Sign in

Ellie Mae 🌍✌️

@elliemae.bsky.social
1.9K followers 847 following 1K posts

Budget slow travel in early retirement (since 2015), global citizen, sober 16+ years, former breast cancer patient, former journalist. Signal: elliemae.01

PostsRepliesMedia
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 22h
Dreams are universal — opportunities are not. Join me in helping Lê in 11 Thạch Thành, Thanh Hóa to pursue their dream. www.kiva.org/invitedby/el...
kiva.org
Can you help L support Lê?
Kiva is a loan, not a donation. With Kiva you can lend as little as $25 and make a big change in someone's life.
000
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Clever thread.
011
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Fuckery of the GOP.
37261722501
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Kiva is an easy way to make a real difference in someone's life. Will you join me in helping Annaly in Banga, Aklan to pursue their dream? www.kiva.org/invitedby/el...
kiva.org
Can you help L support Annaly?
Kiva is a loan, not a donation. With Kiva you can lend as little as $25 and make a big change in someone's life.
000
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
OMG people catch on already: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bad-weather
Hakeem Jeffries has always been bad and serves a foreign apartheid regime
 https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bad-weather
30663189
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
"The litmus test of whether the US is an entrenched mafia state has always been Kushner." Full article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
401639659
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The most moving essay by an American woman that I have ever read. Thank you, Julia. 🙏💛 🌏✌️ www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
theatlantic.com
The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
000
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
God @thegodshow.com · 06/08/2026
It was revealed the president's bank accounts got shut down by Capitol One for money laundering but the media is too obsessed with Francesca Hong's take on Thanksgiving to notice.
182100142638
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
So much for the Network School in Malaysia, designed to help launch Network States. 😆 www.wsj.com/tech/a-tech-...
wsj.com
A Tech Founder Wanted to Start a New Country. An Actual Country Got in the Way.
Balaji Srinivasan says he believes America is descending into anarchy. His solution: Build a new country from scratch.
000
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Good am. Now 918 days left till January 20, 2029 - when Trump has to leave the White House. #Lameduck
1121
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Excellent read. Though it uses on Sri Lanka’s long civil war as a backdrop, this applies to all of us. theconversation.com/growing-up-d...
theconversation.com
Growing up during Sri Lanka’s civil war taught me that getting along with people across divides is a virtue we can learn
A scholar who studies the virtues that help people sustain relationships across faiths and cultures describes what being a child during the war taught him about practicing pluralism in action.
000
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Good the trades get respect! Yet the ironic twist is the work ultimately will likely be problematic for all of us. This was an ad in my Semafor newsletter.
A MESSAGE FROM META
Meta proudly launches America's Workforce Academy.
America's Workforce Academy built by 00 Meta
America's Workforce Academy, built by Meta, will train hundreds of thousands of Americans to build our country's Al future.
The program offers paid training in electrical, plumbing, fiber installation and many other trades, a job and a path to America's future.
It's the largest private sector commitment to the skilled trades that offers a job upon completion.
Because the future is for everyone.

