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Elizabeth Bennett

@elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social

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Old-timey congressional staff, herder of regulations and writer.

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · Nov 19

I wrote a thread in 2021 imagining life in Nazi America as a thought experiment. The goal was to get people to think about how it would affect *them* and not just think about it historically hoping maybe they’d rage against it. Oh well…

It’s the only thing I wanted to salvage from the old place.

As we endure this painfully slow slide into fascism, let's imagine Nazi
America.
(1) Our biggest celebrities will be creativity-deficient hacks like Baio and
Sorbo. Think their new sitcoms will be funny?
With all the good writers black-listed, Tomi Lahren will be pulling Emmys.

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 13h

I hope that’s true in reality and not just in cyberspace.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 14h

From Amo? Haha!

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 14h

lol

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 15h

How, precisely?

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve been a legit @democrats.org since 1990.

F*ck the Democrats. If I vote for any Democrats ever again, it’ll be incidental, not purposeful. I will *not* give them money, I will *not* work for them.

I’m about the candidates and coalitions now. Give me multiple parties or none at all.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 21h

The Dem establishment appears to be putting its thumb hard on the scales against Graham Platner:

The DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) has formed a joint fundraising committee with the campaign of Janet Mills.

It’s called “Maine Senate Victory 2026”:

docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
HOME / CAMPAIGN FINANCE DATA / COMMITTEE DETAILS / HTML VIEWER
FEC FORM 1
STATEMENT OF ORGANIZATION
FILING FEC-1919061
1. Maine Senate Victory 2026
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Email: compliance@dscc.org;anderson@dscc.org
2. Date: 10/14/2025
3. FEC Committee ID #: C00923177
This committee collects contributions, pays fundraising expenses and disburses net proceeds for two or more political
committees/organizations, at least one of which is an authorized committee of a federal candidate.
Committees Participating in Joint Fundraiser
Joint Fund Participant(s)
1. Mills for Maine,
Committee Id: C00923144
Committee Type: Senate
2. DSCC,
Committee Id: C00042366
Committee Type: Unauthorized
Affiliated Committees/Organizations
NONE
Custodian of Records:
Connor Reilly
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Title: Custodian of Records
Treasurer:
Evan Clary
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Phone # (202) 224-2447
Designated Agent(s):
Tristan Anderson
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Title: Assistant Treasurer
Banks or Depositories
Amalgamated Bank
1825 K St NW
Washington, DC 20006
Signed: Evan Clary
Date Signed: 10/14/2025
(End FEC FORM 1)

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 15h

lol, what makes you think the way *you* think is the way 99% of people think about…anything?

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 16h

Great. Let that dude pay the troops then.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 19h

How did they confirm they were carrying narcotics, precisely?

Is that this new “thermal narco-imaging” tech I’ve been hearing so much about?

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 20h

I was right to mute you before. You’re just trolling. Bye now.

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 20h

Have you ever even attended a precinct convention?

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 20h

Don’t you love people who just shrug and say it’s this way b/c this is the way it is?

No, motherf*cker, it’s this way b/c YOU let it be this way. I’ve worked my whole career to change aspects of these things. What has this guy done but be complacent, FFS?

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 20h

The electoral college is also the normal process.

Let’s never change that either even though it’s a product of slavery and f*cks us almost every time.

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 1d

“Politicians are allowed to decide behind closed doors who will be the presidential candidate on behalf of their monied interests!”

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 1d

Um, elections are about persuading the people, in a democracy anyway. Turns out we didn’t have one of those, and it was Obama who opened the door and his boy Biden who rolled out the carpet for the fascists.

Again, not understanding how you’re not seeing this but don’t really care at this point.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 1d

The primary process serves the party and its interests, not the people.

We should do something about that.

Or not, whatever.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 1d

There IS something wrong with party elites choosing the candidate. If you don’t see that, I don’t know what to say.

Sanders dropped out in early April, but the rest had declared Biden the winner even before Super Tuesday. A deal had been struck well before. Nobody had clambered for Biden. Ever.

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t remember her trying for universal healthcare. I remember the buzzword was “managed” healthcare.

Either way, everybody freaked out that the wife was doing policy, and they threw her back upstairs.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 1d

Probably not like Chick-fil-A or Hobby Lobby or any company that causes rhetorical liberal tears to fall.

That is, of course, the highest good.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 1d

Right? His waddle has a vagina, and you can see the Truth of his baldiness.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 1d

Primary voters didn’t. Only 4 of the smallest states had a say before the powers called it so everyone else dropped out.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder what the dollar amount is at which a decent human turns into a sociopath.

Somewhere in the hundreds of millions, or less, do you think?

Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 1d

Proving at every turn that Trump runs a regime of the bullies, for the billionaires. San Franciscans know what they need - a city where people across races, backgrounds and neighborhoods have what they need.

Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 2d

“This city is a complicated place, but I’ve found two truths: The Golden Age is a myth and San Francisco is never “over.””

Great read from @peterhartlaub.bsky.social, San Francisco’s historian/hype-man extraordinaire.

www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 1d

The original mistake was the powers picking *him* in 2020.

We can never let that happen again.

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 1d

Biden’s Senate Whispering was particularly shitty, too.

Also, his protection of our democracy.

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 1d

Is ICE being paid?

Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 1d

And Dems claim they require a supermajority or they they just don’t have enough power to accomplish anything.

We need officials who will do the work we elect them to do, even if it’s difficult. It’s *going to be difficult* for the foreseeable future.

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