Career public defender • Survivor & Amazing Racer • Fueled by rage at injustice • she/herhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.social/post/3mtgzzx6ogc2wTrump found $68.3 million of your money for a two-day car race on the National Mall. Then his administration asked Congress for $10 million more to cover parties that already happened. Same people who cut 10 million Americans off health insurance https://youtube.com/shorts/DXb55uWgUnI19 Aug 2026 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:yrjwxtjw2fmtmbaulddo7ec6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtgzzx6ogc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.social/post/3mtfjcp4wu22aAlex Vindman spent $9 million. Angie Nixon spent $709,000. She won by 11 points. Florida Democrats just picked the Jacksonville state rep who got arrested at a sit-in over redistricting. She now faces Ashley Moody in November. LFG FLORIDA!!!!19 Aug 2026 00:52 +0000at://did:plc:yrjwxtjw2fmtmbaulddo7ec6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtfjcp4wu22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.social/post/3msosjetvlc22Seth Moulton went on live TV and asked Ed Markey why he'd take a meeting on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein. The whole thing rests on one email in the DOJ files, so I pulled it. 🧵 youtu.be/i_3muXVW1Es https://youtu.be/i_3muXVW1Es10 Aug 2026 00:06 +0000at://did:plc:yrjwxtjw2fmtmbaulddo7ec6/app.bsky.feed.post/3msosjetvlc22https://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.social/post/3mswiucflbk2fPSA: GO OUTSIDE TONIGHT. The Perseid meteor shower peaks overnight tonight, and there’s a NEW MOON, which means basically no moonlight getting in the way. Find the darkest spot you can, put your phone away, look up, and give your eyes a little time to adjust.13 Aug 2026 01:34 +0000at://did:plc:yrjwxtjw2fmtmbaulddo7ec6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mswiucflbk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.social/post/3msvsrt2yzk25I froze my eggs in March 2018. I didn’t say much about it publicly, partly because I had complicated feelings about the whole process, and partly because I knew exactly what kind of judgment came with talking about it.12 Aug 2026 18:59 +0000at://did:plc:yrjwxtjw2fmtmbaulddo7ec6/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvsrt2yzk25https://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.social/post/3msu7r4mpp223PEGGY FLANAGAN WON. She just defeated Rep. Angie Craig in Minnesota’s Democratic Senate primary—and could become the first Native American woman ever elected to the United States Senate. Progressives are winning. Again. Now send her to the Senate. LFG.12 Aug 2026 03:46 +0000at://did:plc:yrjwxtjw2fmtmbaulddo7ec6/app.bsky.feed.post/3msu7r4mpp223https://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.social/post/3mstx2yiids24#AD New lease, change of address, utilities in your name, school forms. Every one of those puts your address back into the data broker market. Cleaning up your info once doesn't hold if your life keeps moving. I use DeleteMe. 20% off with code EORLINS: joindeleteme.com/EORLINS12 Aug 2026 01:10 +0000at://did:plc:yrjwxtjw2fmtmbaulddo7ec6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mstx2yiids24https://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.social/post/3msqt5w6o5c2lAlmost every free speech right you have in this country was won by lawyers defending dissent. People saying the wrong thing, at the wrong time, to the wrong people in charge, and losing. https://youtube.com/shorts/RdtXXUcwW2s?feature=share10 Aug 2026 19:22 +0000at://did:plc:yrjwxtjw2fmtmbaulddo7ec6/app.bsky.feed.post/3msqt5w6o5c2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.social/post/3msosjetvlc22Seth Moulton went on live TV and asked Ed Markey why he'd take a meeting on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein. The whole thing rests on one email in the DOJ files, so I pulled it. 