Elizabeth Morrison

Think how badly the Toddler-in-Chief wants to distract us from the Epstein files if he’s willing to raze the whole East Wing to do so.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

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I thought it was not as crowded as Jan 2017 women’s march, and official estimates for that were maybe 50,000?

Any credible numbers on Madison crowd size today?

🚨 BREAKING: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’s going to rename Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois.”

EPIC TRUMP TROLL!!! 🤣

In these fraught times, please remember to utilize your resources as per the package directions.

The Void is for screaming.
The Abyss is for staring.

You don't want to be screamed back at just for staring, choose wisely.

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

Pink orchids

Hot pink orchid flowers on a green leafy background.

I went to the orchid show at Olbrich Gardens today. Nice to be immersed in beauty for a little while.

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

Does Elon Musk cheat at video games? An investigation. The world’s richest man has paid to boost his online warriors into global leaderboards, raising questions about his prowess — and his need for digital praise.

This is my Watergate wapo.st/4aBla0g

🧵I think we need to talk about *waves hands wildly in all directions* differently.

I see 3 goals:
-Dismantling democracy+systems of accountability
-Advancing white supremacist policies here+abroad
-Immiserating non-billionaires for financial gain

Each action is toward those one/all of those goals.

If Dems don’t call it impeachable now, it won’t be effective to call it impeachable later. Go on record now.

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

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Government employees: please download your performance reviews/personnel files.

Word is that the system will be going offline tomorrow to possible amend those performance reviews for justification of firings.

Source: American Federation of Govt Employees.

*Please share to protect fed workers*

Simple Sabotage Field Manual

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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

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Democratic lawmakers need to understand something:

Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."

And just stand there.

This is how many of you are coming across.

Some advice to federal workers From a former secretary of labor

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Sunlight through a railing on a startlingly warm day in late January.

Just lovely!

Today I canceled my WaPo subscription and signed up for Mother Jones. I will miss a few columnists but I won’t miss the sanewashing and billionaire ass-kissing. #terrifyingtimes

We all know that person. The micro-mis-manager.

Are you envisioning this as having a lower neckline in front? It sounds like you must be. I’m not quite understanding what you see as the issue.

Madison anti-Trump protesters 'worried about the oppression' The People’s March, a rebranding of the Women’s March in 2017, brought an estimated 500 people to downtown Madison, ending at the state Capitol.

#peoplesmarch yesterday. My friend’s sign is in the pics.

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From #peoplesmarch in #madison today, before we started marching. The crowd was not vast, but the enthusiasm was there.