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Ellen J Meany

@ellenjm.bsky.social
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Art + Words = Life 🧡💙 Executive Director, Alternative Newsweekly Foundation Former Publisher, The American Prospect

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Executing prisoners is not a legitimate power of government, despite its long and barbaric history, and we should put an end to it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)
Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
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Lindsay Owens @lindsayowens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Gouged" is OUT! I started this book angry about all the ways corporations are ripping us off. I finished it hopeful, because once you know how they're doing it—you can start to fight back. Thanks to everyone who has been part of this. Now go read it.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JUST FILED: Sitting behind her desk in central North Carolina, Amy Beros warned me: “It’s really hard for people in the United States to understand the scale……” of what’s about to unfold macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/they-dont-...
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There should 100% be an office in the next administration's Justice Department to prosecute this ever growing list of stuff that does not even have any plausible veneer of legality. Just a big fuck you to rule of law.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A Walla Walla, WA newspaper editor in 1951 advocated rooting out the Marxists and Communists, claiming that the Democratic president had been too attentive to the rights of minorities and insufficiently respectful of the rights of White Christians. That editor was Syd Pierce, an antisemitic fascist.
given our country over into the hands of MINORITIES, without regard to the rights of the majority White Christian Constitutional Americans. Mr. Truman has con-doned, rather than condemned, racketeering and corruption in high places. He has NEVER made any real attempt to ROOT OUT
Marxist-communists
from govern-
ment.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 23/09/2026
They are saying the quiet part out loud again bsky.app/profile/wash...
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Ellen J Meany @ellenjm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You can’t fix stupid
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The saga in Missouri, where Brett Kavanaugh of all people has slapped down Republican maps twice in three days, is a harbinger of how the midterms will be fought from courthouse to courthouse. @gurleygg.bsky.social explains. prospect.org/2026/09/10/m...
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How Many Judges Does It Take to Sort Out Missouri? - The American Prospect
The legal miasma promises to set the tone for the rest of the country’s midterm legal dramas.
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Sandy @smarsh-s-mart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
@mlb.com
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Ellen J Meany @ellenjm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
💔 RIP Dolly 💔 Letterpress by @kennedyprints.bsky.social
I just don’t feel like I have to explain myself. — Dolly Parton
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The core problem is malicious people manipulating ignorant people, and such a situation requires the exact opposite of sympathy, which inherently acknowledges the validity of the malicious position. The situation requires shame: "You are all grifting liars who are killing children."
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Ellen J Meany @ellenjm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Why is big media so so bad.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Interested to see how much news coverage of the WI Governor raise follows Fox, framing Hong as a radical, regardless of the fact that her opponent is an election denier. Has our media basically bought the claim that wanting everyone to have health insurance is radical but opposing democracy is not?
Fox News: ‘Common sense against crazy’: Trump-backed candidate sounds alarm on socialist Hong in Wisconsin race
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The @nytimes hasn't written a single article asking if "voters will think Tom Tiffany is too radical" because he is an election-denying, pro-ICE, authoritarian extremist. Somehow, his position on the political spectrum has disappeared completely from the National and State Conversations™️
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Will Wisconsin Voters Think Francesca Hong Is Too Radical? Here’s Where She Stands.
The democratic socialist is the front-runner to win the Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin on Tuesday.
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
thinking about Mike Wallace interviewing white people who said they weren't racist, but thought Black people shouldn't move into Cicero, in such a way that got them to say obviously racist things
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This by CNN is genuinely reprehensible. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. -The 'new pain' case vs Mamdani is *solely* his religion. -He was in NYC on 9/11, at grade school -Soon after attack GWB himself gave famous speech warning against blaming all Muslims for terrorism -25 yrs later, this.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If Dems ever get serious about court reform, they're going to encounter real skepticism from a subset of pro-democracy liberals who view court packing as distinct from, e.g., statehood. They'll need to be able to make the case that these all go together. www.offmessage.net/p/court-pack...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 05/08/2026
we really need a serious pandemic retrospective conducted by someone who isn't a delusional crank defector.com/were-just-go...
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We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/08/2026
This is, to put it bluntly, not good at all: · the new owner publicly put his name forward to be Trump's transportation secretary last year · 54 of 128 employees were laid off the moment the sale went through, including the editor and director of content, news editor, and assistant news editor.
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WEHCO sells Chattanooga Times Free Press to Craig and Max Fuller | Chattanooga Times Free Press
Freight media executive and entrepreneur Craig Fuller and his father, Max Fuller, have purchased the Chattanooga Times Free Press from Arkansas-based WEHCO Media Inc. in a deal announced to newspaper ...
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Ellen J Meany @ellenjm.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
😝 How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
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How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Idk maybe your opinion about children’s health should be worthless if you’d rather see a child die than accept neurodivergence
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Don't take my word for it, listen to this Fox News segment" I am begging the establishment centrists to please, please, please shut the fuck up. You're worried about your sinecures and pretending the party itself is in danger. It's not. Shut. The fuck. Up.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: I finally finish a series I started last fall on what ties together Conventional Wisdom Processors and the constitutional crisis under the second Trump administration. This is the "payoff" piece which puts the pieces together. www.crisesnotes.com/what-connect...
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What Connects Conventional Wisdom Processors, AI and The Second Trump Administration’s Constitutional Crisis? Part Three
This is a premium piece of Notes on the Crises. Subscribe here to read the full piece- and series. Find part one here and part two here. Dear readers. I was interrupted by sickness last winter from f...
