Ian Elliott (he/they)🤘🌈🎲
@thatianeliott.bsky.social
Writer, creator, avid geek. The Inquisitive Elf, advocating for a better world, with a side order of sarcasm and some nerdy obsessions for dessert.
Good stuff at https://ko-fi.com/thatianelliott
Good stuff at https://ko-fi.com/thatianelliott
No, buddy, if that was the case, we wouldn't even be having these conversations. We keep having these conversations precisely because some GMs don't take "I try to flatter him" as sufficient.
February 6, 2026 at 4:44 PM
No, buddy, if that was the case, we wouldn't even be having these conversations. We keep having these conversations precisely because some GMs don't take "I try to flatter him" as sufficient.
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Here’s a story published yesterday, the day before the current president posted a video depicting the first black U.S. president and First Lady as gorillas.
mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 6, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Here’s a story published yesterday, the day before the current president posted a video depicting the first black U.S. president and First Lady as gorillas.
mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
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Republicans in Congress have unveiled a new bill that would impose the most extreme voting restrictions ever proposed at the federal level. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
New GOP anti-voting bill may be the most dangerous attack on voting rights ever
The MEGA Act represents one of the most catastrophic proposals for democracy in the United States.
www.democracydocket.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Republicans in Congress have unveiled a new bill that would impose the most extreme voting restrictions ever proposed at the federal level. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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New in PN: Why Delia Ramirez thinks DHS needs to be dismantled
"We have to ask ourselves, fundamentally, why would we ever want to give them more money to keep doing what they’re doing?"
"We have to ask ourselves, fundamentally, why would we ever want to give them more money to keep doing what they’re doing?"
Why Delia Ramirez thinks DHS needs to be dismantled
"Why would we ever want to give them more money to keep doing what they’re doing?"
www.publicnotice.co
February 6, 2026 at 12:56 PM
New in PN: Why Delia Ramirez thinks DHS needs to be dismantled
"We have to ask ourselves, fundamentally, why would we ever want to give them more money to keep doing what they’re doing?"
"We have to ask ourselves, fundamentally, why would we ever want to give them more money to keep doing what they’re doing?"
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See also: the war on drugs, which was driven in large part by US government racism -
Oh.
Oh.
"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants"
No you don't.
If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.
No you don't.
If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.
February 6, 2026 at 1:03 PM
See also: the war on drugs, which was driven in large part by US government racism -
Oh.
Oh.
Yet another blatantly impeachable offense that the people in charge will pretend is no big deal.
The Trump administration asked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for the Washington region’s Dulles International Airport and New York’s Penn Station to be named after Trump in exchange for releasing the federal funds required to build a long-delayed tunnel between New York and New Jersey
Trump wanted Dulles Airport, Penn Station named after him — in exchange for releasing federal funds
Trump has named several landmarks and initiatives after himself since he returned to office.
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Yet another blatantly impeachable offense that the people in charge will pretend is no big deal.
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THIS. As one of those political folks who said Trump was not elected because “economic anxiety” but racism
I won’t forgive the many media folks & pundits who insisted that he would “pivot” from his “rhetoric”
That we were “overreacting” to his election
Straight gaslit even by many white Dems
I won’t forgive the many media folks & pundits who insisted that he would “pivot” from his “rhetoric”
That we were “overreacting” to his election
Straight gaslit even by many white Dems
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 1:02 PM
THIS. As one of those political folks who said Trump was not elected because “economic anxiety” but racism
I won’t forgive the many media folks & pundits who insisted that he would “pivot” from his “rhetoric”
That we were “overreacting” to his election
Straight gaslit even by many white Dems
I won’t forgive the many media folks & pundits who insisted that he would “pivot” from his “rhetoric”
That we were “overreacting” to his election
Straight gaslit even by many white Dems
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There is clarity in second-term Trump increasingly confessing that many items on his to-do list—demanding tribute from universities, especially Harvard; claiming he might “take” Greenland; declaring he won an election that he knows he lost—are nothing more than efforts to boost his wounded ego.
Trump at National Prayer Breakfast: "They rigged the second election. I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would've had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego. Beating these lunatics was incredible ... The first time they said I didn't win the popular vote. I did"
February 6, 2026 at 11:39 AM
There is clarity in second-term Trump increasingly confessing that many items on his to-do list—demanding tribute from universities, especially Harvard; claiming he might “take” Greenland; declaring he won an election that he knows he lost—are nothing more than efforts to boost his wounded ego.
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It’s really weird for some corners of the media to do a whole “the Epstein files are a moral panic that has gone too far” thing when no one has faced any sort of punishment and doesn’t sound like they’re going to.
February 5, 2026 at 8:19 PM
It’s really weird for some corners of the media to do a whole “the Epstein files are a moral panic that has gone too far” thing when no one has faced any sort of punishment and doesn’t sound like they’re going to.
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for the love of god do not do this.
I'm hearing people talk about making "safe author" lists/starter packs and hahahahaha holy shit that's a terrible idea. Just start drafting your "We had no idea" post now, because you're going to need it.
February 6, 2026 at 12:23 PM
for the love of god do not do this.
Just the most petty, insecure, spiteful people to ever hold government office.
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Just the most petty, insecure, spiteful people to ever hold government office.
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They're Abrego-Garcia-ing a child -- punishing him because his very existence is inconvenient to them. It's gutter bigotry and petulant sadism all the way down.
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 1:29 PM
They're Abrego-Garcia-ing a child -- punishing him because his very existence is inconvenient to them. It's gutter bigotry and petulant sadism all the way down.
Shut it down. The right has gone power mad and will not engage in good faith, so stop pretending they might. Just shut it all down and make them explain why one of the least popular federal actions ever was a good reason to dig in.
