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Ellen Joyce

@ellen66.bsky.social
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history professor and cat-lover

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 08/10/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Republican Healthcare Disaster Update: Up to TWELVE MILLION Americans have *already* lost healthcare coverage since Trump returned to power: acasignups.net/26/10/08/rep...
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Republican Healthcare Disaster Update: Up to TWELVE MILLION Americans have already lost healthcare coverage under Trump 2.0
Last month I ran a detailed analysis of the most comprehensive, up-to-date effectuated enrollment data for Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare & ACA exchange healthcare coverage changes since January 2025 (when ...
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Derridon't @derridont.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's really something that the NYT prints the ",like," in an AOC quote verbatim, but will gleefully edit out two and a half minutes of senescent sun-downing word-salad from Trump in order to pull quote the only coherent sentence in the whole thing and present that as the thing he said
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump said that if I didn’t vote for him, gas prices would double. It looks like he was right.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17/09/2026
There’s a lot going on right now, and Susan Collins is hoping voters won’t notice that she was the deciding vote in confirming another anti-abortion Trump judge to a lifetime appointment.
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Susan Collins Casts Major Anti-Abortion Vote 6 Weeks Out From Election
The Maine senator voted in favor of a Donald Trump judicial nominee who served on the board of an anti-abortion pregnancy center.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Kloza: ⛽️
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Friends, if you've ever worked in the Dutch National Archives, consider signing this petition. Its administrators want to completely shut down its public educational programs and turn it into a repository of exclusively government records. #skystorians 🗃️
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70's Superhero Billy Jack @billyjackliberal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm not sure people heard what our crazy president said HE SAID "CHEAT LIKE HELL" The president of the United States of America just told his supporters to cheat and offered a $5,000 bribe. THIS IS NOT NORMAL!
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026
i think it is bad that the president is that helm of a deranged cult of personality
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#Pinks #TeamTalarico
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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
After about 25 minutes, to protect the house and the people inside, the community members moved in a line and formed a human chain directly in front of the house. ICE stepped forward, at least one agent wielding a baton, and inflicted violence on them. (Frederick, MD - September 4, 2026)
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Cardinal McElroy at Labor Day Weekend Mass: “No one intrinsically owns anything, all things that come as a gift from God belong to all of us…everyone has a right to part of the world’s bounty…when we work, we are co-creators with God.”
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 05/09/2026
I mention this in the piece, but since some folks in my mentions don’t appear to be aware: this is part of a longer trend of religious pushback to Trump’s immigration policies. E.g., around 100 clergy were arrested at just *one* anti-ICE protest in January, and… religionnews.com/2026/01/23/i...
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Inside the effort to organize clergy nationwide to resist ICE
(RNS)— Hundreds of clergy from around the country gathered in Minneapolis to learn from Minnesota faith leaders how to protest against ICE enforcement. Then they took to the streets and helped block t...
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A new DHS whistleblower says the rushed vetting process for ICE agents skips fingerprint checks and identity verification before they start working. We may literally not know the true names of ICE agents. Subscribe paid or unpaid for more: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In 1954, Jesuits wrote a textbook called "Social Orientations" about implementing Catholic teaching. My favorite line: "A Catholic college would merit the name of neither college nor Catholic if it failed to impart to its students the true social teaching of the Church." A test many are failing...
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Eric Cartman: Whoa, How Very, Very Relevant
Alt: Eric Cartman: Whoa, How Very, Very Relevant
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ICE kidnaps 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer at citizenship interview For a 76-year-old man w/ advanced cancer, imprisonment in a detention system notorious for denying medical care amounts to a virtual death sentence. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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ICE kidnaps 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer at citizenship interview
Loreto Javar has missed cancer treatments, developed a blood clot and suffered rapid weight loss during more than two months in ICE’s Tacoma concentration camp.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Apparently, one thing that USAID was funding before Elon put it in the woodchipper was an early warning system along those Nepali rivers billmckibben.substack.com/p/two-men?r=...
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Two Men
One as great as America ever produced, and the other Elon Musk
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 31/08/2026
Suddenly, a lot of folks are taking the Church’s social teaching seriously. The shift is noticeable—even to those outside the Church. The latest from @heidischlumpf.bsky.social: www.commonwealmagazine.org/schlumpf-hei...
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Catholic Social Teaching Is Having a Moment
Suddenly, a lot of folks are taking the Church’s social teaching seriously. The shift is noticeable even to those outside the Church.
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Thomas Reese @thomasreesesj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
religionnews.com/2026/08/31/s... @bmietana.bsky.social @yonat.bsky.social
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Samaritan's Purse turns down $300M from State Department for humanitarian relief
(RNS) — Franklin Graham, one of President Trump’s most stalwart evangelical allies, did not offer any reasons for rejecting the federal funds, which would have been used for ‘immediate life-saving ass...
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I mean it was also supposed to save us time and it didn’t do that either
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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
