support real people with real needs in my neighborhood. Anxieties about it, while sincere, are misplaced. tinyurl.com/29z4wv3f [OP-ED]
zoning legislation will support real people with real needs in my neighborhood. Anxieties about it, while sincere, are misplaced. tinyurl.com/29z4wv3f [OP-ED]
Scott’s zoning bills will support real people with real needs by enabling “gentle density” | Baltimore Brew
The changes will make Baltimore a city that welcomes new residents and gives longtime neighbors more options to stay. [OP-ED]
tinyurl.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"Baltimore now faces a choice: Do we want a city that adapts, welcomes new residents and gives longtime neighbors more options to stay? Or do we cling to a past shaped by exclusion and scarcity?" 🔥 from @ohamza.bsky.social
Got to find a different guilty pleasure for my weekly trip to the suburbs, I guess.
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Got to find a different guilty pleasure for my weekly trip to the suburbs, I guess.
Imagine spending actual money to admit you're this uncool.
Atlas Restaurant Group to open members-only supper club in Fells Point
Atlas Restaurant Group to open members-only supper club in Fells Point
Atlas Restaurant Group announced the new Rosewater Supper Club, an exclusive social club that will open in Fells Point next year.
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Imagine spending actual money to admit you're this uncool.
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"your passport says you're 5'7" but you were 1'8" when you were born so that's what we're listing" this is what that sounds like
I spit on the reputation of the U.S. Supreme Court, not that it can get much more degraded than it has already become by the repulsive actions of its disgusting GOP members.
You can hear the transphobic sneer in these words.
You can hear the transphobic sneer in these words.
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
"your passport says you're 5'7" but you were 1'8" when you were born so that's what we're listing" this is what that sounds like
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virginia democrats winning the three big offices with a cia agent, an indian muslim immigrant, and a black lawyer who loves committing terms of service violations is real 2025 democratic party moment
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
virginia democrats winning the three big offices with a cia agent, an indian muslim immigrant, and a black lawyer who loves committing terms of service violations is real 2025 democratic party moment
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this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam
if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam
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Citizen and Subject (and Mayor.)
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Citizen and Subject (and Mayor.)
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I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
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I will say though: the shitheads understand that if you pull someone into your epistemic bubble, you can lead them anywhere, get them to believe anything. They consciously & deliberately build those bubbles around powerful people. The left just yells at & alienates them.
Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now.
Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.
Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.
currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter
September 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I will say though: the shitheads understand that if you pull someone into your epistemic bubble, you can lead them anywhere, get them to believe anything. They consciously & deliberately build those bubbles around powerful people. The left just yells at & alienates them.
Incredibly embarrassing that @govwesmoore.bsky.social hasn't withdrawn Maryland's executive order banning entities that do business from boycotting Israel (content.govdelivery.com/attachments/...).
Israel is openly carrying out a genocide in Gaza and MD is celebrating our "collaboration"?
Israel is openly carrying out a genocide in Gaza and MD is celebrating our "collaboration"?
content.govdelivery.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Incredibly embarrassing that @govwesmoore.bsky.social hasn't withdrawn Maryland's executive order banning entities that do business from boycotting Israel (content.govdelivery.com/attachments/...).
Israel is openly carrying out a genocide in Gaza and MD is celebrating our "collaboration"?
Israel is openly carrying out a genocide in Gaza and MD is celebrating our "collaboration"?
Thought this was just me!
Every time I see Butlerian Jihad I think, for a second, it refers to Judith Butler
August 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Thought this was just me!
Mahmood Mamdani’s son!!! What a world.
June 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Mahmood Mamdani’s son!!! What a world.
It’s happening!!!
Big things on the agenda for introduction in Baltimore on Monday:
•Plex Reform
•Single-Stair Reform
•Parking Reform
•Plex Reform
•Single-Stair Reform
•Parking Reform
May 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It’s happening!!!