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Ellen Greaves

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Retired attorney, mediator, political analyst, 2 time Illinois alumna, die hard Cub fan, sports management Ed.D.

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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 15h
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Lawmakers Want Colleagues to Promise They Will Accept Midterm Election Results
A bipartisan duo is asking House members to pledge that they won’t block winners from taking their seats.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 19h
Trump’s Retreat: From the Gulf to Britain, American Forces Pull Back www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u... David Sanger & Eric Schmitt
nytimes.com
From Iran to the U.K., Trump Is Being Forced Into Retreat
A war that was intended to demonstrate the reach of American power has now done the opposite. It is a lesson in unintended consequences.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 20h
Rebecca Ballhaus: Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor w/an urgent request: She needed $100K that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 20h
The Woman Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions Has Died www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
nytimes.com
Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... oh heck no
washingtonpost.com
Trump wants to turn his West Palm Beach golf course into the new Camp David
The plan calls for the federal government to be granted part of the property, with the rest maintained as a private course.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cornell Names Former Acting U.S. Attorney General to Lead Investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/n... ~ poorly written, gives short shrift to her work at King & Spaulding.
nytimes.com
Sally Yates to Lead Internal Investigation Into Cornell’s Handling of Sexual Assault Report
The university hired Sally Yates, a career federal prosecutor, to investigate how it handled a former student’s claim she was raped in 2024.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus... Ryan Reilly
nbcnews.com
FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters
The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cornell Case Highlights Drop in Resolved Sexual Assault Cases Under Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u... ~ understatement much?
nytimes.com
Cornell Case Highlights Drop in Resolved Sexual Assault Cases Under Trump
The administration has shifted its enforcement of a civil rights law from allegations of sexual misconduct to issues like blocking protections for transgender students.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump Shows His Contempt for Us. Again. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/o... Jamelle Bouie
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Shows His Contempt for Us. Again.
This is ‘what authoritarian governments do to promote their leaders.’
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
nytimes.com
Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u... Peter Baker
nytimes.com
How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits
The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u... Maggie Haberman et al.
nytimes.com
Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u... ~ more corruption
nytimes.com
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The top super PAC for Senate Republicans is canceling all the remaining ads it had booked in North Carolina as of Friday — shifting away tens of millions of dollars in a move that signals that Republicans no longer see a path to winning the state this fall. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
nytimes.com
Republicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim
As the Republicans try to hold their majority, the Senate Leadership Fund is diverting resources to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...
washingtonsun.com
White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms
Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
John Roberts and His Island www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u... Jodi Kantor
nytimes.com
John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him.
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump Wants to Get His Hands on the Power of the Purse www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o... Jamelle Bouie
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Wants to Get His Hands on the Power of the Purse
The search for fraud in the federal government must always end in the same place.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This Case Has Flown Under the Radar. It Won’t Stay There. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o... Linda Greenhouse
nytimes.com
Opinion | This Case Has Flown Under the Radar. It Won’t Stay There.
This case has flown under the radar, but it won’t stay there.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
… and then Amy Klobuchar said “it was the Iowa HawkEYES. Did you maybe get your teams wrong there?”
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
nytimes.com
Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why Does Trump Think He Can Act Like a King? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/o... Jamelle Bouie
nytimes.com
Opinion | Why Does Trump Think He Can Act Like a King?
The Supreme Court has had a lot to do with it.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WTH is “twelve-thirty o’clock”???
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ken Dilanian: Two veteran FBI counter terrorist supervisors questioned decision to investigate someone harassing Steven Miller’s wife. They were removed and demoted. www.ms.now/news/fbi-ste...
ms.now
FBI agents probing threats against Stephen Miller’s wife demoted, sources say
“Director Patel did not order this decision,” Darren Cox, who leads the FBI’s Washington field office, said in a statement.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ex-F.B.I. Agents Crucial to ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Suggest Testimony Won’t Help www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u... Alan Feuer
nytimes.com
Ex-F.B.I. Agents Crucial to ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Suggest Testimony Won’t Help
Lawyers for the agents said that their clients would testify about “a properly predicated allegation that then-citizen Trump had unlawfully retained hundreds of highly classified documents.”
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
wsj.com
Opinion | Trump Gives Putin Another Blessing
He invites the Russian to the Florida G-20 despite his hybrid war.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anne Applebaum on this: Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...
wsj.com
The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
nytimes.com
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u... Nick Corasaniti
nytimes.com
From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... Vivian Salama
theatlantic.com
Egypt’s Warning to Israel
Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To be clear, Mr. Attorney General, the 1st Cir struck down your policy after full adversary briefing on 9/18. Rather than seek clarification on whether it took effect immediately, you tried to fly still more people to 3d countries so it would be too late for them. On 9/23 it found out & stopped you.
Without even allowing the government a chance to respond, and in the dark of night, a federal appeals court blocked us from conducting all third-country removals of illegal aliens, an entirely legal and invaluable tool to stem the tide of illegal immigration. We will immediately seek relief from the Supreme Court, which previously granted a stay in this very same case.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/w...
nytimes.com
Netanyahu Said to Have Been Warned by Emirati Leader About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7 (Gift Article)
The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials sai...
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump’s Failure to Lead Is Costing America and the World www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o... NY Times Editorial Board
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump’s Failure to Lead Is Costing America and the World
Trump’s flailing presidency leaves Americans with the thinnest of hopes for this week’s summit: that he does not further damage the national interest.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Michael Scherer: Midterm martial law? A national security emergency? Prospect of Trump deciding to act on demands of his most fervent election-denying supporters has remained constant threat, one even Trump’s inner circle admits remains possible. w/ @yvonnewingett www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
theatlantic.com
The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms
Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
washingtonpost.com
‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues
James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana... Michael Waldman
brennancenter.org
$1 billion in Secret Cash Is Reshaping the Midterms
We may never know where most of the money came from.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.cnbc.com/2026/09/22/t...
cnbc.com
Trump administration removes around 760,000 Obamacare enrollments, alleging fraud
Vice President JD Vance's White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud estimates the action will save roughly $2.2 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I resemble this remark
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If Trump doesn't get his name on the Kennedy Center, he will destroy it. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-is-u...
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good one!
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yom Kippur begins at sundown. G’mar chatima tova.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Immigrants’ Lawyers Say U.S. Is Redacting Documents Proving Legal Status www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
nytimes.com
Immigrants’ Lawyers Say U.S. Is Redacting Documents Proving Legal Status
Many noncitizens need immigration records the government has to prove their legal stay and resist deportation. The government is redacting and withholding those documents, lawyers say.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
JD Vance Has a Twisted Idea of What It Means to Be American www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/o... David French
nytimes.com
Opinion | JD Vance Has a Twisted Idea of What It Means to Be American
I am a “heritage American,” too. How should that guide my life?
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump Faced Loss After Loss. He Then Turned to a Familiar Target: The Press. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Faced Loss After Loss. He Then Turned to a Familiar Target: The Press.
The president’s ban of three media outlets from the White House fits a pattern of using the apparatus of government to crack down on his perceived enemies.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
nytimes.com
How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mark Satter: 🚨🚨SCOOP: A shipment of F-35 fighter jet parts was rerouted to Hong Kong this summer — then vanished. Congress and DOD are investigating, amid the possibility that China may now have access to the highly-classified program. W/ @audrey_decker9 www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Hill investigates after F-35 parts diverted to Hong Kong
The incident raises the possibility that top secret weapons technology may have been exposed to a foreign adversary — including China.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...
nytimes.com
Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children (Gift Article)
A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
washingtonpost.com
More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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