Ryan Elizabeth
@sevenintheocean.bsky.social
Writer, chicken-keeper, marathon runner.
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January 13, 2025
January 13, 2026
Officials in the Trump administration insist its surges of federal agents into Democratic-led cities are necessary to round up undocumented immigrants, but the agents’ mission increasingly looks as if...
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January 14, 2026 at 6:11 AM
January 13, 2025
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Every time I use a really nice pen it heals me a little bit
January 6, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Every time I use a really nice pen it heals me a little bit
"Distracting people from the things you're doing that they hate by doing more things they hate is not strategic genius." - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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Notes on Unbearable Stupidity, January 6, 2026 Edition
"A year ago, I went to Copenhagen to write about the political crisis Trump had created over Greenland," Anne Appelbaum said the other day on the hellsite formerly known as Twitter. "Danes told me tha...
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January 6, 2026 at 6:57 PM
"Distracting people from the things you're doing that they hate by doing more things they hate is not strategic genius." - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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"A coalition is by definition made up of people who have something in common, not everything in common." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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How Big Should Your Tent Be?
It's striking to me that a lot of people want politics to be about their personal feelings, in which case they're not engaged in politics, though they may be engaged in the sabotage of politics. This ...
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December 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"A coalition is by definition made up of people who have something in common, not everything in common." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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This year, our two-day symposium, 'Living Together 2025: Connecting housing, social health, and resilience,' was an absolute highlight! It was such a thrill to gather with so many people who continue to inspire us and help build momentum in this work. 1/3
December 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This year, our two-day symposium, 'Living Together 2025: Connecting housing, social health, and resilience,' was an absolute highlight! It was such a thrill to gather with so many people who continue to inspire us and help build momentum in this work. 1/3
"The problem is absentee land ownership, and it doesn’t matter if those owners are from China or Chicago, Rio or St. Louis — what we all need is people. People to live here and to care for the land, to raise animals and crops and kids, and to be a part of a community."
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What the Neighbors Think - Offrange
When Beth Hoffman and her husband moved from the Bay Area to farm sustainably in rural Iowa, they tried some things their neighbors had never seen. Did it ruffle any feathers?
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December 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"The problem is absentee land ownership, and it doesn’t matter if those owners are from China or Chicago, Rio or St. Louis — what we all need is people. People to live here and to care for the land, to raise animals and crops and kids, and to be a part of a community."
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Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
In honour of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (today, Nov 25), the incredible team at When Love Hurts have debuted their new podcast to reach more women and more professionals with lifesaving information. #ViolenceAgainstWomen🎙
www.whenlovehurts.ca/2025/11/impo...
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Marking an important day with a brand New When Love Hurts Podcast! | When Love Hurts
We are approaching November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, where we work toward the achievement of full equality, safety and freedom for women and girls world...
www.whenlovehurts.ca
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
In honour of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (today, Nov 25), the incredible team at When Love Hurts have debuted their new podcast to reach more women and more professionals with lifesaving information. #ViolenceAgainstWomen🎙
www.whenlovehurts.ca/2025/11/impo...
www.whenlovehurts.ca/2025/11/impo...
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Sorry November but I can’t do this current news cycle AND cold toes at the same time, one of you has got to go
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Sorry November but I can’t do this current news cycle AND cold toes at the same time, one of you has got to go
Gosh, Josh, this was a DELIGHT to read. I laughed (on billionaires: "So put up or shut up...or put up and shut up. You're fine. You'll never not be fine.") & I got misty-eyed (on losing 💙ed ones to MAGA: "You are not required to build a bridge to a place you don't want to go in the first place.") 👏🏻
In this week's newsletter I wrote about losing a parent (to bad politics) and good tv shows and the billionaires who pretend they're going to leave a city if their taxes go up by an amount that will never make their lives worse.
