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Ellen Yvonne

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Writer. Working on memoir. Minnesota.

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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
His is deranged. Hers is evil.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
OMG, they really do not see immigrants as human. The level of dehumanization is awful and disgusting.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As is your commitment to evil.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee sitting in DC, issues a preliminary injunction blocking the entire U.S. Postal Service mail ballot rule. Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (Key portions of the rule were blocked by Judge Talwani in federal court in Massachusetts.)
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
DSCC, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-cv-01114 (CJN)
LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN
CITIZENS, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE
PRESIDENT, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-cv-01132 (CJN)
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
V.
DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-cv-01151 (CJN)ORDER
For the reasons stated in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that DSCC Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Preliminary Injunction,
ECF 163, is GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART'; and it is further
ORDERED that LULAC Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, ECF
ECF 171, is GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED that NAACP Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, ECF
172, is GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED that the United States Postal Service is preliminarily enjoined from
implementing and enforcing the Final Rule it published on August 21, see Ballot Mail for Federal
Elections, 91 Fed. Reg. 54,966 (Aug. 26, 2026).
DATE: September 13, 2026
'ARL. NICHOL
United States District Judge
' The Court denies only the portion of the Motion that seeks to preliminarily enjoin Section 3 of the Executive Order.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
You keep assuming others will follow rules and laws that you followed voluntarily just because the law or rule exists. Someone created the law and you followed it and then somebody came along and broke it. That means someone does not understand why the law existed in the first place. I don’t either.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Earn it? No American people need to realize everyone deserves it, not just a select few. And right now, those who have the right ideals are the minority. So it’s not about presenting better good ideas, it’s the inability of too many Americans to want and vote for good ideas. Too much hate instead.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
You are asking too much
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Yeah but he won’t do the right thing and switch parties for his last months in office
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Look, Seth, the horse has left the barn and had several generations of offspring. Where u been? We’re beyond embarrassing. We’re beyond insanity. We’re at the stage where this man will continue to destroy every aspect of our country up until he dies. And he will do so because NO ONE STOOD IN HIS WAY
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
So Texans have been voting for this guy for over 20 years and you expect them to change their patterns now? Ain’t gunna happen. Only hope for Texas is for all the non voters to change their pattern and VOTE, DAMMIT
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/05/2026
13/ To save her own life, Waldorf would need a way to make it across state lines. Read her full story:
propublica.org
She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.
Her case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The U.S. military is responsible for spreading what happens in U.S. schools all the time to Iran. Grief. Just so much unnecessary grief. Just pointless and unnecessary because the 2nd amendment and because we’ve had too much wealth to spend on the military but not so much to spend on mental health.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Yeah but unfortunately there’s a whole bunch of people in Texas who prefer and relate to the Republican message. Hate, contempt, racism, did I mention hate? Oh and corruption. Don’t forget the corruption.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Three words: Cap the wealth
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
We’ve reached? We’ve been there for 10 years now and the insanity isn’t just coming from the White House. It’s the people in Texas who have been re-electing Ken Paxton for the top law enforcement person in the state of Texas. Meaning, there’s been a lot of insanity for quite awhile.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
That’s where we were supposed to be this week.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Trump’s legacy will be more destructive than Hitler’s but historians will struggle the most with trying to figure out why 77 million Americans thought it was a good idea to vote for him, some three times. Germans had the economy as an excuse. MAGA is just lazy, psychotic, racist, stupid, afaict
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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter...
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Best interests of whites and Blacks SHOULD BE THE SAME-high quality of life. Only in America is it necessary to have a district be majority black to be able to have any chance of electing Black representation. AMERICA IS SHACKLED BY RACISM. WHITE PEOPLE VOTING REPUBLICAN BECAUSE THEY ARE RACIST.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We need a complete overhaul of the system. Don’t know how to accomplish that but that’s what it’s going to take.
