Emma Nelson
Healthcare advocate. Nonprofit director. Poll-working childless cat lady.🗳️🐈
News, politics, elections, democracy, public health, reproductive rights, climate, social justice, feminism, cats.
“Women don’t owe you shit.”
📍Milwaukee, WI 🧀
- Reposted by Emma NelsonWorried about bare shelves and widespread retail shortages? This slow-cooker cabbage with vodka will make you feel like you’re in the 1970s Soviet Union.
- Reposted by Emma NelsonSomething I hope everyone covers this tomorrow notes is that...the President has no authority whatsoever to make trade deals without congress. None. Not even the pretext of one.
- New: Trump is expected to announce on Thursday that the US will strike a trade deal with the UK, according to a person familiar with the matter, the first agreement for the administration since it imposed sweeping tariffs against its trading partners last month @theguardian.com story TK
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- Reposted by Emma NelsonAh, but of course. #OligarchEra 🤡 @washingtonpost.com @jeffstein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
- Reposted by Emma NelsonThis is pretty dystopian futurism.com/facebook-bea...
- Reposted by Emma NelsonCBS on the cardinals: "One thing we know they're not doing is checking Instagram because their devices have all been confiscated. I believe the kids call it rawdogging."
- Reposted by Emma Nelson"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
- Reposted by Emma NelsonBest feeling is when you meow at a random cat and they meow back and walk over to get pets
- Reposted by Emma NelsonA horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
- Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
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- Reposted by Emma NelsonAgain, they're trying to take away our vaccines. From the head of the FDA, a gross misrepresentation of the annual process of updating a proven vaccine to target new disease strains. His plan would make it impossible to get seasonal flu and Covid shots, and of course he knows this.
- Reposted by Emma NelsonBut the more immediate threat to ballot access may be in the states, many of which are trying to pass their own version of the measure — or take similar steps to impose proof of citizenship requirements, potentially disenfranchising a large number of voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by Emma NelsonBreaking News: The Trump administration dismissed all the scientists working on the government’s premiere report on the effects of climate change in the U.S.
- Reposted by Emma NelsonHey Paul Weiss associates—meet your new pro bono clients. It’s ok, the Skadden associates are getting the coal companies.
- Reposted by Emma NelsonICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn
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- Reposted by Emma NelsonNEW: Statement from attorney for Judge Dugan. "Hannah C. Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law and the principles of due process for her entire career as a lawyer and a judge. Judge Dugan will defend herself vigorously, and looks forward to being exonerated."
- Reposted by Emma NelsonNEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present. “This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
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- Reposted by Emma NelsonRFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is
- Reposted by Emma NelsonIs Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.
- Reposted by Emma NelsonSteve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."
- Reposted by Emma NelsonI’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
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- Reposted by Emma NelsonEXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
- Reposted by Emma NelsonWe had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower
- Reposted by Emma NelsonI am calling for a total and complete shutdown of detainees being removed from the United States to foreign prisons until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.
- Reposted by Emma NelsonBreaking News: The White House is said to be planning to ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding from public media, including NPR and PBS.
- Reposted by Emma NelsonCriminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
- Reposted by Emma NelsonThere we go. Support this man.
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- Reposted by Emma Nelsoni have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery
- Reposted by Emma NelsonWho could be disenfranchised by the SAVE Act? ❌69M women who changed their name after marriage ❌21.3M Americans who don't readily have access to proof of citizenship documents ❌3.8M Americans who don't have proof of citizenship documents at all www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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- Reposted by Emma NelsonI used to select Dem primary candidates based on policy. Now I will aggressively try to destroy any Dem who says "we need to look forward not backward" and fervently support anyone who says "I will see these motherfuckers prosecuted and jailed if it's the last thing I do."
- Reposted by Emma NelsonThe agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.
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- Reposted by Emma Nelson3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
- The universal cat distribution system™️ works in mysterious ways… It’s #NationalPetDay! Shout out to the 4 reasons I’m still clinging to my sanity! I’d be lost without them. Niles, Maris, Arnie, & Fritz—you have my whole heart. 💙🧡💜🩵 #catsofbluesky #catsky #cats #rescuecats #pets
- Happy #FritzyFriday! Fritz encourages you take a short break from doomscrolling, drink some water, and get some fresh air. Also, #CallCongress! #catsofbluesky #catsky #cats #rescuecats #fritz #friday #tgif
- Reposted by Emma NelsonThis is how Kaganovich talked about Stalin.
- Reposted by Emma Nelson“Living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead” is a gasp-worthy concept with far-reaching potential applications.
- What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
- Reposted by Emma NelsonA disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues helped seal the fate of a gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison. Cross was fired from his position as a Milwaukee Police Sergeant in 2012 after driving his car into a family’s home while intoxicated.
- Reposted by Emma NelsonThe fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US
- Reposted by Emma NelsonIt's been the honor of my life to serve as Chair of WisDems for the last six years. With a pro-democracy Supreme Court secured for years to come, Wisconsin can reach for a trifecta in 2026. Our state party is in superb shape. So today, I’m announcing that, this summer, I’ll be passing the torch.🧵
- Very funny when it’s about #Elon …but now I’m concerned this is what my nieces and nephews say about me when I’m not around…
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- We are a #birding family and damn proud of it. 🐦⬛🐈⬛ #Fritz #Niles #Maris #chickadees #birds #catsofbluesky #catsky #cats #rescuecats #Purrsday
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- Reposted by Emma Nelson"Who could have predicted this?" say the people who spent the past year dismissing or mocking those who predicted this.
- Reposted by Emma NelsonBiggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
- Reposted by Emma NelsonThe top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens. The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago. Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
