Ellen Brockaway

Pseudonym; IRL, I'm a lawyer.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

USPS signed a court-supervised settlement in 2021: prioritize election mail delivery through 2028. Judicially enforceable. Not optional.

The new rule lets USPS choose which ballots to deliver based on federal lists. The NAACP says that is precisely what the settlement prohibits. Judge Sullivan oversaw the original proceedings. Ruling requested by June 22.

A court-enforced promise is being tested by regulation. That is the case.

[Dem Saints @LDS_Dems]

Under new military guidance from Pete Hegseth, the LDS Church is officially classified as a non-Christian religion.

My fellow Saints, you can love these Christian nationalists all you want, but they will not love you back.

https://t.co/AWm3fRPEst

[Richard Blumenthal @SenBlumenthal]

Cruelty is the point. Thanks to this brave whistleblower’s disclosure, we have more evidence that the Trump Admin used DOGE not just to recklessly slash government programs—they were looking for ways to purposefully hurt people, especially immigrants. https://t.co/r4pm8acAAz

[David It Up! @Dave_it_up]

We’re a primary care practice in Vermont. We implemented a practice-wide protocol screening every patient at every encounter for recent SARS-CoV-2 infection history. What we’re observing in our panel is not consistent with a psychosomatic framework.

We’re seeing measurable, objective increases in new-onset hypertension, acute cardiovascular events, new-onset allergic disease, and new-onset type 2 diabetes mellitus, all temporally correlated with infection history. These are not symptom reports. These are clinical findings.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

A whistleblower reports that the Trump admin planned to classify 2.7M living people as dead, nullifying their Social Security numbers, to force them out of the country.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

Trump's National Guard surge violently detains U.S. citizen—for holding a sign.

She was standing on her own front porch.

3 soldiers block her from entering her home—tackle her to ground.

"Help! Help! You're breaking my arm!"
she cries.

"You came onto my property—you have no authority to detain me!"

Trump Administration announced a "surge" in the number of National Guard and ICE agents in DC to at least 5,000 last month.

On at least three additional occasions in the last two weeks, National Guard soldiers have handcuffed and detained people in DC.

This footage was submitted to FilmThePoliceDC on June 2.

Incident occurred in the Truxton Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

Can also detect likely pregnancy so a spectacularly bad idea in certain jurisdictions these days as that data will certainly be sold.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

The Revolt Inside 60 Minutes Just Got Worse.

Legendary correspondent Steve Kroft is now accusing CBS leadership of "journalistic interference."

His verdict?

"It was a slap in the face to everybody who has worked there."

Notice the pattern.

Scott Pelley says he was stonewalled.

Sharon Alfonsi says Pelley was fired for asking questions.

Now Steve Kroft says management is interfering with journalism.

At some point, this stops looking like a personnel dispute.

And starts looking like a newsroom rebellion.

[Epstein File Search @epsteinsearchin]

One document in the Epstein files is titled child sex trafficking co-conspirators. The DOJ released it fully redacted. In February, Rep. Thomas Massie read one of the blacked-out names into the record himself. Les Wexner.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A dangerous, vaccine-resistant strain of Ebola is spreading across Central Africa, prompting global health experts to warn of a potential major international crisis.

Dr. Simon Mardel, an emergency medicine consultant with over 30 years of experience responding to the world’s most severe epidemics, has described the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as a “train crash in slow motion.”

This outbreak is caused by the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola virus, for which no approved vaccine or specific treatment currently exists. The virus has already claimed more than 230 lives and has crossed into Uganda. The situation is made worse by months of undetected transmission, meaning the true scale of the outbreak remains unclear.

Compounding the crisis are attacks on treatment centers driven by misinformation and the virus’s rapid spread within mobile communities involved in illegal gold mining.

Dr. Mardel warns that without swift and effective containment, contact tracing, and border surveillance, the outbreak could quickly reach densely populated cities in neighboring countries such as Nigeria, or even spread further internationally.

While the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) has fast-tracked funding to accelerate vaccine development, experts stress that urgent improvements in surveillance and community engagement are essential to prevent a far worse scenario.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The USPS rule links every mail ballot to the voter's name via unique barcode - explicitly to facilitate law enforcement. Mail voting has never worked this way. Ballot secrecy exists specifically to prevent coercion.

The Trump-appointed judge told them to act so suits could proceed. They acted the next day. The chilling effect is the point. Five months to November.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I will deliver this speech Monday at approximately noon. I’m honored to report that some survivors have already indicated they will attend as my guests in the gallery. If you’re a survivor and would like to attend, please contact my office, or talk with leaders in your group.

[Lazarus Long @LazarusLong13]

Viruses cause aging.

But, OTOH, post infection problems can be solved with mind-body. Which includes aging, if we try hard enough, right?

Which is it?

There is cognitive dissonance here - LP will not help with that, either.

Meditation might.

Someone is being silly.

What

[Lazarus Long @LazarusLong13]

There are many reasons for masking, but it's silly to put COVID as one, if you support Lightning Process (LP).

Their org @RecoveryNor, "Recovery," is retweeting Kulldorff below that LongCovid is not real

If LongCovid is not real, then why mind-body - or even wear a mask for it?

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

“The Vatican has replaced Silicon Valley as ground zero for disruptive thinking. The Catholic church … is becoming a beacon of light in a very dark world…. The pope has become a reassuring – and all too rare – voice of moral clarity.” https://t.co/Y85YTArice

[Ellen Brockaway @happyhexer]

Soo . . . Trump thinks that because he is "currently" president, he owns America and can do whatever he wants with it. Trump voters, is that what you intended to vote for?

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

In appeals court fight over the White House ballroom, DOJ says the federal government could quickly bulldoze the statute of liberty and no one would have standing to sue over the changes once the demolition is done.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

In appeals court fight over the White House ballroom, DOJ says the federal government could quickly bulldoze the statute of liberty and no one would have standing to sue over the changes once the demolition is done.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.

Here's what happened:

He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.

These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.

Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.

A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).

The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.

But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.

With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.

And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.

The threat does all the work.

By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.

Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.

If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.

Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR