Ellen Yvonne
@iampayingattention.bsky.social
Writer. Working on memoir.
Minnesota.
Minnesota.
The word retard is usually applied to people. Why is this woman offended AND defending her right to say it in a public space. Why is use of the word retard the hill she chose to die on.
the woman using the r-word in this clip, Laura Ndirangu, is now interviewing for a position on the school board in Forest Lake, Minnesota
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The word retard is usually applied to people. Why is this woman offended AND defending her right to say it in a public space. Why is use of the word retard the hill she chose to die on.
We can only hope
every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
We can only hope
Words what do they mean?
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November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Words what do they mean?
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This man’s brain is orange marmalade
Trump on Air Traffic Controllers: The one’s that stayed, I'm sending them a $10,000 bonus.
Ingraham: Where is that money coming from?
Trump: I don't know.
Ingraham: Where is that money coming from?
Trump: I don't know.
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This man’s brain is orange marmalade
Wow watch Ingraham push back after Trump tries to defend the new average age of new homeowners of 40. Trump: I inherited that
Ingraham: Is a 50 year mortgage really a good idea?
Trump: It’s not even a big deal. You go from 40 years to 50
Ingraham: 30
Trump: It’s not even a big deal. You go from 40 years to 50
Ingraham: 30
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Wow watch Ingraham push back after Trump tries to defend the new average age of new homeowners of 40. Trump: I inherited that
I lost too many brain cells watching that clip
Trump claims he was "being funny" when he said he's not going to heaven
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I lost too many brain cells watching that clip
“Banuelos' case was unique among the tonnage of Capitol riot prosecutions, because he was the only defendant accused of pulling and firing a gun while on Capitol grounds. “
NEW: Jan 6 riot defendant arrested outside a Burger King in Cicero, Illinois.
Prosecutors allege a DNA test in August linked him to 2018 kidnapping and sex assault
Just filed:
www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...
Prosecutors allege a DNA test in August linked him to 2018 kidnapping and sex assault
Just filed:
www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...
High-profile Jan. 6 defendant facing charges of kidnapping and sexually assaulting woman
John Banuelos' case was unique among Capitol riot prosecutions because he was the only defendant accused of pulling and firing a gun while on Capitol grounds.
www.cbsnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
“Banuelos' case was unique among the tonnage of Capitol riot prosecutions, because he was the only defendant accused of pulling and firing a gun while on Capitol grounds. “
I’m sorry but 80% of farmers are not as smart as they think Trump is.
Nearly 80% of voters in farming-dependent counties voted for Trump. Now, many of the farmers are on the brink of bankruptcy because of his policies.
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I’m sorry but 80% of farmers are not as smart as they think Trump is.
This is why Thune kept saying last week talks were in progress
The Senate plans to vote Monday evening to reopen the federal government, taking the next step toward ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
Senate plans to vote Monday night on shutdown deal
House Speaker Mike Johnson has said he is preparing to call his members back to Washington while the Senate finalizes the deal.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This is why Thune kept saying last week talks were in progress
Absolutely
NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Absolutely
Watch the entire clip
Trump on affordability: It’s a con job. Costs are way down.
Ingraham: So you are saying voters are misperceiving how they feel?
Ingraham: So you are saying voters are misperceiving how they feel?
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Watch the entire clip
This man is the stupidest, meanest. Stupid evil is worse than regular evil
Trump on SNAP: It really puts the country in jeopardy. People who are able bodied who can do their job—they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up because it’s easier—that’s not the purpose of it
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
This man is the stupidest, meanest. Stupid evil is worse than regular evil
Just more proof that Trump and MAGA have no idea how anything works.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Just more proof that Trump and MAGA have no idea how anything works.
Followed by “they’re gunna come down very quickly.”
Trump literally says "shhhhhhhh" after Laura Ingraham notes that the cost of beef, coffee, and auto repairs have gone up.
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Followed by “they’re gunna come down very quickly.”
“One of the two people familiar said there is more fallout from this idea than almost any other policy proposal of the second term, including from the MAGA base.”
