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Liz De Coster
@lizzer.bsky.social
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librarian, birder, Cubs fan.
she/hers.
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lizzer.bsky.social
Toddler knocked the drain cover loose and has been playing in the empty bathtub for ... maybe ten minutes? I'm just sitting here letting it ride because at least she's not fighting with her big sister. How isn't she freezing though??
December 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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francesryan.bsky.social
There can’t be a more horrific insight into the sickness of the US’s gun crime epidemic than the fact two survivors of Brown University had already survived school shootings. One was shot in the abdomen in 2016, while her best friend died. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
lizzer.bsky.social
LOL
December 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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seankuhn.bsky.social
loath to be too precious about this stuff but I want one lesson of defector to be "you can choose to not do stuff that sucks" even if "doing stuff that sucks" is the default
screenshot of a subscription appeal email from defector: Too often these days I find myself “choosing” between Bad and Worse. This week’s indignity: Should I want Larry Ellison’s poreless son or a gluttonous, $400 billion company to secure the right to enrich the vile David Zaslav? For all the complaints about how “we don’t make things in America anymore,” the country produces plenty of opportunities to debase yourself by rooting for the merely Bad. Immiserated by a steady stream of these false choices, it’s easy to forget that Something Else is possible. Defector is Something Else. From our blogs and podcasts to the company’s cooperative structure, everything we do reflects the sensibilities shared by our staff and subscribers. We have no access to preserve, no investors to please, and no gambling partner to feed. This lets us see things clearly, say things straightforwardly, and offer refuge from this inhumane moment. We chose Something Else. You can, too:
December 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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sesmith.lol
By popular demand we now have GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS at @theflytrapmedia.com and you are the first to know bc I'm the one staying up late to configure them lol so please buy one! You can even schedule delivery for a special day, such as December 27, commemorating the departure of the HMS Beagle!
Give a Gift Subscription
Feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm
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December 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
lizzer.bsky.social
This is fuked up.
thetriibe.com The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 5d
NEW — Despite a last-minute effort to extend time for occupants to find other housing and receive housing assistance, residents of the South Shore apartment building raided by ICE must move out by Friday.

thetriibe.com/2025/12/judg...
Judge: residents must move out, ICE-raided South Shore building is uninhabitable • The TRiiBE
The tenants of the property at 7500 S. South Shore Drive are ordered to leave the property by Friday.
thetriibe.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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thetriibe.com
UPDATE — For those who want to help, there’s now a way to donate directly to the 7500 South Shore Tenants Union to help with emergency relocation costs as residents “vacate in one of the snowiest winters in Chicago’s history.”

Details in our story.

thetriibe.com/2025/12/judg...
Judge: residents must move out, ICE-raided South Shore building is uninhabitable • The TRiiBE
The tenants of the property at 7500 S. South Shore Drive are ordered to leave the property by Friday.
thetriibe.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
lizzer.bsky.social
I listened to 68 different podcasts and 656 episodes this year #pocketcasts #playback2025

My favorite podcast this year: @knowledgefight.bsky.social ! pocketcasts.com/podcast/know...
Knowledge Fight
Each episode, Dan and Jordan take a look at some clips from that day's Alex Jones Show and struggle to make sense of what they find.
pocketcasts.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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bmoreorless.bsky.social
Time for a new jersey to go up on the wall
December 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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404media.co
📚📚📚 ZINE ZINE ZINE ZINE 📚📚📚