trying to add "no bilingual packaging" to a trade deal with Canada at the 11th hour is hilarious, it's like trying to add "and ban handguns" to the US side of the agreement
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 22/08/2026
A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation this week in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation. www.notus.org/immigration/baby-asyl…
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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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Catherine Prendergast @badtoss.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I have had salmonella. Got it in Slovakia. It was the only time I've earnestly considered death as a better option.
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Please don't let the people of Puerto Rico get lost in the noise. Keep talking about this. www.reuters.com/pictures/pue...
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Puerto Rico is rationing water amid historic drought
Puerto Rico is rationing water across the island in response to intense drought, a plan that forces tens of thousands of people to go without water for 48 hours at a time.
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Ellen Joyce @ellen66.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We are packing up the personal stuff in Dad's Minneapolis apartment (he moved to senior living last fall) to ready it for sale in the fall. If you or anyone you know is looking for a GORGEOUS two-bedroom apt. in downtown Minneapolis near Orchestra Hall, let me know.
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#BookHistory folk. The Minnesota Center for Book Arts is such a cool space.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 25/07/2026
Last year, Vance Boelter shot and killed a Democratic state rep and her husband. He was sentenced this week to consecutive life sentences. Maybe now’s a good time for some accountability for the Republicans who peddled disgusting conspiracy theories about the slayings?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Once you write articles like this, they have to completely change your entire approach to the daily news. You’ve shown POTUS is an unprecedentedly corrupt criminal. That is now the story. The only story. Aside from the fact that he is also a fascist. That NYT hasn’t updated like this is the problem.
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Dr. Boo - October version @jennyflyrocks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is just to say I have eaten the fresh cheeses that were in your cave and which you were probably saving to eat with your brothers Forgive me they were delicious so ripe and so creamy.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Adam Douglas Thompson instagram.com/adamdthompson
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
When people show you who they are, believe them
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 26/06/2026
Who would have guessed that a child of Donald Trump would turn out to be a complete asshole?
Barron
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My Lyft driver to the Creation Museum was a Kennedy-Goldwater-Nixon-Nixon-Ford-Reagan-Reagan-Bush-Bush-Dole-Bush-Bush-McCain-Romney-Trump-Trump-Trump voter. He said that if liberals keep saying "Latinx", there's no way he'll ever vote for a Democrat again.
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Jonathan Quinn (they/them) @jmquinn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
USDA: Do NOT eat salad rn Me: *cracks knuckles* I’ve been preparing for this my entire adult life
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 16/07/2026
Dozens of people held at a sprawling Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas say they were either beaten by guards or witnessed others being beaten, according to a new report issued by legal and human rights advocates. to.pbs.org/3TBEje0
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Report: Detainees at ICE facility in Texas report frequent beatings and other human rights abuses
The 84-page report issued jointly Wednesday by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union says men and women held at Camp East Montana, located at the U.S. Army's Fort Bliss in El Paso,...
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Meidas Rick ❌🚫🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
BREAKING: Maine protesters are now showing up outside of the state’s ICE administrative building in Scarborough, Maine, demanding justice for this week's brutal killing of 26 year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford. Share to show your support! substack.com/@rawstory/no...
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Raw America (@rawstory)
BREAKING: Maine protesters are now showing up outside of the state’s ICE administrative building in Scarborough, Maine, demanding justice for this week's brutal killing of 26 year-old Joan Sebastian G...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched with Crowd on Jan. 6 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched with Crowd on Jan. 6
On Jan. 6, 2021, a man approached the Capitol who looked like...
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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 04/07/2026
I was the most senior Catholic in the English government & the Vatican
seemed unwilling to move its moral guidance...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is the secret main essential true 250th anniversary event: the brave voice of democracy and justice; the brutal forces of silencing; it's all here.
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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I actually play this game with my students. They struggle with it mightily.
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aelura @aelura.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
After #IMC2026 I'm meeting up with an old friend in York. We're going to Barley Hall again (possibly in garb) and all this nonsense is entirely @tenthcentury.bsky.social's fault. 😆
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 03/07/2026
Our Constitution bans foreign emoluments and names bribery as an impeachable offense. Another case where the problem isn’t the Constitution.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Joseph Bevan, a 69-year-old retired financial adviser and author of the book “Traddy Daddy,” said the Vatican’s decision on Thursday meant his family of 10 children was effectively excommunicated from the church, including two sons who are SSPX priests and a daughter who is a nun. 

“It’s a matter of great sadness to us, because everything is turned on its head,” Bevan said. “To find we have been ostracized for practicing as Catholics have done for 2000 years is of great anxiety to us.”
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.
Karoline Leavitt inthe $400m flying bribe slash natsec nightmareA shelf of fake books, some titled “Library”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
They are arresting U.S. Air Force Officers for free speech and U.S. Olympians for curiosity—but not rich men for raping children with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2026
Jack Smith: "I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime"
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