Elle
@elleemmakay.bsky.social
Pro-democracy American ⚖️🇺🇸 Anti-GOP, Anti-tr*mp, Abolish ICE Cat lady 🐈⬛🌈🌱 Animal lover 🐾 Pro-choice, Pro-immigration🗽 Pro-equality 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼 Separation of church & state Universal healthcare, please Sudoku addict 🤓
Pritzker: So here’s the truth, plain and simple: Our state is under siege. Not by protesters, immigrants, the deep state, the press, Canada or Mexico or Greenland, Antifa or Jewish space lasers or pride parades. No. Our state's under siege by a petty, corrupt man in Washington.
Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
Gov. Pritzker: I have to find money that we don’t have to fight problems that didn’t exist before Donald Trump. I’m not the only one.
This is one of many reasons I don't trust what we're hearing from DHS. And also, DHS always lies. Always.
jesse@jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 2h agoweird how he can get flown back to his home country within days, yet everyone else in ICE custody rots in a hole for weeks or months until they get sent to whichever country has the most diseases in its prisons
weird how he can get flown back to his home country within days, yet everyone else in ICE custody rots in a hole for weeks or months until they get sent to whichever country has the most diseases in its prisons
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 7h agoFar-right media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE from US to UK
Pete Hegseth wants to be PRESIDENT?! Yes, that’s apparently something he wants. Katie Phang has a whole lot of thoughts...
Stupid Is as Stupid Does
"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."
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Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
When this nation’s first president chopped down one cherry tree, he was honest and contrite. When the current president chopped down a slew of cherry trees, he did so in violation of a court order—and didn’t give a shit.
Whoa! Pentagon officials are warning of Navy payroll shortfalls after funds meant for service member pay were raided to help cover war costs. 📌 An official says they had to use “imaginative” workarounds to avoid the shortfall.
🚨 ICYMI: This is one of the most offensive and egregious things I’ve ever covered (and that’s saying a lot seeing how it’s Florida):
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW: A Florida grand jury finds the DeSantis Administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer funds when it diverted the money to the Casey DeSantis’-related nonprofit, Hope Florida Foundation. I track the money flow in this outrageous corruption and grift! youtu.be/JDOh1GUZrfs?...
An ICE agent charged with shooting a man in Minneapolis after lying about it was released from a Texas jail. It's clear that the Trump Administration and DHS lie, act with impunity, reject checks and balances, and ignore Congress and the Courts.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2d agoChristian Castro, the ICE agent charged with shooting and injuring a man in Minneapolis, has been released from a jail in Texas after a federal judge denied Minnesota’s request to keep him in custody.
Trump cut down cherry trees for which Washington DC is famous for one of his tacky golf courses. He’s planning to sell some of Yosemite Park to a private developer. He’s destroyed the East Wing. He’s threatened to demolish the Kennedy Center. That vulgar slob has no respect for beauty.
That the FBI being run by Kash Patal is apparently a magnet for people into beastialiry is the least surprising thing I will read this week.
FBI Reportedly Loosens Hiring Rules So ‘Prostitution and Bestiality’ Are No Longer ‘Automatic Disqualifiers’
The FBI has reportedly relaxed hiring standards that previously automatically disqualified applicants who admitted to hiring prostitutes, engaging in bestiality, or stealing from an employer.
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Rice: The world is looking at this and seeing the United States and Israel throwing the military kitchen sink at Iran and failing. So it’s more than the lies and the bluster and the memes and the threats. It’s the real perception of a weakened American deterrence…
🇨🇦 FORD: "I've received numerous calls from governors saying we're always going to call it Lake Ontario. And obviously, Canada is always going to call it Lake Ontario. So, that's our message to Trump. And we’ll never back down from a bully. Ever.”
Sometimes I can’t even fully process the catastrophe that RFK Jr. has unleashed upon the United States. It is infuriating and demoralizing that tens of thousands of scientists and healthcare professionals banded together to oppose his confirmation, and Republicans just blithely ignored us all.
🎉 WIN: A slate of anti-voting measures in North Carolina is unlikely to take effect before the midterms — thanks to voters taking action. The GOP-controlled elections board approved stricter mail voting standards and ID requirements despite public criticism. Here's how the public fought back:
Public objections pause new voting restrictions in North Carolina – at least for now
The voting restrictions approved by the Republican-controlled Rules Review Commission include tightening ID requirements to register to vote and stricter mail voting standards.
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The Trump administration secretly obtained 6 months of phone records for a journalist without a search warrant or any judicial oversight.
Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’
Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies
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Elias Law Group is currently litigating 83 voting and election cases across 42 states + DC. Georgia has the most with 9, followed by Florida, Louisiana, Virginia and DC. The only states with zero: Alaska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wyoming.
Wow, that crawl… IG: @umkumbe_bush_lodge SabieGameReserve, South Africa
A federal judge in California says the U.S. government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel's war in Gaza and others as part of the Trump administration's quest to deport noncitizens who it says disrupted college campuses while expressing their views. https://to.pbs.org/4chWtIo
Trump cannot deport students for criticizing Israel, judge rules
Judge Noël Wise, in a ruling Friday, delivered a victory for the student newspaper at Stanford University, which has said some international students were afraid to speak out because of the deportatio...
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The American people are getting sicker as healthcare providers worry about how they will continue to operate. @repemilyrandall.bsky.social makes it clear that Trump has defunded our healthcare system while Americans pay the price.
The massive nationwide electricity rate hikes aren’t happening simply because utility services have gotten more expensive or customers have been receiving better service. It’s because utility monopolies have bought off the system that’s supposed to keep them in check.
The Secret Behind High Electricity Bills
Private utility companies like PG&E, Duke, and Exelon control electricity for nearly 70% of Americans — and they're usin
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Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social: “We’re seeing the largest attack on Black political representation since the end of Reconstruction— this election is about which direction we head as a country: towards this New Confederacy… or a multiracial democracy.”
5 measles deaths in 2 years is too many when we have a vaccine that is 97% effective at preventing infection. It’s ghoulish to dismiss the tragedy of these deaths.
More than 60 trees have been cut down at the East Potomac Golf Links in Washington, D.C., raising alarms among preservationists ahead of a planned golf course overhaul backed by President Donald Trump.
Note the more immediate thing folks are missing abt these stories is that Elon was declared to have broken GA mail-in ballot law, he was referred for bribery prosecution (but not charged), and is being sued under two different theories, one stiffing workers, another fraud.
Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · 5h agoMore than a few people have assumed Axios would have an especially slanted view on this, but pretty much every piece about Musk diving into the midterms ignores, well… all of it.
