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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 · 2h

There aren't crowds *everywhere*, they are managing to kidnap people in many places by moving fast. But they're also meeting opposition, shaming, ridicule, and the occasional broken car window.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 19h

If you want something positive, I'd say that the current DHS strategy of using excessive force has been extremely counterproductive. Rather than actually detaining people, they're now spending significant time and resources dealing with hostile crowds wherever they go.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 5h

Normalize caring about other people.

They deserve to live and thrive. Everyone does.

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jakarta methhead @sweetmax.bsky.social · 19h

i enjoy the racist college group chat with the other college students that are 40 years old. boys will be boys

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

As another Jewish woman in the industry, I can clear this up: It's due to her being an asshole.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe your NO KINGS sign needs to add NO NAZIS EITHER.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22h

U.S. police kill roughly 25 pet dogs a day, the majority of which pose no threat to them.

scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17...

trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss...

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 21h

Democrats need to put the same extended media consuming outrage into the Young Republican Nazi chats as Republicans mustered for Biden going for ice cream.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 17h

The thing about the Nazi chat is these people turned the country upside down and got a lot of people fired to be able to say those things in comfort.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 5h

In case you are wondering if she looks like she's ready for her Fox gig, yes, of course she is.

Riley P. Podleski with long blond loose curled hair

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 5h

Adelita Grijalva should just show up to one of these smarm conferences with a bible in hand and say, "Why not now?"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 4h

The more Republicans rant about paid protesters the more I wonder what those Tea Party costume characters were getting.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

A key moment was Vance succeeding in reinstating Marko Elez, a DOGEr who resigned after racists posts emerged including “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.”

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

Topics Mike Johnson thinks are serious:

- Super Bowl halftime entertainer
- getting a Nobel Prize for Trump
- terrifying naked bike riders

Topics he thinks are not serious:

- Epstein Files
- domestic violence
- being able to keep the govt open
- the neutering of Congress

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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

Domestic violence is a foundational principle of the regime, and a resumé requirement for a public facing position.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 4h

There's a big list of evil driving this administration, but insisting that domestic violence is no big deal has to be up there.

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 20h

The notion that the market pays what someone is “worth” ignores the fact that a few policy changes make that “worth” change dramatically.

What someone is economically “worth” is not some fact of the universe. It’s contingent on a million things we can impact.

Jemma Forte @jemmaforte.bsky.social · 1d

1970's: CEOs earn 20 x more than average worker
2025: CEOs earn 122 x more than average worker
The richest 1% own 50% of entire country's wealth.

Obscene inequality has been normalised.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 6h

I was asked to write a column about my columns, which I found an embarrassing experience. But ... I took the chance to wax rhapsodic about the value of studying the humanities. So that's nice.

Meet David M. Perry, our new contributing columnist focused on history, disabilities and education

He moved back to Minnesota because it is a state that believes in serving the public good. But, he writes, Minnesota is not always at its best.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 22h

COVID test positivity still high, and going back up again in BC.

10.6% as of Oct 9, up from 10.2% the week before.

Got my COVID booster today. When are you getting yours?

Screenahot of the bccdc dashboard sars cov 2 chart & test positivity

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Barchart @barchart.com · 8h

U.S. Housing Market has reached its most unaffordable level in history 🚨🚨

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 6h

For the last five years, people being released from Cook County Jail have gotten out later and later at night.

In 2021, ~14% of people got out between 11 pm and 3 am. In 2024, ~40% of all releases took place in those wee hours.

My latest, for @chicagoreader.com

chicagoreader.com/news/cook-co...

Released from jail late at night

Over the last five years, the number of people released from the Cook County jail late at night has steadily increased.

chicagoreader.com

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

Yesterday, white nationalist paramilitary forces attacked another Chicago neighborhood with chemical weapons. Families and at least one infant were gassed. This morning, they are kidnapping more immigrants both here and in other metros (D.C., L.A. still being terrorized).

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

Happy to block anyone whose contribution in this moment is to immediately police the language people are using to describe fed invasions of their cities. People are going to be imprecise. They are experiencing immense trauma. If you haven't had a gun pointed at you recently, maybe sit this one out

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MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 6h

I got to the end of the article, and …the kid is incarcerated with a broken foot that not been attended to by a hospital? When did that happen? It didn’t sound like it was with local PD.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

A few of my thoughts:

www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-13-yea...

There is a natural inclination, especially among Americans steeped in our culture of mass incarceration, to judge the propriety of a person’s punishment not based on what they’ve done, but on how deserving one believes they are of receiving justice. On its face, any 13-year-old kid that allegedly made threats and was found to be in possession of a knife should be afforded the rights of due process in the juvenile court system. But because this boy was born in another country, because he and his family were asylum-seekers (authorized to work legally in the US) and not American citizens, and regardless of any piece of his personal story or history that led him to this point, some believe he is not owed those same rights. This boy—this child— deserves to rot in a federal facility, they say, and to be dragged across state lines away from his home. And for some, his mere existence in this country is crime enough.
But it’s important to bust these myths. It’s crucial to remember, as so many speakers at the Everett City Council meeting reminded us, that all of our safety is intertwined. DHS and its many agencies are trying to turn neighbors against one another. But our neighbors are not our enemies—in fact, they are the ones most likely to protect us.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

At a packed Everett City Council meeting Tuesday night, a resident testified to ICE’s ubiquitousness in town: “I have witnessed several abductions by unmarked officers in my neighborhood. They have refused to answer me about who they are. But we know who they are.”

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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