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Ellen Clair Lamb

@eclamb.bsky.social

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I answer to both first names — what you call me depends on how you know me. Editor, writer, insufferable know-it-all. Natitude, Hoya Saxa, AMDG.

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 3d

And in short, I was afraid.
—T.S. Eliot

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 7h

That’s not how any of this works.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 8h

Since @bookshop.org is offering free shipping through the end of the day why not pre-order my book and save a few coins?

Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime

A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 1d

“Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?”

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 1d

In the Orlando airport with some time to kill. I always forget how big this place is — and also, that this is the first real travel experience for quite a lot of people. Kids, but adults too, making Disney their first real trip. First monorail. Maybe even first escalators.

Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 1d

They're going to watch "Idiocracy" in US History classes.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow I think this was not even the third most important exchange of this hearing.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone asked PenFed, Navy Federal, or USAA about this?

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

A new White House memo says that furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay.

This is clearly against the law, which guarantees furloughed federal employees back pay for the duration of a government shutdown.

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 1d

Sad to see mental impairment set in so early.

Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 1d

They did, in fact. And Johnson was in Congress at the time. Apparently dementia is contagious.

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 1d

Didn’t they pass a law to clarify this in 2019?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 1d

Either way, it's a source of stress.

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 1d

As a Gen X elder, I feel so screwed by technology: I know enough to have to explain it to people in my parents' generation, but need to ask Gen Z for help with anything new.

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 1d

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 2d

I’m happy for the Brewers’ fans. Something about their joy feels pure.

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 2d

It was actually my therapist who first showed me that 😂

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 2d

This! My nephew told me last week that he'd deleted social media from his phone. "It was turning into a hobby," he said. "I didn't want it to be my hobby."

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

one stops seeing the successful technological development as a choice. cars, freeways. planes. digital -- and analog! -- photography. digital recording. recording at all. once they have come to be, and gained success, we begin to think of participation in them not as a choice, but as normal behavior

Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks!

Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for responding!

Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 2d

Really I just want all these series to go to five games.

Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 2d

It is aspirational.

Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 2d

I'm supposed to go on vacation tomorrow. It is so contrary to my nature that I was paralyzed with anxiety earlier tonight, until I called my sister (who is coming on vacation with me) and she told me to cut it out.

a woman with long curly hair is looking at a man with a beard .

Alt: Cher, in "Moonstruck," slaps Nicolas Cage and tells him to SNAP OUT OF IT.

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for this.

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 2d

Metro just offloaded an entire Blue line train at Arlington Cemetery. The conductor said the train would be going back to Largo. Metro is single-tracking now between Pentagon City and National Airport. Anyone know why?

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