Ellen
@ellenalx.bsky.social
Retired in rural Florida
Slava Ukraini (Слава Україні!) Glory to Ukraine
Slava Ukraini (Слава Україні!) Glory to Ukraine
I love these countries with, tops, 50 million adults getting mad at us for not everyone being on the street protesting.
We have roughly 270 million adults and a third of them are idiots. YOU try and get them in the street. Herding cats, man.
youtu.be/daeqb6f7GrY?...
We have roughly 270 million adults and a third of them are idiots. YOU try and get them in the street. Herding cats, man.
youtu.be/daeqb6f7GrY?...
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December 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I love these countries with, tops, 50 million adults getting mad at us for not everyone being on the street protesting.
We have roughly 270 million adults and a third of them are idiots. YOU try and get them in the street. Herding cats, man.
youtu.be/daeqb6f7GrY?...
We have roughly 270 million adults and a third of them are idiots. YOU try and get them in the street. Herding cats, man.
youtu.be/daeqb6f7GrY?...
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Hot take: having an incoherent septuagenarian scream-lecture America like a man arguing with a self-checkout machine that keeps yelling “unexpected item in the bagging area” might not actually be the emotional support animal we need right now.
December 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Hot take: having an incoherent septuagenarian scream-lecture America like a man arguing with a self-checkout machine that keeps yelling “unexpected item in the bagging area” might not actually be the emotional support animal we need right now.
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These speeches lately kinda have me missing the old days when they were about Al Capone, Hannibal Lecter, electric tanks, getting eaten by sharks, windmills causing cancer, and mentally ill whales.
December 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
These speeches lately kinda have me missing the old days when they were about Al Capone, Hannibal Lecter, electric tanks, getting eaten by sharks, windmills causing cancer, and mentally ill whales.
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very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
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Also, for what it's worth I'd sooner trust a Labrador retriever to guard a raw steak than trust RFK Jr. to run a single blind trial of vaccine harms.
Dr. Jacobs makes this point clearly in her thread.
Dr. Jacobs makes this point clearly in her thread.
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Also, for what it's worth I'd sooner trust a Labrador retriever to guard a raw steak than trust RFK Jr. to run a single blind trial of vaccine harms.
Dr. Jacobs makes this point clearly in her thread.
Dr. Jacobs makes this point clearly in her thread.
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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President Zelenskyy has rejected the Trump peace plan, submitted to him in its original Russian.
December 9, 2025 at 4:53 AM
President Zelenskyy has rejected the Trump peace plan, submitted to him in its original Russian.
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Critique of Jackie Alemany. Proof, some journalists are better writers than presenters. Yes of course she is very bright. Also very distracted. 1/
December 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Critique of Jackie Alemany. Proof, some journalists are better writers than presenters. Yes of course she is very bright. Also very distracted. 1/
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"Instead of taking snow days from children, let’s make them a true civic occasion. Let’s extend them, as far as possible, to adults."
In Defense of Snow Days
Inconvenient? Yep. Unpredictable? Sure. Disruptive? Yes. But a snow day is also a minor civic miracle, and we ought to treat it as such.
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December 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"Instead of taking snow days from children, let’s make them a true civic occasion. Let’s extend them, as far as possible, to adults."
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And as the legend goes, he'll be sleeping for the next 20 years -which is probably the greatest Christmas gift any of us has ever, and will ever receive.
#DonaldTrump
#DonaldTrump
December 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
And as the legend goes, he'll be sleeping for the next 20 years -which is probably the greatest Christmas gift any of us has ever, and will ever receive.
#DonaldTrump
#DonaldTrump
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Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.
The fundamental thing to understand about this administration is the president is a grumpy retiree. He has no interest in working anymore. Which leads to him being pissed that he is getting asked a question, pissed he has to show up and work, the scheming viziers running the show, etc..
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.
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Trump never had a fan base.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Trump never had a fan base.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
Because of the demolition of USAID and PepFar, I wonder, did Musk kill more people than Hitler?
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Because of the demolition of USAID and PepFar, I wonder, did Musk kill more people than Hitler?
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Astronaut. Navy captain. Combat veteran. Public servant. If Mark Kelly isn't your definition of an American hero, it's time to get a new dictionary.
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Astronaut. Navy captain. Combat veteran. Public servant. If Mark Kelly isn't your definition of an American hero, it's time to get a new dictionary.
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genuinely says so much about what twitter has become that the biggest rightwing grift accounts pushing US fascist narratives aren’t real people and not even close to the united states
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 AM
genuinely says so much about what twitter has become that the biggest rightwing grift accounts pushing US fascist narratives aren’t real people and not even close to the united states
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Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
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We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
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White House officials say the boss is really stupid and you have to watch what you say to him
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
White House officials say the boss is really stupid and you have to watch what you say to him
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I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
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Added the appropriate sound track ....
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Added the appropriate sound track ....
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race
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I guess someone heard from Tylenol’s lawyers.
October 31, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I guess someone heard from Tylenol’s lawyers.