@ellenmcsfek.bsky.social
Waiting for something worth posting about. Posts are my own views.
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Trump just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene, calling it “unwarranted.”
FEMA will stop 100% cost-share in Helene recovery • NC Newsline
"I am extremely disappointed and urge the President to reconsider FEMA’s bad decision, even for 90 days," Gov. Josh Stein said.
ncnewsline.com
April 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
April 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
If you erase the shameful and abusive from history, it is much easier to repeat it with less resistance. It took many generations of right to undo SOME of the wrong, it could take just one to undo ALL the right. Be careful what you choose to ignore.
April 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
If you erase the shameful and abusive from history, it is much easier to repeat it with less resistance. It took many generations of right to undo SOME of the wrong, it could take just one to undo ALL the right. Be careful what you choose to ignore.
Seems to me they are selectively protecting/trampling fundamental rights - cherry picking which ones keep the power balance and which ones threaten it. Voting, speech, guns, bodily autonomy, religion - but only of certain religions. Like how I nestled guns and religion in there?
A birth certificate is required to get a social security card, and that number is used to obtain a Real ID
Why do republicans claim a woman's ID is insufficient to vote?
Whatever paperwork is required to vote should also be required to buy a gun.
Why do republicans claim a woman's ID is insufficient to vote?
Whatever paperwork is required to vote should also be required to buy a gun.
April 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Seems to me they are selectively protecting/trampling fundamental rights - cherry picking which ones keep the power balance and which ones threaten it. Voting, speech, guns, bodily autonomy, religion - but only of certain religions. Like how I nestled guns and religion in there?
Real legal question: If a president makes official announcements only on his social site he owns, & employees don't know what's going on in their own agency - that's the only announcement, isn't this emoluments? Forcing people to create an account on a site he profits on to know how to do their job!
April 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Real legal question: If a president makes official announcements only on his social site he owns, & employees don't know what's going on in their own agency - that's the only announcement, isn't this emoluments? Forcing people to create an account on a site he profits on to know how to do their job!
To be clear, no one is cheering this massive failure, this isn't a "yay!", this is an "I told you so."
April 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
To be clear, no one is cheering this massive failure, this isn't a "yay!", this is an "I told you so."
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🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...
thegriffinlist.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...
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Today's stock market crash was the worst since the Spring of 2020.
Can you guess who was president during *both* crashes? I bet you can!
Can you guess who was president during *both* crashes? I bet you can!
April 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Today's stock market crash was the worst since the Spring of 2020.
Can you guess who was president during *both* crashes? I bet you can!
Can you guess who was president during *both* crashes? I bet you can!
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The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only 3 comments so far.
Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
March 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only 3 comments so far.
Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Today was the second time I had to deliberately unfollow members of the current administration on my Meta/FB account, and I never followed them in the first place. Wtf
March 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Today was the second time I had to deliberately unfollow members of the current administration on my Meta/FB account, and I never followed them in the first place. Wtf
2/2The only thing that's not going on with public service loan forgiveness is banks making even more money on the backs of students who can't afford it. Don't believe me? Calculate it yourself.
March 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
2/2The only thing that's not going on with public service loan forgiveness is banks making even more money on the backs of students who can't afford it. Don't believe me? Calculate it yourself.
1/2 An average student loan is approximately $30,000. Let's say you borrowed $36,000. With current interest rate of 6.4% in the first 10 years, your payment would equate to just over $50,000 public service loan forgiveness is not free money for students.
www.studentloanplanner.com/student-loan...
www.studentloanplanner.com/student-loan...
Student Loan Interest Calculator
Click here to read Student Loan Interest Calculator from Student Loan Planner
www.studentloanplanner.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
1/2 An average student loan is approximately $30,000. Let's say you borrowed $36,000. With current interest rate of 6.4% in the first 10 years, your payment would equate to just over $50,000 public service loan forgiveness is not free money for students.
www.studentloanplanner.com/student-loan...
www.studentloanplanner.com/student-loan...
Real lesson of the good Samaritan: the priest and the Levite worried what would happen to them if they helped, the Samaritan worried what would happen to the injured man if he didn't help. (Paraphrased from Jodi Picoult, she captured it well)
Be the Samaritan.
Be the Samaritan.
