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Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 7h

And he enjoys it.

Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 9h

If he wins, the Nobel Peace Prize will be meaningless for the rest of time.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure Eleanor Roosevelt is dead

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Stay weird!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 1d

May it be so.

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

👀👀👀👀

Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Calling them Nazis and American Gestapo is well-earned, but I think that ICE and this entire Administration are actually the last frantic gasp of the Confederacy.

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Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Should be arrested instantly. I have no sense that local police departments are actually serving and protecting civilians. It seems as though they are happy to enable the American Gestapo.

You have to be unusually gutless to wear a mask as a "law enforcement officer."

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

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Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 2d

It's a war-zone! So scary!

The only beings in danger are any dogs who come near ICE Barbie.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 3d

We have to assume that many of them are pardoned J6 terrorists.

Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 3d

And God knows these things.

God @thegodpodcast.com · 3d

Buried in the polls, with every American screaming for the Epstein files, the walls are closing in on Tangerine Palpatine.

Sending troops to every city you can in a desperate attempt to make martial law happen is not strength. It’s the last gasp of a dying regime.

Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 6d

Miller and Vought, I assume.

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Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 6d

It takes a lot of personal privilege for them to be able to say that.

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Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 6d

The utter stupidity.

taber @kvetch.gay · 6d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 6d

Looks promising

Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve been working on this for a WHILE and would be so grateful if you could check it out and share—Dems need a vision, and they keep missing the mark. We built it for them, grassroots, and have a plan to make it happen.

Americandemands.com

American Demands dot com @americandemands.bsky.social · 9d

What if we could channel all our frustrations over our country’s rapid slide into authoritarianism into advocacy for policies that work for all of us?

We can. Welcome to @americandemands.bsky.social #DemandBetter

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Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, continue what you're doing right now, and protect our health insurance (and fight fascism), @schumer.senate.gov

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6d

I have been very critical of @schumer.senate.gov, but credit where credit is due. Hopeful evidence that pushing our leaders to follow the will of the people can work in certain instances.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6d

Breaking: Senate Democrats hold firm and reject the Republican-backed stopgap funding bill.

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Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 6d

She is looking more and more unhealthy with each passing month.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d

Kristi Noem is mad they wouldn’t let her in to use the restroom in Illinois today.

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Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 6d

Fox in with an actual question; well done.

Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 6d

It is so clear that they were all dreadfully unpopular in high school--and still bitter.

Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 7d

I had not thought of this--but, yes.

Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 7d

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated:

If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

OPB @opb.org · 7d

Oregon is set to lose an additional $400 million in federal grants awarded for climate action and is among more than a dozen Democratic states losing federal funding after the Trump administration terminated nearly $8 billion for those states this week.

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Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 7d

I agree. Completely.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

Sanders: I am not a great fan of the affordable care act. I believe in medicare for all. I think that health care is a human right, but I will be damned if I'm going to see people in Vermont and around this country see a doubling in their premiums.

Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Nobody elected Creepy Vought.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Johnson: "Russ does this reluctantly. He takes no pleasure in this. Russ has to sit down and decide which policies, personnel, & programs are essential & which are not. That's not a fun task and he's not enjoying that responsibility...if they keep the govt closed, it's gonna get more & more painful"

Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 7d

American Gestapo.

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 7d

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

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Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 9d

Good!

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 9d

Public Citizen filed a Hatch Act complaint over the HUD website
www.citizen.org/wp-content/u...

www.citizen.org

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Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 9d

No, there should greatly expanded mobilizing in peaceful and nonviolent ways.

Ellen Emerson White @ellenemersonwhite.bsky.social · 9d

Excellent essay.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 9d

"That was the whole point of the event. It had nothing to do with improving our national security and military readiness. It was a role-play session for undeserving straight, white guys who could never hack it and resent those who could."

For the Smallest Men in the World

And a celebration of them.

charlotteclymer.substack.com

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