Ellie Thorman

I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

We Have to Move "There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

One of my favorite ways to see the world.

Another summer heavily featuring Rosie the cat.

it turns out that embracing a multi-racial, multi-faith democracy is the best path towards peace in this chaotic world.

Recently.

Republicans and Elon Musk are also causing a constitutional crisis in the states The GOP is going to unprecedented lengths to seize power over state courts in North Carolina and Wisconsin.

Groups tied to Elon Musk have already spent more than $4.2 million on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race—a clear sign that his plans for oligarchy extend well beyond Washington.

“As we’ve seen with the attack on health care for trans minors, children often serve as the canary in the coal mine for abusive conservatives’ most radical ideas.”

A Supreme Court Race May Shuffle the Rules of Wisconsin’s Democracy, Again Two years after liberals flipped this supreme court, ushering in a new era on election issues from gerrymandering to drop boxes, conservatives hope to win it back in April.

In 2023, Wisconsin’s supreme court flipped to liberals for the first time since at least 2008. Now, with a liberal justice retiring, control of the court is on the line once again.
boltsmag.org/wiscons...

Children’s Wisconsin hospital cancels gender-affirming care for trans teen after Trump’s executive order The Gender Health Clinic at Children’s Wisconsin hospital in Milwaukee canceled a transgender teenager’s appointment this week — the first reported case of a Wisconsin hospital pausing gender-affir…

SCOOP from me @wisconsinwatch.bsky.social: Wisconsin youth gender clinic cancels appointment for hormone replacement therapy after Trump’s anti-trans executive order. wisconsinwatch.org/2025/02/wisc...

upton sinclair, shredding from his grave:
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*mj lenderman voice*

Well, they haven't fixed their hearts, so

Everything is extremely chaotic but the best info we have so far suggests that Trump’s “stop funding” EO would cover:

Medicaid
ESSA funds
IDEA
Snap
School meals
WIC
Head start grants
Child care block grants
Pell grants
Student loans
Higher Ed grants
Housing vouchers
CTE

Devastating beyond words.

Trump's illegal freeze on billions of dollars allocated by law could:

-Hurt people in federally subsidized housing
-Block maternal and child health grants
-Halt emergency public health efforts
-Limit lead reduction efforts
-Hurt students on scholarship
-Harm hospitals

And much more.

Rosie the cat.

Lately.

leaded glass skylights at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple (1908) in Oak Park, IL

New You
Mondovi, WI

A Letter From Home - Jimmy Carter — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

“Home is a complicated idea. Is it the physical bricks and mortar in which you live, or is it a feeling? Is it the people you see each day who contribute to the feeling of belonging that comes with “home”? Can you feel at home anywhere?” Jimmy Carter for @bittersouth.bsky.social in 2021:

In peril cleaning out my inbox.

Disassociating at a roller rink in western Wisconsin and the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is playing extremely loudly.

Quick escape from the Midwest.

This cross country Amtrak trip better fix me or else. No other options left.

Forced to work when all I want to do is read my newsletters at the bar.

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