Explore more (link)
000
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Think about it: this is reported by now-trump-aligned CBS News. How dare the the “department of war” www.cbsnews.com/news/wounded...
cbsnews.com
Wounded soldiers, families accuse Army of downplaying war injuries
Soldiers say the Army disregarded warnings about thin defenses and ignored requests for medical supplies. Now they question whether the Army is being transparent about their injuries.
000
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Ezra Klein 🙄 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
hollywoodreporter.com
Hollywood Names Surface in Peter Thiel-Backed, Invite-Only Society
Ranks of his group, Dialog, appear to include several prominent figures in media and entertainment who' are put in the same room as C-suite execs and political titans during closed-door annual retreat...
030
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Hard to pick a favorite
000
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
What a world www.dropsitenews.com/p/university...
dropsitenews.com
The Issue of Israel Is Ending Democracy In Michigan
Michigan is now a central battleground in the war over the U.S. relationship with Israel—and the American public’s ability to debate it freely.
000
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
advice on candidate selection, full text here for free, search "when it comes to officials" https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-truth-is-in-here
5218105
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Her explanation on Maggie Haberman perfectly articulates what we “scrapper” journalists from blue collar families were up against — and why some of us quit the thrown game.
48227
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
From my Semafor newsletter: The number of direct conflicts between states reached its highest level since World War II… • 65 active conflicts • 8 interstate conflicts • Global peacefulness deteriorated for the 12th consecutive year 🔥📦 🌍✌️
000
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
1. The contents here are disgusting. 2. The fact there was no roll-call on the committee vote is disgraceful. 3. The fact that I had to get the real story of what happened without a paywall from a foreign news media site — helps me understand points 1 and 2. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...
aljazeera.com
Democrat fails to block US measure to deepen Israel military cooperation
Congressman Ro Khanna says the integration push only boosts Netanyahu, but his push to revoke the measure fell short.
110
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Excellent read. Patience and AI and how I can keep my critical thinking going. theconversation.com/eroding-a-vi...
theconversation.com
Eroding a virtue: AI trains people to expect instant answers – and that’s bad news for patience
Patience is a virtue that researchers have linked to many parts of well-being. But it’s also something that needs a bit of practice and training – and can be undermined by instant, easy gratification.
010
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Sazan Island (‘Trump Island) in Albania is in American media because Albanians are protesting the luxury development by Jared and Ivanka Kushner. Here is what the island looks like from the lovely nearby city of Vlorë, where I spent a month in late 2025. www.earthvagabonds.com/trump-island...
earthvagabonds.com
'Trump Island' photos from around Vlore, Albania – Earth Vagabonds
Sazan Island, as seen from around Vlore.
011
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:
New statement from Scott Pelley:
 
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
 
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS. 
 
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
 
The waste is heartbreaking.
 
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all. 
 
