Ellen Umansky
@ellenumansky.bsky.social
Author of The Fortunate Ones.
Writer, editor, teacher, worrier.
Writer, editor, teacher, worrier.
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“It’s so cold, it keeps the bad people out.”
-Prince, on Minneapolis.
Good folks out there working hard to get the bad people out, too.
-Prince, on Minneapolis.
Good folks out there working hard to get the bad people out, too.
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 9:05 PM
“It’s so cold, it keeps the bad people out.”
-Prince, on Minneapolis.
Good folks out there working hard to get the bad people out, too.
-Prince, on Minneapolis.
Good folks out there working hard to get the bad people out, too.
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A great passage from a great novel.
The Oppermanns, 1933.
The Oppermanns, 1933.
October 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A great passage from a great novel.
The Oppermanns, 1933.
The Oppermanns, 1933.
Who will remove the peaceful-looking, unquestionably dead rat from the sidewalk near my house? Asking for anyone but me.
September 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Who will remove the peaceful-looking, unquestionably dead rat from the sidewalk near my house? Asking for anyone but me.
At a Park Slope pharmacy, an elderly woman came in, asked for a Covid booster. “I can give it to you,” the pharmacist said, “but without a prescription, it’ll be $200.”
The woman nodded, and walked out.
The woman nodded, and walked out.
September 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
At a Park Slope pharmacy, an elderly woman came in, asked for a Covid booster. “I can give it to you,” the pharmacist said, “but without a prescription, it’ll be $200.”
The woman nodded, and walked out.
The woman nodded, and walked out.
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William Carlos Williams if he was in an open marriage:
July 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
William Carlos Williams if he was in an open marriage:
@errollouis.bsky.social for mayor
IN ONE HOUR: We'll be co-hosting the mayoral debate with @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social and @Gothamist.com.
Livestream it here: buff.ly/pFsSDra
Livestream it here: buff.ly/pFsSDra
Watch the Final Primary Debate for NYC Mayor Here on June 12
THE CITY joins NY1 and WNYC as hosts of the “leading contenders” Democratic debate, confronting Andrew Cuomo and other candidates with tough questions.
www.thecity.nyc
June 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
@errollouis.bsky.social for mayor
“we’re spending an enormous amount of time preparing for a staffing catastrophe.”
NEW INVESTIGATION from me and @vernalcoleman.bsky.social:
Internal emails show doctors and others at VA hospitals around the country begging for help as cuts hurt veterans' care, including "live-saving cancer trials."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Internal emails show doctors and others at VA hospitals around the country begging for help as cuts hurt veterans' care, including "live-saving cancer trials."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Internal VA Emails Reveal How Trump Cuts Jeopardize Veterans’ Care, Including To “Life-Saving Cancer Trials”
Despite a congressional mandate to expand care for veterans, internal Veterans Affairs messages obtained by ProPublica paint a stark portrait of how chaotic cost cutting has already imperiled tests of...
www.propublica.org
May 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“we’re spending an enormous amount of time preparing for a staffing catastrophe.”
My daughter’s favorite class. Thank you, @adapalmer.bsky.social!
I went to Chicago to cover a papal conclave. No, not that one. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
‘The Only Person in the World Claiming to Be the Pope Right Now’
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
My daughter’s favorite class. Thank you, @adapalmer.bsky.social!
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NEW INVESTIGATION from me:
There's a secretive, and frequently abusive unit of the NYPD that's tight w/ Mayor Eric Adams
How tight? Well, the unit's leaders bought special body-cams that can live-stream footage to select users. Then they gave access to the mayor
www.propublica.org/article/eric...
There's a secretive, and frequently abusive unit of the NYPD that's tight w/ Mayor Eric Adams
How tight? Well, the unit's leaders bought special body-cams that can live-stream footage to select users. Then they gave access to the mayor
www.propublica.org/article/eric...
March 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
NEW INVESTIGATION from me:
There's a secretive, and frequently abusive unit of the NYPD that's tight w/ Mayor Eric Adams
How tight? Well, the unit's leaders bought special body-cams that can live-stream footage to select users. Then they gave access to the mayor
www.propublica.org/article/eric...
There's a secretive, and frequently abusive unit of the NYPD that's tight w/ Mayor Eric Adams
How tight? Well, the unit's leaders bought special body-cams that can live-stream footage to select users. Then they gave access to the mayor
www.propublica.org/article/eric...
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“I am human, enough I am alone and I am desperate, / enough of the animal saving me, enough of the high / water, enough sorrow, enough of the air and its ease, / I am asking you to touch me.” — Ada Limón
The End of Poetry
Enough of osseous and chickadee and sunflower and snowshoes, maple and seeds, samara and shoot, enough chiaroscuro, enough of thus and prophecy and the stoic farmer and faith and our father and 'tis o...
www.poetryfoundation.org
March 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
“I am human, enough I am alone and I am desperate, / enough of the animal saving me, enough of the high / water, enough sorrow, enough of the air and its ease, / I am asking you to touch me.” — Ada Limón
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Trump fired the country’s top general because the general made a four-minute video about being a Black man in America.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
February 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Trump fired the country’s top general because the general made a four-minute video about being a Black man in America.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
www.nps.gov
February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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More of this, please.
Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight.
"I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess."
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
"I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess."
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
February 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
More of this, please.