#158. New York's Billionaires and You
Hi everyone,
We are still firmly in what any calendar would tell us is the middle of November, and yet I feel like the year is basically over. It's not that I'm winding down for the holidays. Quite t...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Gosh, Josh, this was a DELIGHT to read. I laughed (on billionaires: "So put up or shut up...or put up and shut up. You're fine. You'll never not be fine.") & I got misty-eyed (on losing 💙ed ones to MAGA: "You are not required to build a bridge to a place you don't want to go in the first place.") 👏🏻
Omg I laughed so hard. Women Ruin Things, someone get on that book title! 🤣 (as a woman, I find this ironically funny)
THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Omg I laughed so hard. Women Ruin Things, someone get on that book title! 🤣 (as a woman, I find this ironically funny)
I am so tired of how ppl are using cynicism to justify shitty positions. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social nails it - "Cynicism is often just premature defeatism about what can happen all dressed up as confidence about what will happen..."
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/categories-a...
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Categories Are Leaky (Over-Generalizations are Dangerous)
Many people seem to love sweeping generalizations. Not all people, but lots of people I come across trying to discuss the politics of our time fall back on pretending that a category of people is homo...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I am so tired of how ppl are using cynicism to justify shitty positions. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social nails it - "Cynicism is often just premature defeatism about what can happen all dressed up as confidence about what will happen..."
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/categories-a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/categories-a...
I also yearn for this! "I yearn for more films that show how the world actually does get changed – and less nonsense about violence on the left." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-kings-no-...
No Kings, No Violence: On the Ongoing Misrepresentation of the Left
Portlanders deploying inflatable animal costumes, a brass band, mass ukulele renditions of “This Land Is Your Land,” naked bike rides, and other tactics in their ICE protests are undermining the Trump...
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October 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I also yearn for this! "I yearn for more films that show how the world actually does get changed – and less nonsense about violence on the left." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-kings-no-...
An upcoming training opportunity for helping professionals who support women experiencing partner abuse. I had the chance to sit in on this course back in February and found it so moving! I want everyone to take it. #WhenLoveHurts www.whenlovehurts.ca/product/trai...
Certified Training for Professionals Supporting Women Experiencing Partner Abuse | When Love Hurts
Training for helping professionals to provide a proven framework and comprehensive guide to strengthen their practice and enrich the support they offer women who have experienced partner abuse.
www.whenlovehurts.ca
October 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
An upcoming training opportunity for helping professionals who support women experiencing partner abuse. I had the chance to sit in on this course back in February and found it so moving! I want everyone to take it. #WhenLoveHurts www.whenlovehurts.ca/product/trai...
More of this in the world, plz! So beautiful! @loveheylola.bsky.social 💛
I’m editing photos for our next jewelry drop & I’m so obsessed with my own work here. These are made from things I find on the side of the road during clean-ups and/or things that can’t be traditionally recycled (that I collected or were donated) - straws, lemonade lids, bottles, & school folders.
September 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
More of this in the world, plz! So beautiful! @loveheylola.bsky.social 💛
Discovered this, from @99pi.org, through a recent @civileats.com salon, during which a convo sprang up about what constituted a #FoodSwamp. This, of course, led us to talking about #FoodDeserts, which also brought up an interesting convo about #FoodApartheid. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/634-...
Food Deserts - 99% Invisible
Woonsocket, Rhode Island was once home to many locally owned and regional grocers. There were small stores such as Fernandes Produce and Big D’s. The city also had supermarkets from classic New Englan...
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August 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Discovered this, from @99pi.org, through a recent @civileats.com salon, during which a convo sprang up about what constituted a #FoodSwamp. This, of course, led us to talking about #FoodDeserts, which also brought up an interesting convo about #FoodApartheid. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/634-...
"What they need, in other words, is something far less curated. Something more like a layered, unruly, unapologetically useful ecosystem." -- layered and unruly! Yes! I love this. 🐝
ediblevancouverisland.ediblecommunities.com/food-thought...
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Your Flowers Are Pretty, But the Bees Are Starving - Edible Vancouver Island
How to build a true pollinator pantry that feeds bees, butterflies, and other essential species year-round.
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August 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
"What they need, in other words, is something far less curated. Something more like a layered, unruly, unapologetically useful ecosystem." -- layered and unruly! Yes! I love this. 🐝
ediblevancouverisland.ediblecommunities.com/food-thought...
ediblevancouverisland.ediblecommunities.com/food-thought...
