Leah McElrath

Politics, intl relations, psychology, etc.
Making sense of a world that doesn’t
Encourager and threat scanner
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#ActuallyAutistic #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
Substack: leahmcelrath.substack.com

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Last Notes

2025-04-06 16:03:46

Dark. Plus if anything should be automated it’s jobs like that. Oof.

2025-04-05 21:35:52

#HandsOff is the number one trending hashtag in the United States even on the now relatively depopulated X:
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2025-03-30 03:09:49

Those tiny dehydrated marshmallows in hot chocolate mix?
They should sell them on their own.

2025-03-29 20:31:19

Laura Loomer is encouraging people to report “illegal aliens and foreigners” to ICE for deportation via an app:
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2025-03-29 19:37:57

Here’s a meta analysis of the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding when combining NSAIDs and SSRIs:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36526813/
Risk of Gastrointestinal Bleed...

2025-03-29 19:36:21

Here’s research on the potential for NSAIDs to decrease SSRI effectiveness:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....
Antidepressant effects of sele...

2025-03-29 19:11:55

I wouldn’t imagine this is a big risk for people who take a couple of Advil once every few weeks or months.
However, if you are someone who, for example, lives with chronic pain and takes Advil, Aleve, aspirin, or other NSAIDs daily and are on an SSRI, you should talk with a doctor about the risks.

2025-03-29 19:06:38

🏥 💊 Something I learned recently and want to share because many taking antidepressants also live with pain:
Using an NSAID when you’re on an SSRI medication can increase your risk of gastrointestinal bleeding, kidney damage, and serotonin syndrome.
NSAIDs can also decrease an SSRI’s effectiveness.

2025-03-29 18:03:38

Happy Caturday
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2025-03-29 17:30:50

Photo with #AltText:
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2025-03-29 17:27:03

This article from Haaretz, published in March 2022, has a helpful section toward the end outlining links between Israeli government figures and Russian oligarchs.
archive.ph/jlyYM
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2025-03-29 16:44:47

Republican Representative Victoria Spartz is getting destroyed in her town hall in Indiana’s 5th CD. She won in 2024 by more than 18 points, and attendees are all constituents.
People are pissed about SS, Medicaid, DOE, Ukraine, and—especially—Musk and DOGE.
Full thread here: x.com/daniellamica...
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2025-03-29 01:52:55

Always bad to go offline for a while and return to see more things are awful.
Always good to go offline for a while and return to see you all still here though.
It would be so much worse without you.

2025-03-29 01:31:23

Just a casual reminder that freedom of speech BEGINS with speech we don’t like.

2025-03-29 01:24:18

Reporting back:
I am now a person with a tattoo.
My daughter and I had a great time doing this together, and I highly recommend it for those so inclined.
Because my tattoo is small, white, and on my inner wrist, it’s like wearing a little secret.

2025-03-27 03:10:38

They want power without responsibility and are people of the lie. They externalize blame. They gaslight and deny reality. They project constantly, and their every accusation is a confession.
We can’t change who they are, but we can keep each other sane by accurately observing what is real and true.

2025-03-27 02:42:04

Visually evokes the Holocaust, not law and order. Dehumanization of the other protects none of us.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j5fbnzh57rn7xz65yjc36gxb/post/3llcvtkjvos2z
#nevent1q…mn4y

2025-03-27 02:20:21

“The Social Security Administration on Wednesday abruptly backed off planned cuts to phone services for disabled and some elderly Americans applying for benefits amid an uproar from advocates.”
Keep agitating.
Gift link:
wapo.st/41Z4xrr
Social Security backs off plan...

2025-03-27 00:56:51

Sharing something good:
I’m getting my first (and probably only) tattoo on Friday.
My daughter and I have a code word we use to say we love each other. We’re getting the word tattooed in each other’s respective handwriting on our wrists (mine in white). It was her idea and Christmas present to me.

2025-03-26 17:13:18

Results of the Signal group chat Yemen op:
32 killed, including women and children, 101 injured
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
Houthis say children among 32 ...

2025-03-26 16:57:20

“The first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building…”
Pattern of life surveillance of this degree of granularity likely came from an operative on the ground. If so, their cover is blown. They’ll probably be killed if they aren’t extracted.
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2025-03-26 02:55:08

More important than ever to surround yourself with things that bring you pleasure and joy. Beauty still exists.

