Ellyn

Michigan native; @UMich alumna; Former Bay Area tenant attorney; Chicago resident; #zerowaste enthusiast.
RTs usually things I wish I had thought to say myself

[Ellyn @elle57]

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Composting is easy and fun and makes you feel good about yourself and saves the polar bears!

[Ellyn @elle57]

Do I buy just one for myself, or get my holiday shopping done early? 🤔🤔

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[Ellyn @elle57]

Sometimes I like to retweet a response to another tweet, wholly without context.

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

@RepCawthorn Sir, you are aware the Vatican is a sovereign city state, governed by an absolute monarch? It's not governed by American law, let alone wingnut cosplay law.

[Ellyn @elle57]

@MrJaRule Stop that, too!

[Ellyn @elle57]

Stop painting wood.

[Lo 玲 Targos 🍉 @LoTargos]

How it started. How its going.

[Ellyn @elle57]

Is Mercury in retrograde or something? I am also have a DAY.

[Chris “Law Dork” Geidner @chrisgeidner]

If you’re having a rough day today, know you’re not alone. 💖

[James Blunt @JamesBlunt]

THIS, ladies and gentlemen, is how you do grammar.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

After a man stabbed and killed homeless people on the subway, the NYPD increased their subway patrols by 500 cops. There were already 4,000 cops patrolling the subway who didn't stop the murders. You know what could have? Housing those homeless New Yorkers.

[Marie Ndiaye @marie_defender]

Policing is and always will be reactionary, showing up after the harm is done and doing nothing to prevent harm in the first place.

[Ellyn @elle57]

"if America had adopted policies to close the Black-white economic gap 20 years ago, U.S. G.D.P would be an estimated $16 trillion higher"

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[Paul Sweeney MSP @PaulJSweeney]

According to a study by the London School of Economics, 50 years worth of tax cuts contributed absolutely nothing to GDP growth and employment rates across 18 nations that tried 'trickle down economics', since the wealthiest hoard far more than they spend.
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[Ellyn @elle57]

Oo found my weekend reading.

[Karen Tani (@kmtani.bsky.social) @kmtani]

Time for another 🧵 about the "Law & Inequality" 1L elective I'm teaching w/ my colleague @ProfOsseiOwusu! This week's class focused on transportation, exclusion, & racial & economic inequality. We built it around the work of the amazing @DeborahNArcher. (1/x)

[Ellyn @elle57]

"it [is] fundamentally unjust for [restaurant workers] to earn less than the minimum wage and to depend on the good will of strangers in order to earn what [is] guaranteed by law to most workers"

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

“Today, 43 states and the federal government still persist with this legacy of slavery, allowing a tipped work force that is close to 70 percent female and disproportionately Black and brown women to be paid a subminimum wage.”

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[Costa Samaras @CostaSamaras]

did...did a greenhouse gas write this

[Ellyn @elle57]

💙💖🤍💖💙

[NCLR – National Center for LGBTQ Rights @NCLRights]

BREAKING NEWS! @POTUS @JoeBiden has signed an Exec Order that reverses the previous administration's unlawful & discriminatory #TransgenderMilitaryBan!! The new order will allow transgender people to serve openly in the U.S. military again! Our statement: https://t.co/lCbwQO99TX

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

Thread: Ever think about the logistics of the food on your plate and the human costs of our food supply? #WeFeedYou