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@ella4.bsky.social
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Retired English teacher. Interests include history, geopolitics, and kitties.

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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just subscribed!
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Good one!
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
So true!
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I thought this couldn’t be real, but of course it was. Just shameless!
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Lily makes me happy!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/02/2026
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres: “Military action carries the risk of igniting a chain of events that no one can control in the most volatile region of the world"
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Mary Walsh, a name almost no one outside journalism knows, is one of the most significant and righteous truthfighters out there! Her departure is a five alarm fire.
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Me too!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...
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Welcome to the Era of "Kavanaugh Raids"
ICE crosses another big, important line.
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Will he ever stop talking? This is awful!
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...
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She Survived 141 Days in ICE Custody Thanks to a ‘Beautiful Sisterhood.’ Now She’s Fighting for Those Still Inside.
22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, talks about her experience in federal detainment.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2025
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Even for Trump, this is fucking insane.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
What's gone unsaid in all this talk about homeless people in DC is that so many in the Capital are veterans who are now having the military aimed back at them for the crime of being poor.
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
What a great photo of your cat!
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Remember all the members of the media who spent 2024 downplaying concerns that Trump would rule as an autocrat. "This will go further" Yeah, we know. That was always the plan.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Jesus Christ
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I love the puppies!
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Each day is more horrifying than the last!
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
True.
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
If you don’t need the money, I would say no. It’s seems like you have so much you can do with your life as it is. It doesn’t sound like you are bored like some retirees are.
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
In a new lawsuit, Stephen Miller's old outfit is asking a federal judge to declare that the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and the Judicial Conference of the United States are independent agencies of the executive branch talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
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Trump Allies Sue John Roberts To Give White House Control Of Court System
Close allies of President Trump are asking a judge to give the...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Stephen Miller's 'American First Legal Foundation' has sued Chief Justice John Roberts arguing the White House should run the court system. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
NEW: TIME publishes interview with Trump. This is a REAL section of the transcript. It is impossible to read this and not conclude that Trump is suffering profound, cognitive decay.
Your trade adviser, Peter Navarro, says 90 deals in 90 days is possible. We're now 13 days into the point from when you lifted the reciprocal, the discounted reciprocal tariffs. There's zero deals so far. Why is that?

No, there's many deals.

When are they going to be announced?

You have to understand, I'm dealing with all the companies, very friendly countries. We're meeting with China. We're doing fine with everybody. But ultimately, l've made all the deals.

Not one has been announced yet. When are you going to announce them?

I've made 200 deals.You've made 200 deals?

100%.

Can you share with whom?

Because the deal is a deal that I choose. View it ditterently: We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it. They don't have to do business with the United States, but I set a tariff on countries.
Some have been horrible to us. Some have been okay. Nobody's been great. Nobody's been great. Everybody took advantage of us. What I'm doing is I will, at a certain point in the not too distant future, I will set a fair price of tariffs for different countries. These are countries-some of them have made hundreds of billions of
dollars, and some of them have made just a lot of money. Very few of them have made nothing because the United States was being ripped off by every, almost every country in the world, in the entire world. So I will set a price, and when I set the price, and I will set it fairly according to the statistics, and according to everything else.I'm just curious, why don't you announce these deals that you've solidified?

I would say, over the next three to four weeks, and we're finished, by the way.

You're finished?

We'll be finished.

Oh, you will be finished in three to four weeks.

I'll be finished. Now, some countries may come back and ask for an adjustment, and I'll consider that, but l'll basically be, with great knowledge, setting-ready? We're a department store, a giant department store, the biggest department store in history. Everybody wants to come in and take from us. They're going to come in and they're going to pay a price for taking our treasure, for taking our jobs, for doing all of these things. But what I'm doing with the tariffs is people are coming in, and they're building at levels you've never seen before. We have $7 trillion of new plants, factories and other things, investment coming into the United States. And if you look back at past presidents, nobody was anywhere near that. And this is in three months.Will you call President Xi if he doesn't call you?

No.

You won't?

Nope.

Has he called you yet?

Yep.

When did he call you?

He's called. And I don't think that's a sign of weakness on his behalf.

But you would think it's a sign of weakness if you called him?

I don't-I just look-

Well, what did he say?