2025-03-26 02:25:49

Yeah, I am not a fan of Goldberg (he’s assigned hit pieces on me), but it wouldn’t surprise me if this administration went after him for alleged espionage if they don’t succeed in otherwise deflecting blame for this situation, which would be awful.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3llakjrzsks2g
#nevent1q…56e6

2025-03-26 01:49:50

If you watch television, can you tell me if the myriad of ways this administration is degrading the Social Security system and the dangers that poses to millions of recipients is being covered?
Are Democratic leaders out there talking about this?
Thanks!

2025-03-26 00:37:40

Nightstand still life.
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2025-03-25 22:35:01

(I, of course, agree with you about their being the “dumbest, over educated, bloodthirsty elite chuds”…)

2025-03-25 19:13:11

Always amusing when people come into my mentions to tell me about Russian influence and are apparently unaware that the Kremlin outlet RT characterized me as a “celebrated Russiagate sleuth” in a hit piece in 2018.

2025-03-25 18:27:02

⚠️ Trump, Musk, and the Republicans are breaking the Social Security service system, on purpose.
(Democrats should be flooding the zone with messaging about this issue. If they don’t, Republicans will flood it with disinformation blaming Democrats.)
Gift link:
wapo.st/4hM5MAn
Long waits, waves of calls, we...

2025-03-25 18:19:48

⚠️ The only remaining guardrail is the federal courts—so Republicans are considering eliminating them:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Speaker Mike Johnson floats el...

2025-03-25 06:08:27

It’s not unusual that few are talking about the bombing of Yemen discussed in the Signal chat revealed in the Atlantic. Few paid attention to previous bombings and other hardships imposed (blockades resulting in mass starvation) over the past decade under the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations.

2025-03-25 05:58:07

From 2015-2023, Saudi bombed Yemen with logistical and intel support from the US. In 2024, the US bombed Yemen directly.
Yemen is a failed state used as a proxy territory for conflict with Iran and where airstrikes are used against barefoot men in wooden fishing skiffs who takeover container ships.

2025-03-25 05:01:53

Also:
Capital One has FREE checking accounts with no minimum balance required. (Takes less than five minutes to open one online.)

2025-03-25 04:46:33

Relevant to discourse I’m seeing about some people’s favorite billionaire on here:
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/post/3lasnmqbubr25
#nevent1q…ts5e

2025-03-25 04:27:21

Gas masks are only about $30, in case anyone was wondering.
For reasons.

2025-03-25 04:02:01

It doesn’t go much harder than these photos. I encourage you to click on and open each one.
They will help reinvigorate your soul.

2025-03-25 03:55:28

In Turkey, mass protests continue in response to Erdogan arresting a political opposition leader.
You can read more here (gift link):
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/w...
Incredible photos by Ümit Bektaş:
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2025-03-25 02:09:11

I checked my Signal, just to make sure 🤷🏼‍♀️

2025-03-25 01:19:16

I’m a recovering alcoholic with 35 years of sobriety, and he seems drunk to me. Not blackout drunk (hence my “a little” qualifier) but markedly inebriated.
Also notable that he’s a belligerent drunk, which is particularly dangerous given his position.

2025-03-25 01:12:20

If you’re a journalist covering Hegseth, you need to report if he smells like alcohol when you’re near him like this or if you witness him drinking alcohol.
The stakes are too high to cover for him, especially given his history and public promise not to drink while in office.

2025-03-25 00:58:18

I feel like we’re all riding in the backseat of a car driven by a drunk rageaholic, and the child locks are on so we can’t escape.
I’m finding myself doing the equivalent of closing my eyes, silently screaming, and praying to all possible gods that we’ll live through the journey.

2025-03-25 00:45:57

Even setting aside my opposition to the Trump admin’s foreign policy goals, it’s very unsettling to have such ignorant and stupid people in power.
(Plus Trump in control of nuclear weapons…)
These issues are special interests for me, but I’m spending a lot of energy trying NOT to think about them.

2025-03-24 21:13:48

Hillary Clinton reacts to the Atlantic story about the Trump administration group chat on Signal:
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2025-03-24 18:25:32

Even though Trump’s advisors are stupid, we need to stop attributing to stupidity what is actually corruption.
The purpose of the Yemen Signal group chat was circumvention of public records disclosure laws. They want to act without accountability (which is also why they used disappearing messages).

