Ellen Cicconi
@elcicco.bsky.social
Midwestern hausfrau (PA), coffee addict, perpetually in search of good books, autism mom, wants to be of service.
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Vladimir Putin has been working tirelessly to subvert and weaken the United States. Donald Trump has made his task easier and more successful. This story should be better understood by Americans. @davidcorn.bsky.social's new book is essential to our efforts to expose the truth--and overcome it.
Today is pub day for my book, "HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America." Please watch this video and pass it on. It's time to reclaim the Trump-Russia narrative and recognize Putin is continuing his years-long war on America and Trump is complicit.
HowRussiaWon.com
HowRussiaWon.com
September 15, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Vladimir Putin has been working tirelessly to subvert and weaken the United States. Donald Trump has made his task easier and more successful. This story should be better understood by Americans. @davidcorn.bsky.social's new book is essential to our efforts to expose the truth--and overcome it.
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worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.
Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
September 7, 2026 at 10:55 PM
worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.
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Blowing off children’s hospitals worried about Medicaid cuts… whining about how long cops’ funerals are… the WSJ confirms Fetterman is an objectively terrible person.
With receipts.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
With receipts.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
September 4, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Blowing off children’s hospitals worried about Medicaid cuts… whining about how long cops’ funerals are… the WSJ confirms Fetterman is an objectively terrible person.
With receipts.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
With receipts.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Impeach Fetterman
September 4, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Impeach Fetterman
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A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs.
Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year.
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year.
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
August 23, 2026 at 6:01 PM
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs.
Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year.
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year.
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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Playing in our faces
August 22, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Playing in our faces
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
August 19, 2026 at 7:20 PM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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There are 74M Americans who aren’t smart enough to understand this.
See the problem?
See the problem?
August 15, 2026 at 2:38 PM
There are 74M Americans who aren’t smart enough to understand this.
See the problem?
See the problem?
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This is whole story is horrifying, and as a journalist covering ICE flights, I was struck by this sentence: “We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter.”
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
www.thenation.com
August 11, 2026 at 3:53 PM
This is whole story is horrifying, and as a journalist covering ICE flights, I was struck by this sentence: “We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter.”
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Three doctors who have served on state maternal mortality review committees told ProPublica that Ciji Graham’s death was preventable.
“There were so many points where they [doctors] could have intervened,” one expert said.
(Published January)
“There were so many points where they [doctors] could have intervened,” one expert said.
(Published January)
A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.
In a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.
www.propublica.org
August 10, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Three doctors who have served on state maternal mortality review committees told ProPublica that Ciji Graham’s death was preventable.
“There were so many points where they [doctors] could have intervened,” one expert said.
(Published January)
“There were so many points where they [doctors] could have intervened,” one expert said.
(Published January)
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Heartbreaking. What are we doing? 😕🇺🇸
August 10, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Heartbreaking. What are we doing? 😕🇺🇸
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We actually had the 16th highest mortality rate in the world and it largely resulted from the ignorant asshats who were *resisting* the common sense protection measures Fauci was promoting like masking and distancing.
What a colossal asshole.
What a colossal asshole.
RFK Jr: "Because of Dr Fauci's leadership and other reasons, we had the highest mortality rate from covid of any country in the world"
#OtherReasons 🙃
#OtherReasons 🙃
July 27, 2026 at 11:44 PM
We actually had the 16th highest mortality rate in the world and it largely resulted from the ignorant asshats who were *resisting* the common sense protection measures Fauci was promoting like masking and distancing.
What a colossal asshole.
What a colossal asshole.
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One former FDA official said if the agency lifted restrictions on peptides, “it would be a disruption of the societal pact we have had since 1962 that drugs will be studied to see if they work before they are marketed in the U.S.”
(Published April)
(Published April)
RFK Jr. May Reverse a Peptide Ban He Calls “Illegal.” Former FDA Officials Say He Mischaracterized Their Work.
The agency's 2023 decision to place 19 peptides on the “unsafe” list was supported by numerous documented safety concerns, former officials said. Even though demand for peptide therapies has exploded since then, there's been little new science.
www.propublica.org
July 24, 2026 at 2:05 PM
One former FDA official said if the agency lifted restrictions on peptides, “it would be a disruption of the societal pact we have had since 1962 that drugs will be studied to see if they work before they are marketed in the U.S.”
(Published April)
(Published April)
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How do you know if the fruits and vegetables you buy at the grocery store come from farms where workers were harmed?
Read this thread by our reporter @maxblau.bsky.social 🧵
Read this thread by our reporter @maxblau.bsky.social 🧵
I’ve reported at length about abuses of foreign farmworkers who come to the U.S. on H-2A visas: stolen wages, guns pointed in their faces. One woman I met was kidnapped, raped and nearly killed.
I wanted to know: How do I tell if the produce I buy is part of the problem? 👇
I wanted to know: How do I tell if the produce I buy is part of the problem? 👇
July 23, 2026 at 1:01 PM
How do you know if the fruits and vegetables you buy at the grocery store come from farms where workers were harmed?
Read this thread by our reporter @maxblau.bsky.social 🧵
Read this thread by our reporter @maxblau.bsky.social 🧵
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Me: "It's time to start eating healthy."
Lettuce: "I'm going to give you explosive diarrhea!"
Chips and cookies in my pantry: "I would never do that to you."
Lettuce: "I'm going to give you explosive diarrhea!"
Chips and cookies in my pantry: "I would never do that to you."
July 14, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Me: "It's time to start eating healthy."
Lettuce: "I'm going to give you explosive diarrhea!"
Chips and cookies in my pantry: "I would never do that to you."
Lettuce: "I'm going to give you explosive diarrhea!"
Chips and cookies in my pantry: "I would never do that to you."
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Judges are expected to write opinions not only for the sake of precedent, but b/c written opinions act as judicial guardrails. They help keep judges from making arbitrary or insufficiently considered opinions because they have to provide some coherent explanation for their conclusion.
Amy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.
July 14, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Judges are expected to write opinions not only for the sake of precedent, but b/c written opinions act as judicial guardrails. They help keep judges from making arbitrary or insufficiently considered opinions because they have to provide some coherent explanation for their conclusion.
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Infectious diseases like cyclospora and measles are spreading because the people in charge don't care about public health. That's why we need more scientists and/or healthcare professionals in the room. That's why I'm running.
July 14, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Infectious diseases like cyclospora and measles are spreading because the people in charge don't care about public health. That's why we need more scientists and/or healthcare professionals in the room. That's why I'm running.
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This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.
ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
July 14, 2026 at 12:11 AM
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.
ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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So if we don’t allow Athletes to bet on games that they have the ability to influence…
Why do we allow Congress to invest in companies they regulate?
Why do we allow Congress to invest in companies they regulate?
July 10, 2026 at 6:28 AM
So if we don’t allow Athletes to bet on games that they have the ability to influence…
Why do we allow Congress to invest in companies they regulate?
Why do we allow Congress to invest in companies they regulate?
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hate to praise Massie, but this is funny
July 8, 2026 at 4:40 AM
hate to praise Massie, but this is funny
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NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.”
with @texastribune.org
with @texastribune.org
Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...
www.propublica.org
July 7, 2026 at 5:31 PM
NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.”
with @texastribune.org
with @texastribune.org
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Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship.
But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen.
Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship.
But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother.
They are both shameless hypocrites.
But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen.
Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship.
But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother.
They are both shameless hypocrites.
July 1, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship.
But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen.
Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship.
But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother.
They are both shameless hypocrites.
But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen.
Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship.
But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother.
They are both shameless hypocrites.