🧵 youtu.be/i_3muXVW1Es https://youtu.be/i_3muXVW1Es10 Aug 2026 00:06 +0000at://did:plc:yrjwxtjw2fmtmbaulddo7ec6/app.bsky.feed.post/3msosjetvlc22https://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.social/post/3mskeoybpuk2tRand Paul's committee referred Fauci for criminal prosecution for taking the Fifth. Hawley cited Brown v. Walker (1896) to argue the pardon stripped the privilege. He's wrong. Full breakdown here: youtu.be/VZSH8fUQ3jk https://youtu.be/VZSH8fUQ3jk08 Aug 2026 05:47 +0000at://did:plc:yrjwxtjw2fmtmbaulddo7ec6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mskeoybpuk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.social/post/3mslafewib22cFuck. At 4:31AM. By a vote of 50-49. Todd Blanche—Donald Trump’s personal defense attorney—now runs the Justice Department. Before dawn, in a nearly empty chamber. That’s how you confirm someone you can’t defend in daylight.08 Aug 2026 14:03 +0000at://did:plc:yrjwxtjw2fmtmbaulddo7ec6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mslafewib22chttps://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.social/post/3mskeoybpuk2tRand Paul's committee referred Fauci for criminal prosecution for taking the Fifth. Hawley cited Brown v. Walker (1896) to argue the pardon stripped the privilege. He's wrong. Full breakdown here: youtu.be/VZSH8fUQ3jk https://youtu.be/VZSH8fUQ3jk08 Aug 2026 05:47 +0000at://did:plc:yrjwxtjw2fmtmbaulddo7ec6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mskeoybpuk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.social/post/3msiynvo7os2mBill Cassidy lost his seat in May. No future, nothing to protect. He is completely free to vote his conscience, and he is going to hand Todd Blanche the Justice Department anyhow. This is your legacy. Fuck you, Senator.07 Aug 2026 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:yrjwxtjw2fmtmbaulddo7ec6/app.bsky.feed.post/3msiynvo7os2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.social/post/3msdbxlmsyk2cAbdul El-Sayed wins the Michigan Democratic Senate primary!!! More than 1.2 million ballots cast. Over $60 million in outside spending alone. The most expensive Democratic Senate primary in American history. On to Mike Rogers in November. LFG.05 Aug 2026 10:10 +0000at://did:plc:yrjwxtjw2fmtmbaulddo7ec6/app.bsky.feed.post/3msdbxlmsyk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.social/post/3msbw5vtpm22cOmg is anyone else watching this??? YIKES. This is NOT a defense. And is Max Miller drunk? He’s slurring his words. This is insane.04 Aug 2026 21:06 +0000at://did:plc:yrjwxtjw2fmtmbaulddo7ec6/app.bsky.feed.post/3msbw5vtpm22chttps://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.social/post/3msavbfidz22cTrump made hundreds of millions of dollars off crypto while running for president. Now Congress is considering legislation that could make it easier for him to keep profiting from the industry he regulates. Ben McKenzie testified about it before the Senate. Worth watching. bit.ly/4xfu1Pl https://bit.ly/4xfu1Pl04 Aug 2026 11:17 +0000at://did:plc:yrjwxtjw2fmtmbaulddo7ec6/app.bsky.feed.post/3msavbfidz22chttps://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.social/post/3ms73kheugs2dFUCK DECORUM. I hate hate hate that Sotomayor apologized for her comments about Kavanagh. She was right. Fuck him. https://abcnews.com/Politics/justice-sotomayor-apologizes-justice-kavanaugh-public-criticism-immigration/story?id=13208051103 Aug 2026 18:05 +0000at://did:plc:yrjwxtjw2fmtmbaulddo7ec6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms73kheugs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizaorlins.bsky.social/post/3ms47ucq27s2xMassachusetts is trying Lindsay Clancy for first-degree murder, and lots of accounts of it are getting the law backwards. Her lawyers already conceded the killings. 🧵02 Aug 2026 14:44 +0000at://did:plc:yrjwxtjw2fmtmbaulddo7ec6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms47ucq27s2x