Ellen Fitzpatrick
@nellvolare.bsky.social
Hmm. Lost access to my account in a phone meltdown. Yes, here I am, as Lyle sings, a dedicated Fajita.
Per Google Translate:
The same rhetoric as the neo-Nazis of the French far right... Housing for the French, not for "dark-skinned" people with accents.
#FarRight🤮
They do all follow the same playbook. The one developed by American public relations experts Finkelstein and Birnbaum for Orban.
The same rhetoric as the neo-Nazis of the French far right... Housing for the French, not for "dark-skinned" people with accents.
#FarRight🤮
They do all follow the same playbook. The one developed by American public relations experts Finkelstein and Birnbaum for Orban.
February 10, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Per Google Translate:
The same rhetoric as the neo-Nazis of the French far right... Housing for the French, not for "dark-skinned" people with accents.
#FarRight🤮
They do all follow the same playbook. The one developed by American public relations experts Finkelstein and Birnbaum for Orban.
The same rhetoric as the neo-Nazis of the French far right... Housing for the French, not for "dark-skinned" people with accents.
#FarRight🤮
They do all follow the same playbook. The one developed by American public relations experts Finkelstein and Birnbaum for Orban.
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to gain access to Michigan’ unredacted statewide voter registration list. Another BIG victory for our clients and voters. Another stunning defeat for Pam Bondi. www.democracydocket.com/cases/michig...
🚨 United States v. Benson
Learn more here.
www.democracydocket.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:33 PM
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to gain access to Michigan’ unredacted statewide voter registration list. Another BIG victory for our clients and voters. Another stunning defeat for Pam Bondi. www.democracydocket.com/cases/michig...
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The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde
Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.
Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.
February 6, 2026 at 10:43 PM
The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde
Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.
Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.
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Ron Johnson, one of the most morally vacant members of the Senate, blames the left for Homeland Security's execution-style slaying of Alex Pretti on a Minneapolis street.
Ron Johnson on Alex Pretti: "They got their martyrs, didn't they? They got their martyrs. I think it's sick."
February 10, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Ron Johnson, one of the most morally vacant members of the Senate, blames the left for Homeland Security's execution-style slaying of Alex Pretti on a Minneapolis street.
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"If the government may simply seize *someone* without due process, there is no check on its ability to seize *anyone*."
Perhaps the most fundamental check against tyranny. And it is gravely threatened.
Perhaps the most fundamental check against tyranny. And it is gravely threatened.
BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 10, 2026 at 1:40 PM
"If the government may simply seize *someone* without due process, there is no check on its ability to seize *anyone*."
Perhaps the most fundamental check against tyranny. And it is gravely threatened.
Perhaps the most fundamental check against tyranny. And it is gravely threatened.
Sorry, this is a pay-walled NYT article, but you can get the gist.
Literally searching for outgroups to scare people about
"That has left the G.O.P. looking for ways to address its voters’ concerns over the number of immigrants who came into the country during the Biden admin. while avoiding the increasingly unpopular policy of mass deportations under Mr. Trump."
"That has left the G.O.P. looking for ways to address its voters’ concerns over the number of immigrants who came into the country during the Biden admin. while avoiding the increasingly unpopular policy of mass deportations under Mr. Trump."
February 10, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Sorry, this is a pay-walled NYT article, but you can get the gist.
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Let's make sure the dictator wins. "Allies." Wow.
Orban is the roadmap.
Find out why the Wash Post is being dismantled, just like Orban took over and controls Hungarian media.
Article: a major Orban opponent died and Hungarians have forgotten who he was.
www.politico.eu/article/vikt...
Orban is the roadmap.
Find out why the Wash Post is being dismantled, just like Orban took over and controls Hungarian media.
Article: a major Orban opponent died and Hungarians have forgotten who he was.
www.politico.eu/article/vikt...
A philosopher’s death and the two realities of Orbán’s Hungary
To one Hungary, Gáspár Miklós Tamás was a ‘rock star.’ To the other, he didn’t register. The worlds collided when Viktor Orbán weighed in.
www.politico.eu
February 10, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Let's make sure the dictator wins. "Allies." Wow.
Orban is the roadmap.
Find out why the Wash Post is being dismantled, just like Orban took over and controls Hungarian media.
Article: a major Orban opponent died and Hungarians have forgotten who he was.
www.politico.eu/article/vikt...
Orban is the roadmap.
Find out why the Wash Post is being dismantled, just like Orban took over and controls Hungarian media.
Article: a major Orban opponent died and Hungarians have forgotten who he was.
www.politico.eu/article/vikt...
Let's make sure the dictator wins. "Allies." Wow.
Orban is the roadmap.
Find out why the Wash Post is being dismantled, just like Orban took over and controls Hungarian media.
Article: a major Orban opponent died and Hungarians have forgotten who he was.
www.politico.eu/article/vikt...
Orban is the roadmap.
