Ellen Stark
@ellenstark.bsky.social
Writer, editor, personal finance geek, amateur choral singer, arts lover, outdoor enthusiast, Mets fan, editor of "Horrific Homicides," the recounting of the Amityville Horror murders by my late father, Judge Thomas M. Stark
The NYC #Handsoff rally going from what seemed like a few hundred people walking around Bryant Park to a packed march of 1,000s down 5th Ave was magical and energizing
April 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The NYC #Handsoff rally going from what seemed like a few hundred people walking around Bryant Park to a packed march of 1,000s down 5th Ave was magical and energizing
Morning read: What the attack on DEI really is
As Trump Attacks Diversity, a Racist Undercurrent Surfaces
President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also equating diversity with incompetence.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Morning read: What the attack on DEI really is
Reposted by Ellen Stark
In its simplest terms, the apparent demise of #USAID is the result of the world's richest man ending a program that helps millions of poor people. You don't need a Ph.D. in moral theology to see why this is an evil. You can just read Jesus's parables on the rich and the poor.
February 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
In its simplest terms, the apparent demise of #USAID is the result of the world's richest man ending a program that helps millions of poor people. You don't need a Ph.D. in moral theology to see why this is an evil. You can just read Jesus's parables on the rich and the poor.
An excellent book by my friend @elmunc.bsky.social and well worth a read now
This is a perilous moment for lawyers in federal service.
Stories of resistance from within can help.
This book tells of lawyers who helped run the Japanese American camps of WWII.
We can learn from their struggles to reconcile job with conscience.
Would you please share?
tinyurl.com/mrxm6vv2
Stories of resistance from within can help.
This book tells of lawyers who helped run the Japanese American camps of WWII.
We can learn from their struggles to reconcile job with conscience.
Would you please share?
tinyurl.com/mrxm6vv2
January 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
An excellent book by my friend @elmunc.bsky.social and well worth a read now
Reposted by Ellen Stark
I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it.
Irony is dead.
I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated.
#LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust
Irony is dead.
I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated.
#LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust
January 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it.
Irony is dead.
I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated.
#LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust
Irony is dead.
I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated.
#LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust
Reposted by Ellen Stark
Why mass deportations spell trouble for some families needing long-term care www.nextavenue.org/mass-deporta...
Mass Deportations Spell Trouble for Some Families Needing Long-Term Care
What experts think President Trump’s sweeping policy could mean for care at home, in nursing homes and in assisted-living centers
www.nextavenue.org
January 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Why mass deportations spell trouble for some families needing long-term care www.nextavenue.org/mass-deporta...
This is the tiny town where I grew up and it’s heartbreaking news for the whole area.
The last duck farm on New York's Long Island, Crescent Duck Farm, must kill its entire flock of almost 100,000 ducks and may go out of business, its owner said, because of an outbreak of bird flu. nyti.ms/4jqNBlD
January 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is the tiny town where I grew up and it’s heartbreaking news for the whole area.
We can do this
for the first time ever, solar power generation overtakes coal in the eu
the change since 2011 is staggering (and will continue widening)
the change since 2011 is staggering (and will continue widening)
January 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
We can do this
Fascinating insights into how federal workers have grappled with moral dilemmas in the past
January 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Fascinating insights into how federal workers have grappled with moral dilemmas in the past