Kirk Ellis
@reallykirkellis.bsky.social
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It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility
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Rep. Mark Harris wants the National Guard to help fight crime in Charlotte. Data shows that the more rural parts of his district have a higher rate of violent crime. www.ncrabbithole.com/p/republican...
GOP congressmen want the National Guard in Charlotte. Here's where violent crime is a bigger problem.
Sure, the data can't always tell the entire story. But one representative who's asking for a deployment isn't suggesting the same solution for a more violent place in his own district.
www.ncrabbithole.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Rep. Mark Harris wants the National Guard to help fight crime in Charlotte. Data shows that the more rural parts of his district have a higher rate of violent crime. www.ncrabbithole.com/p/republican...
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The Epstein Files… otherwise known as the Trump Pardon List
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The Epstein Files… otherwise known as the Trump Pardon List
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If Trump was deeply involved with Epstein and the pedophile ring, what would he be doing differently to cover his tracks? www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-spen...
Trump ‘Spent Hours’ With an Epstein Victim, Epstein Said
What if Qanon was right?
www.thebulwark.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
If Trump was deeply involved with Epstein and the pedophile ring, what would he be doing differently to cover his tracks? www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-spen...
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I’m gifting this article so you can read it without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I’m gifting this article so you can read it without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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This is….INSANE. Like, more INSANE than regular insane.
Here's Trump spraying Al-Sharaa with his cologne, asking him how many wives he has..at the Oval Office.
Published, naturally, by the Syria team.
Published, naturally, by the Syria team.
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is….INSANE. Like, more INSANE than regular insane.
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From the making of THE LORD OF THE RINGS films: That’s Rivendell, brought to life in a parking lot. It’s shit like this that makes me scream about obviously intangible, nonsensical CGI environments in film that make it impossible to emotionally connect to what you’re watching.
Photographer unknown.
Photographer unknown.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
From the making of THE LORD OF THE RINGS films: That’s Rivendell, brought to life in a parking lot. It’s shit like this that makes me scream about obviously intangible, nonsensical CGI environments in film that make it impossible to emotionally connect to what you’re watching.
Photographer unknown.
Photographer unknown.
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A little bit of history worth knowing. If it’s history, they are trying to wipe it out, to make room for the absurd tales of eternal innocence that bring fascism and bloodshed closer.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 AM
A little bit of history worth knowing. If it’s history, they are trying to wipe it out, to make room for the absurd tales of eternal innocence that bring fascism and bloodshed closer.
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In times like these, links are needed because it's far too easy to throw up a faked headline. So I'm sliding in to assist with the receipts: www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
In times like these, links are needed because it's far too easy to throw up a faked headline. So I'm sliding in to assist with the receipts: www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
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Trump: We gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It’s much better than the Congressional Medal of Honor because soldiers get the Congressional. And they’re in very bad shape because they're dead. She gets it and she's a healthy, beautiful woman. And they’re rated equal
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Trump: We gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It’s much better than the Congressional Medal of Honor because soldiers get the Congressional. And they’re in very bad shape because they're dead. She gets it and she's a healthy, beautiful woman. And they’re rated equal
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wrote an essay about the lowdown, and how it can be hard to think about drama at a time when there never seem to be consequences for bad guys, and how the lowdown offers us a way out
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
Drama in a Time of No Consequences
The Lowdown finds hope in a world where most crimes go unpunished.
www.vulture.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
wrote an essay about the lowdown, and how it can be hard to think about drama at a time when there never seem to be consequences for bad guys, and how the lowdown offers us a way out
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Two minutes silence (1928)
By Charles Spencelayh
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Two minutes silence (1928)
By Charles Spencelayh
November 11, 2024 at 12:23 AM
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Two minutes silence (1928)
By Charles Spencelayh
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Two minutes silence (1928)
By Charles Spencelayh
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Knowing this administration, somewhere a writer is desperately trying to figure out how to tell Lincoln’s story without including Black people
(pic taken yesterday on the steps of the memorial)
(pic taken yesterday on the steps of the memorial)
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Knowing this administration, somewhere a writer is desperately trying to figure out how to tell Lincoln’s story without including Black people
(pic taken yesterday on the steps of the memorial)
(pic taken yesterday on the steps of the memorial)
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Well, that’s a new one.
