Ellen Bender
@ellenbnyc.bsky.social
Co-Founder, Markers For Democracy, Postcards To Voters Writer, Retired Lawyer, Mom, Reader of Banned Books https://linktr.ee/markersfordemocracy
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Really worried what bombshell Lizza will drop next:
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Really worried what bombshell Lizza will drop next:
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I’m the Gen X whisperer in my group because I speak passable if not fluent Zoomer. I had so many conversations simply explaining why they like Zohran but that was enough to change some minds. The kids are alright.
November 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I’m the Gen X whisperer in my group because I speak passable if not fluent Zoomer. I had so many conversations simply explaining why they like Zohran but that was enough to change some minds. The kids are alright.
"How young Zohran Mamdani voters persuaded their parents to get on board" Like a mini "Great Shlep" (if people remember that ad campaign from the 2008 presidential election). It happened in our family too. gothamist.com/news/how-young… via @gothamist.com
https://gothamist.com/news/how-young…
November 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"How young Zohran Mamdani voters persuaded their parents to get on board" Like a mini "Great Shlep" (if people remember that ad campaign from the 2008 presidential election). It happened in our family too. gothamist.com/news/how-young… via @gothamist.com
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Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.
"She sounds like a playground bully, age 10 or so, going after smaller kids and making clear that anyone who crosses her is doomed—to a barrage of humiliation, at the least."
www.thebulwark.com/p/elise-stef... (edited)
www.thebulwark.com/p/elise-stef... (edited)
Elise Stefanik’s Bad Bet on MAGA Politics
For a promise of power, she has let herself be yanked around. Now she’s launched a Trumpian campaign for governor of New York.
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November 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"She sounds like a playground bully, age 10 or so, going after smaller kids and making clear that anyone who crosses her is doomed—to a barrage of humiliation, at the least."
www.thebulwark.com/p/elise-stef... (edited)
www.thebulwark.com/p/elise-stef... (edited)
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This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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Call your Senators NOW. Repeat tomorrow. No deal without healthcare.
(202) 224-3121
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(202) 224-3121
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November 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Call your Senators NOW. Repeat tomorrow. No deal without healthcare.
(202) 224-3121
☎️☎️☎️☎️🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
(202) 224-3121
☎️☎️☎️☎️🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
@danpfeiffer.bsky.social "Did Donald Trump Just Become a Lame Duck?" A sleepy lame duck. www.messageboxnews.com/p/did-donald...
Did Donald Trump Just Become a Lame Duck?
Tuesday's election signaled Trump might entering a different, weaker phase of his presidency
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November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
@danpfeiffer.bsky.social "Did Donald Trump Just Become a Lame Duck?" A sleepy lame duck. www.messageboxnews.com/p/did-donald...
I love that @terrymoranabc.bsky.social fit Bob Dylan, Lytton Strachey, and Mary Oliver in this Sunday reflection. open.substack.com/pub/terrymor...
The Sunday Poem
Youth will be served
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November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I love that @terrymoranabc.bsky.social fit Bob Dylan, Lytton Strachey, and Mary Oliver in this Sunday reflection. open.substack.com/pub/terrymor...
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And of course his greatest hit, the story that introduced me to him, and has now gone eight years without being corrected: Peters’ absolute whopper of a lie in defense of Trump’s reaction to the Nazi riot in Charlottesville
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How the New York Times made 'The Charlottesville Lie' hoax possible
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November 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
And of course his greatest hit, the story that introduced me to him, and has now gone eight years without being corrected: Peters’ absolute whopper of a lie in defense of Trump’s reaction to the Nazi riot in Charlottesville
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To put the Mamdani story in context, Peters did the exactly opposite work for Glenn Youngkin four years ago — in that case laundering right-wing operatives into his story under the guise of being regular voters (a thing he has done repeatedly) theracket.news/p/the-far-ri...
The far right's secret weapon
Have some extreme reactionism you need to sell? Call the politics desk of the New York Times.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
To put the Mamdani story in context, Peters did the exactly opposite work for Glenn Youngkin four years ago — in that case laundering right-wing operatives into his story under the guise of being regular voters (a thing he has done repeatedly) theracket.news/p/the-far-ri...
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* the lede in question: bsky.app/profile/katz...
Jeremy W. Peters identifies the tell-tale sign of “leftist dogma” in @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: pronouncing Haiti’s name correctly
November 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
* the lede in question: bsky.app/profile/katz...
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It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom
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I love the Grassroots Connector because it covers - with a practitioner's lens - the real work that is happening behind the election night headlines.
Here from @robbzw.bsky.social is the real story of the leaders and organizers who flipped Virginia: grassrootsconnector.substack.com/p/how-virgin...
Here from @robbzw.bsky.social is the real story of the leaders and organizers who flipped Virginia: grassrootsconnector.substack.com/p/how-virgin...
How Virginia Won Big — A Story of the Grassroots
It’s Time We Take Credit
grassrootsconnector.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I love the Grassroots Connector because it covers - with a practitioner's lens - the real work that is happening behind the election night headlines.
Here from @robbzw.bsky.social is the real story of the leaders and organizers who flipped Virginia: grassrootsconnector.substack.com/p/how-virgin...
Here from @robbzw.bsky.social is the real story of the leaders and organizers who flipped Virginia: grassrootsconnector.substack.com/p/how-virgin...
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Literally the one place in the country where Democrats got their clock cleaned was in the home county of state chair who refused to endorse Mamdani and has generally overseen a string very poor democratic performances.
Has New York Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs resigned over Mamdani yet? I hope he hasn't, so that he can instead resign over *improving Republican margins over Trump 2024 in an anti-Republican wave election*. Trump won Nassau by just 4%—now look at this bloodbath
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Literally the one place in the country where Democrats got their clock cleaned was in the home county of state chair who refused to endorse Mamdani and has generally overseen a string very poor democratic performances.
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Not even Long Island in total, just Nassau! We made up ground next door in Suffolk!
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Not even Long Island in total, just Nassau! We made up ground next door in Suffolk!
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Ironically this shit they intend to smear a Muslim with is just going to end up fracturing Jewish communities in a time where they need each other the most.
November 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Ironically this shit they intend to smear a Muslim with is just going to end up fracturing Jewish communities in a time where they need each other the most.
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Agreed, also I think Jews need to confront a pernicious Islamophobia problem across our temples. bsky.app/profile/ryan...
Ironically this shit they intend to smear a Muslim with is just going to end up fracturing Jewish communities in a time where they need each other the most.
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Agreed, also I think Jews need to confront a pernicious Islamophobia problem across our temples. bsky.app/profile/ryan...