(preorder here: 404media.myshopify.com/products/pre...)
Presale: ICE Surveillance Zine
**THIS WILL SHIP IN EARLY JANUARY** We are making a print zine about the surveillance tactics used by ICE, and the ways people are resisting this technology. It is 16 pages and printed on a risograph ...
404media.myshopify.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
lizzer.bsky.social
Update, we might have half the available graphic novels in our home right now. They're in at least four different rooms. Thank gif the library doesn't do late fines anymore.
lizzer.bsky.social Liz De Coster @lizzer.bsky.social · 17d
The exhale of relief from my 7yo when Baby-Sitter's Club conflicts are resolved is truly amazing. I love her big heart and I love that the graphic adaptations have brought them to a whole new audience.
December 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
lizzer.bsky.social
If my life were a holiday movie I'd wish to go back to last December 1st and try the last year again. It was a terribly misspent year and everything feels worse and harder than it did last holidays.
December 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i will vote for any presidential candidate who campaigns on sending pete hegseth to the hague
December 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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jtischauser.bsky.social
Happy Holidays from the Chicago Police Department
Chicago police appear to arrest a individual dressed as Santa Claus at a protest in Chicago.
December 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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jonkk.bsky.social
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Oh
My
God
foiaball.com David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 11d
Is your head coach's girlfriend filing FOIA requests on your school's top comms official a good look? Asking for a friend
Requester: Jordon Hudson Jordon Hudson FOIA request to UNC regarding top comms official's communications with CBS
December 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/03/e...
Evanston church’s Nativity depicts baby Jesus zip-tied by ICE agents
Lake Street Church of Evanston depicted baby Jesus’ hands zip-tied, Mary with a gas mask and ICE as centurions in its Nativity scene.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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behindbmorelots.bsky.social
417 Farrow

four letters to Santa from the Abigill family 12/16/1914 the baltimore sun anyway here is a picture of John who was a very chomky baby
417 Farrow
four letters to Santa from the Abigill family 12/16/1914 the baltimore sun anyway here is a picture of John who was a very chomky baby
behindbmorelots.wordpress.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
lizzer.bsky.social
Plausibly it was just that the author *thought* somebody got an accommodation they didn't "earn" or "deserve" and has been aggrieved by it since.
darkbrownwaffles.bsky.social Dale Waffle @darkbrownwaffles.bsky.social · 12d
Decades spent fighting for basic decency dismissed out of hand because this author no doubt once had somebody in a Yale class receive an accommodation that she did not believe was necessary, and she's been fucking outraged about it ever since.
December 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
lizzer.bsky.social
I think I need a spreadsheet for my holiday baking this year. Surely there's a template for this ... somewhere??
December 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Yes.
defector.com/the-conserva...
Much more important than whether this particular mediocre young person succeeds, and considerably more worrying, is how easy it all is, and how smooth and efficient the process is through which all this noise and damage is manufactured—how simple the culture has made it for someone with nothing but themselves on their mind to hurt someone they think they might benefit from hurting, and how eagerly and unquestioningly this daisy chain of apparatchiks and opportunists and independent operators and actual elected officials will apply themselves to that work. It doesn't much matter whether Samantha Fulnecky was volunteering to join the movement to remove trans people from public life because she thought this oafish provocation might someday pay her bills, or is just a spoiled kid seizing an opportunity to walk to the front of the classroom and try her luck, Marine Todd-style. What matters is that it all ends up in the same place, and that this choice is so easily and cheaply made, and that there is a machine—well-funded, well-insulated, and much clearer about the terrible things it wants than anyone charged with describing it can quite bring themselves to acknowledge—that exists to send anyone desperate, cruel, or careless enough to enlist off to war.
December 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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anniemleonard.bsky.social
It’s not a great deal if you don’t need it. And especially this year, others really need support. So for all of us who have enough, let’s refuse to get sucked into the holiday shopping frenzy and share instead of shop. We don’t need more stuff, we need communities where all our neighbors are safe.
November 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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elienyc.bsky.social
I’ve come to *love* Steve Kornacki at the dog show. :)
November 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
lizzer.bsky.social
The exhale of relief from my 7yo when Baby-Sitter's Club conflicts are resolved is truly amazing. I love her big heart and I love that the graphic adaptations have brought them to a whole new audience.
November 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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mwriston.bsky.social
DHS wants state driver’s license data nationwide, including Maryland, to feed immigration databases, biometric tools, and license‑plate tracking systems.

Immigrant families and anyone who drives are at risk.

Protect your privacy.

Sign today resist.bot/petitions/PE...

@govwesmoore.bsky.social
Call to action showing a map of the United States with only the states NY, IL, MA, MN, and WA highlighted in green. Text urges readers to write their state representatives and demand they pass legislation preventing ICE and CBP from accessing driver's records through a tool called Nlets.
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM