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Elle Ess
@viamarsala18.bsky.social
Minneapolitan. Occasionally lawyerly. Union member and supporter. LGBTQIA+ supporter. She/her.

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Two people I’m grateful for:

@riotousmuse.bsky.social and @phoenix-rights.bsky.social

They are incredibly generous with their time & energy. Fierce advocates. The kindest friends. And they are both HUGE wells of knowledge.
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
There is nothing as radicalizing as seeing it happen in person. There is nothing as visceral as the feeling that you’re on the knife’s edge of being able to save someone and you might not be able to.
December 5, 2025 at 3:43 AM
“oH yOu rEaLlY tHoUgHt ThE gOp WoUlD sTaNd Up???”

Yeah I did. Some things are bigger than party. It’s not that fucking hard. This is about their actual humanity.
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I know anti-Somali racism has been alive and well here for a while but what’s happening in this moment is worse than ever and not one GOP member could buck the Nazi trend and go stand with her.
December 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Think about what that means for a minute—her GOP colleagues agree with Trump that she is garbage and doesn’t belong here. They buy into the “subhuman” Nazi narrative. It’s so disgusting I can barely think about it and Zaynab and the others have to LIVE it and work with those people in their faces
December 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Oh you started a project with huge plans and you can’t manage finishing it?? BOY have I been there.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM