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Helen Ellis

@hjellis.bsky.social

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Autistic adult working for the National Autistic Society (UK) - posts/reposts my own opinions, not my employers. Unapologetically loves Rugby Union! 📚💜 Autism & Masking (2021) 📚💜 Eat, Drink, Be Autistic & Merry - still writing!

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Helen Ellis @hjellis.bsky.social · Jun 11

Request for help from the autistic community! 💜♾️

I'm writing a book about autistic people's relationships with food & drink, and I want to include more personal examples/stories than just my own

If anyone is interested in contributing, this survey link has more info:
www.surveymonkey.com/r/PGCYTJP

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h

Journalists at the Pentagon have handed over their badges and walked out after refusing to submit to repressive new press access rules from TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of War/Defense/whatevs Pete Hegseth.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h

Qatar gave Trump a $400M jet. Trump gave them a military facility on US soil.

The UAE bought $2B of Trump's stablecoin. Trump gave them access to rare AI chips.

Saudi Arabia invested $2B in Kushner's firm. Trump sold them $142B in arms.

If this isn't corruption, what is?

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 2h

Excuse me?

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2h

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump may launch missiles from warships into California this Friday and Saturday as part of what is being described as a “vanity parade” and shut down portions of the I-5 during the No Kings protests meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4h

If PM had intervened Badenoch would be complaining that the independence of the DPP had been compromised. PM did absolutely the right thing. Case collapsed precisely as he explained - on the Tories watch, because of their failure to update legislation. LoTO should be apologising. Not doubling down.

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Green Hombre @greenhombre.bsky.social · 6h

"Virginia Giuffre died by suicide on 25 April 2025."

"I’d show up, perform whatever sex acts Epstein wanted, then hang out beside his vast swimming pool while he got some work done. If Maxwell was there, I was often told to attend to her sexually as well."

- She was 16

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7h

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother

www.theguardian.com

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Helen Ellis @hjellis.bsky.social · 4h

I haven't been on a late night train home from London for months . . . . I have not missed the sensory onslaught!

Helen Ellis @hjellis.bsky.social · 4h

Are your drinks going to end up being a super-spreader event?! 😷

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 6h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "We're getting rid of problems that we didn't like but that were negotiated in but we didn't like. We're terminating those programs. And they're gonna be terminated on a permanent basis."

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 5h

Most beloved films of my youth: Laughing at Nazis and cheering the deaths of Nazis.

Least beloved stories of today: Another day, another GOP staffer does some sort of pro-Nazi nonsense. I hate it here.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 5h

Remember how we cheered when their faces melted off in Raiders of the Lost Ark? Man that was fun.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 5h

Some unsubstantiated nonsense from POTUS.

—Claims "couple of days with no boats to be found." US struck a boat *yesterday.* (Perhaps Trump didn't write yesterday's post announcing the strike...)

—Claims each boat is killing 25,000 Americans. Boats not carrying fentanyl. Don't appear headed for US.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump says he's now "looking at land" strikes on Venezuela

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "We just ordered about 20 brand new B2 bombers. I know Putin when I was riding with him in Alaska, we passed a lot of them and he said, 'That really did the trick.' I said, 'Yeah it did.'"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "Iran is trying to survive. When I heard the reports two weeks ago, 'Iran is looking to build a nuclear weapon,' I said 'don't worry about it.'"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: Are we in for a sustained trade war with China?

TRUMP: Well, you're in one now

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5h

14-year-olds in DC: They need to be tried as adults!

30-year-olds praising Hitler while trying to make policy: Just a bunch of kids making edgy jokes. Give em a break!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump suggests he may get even more involved in prosecuting his political foes: "What we're doing is nothing. I don't have to leave it up to them. But I choose to at this moment at least."

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway, let’s finish this with that James Gunn tweet.

Dylan Sprouse tweets Jared Leto saying that now he’s slipped into the DMs of every 18-25 year old model on the internet what is his success rate”. James Gunn replies “He starts at 18 on the Internet?”

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

Is this a memorial event or a Comedy Central Roast?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Sep 11

Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.

I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.

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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · Sep 12

This thread is a calming read 🧵

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Sep 11

Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.

I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 5d

A five-point-five billion Trump golf course in Qatar, and Qatar gets an air base in Idaho.

New Trump Golf Course, $5.5 Billion Beachside Project Announced for Qatar

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

Me: “Why do you think ‘Succession’ was such a big show?

Arian Moayed/'Stewy': "Because the truth of ‘Succession’ dials into what we’re witnessing every day in our news cycles. There’s an elite group of 10 to 15 people that run everything."

Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/succession...

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