CNBC's Rebecca Quick and Joe Kernen brought Chris Coons on this morning so they could team up to berate him about how terrible they think the an idea shutting down the government again is, as though Democrats would be entirely to blame and ICE is just normal law enforcement
February 6, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Shut it down. The right has gone power mad and will not engage in good faith, so stop pretending they might. Just shut it all down and make them explain why one of the least popular federal actions ever was a good reason to dig in.
Actually, it does. Every person in Congress has the right to vote their own way, regardless of who won the election, and, if the result of that vote shuts down the govt, they are within their rights. "We won the election" is not and never has been a blank check.
COONS: Joe, it's same rules NYPD follows. Do you see roving bands of NYPD w/ masks using bear spray on people?
KERNEN: You lost the election! That doesn't give you right to shut down govt
C: I have to fight for the core value of our democracy, including law enforcement that doesn't murder citizens
KERNEN: You lost the election! That doesn't give you right to shut down govt
C: I have to fight for the core value of our democracy, including law enforcement that doesn't murder citizens
February 6, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Actually, it does. Every person in Congress has the right to vote their own way, regardless of who won the election, and, if the result of that vote shuts down the govt, they are within their rights. "We won the election" is not and never has been a blank check.
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Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
February 6, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
Fuck Trump.
Trump: “America’s Elections are Rigged, Stolen, and a Laughingstock all over the World. We are either going to fix them, or we won’t have a Country any longer.
1. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW VOTER ID
2. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP TO REGISTER
3. NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS"
1. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW VOTER ID
2. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP TO REGISTER
3. NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS"
February 6, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Fuck Trump.
I was three months premature and not expected to survive in 1971. I would have had no chance in any period of history.
my favorite are the ones that go "if we were in medieval times" questions.
I would be toast I was born jaundice my guys, it was over from day one for me in 877
I would be toast I was born jaundice my guys, it was over from day one for me in 877
February 6, 2026 at 1:46 AM
I was three months premature and not expected to survive in 1971. I would have had no chance in any period of history.
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NEW: Florida voters have sued Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) over his unilateral effort to launch mid-decade redistricting in the state, arguing that the governor lacks the authority to issue orders to the state legislature. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Voters sue DeSantis for ordering Florida legislature to pursue pro-GOP gerrymander
DeSantis cannot constitutionally issue orders to the state legislature, the suit alleges.
www.democracydocket.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:23 PM
NEW: Florida voters have sued Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) over his unilateral effort to launch mid-decade redistricting in the state, arguing that the governor lacks the authority to issue orders to the state legislature. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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He's describing a scam that was notoriously used to rob Black families of their homes
FOX: " Rent Now, Pay Later. It's a new option for renters who are struggling to make the monthly payment ... You pay them a fee or a monthly subscription, but if you miss the payments — that's when the interest rates go way up."
February 5, 2026 at 11:22 PM
He's describing a scam that was notoriously used to rob Black families of their homes
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The Epstein files are a moral panic going too far
Woke is a moral panic going too far
BLM is a moral panic going too far
Me Too is a moral panic going too far
This is what they always say to pump the breaks long before a movement actually goes far enough. We cannot let them stall out for pedos.
Woke is a moral panic going too far
BLM is a moral panic going too far
Me Too is a moral panic going too far
This is what they always say to pump the breaks long before a movement actually goes far enough. We cannot let them stall out for pedos.
February 5, 2026 at 11:36 PM
The Epstein files are a moral panic going too far
Woke is a moral panic going too far
BLM is a moral panic going too far
Me Too is a moral panic going too far
This is what they always say to pump the breaks long before a movement actually goes far enough. We cannot let them stall out for pedos.
Woke is a moral panic going too far
BLM is a moral panic going too far
Me Too is a moral panic going too far
This is what they always say to pump the breaks long before a movement actually goes far enough. We cannot let them stall out for pedos.
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Good. "But DHS isn't just ICE, it's also..." nope, wrong. DHS no longer serves any useful functions, the whole thing has been reassigned to repression. FEMA isn't even paying out to states. All DHS does is shooting, teargassing, facial recognition, and administrative warrants. Shut it down.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democratic demands for ICE
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Secu…
trib.al
February 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Good. "But DHS isn't just ICE, it's also..." nope, wrong. DHS no longer serves any useful functions, the whole thing has been reassigned to repression. FEMA isn't even paying out to states. All DHS does is shooting, teargassing, facial recognition, and administrative warrants. Shut it down.
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I'm going to introduce legislation blocking Trump from stealing taxpayer dollars with this absurd lawsuit. Stay tuned.
Trump shares his plan for the $10 billion he expects to receive from his IRS lawsuit
The more the president tries to defend his desire for a taxpayer-financed payout, the worse his position appears.
www.ms.now
February 5, 2026 at 10:51 PM
I'm going to introduce legislation blocking Trump from stealing taxpayer dollars with this absurd lawsuit. Stay tuned.
Good! That's what the Democrats should have been proposing in the first place. They gave Thune a chance he didn't deserve. We're glad he won't take it. Shut DHS down!
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democratic demands for ICE
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Secu…
trib.al
February 6, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Good! That's what the Democrats should have been proposing in the first place. They gave Thune a chance he didn't deserve. We're glad he won't take it. Shut DHS down!
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Your suspicion was right.
Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations.
He’s betting we forget in two years.
In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.
Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations.
He’s betting we forget in two years.
In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.
February 5, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Your suspicion was right.
Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations.
He’s betting we forget in two years.
In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.
Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations.
He’s betting we forget in two years.
In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.
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But they are still only going after soft targets like the gigantic pussies they are
damage in the name of shock and awe and no other purpose to get one single person with 18 agents charging into a residential building.
I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.
February 5, 2026 at 4:19 PM
But they are still only going after soft targets like the gigantic pussies they are