ellen d
@farinata.bsky.social
Italophile, leftist, wordlover, Wellian, retired health insurance wrangler
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It. Is. Murder.
I worked these issues with Todd.
He knows what he’s talking about.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
He knows what he’s talking about.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
It. Is. Murder.
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It’s breathtaking incompetence, for sure—but it’s also something worse: malevolence.
Breathtaking incompetence www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
October 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It’s breathtaking incompetence, for sure—but it’s also something worse: malevolence.
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Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?
October 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?
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Warren: "Knock 15 million people off their coverage, drive up the cost for everyone else, close rural hospitals -- that's the Republican plan, because you know what the real heart of it was? They gave away a trillion dollars to the billionaires. That was the part that matters to them."
October 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Warren: "Knock 15 million people off their coverage, drive up the cost for everyone else, close rural hospitals -- that's the Republican plan, because you know what the real heart of it was? They gave away a trillion dollars to the billionaires. That was the part that matters to them."
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Trump’s war on Tylenol is also very much a war on women | Arwa Mahdawi
Trump’s war on Tylenol is also very much a war on women | Arwa Mahdawi
A concern for women’s health is absolutely not at the heart of it – rather, this is yet another way to control women
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Trump’s war on Tylenol is also very much a war on women | Arwa Mahdawi
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Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
September 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
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The arrest inside the Alameda County courthouse exposed the weakness of state and local efforts to make courts accessible and safe.
ICE entered an Oakland courthouse. Court officials didn’t know agents were in the building
The arrest inside the Alameda County courthouse exposed the weakness of state and local efforts to make courts accessible and safe.
www.berkeleyside.org
September 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The arrest inside the Alameda County courthouse exposed the weakness of state and local efforts to make courts accessible and safe.
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Real leadership is the opposite of thuggery.
The so-called “strongmen” of the current era — Putin, Trump, and Netanyahu — are not leaders.
They can manipulate public opinion and sustain their bases of power, but they have no moral authority.
The so-called “strongmen” of the current era — Putin, Trump, and Netanyahu — are not leaders.
They can manipulate public opinion and sustain their bases of power, but they have no moral authority.
September 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Real leadership is the opposite of thuggery.
The so-called “strongmen” of the current era — Putin, Trump, and Netanyahu — are not leaders.
They can manipulate public opinion and sustain their bases of power, but they have no moral authority.
The so-called “strongmen” of the current era — Putin, Trump, and Netanyahu — are not leaders.
They can manipulate public opinion and sustain their bases of power, but they have no moral authority.
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The justices are basically accomplices to murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Supreme Court Allows Trump to Slash Foreign Aid
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The justices are basically accomplices to murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
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cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court has been captured by a dangerous cabal that resorts to sneaky and improper methods to get its ways: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/repu...
Republicans on Supreme Court continue their Article I nullification campaign - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Supreme Court has been captured by a dangerous cabal that resorts to sneaky and improper methods to get its ways: The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to withhold $4 billio...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The Supreme Court has been captured by a dangerous cabal that resorts to sneaky and improper methods to get its ways: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/repu...
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Education is the enemy of fascism.
September 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Education is the enemy of fascism.
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“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.”
So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.
So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.
September 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.”
So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.
So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
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Darwin is about to have a field day in Florida.
About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
September 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Darwin is about to have a field day in Florida.
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This.
All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.
Q: On the Venezuela vessel strike, what legal authority were you guys working under?
JD VANCE: The legal authority is there are people who are bringing -- literal terrorists -- who are bringing deadly drugs into our country
JD VANCE: The legal authority is there are people who are bringing -- literal terrorists -- who are bringing deadly drugs into our country
September 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This.
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The thing about transphobes is they could literally just mind their business.
And for you left of center transphobes: you're doing the same thing MAGA is doing to Black and brown folks. Arguing that your discomfort with people who are different is a reason to legislate them out of society.
And for you left of center transphobes: you're doing the same thing MAGA is doing to Black and brown folks. Arguing that your discomfort with people who are different is a reason to legislate them out of society.
August 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The thing about transphobes is they could literally just mind their business.
And for you left of center transphobes: you're doing the same thing MAGA is doing to Black and brown folks. Arguing that your discomfort with people who are different is a reason to legislate them out of society.
And for you left of center transphobes: you're doing the same thing MAGA is doing to Black and brown folks. Arguing that your discomfort with people who are different is a reason to legislate them out of society.
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Look at it this way
The fraction of people in Germany who were Jewish in 1933 (~0.75%) is lower than the fraction of people in the US today who are trans (~1%). Anyone willing to sacrifice trans people now, would have sacrificed Jews then.
Refs:
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
usafacts.org/articles/wha...
Refs:
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
usafacts.org/articles/wha...
Germany: Jewish Population in 1933 | Holocaust Encyclopedia
Learn more about the Jewish population in Germany in 1933.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org
August 31, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Look at it this way
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Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
August 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
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Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on.
Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime.
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime.
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
'It infuriates us': Veterans rage at 'abusive' Trump over reports of him stiffing soldiers
Donald Trump has reportedly gone out of his way to avoid paying national guard troops sent in to Washington, D.C., resulting in outrage from veterans.The reports started earlier in the summer that Tru...
www.rawstory.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on.
Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime.
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime.
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
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This is your Democratic campaign message for 2026
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
August 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This is your Democratic campaign message for 2026
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