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Well, that’s a new one.
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Trump's pardon of allies who helped him try to subvert the 2020 election is important. It's a permission slip--no, it's an encouragement, even an order--to allies to be ready to try to subvert the elections in 2026, and 2028.
politi.co/3WN7A3T
politi.co/3WN7A3T
Trump pardons top allies who aided bid to subvert the 2020 election
Pardon recipients include Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman and dozens more.
politi.co
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Trump's pardon of allies who helped him try to subvert the 2020 election is important. It's a permission slip--no, it's an encouragement, even an order--to allies to be ready to try to subvert the elections in 2026, and 2028.
politi.co/3WN7A3T
politi.co/3WN7A3T
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Perhaps better headline:
Trump preemptively pardons everyone planning on election subversion in 2026 and 2028.
www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-p...
Trump preemptively pardons everyone planning on election subversion in 2026 and 2028.
www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-p...
Trump Preemptively Pardons Rudy Giuliani, Others Involved in Attempt to Overturn 2020 Election | National Review
Trump also pardoned John Eastman, Sidney Powell, and dozens of other Republicans who came forward to act as alternate electors.
www.nationalreview.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Perhaps better headline:
Trump preemptively pardons everyone planning on election subversion in 2026 and 2028.
www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-p...
Trump preemptively pardons everyone planning on election subversion in 2026 and 2028.
www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-p...
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These same bums will be asking us for cash at the next deadline; looking forward to sending this back to every Senate fundraising text
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
These same bums will be asking us for cash at the next deadline; looking forward to sending this back to every Senate fundraising text
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remember tuesday? that was 86 years ago
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
remember tuesday? that was 86 years ago
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
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In 1987, Suzanne Somers introduced and interviewed Wire on The Late Show. Seriously.They play "Drill" live. #PostPunk m.youtube.com/watch?v=qkf8...
Wire Meets Suzanne Sommers
YouTube video by Perry Amberson
m.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
In 1987, Suzanne Somers introduced and interviewed Wire on The Late Show. Seriously.They play "Drill" live. #PostPunk m.youtube.com/watch?v=qkf8...
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One more thing:
The SNAP freeze isn't JUST about the shutdown. This year's Republican budget bill—the "Big, Beautiful Bill"—included a $186B cut to SNAP.
It was one of many programs, including Medicaid, that got budget reductions to pay for Republican tax cuts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2gu...
The SNAP freeze isn't JUST about the shutdown. This year's Republican budget bill—the "Big, Beautiful Bill"—included a $186B cut to SNAP.
It was one of many programs, including Medicaid, that got budget reductions to pay for Republican tax cuts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2gu...
Who's really getting food stamps in NC? | Billy Ball Explains
YouTube video by Cardinal & Pine
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
One more thing:
The SNAP freeze isn't JUST about the shutdown. This year's Republican budget bill—the "Big, Beautiful Bill"—included a $186B cut to SNAP.
It was one of many programs, including Medicaid, that got budget reductions to pay for Republican tax cuts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2gu...
The SNAP freeze isn't JUST about the shutdown. This year's Republican budget bill—the "Big, Beautiful Bill"—included a $186B cut to SNAP.
It was one of many programs, including Medicaid, that got budget reductions to pay for Republican tax cuts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2gu...
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It's hard not to love #StarTrekLowerDecks, but these little nods to things in #StarTrek fandom make it so much fun. Check these Trek inside jokes in this video from @RoddenberryPod.bsky.social BEAM! #nerdlyfe
Can You Spot These Hidden Star Trek Jokes?
Every episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks is FULL of easter eggs, references, and inside jokes about the franchise... but did you catch them all? It's time to rank some of our favorite inside jokes…
buff.ly
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It's hard not to love #StarTrekLowerDecks, but these little nods to things in #StarTrek fandom make it so much fun. Check these Trek inside jokes in this video from @RoddenberryPod.bsky.social BEAM! #nerdlyfe
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(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
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If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing