Ellen Clair Lamb
@eclamb.bsky.social
I answer to both first names — what you call me depends on how you know me. Editor, writer, insufferable know-it-all. Natitude, Hoya Saxa, AMDG.
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Ellen Clair Lamb
@eclamb.bsky.social
· Dec 8
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
Gone for ten years. Eternal. Who understood that paradox better than David Bowie? youtu.be/lXgkuM2NhYI?...
David Bowie - "Heroes" (Official Video) [HD]
YouTube video by David Bowie
youtu.be
January 10, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Gone for ten years. Eternal. Who understood that paradox better than David Bowie? youtu.be/lXgkuM2NhYI?...
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Left: Trump demands a cap on credit card interest rates.
Right: News story, from today, about Trump's ongoing efforts to shut down the CFPB, which would enforce such a rule. Court has ordered admin to keep it open.
Right: News story, from today, about Trump's ongoing efforts to shut down the CFPB, which would enforce such a rule. Court has ordered admin to keep it open.
January 10, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Left: Trump demands a cap on credit card interest rates.
Right: News story, from today, about Trump's ongoing efforts to shut down the CFPB, which would enforce such a rule. Court has ordered admin to keep it open.
Right: News story, from today, about Trump's ongoing efforts to shut down the CFPB, which would enforce such a rule. Court has ordered admin to keep it open.
Wow. WOW.
The Washington National Opera is leaving the Kennedy Center.
🤭
🤭
January 9, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Wow. WOW.
I don't understand what they think that video shows. Even trying to understand it is damaging my brain.
January 9, 2026 at 8:30 PM
I don't understand what they think that video shows. Even trying to understand it is damaging my brain.
Jim Lehrer put this in a novel 35 years ago — www.fantasticfiction.com/l/jim-lehrer...
January 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Jim Lehrer put this in a novel 35 years ago — www.fantasticfiction.com/l/jim-lehrer...
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Have fun & be good and very careful of all dangers.
January 9, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Have fun & be good and very careful of all dangers.
I miss those reckless days when you could just have a cold without having to wonder whether it was something that could kill you and everyone around you.
January 9, 2026 at 8:21 AM
I miss those reckless days when you could just have a cold without having to wonder whether it was something that could kill you and everyone around you.
Somehow I managed to turn in two massive projects today AND get a newsletter out and the news is making me wonder if I’m hallucinating.
January 8, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Somehow I managed to turn in two massive projects today AND get a newsletter out and the news is making me wonder if I’m hallucinating.
This is the truth. This is reality. Remember it. Repeat it.
We are not divided.
A majority of adults oppose Trump’s attack on Venezuela. A majority think ICE has gone too far. A majority disapproves of the president.
A majority of adults oppose Trump’s attack on Venezuela. A majority think ICE has gone too far. A majority disapproves of the president.
January 8, 2026 at 11:44 PM
This is the truth. This is reality. Remember it. Repeat it.
I have the greatest potential screenplay.
Trump's economic talking points have subtly shifted: "We have the greatest potential economy in history"
January 8, 2026 at 8:41 PM
I have the greatest potential screenplay.
The TV chyron actually says, “Denmark not willing to sell Greenland.” Where are we?
January 8, 2026 at 7:53 PM
The TV chyron actually says, “Denmark not willing to sell Greenland.” Where are we?
Thank you, @kaine.senate.gov.
Welcome to the resistence: Senate passes bill to block further military action in Venezuela www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Senate passes bill to block further military action in Venezuela
Though largely symbolic, the vote was a rare assertion of Congress’s role in using lethal force after the stunning raid to capture Nicolás Maduro.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Thank you, @kaine.senate.gov.
They believe we are the enemy. How do we get back from this?
Trump's goons are already pepper spraying and roughing up people in the Twin Cities this morning
January 8, 2026 at 5:20 PM
They believe we are the enemy. How do we get back from this?
No sane person wants Greenland to be part of the United States.
No sane person thinks the US should try to govern Venezuela.
No sane person could see the MN killing as anything other than murder.
No sane person thinks the US should try to govern Venezuela.
No sane person could see the MN killing as anything other than murder.
January 7, 2026 at 8:31 PM
No sane person wants Greenland to be part of the United States.
No sane person thinks the US should try to govern Venezuela.
No sane person could see the MN killing as anything other than murder.
No sane person thinks the US should try to govern Venezuela.
No sane person could see the MN killing as anything other than murder.
Manspreading on a packed Metro train should be a ticketable offense.
January 7, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Manspreading on a packed Metro train should be a ticketable offense.
Insane.
Ogles: "It's important that we have a stake in Greenland, that they are quite frankly a protectorate of the US. They've been in relationship with Denmark - that needs to end. We've spilled more blood protecting Greenland than the Danes... we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere"
January 7, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Insane.
Tonight I learned that the Archbishop of Miami rides a Harley. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
Archbishop Wenski leads ‘Knights on Bikes’ to pray rosary at Alligator Alcatraz
Archbishop Wenski of Miami and some 25 Knights of Columbus saddled up their motorcycles to pray a rosary at the entrance of Alligator Alcatraz, the migrant detention center recently opened in the Flor...
www.americamagazine.org
January 7, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Tonight I learned that the Archbishop of Miami rides a Harley. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
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Never forget. 🇺🇸
January 6, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Never forget. 🇺🇸
At least eight National Guard members bunched up behind the stationmaster’s kiosk at McPherson Square this morning. I’m so sick of this.
January 6, 2026 at 3:26 PM
At least eight National Guard members bunched up behind the stationmaster’s kiosk at McPherson Square this morning. I’m so sick of this.
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Thucydides did not write the Melian Dialogue for people to forget Athens lost the Peloponnesian War.
January 6, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Thucydides did not write the Melian Dialogue for people to forget Athens lost the Peloponnesian War.
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Pope Leo on Feast of Epiphany, and Closing of Jubilee Year: “A distorted economy tries to profit from everything. We see how the marketplace can turn human yearnings of seeking, traveling and beginning again into a mere business.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
January 6, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Pope Leo on Feast of Epiphany, and Closing of Jubilee Year: “A distorted economy tries to profit from everything. We see how the marketplace can turn human yearnings of seeking, traveling and beginning again into a mere business.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
A safe bet.
I mean things may get stupider
January 6, 2026 at 3:05 AM
A safe bet.
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January 5, 2026 at 9:39 PM
We’re #hiring two reporters in D.C.:
🗞️ A Loose Lips Reporter to lead our political coverage
📰 A news reporter to cover how the federal government impacts local politics and everyday life in D.C.
Share with a friend & learn more here:
🗞️ A Loose Lips Reporter to lead our political coverage
📰 A news reporter to cover how the federal government impacts local politics and everyday life in D.C.
Share with a friend & learn more here:
You think it can’t get worse, but it does. apple.news/AgJ76d0bCR9-...
A Mystery Trader Made $400,000 Betting on Maduro’s Downfall — The Wall Street Journal
The person doubled down Friday with a final bet on Polymarket at 9:58 p.m., shortly before President Trump ordered the military to strike
apple.news
January 5, 2026 at 8:25 PM
You think it can’t get worse, but it does. apple.news/AgJ76d0bCR9-...
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Happy new year! Watch for a newsletter sometime next week with information about A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD (May 2026) and Charlie Parker's return to France in March. If you're not subscribing, you can do that at www.johnconnollybooks.com.
January 5, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Happy new year! Watch for a newsletter sometime next week with information about A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD (May 2026) and Charlie Parker's return to France in March. If you're not subscribing, you can do that at www.johnconnollybooks.com.