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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️

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

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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 9h
He’d have my vote www.dailymail.com/news/article...
dailymail.com
Hunky Democrat candidate doubles down on kinky fetish
Chris Gallant, a 37-year-old Black Hawk pilot in the Army National Guard, said: 'All my friends know I'm kinky.'
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Econ 101
Person one: Taught my kids how socialism works. Let them trick or treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101.

Person two : The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.
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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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.
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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Clever thread.
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LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Fuckery of the GOP.
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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.
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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
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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...
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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I wish we knew what happened to her after liberation. And why was she arrested in the first place?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
And prices are down 1,000 percent.
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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Another hero. I looked up his name; there is a Wikipedia page in Polish that can be translated to English. Part of his story: “He gave his life most likely for belonging to the conspiracy created by Captain Pilecki (Union of the Military Organization).”
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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.
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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)
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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...
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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.
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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Interesting that I haven’t seen this in any other media report. Reuters had a headline about Bezos saying AI will lead to a shortage of workers in “an optimistic talk.”
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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...
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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Hard to pick a favorite
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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.
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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I don’t know about him. I don’t know about Haberman until I read Kendzior.
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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
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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Typo, or ….. “Some are everyday people who only recently learned how depraved Epstein is and were inspired to dig deep into the files.”
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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.
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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 🔥📦 🌍✌️
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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...
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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.
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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Sounds like the editorial board just might be regretting past (non/easy/access-oriented) coverage.
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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Or was the vote rigged??
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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
How can we be sure these primaries weren’t rigged?
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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Primaries were rigged.
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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Primaries were rigged.
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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.
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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
How can we be sure primaries weren’t rigged?
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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
How can we be sure these primaries weren’t rigged?
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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.
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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
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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.
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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
It’s why we no longer subscribe to this or the NYT
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Ellie Mae 🌍✌️ @elliemae.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Just talking with the spouse that there should be a massive campaign to register voters — and for previously registered voters to make sure they haven’t been booted from the rolls.
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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.
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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
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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.
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