Reposted by EllenAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/03/2026tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse 14671001816
Reposted by EllenAnthony Breznican @brezwrites.bsky.social · 16/02/2026On the set of 2014's The Judge, a woman in the small Massachusetts town were they were filming had terminal brain cancer. She loved Robert Duvall. She asked if she could visit the set. Just to see him at a distance. This is what happened ... 💃 www.esquire.com/entertainmen...esquire.comRobert Duvall Was Fearsome and Tender. He'll Stay a Legend Forever.The loss of 'The Godfather,' 'Apocalypse Now,' and 'Tender Mercies' star is incalculable. 1205
Reposted by Ellenpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 03/02/2026as someone who worked in rural health policy, this is not a real thing. this is actually called giving up on rural america after your party broke everything and can’t put it back together. perfect time to exploit people with scams 501433345
Reposted by EllenAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do. 305110814012
Reposted by EllenAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 261120153986
Reposted by Ellenjosh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 19/01/2026My dentist can do it all, from a simple cleaning to identifying my charred remains 263330597
Ellen @ellenalx.bsky.social · 27/01/2026It took someone being shot in cold blood, in broad daylight AND being filmed by multiple POVs. AND he was white. AND he had a clean record. AND he was a nurse. AND he had a permit. It took all of that to teeter the totter. That's a tall fuckin' order to get GOP to blink. 010
Reposted by EllenPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/01/2026The exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park have been removed amid pressure from the Trump admin www.inquirer.com/politics/nat... 19822541325
Reposted by EllenChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing. 28762061633
Reposted by EllenMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration. 14884764820437
Reposted by EllenGuerrilla My Dreams @guerrillamydreams.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Miller’s miscalculation - the logic of a privileged and sheltered brat - is that violence would pull white folks away from black and brown folks, when in fact it’s done the opposite. And now America’s other cities also know how to face him. 16973257
Reposted by EllenJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Congress should pass a law requiring agents to show their faces, identify themselves, & wear their badges. It’s not agent safety we have to worry about these days. End so-called Kavanaugh stops & admin warrant-based forced entry into homes too. Let’s have a Constitution. 540142574181
Ellen @ellenalx.bsky.social · 10/01/2026You can actually hear their assholes puckering up. They pissed off the brown people. They pissed off the black people. Now they pissed off the white women. Oh lort. 020
Reposted by EllenAmi Berger @amiberger.bsky.social · 09/01/2026He shot her and then called her a fucking bitch and if he doesn't have DV in his history I will eat this phone I am typing on right now 314218
Reposted by EllenSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/01/2026The whole lot of them spent Jan. 6th lying about what happened 5 years ago. Why should anyone expect them to start telling the truth on January 7th? 9479781730
Reposted by EllenBrown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026How To Defend Murder 101 2413073
Reposted by EllenKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/12/2025MOM SAYS YOU HAVE TO PLAY WITH ME 1303011495
Ellen @ellenalx.bsky.social · 27/12/2025How I'm walking out of 2025.media.tenor.coma woman in a blue coat is standing in a hallway looking at the cameraALT: a woman in a blue coat is standing in a hallway looking at the camera 010
Ellen @ellenalx.bsky.social · 25/12/2025I love these countries with, tops, 50 million adults getting mad at us for not everyone being on the street protesting. We have roughly 270 million adults and a third of them are idiots. YOU try and get them in the street. Herding cats, man. youtu.be/daeqb6f7GrY?...youtu.beIn A Big CountryYouTube video by Big Country - Topic 010
Reposted by EllenJoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Hot take: having an incoherent septuagenarian scream-lecture America like a man arguing with a self-checkout machine that keeps yelling “unexpected item in the bagging area” might not actually be the emotional support animal we need right now. 953141446
Reposted by EllenRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/12/2025These speeches lately kinda have me missing the old days when they were about Al Capone, Hannibal Lecter, electric tanks, getting eaten by sharks, windmills causing cancer, and mentally ill whales. 2114416615
Reposted by Ellenjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/12/2025very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight 459208842798
Reposted by EllenCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/12/2025Also, for what it's worth I'd sooner trust a Labrador retriever to guard a raw steak than trust RFK Jr. to run a single blind trial of vaccine harms. Dr. Jacobs makes this point clearly in her thread. 117916
Reposted by EllenAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program. 4933754212141
Reposted by EllenJust Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 09/12/2025President Zelenskyy has rejected the Trump peace plan, submitted to him in its original Russian. 993611611
Reposted by EllenKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport 46112133353
Ellen @ellenalx.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Critique of Jackie Alemany. Proof, some journalists are better writers than presenters. Yes of course she is very bright. Also very distracted. 1/ 320
Reposted by EllenThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/12/2025"Instead of taking snow days from children, let’s make them a true civic occasion. Let’s extend them, as far as possible, to adults."lnk.thebulwark.comIn Defense of Snow DaysInconvenient? Yep. Unpredictable? Sure. Disruptive? Yes. But a snow day is also a minor civic miracle, and we ought to treat it as such. 1119819
Reposted by EllenPaulley Ticks @tomadelsbach.bsky.social · 03/12/2025And as the legend goes, he'll be sleeping for the next 20 years -which is probably the greatest Christmas gift any of us has ever, and will ever receive. #DonaldTrump 40514198
Reposted by EllenReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne. 162022392
Reposted by EllenJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Trump never had a fan base. He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe. It’s as stupid as it sounds. 14937201103
Ellen @ellenalx.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Because of the demolition of USAID and PepFar, I wonder, did Musk kill more people than Hitler? 110
Reposted by Ellenonion person @junlper.beer · 24/11/2025genuinely says so much about what twitter has become that the biggest rightwing grift accounts pushing US fascist narratives aren’t real people and not even close to the united states 343632433
Reposted by EllenNOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 21/11/2025Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.” Just one point. Nothing more to discuss. 246105612933
Reposted by EllenKumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 21/11/2025We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme. It’s over. It will never be topped by this image. 1294032602
Reposted by EllenGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/11/2025White House officials say the boss is really stupid and you have to watch what you say to him 1562731751