EllynSong
@alienbeach.bsky.social
Writer, Jazz Musician, Retired Professor (Bayesian Philosophy and Probability).
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“If you speak out in defense of judicial independence only to protect judges (or justices) who rule the way you want them to, then I respectfully submit that your definition of judicial independence is bollocks.”
Me in today’s “One First” on the Trump administration’s “war” on lower-court judges:
Me in today’s “One First” on the Trump administration’s “war” on lower-court judges:
193. The "War" on Judges
Deputy Attorney General Blanche's attack on lower courts is an impressive combination of light on substance; shamelessly hypocritical; and profoundly dangerous. More people should be condemning it.
www.stevevladeck.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
“If you speak out in defense of judicial independence only to protect judges (or justices) who rule the way you want them to, then I respectfully submit that your definition of judicial independence is bollocks.”
Me in today’s “One First” on the Trump administration’s “war” on lower-court judges:
Me in today’s “One First” on the Trump administration’s “war” on lower-court judges:
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There have been at least 154 cases in which federal district courts have issued preliminary relief against a Trump administration policy.
Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:
Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:
193. The "War" on Judges
Deputy Attorney General Blanche's attack on lower courts is an impressive combination of light on substance; shamelessly hypocritical; and profoundly dangerous. More people should be condemning it.
www.stevevladeck.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
There have been at least 154 cases in which federal district courts have issued preliminary relief against a Trump administration policy.
Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:
Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
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man the tarriffs are beating people’s asses
i accidently washed (and ruined) my JBL headphones. A replacement of the same model has literally doubled in price.
i accidently washed (and ruined) my JBL headphones. A replacement of the same model has literally doubled in price.
November 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
man the tarriffs are beating people’s asses
i accidently washed (and ruined) my JBL headphones. A replacement of the same model has literally doubled in price.
i accidently washed (and ruined) my JBL headphones. A replacement of the same model has literally doubled in price.
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'Not what we signed up to do': National Guard officers vow to defy Trump’s orders
Staff Sgt. Demi Palacek (who is running as a Democrat for the Illinois State Legislature)
and Capt. Dylan Blaha (who is running for Congress as a Democrat)
refuse to help due to a crisis of conscience.
#pinks
Staff Sgt. Demi Palacek (who is running as a Democrat for the Illinois State Legislature)
and Capt. Dylan Blaha (who is running for Congress as a Democrat)
refuse to help due to a crisis of conscience.
#pinks
'Not what we signed up to do': National Guard officers vow to refuse Trump’s orders
Even though President Donald Trump wants to deploy the National Guard to patrol the streets of Chicago, Illinois, two officers are now directly disobeying those orders.CBS News reported Monday that St...
www.alternet.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
'Not what we signed up to do': National Guard officers vow to defy Trump’s orders
Staff Sgt. Demi Palacek (who is running as a Democrat for the Illinois State Legislature)
and Capt. Dylan Blaha (who is running for Congress as a Democrat)
refuse to help due to a crisis of conscience.
#pinks
Staff Sgt. Demi Palacek (who is running as a Democrat for the Illinois State Legislature)
and Capt. Dylan Blaha (who is running for Congress as a Democrat)
refuse to help due to a crisis of conscience.
#pinks
Extremists are trying to rig our elections in Trump's favor. California can fight back with a YES vote on Prop 50! Will you join me in standing up for our democracy? social.redwine.blue/s/hUwtpi7O
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social.redwine.blue
October 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Extremists are trying to rig our elections in Trump's favor. California can fight back with a YES vote on Prop 50! Will you join me in standing up for our democracy? social.redwine.blue/s/hUwtpi7O
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So the president took a dementia test, and then they administered an MRI. Where’s the media on this?
October 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
So the president took a dementia test, and then they administered an MRI. Where’s the media on this?
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Wow. Based on the comments, a lot of people saw me on Maddow tonight!
To everyone asking me how they can help Democracy Docket fulfill its critical pro-democracy mission while receiving critical information ands analysis, it's easy. Sign-up now! hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
To everyone asking me how they can help Democracy Docket fulfill its critical pro-democracy mission while receiving critical information ands analysis, it's easy. Sign-up now! hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
October 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Wow. Based on the comments, a lot of people saw me on Maddow tonight!
To everyone asking me how they can help Democracy Docket fulfill its critical pro-democracy mission while receiving critical information ands analysis, it's easy. Sign-up now! hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
To everyone asking me how they can help Democracy Docket fulfill its critical pro-democracy mission while receiving critical information ands analysis, it's easy. Sign-up now! hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
October 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
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I urge our nation to use this weekend's No Kings marches as a declaration of independence against the tyranny and lawlessness currently running this country.
Use your voice. ACT PEACEFULLY. Protect yourself and your community.
THERE ARE NO KINGS IN THE UNITED STATES.
Use your voice. ACT PEACEFULLY. Protect yourself and your community.
THERE ARE NO KINGS IN THE UNITED STATES.
October 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I urge our nation to use this weekend's No Kings marches as a declaration of independence against the tyranny and lawlessness currently running this country.
Use your voice. ACT PEACEFULLY. Protect yourself and your community.
THERE ARE NO KINGS IN THE UNITED STATES.
Use your voice. ACT PEACEFULLY. Protect yourself and your community.
THERE ARE NO KINGS IN THE UNITED STATES.
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So they've literally started wearing brown shirts.
October 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
So they've literally started wearing brown shirts.
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This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
October 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
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Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly.
Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.
Stay safe out there.
Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.
Stay safe out there.
October 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly.
Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.
Stay safe out there.
Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.
Stay safe out there.
Hey CA, you got your ballot in? Times running out. A zillion boxes out there - one's on your path today.
October 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Hey CA, you got your ballot in? Times running out. A zillion boxes out there - one's on your path today.
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The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!
Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
October 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!
Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
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Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.
October 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.
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This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.
Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies
October 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.
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If a SINGLE major media org could do a story on NSPM-7, that’d be great !!!
October 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
If a SINGLE major media org could do a story on NSPM-7, that’d be great !!!
@katiekelaidis.bsky.social
Now that MAGA has become religion (was there ever any doubt about that trajectory?), it will be like the NDM-CRE bacteria - a fortified, persistent pathogen.
apple.news/A8WWIbz9EQXK...
Now that MAGA has become religion (was there ever any doubt about that trajectory?), it will be like the NDM-CRE bacteria - a fortified, persistent pathogen.
apple.news/A8WWIbz9EQXK...
How the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk is transforming MAGA — Vox
Charlie Kirk has been turned into the first martyr of the MAGA faith. And this matters because it is martyr veneration that helped both Christianity and Islam transform from small local movements cent...
apple.news
September 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
@katiekelaidis.bsky.social
Now that MAGA has become religion (was there ever any doubt about that trajectory?), it will be like the NDM-CRE bacteria - a fortified, persistent pathogen.
apple.news/A8WWIbz9EQXK...
Now that MAGA has become religion (was there ever any doubt about that trajectory?), it will be like the NDM-CRE bacteria - a fortified, persistent pathogen.
apple.news/A8WWIbz9EQXK...
Damn - you go Disney! Seems like this industry should remember McCarthy really, really well!
September 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Damn - you go Disney! Seems like this industry should remember McCarthy really, really well!
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I signed the #BethesdaDeclaration for my kids. I want a better future for them, and for all of the children in our country. Please, join me! act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
June 16, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I signed the #BethesdaDeclaration for my kids. I want a better future for them, and for all of the children in our country. Please, join me! act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
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This is why they’re deleting studies
September 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This is why they’re deleting studies