More fallout from this than any other policy proposal. Let that sink in.
More fallout from this than any other policy proposal. Let that sink in.
POLITICO: “.. The White House was blindsided by the idea, according to two people familiar with the situation .. and is now dealing with a furious backlash from conservative allies, business leaders and lawmakers.” 🤡
@politico.com $XHB
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
@politico.com $XHB
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
“One of the two people familiar said there is more fallout from this idea than almost any other policy proposal of the second term, including from the MAGA base.”
More fallout from this than any other policy proposal. Let that sink in.
More fallout from this than any other policy proposal. Let that sink in.
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Onto Comey's vindictive and selective prosecution argument. This ¶ is super important, bc it gets to how inapt exist precedents on whether related investigators can be source of animus. A president is different.
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Onto Comey's vindictive and selective prosecution argument. This ¶ is super important, bc it gets to how inapt exist precedents on whether related investigators can be source of animus. A president is different.
She doesn’t look very afraid for her life up there. A sniper could have taken her out easily if Portland was full of snipers.
Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
She doesn’t look very afraid for her life up there. A sniper could have taken her out easily if Portland was full of snipers.
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And, more specifically, a conservative Catholic who probably doesn't think a lot of many other Catholics (among them: James Martin, Pope Francis, and myself, which is almost certainly the only time the three of us will be in the same sentence).
September 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
And, more specifically, a conservative Catholic who probably doesn't think a lot of many other Catholics (among them: James Martin, Pope Francis, and myself, which is almost certainly the only time the three of us will be in the same sentence).
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I notice that he specifically avoids mentioning any nation that is historically Catholic. No Irish, Italian, or French there.
I see no other reason to include the Scotch-Irish but not the Irish themselves.
I see no other reason to include the Scotch-Irish but not the Irish themselves.
September 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I notice that he specifically avoids mentioning any nation that is historically Catholic. No Irish, Italian, or French there.
I see no other reason to include the Scotch-Irish but not the Irish themselves.
I see no other reason to include the Scotch-Irish but not the Irish themselves.
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there is a way in which this is even an explicit repudiation of the constitution itself, created not to pass some european idea of "nationhood" down to posterity, but to pass *republican self-government* down to posterity.
September 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
there is a way in which this is even an explicit repudiation of the constitution itself, created not to pass some european idea of "nationhood" down to posterity, but to pass *republican self-government* down to posterity.
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oh i forgot about hochman. that's probably the nazi who wrote this www.liberalcurrents.com/missouri-sen...
Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt's Nazi Staffer
Nathan Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign for making a transparently neoNazi video featuring the Governor, and has only doubled down on his white nationalism since.
www.liberalcurrents.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
oh i forgot about hochman. that's probably the nazi who wrote this www.liberalcurrents.com/missouri-sen...
This procedural nightmarish maze of rules the Senate believes is still relevant is why 99% of Americans have tuned out of the political process. None of this bullshit procedural rules means anything to 99.9999% of Americans.
Meanwhile, Brazil understands what is important. The US Senate does not.
Meanwhile, Brazil understands what is important. The US Senate does not.
It was this thread ⬇️. See my profile for more details.
Ahem...
September 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This procedural nightmarish maze of rules the Senate believes is still relevant is why 99% of Americans have tuned out of the political process. None of this bullshit procedural rules means anything to 99.9999% of Americans.
Meanwhile, Brazil understands what is important. The US Senate does not.
Meanwhile, Brazil understands what is important. The US Senate does not.
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JUST IN: Brazil’s top court sentences former President Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and 3 months in prison over his attempted coup
September 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
JUST IN: Brazil’s top court sentences former President Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and 3 months in prison over his attempted coup
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Economically disastrous for local businesses
www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/b...
www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/b...
Trump’s federal takeover is disrupting Washington, DC’s ailing economy | CNN Business
Business has never been this slow for Jovan Richards, who sells shirts, hats and souvenirs emblazoned with the likeness of the nation’s capital.
www.cnn.com
September 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Economically disastrous for local businesses
www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/b...
www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/b...