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Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · 1d

Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma just criticized deployment of Texas National Guard to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and states’ rights. “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma.” About time a Republican spoke up about this!

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Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Judge April M Perry restricts troop deployment in #Chicago!

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Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · 3d

I’m with #Chicago!

Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · 9d

Aw I want to take that little guy out for unwashed ice cream

Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · 14d

Men filled with hate are twisting our world (and my stomach). Whatever happened to peace, love and understanding?

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 16d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · 20d

Freedom of speech, unless it’s about me, says the standard bearer of the GOP

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22d

I stand with PBS.

I stand with NPR.

I stand with Stephen Colbert.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

I stand with the First Amendment.

PERIOD.*

*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

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Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · 26d

Signs of life in burned-out remains — something I need to believe in for this country.

www.threads.com/@cbssundaymo...

CBS News' "Sunday Morning" 🌞 (@cbssundaymorning) on Threads

We leave you this Sunday with signs of new life within burned-out areas of Lincoln National Forest near Ruidoso, New Mexico. Videographer: Scot Miller. https://cbsn.ws/4mXKp2h

www.threads.com

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Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · Sep 5

Every day, another ugliness.

Trump Is Renaming the Defense Department the Department of War www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

Trump Is Renaming the Defense Department the Department of War

www.nytimes.com

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Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · Aug 26

Just the title alone cracks me up!
www.borowitzreport.com/p/national-g...

National Guard Refuses to Go to Chicago, Citing Bone Spurs

The White House was plunged into chaos after receiving over seven thousand notes from guardsmen’s podiatrists.

www.borowitzreport.com

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Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · Aug 23

Resisting that is key to owning one’s own writing life

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Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · Aug 10

“We tell ourselves this story that every 2 years, voters go into the voting booth and pick their member of the House of Representatives. And right now it’s the other way around. The politicians are going into a room and picking their voters.” Pamela Karlan, Stanford law prof formerly at Justice Dept

Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · Jul 22

Where big law has stepped down, kudos to the others who have stepped up

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/u...

Big Law Firms Bowed to Trump. A Corps of ‘Little Guys’ Jumped in to Fight Him.

www.nytimes.com

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Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · Jul 18

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert cancelled by CBS just 3 days after he called its parent company Paramount’s $16M settlement with Trump “a big fat bribe” 🤔

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Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · Jul 4

This Fourth of July, I’m thinking of how proud I am of all the people who protested “No Kings.” I believe in the fundamental goodness and strength of so many people in this country. And I believe we can find a way to live with our differences. In that spirit, I wish all a Happy 4th!

Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · Jul 3

we buried our eyes in the arms of the ones that we clinged to. A wave of intense heat came over us, and I woke myself up. And my room looked so normal, it took a moment before it seemed real. Strangely, the sense of powerlessness still hasn’t dissipated. (4/4)

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Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · Jul 3

wiped out in an hour. And that was that. The seas started churning, the sky erupting into color, so bright it was painful to see. We stood outside anyway, hugging our loved ones. Talking softly to each other, because really what could anyone do? As it became too bright to stand it, (3/4)

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Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · Jul 3

and they had determined that we weren’t worth saving. We needed more arts and English majors, less preoccupation with money and power. Less pushing others down to climb up. He folded his thick arms, towering above us, easily ignoring the self-righteous clamor. The people on Earth would be… (2/4)

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Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · Jul 3

I had a weird dream last night. An alien appeared on Earth, much taller than us, slender in the legs and disproportionately bulky in the shoulders, skin a little blue, and he — it seemed like a he or something analogous to that — he announced that his race had been studying Earth for a while… (1/4)

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Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · Jun 29

In the prophetic words of Rebecca Shaw:
“I knew that one day we might have to watch as capitalism and greed and bigotry led to a world where powerful men, deserving or not, would burn it all down. What I didn’t expect, and don’t think I could have foreseen, is how incredibly cringe it would all be.”

Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · Jun 29

In the words of the brilliant Jamelle Bouie, SCOTUS “is laying the groundwork for the exercise of arbitrary power, unaccountable save for the next election — an American-style presidential dictatorship.”

Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · Jun 22

Depressing time to be an American who believes in the Constitution. Frightening time as well.

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Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · Jun 22

And he thinks he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize smh

Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · Jun 22

This is reckless, illegal action from the president. He does NOT have the authority to enter us into a war with Iran. He MUST consult Congress. This is not what Americans want. I’m thinking about our troops tonight.

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Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social · Jun 21

Tweeting its way to war, dragging harmless immigrants away in cuffs, paving over roses — this administration is heartless, cruel and coarse, and taking America down with it.

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