I keep hearing about the YouTube show, ‘Surrounded,’ and have only seen/heard a few clips from it. My sense is that this is not a productive way to have discourse. Interesting to hear the takes on Commotion w/ Elamin Abdelmahmoud this week. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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August 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I keep hearing about the YouTube show, ‘Surrounded,’ and have only seen/heard a few clips from it. My sense is that this is not a productive way to have discourse. Interesting to hear the takes on Commotion w/ Elamin Abdelmahmoud this week. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Excited to be bringing Trouble in the Headwaters to communities across BC! Here's all the info for the Penticton screening on Sept. 8th.
"Trouble in the Headwaters" is a powerful 25-minute documentary exploring the root causes behind the devastating floods in Grand Forks, BC. Sept 8 - 6:30-8:30 PM
Oasis United Church 2964 Skaha Lake Rd Penticton *by donation Flimmaker, UBC prof, local ecologist in panel discussion. Please share.
Oasis United Church 2964 Skaha Lake Rd Penticton *by donation Flimmaker, UBC prof, local ecologist in panel discussion. Please share.
August 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Excited to be bringing Trouble in the Headwaters to communities across BC! Here's all the info for the Penticton screening on Sept. 8th.
JFC. How many people will needlessly die before someone realizes, “hey wait a minute that cancer research was maybe a good idea?” 🤬
Chat, is cancer research woke? The Trump administration seems to think so, having erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research in a move that seems to be part of its anti-DEI, anti-trans, and anti-vaccine agendas.
How Trump Killed Cancer Research
Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.
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July 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
JFC. How many people will needlessly die before someone realizes, “hey wait a minute that cancer research was maybe a good idea?” 🤬
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BC Wants Value-Added Mills. We Discovered a Big Obstacle via @thetyee.ca
Great investigative reporting by Ben Parfitt: thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...
Great investigative reporting by Ben Parfitt: thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...
BC Wants Value-Added Mills. We Discovered a Big Obstacle | The Tyee
Why does so much community forest timber end up as wood chips instead of higher-end products? A Tyee investigation.
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July 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
BC Wants Value-Added Mills. We Discovered a Big Obstacle via @thetyee.ca
Great investigative reporting by Ben Parfitt: thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...
Great investigative reporting by Ben Parfitt: thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...
Exactly this: “While the MAHA Commission is seeking to address a serious problem, whether it can successfully prevent and treat chronic disease depends on which factors the members deem to be driving the problem, what policy solutions they will choose to pursue, and who they will hold accountable.”
Op-ed: The Big Beautiful Bill Won’t Make America Healthy Again
Op-ed: The Big Beautiful Bill Won’t Make America Healthy Again
The second MAHA report is due next month. Here’s how the Trump administration's actions have directly contradicted MAHA's goals so far.
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July 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Exactly this: “While the MAHA Commission is seeking to address a serious problem, whether it can successfully prevent and treat chronic disease depends on which factors the members deem to be driving the problem, what policy solutions they will choose to pursue, and who they will hold accountable.”
Wish I could be there! ✊
Vancouver-based The Metals Company is trying to start mining the seafloor—so we’re bringing them our message in full colour. #StopDeepSeaMining
🎨 Mural-painting event this Friday at TMC's HQ in Vancouver.
Come block deep-sea mines with bold lines.
Info/RSVP 👉 act.gp/44dsw8P
🎨 Mural-painting event this Friday at TMC's HQ in Vancouver.
Come block deep-sea mines with bold lines.
Info/RSVP 👉 act.gp/44dsw8P
Mural painting: The ocean is not for sale!
Hey, Vancouver! On July 4th, the day of US Independence Day, we’ll gather in front of the headquarters of a Vancouver-based mining company to expose their rogue behaviour: The Metals Company is teamin...
act.gp
July 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Wish I could be there! ✊
Fight cynicism! -- "When you don't assume the outcome, you recognize that you may be able to participate in shaping it," says @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-...
Cynicism Is the Enemy of Action
We have distant enemies, the enemies of truth, justice, human rights, and environmental protection, and they are easy to recognize and oppose. We also have near enemies, the cynics and defeatists amon...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Fight cynicism! -- "When you don't assume the outcome, you recognize that you may be able to participate in shaping it," says @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-...