2025-03-24 18:19:50

Trump national security advisor and Yemen Signal group creator Mike Walz in 2023:
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2025-03-24 17:52:20

I, too, am currently clean on OPSEC. ✊🇺🇸🙏

2025-03-24 15:27:02

Israel assassinated journalist Hossam Shabat today while he was reporting from northern Gaza.
He was only 23 years old.
Israel has murdered more than 200 journalists in Gaza since October 2023.
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2025-03-24 01:55:27

Sometimes I wonder if things would be different if we could still see all the stars.

2025-03-24 00:11:52

Democratic Senate Minority Leader @schumer.senate.gov:
“My job is to keep the left pro-Israel.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...
Opinion | Chuck Schumer Isn’t ...

2025-03-23 21:35:34

Imagine that.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/u...
Musk’s SpaceX Could Secure Bil...

2025-03-23 21:14:05

Musk knows what he’s doing to our government, and he’s flaunting.
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2025-03-23 20:39:22

Israel just bombed Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza, apparently targeting the surgery department.
Many casualties are reported and evident in videos and photographs being posted on X.

2025-03-23 03:21:19

Anyway, I’m rewatching The Fall with Gillian Anderson and highly recommend it.
(And appreciate all the recommendations 💜)

2025-03-23 03:00:54

Has the selection of shows gotten worse or is it just me?

2025-03-22 23:24:44

Interesting times.
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2025-03-22 22:10:18

LOL
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2025-03-22 22:07:24

Elon Musk is an egomaniacal sociopathic drug-abusing conman with a breeding fetish.
It’s absolutely insane that he’s in a position of power over the entire US government.

2025-03-22 20:28:59

Happy Caturday
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2025-03-21 21:12:31

Tired of living within a system that requires endless decisions while offering few real choices.

2025-03-21 20:42:04

Be water:
“The movement was so fluid the police couldn’t catch them.”
www.goethe.de/prj/zei/en/a...
Be Water – Insights into the ...

2025-03-21 01:45:13

Happy Spring Equinox
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2025-03-21 00:00:49

The relatives of one Venezuelan who was deported say he was not a gang member and has tattoos that might have contributed to his being wrongly identified, including one with his autistic younger brother’s name and a rainbow-colored symbol for autism acceptance.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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2025-03-20 22:15:08

The Democrats need to put @aoc.bsky.social on the Foreign Affairs or Homeland Security committee and enable her to get some national security experience as quickly as possible.

2025-03-20 22:02:16

As the mother of a queer 19-year-old daughter myself, I can’t help but feel somewhat protective of Vivian, who is only 20 years old, but she always comes across as impressively centered and self-confident, as she does in this interview.
(I love that she self-identifies as “cringe.”)
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2025-03-20 21:37:16

Great interview in @teenvogue.com with @thevivllainous.bsky.social, Elon Musk’s trans daughter.
Worth your time.
(Plus she looks fabulous on the cover!)
www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...
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2025-03-20 21:05:06

⚠️ We knew this was coming so it’s not surprising, but it’s shocking nonetheless:
Trump has signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education.
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2025-03-20 01:16:52

Loving reminder to unclench your jaw 💜

2025-03-20 00:05:36

Ah, yes, the famously leftist “Deep State”…
(In all seriousness though, pay attention to the dynamics here.)
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2025-03-19 22:09:08

There is reporting on X from journalist Mohammed Abo Mostafa that seven children in Gaza have undergone leg amputations without anesthesia.
The reporting is accompanied by a photo of a child’s amputated lower leg in a plastic bag.
Israel has created the largest cohort of child amputees in history.

2025-03-19 21:33:45

Democratic Senator @fetterman.senate.gov and his wife met with the Netanyahus at the Israeli prime minister’s office in Jerusalem.
Netanyahu gifted Fetterman a “silver pager” in reference to the Israeli exploding pager operation in Lebanon.
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2025-03-19 21:26:22

⚠️ “The Trump administration is evaluating plans for the Pentagon to take control of a buffer zone along a sprawling stretch of the southern border and empower active-duty U.S. troops to temporarily hold migrants who cross into the United States illegally”
Gift link:
wapo.st/4iUH9SI
Trump team makes plans for mil...

2025-03-19 05:54:09

“Pentagon and company contracting documents…describe ‘a unique joint staff planning” effort underway in Washington and in the Middle East to refine the next generation of “a major regional conflict’ with Iran.”
@kenklippenstein.bsky.social reports:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-iran-w...
The Iran War Plan

2025-03-19 04:06:07

Interesting read:
“The CIA and the Media”
By Carl Bernstein
Originally published in @rollingstone.com in 1977
www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-...
The CIA And The Media — Carl B...

