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Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice

@lizzzs.bsky.social

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Feminist/white/Jewish/parent/writer. Solidarity is action (Mia McKenzie). Courage then action then hope. Interested in trauma. I write songs and stuff sometimes. (Like ptsdthemusical.net) I mostly curate and comment. Bike riding is the best fun. she/her

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Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice @lizzzs.bsky.social · Apr 17

A thread on what helps a person be brave and stand up for what's right, in spite of risks.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · Apr 17

One problem that seems common among elites is that they expect there to be some way to take on fascism that is easy and risk-free, which is absolutely delusional.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Apr 17

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R): "We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real."

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Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice @lizzzs.bsky.social · 3h

I was the water phobic kid. I'll ask my dad.

Mine was probably related to my mom's iffy mental health at the time. I know they stopped swimming lessons and gave me sponge baths for a while.

My swimming instructor was abusive (wouldn't stop tickling me). So no more lessons was a good move.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 2d

This will not happen unless the mayor directs CPD to arrest ICE in violation. At this point, he will discover why it is a problem that the CPD does not answer to the mayor. If only some well-organized movement in 2020 had pointed this out.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 2d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE

Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

thetriibe.com

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Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice @lizzzs.bsky.social · 3h

The last time I watched The News on TV (as opposed to something like Rachel Maddow or Chris Hayes), I got SO annoyed at the lack of context of any kind.

Years ago.

Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 1d

I rarely watch the news; but I stopped in to watch the last minute of the football game & stuck around for the news.

It was NBC. The rightwing, pro-empire framing of 3 different segments was just ghastly.

But it does help highlight how folks reach such different conclusions based on their sources

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Fast-fashion recycling: how ‘the castoff capital of the world’ is making Indian factory workers sick

Reports of lung disease, skin conditions and even cancer are rising in Panipat, which recycles 1 million tonnes of textile waste a year

www.theguardian.com

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 1d

It's not even the shutdown.

It's generations of government-on-the-cheap, treating government like "the problem," demonizing everything that built this country to what it once was.

What built it was its people—collaborating through their government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

SEAN DUFFY: Burbank -- zero controllers came to work. I don't support that. They should come to work. They're supposed to come to work. But ...

KILMEADE: They didn't even miss a paycheck yet. So why aren't they coming to work?

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 1d

We really need to be thinking abt the current regime through the lens of the Second Klan, which helped to nationalize systems of Jim Crow state & vigilante violence & exploitation while creating an explicitly white nationalist immigration system. They even paraded down Pennsylvania Ave.

A 1926 klan parade marching down Pennsylvania Ave. The front of the column holds banners that read Connecticut & Rhode Island. Original available via the Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001706338/

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Tariff revenue is operating like ship money did for Charles I, when he tried to rule England without Parliament. Like the US, only the legislature could legitimately tax the people, but Charles used innovative abuses of his powers to raise & spend money as he wanted

(He later lost his crown & head)

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. there is the question of how the bond market will react to tariff revenue being redirected away from lowering the deficit.”

@barrons.com
www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 9h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice @lizzzs.bsky.social · 3h

I'm exceedingly proud that both little speeches I delivered at Monday's City Council meeting were under 2 minutes.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Veronica R. MSW, LICSW @tahoeboulder.bsky.social · 4h

Gift link

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School offers hikes instead of detention. Teachers are seeing results.

“People seem really different in a good way at the end,” said Leslie Trundy, a Maine high school counselor and avid hiker.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6h

keep calling and telling them to stand strong

the difference between last time (when they got yelled at incessantly for caving) and this time needs to be a chasm in terms of the feedback they're getting from constituents

we can get them to hold

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h

Tina Smith says Democrats are digging in: “If anything, we’re feeling more strong.”

“I think we've tapped into something that's really important to Americans.”

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6h

Newsom just signed an excellent law that will help fund the widespread transition from natural gas boilers to industrial heat pumps.

Now sign SB79, Gavin.

California Passes Law To Help Modernize Manufacturing in a Win for Jobs and Clean Air

AB 1280 establishes funding mechanism for companies to replace dirty industrial equipment with zero-emissions technologies

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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 9h

Really glad none of the people calling American cities “war zones” were with us in Afghanistan. Would’ve become tiresome constantly hosing them down after they soiled themselves.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 7h

there is a government shutdown with no end in sight and it’s not even really the lead story rn because the president can’t stop invading American cities for no reason other than spite

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 8h

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.

If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 10h

On this day in 1953, a Birmingham police commissioner banned an interracial All-Star baseball game organized by Jackie Robinson since it was a "mixed athletic event."

Oct. 8, 1953 | Jackie Robinson and Others Banned From Playing Interracial Baseball in AL

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

calendar.eji.org

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 6h

Instead of being forced to talk about Big Tech's fake inventions we should celebrate the truly life changing feats of genius that we don't think about. The incredible "head phones." The humble toilet

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders.

Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 1d

FFS 😑

Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 1d

Disgracefully weak sentences for these two scoundrels. Freedom Convoy leaders Chris B...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Freedom Convoy leaders Chris Barber, Tamara Lich given conditional sentences | CBC News

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two major figures of the 2022 "Freedom Convoy," have been handed conditional sentences and spared further jail time.

www.cbc.ca

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 6h

I see a lot of people saying that a person charged with a crime deserves the chance to prove their innocence.

Please stop doing this because you have it backwards and this is really important.

It is ALWAYS the government's burden to prove a person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 7h

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 1d

After all this time it turns out the U.S. Constitution was merely a suggestion.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 18h

smol airplane in front of moon!

goodnight.

no words of encouragement, im spent and have a long day tomorrow.

love your allies, be vengeful towards your enemies ❤️

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 22h

When SF writer (or, at the time, SF fan) Joe Haldeman was drafted and sent to Vietnam, he received letters there from J.R.R. Tolkien.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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