Ellen C. Bush
Poet cat lady surviving capitalism so far as a scholarly publishing data nerd. queer she/her 🍉 I need alt text; please provide it
- Palate cleanser cat portrait
- Her name is Tilda
- Firing Noem or even Miller won’t solve the problem when the president is an abuser in desperate mode. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushIf you are doing last minute ice storm prep in #Durham, Li Ming's is still pretty stocked. Able to get some eggs!
- I think I’m going to let my iPhone 8 just get dumber and dumber. Had to quit NYT games app cold turkey. Every upgrade means more surveillance. This is me opting out.
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushWhat we are seeing in Minnesota is what authoritarianism looks like in real time. Racism, dehumanization, and state-sanctioned violence are tearing at the foundation of this country.
- I’m trying to teach my cats de-escalation. Primarily by sweetly injecting my face between two felines facing off with ears back, saying, “de-escalate!” It disrupts the attack vibe enough much of the time!
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushHere’s the recording of my conversation yesterday with some super smart friends about the US intervention in Venezuela 🗃️ @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushThe U.S. appears ready to reassess its tactics in carrying out Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza. The news vindicates the strategy Palestinians have used during the ceasefire to avoid the surrender Israel has demanded in exchange for ending the genocide. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushIf you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
- The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” cnn.it/4b6g3rd
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- Reposted by Ellen C. BushThis is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
- Excellent cat content
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushThe Durham community came together and raised 100K in 48 hours; hundreds of volunteers joined in to procure, package, and distribute food and necessities to immigrant DPS families - 655 families and 13000 meals. Thank you to local organizers who led us into startling food distribution efficiency 🫶🏼
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushI love my community. (Photo by Andy Thayer)
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushMaking a recurring donation to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. Now is a great time to either set one up or increase your existing support. Find a food bank near you: www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
- US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushDutch is a native New Yorker, he teaches kindergarten and he got his apartment through a housing lottery. Dutch is a good person.
- My friend Joe asks for international boycott: “The U.S. is supposed to be my country, right or wrong. It's so wrong right now that I can hardly stand it.”
- My poem “Also Accidental” gets some love from @rosswhite.com in the “Poem I Carry” series at Read a Little Poetry 💕 readalittlepoetry.com/2025/10/12/a...
- Cops lie, part eleventy million
- Well done, @merriam-webster.com !
- Yall please go watch @merriam-webster.com’s new AI ad😅 youtu.be/RvQnl3O0D3c?...
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushI want to do a little breakdown of this investigation I published today for @prismreports.org about gender-based violence in the H-2A agricultural visa program.
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushFlagging the deadline again: Nonprofits are urging people to submit comments by *Sept. 17* explaining how upending Public Service Loan Forgiveness would specifically impact their work and the communities they serve ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushTwo ways to make the world less fascist today: 1) Use a public library to keep them funded & knowledge accessible. Libby for audio & ebooks, Kanopy for streaming! 2) Wear an n95 in public to reduce community illness, improve accessibility for disability communities, & resist eugenics! Free masks:
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushSave theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, local restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.
- A monograph I’d like to read (let me know if it already exists): post-WWII need in Allied countries to send empowered working women back out of workforce
- Nevermind: the answer was to knock them all up: thus the baby boom
- Some good news, for once!
- Some personal news… @roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit
- “Prison phone calls have been shown to compel good behavior and rehabilitation. . . . Studies have also shown that communication with loved ones and strong family ties lead to decreased violence in prison and make people more likely to succeed and refrain from criminality after release.”
- Biden’s FCC passed rules to make phone calls from prison cheaper, to help keep people connected to their families. Trump's FCC has now blocked that change. An incarcerated writer on what this means for people behind bars, in a must read, icymi: boltsmag.org/north-caroli...
- I should clarify that I think prisons should be abolished bc no reform is enough to rid systemic rot. Highlighting counter-effectual policy reported by incarcerated people is part of that project.
- I don’t understand why Trump wd be afraid of exposure here. MAGA didn’t care that he’s an adjudicated rapist. They wd dismiss it if Trump were on it. We already know Bill Clinton is on it, so claiming Hillary created it is laughable. Trump is protecting someone other than himself, someone he needs.
- Also not helping his own case that the list doesn’t exist
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushMeredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.
- Way to go New York!
- This really was a case of organized people over organized money. prospect.org/politics/202...
- Reposted by Ellen C. Bush[Exit King.]
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushThey are doing reparations for insurrectionists.
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushNot that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms. It really works.
- This is my chapbook publisher, and he’s good at ALL the things
- I gave an inch. Can you give an inch?
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushSo so so so close!!
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- Good point! Thanks to reps like Frost, Crockett, Waters, and others for showing up to take action & also strategizing for the long term ahead
- I would like to see my reps putting their physical bodies in the way of the current coup. South Korean legislators climbed walls to save their country from a coup. Why is physical interference not an option when the US treasury is literally being looted? Why are dems bringing lawsuits to a gunfight?
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushThese are the same picture.
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushWhat we are all experiencing is called "resilience targeting." It is a deliberate attack favored by many of todays shitlords, and is a fairly well known theory in disinfo and climate circles; it's just that everyone seems to be in denial that it's an attack. Today might be a good day to read up
- But can they kill enough of us?
- Propaganda cat
- Top Secret cat
- Reposted by Ellen C. BushIf ICE comes for you, know your rights: www.aclu.org/know-your-ri... If you're an organization dealing with an ICE raid, here's a toolkit based on real-world scenarios: www.nilc.org/wp-content/u... If you see ICE coming for someone else, protect your neighbors, or they're coming for you, next.
- A ceasefire is great news except for the fact that it hasn’t ceased Israeli fire.
- Offered to give my parents a speech or essay about the existence of billionaires. They declined.
- Yeah democracy was cool bc you cd produce these reports, man, like Mueller and Jan 6 and Jack Smith. Reports, man, I miss those reports
- If it can give you courage when you need it, here is a good boy
