Elizabeth Austin
@elizabethaustin.bsky.social
Mistress of Public Policy
I am renowned for my rational exuberance.
I am renowned for my rational exuberance.
Bought a pre-marinated turkey breast from a local butcher shop. It was the last one they had, so I didn’t ask any questions. Only later did I realize that it had been marinated in soy milk, to which I am allergic. Unpleasant aftermath. Sigh. So much for leftover turkey sandwiches.
November 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Bought a pre-marinated turkey breast from a local butcher shop. It was the last one they had, so I didn’t ask any questions. Only later did I realize that it had been marinated in soy milk, to which I am allergic. Unpleasant aftermath. Sigh. So much for leftover turkey sandwiches.
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I remember Joe Manchin being absolutely effusive that the Inflation Reduction Act would bring millions of dollars to create jobs for renewable energy in West Virginia.... now Trump is killing these opportunities.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival
Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I remember Joe Manchin being absolutely effusive that the Inflation Reduction Act would bring millions of dollars to create jobs for renewable energy in West Virginia.... now Trump is killing these opportunities.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Geez
Really, Mike Davis, time to consider leaving the universe. Attacking political gun violence victim Gabby Giffords?
You have wasted your life, Mike, and you no longer have any connection to humanity. Go look for your actual planet - because you don't belong here
You have wasted your life, Mike, and you no longer have any connection to humanity. Go look for your actual planet - because you don't belong here
November 30, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Geez
Not sure what the others are. Tabernac?
@elizabethaustin.bsky.social has swears! They've used 38 profanities in their last 928 posts.
🥇 "hell" (7 times)
🥈 "fuck" (4 times)
🥉 "porn" (4 times)
🥇 "hell" (7 times)
🥈 "fuck" (4 times)
🥉 "porn" (4 times)
November 30, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Not sure what the others are. Tabernac?
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
I was on the instructor’s side until I saw that calibri was one of the two acceptable fonts
Conservatives believe getting an A for nonsense is a human right but food isn’t.
OU student says essay grade was a violation of her rights. Read the essay
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November 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I was on the instructor’s side until I saw that calibri was one of the two acceptable fonts
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@sanders.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov
@madgreek2024.bsky.social
Senators,
Please review this article. Is there a way that you can force ICE agents to take proper training about what IDs are acceptable, who they are allowed to stop, and the proper way to ask for ID? Thank you. Mike Krieg
@madgreek2024.bsky.social
Senators,
Please review this article. Is there a way that you can force ICE agents to take proper training about what IDs are acceptable, who they are allowed to stop, and the proper way to ask for ID? Thank you. Mike Krieg
Just a few miles from my home, in Redmond, WA, ICE detained folks yesterday. One of the women questioned was Indigenous actor Elaine Miles, known for her role in "Northern Exposure." ICE called her tribal ID ‘fake’. WTF! She's NATIVE AMERICAN you fuck'n idiots!
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
November 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
@sanders.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov
@madgreek2024.bsky.social
Senators,
Please review this article. Is there a way that you can force ICE agents to take proper training about what IDs are acceptable, who they are allowed to stop, and the proper way to ask for ID? Thank you. Mike Krieg
@madgreek2024.bsky.social
Senators,
Please review this article. Is there a way that you can force ICE agents to take proper training about what IDs are acceptable, who they are allowed to stop, and the proper way to ask for ID? Thank you. Mike Krieg
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One of the biggest barriers to implementing pro-housing policy is the folk wisdom that building new market rate/mixed-income housing increases rents even though study after study shows that the opposite is the case:
building more housing lowers rents
building more housing lowers rents
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
One of the biggest barriers to implementing pro-housing policy is the folk wisdom that building new market rate/mixed-income housing increases rents even though study after study shows that the opposite is the case:
building more housing lowers rents
building more housing lowers rents
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I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
I’ve been reading Color of Law this long weekend. Down zoning is often a polite term for white zoning
What happens when you downzone?
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Downzoning Chicago: How Local Land Use Policy Has Reduced Housing Construction and Reinforced Segregation | Published in Findings
By Yonah Freemark, George Kisiel. Downzonings were used by US cities in the postwar period to preserve neighborhood character. These land-use policies were associated with lower housing supply, higher...
findingspress.org
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I’ve been reading Color of Law this long weekend. Down zoning is often a polite term for white zoning
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Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
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This is beyond desperate. So since Republicans can’t stop people from voting, they send mailers with the wrong date for the special election on 12/2.
Tennessee, we will see ya’ll on Tuesday! Let’s do this for @aftynbehn.bsky.social
#TeamAftyn
Tennessee, we will see ya’ll on Tuesday! Let’s do this for @aftynbehn.bsky.social
#TeamAftyn
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This is beyond desperate. So since Republicans can’t stop people from voting, they send mailers with the wrong date for the special election on 12/2.
Tennessee, we will see ya’ll on Tuesday! Let’s do this for @aftynbehn.bsky.social
#TeamAftyn
Tennessee, we will see ya’ll on Tuesday! Let’s do this for @aftynbehn.bsky.social
#TeamAftyn
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h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
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Would vote for anyone who proposes doing something even half as good as this. Desperate for some backbone.
“In 2029 we will rebuild the White House and pay for it by seizing assets from Trump, his family, and all of his companies and organizations. We publicize the name of every contractor involved with this project and permanently ban them as corporate entities and individuals from public contracts.”
Trump fighting with his architect about wanting to build a ballroom bigger than the actual White House feels very on brand
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November 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Would vote for anyone who proposes doing something even half as good as this. Desperate for some backbone.
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America’s civic institutions have to address the full monstrosity of this. So too do democratic governments elsewhere in the world. It’s not happening. It’s being allowed to pass - so as not to rock the boat. Rock the boat, guys, rock it hard, rock it now.
“What is remigration, which the Department of Homeland Security is calling for?”
It’s this:
It’s this:
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
America’s civic institutions have to address the full monstrosity of this. So too do democratic governments elsewhere in the world. It’s not happening. It’s being allowed to pass - so as not to rock the boat. Rock the boat, guys, rock it hard, rock it now.
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While the right lose their goddamn minds about a lone wolf doing something horrendous in DC today, let’s not forget that last week in the White House they all gushed over a genocidal, journalist murdering tyrant whose country financed 9/11.
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
While the right lose their goddamn minds about a lone wolf doing something horrendous in DC today, let’s not forget that last week in the White House they all gushed over a genocidal, journalist murdering tyrant whose country financed 9/11.
Dado, dammit
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Dado, dammit
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Trump drops 11 points - 11 points! - in the past month in Gallup. Just a staggering decline. 1/
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Trump drops 11 points - 11 points! - in the past month in Gallup. Just a staggering decline. 1/
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Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
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When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.
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To be clear, the FBI paid nearly $1M in overtime over a FIVE DAY PERIOD last March. And yes, part of it was to find and redact Trump's name. I spoke to sources who reviewed the files for the FBI and DOJ and wrote about it here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...
November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
To be clear, the FBI paid nearly $1M in overtime over a FIVE DAY PERIOD last March. And yes, part of it was to find and redact Trump's name. I spoke to sources who reviewed the files for the FBI and DOJ and wrote about it here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...