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kjcon.bsky.social @kjcon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
😡
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
But he won’t be indicted because he didn’t write the message with sea shells #Comey
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
NO NO NO NOT ENOUGH ABOLISH COMPLETELY NEW TOP COURT 13 Randomly selected judges from 13 circuits. One year terms. 18 year terms? WTF MAN? WILL NOT CHANGE ANYTHING. CORRUPTION IS TOO MUCH A SYSTEMIC STRUCTURAL PROBLEM. SENATE HASN’T BEEN DOING ITS JOB. SO ELIMINATE SENATE ROLE. RANDOMNESS
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
None of them stick w/out completely abolishing the Supreme Court as it is currently designed. 13 justices randomly selected each year from 13 circuits. One year terms. That’s the only reform that will work to eliminate the corruption.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The maps aren’t the problem. Racism. Endemic racism. Racism was codified into the US Constitution. Racism is the fuel of the Republican party agenda. Exclusion. Isolation. Rejection. Humiliation. Betrayal. Neglect.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The word retard is usually applied to people. Why is this woman offended AND defending her right to say it in a public space. Why is use of the word retard the hill she chose to die on.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
6 questions to ask about hormone therapy for menopause www.npr.org/2025/11/11/n...
npr.org
Is hormone therapy for menopause right for you? 6 things to know
The science around hormone therapy to treat menopause has changed a lot since the FDA issued warning labels 20 years ago. Now the labels are being removed, here are 6 things to consider.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We can only hope
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Words what do they mean? Magnets rare earth metals blo smo
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This man’s brain is orange marmalade
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Wow watch Ingraham push back after Trump tries to defend the new average age of new homeowners of 40. Trump: I inherited that
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I lost too many brain cells watching that clip
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
“Banuelos' case was unique among the tonnage of Capitol riot prosecutions, because he was the only defendant accused of pulling and firing a gun while on Capitol grounds. “
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I’m sorry but 80% of farmers are not as smart as they think Trump is.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This is why Thune kept saying last week talks were in progress
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Absolutely
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Watch the entire clip
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This man is the stupidest, meanest. Stupid evil is worse than regular evil
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Just more proof that Trump and MAGA have no idea how anything works.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Followed by “they’re gunna come down very quickly.”
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
“One of the two people familiar said there is more fallout from this idea than almost any other policy proposal of the second term, including from the MAGA base.” More fallout from this than any other policy proposal. Let that sink in.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Onto Comey's vindictive and selective prosecution argument. This ¶ is super important, bc it gets to how inapt exist precedents on whether related investigators can be source of animus. A president is different.
To determine whether another person’s animus can be imputed to a prosecutor, the Court
must analyze the specific facts of the case. The President’s course of conduct against Mr.
Comey makes the case for imputation clear—and the government does not attempt to explain
why the facts of this case do not support imputation. Instead, it cites cases (ECF No. 138 at 20-
22) in which courts rejected efforts to impute the animus of investigators, local prosecutors, or
other individuals with “no control over federal prosecutors” to the prosecutors who secured the indictments. United States v. Dickerson, 975 F.2d 1245, 1251 (7th Cir. 1992) (declining to
impute alleged animus of FBI agents and state police officers); see United States v. Spears, 159
F.3d 1081, 1087 (7th Cir. 1998) (declining to impute alleged animus of a state prosecutor and
investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms); United States v. Gilbert, 266
F.3d 1180, 1187 (9th Cir. 2001) (declining to impute alleged animus of IRS investigators);
United States v. Cooper, 617 F. App’x 249, 251 (4th Cir. 2015) (per curiam) (declining to impute
alleged animus of local law enforcement). Those cases are readily distinguishable from this one,
where the animus springs from the head of the Executive Branch who has supervisory authority
over all federal prosecutors and who exercised that power in this case.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
She doesn’t look very afraid for her life up there. A sniper could have taken her out easily if Portland was full of snipers.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Your likes should be higher for this one.
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Andrew Weber @noplot.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
And, more specifically, a conservative Catholic who probably doesn't think a lot of many other Catholics (among them: James Martin, Pope Francis, and myself, which is almost certainly the only time the three of us will be in the same sentence).
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Rick does Math and Stuff @mathandstuff.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I notice that he specifically avoids mentioning any nation that is historically Catholic. No Irish, Italian, or French there. I see no other reason to include the Scotch-Irish but not the Irish themselves.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2025
there is a way in which this is even an explicit repudiation of the constitution itself, created not to pass some european idea of "nationhood" down to posterity, but to pass *republican self-government* down to posterity.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2025
oh i forgot about hochman. that's probably the nazi who wrote this www.liberalcurrents.com/missouri-sen...
liberalcurrents.com
Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt's Nazi Staffer
Nathan Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign for making a transparently neoNazi video featuring the Governor, and has only doubled down on his white nationalism since.
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Ellen Yvonne @iampayingattention.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This procedural nightmarish maze of rules the Senate believes is still relevant is why 99% of Americans have tuned out of the political process. None of this bullshit procedural rules means anything to 99.9999% of Americans. Meanwhile, Brazil understands what is important. The US Senate does not.
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