March 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Real lesson of the good Samaritan: the priest and the Levite worried what would happen to them if they helped, the Samaritan worried what would happen to the injured man if he didn't help. (Paraphrased from Jodi Picoult, she captured it well)
Be the Samaritan.
Be the Samaritan.
If this doesn't bother you, you don't care enough. Patriotism is believing our country is amazing -which makes it hurt so much more when our leaders betray that. Standing up for democracy, respecting individual liberties, a land of opportunity-these shouldn't apply to a select few with deep pockets.
March 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
If this doesn't bother you, you don't care enough. Patriotism is believing our country is amazing -which makes it hurt so much more when our leaders betray that. Standing up for democracy, respecting individual liberties, a land of opportunity-these shouldn't apply to a select few with deep pockets.
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Jeff Bezos Sends Note To Whole Foods Staff Forbidding Criticism Of Grapes
Jeff Bezos Sends Note To Whole Foods Staff Forbidding Criticism Of Grapes
MIAMI—Asserting that many differing perspectives on the fruit were readily available online, billionaire Jeff Bezos reportedly sent a note to staff at the Amazon-owned Whole Foods this week strictly f...
theonion.com
February 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Jeff Bezos Sends Note To Whole Foods Staff Forbidding Criticism Of Grapes
My new hero: in addition to her pronoun point is the real danger she points out, a performative culture war putting lives at real risk across the country.
youtu.be/qaZDlCXWeSc?...
youtu.be/qaZDlCXWeSc?...
Viral Pronoun Protest During Testimony
YouTube video by Storyful News & Weather
youtu.be
February 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
My new hero: in addition to her pronoun point is the real danger she points out, a performative culture war putting lives at real risk across the country.
youtu.be/qaZDlCXWeSc?...
youtu.be/qaZDlCXWeSc?...
I find it truly ironic (laugh lest I cry) when federal employees who voted for this have the audacity to complain.
February 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I find it truly ironic (laugh lest I cry) when federal employees who voted for this have the audacity to complain.
I am livid
February 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I am livid
And this is why Republicans should be able to disagree with their leadership. No one should be okay with this. No one. FAFSA data was bad enough.
🚨 “Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily-guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country”
Gift link:
wapo.st/3QizwcN
Gift link:
wapo.st/3QizwcN
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
wapo.st
February 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
And this is why Republicans should be able to disagree with their leadership. No one should be okay with this. No one. FAFSA data was bad enough.
I remember a recent past where a person could disagree with their party and not be a pariah. How about you don't assume all libs are interested in socialism and a full redistribution of wealth, and I won't assume you're all racist misogynists who want to control women and help the rich get richer.
February 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I remember a recent past where a person could disagree with their party and not be a pariah. How about you don't assume all libs are interested in socialism and a full redistribution of wealth, and I won't assume you're all racist misogynists who want to control women and help the rich get richer.
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I'm having salad for dinner.
Actually, it's fruit salad.
Well, mostly grapes.
OK, all grapes.
Fermented Grapes.
Wine.
I'm having wine for dinner.
Actually, it's fruit salad.
Well, mostly grapes.
OK, all grapes.
Fermented Grapes.
Wine.
I'm having wine for dinner.
February 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I'm having salad for dinner.
Actually, it's fruit salad.
Well, mostly grapes.
OK, all grapes.
Fermented Grapes.
Wine.
I'm having wine for dinner.
Actually, it's fruit salad.
Well, mostly grapes.
OK, all grapes.
Fermented Grapes.
Wine.
I'm having wine for dinner.
Anyone who is interested in productive rights - IVF, abortion, even birth control - needs to pay attention. Now.
February 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Anyone who is interested in productive rights - IVF, abortion, even birth control - needs to pay attention. Now.
I do wish people were more aware of the demeaning and unappreciative language being used toward lifetime public servants. This is not return to work. This is return to office. Words matter. We've been working.
February 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I do wish people were more aware of the demeaning and unappreciative language being used toward lifetime public servants. This is not return to work. This is return to office. Words matter. We've been working.
This is not America first. This is rich men first. When the CDC was told to pull all research on pregnant people it should have become painfully apparent to all the women who voted for Musk.
February 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This is not America first. This is rich men first. When the CDC was told to pull all research on pregnant people it should have become painfully apparent to all the women who voted for Musk.
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Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.
February 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.