2025-03-19 02:43:55

Politics is the exercise of power.
Most actual politics happens behind the scenes and off the record.
What the rest of us experience is largely political theater.

2025-03-18 23:15:40

JFK assassination records have been posted:
www.archives.gov/research/jfk...
JFK Assassination Records - 20...

2025-03-18 01:57:24

I’m not going to bring the images over here, but my feed on X is flooded with them.
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2025-03-18 01:19:35

Photos and videos are emerging of the ongoing airstrikes and their aftermath, including many of injured and dead women and children.
Israel is bombing residential areas in the early morning hours during Ramadan, killing children asleep in their beds.
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2025-03-18 01:07:16

🚨 Israel has reportedly resumed military offensive operations in Gaza
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2025-03-17 20:13:59

Trump continues to engage in inflammatory rhetoric telegraphing possible war with Iran:
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2025-03-17 04:50:56

I hate the way that man posts random inflammatory shit at all times of day and night.
It reminds me of how an abusive partner will wake you up or prevent you from sleeping with demands to “talk” or accusatory arguments out of nowhere.

2025-03-17 02:37:46

The process of obtaining services for disabled children has become harder because of cuts to staffing at the Department of Education.
Additionally, the DOE staff has reportedly been directed to prioritize cases of alleged antisemitism.
apnews.com/article/educ...
Education Department staff cut...

2025-03-17 01:57:29

I apologize in advance for bringing this over here, but I think it’s important for people no longer on X who are still asking “is it fascism?” how far past we have moved from that question already, in less than two months.
This is fascism:
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2025-03-16 22:20:12

Many people who suffer neurocognitive impairment due to COVID infection are likely not included in the reported numbers.
They often try to accommodate and make excuses for their changed functioning rather than link it with COVID infection and recognize it as the disability it is.

2025-03-16 21:53:56

Kind of illogical to expect mass mobilization to protect institutions when the leaders elected to protect them aren’t doing so.
So here we are.

2025-03-16 20:57:55

There was a campaign on X in which people were mocking Elon Musk for one of his old haircuts and calling it “fascist.”
Musk’s response is to say he’s going to get that haircut again.
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2025-03-16 20:47:12

Originating architect of Project 2025 on what the Trump administration is doing:
“It’s actually way beyond my wildest dreams.”
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
‘Beyond My Wildest Dreams’: Th...

2025-03-16 18:50:32

Here’s the important thing:
Don’t let what’s happening stop you from caring about other people.
All we have is each other.

2025-03-16 18:41:21

Trump is not only attacking Yemen, he is now threatening Iran directly:
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2025-03-16 17:49:24

I don’t say that lightly, and I say it as someone who is stubborn and a fighter by nature.
I say it because I don’t think I’ll live to see us recover from this period and what lies ahead, and this is not the world I want for her.
It’s infuriating—and heartbreaking.
Every day.

2025-03-15 23:46:23

The news all feels toxic.

2025-03-15 01:07:02

Really fucking sick of Democratic leaders stomping out every tiny spark of hope and flicker of invigoration. They shouldn’t be surprised when more and more people start wanting to burn shit down.

2025-03-14 22:53:16

We don’t have politics, for the most part.
We have political theater.

2025-03-14 21:45:03

Now they’re all going to complain how they “have no leverage” while otherwise enacting an agenda their billionaire donors want.
More political theater to come but no real political opposition.
A few exceptions, perhaps, but that’s the system as it is.

2025-03-14 21:28:56

Stay angry. Get angrier.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/post/3lkejcvqgmc27
#nevent1q…8y0j

2025-03-14 16:58:50

Wild times:
Adam Jentleson accuses Neera Tanden of “playing to the Twitter left” for speaking out against Schumer’s stance on cloture.
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2025-03-14 05:20:59

So far on X, the only people I’ve seen defending Chuck Schumer are Matt Yglesias, Adam Jentleson, and Lis Smith.

2025-03-14 04:45:49

Fight. Or do not. There is no try.
yoda from star wars says do in...

2025-03-14 04:17:40

A Chuck Schumer anecdote worth reading:
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2025-03-14 03:52:30

It’s kind of a relief to see everyone as angry as they should be, finally.
I hate this for us, but it’s reality and has been for quite a while.

2025-03-14 01:18:29

We must fight to win.
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2025-03-14 00:15:53

Jared Kushner heads an investment firm backed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and UAE which is the largest shareholder in an Israeli company that holds shares in businesses accused by the UN of operating in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/gulf-st...
Exclusive: Gulf states linked ...