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Ellie Shechet
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Ellie is a freelance writer and former senior writer at Jezebel. She is pursuing a master's degree in science journalism at Columbia University in the fall.

Words can’t express my love of The Slot’s coverage of Chaffee. Read more

He strikes me as the type of person who regularly wears pants that zip off into shorts, but never zips off the bottom part because it’s always just a little too brisk out.
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My favorite story today is how Mike Pence walked to the fence in the Demilitarized Zone between North Korea and South Korea and had a stare down with some North Korean soldiers because: Read more

and unfortunately that seat isn’t likely to belong to, say, Clarence Thomas, but rather crucial swing vote Anthony Kennedy, who is in his 80s and has been rumored to be considering retirement
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Also, ExxonMobil [Rex Tillerson’s old haunt] is seeking permission to ignore the sanctions on Russian in order to drill there. Rosneft, which may or may not be wrapped up in all the Russian election interference, features prominently. It’s like a shitty airplane paperback. Read more

U of L Hospital has been managed by Catholic Health Initiatives for the last few years - not exactly sure how long now. That alone would explain why EMW lost their transfer agreement to U of L. BUT, Catholic Health is no longer managing the hospital as of this coming June. As of now, the word is that the university Read more

If you want to help, please donate to their local abortion access fund here: Read more

wow I can’t believe my coworkers didn’t tell me we have a vineyard Read more

Ellie, thank you so much for writing this article. It was very rewarding to hear about other people’s experiences. My own with Buddy Carter was so frustrating, and it really helped to be able to share my story. Read more

REMINDER: This year there will be FOUR special elections for empty seats in the US House Of Representatives– three in April; one in June. The districts are Read more

400+ people showed up on Saturday for a town hall in Jackson, MI (Michigan 7th) for a healthcare forum. Our congressman, Tim Walberg, did not. The district isn’t as safe as he thinks it is. Read more

Seems to be the same up on my side of the border. There’s a Member of Parliament in my town who has some sort of obsession with Trump. He got a crappy seat at the National Prayer Breakfast and it was the greatest thing that ever happened to him. He started posting quotes from Trump at the breakfast, so I tweeted him Read more

We invited Senator Johnson of WI to Green Bay last week for a townhall. His office continually gave us the runaround. He, of course, didn’t attend. Tammy Baldwin (love her!) sent an aide but because she had to leave early to attend an already planned democratic party meeting and the press spun it as if that was as bad Read more

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Republicans are acting like politics is some hip new burrito shop that they want to keep secret from everyone else. Then everyone found out about these dope ass burritos, even helping each other locate the burritos. Now they will try anything to keep their beloved secret shop from being flooded with hungry patrons. Read more

It makes me so happy to see Jason Lewis called out in this article, and doubly so that his slogan may or may not have been the inspiration for the headline. Read more