Liz Zelnick
@lizzelnick.bsky.social
Here for building an economy that works for everyone. views are my own and correct.
Also maybe if the legislature listened to their constituents and used their blue trifecta to enact bold progressive policies, we wouldn’t need ballot initiatives 🤷🏻♀️
It shows how out of touch House Speaker Ron Mariano is that he acts like 1994 was just a few years ago.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Also maybe if the legislature listened to their constituents and used their blue trifecta to enact bold progressive policies, we wouldn’t need ballot initiatives 🤷🏻♀️
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🚨 NEWS: A federal judge has blocked the IRS from sharing confidential taxpayer data w/ immigration enforcement officials
“If this risk were to materialize, then Plaintiffs’ members would be subject to grave harm, including, but not limited to, illegal removal from the United States,” judge writes.
“If this risk were to materialize, then Plaintiffs’ members would be subject to grave harm, including, but not limited to, illegal removal from the United States,” judge writes.
Judge blocks IRS from sharing data with DHS for immigration enforcement
A federal judge blocked the Internal Revenue Service from sharing data with immigration enforcement officials, ruling that the tax agency violated federal law and individual rights in its support for ...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
🚨 NEWS: A federal judge has blocked the IRS from sharing confidential taxpayer data w/ immigration enforcement officials
“If this risk were to materialize, then Plaintiffs’ members would be subject to grave harm, including, but not limited to, illegal removal from the United States,” judge writes.
“If this risk were to materialize, then Plaintiffs’ members would be subject to grave harm, including, but not limited to, illegal removal from the United States,” judge writes.
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🔊 Voters are loud & clear:
✔️ 70% say essentials are unaffordable
✔️ 81% want candidates who will fight to lower costs
Our new resource with State Innovation & @localprogress.bsky.social outlines policies every city & state can adopt to put power back where it belongs: with working people.
✔️ 70% say essentials are unaffordable
✔️ 81% want candidates who will fight to lower costs
Our new resource with State Innovation & @localprogress.bsky.social outlines policies every city & state can adopt to put power back where it belongs: with working people.
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
🔊 Voters are loud & clear:
✔️ 70% say essentials are unaffordable
✔️ 81% want candidates who will fight to lower costs
Our new resource with State Innovation & @localprogress.bsky.social outlines policies every city & state can adopt to put power back where it belongs: with working people.
✔️ 70% say essentials are unaffordable
✔️ 81% want candidates who will fight to lower costs
Our new resource with State Innovation & @localprogress.bsky.social outlines policies every city & state can adopt to put power back where it belongs: with working people.
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
Hero shit
I’m howling.
November 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Hero shit
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we’re not doing MeToo again. we’re actually doing something much more sinister called MeThree. just voted on it at the meeting last night. good luck :)
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
we’re not doing MeToo again. we’re actually doing something much more sinister called MeThree. just voted on it at the meeting last night. good luck :)
Let's do @harvard.edu next
Breaking News: Larry Summers will step down from OpenAI’s board, he said, after the release of emails indicating a close relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Larry Summers Resigns From OpenAI’s Board
Mr. Summers’ departure from the artificial intelligence company’s board followed revelations of his communications with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
nyti.ms
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Let's do @harvard.edu next
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Some personal news: Regretfully, I will be stepping back from my public commitments for the next ninety minutes while I teach my class.
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Some personal news: Regretfully, I will be stepping back from my public commitments for the next ninety minutes while I teach my class.
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Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
Who could have guessed Republicans have never had a plan to lower health care costs for Americans and instead want to make deeper cuts to the ACA & enact dangerous poison pills to the legislation?? So glad we got a pinky promise for a vote on whatever the fuck this is.
Mike Johnson: "If there was gonna be an extension, you'd be massive reforms. You'd need income caps. You should not be subsidizing healthcare for wealthy people. You'd also need Hyde protections on those things and other innovations."
November 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Who could have guessed Republicans have never had a plan to lower health care costs for Americans and instead want to make deeper cuts to the ACA & enact dangerous poison pills to the legislation?? So glad we got a pinky promise for a vote on whatever the fuck this is.
Choose your fighter 😍
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Choose your fighter 😍
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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The Trump regime is declaring that funding for the CFPB is illegal.
Remember: This is the agency that protects Americans from financial predators.
Anti-CFPB oligarchs, who spent millions to re-elect Trump, will now have an easier time padding their pockets by ripping you off.
Remember: This is the agency that protects Americans from financial predators.
Anti-CFPB oligarchs, who spent millions to re-elect Trump, will now have an easier time padding their pockets by ripping you off.
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The Trump regime is declaring that funding for the CFPB is illegal.
Remember: This is the agency that protects Americans from financial predators.
