Writer/editor (aka Ellen C. Lesser), news junkie, reformed journalist, avid reader. Into family, friends & faith. Frequently overextended
Delray Beach, FL
Joined August 2010
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Ellen Comisar 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 retweeted
Hail to thee, Northwestern 💜
If you're here, you're part of an innovative, collaborative and multidimensional community.
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Ellen Comisar 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 retweeted
You know who did pass the bar exam? First Lady #MichelleObama, Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson, VP #KamalaHarris, and Congresswoman #JasmineCrockett.
#DEI doesn’t lower the bar. It exposes those who can’t reach it.
Ellen Comisar 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 retweeted
BREAKING: In a stunning decision, the Tampa Bay Times just endorsed Democrat David Jolly over Byron Donalds. This is a HUGE endorsement. Let's go.
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Congratulations to @BirdCentralPark, whose photo of the UWS Barn Owls graces the front page of today's New York Times! 👏👏👏 #Owls #Manhattan #birdcpp
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‘Genocide’ has become the standard slur in anti-Israeli rhetoric. But it is a lie. The Irish government tried in Dec 2024 to amend the legal definition because what happened in Gaza did not fall under the term. It failed. Don’t allow people to make this claim unchallenged.
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From a black FB friend
“Let me make this shit perfectly clear.
I know Florida has never elected a Black governor, and yes, the election of Byron Donalds would be historic. As a Black Floridian, I understand the significance of seeing someone who looks like me occupy the Governor’s Mansion. But history alone will NOT get my vote.
This isn’t about Byron Donalds being Black, and it isn’t simply because he’s a Republican. It’s no secret that I’m a moderate Democrat, and have crossed party lines before when I believed the Republican candidate was the better person to lead the great state of Florida.
But, child please! It will be a cold day in hell before I cast my vote for Byron Donalds, and here’s why.
Representation means absolutely nothing to me if the person representing us lacks the integrity, independence, courage, and conviction to stand up when it matters! Time and time again Byron has demonstrated he’s no independent critical thinker.
Black sisters and brothaz, Byron Donalds is no Barack Obama. He is no General Colin Powell. And I refuse to become so mesmerized by the possibility of Florida electing its first Black governor that I ignore the man’s record, his alliances, his rhetoric, and what I believe his leadership would mean for Florida. I am TIRED of symbolism being offered as a substitute for substance.
After years of watching DeSantis policies coming out of Tallahassee that I firmly believe have chipped away at civil rights protections, attacked diversity initiatives, and diminished how Black history is taught and discussed, I cannot vote for someone simply because his skin looks like mine. Black skin does not automatically equal Black consciousness.
And finally from everything I have seen, Byron Donalds has demonstrated far too much loyalty to Donald Trump and the MAGA political machine for me to believe he represents the kind of independent leadership Florida desperately needs.
So yes, David Jolly is a white man. I am not voting for a complexion. I am voting for leadership. I am voting for policies. I am voting for character. I am voting based on who I believe will respect the history and civil rights of ALL Floridians rather than continue tearing away at them.
My vote come November 2026, will be for David Jolly (FULL STOP)! Florida deserves better than another four years of division, political bullshit, and culture wars. I love this state far too much to vote based on skin color.
In the words of Dr. MLK, judge David Jolly “by the content of his character and not by the color of his skin”! Florida, the choice is clear, VOTE BLUE!!!
And I said, what I said!💪🏾🇺🇸🪖🏳️🌈
-MsD 👠👠”
@davidjollyfl @laurajollyfl
Ellen Comisar 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 retweeted
26 years ago, two IDF soldiers, Vadim Norzhich and Yossi Avrahami, mistakenly passed an Israeli checkpoint and entered Ramallah. They were detained by Palestinian police only to have the police station overrun by an angry mob of Palestinians.
What occurred after was one of the most horrific and violent incidents in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The soldiers were beaten, stabbed, had their eyes gouged out, and were disemboweled. At this point, a Palestinian (later identified as Aziz Salha), appeared at the window, displaying his blood-soaked hands to the crowd, which erupted into cheers. The crowd clapped and cheered as one of the soldier's bodies was then thrown out the window and stamped and beaten by the frenzied crowd. One of the bodies was set on fire.
