Real_Ellen_G
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Real_Ellen_G
@realeg.bsky.social
Occupational Therapist, Democrat, blacksmith. Juice glass enthusiast, Georgian in Ohio, podcast junkie. Mom. Protect gay and trans kids, or kick rocks. There’s a fair chance you once knew me as guppy.
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As we all know, the US government has three branches: the king, his lawyers, and a bunch of little bitches.
July 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Trump isn’t taking his losses well tonight. Instead of throwing ketchup, he started pardoning gang members, murderers, and convicted felons. Guess he didn’t want to taco ’bout it.
May 29, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi sold more than $1 million worth of Trump Media stock the day Trump announced bruising new tariffs on "Liberation Day." @propublica.org's @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @bxroberts.org have the exclusive story. www.propublica.org/article/pam-...
U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs
Disclosure forms show that Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market tumblin...
www.propublica.org
May 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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The persistent claim is that there are so-called "able-bodied" people on Medicaid, and that this is a mistake (they “should never have been on the program”), or worse, “fraud”.

This is a mischaracterization of the goals of the current Medicaid program
open.substack.com/pub/timothym...
Medicaid debate: Focus on "able-bodied" Medicaid recipients is aimed at scaling back Obamacare
In the Medicaid debate now raging on Capitol Hill, there is a great deal of confusion about basic facts about the Medicaid population. Some of it stems from mischaracterization of those on Medicaid.
open.substack.com
May 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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I remember when he saluted North Korean military officers, too.
May 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
@ologies.bsky.social I’m 10 minutes into part 1, and as it IS April after all, my head will 100% explode if this ep doesn’t take a hard turn toward acknowledging Occupational Therapy . . . This is *exactly* our jam.
April 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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April 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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You could just Mad Lib that indefinitely:
“Guess we’re gonna have to go back to [noun] killing a whole bunch of us to rediscover why we started [government agency] in the first place.”

{epidemics; the CDC}, {tornados; NOAA}, {hurricanes; FEMA}, etc etc
April 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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MARCO RUBIO I HAVE SOME ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIAS TO REPORT!!!
"Christians who sought asylum from persecution by the Taliban are being told they must leave immediately or be deported.

"The news came in an email to a group living legally in north Raleigh... Apostles Church in Raleigh had welcomed them after the Taliban took over...

www.wral.com/story/they-f...
Afghani asylum seekers, members of Raleigh church, given a week to leave the U.S.
Apostles Church in Raleigh has welcomed about 25 people who came to the U.S. after the Taliban took over.
www.wral.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Trump ends promising cancer research. USA! USA!

“Two patients’ treatments using the experimental therapy had to be delayed because NIH’s capacity to make personalized cell therapies has been slowed by the firing of highly skilled staff..."

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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We Are In A Constitutional Crisis….
April 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
April 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Any traders with inside information that Trump was going to walk back his tariffs — some of them, presumably, Trump family members and cronies — just made a fortune.

It all feels like chaos until you look more closely at who is winning.
April 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
What’s the most outdated tenet of American politics you can think of?
I’ll start: not taxing churches. This is absolute madness in 2025.
April 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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GOP Senators voted to cancel Donold’s tariffs on Canada. I almost forgot that Congress could rebuke him if they really wanted to.
April 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Whew!
April 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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When they said they were voting Trump because of inflation, I didn't realize they meant they wanted more of it.
April 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands.

The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
April 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Sen. Cory Booker has the floor.
April 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Wisconsin State Attorney General Josh Kaul is taking legal action against Elon Musk
March 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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House Republicans on the DOGE committee held a hearing to investigate and defund NPR and PBS.

Instead we need to have a hearing to investigate Trump trying to funnel $400 million to Elon Musk's companies then lying about it.
March 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Trump & Musk are:

-Lying about Social Security fraud

-Making destructive cuts to SSA staffing and phone-based services 

-Threatening the security of people's personal information by giving DOGE access to sensitive SSA data

Social Security is in crisis entirely due to them.
March 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Super-interesting. Makes sense. Be careful what you post in your efforts to correct/call out mis- and dis-information.

The "Do Not Associate" List
The "Do Not Associate" List
How to stop helping MAGA spread their myths.
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March 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.

As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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March 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Elon is amplifying a bunch of revisionist history tweets suggesting that Republicans have only ever boycotted brands like peaceful angels, and it's so funny because this video exists:
March 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM