Ellyn W. Foltz
@ellynwf.bsky.social
Enjoying life just outside Atlanta. Grandma, mother, wife, sister, aunt, retired tech exec (45 years culminating with 20 at Microsoft) Not a fan of the current administration but neither a lefty nor a righty so no labels please.
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Ellyn W. Foltz
@ellynwf.bsky.social
· Jul 20
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” -
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
I read an article the other day (apologies for not recalling author but was in The Economist) about how to reframe every difficult political conversation with which you are confronted with the phrase, “I believe we have different values.” The phrase seems to confuse and disarm your confronter.
August 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I read an article the other day (apologies for not recalling author but was in The Economist) about how to reframe every difficult political conversation with which you are confronted with the phrase, “I believe we have different values.” The phrase seems to confuse and disarm your confronter.
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I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
August 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
My husband just said, “I wonder if they’re at the part of the meeting where Putin lets him know that Russia has all the Epstein files.”
August 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
My husband just said, “I wonder if they’re at the part of the meeting where Putin lets him know that Russia has all the Epstein files.”
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Below are the 30 U.S. cities with at least 100,000 residents that had the highest number of crimes against people, per 100,000, according to the latest FBI data report.
Goodness, Washington, D.C., forgot to be included!
JD Vance & Jim Jordon's Ohio makes a stellar showing. Heck of a job on crime!
Goodness, Washington, D.C., forgot to be included!
JD Vance & Jim Jordon's Ohio makes a stellar showing. Heck of a job on crime!
August 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Below are the 30 U.S. cities with at least 100,000 residents that had the highest number of crimes against people, per 100,000, according to the latest FBI data report.
Goodness, Washington, D.C., forgot to be included!
JD Vance & Jim Jordon's Ohio makes a stellar showing. Heck of a job on crime!
Goodness, Washington, D.C., forgot to be included!
JD Vance & Jim Jordon's Ohio makes a stellar showing. Heck of a job on crime!
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Always listen to Will.
It used to be a conspiracy theory: Trump will cancel the 2026 midterms. But the Texas remapping outrage is a plan to do exactly that, as extreme gerrymandering spreads to multiple states
The next election will be decided by a computer, not a campaign. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/texa...
The next election will be decided by a computer, not a campaign. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/texa...
Trump actually is ‘canceling’ the 2026 midterms, starting in Texas | Will Bunch
Trump's outrageous push to kill 5 Dem House seats in Texas triggers a nuclear war that will end representative democracy.
www.inquirer.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Always listen to Will.
The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
Opinion | The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
White House has no plan to mandate coverage for IVF care, despite campaign pledge - The Washington Post
Gosh what a surprise! Said no one.
Gosh what a surprise! Said no one.
August 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
White House has no plan to mandate coverage for IVF care, despite campaign pledge - The Washington Post
Gosh what a surprise! Said no one.
Gosh what a surprise! Said no one.
Let’s shoot the messenger!
Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Fires That Agency’s Commissioner www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Fires That Agency’s Commissioner www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Fires That Agency’s Commissioner
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Let’s shoot the messenger!
Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Fires That Agency’s Commissioner www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Fires That Agency’s Commissioner www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
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TODD BLANCHE: "This is what we are willing to do, Ghislaine. If you publicly exonerate Mr. Trump, you'll get a pardon when he leaves office. In the meantime, we'll get you out of this hellhole and into one of country club prisons. Deal?"
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas
According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.
www.muellershewrote.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
TODD BLANCHE: "This is what we are willing to do, Ghislaine. If you publicly exonerate Mr. Trump, you'll get a pardon when he leaves office. In the meantime, we'll get you out of this hellhole and into one of country club prisons. Deal?"
Thank you to Satya Nadella, Amy Hood and MSFT staff in general. Not only were my twenty years there so intellectually challenging and often fun, but in retirement you are truly the gift that keeps on giving.
July 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Thank you to Satya Nadella, Amy Hood and MSFT staff in general. Not only were my twenty years there so intellectually challenging and often fun, but in retirement you are truly the gift that keeps on giving.
I just upped our annual donations to World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders and specified that our donations be used for Gaza relief. I cannot believe our own country is letting these children starve to death. It appears the EU is putting together a relief effort as we speak.
