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Ellen McGrath Smith

@ellenbreezely.bsky.social

I write and help other people with their writing.

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They have no healthcare plan. They only have a plan to take away what exists.

12.11.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 8453    πŸ” 2180    πŸ’¬ 311    πŸ“Œ 111
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Jim Comey Channels Media Matters - emptywheel In Jim Comey's latest filings, he provided Lindsey Halligan's Loaner AUSAs a lesson about the import of checking what was on Fox and Friends 8 years ago to know where Donald Trump's brain was.

Jim Comey Channels Media Matters, with a cameo from the former future Defense Secretary!

www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/11/j...

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β€œUnconstitutional”: Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva calls out House Speaker Mike Johnson after he’s now promising to swear her in β€” seven weeks after she won an election.

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When I was pregnant, I tried to eat well, stay healthy & protect myself from undue stress because the baby could be affected.

For this reason, ICE had a long time policy not to detain pregnant people.

But now they are detaining them, brutalizing them & denying medical attention.
#ICELawlessness

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John Fetterman’s cognitive decline raises new questions about Joe Biden’s age.

12.11.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1451    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 5

IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO, WHAT THE HELL WAS THE POINT OF THE SHUTDOWN @schumer.senate.gov

A "PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE" MEANS THAT PEOPLE WILL LOSE THEIR HEALTHCARE

09.11.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 912    πŸ” 349    πŸ’¬ 66    πŸ“Œ 22

Why are you attacking him so hard?

I prefer to blame the people who ACTUALLY DID THIS BULLSHIT!

These people.

You'll notice Chuck Schumer IS NOT AMONG THEM!

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Let’s cut to the chase. This was a fucking awful vote. Can’t wait for one of these fuckers to ask me for a goddamn dime.

10.11.2025 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 216    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

Institutional Democrats have definitely made a strategic decision that those constituents most engaged in politics don't count. Unless it comes to fundraising.

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Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.

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Money Talks News: American families will pay an average of $2,700 more annually due to Trump's tariff policies.

GOP Rochester Hills, Michigan Mayor: "Higher tariffs lead to higher cost. Higher cost leads to lower demand. Lower demand leads to lower production...means job loss."
#ProudBlue #Pinks

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Mamdani Brings Lina Khan Onto His Team After Historic Election Win Zohran Mamdani has named his transition teamβ€”and it’s amazing.

New York City Mayor-elect Mamdani is kicking off with a big move: bringing former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan to co-chair his transition team.

It's a strong suggestion that he’s willing to take on powerful corporate interests as mayor. trib.al/99csETK

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Nope, that's not true. Trump was on every ballot that had Republicans running for office. Voters called bullshit on the fascist fucks.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

05.11.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 287    πŸ” 103    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 5
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Immigration agents take daycare worker from inside North Center facility In a video circulating on social media, agents in vests can be seen dragging the woman out of the school building shortly after 7 a.m.

When Trump says he's targeting "the worst of the worst" with his immigration crackdown, he means he's dragging a day care worker out of a North Side Chicago center without a warrant, traumatizing the children she cares for.

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Last night Pennsylvania, the country and world got to see the true power of our nation, the power of the VOTE. When voters show up and speak up incredible things can happen.

And in PA the voters showed up with a big oh hell YES!!!

#PADems #VoteLocalPA

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05.11.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 226    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 1
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β€˜Tariffs are taxes’: US supreme court hears challenge to Trump levies as justices appear doubtful of White House reasoning – live Both conservative and liberal US supreme court justices have voiced skepticism over the Trump administration’s justification for tariffs

SCOTUS appears doubtful re legality of tariffs as Atty Neal Katyal argues: β€œTariffs are taxes. They take dollars from Americans pockets...Our founders gave that taxing power to Congress alone. POTUS bypassed Congress and imposed one of the largest tax increases.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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A win! A federal judge has ruled that the White House must once again provide American Sign Language interpreters during press briefings. The U.S. District Judge Amir Ali emphasized that these briefings inform Americans about critical

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Now, the real work begins to build a brighter future for Virginia.

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Daycare teacher detained by immigration agents on Northwest Side, video shows Video purportedly showed two federal agents pulling the woman out of Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center at 2550 W. Addison St. around 7 a.m.

Daycare teacher detained by immigration agents on Northwest Side, video shows
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

05.11.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Cities and Nonprofits Return to Court, Seeking Full Food Stamp Payments

NEW: Trump now says he will not pay food stamps in November, even though his admin told a court yesterday it would make partial payments. The benefits are once again in jeopardy, as officials are back at court, seeking to force the release of full aid.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

04.11.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 358    πŸ” 164    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 54

CBS and softball questions, bought and paid for. We need real journalism, real questions and real follow ups.

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Pegasus Spyware Put on Phone of Khashoggi’s Wife: Washington Post Spyware was placed on the phone of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s wife, Hanan Elatr, before Khashoggi was murdered in 2018, The Washington Post reports.

#Pinks #ProudBlue
This is an old article. I just started following this story. Pegasus spyware is what got Khashoggi killed. Biden outlawed it during his presidency but now Trump is going to allow them to use it in the U.S.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

03.11.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 116    πŸ” 100    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3

In PA we’re gonna fight all the way through Election Day, Tuesday, November 4th to Retain our Judges.

What happens in PA doesn’t stay in PA. This fight to protect women’s reproductive rights, defend our freedoms, and keep our courts fair and independent.

#VoteYesToRetainOurJudges

02.11.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Trump thinks losing your title because of sexual abuse is a terrible thing.

Trump thinks losing your title because of sexual abuse is a terrible thing.

Day #287. #proudblue

Anyone who supports a leader who thinks it's a shame that there are consequences to fulky participating in child sex trafficking is not a friend of mine.

03.11.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 99    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5
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🀷🏼

03.11.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 20092    πŸ” 7066    πŸ’¬ 957    πŸ“Œ 354

What are they paying him? Fetterman you are lost!

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But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our countryβ€”pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialistsβ€”are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already

But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our countryβ€”pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialistsβ€”are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

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