Anti-CFPB oligarchs, who spent millions to re-elect Trump, will now have an easier time padding their pockets by ripping you off.
Remember: This is the agency that protects Americans from financial predators.
Anti-CFPB oligarchs, who spent millions to re-elect Trump, will now have an easier time padding their pockets by ripping you off.
This hair-brained legal theory cropped up after THE SUPREME COURT already ruled that the CFPB's funding structure is constitutional. Russ Vought has been blood-thirsty to destroy the CFPB from the jump, now corporations can crush consumers even more, without recourse.
Trump is closing the CFPB after a bizarre decision to redefine the word “earnings” made it impossible for the agency to even request funding. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/fKDWHN4
Russ Vought Tries to Bankrupt the CFPB - The American Prospect
A legal office in the White House, at the behest of Office of Management and Budget director and Project 2025 architect Russ Vought, has decided to redefine the word “earnings” in order to bankrupt the largely dormant Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
trib.al
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This hair-brained legal theory cropped up after THE SUPREME COURT already ruled that the CFPB's funding structure is constitutional. Russ Vought has been blood-thirsty to destroy the CFPB from the jump, now corporations can crush consumers even more, without recourse.
Fuck Larry Summers
One of my earliest moments of radicalization was in 2005 when Larry Summers said that women biologically have less aptitude for science than men. Following that, scores of equally unimpressive people wrote pieces trying to explain or justify his remarks, when they should have called for his removal.
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Fuck Larry Summers
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Epstein in emails: Trump knew about the girls. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Epstein in emails: Trump knew about the girls. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Finally paid off to have my nerdy aurora borealis tracking app in Newton @universalhub.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Finally paid off to have my nerdy aurora borealis tracking app in Newton @universalhub.com
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Billionaires in America are richer than they've ever been before.
They're buying yachts for their superyachts.
The rest of us can't afford groceries, rent, or healthcare.
And the people in charge just cut healthcare to give billionaires more tax breaks.
We're being played.
They're buying yachts for their superyachts.
The rest of us can't afford groceries, rent, or healthcare.
And the people in charge just cut healthcare to give billionaires more tax breaks.
We're being played.
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Billionaires in America are richer than they've ever been before.
They're buying yachts for their superyachts.
The rest of us can't afford groceries, rent, or healthcare.
And the people in charge just cut healthcare to give billionaires more tax breaks.
We're being played.
They're buying yachts for their superyachts.
The rest of us can't afford groceries, rent, or healthcare.
And the people in charge just cut healthcare to give billionaires more tax breaks.
We're being played.
What a time to work in national politics amirite?
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What a time to work in national politics amirite?
"We'll see" IS NOT AN IRONCLAD AGREEMENT. Senate Dems just gave away the only leverage they had to protect millions of Americans' healthcare subsidies. Absolutely mind boggling.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"We'll see" IS NOT AN IRONCLAD AGREEMENT. Senate Dems just gave away the only leverage they had to protect millions of Americans' healthcare subsidies. Absolutely mind boggling.
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Exhibit #2625 on Dems winning the politics of the shutdown fight. Check out this polling from @groundwork.bsky.social:
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Exhibit #2625 on Dems winning the politics of the shutdown fight. Check out this polling from @groundwork.bsky.social:
The cool thing re: lying about things people materially feel in their everyday lives is that YOU CAN’T BECAUSE PEOPLE KNOW HOW MUCH THINGS COST WHEN THEY BUY THEM.
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The cool thing re: lying about things people materially feel in their everyday lives is that YOU CAN’T BECAUSE PEOPLE KNOW HOW MUCH THINGS COST WHEN THEY BUY THEM.
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They want us to fight, left versus right.
But it’s time to realize that those are the wrong directions.
It’s up versus down.
Billionaires versus the rest of us.
But it’s time to realize that those are the wrong directions.
It’s up versus down.
Billionaires versus the rest of us.
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
They want us to fight, left versus right.
But it’s time to realize that those are the wrong directions.
It’s up versus down.
Billionaires versus the rest of us.
But it’s time to realize that those are the wrong directions.
It’s up versus down.
Billionaires versus the rest of us.
👋🏼 Mom from Massachusetts here whose kid has free school lunch because of a millionaires surtax—it’s amazing and he prefers school lunch to what we pack him most days
School lunches get a bad rap, but they're healthier than the average packed lunch. And making them free for all amplifies academic and health benefits for low-income kids by removing stigma/shame.
So I'm glad Colorado voted to raise taxes on high-income households to make school meals free for all.
So I'm glad Colorado voted to raise taxes on high-income households to make school meals free for all.
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
👋🏼 Mom from Massachusetts here whose kid has free school lunch because of a millionaires surtax—it’s amazing and he prefers school lunch to what we pack him most days