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Eliza Orlins

@elizaorlins.bsky.social

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Career public defender • Survivor & Amazing Racer • Fueled by rage at injustice • she/her

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@elizaorlins.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:12 PM

Last year Amnesty International verified public executions in two countries, Iran and Afghanistan. The US hasn't held one since a hanging in Kentucky in 1936, and no execution here has ever been broadcast. This is truly abhorrent.

@elizaorlins.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:12 PM

Pete Hegseth's Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter.

@elizaorlins.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 5:01 AM

An ICE agent fired into a man's car in Marble Hill this afternoon with a 5-year-old in the backseat. DHS released his arrest record and blamed sanctuary politicians, and never said what led an agent to open fire. ICE's own investigators are handling the case.

youtu.be/ZhaotE2PuJU

@elizaorlins.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 12:49 AM

Send this to anyone you know who lives abroad.

@elizaorlins.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 12:49 AM

Only verified U.S. citizens clear that check, and contributions from foreign nationals are still blocked. Service members and Foreign Service officers have been mailing ballots home from the other side of the world this whole time and still couldn't chip in to the races they care about.

@elizaorlins.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 12:49 AM

When you pick a country other than the U.S. on the donation page, you now upload a photo of your U.S. passport and a selfie for third-party verification, which confirms the passport is real and belongs to you.

@elizaorlins.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 12:49 AM

If you're an American living overseas, you haven't been able to give on ActBlue since 2025, and that just ended.

youtube.com/shorts/UkDML...

@starfinder.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 3:17 PMReposted by @elizaorlins.bsky.social

I guess you didn't get the memo...

bsky.app/profile/eliz...

@elizaorlins.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 5:44 PM

I asked Senator Mark Kelly to choose between food poisoning and a day with RFK Jr.

He chose RFK Jr. and offered to cancel his whole schedule for it.

We also talked about his new AI bill.

Full conversation here:

youtu.be/NPtRLFXmg0w

@jhalp2.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:57 PMReposted by @elizaorlins.bsky.social

Boosting this!!

@elizaorlins.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:56 PM

I spent 15 years in Manhattan doing the job she started out in, defending people the government had decided to go after. Now the government is going after her, and she's still the one New York calls when a case needs to be handled right. Thank you, Tish. ♡

@elizaorlins.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:56 PM

Thursday, NY Governor Kathy Hochul named her special prosecutor in the Cornell sexual assault case, after the Tompkins County DA decided not to bring charges.

@elizaorlins.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:56 PM

There are now new criminal referrals against her in Miami and Chicago, and federal prosecutors are looking into money she exchanged with her hairdresser. She has kept working through all of it.

@elizaorlins.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:56 PM

She also beat Wayne LaPierre and the NRA at trial. Trump's DOJ responded by indicting her for mortgage fraud. A federal judge threw the case out because the prosecutor who brought it had been illegally appointed, and when DOJ tried again, two grand juries refused to indict her.

@elizaorlins.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:56 PM

Since taking office, she has sued Donald Trump for fraud and gotten a court to rule that he lied about his wealth. Her office's investigation into Andrew Cuomo's harassment of women on his staff led to his resignation.

@elizaorlins.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:56 PM

This is a Tish James appreciation post. Before she was NY Attorney General, she was a public defender at the Legal Aid Society.

@andrewsweet.netOct 1, 2026, 2:23 PMReposted by @elizaorlins.bsky.social

I guess that answers the question of whether he would have approved Christie Gnome's ad spend...

@flyohmymary.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 2:41 PMReposted by @elizaorlins.bsky.social

Haven’t said this in a minute - but fuck this evil administration. This shit is blatantly illegal and a gross misuse of tax payer money. Trash.

@elizaorlins.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 2:18 PM

Congress bans taxpayer-funded publicity and propaganda in its spending bills every year, and the federal employees who made these ads aren't exempt from the Hatch Act the way Trump is. Full legal case from Painter, Canter, Swartz, and Eisen in The Contrarian: go.shopmy.us/p-90860605

@elizaorlins.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 2:18 PM

The federal government has spent more than $2.5 million airing Trump ads, including a near-copy of his 2024 campaign spot with "Paid for by the U.S. Government" tacked on the end. Homeland Security is paying for them with $20 million Congress gave Customs and Border Protection. youtu.be/gwD_J6Xwsjc

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