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Elizabeth Bennett

@elizabethbennettjd

Old-timey congressional staff, herder of regulations and writer.

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That is his superpower and why he will be a star.

11.03.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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our boy's on it

11.03.2026 06:35 πŸ‘ 3053 πŸ” 281 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 52

Photography is not neutral.
Cartography is not neutral.

In data science we know that one data point, no matter how well measured, can't show the full picture. We take lots of observations, the more the better, so as to be representative.

A single map, a single photo, can never be objective.

11.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It seems to me that white supremacists are the ones having trouble assilimilating to life in America, and they have since the start.

That sounds like a β€œthem” problem.

11.03.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Never eat a boiled crawfish with a straight tail. It was dead when it hit the water and will make you sick.

10.03.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If only this had been foreseeable.

10.03.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They’ve used up everything else over the last 3 decades…

10.03.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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THIS IS SPINAL TAP was released 42 years ago this week. Widely regarded as one of the funniest comedies ever made, and the film that spawned the β€˜mockumentary’, the behind the scenes tale goes to 11…

1/40

10.03.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 96 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 6
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There’s never enough money for schools or healthcare or veterans.

But there’s always enough money to bomb people on the other side of the world.

We can support the democracy movement in Iran without bombing innocent schoolchildren and sending our American troops off to die.

09.03.2026 23:16 πŸ‘ 3077 πŸ” 1070 πŸ’¬ 92 πŸ“Œ 36

Interesting article about rattlesnakes. They were everywhere around my last house in Austin, on the edge of the Hill Country.

I didn’t wish them ill, but I did wish they weren’t so close…

09.03.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New: A Houston woman is suing Tesla in Harris County, alleging that her Cybertruck, while using Tesla's "Full Self-Driving mode" tried to drive the car off of a bridge. Here is the dashcam footage provided by her lawyers: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

09.03.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 1383 πŸ” 474 πŸ’¬ 108 πŸ“Œ 286
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Government shutdown hits spring break travel with hours-long TSA lines A partial shutdown impacting the Department of Homeland Security left some travelers waiting hours at airport security checkpoints.

We offered to fund TSA. No conditions. Republicans refused.

They want the hostage, to extract more ICE money with. No ICE reforms

09.03.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 1216 πŸ” 569 πŸ’¬ 76 πŸ“Œ 29

Talarico points out the hypocrisy of the Christian right *in their own language*. I’ve gleefully watched him calmly eviscerate the most loathsome Texas GOP hypocrites with their own arguments.

He is the kind of progressive Jesus would’ve beenβ€”a Medicare4All progressive. Do not be scared.

09.03.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It seems like Dems everywhere have lost their minds which means they are complicit.

We have to reckon with that and clean house with all the tools in our toolbox IMMEDIATELY if we want this country to survive.

We keep screwing around, hoping something will change. Get serious, people.

09.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, now I’m curious…

09.03.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And those people are Democrats who were raised to β€œnever forget” yet are not in fact the β€œopposition” party to American fascism in the year of our lord 2026.

We don’t have one of those.

09.03.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m ok with giving white supremacists Mars if they’ll all agree to go there to stay.

09.03.2026 00:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I believe the technical term is β€œcollaborator.”

08.03.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, the dulcet puke produced by Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill…

08.03.2026 14:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s b/c they aren’t talking to us. Dems never speak to their ownβ€”they’re always chasing mythical low-hanging Republican voters, and those folks care more about money than people.

It’s why they’ve lost touch with their own.

08.03.2026 14:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They say this as though the Russians are an ally expected to heed us and not our existential threat driving the forces successfully dismantling our government and society.

08.03.2026 14:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m about to go for work, and I feel weird about it. I was always excited to go to DC in the past, but I really don’t want to this time.

08.03.2026 09:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It really is. I’m so sick of the left bashing when the left has been right about everything for ages.

07.03.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

To whom are you speaking? I know nothing about you, but I’m confident my party cred easily outweighs yours.

This β€œstabbing” you mention, could you mean how the party has taken the left for granted for decades but expects us to shut up and show up anyway while they chase the right?

07.03.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is that why the Party keeps chasing mythical swing Republican voters to the right?

07.03.2026 19:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Watch what you hear now
Make sure it's clear now
Just 'cause it's said, that don't mean that it's true

07.03.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Had a lovely customer come in last night while I was working late. Dude was blown away by what I've been doing. It felt really great.

It's kind of funny to see folks who live three miles away discover something amazing in their neighborhood. I'm trying hard to tell y'all!

06.03.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Tesla sued after Austin shooting suspect allegedly assaulted co-worker A 65-year-old woman says the automaker ignored warning signs before Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting, assaulted her. She sued Thursday.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year

the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter

www.statesman.com/business/art...

06.03.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 5304 πŸ” 1903 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 138

…for the second time in 2 months.

06.03.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They should put Stephen Miller in the hot seat next.
(Edited 5:28β€―PM via @skeetsapp.com)

05.03.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0