Find out why the Wash Post is being dismantled, just like Orban took over and controls Hungarian media.
Article: a major Orban opponent died and Hungarians have forgotten who he was.
www.politico.eu/article/vikt...
A philosopher’s death and the two realities of Orbán’s Hungary
To one Hungary, Gáspár Miklós Tamás was a ‘rock star.’ To the other, he didn’t register. The worlds collided when Viktor Orbán weighed in.
www.politico.eu
February 10, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Let's make sure the dictator wins. "Allies." Wow.
Orban is the roadmap.
Find out why the Wash Post is being dismantled, just like Orban took over and controls Hungarian media.
Article: a major Orban opponent died and Hungarians have forgotten who he was.
www.politico.eu/article/vikt...
Orban is the roadmap.
Find out why the Wash Post is being dismantled, just like Orban took over and controls Hungarian media.
Article: a major Orban opponent died and Hungarians have forgotten who he was.
www.politico.eu/article/vikt...
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"Appeasement is being coordinated while resistance is not" is exactly right. (This op-ed from Arne Duncan and David Pressman is excellent; I hope university leaders will read it.) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Universities are sending Trump a dangerous message
Higher education is under attack. Drop the appeasement.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:28 PM
"Appeasement is being coordinated while resistance is not" is exactly right. (This op-ed from Arne Duncan and David Pressman is excellent; I hope university leaders will read it.) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
U.S. Boat Strike Kills 2 in Pacific, With One Survivor
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:14 AM
We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
Republican lawmaker's word salad. Salad MAGAs without critical thinking love to consume.
By the way, love love love the troll under the bridge.
By the way, love love love the troll under the bridge.
At first glance thought he said “The proceeds of trolls” which frankly would make as much sense. If not more, actually. We need to take a harder line on international bridge trolls.
Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Trump's bonkers US-Canada bridge tantrum: "There's a valid concern on the part of the president that this bridge was allowed to be built, they didn't necessarily use American content. There's a question as to the proceeds of tolls."
February 10, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Republican lawmaker's word salad. Salad MAGAs without critical thinking love to consume.
By the way, love love love the troll under the bridge.
By the way, love love love the troll under the bridge.
Again, there's no problem with election security. People most likely to not have a birth certificate? Seniors born at home back when that was the norm. Seniors whose birth records were kept at places like rural churches and lost.
Republicans seek to limit voting in any way possible. Margins close.
Republicans seek to limit voting in any way possible. Margins close.
Rep. Zach Nunn on voter ID: "It ensures we have fair elections, and that we know the results can be successful ... it helps to enfranchise the voter population"
February 10, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Again, there's no problem with election security. People most likely to not have a birth certificate? Seniors born at home back when that was the norm. Seniors whose birth records were kept at places like rural churches and lost.
Republicans seek to limit voting in any way possible. Margins close.
Republicans seek to limit voting in any way possible. Margins close.
There are millionaires being elected to Congress, but nobody talks about people who have no hope of ever earning as much in the real world.
Every time Congress votes itself a raise it increases the number of unqualified grifters willing to run for office.
Every time Congress votes itself a raise it increases the number of unqualified grifters willing to run for office.
February 10, 2026 at 12:32 PM
There are millionaires being elected to Congress, but nobody talks about people who have no hope of ever earning as much in the real world.
Every time Congress votes itself a raise it increases the number of unqualified grifters willing to run for office.
Every time Congress votes itself a raise it increases the number of unqualified grifters willing to run for office.
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Howard Lutnick claimed he vowed-in 2005-that he would never spend time with Jeffrey Epstein
Yet it appears the relationship between them became so close-even after Epstein was convicted of a child prostitution charge in 2008-that Lutnick apparently went to Epstein’s island
IN 2012
Lutnick must go
Yet it appears the relationship between them became so close-even after Epstein was convicted of a child prostitution charge in 2008-that Lutnick apparently went to Epstein’s island
IN 2012
Lutnick must go
February 9, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Howard Lutnick claimed he vowed-in 2005-that he would never spend time with Jeffrey Epstein
Yet it appears the relationship between them became so close-even after Epstein was convicted of a child prostitution charge in 2008-that Lutnick apparently went to Epstein’s island
IN 2012
Lutnick must go
Yet it appears the relationship between them became so close-even after Epstein was convicted of a child prostitution charge in 2008-that Lutnick apparently went to Epstein’s island
IN 2012
Lutnick must go
Not just sex trafficking, add in people getting gifts from supporters (there's a Supreme Court person, for example), people who want their once-in-a-lifetime salary and benefits as members of WH staff, Congress, or SCOTUS, funds from Musk and other RNC $Billionaires and world leaders.
February 10, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Not just sex trafficking, add in people getting gifts from supporters (there's a Supreme Court person, for example), people who want their once-in-a-lifetime salary and benefits as members of WH staff, Congress, or SCOTUS, funds from Musk and other RNC $Billionaires and world leaders.
Shut them down.
