Ellin Stein
@ellinst.bsky.social
Arts journo (now mostly Slate and Byline Times),
MA Screenwriting lecturer @Goldsmiths UoL, authorina https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393074093, tech fumbler
MA Screenwriting lecturer @Goldsmiths UoL, authorina https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393074093, tech fumbler
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Looking to finish what they started.
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Looking to finish what they started.
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Yet more evidence of Russian interference in our elections.
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Danish political parties hit by cyberattack on election eve
Danish political parties hit by cyberattack on election eve
Pro-Russian hackers have claimed the cyberattack
dlvr.it
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Yet more evidence of Russian interference in our elections.
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Just, as Private Eye likes to say, fancy that! "On Nov. 12, NewsGuard reported that X’s AI chatbot confidently stated that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election when prodded by three X users, raising concerns about Grok’s tendency to spread election denialism."
November 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Just, as Private Eye likes to say, fancy that! "On Nov. 12, NewsGuard reported that X’s AI chatbot confidently stated that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election when prodded by three X users, raising concerns about Grok’s tendency to spread election denialism."
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Farage and Zia Yusuf are going to announce tomorrow that a Reform government will strip millions of EU nationals of benefits, more than double the cost of the NHS surcharge and cut foreign aid spending by more than 70%, The Times reports.
More Trumpian blood and soil nonsense.
More Trumpian blood and soil nonsense.
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Farage and Zia Yusuf are going to announce tomorrow that a Reform government will strip millions of EU nationals of benefits, more than double the cost of the NHS surcharge and cut foreign aid spending by more than 70%, The Times reports.
More Trumpian blood and soil nonsense.
More Trumpian blood and soil nonsense.
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Your daily reminder that the fossil fuel industry is propped up by billions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies and a multimillion dollar campaign to spread climate disinformation. 💵
November 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Your daily reminder that the fossil fuel industry is propped up by billions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies and a multimillion dollar campaign to spread climate disinformation. 💵
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forgot how racist she is
September 20, 2024 at 1:18 PM
forgot how racist she is
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More good coverage on crypto fraud in the NYT this morning. Note the phrase "at least $28 billion". It is undoubtedly A LOT more than $28 billion because the technology is so perfectly designed to be untraceable AND this doesn't include all kinds of fraud. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t...
The Crypto Industry’s $28 Billion in ‘Dirty Money’
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
More good coverage on crypto fraud in the NYT this morning. Note the phrase "at least $28 billion". It is undoubtedly A LOT more than $28 billion because the technology is so perfectly designed to be untraceable AND this doesn't include all kinds of fraud. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t...
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A study for the European Central Bank has shown that just higher temperatures alone will, by 2035, be pushing food prices up by 0.9%-3.2% every year. Also they found a strong correlation between avge monthly temperatures and food prices 1-3 months later.
The most likely cause is reduced crop yields.
The most likely cause is reduced crop yields.
November 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
A study for the European Central Bank has shown that just higher temperatures alone will, by 2035, be pushing food prices up by 0.9%-3.2% every year. Also they found a strong correlation between avge monthly temperatures and food prices 1-3 months later.
The most likely cause is reduced crop yields.
The most likely cause is reduced crop yields.
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Quick reminder: the GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” wasn’t beautiful.
It blew up the deficit past $3T, gutted Medicaid, triggered automatic Medicare cuts, and will shove millions off healthcare.
Tax breaks for the wealthy.
Medical bills for everyone else.
It blew up the deficit past $3T, gutted Medicaid, triggered automatic Medicare cuts, and will shove millions off healthcare.
Tax breaks for the wealthy.
Medical bills for everyone else.
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Quick reminder: the GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” wasn’t beautiful.
It blew up the deficit past $3T, gutted Medicaid, triggered automatic Medicare cuts, and will shove millions off healthcare.
Tax breaks for the wealthy.
Medical bills for everyone else.
It blew up the deficit past $3T, gutted Medicaid, triggered automatic Medicare cuts, and will shove millions off healthcare.
Tax breaks for the wealthy.
Medical bills for everyone else.
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Switching from gambling to crypto with football sponsorship: you might describe it as not really a switch at all.
As the warnings say: you could lose all your money.
Should football clubs not have some responsibility to fans?
observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
As the warnings say: you could lose all your money.
Should football clubs not have some responsibility to fans?
observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
Premier League clubs have crypto sponsors not covered by Britain’s financial regulators | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Switching from gambling to crypto with football sponsorship: you might describe it as not really a switch at all.
As the warnings say: you could lose all your money.
Should football clubs not have some responsibility to fans?
observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
As the warnings say: you could lose all your money.
Should football clubs not have some responsibility to fans?
observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
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Extraordinary story in Poland. Yet more sabotage.
Culpability not yet established, but all eyes will be on Russia. Poland has already arrested a total of 55 people only recently for illegal activities on Russia’s behalf. Hybrid warfare becoming part of European life.
www.ft.com/content/485f...
Culpability not yet established, but all eyes will be on Russia. Poland has already arrested a total of 55 people only recently for illegal activities on Russia’s behalf. Hybrid warfare becoming part of European life.
www.ft.com/content/485f...
Poland blames sabotage for blast on major railway line
Prime Minister Donald Tusk stops short of linking Moscow to explosion
www.ft.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Extraordinary story in Poland. Yet more sabotage.
Culpability not yet established, but all eyes will be on Russia. Poland has already arrested a total of 55 people only recently for illegal activities on Russia’s behalf. Hybrid warfare becoming part of European life.
www.ft.com/content/485f...
