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Ellie☮️🇺🇦
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Supporting kindness, equality & compassion. Working to maintain democracy, truth and civility. Monarch Butterfly Rancher, Tennis Player, Nonprofit Attorney
NorCalJoined February 2008

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So here are the two charts you need to win any argument over whether gun laws matter. 1. America, with more guns than any other high income nation, is a wild outlier of gun violence. 2. States with stronger gun laws have much less gun crime.
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John Roberts’ tenure as Chief Justice will likely be remembered by historians as one of the worst. An era when the court lost popular legitimacy through a combination of intellectual dishonesty (originalism) corruption (Alito, Thomas), Christian nationalism masquerading as law.
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Wordle 519 6/6 🟨 🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩why does the English language have so many similar words?
I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices. Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out.
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Hunter Biden, while working in his father’s administration had 41 trademarks fast tracked by China. A conflict of interest at the very least as his father was in trade negotiations with China at the time!! Oh wait that was Ivanka Trump!! Retweet Comment Share
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when billionaires like Jeff Bezos say they are going to "give away all their money to charity", it's a lie. What they mean is they will give the money to their own foundations, evade taxes, and keep control over it so as to retain power. Economist Thomas Piketty explains:
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Last Tuesday was incredibly meaningful for me — both as a first-time voter and a part of a generation that showed up for the same future I hope for. But we can do even better, I write today for in my first op-ed. I hope you’ll read and share.
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I spent five long years listening to Trump speeches so you wouldn’t have to. Now I don’t have to. Until and unless he’s commander in chief, he gets not a single penny from this participant in the attention economy …
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ngl, watching cryptobros and VCs trying to blame the collapse of their market-sized digital libertarian Ponzi scheme on … Elizabeth Warren is legit hilarious. Nah, bro, this is /your/ Ayn Rand quasi-Austrian dumpster fire, have the strength to own it.
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Harry Reid lost this seat to Paul Laxalt in 1974. Reid won it in 1986 as Laxalt retired. He anointed CCM as successor in 2016. Now she has held Reid's seat by defeating Laxalt's grandson and preventing Reid's nemesis, Mitch McConnell, from becoming majority leader. #WeMatter
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Okay I’ve joined the herd and created a Mastodon account. Please find me at ellena@sfba.social For Monarch butterfly updates, tennis takes and hopefully less political hubbub. Right now it’s fuyu persimmon season that I’m enjoying.
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In a crisis, this would pose a profound threat to public health and national security. It's a nightmare situation that I hope are paying attention.
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This type of impersonation drives advertisers away. This post has been up for over an hour. When it’s eventually an impersonator pretending to be emergency services calling for an evacuation etc, I don’t think @elonmusk will be commenting laughing emojis after these posts.
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For those keeping track of abortion-related ballot measures at home: Michigan: VICTORY California: VICTORY Vermont: VICTORY Kentucky: VICTORY Kansas: VICTORY Montana: VICTORY Abortion is our right — and we the people will fight to protect it.
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According to messages shared in Twitter Slack, Twitter’s CISO, chief privacy office, and chief compliance officer all resigned last night. An employee says it will be up to engineers to “self-certify compliance with FTC requirements and other laws.”
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1. It's astonishing how wrong so many of the predictions of a 'red wave/tsunami' were. I for one am fed up with pundits and commentators getting things so, so wrong & then just... moving on. So here's a thread/reminder of some of the worst midterm predictions. Read/share/enjoy:
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Peter Thiel wasn’t the only billionaire to bet big yesterday. 465 billionaires pumped more than $881 million into the 2022 midterms. That's 27 times the amount they contributed before the disastrous Citizens United decision in 2010.
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It took me less than 25 minutes to set up a fake anonymous Apple ID using a VPN and disposable email, attach a masked debit card to it (with the address being Twitter's HQ), and get a verified account for a prominent figure. Just think what a nation-state or bad actor could do...
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