Loretta Ellsworth
@lorettaellsworth.bsky.social
Author of books for children and adults- out now: The French Winemaker’s Daughter (HarperCollins)
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NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
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I don’t have a clue. Dems offered the GOP a 1 year ACA subsidy compromise and the GOP told them to kick rocks.
Longest shutdown continues, I guess.
Longest shutdown continues, I guess.
November 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I don’t have a clue. Dems offered the GOP a 1 year ACA subsidy compromise and the GOP told them to kick rocks.
Longest shutdown continues, I guess.
Longest shutdown continues, I guess.
Two months!
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Two months!
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This. Also:
1. Our nuclear modernization started under Obama.
2. The only significant nuclear expansion under Trump was the low-yield W76 mod 2 submarine launched ballistic missile.
3. Testing nukes is fucking stupid. We don’t need to do it.
1. Our nuclear modernization started under Obama.
2. The only significant nuclear expansion under Trump was the low-yield W76 mod 2 submarine launched ballistic missile.
3. Testing nukes is fucking stupid. We don’t need to do it.
None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"
October 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
This. Also:
1. Our nuclear modernization started under Obama.
2. The only significant nuclear expansion under Trump was the low-yield W76 mod 2 submarine launched ballistic missile.
3. Testing nukes is fucking stupid. We don’t need to do it.
1. Our nuclear modernization started under Obama.
2. The only significant nuclear expansion under Trump was the low-yield W76 mod 2 submarine launched ballistic missile.
3. Testing nukes is fucking stupid. We don’t need to do it.
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Did you know that your healthcare premiums are about to double because the GOP is intentionally sabotaging the Affordable Care Act and pretending that Democrats are trying to give undocumented immigrants free insurance?
October 4, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Did you know that your healthcare premiums are about to double because the GOP is intentionally sabotaging the Affordable Care Act and pretending that Democrats are trying to give undocumented immigrants free insurance?
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Even if you support massive deportation operations, under no circumstances should ANYONE be ok with US citizens being forcibly removed from their homes and detained without explanation.
This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.
This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.
October 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Even if you support massive deportation operations, under no circumstances should ANYONE be ok with US citizens being forcibly removed from their homes and detained without explanation.
This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.
This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.
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“Senior federal officials have quietly counseled several agencies against firing employees while the government is shut down — as President Donald Trump has suggested he will — warning the strategy may violate appropriations law”
Do* violate appropriations law
Do* violate appropriations law
October 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Senior federal officials have quietly counseled several agencies against firing employees while the government is shut down — as President Donald Trump has suggested he will — warning the strategy may violate appropriations law”
Do* violate appropriations law
Do* violate appropriations law
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If a full accounting of Epstein’s crimes - and his accomplices - is ever made public, people on the left and the right are going to feel really dumb that we’ve been arguing with each other while the elites of both parties pal around and do abhorrent shit.
September 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If a full accounting of Epstein’s crimes - and his accomplices - is ever made public, people on the left and the right are going to feel really dumb that we’ve been arguing with each other while the elites of both parties pal around and do abhorrent shit.
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This is supposedly a stripper clip with the rounds found at the scene of the shooting in Dallas today.
It’s like someone is intentionally trying to see what level of dumb shit the American people will accept as truth.
It’s like someone is intentionally trying to see what level of dumb shit the American people will accept as truth.
September 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is supposedly a stripper clip with the rounds found at the scene of the shooting in Dallas today.
It’s like someone is intentionally trying to see what level of dumb shit the American people will accept as truth.
It’s like someone is intentionally trying to see what level of dumb shit the American people will accept as truth.
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There’s another No Kings protest in October - it needs to massive.
September 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
There’s another No Kings protest in October - it needs to massive.
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How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Epstein survivors say they’re compiling their own client list.
“We know who abused us. We saw who came and went. This list will be survivor-led—for survivors”
“We know who abused us. We saw who came and went. This list will be survivor-led—for survivors”
September 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Epstein survivors say they’re compiling their own client list.
“We know who abused us. We saw who came and went. This list will be survivor-led—for survivors”
“We know who abused us. We saw who came and went. This list will be survivor-led—for survivors”
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Aside from looking very puffy, sniffing a ton, and rambling off track even more than normal, Trump doesn’t look bad.