If people want to-well, we all want to make deals. But I am this giant store. It's a giant, beautiful store, and everybody wants to go shopping there. And on behalf of the American people, I own the store, and I set prices, and I'll say, if you want to shop here, this is what you have to pay.
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Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Japanese netizens are shocked by a tweet from the US Embassy declaring that Japanese people applying for non-immigrant visas must provide information on all social media accounts they have used in the last 5 years [or their visas could be rejected]. Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
They violated a court order to keep the AP out of the event where they publicly violated a different court order
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
How can this terrible and ignorant man be our president?
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I love the wild iris! Hopefully today will be quieter for you. Eric went to the protest yesterday. I stayed home to keep tabs on my bathroom remodel. I’m an anxious person anyway, but this remodel may push me over the edge!
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
So true!
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Such a disaster! Here’s what Trump posted on Truth Social this morning, in all caps of course. THE OPERATION IS OVER! THE PATIENT LIVED, AND IS HEALING. THE PROGNOSIS IS THAT THE PATIENT WILL BE FAR STRONGER, BIGGER, BETTER, AND MORE RESILIENT THAN EVER BEFORE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It gives me hope!
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Oh my!
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
He helped me to relieve at least a bit of my anxiety.❤️
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Trump calling for the impeachment of a judge who ruled against him. Calling him “crooked.” If this isn’t fascistic, what is? (Also, the media will sanewash this but anyone else who talks or writes like this would be sent to one of the mental asylums Trump thinks migrants are coming from!)
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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This morning’s @NPR coverage included a common misconception about Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport 137 alleged members of Tren de Aragua to El Salvador, where they are now being held in a prison notorious for human rights abuses. 1/11
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
She's lucky this didn't happen a decade ago. They didn't even get a mat. They just had to sleep on the cold concrete floor. Here's 2016 surveillance footage from one of the cells in the Tucson Sector Border Patrol that we joined several other organizations to sue over in 2015.
An image shows nearly two dozen men crowded into a small cell. There are no beds. Most are huddled on the floor, which is concrete. There are benches running down the middle of the cell with no backing to lean against.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 13/03/2025
A model is emerging, which is simply pretending the First Amendment doesn't exist
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Florida mayor seeks to evict cinema for showing Oscar-winning documentary
Miami Beach mayor also proposes withdrawing grant after O Cinema screened Palestinian-focused film No Other Land
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This is *exactly* step one of the same strategy Russia and Hungary used to criminalize dissent. After that, they began to label nonprofit and political organizations as foreign agents, then started to restrict and ban on that basis.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Paid "troublemakers" are attending Republican Town Hall Meetings.
It is all part of the game for the Democrats, but just like our big LANDSLIDE ELECTION, it's not going to work for them!
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Vladimir Putin calls Russia's protesters 'paid agents of the west'
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Hungary's Orban dismisses labour law protests as 'hysterical'
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He also repeated the government's accusation that the "most aggressive protestors are paid by George Soros," the liberal Hungarian-born
US billionaire and a favoured target of Orban's government.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
That is exactly true.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials. Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
Materials produced or authored by NCI staff that address topics that may be controversial, high profile, or sensitive must be sent to the NCI Clearance Team for review prior to publication.

Depending on the nature of the information, additional review and clearance by the NCI director, deputy directors, NIH, and HHS may be required. In some cases, the material will not need further review, but the NCI Clearance Team will share it with NCI leadership, NIH, and/or HHS for their awareness.

Examples of controversial or high-profile topics include, but are not limited to:

Cancer Moonshot
NCI budget
COVID-19
Vaccines
H5N1/bird flu
Opioids ,
Marijuana
Dietary guidelines/ultra-processed foods
Obesity
Stem cell or fetal tissue research
Abortion
Autism
Peanut allergies
Fluoride
Measles
Diversity/equity efforts
Gender ideology
Environmental justice
Discussion of federal policies
Topics of federal investigations
Issues concerning pending legislation
Topics that have received recent attention from Congress
Topics that have received widespread or critical media attention
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Agreed!
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
So sorry! What terrible timing!
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I thought I expected the worst, but he is going way beyond what I imagined. Don’t any of them read history? Are they trying to destroy our country?
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
After World War I, Germany had to fork over billions to cover damages. After World War II, Japan was forced to pay reparations. But with Ukraine, Trump is flipping history upside down by demanding that the invaded, not the invader, pay up. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
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With Trump, Alliances Come With Strings Attached
President Trump has little use for America’s traditional alliances, and tends to evaluate U.S. relationships according to whether countries are contributing economically to the United States.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.
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ella4.bsky.social @ella4.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Unfortunately, I have to agree. So horrible!
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