Ellen Lammers

Please ignore typo. Is there really no edit button here either? 😐

What’s Behind the Dispute Over Extending Health Care Subsidies

Time is of the essence to for both parties to negotiate healthcare subsidies now. The signup period begins Nov 1.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

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This is the legacy moment for Disney CEO Robert Iger, a man who once toyed with a Presidential run as a Democrat. You stand up for unpopular free speech or you stand against all free speech. There's no middle.

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In Washington Crackdown, Making a Federal Case Out of Low-Level Arrests

Another words- trumped-up charges. Just to concoct a narrative.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/u...

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

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People who watched "The Handmaid's Tale" and were like "Yeah!"

Contemplating adding “orophile” to my bio.

Thanks to @TravelCrestedButte Instagram

Let’s spread some positive vibes today…

Turn up the sound, and fill your heart with the goodness that comes from the innocence of little ones and dogs ❤️

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Two-thirds of the DOJ unit defending Trump policies in court have quit Seven lawyers who spoke with Reuters cited a punishing workload and the need to defend policies that some felt were not legally justifiable among the key reasons for the wave of departures.

(Reuters) - DoJ lawyers are quitting with some fearing Trump administration policies to dismantle certain federal agencies and claw back funding appear to violate the Constitution.

'I Think We’re Gonna Stay': Texans Hang On in Tragedy-Stricken Hill Country The Richardsons are among the lucky in Kerr County, at the epicenter of “flash flood alley,” who narrowly survived the river’s sudden rise.

“With climate change, which we don’t talk about in Texas, most of our floodplain maps are obsolete. They’re out of date. The rainfall amounts are not nearly large enough to predict the type of floods we’re going to have. So whatever [Texans] think it is, it’s worse than they think.”

Attorney general: ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ sign cannot be displayed in Idaho schools The sign violates a new law that prohibits the display of flags or banners have a political viewpoint, according to an Idaho attorney general’s office opinion obtained by EdNews through a pub…

www.idahoednews.org/top-news/att...

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My wife became a citizen in 2006. I’ve repeatedly said that attending her (and 100+ others) naturalization ceremony on a random fall day in Syracuse is the most I’ve loved America. It’s America at its best; the very embodiment of our values. This is a clear threat to us all.

The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

"It would be a catastrophically unwise decision for humanity to abandon a key step in training young brains simply because they can now clack a few keys and produce something that sounds intelligent even as they never become intelligent" - @brianklaas.bsky.social

www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-death-...

“… includes much of the national forests that surround Grand Teton National Park: the Bridger-Teton National Forest on the east side of Jackson Hole and the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, which directly borders the western side of the Tetons.” 😡

“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

~J. R. R. Tolkien

"True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom & equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood & good will, & a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Poetry Revised for 2025 Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, because the chemical plant jaundicing the region was ordered by a court to create an alternative, protected fo...

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways: First, there is your executive order saying that it’s illegal not to.”

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happy bday marine biologist/writer Rachel Carson, b.1907, Springdale, PA, best known for Silent Spring.

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

“In nature nothing exists alone.”

It’s hard to put into words just how comprehensively this bill is going to hurt public colleges and universities in Texas—especially UT.

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On this day in 1856 the anti-slavery town of Lawrence, KS is burned and destroyed by white supremacists. These racists "halted production of the Free-State newspapers the Kansas Free State and the Herald of Freedom, destroying the presses and offices."

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

“ The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history” - George Orwell
www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...

Map of local National Weather Service office "areas of responsibility" modified (using polygons with black outlines and red fill) to indicate where recent/expanding cuts to NOAA/NWS have resulting in understaffing so extreme that some offices can not longer operate on a 24/7 basis.

I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx