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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Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC): afac.org
Capital Area Food Bank: www.capitalareafoodbank.org
Feeding America: www.feedingamerica.org
Capital Area Food Bank: www.capitalareafoodbank.org
Feeding America: www.feedingamerica.org
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Veterans Day 2025
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/veterans-day
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/veterans-day
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Veterans Day 2025
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/veterans-day
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/veterans-day
Dad's naval service defined him, but he never applied for the veteran's benefits he was entitled to. I didn't know that until after he died. I wish I could ask him why.
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Dad's naval service defined him, but he never applied for the veteran's benefits he was entitled to. I didn't know that until after he died. I wish I could ask him why.
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🌬️It's like mid-January out there!
🧣Hope everyone is bundled up. Freezing temps (mid-20s to low 30s) and bitter wind chills -- in the teens and low 20s -- across the D.C. region.
🧣Hope everyone is bundled up. Freezing temps (mid-20s to low 30s) and bitter wind chills -- in the teens and low 20s -- across the D.C. region.
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
🌬️It's like mid-January out there!
🧣Hope everyone is bundled up. Freezing temps (mid-20s to low 30s) and bitter wind chills -- in the teens and low 20s -- across the D.C. region.
🧣Hope everyone is bundled up. Freezing temps (mid-20s to low 30s) and bitter wind chills -- in the teens and low 20s -- across the D.C. region.
Happy publication day, @sarahweinman.com! www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Without Consent
In December 1978, Greta Rideout bravely testified that her husband, John, whom she still lived with, had raped her. She was the first woman in United States history to do this, at a time when the idea...
www.sarahweinman.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Happy publication day, @sarahweinman.com! www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
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Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
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Sarah Weinman's upcoming book 'Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime' dives into a 1980 made-for-TV movie which tackled marital rape — before it was a crime nationwide.
Exclusive excerpt ↓
Exclusive excerpt ↓
Inside the 1980 Made-For-TV Movie That Tackled Marital Rape -- Before It Was a Crime Nationwide
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November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Sarah Weinman's upcoming book 'Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime' dives into a 1980 made-for-TV movie which tackled marital rape — before it was a crime nationwide.
Exclusive excerpt ↓
Exclusive excerpt ↓
Haven't we gotten to the deus ex machina yet? youtu.be/MYnVaOFqiv8?...
Third Threepenny Finale
YouTube video by Release - Topic
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Haven't we gotten to the deus ex machina yet? youtu.be/MYnVaOFqiv8?...
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BRRR! 🧊 Chilliest day since mid-April. Tonight will be (relatively) frigid w/ wind chills falling below freezing by mid-late evening and eventually to 16-22 in pre-dawn. DC should hit freezing...one of earliest in the last 30 years. Details/forecast update at cwg.live.
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Whew. It should never have gotten this far.
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Whew. It should never have gotten this far.
Happy feast day, Pope Leo. It's worth remembering that Leo the Great faced down Attila the Hun.
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Happy feast day, Pope Leo. It's worth remembering that Leo the Great faced down Attila the Hun.
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"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.” —Frederick Douglass, speaking to Senate Democrats
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.” —Frederick Douglass, speaking to Senate Democrats
I’m sorry he’s not around to comment on all this. youtu.be/Roi7yquxvZ8?...
I Was in the House When the House Burned Down
YouTube video by Warren Zevon - Topic
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I’m sorry he’s not around to comment on all this. youtu.be/Roi7yquxvZ8?...
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Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.
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I think this is the question Democrats are gonna get over and over: if you just handed over your main demand in the end, why cause a painful shutdown at all?
Governing is more than politics, but wild to see this group of Dems arguably toss the whole party under the bus, *politically* speaking.
Governing is more than politics, but wild to see this group of Dems arguably toss the whole party under the bus, *politically* speaking.
How do you make this your central demand for 40 days and then just let it go
Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I think this is the question Democrats are gonna get over and over: if you just handed over your main demand in the end, why cause a painful shutdown at all?
Governing is more than politics, but wild to see this group of Dems arguably toss the whole party under the bus, *politically* speaking.
Governing is more than politics, but wild to see this group of Dems arguably toss the whole party under the bus, *politically* speaking.
And I'm out of bourbon.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
And I'm out of bourbon.
Do you reject Satan? And all his works? And all his empty promises?
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Do you reject Satan? And all his works? And all his empty promises?
This is worse than useless. Please don't vote for it, @markwarner.bsky.social and @kaine.senate.gov.
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is worse than useless. Please don't vote for it, @markwarner.bsky.social and @kaine.senate.gov.
Tim Kaine's Senate phone number isn't taking messages. Dear @kaine.senate.gov staffer who isn't getting paid right now, please tell your boss not to make any deals for empty promises. I hate that you're not getting paid. Trading for nothing is not the answer. Thanks.
November 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Tim Kaine's Senate phone number isn't taking messages. Dear @kaine.senate.gov staffer who isn't getting paid right now, please tell your boss not to make any deals for empty promises. I hate that you're not getting paid. Trading for nothing is not the answer. Thanks.
Gambling is a cancer on the sport. The next step is somebody getting killed because they didn't perform to a gambler's order.
Breaking news per Jeff Passan: “Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz have been indicted by prosecutors in Brooklyn on a host of charges related to a scheme to rig bets on pitches thrown in MLB games. Ortiz was arrested in Boston earlier today. Clase is not currently in custody”
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Gambling is a cancer on the sport. The next step is somebody getting killed because they didn't perform to a gambler's order.
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A running theme throughout the Bible—Hebrew and Christian—is "Don't fall into the trap of thinking you're *better* than your neighbor just because you're *better off* than your neighbor." It's incredible how universal that error is, and how universally ignored the corrective tends to be.
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A running theme throughout the Bible—Hebrew and Christian—is "Don't fall into the trap of thinking you're *better* than your neighbor just because you're *better off* than your neighbor." It's incredible how universal that error is, and how universally ignored the corrective tends to be.
This is *illegal*, besides being offensive and downright laughable. Don’t normalize this, @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This is *illegal*, besides being offensive and downright laughable. Don’t normalize this, @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
Important to note, important to remember.
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Important to note, important to remember.
I have an out-of-town work event on Thursday and can’t join the prayer vigil in front of ICE headquarters that morning. If you can, get details here: 1family.us
"One Church, One Family"
1family.us
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I have an out-of-town work event on Thursday and can’t join the prayer vigil in front of ICE headquarters that morning. If you can, get details here: 1family.us
THIS. Exactly.
Anyway, AI doesn’t have any value for me in anything I do. I understand this says something about *what* I do. But also? It’s only practically existed for maybe 18 months. I loved and worked almost 45 years without it so yeah, I’m cool.
November 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
THIS. Exactly.