Soon after, the crowd dragged the two mutilated bodies to Al-Manara Square in the city center as the crowd began an impromptu victory celebration. Palestinian policemen did not prevent the lynching.
26 years later, Israelis still face horrific violence from Palestinian terrorists and a Palestinian leadership who glorifies such incidents and names public schools and streets after convicted murderers.
Ellen Comisar 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 retweeted
26 years ago TODAY.
October 12, 2000.
Vadim Norzhich and Yossi Avrahami, two Israeli reservists who accidentally entered Ramallah, were brutally lynched by a Palestinian mob inside a police station.
One of their murderers proudly stood at the window, displaying his BLOOD-SOAKED HANDS to a cheering crowd.
That image is burned into my brain FOREVER when I realized what it was.
Now take a look at that RED HAND PIN worn by some of your favorite Hollywood actors and singers.
Mark Ruffalo. Billie Eilish. And plenty of others.
They call it a symbol of peace, can you imagine that?
But for the normal educated people who remember what happened on October 12, 2000, those red hands bring back something VERY different.
Remember Vadim Norzhich and Yossi Avrahami.
May their memories forever be a blessing. 🎗️
Ellen Comisar 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 retweeted
“It is obscene because, however much the genocide allegation against Israel is mindlessly repeated by people too lazy or prejudiced to understand the difference between war and genocide, that allegation is as false as it is sinister.
False, because genocide is about killing whole classes of people for who they are rather than for what they did — and if Israel wanted to kill Palestinians as Palestinians it never would have bothered mobilizing hundreds of thousands of its own soldiers for the war, and losing hundreds in high-intensity urban warfare.
Sinister, because the political purpose of the genocide allegation is to trivialize, if not erase, the attacks of Oct. 7 by making them seem minor in comparison to the Palestinian casualties that tragically, but all-but inevitably, followed.
It is obscene because Hamas’s intentions toward Israel really are genocidal. Its leaders have often and publicly vowed to perpetrate future Oct. 7s.
Had the group not been stopped by force that day, there’s no reason to think it wouldn’t have kept up its orgy of slaughter on its way to Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities. Yet one searches in vain for anything from the mayor except perfunctory, pro forma condemnations of Hamas.”
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Ellen Comisar 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 retweeted
TRUMP JUST BUILT A KANGAROO COURT TO FIRE A BLACK WOMAN OFF THE FEDERAL RESERVE
113 years. That's how long the Fed has existed without a single president firing a governor. Donald Trump is about to make history for all the wrong reasons
Lisa Cook. First Black woman ever on the Fed's board. Appointed by Biden. Never charged with a single crime. Zero indictments. Zero convictions
Trump already tried to fire her once. The Supreme Court slapped it down. So what does he do when the highest court in the land says no
He builds his own court. His own jury. His own verdict already written
Friday he signed an order creating a "committee of inquiry" to investigate Cook over mortgage paperwork allegations she denies. Pure fiction masquerading as due process
Here's the punchline. The committee is three people. All Trump appointees. Including the White House's own economic policy official. Judge, jury, and the guy who works for the man trying to fire her
November 5th, Cook has to show up to a closed-door hearing and defend herself to the people Trump handpicked to destroy her career. November 10th she can submit final paperwork begging for her job
Then Trump's own committee tells Trump whether Trump should fire her. That's not oversight. That's a Truman Show set built around one woman's execution
Ask yourself why Donald Trump wants her gone so badly. He's been screaming for rate cuts for years. Cook is in the way. Fire her, install a loyalist, and the Fed stops being independent and starts being a Trump subsidiary
No president in American history has done this. Not Nixon. Not anyone. Trump is the first
This is not about mortgage documents. This is about control. Total control. Over the courts he loses to, over the agencies he can't bend, over the last institution in Washington that still says no to him
They built the cage first and now they're calling the hearing "due process"
This is only the beginning
Ellen Comisar 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 retweeted
The President of the United States of America doesn't know his left from his right.
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Cheers to 175 years 🥳 Thank you for celebrating with us, Wildcats!
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