NEW: Backlash to Trump emboldens Democrats on DHS and ICE as partial shutdown looms
Political shifts are shaping negotiations.
Key Ds who've been anti-shutdown say hell no to CR.
White House is engaging—unlike on ACA.
Deadline: Friday February 13
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Political shifts are shaping negotiations.
Key Ds who've been anti-shutdown say hell no to CR.
White House is engaging—unlike on ACA.
Deadline: Friday February 13
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Backlash to Trump emboldens Democrats on DHS and ICE as partial shutdown looms
Surveys show Americans are souring on Trump's immigration crackdown, and Democrats are drawing a hard line on funding as they seek changes to rein in ICE and CBP.
www.nbcnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Shut them down.
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This says it all
February 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
This says it all
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New Schumer/Jeffries statement: “Republicans shared an outline of a counterproposal, which included neither details nor legislative text. The initial GOP response is both incomplete and insufficient in terms of addressing the concerns Americans have about ICE’s lawless conduct.”
February 10, 2026 at 3:10 AM
New Schumer/Jeffries statement: “Republicans shared an outline of a counterproposal, which included neither details nor legislative text. The initial GOP response is both incomplete and insufficient in terms of addressing the concerns Americans have about ICE’s lawless conduct.”
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Crockett: "All this administration cares about is protecting the powerful and protecting pedophiles. They will do anything to distract from that, including deciding to put up in the middle of Black History Month the most racist thing that we've ever seen come out of a White House."
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Crockett: "All this administration cares about is protecting the powerful and protecting pedophiles. They will do anything to distract from that, including deciding to put up in the middle of Black History Month the most racist thing that we've ever seen come out of a White House."
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The world has gone crazy. The Epstein Files revelations should have led to Trump resigning, not Starmer. Especially as the main problem for Starmer is Mandelson. Who was only chosen because of his similarities with Trump.
February 9, 2026 at 1:47 PM
The world has gone crazy. The Epstein Files revelations should have led to Trump resigning, not Starmer. Especially as the main problem for Starmer is Mandelson. Who was only chosen because of his similarities with Trump.
In Europe, people named in the Epstein Files are meeting consequences, losing jobs, which is a preliminary to punishment courts will impose eventually.
Nothing is happening to anyone in the United States.
Nothing is happening to anyone in the United States.
That's right.
Nothing.
Nothing is happening to anyone in the United States.
Nothing is happening to anyone in the United States.
That's right.
Nothing.
Maxwell is publicly offering Trump a choice: (1) Grant me clemency and I'll lie to protect you, or (2) deny my request and I'll tell the truth about your crimes as a pedophile.
If Congress wants, they can short-circuit her game by granting her immunity on the condition that she tells the truth.
If Congress wants, they can short-circuit her game by granting her immunity on the condition that she tells the truth.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s refusal to answer questions before Congress draws criticism: ‘Who is she protecting?’
Democratic representative says Epstein associate’s decision to invoke fifth amendment points to ‘White House cover-up’
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:31 PM
In Europe, people named in the Epstein Files are meeting consequences, losing jobs, which is a preliminary to punishment courts will impose eventually.
Nothing is happening to anyone in the United States.
Nothing is happening to anyone in the United States.
That's right.
Nothing.
Nothing is happening to anyone in the United States.
Nothing is happening to anyone in the United States.
That's right.
Nothing.
Of course he did.
What is it about him that allows anyone to think he just passed around the tea sandwiches?
What is it about him that allows anyone to think he just passed around the tea sandwiches?
Why isn’t every politician, leader, prosecutor, and news channels focused on this. The President is accused with significant proof of killing and raping minors.
February 9, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Of course he did.
What is it about him that allows anyone to think he just passed around the tea sandwiches?
What is it about him that allows anyone to think he just passed around the tea sandwiches?
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Lamondin: Attacks labeling Democrats as “socialist” do land in South Florida.. I was on a Telemundo interview where they asked, “What do you think about the Democratic Party being viewed as socialist or communist?” And I said, Only one of us has created hundreds of jobs—I have—but my opponent hasn’t
February 9, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Lamondin: Attacks labeling Democrats as “socialist” do land in South Florida.. I was on a Telemundo interview where they asked, “What do you think about the Democratic Party being viewed as socialist or communist?” And I said, Only one of us has created hundreds of jobs—I have—but my opponent hasn’t
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OUR ENTIRE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT IS GUILTY
OF OBSTRUCTION OF
JUSTICE FOR FUCKS SAKE.
DEPARTMENT IS GUILTY
OF OBSTRUCTION OF
JUSTICE FOR FUCKS SAKE.
February 8, 2026 at 9:21 PM
OUR ENTIRE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT IS GUILTY
OF OBSTRUCTION OF
JUSTICE FOR FUCKS SAKE.
DEPARTMENT IS GUILTY
OF OBSTRUCTION OF
JUSTICE FOR FUCKS SAKE.