He seems to be recovering well from whatever the White House was hiding.
He seems to be recovering well from whatever the White House was hiding.
September 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Aside from looking very puffy, sniffing a ton, and rambling off track even more than normal, Trump doesn’t look bad.
He seems to be recovering well from whatever the White House was hiding.
He seems to be recovering well from whatever the White House was hiding.
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The 19 states deploying National Guard troops are: Alabama - Arkansas - Florida - Georgia - Idaho - Indiana - Iowa - Louisiana - Nebraska - Nevada - New Mexico - Ohio - South Carolina - South Dakota - Tennessee - Texas (largest deployment) - Utah - Virginia - Wyoming
August 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The 19 states deploying National Guard troops are: Alabama - Arkansas - Florida - Georgia - Idaho - Indiana - Iowa - Louisiana - Nebraska - Nevada - New Mexico - Ohio - South Carolina - South Dakota - Tennessee - Texas (largest deployment) - Utah - Virginia - Wyoming
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WATCH: Texas Republican speaker “locks the doors” to keep Dems in until Trump gets his new maps and Republicans steal him 5 seats
August 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
WATCH: Texas Republican speaker “locks the doors” to keep Dems in until Trump gets his new maps and Republicans steal him 5 seats
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Womp womp
BREAKING:
DENVER (AP) - Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67 million in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims.
DENVER (AP) - Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67 million in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims.
August 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Womp womp
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🔥🔥WATCH: “Rappers are smarter than economists”👇🏽
@dossdiscourse.bsky.social explains more cops doesn’t lower crime it just means more money for private prisons— Addressing poverty/hunger/health care lowers crime… but Trump’s trillions transfer just made all that MUCH WORSE… meaning crime will rise.
@dossdiscourse.bsky.social explains more cops doesn’t lower crime it just means more money for private prisons— Addressing poverty/hunger/health care lowers crime… but Trump’s trillions transfer just made all that MUCH WORSE… meaning crime will rise.
August 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🔥🔥WATCH: “Rappers are smarter than economists”👇🏽
@dossdiscourse.bsky.social explains more cops doesn’t lower crime it just means more money for private prisons— Addressing poverty/hunger/health care lowers crime… but Trump’s trillions transfer just made all that MUCH WORSE… meaning crime will rise.
@dossdiscourse.bsky.social explains more cops doesn’t lower crime it just means more money for private prisons— Addressing poverty/hunger/health care lowers crime… but Trump’s trillions transfer just made all that MUCH WORSE… meaning crime will rise.
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“As traditional sources of news crumble, there is Coker and hundreds of others like her who are keeping journalism alive.”
www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/...
www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/...
What keeps local reporters going? ‘We live here and we want a better society.’
One in 3 U.S. counties no longer has a single full-time reporter, depriving communities of a reliable mirror. Meet Margaret Coker and the other journalists fighting to keep local news alive.
www.csmonitor.com
August 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“As traditional sources of news crumble, there is Coker and hundreds of others like her who are keeping journalism alive.”
www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/...
www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/...
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Five months from today! #Historicalfiction
August 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Five months from today! #Historicalfiction
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I wonder if the MAGA tariff mental gymnastics is as exhausting for them as it is for me watching it
August 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I wonder if the MAGA tariff mental gymnastics is as exhausting for them as it is for me watching it
The Trump administration is floating ending monthly job reports because they’re so fucking bad right now.
August 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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We do not, alas.
This is appalling. Civilized countries look at us and are rightly horrified that this idiocy and cruelty is sanctioned by--encouraged by--our government.
(I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
(I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal
Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from Canada
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
We do not, alas.
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Trump on January 6: Nancy Pelosi stopped me from sending the DC National Guard to protect the Capitol.
Trump tomorrow: the President of the United States has complete control over the DC National Guard.
Make it make sense.
Trump tomorrow: the President of the United States has complete control over the DC National Guard.
Make it make sense.
August 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Trump on January 6: Nancy Pelosi stopped me from sending the DC National Guard to protect the Capitol.
Trump tomorrow: the President of the United States has complete control over the DC National Guard.
Make it make sense.
Trump tomorrow: the President of the United States has complete control over the DC National Guard.
Make it make sense.