Ellie Hall
@ellievhall.bsky.social
Senior Reporter, Investigator, and Royal Correspondent for hire. Previously BuzzFeed News (RIP). Currently @garbageday.email. My dog is cute. ✉️: ellievhall@gmail.com
This discovery would be one for the ages…
Benny Johnson appears to be joining his wife in threatening to sue Milo Yiannopoulos (and perhaps others?) for saying that he is bisexual.
The topic of Benny’s sexual orientation has been widely discussed by both conservatives and liberals on this platform and others since 2017.
The topic of Benny’s sexual orientation has been widely discussed by both conservatives and liberals on this platform and others since 2017.
December 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This discovery would be one for the ages…
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New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
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Everything I’ve learned about RFK Jr. and Olivia Nuzzi has been against my will.
November 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Everything I’ve learned about RFK Jr. and Olivia Nuzzi has been against my will.
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To paraphrase Warren Buffett, it’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming without a bathing suit
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
To paraphrase Warren Buffett, it’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming without a bathing suit
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4x Garbage Day byline today from me, @bumas.bsky.social, @ellievhall.bsky.social, and @jlfeder.bsky.social.
Here's everything the Epstein emails reveal about how he and Steve Bannon tried to unravel global democracy: Epstein helped build MAGA. Has he blown it?
www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...
Here's everything the Epstein emails reveal about how he and Steve Bannon tried to unravel global democracy: Epstein helped build MAGA. Has he blown it?
www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
4x Garbage Day byline today from me, @bumas.bsky.social, @ellievhall.bsky.social, and @jlfeder.bsky.social.
Here's everything the Epstein emails reveal about how he and Steve Bannon tried to unravel global democracy: Epstein helped build MAGA. Has he blown it?
www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...
Here's everything the Epstein emails reveal about how he and Steve Bannon tried to unravel global democracy: Epstein helped build MAGA. Has he blown it?
www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...
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I’ve reported on so many regular people being threatened and villified by conspiracy theories and hatred for people, many times spread by MTG. It’s awful when anyone has to deal with harassment and threats and I wonder if the congresswoman can look inward, too
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I’ve reported on so many regular people being threatened and villified by conspiracy theories and hatred for people, many times spread by MTG. It’s awful when anyone has to deal with harassment and threats and I wonder if the congresswoman can look inward, too
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So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
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An absolute triumph for the "I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards" set.
Trump blares Phantom of the Opera at the White House with an empty Friday schedule
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
An absolute triumph for the "I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards" set.
Everything I’ve learned about RFK Jr. and Olivia Nuzzi has been against my will.
November 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Everything I’ve learned about RFK Jr. and Olivia Nuzzi has been against my will.
Incredible things are happening on Facebook Marketplace:
November 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Incredible things are happening on Facebook Marketplace:
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trump’s presidency"
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trump’s presidency"
I wrote about the TikTok social experiment that's gone super viral for @garbageday.email:
A woman is calling up religious organizations around the country and asking if they can provide her with a can of formula for her starving baby — the results are shocking. www.garbageday.email/p/a-more-but...
A woman is calling up religious organizations around the country and asking if they can provide her with a can of formula for her starving baby — the results are shocking. www.garbageday.email/p/a-more-but...
A more buttoned-up version of Garbage Day
Read to the end for the soap ghost
www.garbageday.email
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I wrote about the TikTok social experiment that's gone super viral for @garbageday.email:
A woman is calling up religious organizations around the country and asking if they can provide her with a can of formula for her starving baby — the results are shocking. www.garbageday.email/p/a-more-but...
A woman is calling up religious organizations around the country and asking if they can provide her with a can of formula for her starving baby — the results are shocking. www.garbageday.email/p/a-more-but...
I need more people to play Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 because I have an almost pathological urge to talk about it.
(Cough, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, cough cough)
(Cough, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, cough cough)
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I need more people to play Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 because I have an almost pathological urge to talk about it.
(Cough, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, cough cough)
(Cough, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, cough cough)
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I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.
As always, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social nails it in his analysis of yesterday’s elections from the Very Online perspective:
*Jesse Plemons in “Civil War” voice* “What kind of Democrat are you?”
www.garbageday.email/p/we-did-it-zo
www.garbageday.email/p/we-did-it-zo
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
As always, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social nails it in his analysis of yesterday’s elections from the Very Online perspective:
Sorry to that man
My wife’s 25 year old coworker asked who Dick Cheney was today
November 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Sorry to that man
November 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???
November 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???
Cause of death: the Gestral Games in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
November 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Cause of death: the Gestral Games in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
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Newly unsealed documents show that JPMorgan alerted federal regulators to potentially suspicious transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein and top Wall Street figures.
[These documents were unsealed because @nytimes.com and @wsj.com fought together in court.] 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...
[These documents were unsealed because @nytimes.com and @wsj.com fought together in court.] 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...
JPMorgan Alerted U.S. to Epstein Transfers Involving Wall St. Figures
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Newly unsealed documents show that JPMorgan alerted federal regulators to potentially suspicious transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein and top Wall Street figures.
[These documents were unsealed because @nytimes.com and @wsj.com fought together in court.] 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...
[These documents were unsealed because @nytimes.com and @wsj.com fought together in court.] 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...
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i’m continually struck by the joy zohran has brought to this election and the absolute venom with which it’s been met.
For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city.
So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.
So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 AM
i’m continually struck by the joy zohran has brought to this election and the absolute venom with which it’s been met.
PRINCE ANDREW HAS BEEN STRIPPED OF HIS TITLES AND EVICTED FROM ROYAL LODGE.
In other totally unrelated news, more than 100 court filings related to Jeffrey Epstein’s finances are being unsealed today by order of a federal judge: www.courthousenews.com/judge-to-uns...
In other totally unrelated news, more than 100 court filings related to Jeffrey Epstein’s finances are being unsealed today by order of a federal judge: www.courthousenews.com/judge-to-uns...
Judge to unseal more than 100 documents in Epstein-related civil suit against JPMorgan Chase
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff agreed to release the documents at the request of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
www.courthousenews.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM
PRINCE ANDREW HAS BEEN STRIPPED OF HIS TITLES AND EVICTED FROM ROYAL LODGE.
In other totally unrelated news, more than 100 court filings related to Jeffrey Epstein’s finances are being unsealed today by order of a federal judge: www.courthousenews.com/judge-to-uns...
In other totally unrelated news, more than 100 court filings related to Jeffrey Epstein’s finances are being unsealed today by order of a federal judge: www.courthousenews.com/judge-to-uns...
It will be interesting to see what will happen to the "Duke of York" title from here on out.
Historically, the title has been given to the second son of the monarch. I wonder if Andrew's association with it means it'll be put back on the shelf for a few generations...
Historically, the title has been given to the second son of the monarch. I wonder if Andrew's association with it means it'll be put back on the shelf for a few generations...
October 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It will be interesting to see what will happen to the "Duke of York" title from here on out.
Historically, the title has been given to the second son of the monarch. I wonder if Andrew's association with it means it'll be put back on the shelf for a few generations...
Historically, the title has been given to the second son of the monarch. I wonder if Andrew's association with it means it'll be put back on the shelf for a few generations...