July 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I just upped our annual donations to World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders and specified that our donations be used for Gaza relief. I cannot believe our own country is letting these children starve to death. It appears the EU is putting together a relief effort as we speak.
I am so looking forward to hearing the incredibly convoluted logic of the deep red Trump base when he pardons Ghislaine Maxwell (which feels inevitable doesn’t it?)
July 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I am so looking forward to hearing the incredibly convoluted logic of the deep red Trump base when he pardons Ghislaine Maxwell (which feels inevitable doesn’t it?)
“I had thought that the toxic sludge of shamelessness — that love child of Donald Trump and the internet — had wiped out the old-fashioned notion of humiliation, but I was wrong.” What a perfectly constructed sentence in today’s NYT. I had to celebrate it.
July 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“I had thought that the toxic sludge of shamelessness — that love child of Donald Trump and the internet — had wiped out the old-fashioned notion of humiliation, but I was wrong.” What a perfectly constructed sentence in today’s NYT. I had to celebrate it.
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“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” -
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
July 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” -
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
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With new advancements in A.I., bodies of knowledge and skills that have traditionally taken lifetimes to master are being swallowed at a gulp.
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.
nyer.cm
July 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
With new advancements in A.I., bodies of knowledge and skills that have traditionally taken lifetimes to master are being swallowed at a gulp.
Is anyone else enjoying the Coldplay Jumbotron canoodling fallout as much as I am? Schadenfreude is such a wonderful distraction from the ongoing collapse of a previously strong nation.
July 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Is anyone else enjoying the Coldplay Jumbotron canoodling fallout as much as I am? Schadenfreude is such a wonderful distraction from the ongoing collapse of a previously strong nation.
Hi Atlanta public media fans! I just sent an extra donation to
WABE so that we, our children and especially our grandchildren can keep benefitting from public television and radio. Please join me in your town and city. Just because our nation has lost its damn mind doesn’t mean we have to!
WABE so that we, our children and especially our grandchildren can keep benefitting from public television and radio. Please join me in your town and city. Just because our nation has lost its damn mind doesn’t mean we have to!
July 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Hi Atlanta public media fans! I just sent an extra donation to
WABE so that we, our children and especially our grandchildren can keep benefitting from public television and radio. Please join me in your town and city. Just because our nation has lost its damn mind doesn’t mean we have to!
WABE so that we, our children and especially our grandchildren can keep benefitting from public television and radio. Please join me in your town and city. Just because our nation has lost its damn mind doesn’t mean we have to!
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How Trump’s anti-immigrant policies could collapse the US food industry - visualized
How Trump’s anti-immigrant policies could collapse the US food industry - visualized
The president is threatening to deport essential farm workers, grocery clerks and food delivery drivers. But without them, shelves could go empty and prices could soar
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
How Trump’s anti-immigrant policies could collapse the US food industry - visualized
We Will Regret Not Standing Up to This Venomous Cruelty www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...
Opinion | We Will Regret Not Standing Up to This Venomous Cruelty
www.nytimes.com
July 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We Will Regret Not Standing Up to This Venomous Cruelty www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...
My recommended best practice to make it through this time in history is to have coffee every morning with our national treasure Dr. Heather Cox Richardson.
July 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
My recommended best practice to make it through this time in history is to have coffee every morning with our national treasure Dr. Heather Cox Richardson.
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Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings:
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
July 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings:
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
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Page One in Miami:
The mocking of immigrant detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz” harkens back to “the worst parts of our history.”
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/state/f...
The mocking of immigrant detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz” harkens back to “the worst parts of our history.”
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/state/f...
July 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Page One in Miami:
The mocking of immigrant detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz” harkens back to “the worst parts of our history.”
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/state/f...
The mocking of immigrant detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz” harkens back to “the worst parts of our history.”
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/state/f...
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
This was such a magnificent article on the southern summer delights of barbecue that I just had to share.
This was such a magnificent article on the southern summer delights of barbecue that I just had to share.
A journey through the United States of barbecue
From whole hogs to smoked fish and brisket, this all-American smoke-infused cooking style is as diverse as the US itself – and just as rich in history.
www.bbc.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
This was such a magnificent article on the southern summer delights of barbecue that I just had to share.
This was such a magnificent article on the southern summer delights of barbecue that I just had to share.