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
do these geniuses ever wonder why or have any way to rationalize the fact that no one in the republican party says "we need a strong democratic party, it's not healthy to have just a dominant republican party" or do they just blank out like a westworld robot
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Lad, I'm afraid you've raged against your last machine
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Progressives are having to overcome two Republican parties.
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"There's going to be a war": Centrist House Democrats plot Mamdani Caucus counterattack
"Negotiating with these guys never works out well," said one House Democrat.
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Richard Deitsch @richarddeitsch.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Grand Moff Tarkin: "I think Palpatine's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Alderaan happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story."
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
If you don't have a Nation or NYT sub, you can always get my columns via my (free) newsletter. Here's the latest: www.elizabethspiers.com/j-d-vance-an...
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J.D. Vance and Me
I wrote about J.D. Vance's new book for The Nation. Anyone who knows me knows I dislike politicians magically transforming into good ol' boys when it's politically advantageous. (Looking at you, DJT J...
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
“I don’t worry about what I will find on the other side of eternal sleep,” J. D. Vance writes in his new book, Communion. “Even as a child, I never feared hell.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Are You There, God? It’s Me, J. D. Vance, and I Have Some Notes.
A convenient conversion story
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 03/06/2026
“The newly certified App Drivers Union will negotiate with Uber and Lyft on behalf of more than 100,000 drivers across the state”
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Massachusetts Drivers Make History With First-Ever Rideshare Union
The newly certified App Drivers Union will negotiate with Uber and Lyft on behalf of more than 100,000 drivers across the state.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Bruce Springsteen just shouted out Delaney Hall at his concert tonight. www.instagram.com/reel/DY3UYAg...
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We the People on Instagram: "The Boss and the E Street Band stand with the detainees at Delaney Hall! They're demands must be met. All they are asking is to be treated as human beings, for their human...
209 likes, 11 comments - 50501dc on May 27, 2026: "The Boss and the E Street Band stand with the detainees at Delaney Hall! They're demands must be met. All they are asking is to be treated as human b...
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
EXCLUSIVE: I just revealed that Rep. @tomsuozzi.bsky.social lives at C Street. That’s the DC townhouse run by The Family, the secretive Christian group that runs the National Prayer Breakfast. Suozzi pays $800/month. He's kept it secret for years. There’s more…
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Tom Suozzi Lives at C Street
The New York Democrat kept secret his low-rent lodging at a right-wing Christian townhouse
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
No it the fuck was not.
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Reign of Terror by Spencer Ackerman: 9781984879790 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021   "An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman’s deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/05/2026
If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)
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Support Alex's Emergency Relocation + Next Steps on Give In May
Alex is leaving the US after his work permit renewal was wrongfully denied by Trump's USCIS.
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Bill Scher @billscher.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
“Hondurasgate Looks Worse than Watergate and Iran-Contra Combined” — my @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social look at the giant bonkers scandal no one (in America) is talking about washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/12/h...
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Hondurasgate Looks Worse than Watergate and Iran-Contra Combined
Hondurasgate is far more than Trump's pardon of cocaine trafficker and former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Restructure the court. Go to 13 seats (to correspond to number of circuits.) Go to term limits. Retroactively if possible. Investigate and if appropriate prosecute/disbar justices who have been on the take. Establish strict enforceable ethical guidelines for the court. Then move on...
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Don't think I've ever seen @rickhasen.bsky.social this angry. "The Supreme Court itself has shown itself to be the enemy of democracy. [Democrats] have to consider reform of the Supreme Court itself, a conclusion I had been resisting until the court made this unavoidable." slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century
This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.
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Ellen J Meany @ellenjm.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The cruelty is the point.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I did not know Epstein on a boat I did not know Epstein with a goat I did not know Epstein in the air I did not know him anywhere!
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/03/2026
“We live in an age of brutish, evil stupidity.” prospect.org/2026/03/28/p...
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‘Project Hail Mary’ Shows What Real Heroism Looks Like - The American Prospect
It isn’t shooting the bad guy. It’s sacrificing to save your alien rock pal.
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 21/03/2026
ICYMI: Tom Taft on Bucks County Democrats’ Efforts to Defeat Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in #PA01 | The great-grandson of President William Howard Taft spoke with Editor @cmychalejko.bsky.social about politics, policy, the upcoming Democratic primary in May, and more. (Transcript included)
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INTERVIEW: Tom Taft on Bucks County Democrats' Efforts to Defeat Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in PA-01 - Bucks County Beacon
The great-grandson of President William Howard Taft spoke with Editor Cyril Mychalejko about politics, policy, the upcoming Democratic primary in May, and more.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/03/2026
Can't win with him, can't win without him. Wisconsin Republicans might have backed themselves into a corner:
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A Blue Horizon in Wisconsin?
By the end of this year, it is possible we will see Democratic dominion over the state legislature, governor’s office, and Supreme Court.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
there's got to be a word for the weird feeling when the totally unqualified extremist resigns over the disastrous iran war with a vaguely antisemitic gripe.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Confiscate 99.8% of Andreesen’s net worth for the public good, wait 20 minutes, and then tell him his memory of ever having more than $4 million is false.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The Population Bomb was about the Wrong People having a lot of babies and it was treated as good faith concern about the future of the planet
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I watched him do his own hair when he was a guest on the Drew Carey show
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