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Elle Ess

@viamarsala18.bsky.social

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Minneapolitan. Occasionally lawyerly. Union member and supporter. LGBTQIA+ supporter. She/her. PFP alt text: a pale woman with red hair sips from a straw in a cup. Her hair is in a high side pony, and she’s wearing goldy gopher sunglasses.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · Nov 9

If you are a new follower to me, here’s what you need to know:

I live in Minneapolis and love it here
I equally love demonizing people like Jacob Frey, Michael Rainville, and Brian O’Hara who make this a bad place to live
I was formerly a prosecuting attorney and now do agency work for the state

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Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 6m

So the collusion with MPD continues. Fuck Frey, fuck ice.

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 27m

THIS ALERT IS OVER

I HAVE MORE TO REPORT BUT IT IS OVER.

I have reason to believe they are going elsewhere in MPLS but there is a car following them with bullhorns

Two unmarked SUVs, two unmarked chargers, AND TWO MPD SQUADS

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 56m

🚨 ICE IN HOLLAND NEIGHBORHOOD 🚨 26th and Howard COME NOW

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 34m

They said they were looking for someone in jeans and long hair, THATS NOTHING

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 56m

🚨 ICE IN HOLLAND NEIGHBORHOOD 🚨 26th and Howard COME NOW

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 35m

THEYRE OUT OF HOLLAND, video coming

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 56m

🚨 ICE IN HOLLAND NEIGHBORHOOD 🚨 26th and Howard COME NOW

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 41m

IM DRIVING THERE NOW
TWO CARS
IVE HEARD POLICE ARE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TOO, unconfirmed

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 56m

🚨 ICE IN HOLLAND NEIGHBORHOOD 🚨 26th and Howard COME NOW

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 52m

@elliottpayne.org @doronclark.bsky.social

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 56m

🚨 ICE IN HOLLAND NEIGHBORHOOD 🚨 26th and Howard COME NOW

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 53m

This is outside my house PLEASE COME

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 56m

🚨 ICE IN HOLLAND NEIGHBORHOOD 🚨 26th and Howard COME NOW

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 56m

🚨 ICE IN HOLLAND NEIGHBORHOOD 🚨 26th and Howard COME NOW

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 1h

Apparently my kid has been singing Christmas songs at preschool all week. He wanted to bring this Christmas pop up book today and I said yes. Good luck teachers!

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 3h

Men are trash part 517372

WIRED @wired.com · 4h

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money." www.wired.com/story/men-ar...

Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 3h

Let’s go orchestra!

Amy Kazmin @amykazmin.bsky.social · 4h

Italian opera is known for on-stage melodrama: performers belting out impassioned arias + emotionally charged plots. But Venice's prestigious La Fenice theatre is being engulfed by off-stage melodrama too, as the orchestra revolts against a new conductor close to PM Giorgia Meloni. on.ft.com/4h6BTvF

Discord at the Venice opera house

[FREE TO READ] La Fenice’s orchestra has objected loudly to the appointment of a conductor aligned with Giorgia Meloni’s party

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 4h

WHERE’S MY AWARD

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 4h

Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage

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Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

"Sir, Seal Team Six has neutralized the Nobel Prize Committee"

Marco Rubio whispers into Trump's ears

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 3h

A Venezuelan instead of Trump is actually perfect

NPR @npr.org · 3h

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 1d

From Justin to Kelly is slightly older than ICE.

From Justin to Kelly movie poster

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h

NEW: Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates.

Those dates have come and gone.

They’re still stuck here.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates have come and gone. They’re still stuck here.

www.propublica.org

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 3h

If work is being done on your block. You are now on ice watch. Everyone on ice watch.

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 3h

If you’re having work done at your house, like roofing, I hope you’re considering how to keep the workers safe.

Make a plan with the foreman, leave the back door open, tell them they can run inside should la migra show up. You get between them and Feds. Demand a warrant.

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DumpTruck 🍑 Decider @sailormoondamus.gobirds.online · 3h

If the movement that tears down fascism ends up being memorialized with these amazing people in the frog suits, the 4chan, super far right incel babies who co-opted Pepe the frog to meme fascism into pop culture will simply implode. oh the schadenfreude 😌😌😌

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 11h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 10h

Between the Tolkkinen article and this, let me just note:

The biggest differentiator in elite sports is money. Money, money, money. Money.

Off season sports clubs are pricey, and you have to do them if you’re going to be the best.

But most sports aren’t elite sports because this is a straw man.

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 17h

A threat to state funding over Minnesota’s policy on transgender athletes in girls high school sports has kept an issue at the forefront that Republicans are using to paint Democrats as extreme.

Amid Trump’s push, Minnesota Democrats walk a fine political line on transgender athletes

A threat to state funding over Minnesota’s policy on transgender athletes in girls high school sports has kept an issue at the forefront that Republicans are using to paint Democrats as extreme.

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 10h

It does, and I did the ergo training and fixed my home desk around it, but now that I’m using a shred cubicle once every two weeks I guess I need to rethink it for that

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 14h

i think anyone who thinks this out of control behavior by becka isn’t fully her choice should tune in and watch this forum and see how she’s perfectly capable of controlling herself and acting respectfully once it suits the crowd