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
 
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
 
Scott Pelley
6748251709
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Wowza. Took me a day to see this. responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-us-mi...
responsiblestatecraft.org
Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries
In the first step towards shifting aid further into the shadows, the House's 2027 NDAA would all but fuse the two countries' armed forces together
010
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
NEW: The United States and Iran continue to hold fundamentally different positions on most major issues within the US-Iran “agreement.” (1/9) Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate05...
313643
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Trump called fallen service members "losers" and "suckers" — according to his chief of staff — he accused soldiers with PTSD of not being "strong," demeaned POWs, and insulted Gold Star parents & a widow. When he pretends to honor service members, don't believe it.
1062378718
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
How can we be sure these primaries weren’t rigged? I mean, really. Massie and Cassidy should check it out at least.
142
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A “fun” thing about the 1776 number is it makes it more clear how much the settlement agreement is corrupt. Todd Blanche signed his name to an official government document claiming this figure was “based on the projected valuation of future claimants’ claims,” which is clearly, obviously, a lie.
Wifire of the Attorneg General
Mashington, B. O. 20530
May 18, 2026
A. The Settlement Agreement in Trump: Internal Revenue Service, No. 1:26-cv-20609 (S.D.
Fla.). has created the Anti-Weaponization Fund (the "Fund"). The Settlement Agreement directed the Attorney General to issue an order establishing funding and any other relevant requirements for the Fund
B. Capitalized terms in this document shall have the same meaning as in the Settlement
Agreement.
C. Within 60 days of the Effective Date, the United States shall provide the U.S. Department of the Treasury with all necessary forms and documentation to direct a payment of $1,776,000,000 to an account for the sole use by the Anti-Weaponization Fund (Designated Account"). The corpus of the Anti-Weaponization Fund's funding does not represent the value of any claim by Plaintiffs, but rather is based on the projected valuation of future claimants' claims.
10739831142
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I’m listening and wishing from the Philippines #Sabres - get it done now please I can’t take much more
000
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Congress works 140 days a year and earns $174K annually, plus full benefits. How can anyone survive on that without a few stock trades and a little insider trading? They get 225 days off a year and think it’s okay to hold the federal minimum wage at $7.25 an hour for 17 years.
104677683333
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A pop-up has opened in New York City displaying every page and timeline from the Epstein files. Anyone can now walk in and read them for themselves.
16140731750
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Volume up. #ministry 🖤💙 youtu.be/8imYWda6MOs?...
youtu.be
MINISTRY - Goddamn White Trash (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
YouTube video by Nuclear Blast Records
000
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/05/2026
When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.
809379828858
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/05/2026
do any religious texts mention golden idols anywhere
36554851217
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Sam @samd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
still thinking about that Goldman Sachs “analysis” that predicted we would be at 120% of normal traffic in the strait of Hormuz by now
Exhibit 2: We Assume Flows Through the Strait of Hormuz Start to Recover in 5 Days and Fully
Recover by Mid-April
mb/d
25
Percent of normal
Oil Exports Through the Strait of Hormuz
120
20 -
ー
100
- 80
15 -
- 60
10 -
- 40
5
• Estimates from Satellite Data,
3-Day Moving Average)
GS Estimates
- 20
0
1-Jan
16-Jan
31-Jan
15-Feb
2-Mar
Source: Kpler, Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research
17-Mar 1-Apr 16-Apr 1-May
1245079831
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Moon-Watcher @bobsmyusername.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I know gas is five dollars a gallon and all but are immigrants still eating peoples’ dogs and cats in Ohio because I remember that was a big issue during the campaign
2242
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 05/05/2026
My resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision now has 79 co-sponsors. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!
625168134753
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The Most Corrupt Supreme Court in American History….
32657217
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I just can’t even. “There were small bite marks near his eye. He didn’t even realize what had happened until I asked him. He said he felt something on his face while sleeping,” The RAT BITE became infected. www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-rats-...
dropsitenews.com
A Growing Rat Infestation Plagues Tent Cities in Gaza
“We are suffering from two wars,” Majd Sukar, the head of the Preventive Health Department in Gaza City, said. “The war of bombs, and the war of rats.”
000
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I will deny saying this during the AFC playoffs, but man, I love everything about Buffalo.
5165874
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Damn this is excellent and fearless reporting. We have all been too damn distracted by theatrics for the last decade. www.dropsitenews.com/p/susan-coll...
dropsitenews.com
Billionaire Bankrolling Anti-Platner PAC Gutted Maine Mill Towns
Apollo Global Management bankrupt two of Maine’s largest paper mills, selling them for scraps and wiping out more than 1,000 jobs. Now the CEO is cutting checks to keep Susan Collins in office.
074
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/04/2026
623197536459
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Trump says ‘I’m not a rapist, I didn’t rape anybody’ and Norah O’Donnell doesn’t mention the E Jean Carroll case or the jury finding him liable for sexual abuse or the judge saying it could be said Trump did ‘rape’ her in the ‘commonly’ understood sense: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Analysis | Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll
What the jury found Donald Trump did to E. Jean Carroll was in fact rape, as commonly understood, even if it didn't fit New York law's narrow definition, says Judge Lewis A. Kaplan.
1392577678
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/04/2026
the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner
4456521180
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 26/04/2026
Violence has no place in our nation. Grateful to hear reports that everyone at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner is safe and the suspect is in custody. While we await more details, I’m thankful for the quick response by law enforcement.
117102090
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
And Journalism is DEAD.
000
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This is a media failure at every fucking level. Journalism is DEAD in America.
000
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Ala Stanford, Philly congressional candidate: “As a surgeon, I cannot look at images of wounded children and think this is acceptable. Humanity has to come first … No parent — Israeli or Palestinian — should have to bury a child because leaders failed.” Yet: www.dropsitenews.com/p/aipac-udp-...
dropsitenews.com
Despite Denials, AIPAC Is Now Funding Campaign of Ala Stanford In Philadelphia
AIPAC has been funneling money into the campaign of Dr.
000
Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Israel strikes again open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
open.substack.com
Lebanese Journalist Amal Khalil Bombed and Left to Die by Israel
After Khalil was apparently targeted by Israel, a commentator asserting a connection with the military said journalists "affiliated with Hezbollah" are "destined for death."
000
Reposted by Ellie Mae 🌍✌️
Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
We are 7 weeks into the most egregious stock market manipulations of our lifetime. Orchestrated by a crooked president and his underlings. Billions siphoned via false proclamations of ceasefires and peace talks. With the criminals in charge, every day is a crime spree.
21969902448