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Jesse Ellis

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once got retweeted by George Clinton here for politics, news, Jewish stuff, at least until there’s more sports stuff here

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Even more fun after watching Jeopardy! last night.
@kenjennings.bsky.social @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social

26.02.2026 18:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It is very hard not to have a safe choice to use the bathroom in public.

It may be impossible to continue living, working, eating, etc without a valid driver's license if your life was built around driving and the assumption that your license wouldn't be invalidated overnight by the legislature.

26.02.2026 02:02 — 👍 3280    🔁 655    💬 32    📌 25
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First Lady Melania Trump will preside over a UN Security Council meeting on Monday, per a @FLOTUS statement, which "will mark the first time a sitting U.S. First Lady presides over the Security Council as members consider education, technology, peace, and security."
8:12 PM • Feb 25, 2026 • 552 Views

Meridith McGraw Follow • • @meridithmcgraw First Lady Melania Trump will preside over a UN Security Council meeting on Monday, per a @FLOTUS statement, which "will mark the first time a sitting U.S. First Lady presides over the Security Council as members consider education, technology, peace, and security." 8:12 PM • Feb 25, 2026 • 552 Views

This is not how the Security Council works. Our unaccomplished, inarticulate, unqualified Third Lady has no business there and it’s an insult to the world to send her.

26.02.2026 01:30 — 👍 1507    🔁 328    💬 74    📌 54

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

26.02.2026 01:30 — 👍 10730    🔁 5199    💬 85    📌 339

BREAKING: The Florida House of Representatives voted to advance a sweeping voter suppression bill that could disenfranchise tens of thousands of state voters.

The move comes two weeks after the U.S. House passed the GOP-led SAVE America Act, which the measure closely mirrors.

25.02.2026 22:55 — 👍 591    🔁 319    💬 35    📌 18

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.

They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

25.02.2026 22:37 — 👍 8404    🔁 4147    💬 236    📌 139

Blocking some federal #Medicaid $ for MN is just another step in the Admin’s unlawful/unconstitutional spending actions like impoundment over the last year. This would also be a violation of Medicaid law as states like MN are *entitled* to federal $ unless CMS goes through the proper admin process.

25.02.2026 22:21 — 👍 202    🔁 67    💬 3    📌 4

Listen...these dudes changed the locks on her mailbox

They marked her mail undeliverable and returned it to the sender

They blocked her & her tenants from receiving doctor’s bills, medications, credit card statements, car titles, property tax statements, & more

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...

25.02.2026 14:56 — 👍 1908    🔁 890    💬 53    📌 47
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In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.

“Any mail that’s getting dropped into a blue box is not getting postmarked on the same day, and likely not on the day after either,” says the leader of a postal workers’ union.

This could have tremendous implications for voting:

24.02.2026 21:32 — 👍 660    🔁 515    💬 32    📌 65

but we can't afford universal health care and housing for all.

22.02.2026 19:52 — 👍 1632    🔁 505    💬 49    📌 11

Your biennial reminder that Olympics Flav > Olympics Snoop

23.02.2026 22:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New law puts Kansas at vanguard of denying trans identities on drivers licenses, birth certificates Kansas is set to invalidate about 1,700 driver's licenses held by transgender residents and roughly as many of their birth certificates.

Roughly 1,700 trans people in Kansas are going to have their driver's licenses and birth certificates revoked this week.

apnews.com/article/tran...

23.02.2026 00:02 — 👍 1205    🔁 650    💬 52    📌 82
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TN bill would allow death penalty for women who have an abortion SBC President Clint Pressley endorsed the effort saying it would “provide preborn children with equal protection of the laws.”

“TN bill would allow death penalty for women who have an abortion *** The bill “prohibits all abortions from fertilization, without exceptions for rape or incest.”

It’s supported by the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest evangelical denomination. 2/20/26 … 1/

22.02.2026 17:20 — 👍 451    🔁 342    💬 85    📌 78

Crazy that Dems folded on this in November

22.02.2026 02:11 — 👍 203    🔁 24    💬 9    📌 0
With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans In states that once focused mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors, debates now revolve around the validity of transgender identity.

With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans In states that once focused mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors, debates now revolve around the validity of transgender identity.

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker.

Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

21.02.2026 15:59 — 👍 8051    🔁 2217    💬 63    📌 204

I don’t think anyone should have to even listen to this take from Vance while the Trump administration is litigating to end birthright citizenship, notwithstanding the clear text of the constitution.

19.02.2026 15:44 — 👍 1287    🔁 197    💬 36    📌 3
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Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

19.02.2026 21:43 — 👍 8700    🔁 1920    💬 3    📌 532

So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas.

Again, coming so to a "university" near you, in another state controlled by the far right authoritarian party.

19.02.2026 22:44 — 👍 37    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 2

Let me explain what this genuinely EVIL memo does. The admin is doubling down on its plan to arrest, detain, and interrogate tens of thousands of legally present refugees; people already vetted who’ve lived here legally for 1+ year.

Hundreds were arrested in Minnesota before a court blocked this.

19.02.2026 16:02 — 👍 1897    🔁 1026    💬 29    📌 47
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Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

NEW: The FDA has removed a webpage warning about dangerous therapies claiming to treat autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under RFK Jr. to discredit long-established science.

By @megomatz.bsky.social

18.02.2026 13:30 — 👍 2890    🔁 1548    💬 287    📌 201
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US military says it killed 11 people in strikes on three alleged drug boats | CNN Politics The US military struck three alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean on Monday night, killing all 11 people on board, US Southern Command said Tuesday.

Trump and Hegseth murder 11 more people on the high seas, and it barely makes a blip in the news cycle: www.cnn.com/2026/02/17/p...

18.02.2026 16:09 — 👍 327    🔁 173    💬 20    📌 20
Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
@micarosenberg
 et al for ProPublica:

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

17.02.2026 19:31 — 👍 12151    🔁 7001    💬 326    📌 833

10 million infuriating things about all this, one that stuck w me was the boardroom gibberish they put out to readers instead of saying flat out what had changed. Letter in print edition that suggested the same great coverage would be there. Next week: Small note, sorry, no books or sports

16.02.2026 20:34 — 👍 136    🔁 16    💬 4    📌 0
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Page 15 of the GOP’s Save America Act wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized voter purge program (called “SAVE”), which they know has had error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that they know was compromised by DOGE. #NoOnSave 1/

16.02.2026 19:18 — 👍 1149    🔁 819    💬 41    📌 83

I hope we’ve learned how seriously to take this stuff.

16.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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They're Coming for Our Daughters The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”

The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

09.02.2026 18:22 — 👍 4836    🔁 2670    💬 232    📌 480
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With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules

After a year of spectacular deregulation, “the United States will essentially have no laws on the books that enforce how efficient America’s passenger cars and trucks should be.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...

16.02.2026 15:58 — 👍 812    🔁 391    💬 52    📌 34
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He can't speak without being disingenuous.

Next time you see this 400 vs 10k citation, understand:

The EU figure refers to its approved food additives.

The US figure refers to all substances that can legally contact food, including packaging materials and processing aids.

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16.02.2026 16:53 — 👍 425    🔁 115    💬 7    📌 6
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NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

The government keeps doing it nonetheless.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

14.02.2026 12:14 — 👍 2430    🔁 1025    💬 53    📌 100
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‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

10.02.2026 01:10 — 👍 13927    🔁 5368    💬 374    📌 526