LJ/TheRehabiliskater/MerLescent/HeyYou
@ellejay42.bsky.social
Mama, scholar, poet, public servant, hippie, goth, skater, dancer, mermaid, dog enthusiast. Eclectivist, really. Let your freak flag fly and do no harm.
In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
June 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Jelani Cobb, Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, draws a historical comparison to the Fugitive Slave Act and that of the ongoing ICE raids.
The Fugitive Slave Act brought our country to the precipice of the Civil War.
The Fugitive Slave Act brought our country to the precipice of the Civil War.
June 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Jelani Cobb, Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, draws a historical comparison to the Fugitive Slave Act and that of the ongoing ICE raids.
The Fugitive Slave Act brought our country to the precipice of the Civil War.
The Fugitive Slave Act brought our country to the precipice of the Civil War.
Wet bulb is as gruesome as it sounds, and your body literally can't be cooled by sweating, amongst other horrors.
Take it seriously, and also understand that "Wet Bulb" will be the norm as heat+humidity rises.
Take it seriously, and also understand that "Wet Bulb" will be the norm as heat+humidity rises.
June 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Please, everyone, remember, that authoritarianism doesn't have a finish line.
Its hunger is endless for power, for control, for silence.
We can't shrug it off. Not now. Not ever.
Its hunger is endless for power, for control, for silence.
We can't shrug it off. Not now. Not ever.
June 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Please tell me this is real 😂
May 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Please tell me this is real 😂
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March 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
March 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
You Are Sane
If you are terrified, you are SANE.
If you are crying, you are SANE.
If you are anxious, you are SANE.
If you are traumatized, you are SANE.
If you are grieving, you are SANE.
If you are depressed, you are SANE.
What’s happening is INSANE.
But YOU ARE SANE.
You are sane.
If you are terrified, you are SANE.
If you are crying, you are SANE.
If you are anxious, you are SANE.
If you are traumatized, you are SANE.
If you are grieving, you are SANE.
If you are depressed, you are SANE.
What’s happening is INSANE.
But YOU ARE SANE.
You are sane.
March 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is wild.
OpenAI’s most powerful model—one that clearly has *not* been keeping up with current events—analyzes Trump‘s address to Congress and calls it “clearly fictional.”
The full report is a great read, and a stark reminder of just how not normal all this is: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
OpenAI’s most powerful model—one that clearly has *not* been keeping up with current events—analyzes Trump‘s address to Congress and calls it “clearly fictional.”
The full report is a great read, and a stark reminder of just how not normal all this is: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
March 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
"Because we need all hands on deck, and there's a lot of deck." - Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
"Community is the antidote to fascism." - Jaclyn Friedman
A fantastic resource for those who want to fight this, but don't know where to start.
"Community is the antidote to fascism." - Jaclyn Friedman
A fantastic resource for those who want to fight this, but don't know where to start.
It’s not any government institutions
It’s not the 2026 elections
It’s us.
It’s up to us.
It’s not the 2026 elections
It’s us.
It’s up to us.
February 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Gov. Janet Mills of Maine threatened legal action after President Trump said he would withhold funding to her state unless she complied with his executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s sports.
Read more: nyti.ms/3F2nn9a
Read more: nyti.ms/3F2nn9a
February 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.
SchoolHouse Rock - No More Kings
YouTube video by tennesseejed93
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February 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
More complete list here, which includes changing your name back legally to match your birth certificate.
open.substack.com/pub/fuquinay...
open.substack.com/pub/fuquinay...
Tips from the Mediocre Unwashed
Things you can do while sitting
open.substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.
February 15, 2025 at 3:17 AM
New Yorkers flooded the Stonewall Monument to protest the erasure of Trans people. We will not allow this regime to erase OUR communities and OUR history.
“The rage and resolve here should be bottled and administered directly into our veins.” @raushenbush.bsky.social #resist
“The rage and resolve here should be bottled and administered directly into our veins.” @raushenbush.bsky.social #resist
February 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Trump/Musk may have silenced the CDC and NIH, but they can't stifle free speech itself.
The American Medical Association is using its YouTube channel to provide updates & explainers on everything from H5N9 to why eggs cost so much.
Check em out!
The American Medical Association is using its YouTube channel to provide updates & explainers on everything from H5N9 to why eggs cost so much.
Check em out!
American Medical Association (AMA)
The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest and only national association that convenes 190+ state and specialty medical societies and other critical stakeholders. Our mission is to promote ...
youtube.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
What exhausting times we live in!
February 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
What exhausting times we live in!
An important first-person account from someone inside OPM:
I Work in the Office Carrying Out the Government Purge. Here’s What I Want You to Know.
We’re as freaked out and angry as everyone else.
slate.com
February 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
February 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Really, really, great and insightful essay from Cory Doctorow today that I've been struggling to summarize much longer than the "just a minute" I told the dog when she asked for her walk.
So I'm just going to say, "this is worth your time and attention."
pluralistic.net/2025/02/05/p...
So I'm just going to say, "this is worth your time and attention."
pluralistic.net/2025/02/05/p...
Pluralistic: MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing (04 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
February 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM