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Author, editor, child wrangler, humor miner, sometimes-filmmaker, Missoulian dropped on my head in NYC. Featured in the NYTimes and HuffPost. Novelist, insufferable political commentator. https://ellieleonard.substack.com/ (she/her)
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I’m breaking down and simplifying all the “Big Beautiful Bill” into a Denny’s menu-style handbook on my Substack. Everything is free to read and understand so please share with family and friends who want to understand better what is at stake in the next few hours. open.substack.com/pub/ellieleo...

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THIS. Don't lump my faith in with what's going on in L.A., and New York, and Chicago, and every small town where they're ripping families apart in the Home Depot parking lot. Jesus was a refugee.

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Took our annual hike to visit the bestest dog in the world, for whom Calvin has been grieving since 1942.

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My goal for the year as a new Substacker was to write well, consistently, and get 500 subscribers. Now it looks like I’ll hit 5000. But it’s not just me. The tides are changing. (Also thank you❤️) #writingcommunity open.substack.com/pub/ellieleo...

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What do we want? When do we want it? open.substack.com/pub/ellieleo...

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Update: didn’t die

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Saturday goals: don’t die

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The publishing industry is making it harder and harder for debut writers. #writingcommunity

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A reminder of what unfettered authoritarianism looks like, when a federal judge's order becomes meaningless and we are all subject to the long arm of idiocracy. ellieleonard.substack.com/p/a-timeline...

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You cannot take away my hope.

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For the love of small towns

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My parents house is like a My Pillow store

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We are seeing the end of checks and balances. Friends, it’s time to fight like hell.

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Bezos will be single in a year.

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That feeling when you pull up next to a group of Nazis but you have little kids in the car? Yeah, that. Vote with that feeling.

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I don’t normally send people to Twitter, but if you have a chance to watch @lukebarnett.bsky.social's short film “Crossing Over,” I highly, highly recommend it. Please and thank you ;) variety.com/2024/film/fe...

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"As we approached the 2024 election we began to hear rumblings of pulling women from careers and the front lines and returning them to marriages and motherhood. And while it makes no sense that incels would have a part in this conversation, they did." ellieleonard.substack.com/p/incels-and...

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Who's ready for a MAGA bank account for their kids?? On today's episode of the One Big, Beautiful Bill... ellieleonard.substack.com/p/hr-1-the-b...

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I don't know if people realize the no-tax-on-tips things doesn't apply to you if you're an immigrant. People think they don't pay taxes, but they pay billions into services they'll never get back. And if they work in the service industry they'll pay taxes that you don't have to.

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Today our favorite once-a-year diner gave us their secret tomato soup recipe to take back with us to New Jersey so we don’t have to wait until next summer. My kids are overjoyed.

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2020 - 7.5 million @nytimes.com subscribers 2021 - 8.8 million 2022 - 8.83 million 2023 - 10.36 million 2024 - 11.43 million 2025 - 11.66 million

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We eat at Ruby’s Cafe in Missoula every summer. And every summer this guy comes to our table and reminds us to read “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O’Henry

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Hey, Daddy

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I've been trying for 2 years to get a book published, and here I'm welcomed with open arms. It's a funny, funny world. #writingcommunity #amquerying #amwriting ellieleonard.substack.com

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"Where does that leave the American people? Short of walking out on 5th Avenue with a sawed-off shotgun, Trump will be embedded in the sandstone walls of the White House for at least 3.5 more years. That is, unless his own people turn on him." ellieleonard.substack.com/p/impeachmen...

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It's the middle of the night, so will repost in the morning. Here is the Big, Beautiful Bill - Taxes and Working Families (part 1) ellieleonard.substack.com/p/hr-1-the-b...

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The more you write, the more you’ll write.

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It's the middle of the night, so will repost in the morning. Here is the Big, Beautiful Bill - Taxes and Working Families (part 1) ellieleonard.substack.com/p/hr-1-the-b...

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"Where does that leave the American people? Short of walking out on 5th Avenue with a sawed-off shotgun, Trump will be embedded in the sandstone walls of the White House for at least 3.5 more years. That is, unless his own people turn on him." ellieleonard.substack.com/p/impeachmen...

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Where's Waldo, ketamine edition

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Rockin’ to the oldies

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We will be back So take joy, sisters. Take joy, because we are here in droves, in power, in freedom, in community, and together we will change this nation forever beginning tomorrow and for the rest of our lives, our children's lives, and history eternal. ellieleonard.substack.com/p/do-not-go-...

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Today my 1 literary rejection was balanced out by 50 new Substack subscribers. Thanks for making me feel better, I love you all. #writingcommunity #amquerying

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This is not okay

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