Culpability not yet established, but all eyes will be on Russia. Poland has already arrested a total of 55 people only recently for illegal activities on Russia’s behalf. Hybrid warfare becoming part of European life.
www.ft.com/content/485f...
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This should alarm everyone.
On Thursday, Florida, by unanimous vote, became the first state in the country to adopt “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.”
It was written by the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025.
THIS IS INDOCTRINATION
On Thursday, Florida, by unanimous vote, became the first state in the country to adopt “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.”
It was written by the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025.
THIS IS INDOCTRINATION
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This should alarm everyone.
On Thursday, Florida, by unanimous vote, became the first state in the country to adopt “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.”
It was written by the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025.
THIS IS INDOCTRINATION
On Thursday, Florida, by unanimous vote, became the first state in the country to adopt “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.”
It was written by the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025.
THIS IS INDOCTRINATION
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Shareholder of GBNews with a massive conflict of interest…
Farage: Reform would change law to strip BBC of licence fee
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Farage: Reform would change law to strip BBC of licence fee
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Access Restricted
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Shareholder of GBNews with a massive conflict of interest…
Farage: Reform would change law to strip BBC of licence fee
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Farage: Reform would change law to strip BBC of licence fee
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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FBI assets currently exist primarily to serve Kash’s social life and calendar. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/k...
November 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
FBI assets currently exist primarily to serve Kash’s social life and calendar. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/k...
Very sad and very disturbing. No long the public airwaves but the airwaves of those who can pay for them.
..."as many as 115 stations, collectively serving 43 million Americans, are likely to close by mid next year."
John Oliver
youtu.be/yknMJOgy2pA?...
John Oliver
youtu.be/yknMJOgy2pA?...
Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Very sad and very disturbing. No long the public airwaves but the airwaves of those who can pay for them.
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1. Trump is in the process of sending millions in taxpayer money directly to his political allies — and himself.
The money purportedly is to settle legal claims.
But these claims are extraordinarily weak and have little to no chance of success.
In reality, it is a brazen theft.
The money purportedly is to settle legal claims.
But these claims are extraordinarily weak and have little to no chance of success.
In reality, it is a brazen theft.
Grand theft government
President Trump is in the process of sending millions of dollars in taxpayer money directly to his political allies — and himself.
popular.info
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
1. Trump is in the process of sending millions in taxpayer money directly to his political allies — and himself.
The money purportedly is to settle legal claims.
But these claims are extraordinarily weak and have little to no chance of success.
In reality, it is a brazen theft.
The money purportedly is to settle legal claims.
But these claims are extraordinarily weak and have little to no chance of success.
In reality, it is a brazen theft.
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open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
The tRump Regime's utter failure in immigration policy is on full display as they use performative theater to terrorize innocent neighborhoods while arresting few to no gang members or criminals.
Waste of money and illegal use of federal "agents"
#ICETerrorism
The tRump Regime's utter failure in immigration policy is on full display as they use performative theater to terrorize innocent neighborhoods while arresting few to no gang members or criminals.
Waste of money and illegal use of federal "agents"
#ICETerrorism
The Chicago Invasion After-Action Report
‘Blitz’ or FUBAR?
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
The tRump Regime's utter failure in immigration policy is on full display as they use performative theater to terrorize innocent neighborhoods while arresting few to no gang members or criminals.
Waste of money and illegal use of federal "agents"
#ICETerrorism
The tRump Regime's utter failure in immigration policy is on full display as they use performative theater to terrorize innocent neighborhoods while arresting few to no gang members or criminals.
Waste of money and illegal use of federal "agents"
#ICETerrorism
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i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...
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The Supreme Court interfered with Obama’s signature policy, the one that opponents literally dubbed “Obamacare”
Bessent on tariffs: "This is one of President Trump's signature policies, and traditionally the Supreme Court does not interfere with a president's signature policy."
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The Supreme Court interfered with Obama’s signature policy, the one that opponents literally dubbed “Obamacare”
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
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And then think of what a cornered psychopathic human being with the morals and instincts of a rat and control of over five thousand nuclear warheads would do.
This is a very dangerous moment for the country and the world. A cornered rat will do anything to escape.
November 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
And then think of what a cornered psychopathic human being with the morals and instincts of a rat and control of over five thousand nuclear warheads would do.
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There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
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Bovino’s rant fits the authoritarian indicators in our assessment: empowered security forces acting with impunity, militarized immigration raids, executive overreach through federalized enforcement, and loyalty-driven ops unmoored from oversight. His tone isn’t an outlier but a symptom.
November 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Bovino’s rant fits the authoritarian indicators in our assessment: empowered security forces acting with impunity, militarized immigration raids, executive overreach through federalized enforcement, and loyalty-driven ops unmoored from oversight. His tone isn’t an outlier but a symptom.
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The President should not be making personal for-profit business deals with the foreign leaders while he's supposed to be conducting foreign policy on behalf of the country.
This should not be a remotely controversial statement.
This should not be a remotely controversial statement.
Saudi officials used President Trump’s state visit in May to pique his interest in a major real estate development, the latest example of Trump blending governance and family business, particularly in Persian Gulf countries. nyti.ms/4r7mboU
November 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The President should not be making personal for-profit business deals with the foreign leaders while he's supposed to be conducting foreign policy on behalf of the country.
This should not be a remotely controversial statement.
This should not be a remotely controversial statement.