Melanie Jean Nelson 🫘
@flowers4melanie.bsky.social
Some say I have ADHD, but I think I'm just misunder... HEY!! LOOK!! A CHICKEN!!
Naturist, LGBTQ+, and human rights activist. 🏳️🌈
Prolific shitposter.
Naturist, LGBTQ+, and human rights activist. 🏳️🌈
Prolific shitposter.
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Talarico: The first bill I want to vote on in the Senate is comprehensive political reform
Undecided voter: What is that specifically?
Talarico: I want to ban Super PACs. I want to cap campaign contributions. I don’t think members of Congress should be allowed to buy and sell stocks
Undecided voter: What is that specifically?
Talarico: I want to ban Super PACs. I want to cap campaign contributions. I don’t think members of Congress should be allowed to buy and sell stocks
December 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Talarico: The first bill I want to vote on in the Senate is comprehensive political reform
Undecided voter: What is that specifically?
Talarico: I want to ban Super PACs. I want to cap campaign contributions. I don’t think members of Congress should be allowed to buy and sell stocks
Undecided voter: What is that specifically?
Talarico: I want to ban Super PACs. I want to cap campaign contributions. I don’t think members of Congress should be allowed to buy and sell stocks
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This is the desert of the real. The Wachowskis called it. But like Bernie says, no one wants this. Folks are organizing in amazing ways.
Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans.
Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.
Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.
Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
December 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
This is the desert of the real. The Wachowskis called it. But like Bernie says, no one wants this. Folks are organizing in amazing ways.
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Houston just elected Alejandra Salinas, a progressive lesbian, over Boykins, a failed candidate for mayor and former city council member. Salinas hit Boykins over a moment from his past when he told a group of teenage girls to "keep their legs closed."
www.chron.com/politics/art...
www.chron.com/politics/art...
December 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Houston just elected Alejandra Salinas, a progressive lesbian, over Boykins, a failed candidate for mayor and former city council member. Salinas hit Boykins over a moment from his past when he told a group of teenage girls to "keep their legs closed."
www.chron.com/politics/art...
www.chron.com/politics/art...
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No, this is not why there was an antisemitic terror attack in Australia today. You really can critique the actions of the state of Israel without saying that they are responsible for all antisemitism across the entire world. Truly, you can.
December 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
No, this is not why there was an antisemitic terror attack in Australia today. You really can critique the actions of the state of Israel without saying that they are responsible for all antisemitism across the entire world. Truly, you can.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal — who has spent decades in prison for a crime he says he did not commit — is at risk of losing his eyesight without urgent treatment.
Save Mumia’s Eyesight: Supporters March to Prison to Demand Medical Care for Him & Aging Prisoners
Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal are on a 103-mile, 12-day march ending Tuesday in Frackville, Pennsylvania, where he is imprisoned at the Mahanoy state prison. The march ends on the same day Abu-Jamal w...
www.democracynow.org
December 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Mumia Abu-Jamal — who has spent decades in prison for a crime he says he did not commit — is at risk of losing his eyesight without urgent treatment.
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Another one from me: The Trump administration has omitted data about trans people from prison sexual violence reports.
prismreports.org/2025/12/11/d...
prismreports.org/2025/12/11/d...
Trump DOJ omits data about trans people from prison sexual violence reports
The reports exclude any demographic data, days after a memo revealed plans to dismantle prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
prismreports.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Another one from me: The Trump administration has omitted data about trans people from prison sexual violence reports.
prismreports.org/2025/12/11/d...
prismreports.org/2025/12/11/d...
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I would also add that Trump has pulled lots and lots of federal agents normally tasked with investigating serious crimes off those duties to do immigration enforcement with ICE. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Murphy: "This isn't shocking, bc over last year, Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country. He's restoring gun rights to felons, eliminated the WH office of gun violence prevention & stopped funding mental health grants & community anti-gun violence grants"
December 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I would also add that Trump has pulled lots and lots of federal agents normally tasked with investigating serious crimes off those duties to do immigration enforcement with ICE. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Heartbroken writing this: a hate-driven massacre in Sydney at Bondi Beach targeted Jewish people peacefully celebrating the first night of Hanukkah: at least 12 dead, including a rabbi, and many injured.
This was an antisemitic terror attack. A hate crime.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Heartbroken writing this: a hate-driven massacre in Sydney at Bondi Beach targeted Jewish people peacefully celebrating the first night of Hanukkah: at least 12 dead, including a rabbi, and many injured.
This was an antisemitic terror attack. A hate crime.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Live Updates: Police Say Jewish Community Targeted in Deadly Sydney Attack
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Heartbroken writing this: a hate-driven massacre in Sydney at Bondi Beach targeted Jewish people peacefully celebrating the first night of Hanukkah: at least 12 dead, including a rabbi, and many injured.
This was an antisemitic terror attack. A hate crime.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Heartbroken writing this: a hate-driven massacre in Sydney at Bondi Beach targeted Jewish people peacefully celebrating the first night of Hanukkah: at least 12 dead, including a rabbi, and many injured.
This was an antisemitic terror attack. A hate crime.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
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This x 1,000,000
December 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This x 1,000,000
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Today marks HIV Cure Research Day.
We are closer to finding a cure than ever before. But the Trump admin has clawed back necessary funding for critical research, prevention, and care.
This HIV Cure Research Day, tell Congress to restore HIV funding: hrc.im/FederalCuts
We are closer to finding a cure than ever before. But the Trump admin has clawed back necessary funding for critical research, prevention, and care.
This HIV Cure Research Day, tell Congress to restore HIV funding: hrc.im/FederalCuts
December 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Today marks HIV Cure Research Day.
We are closer to finding a cure than ever before. But the Trump admin has clawed back necessary funding for critical research, prevention, and care.
This HIV Cure Research Day, tell Congress to restore HIV funding: hrc.im/FederalCuts
We are closer to finding a cure than ever before. But the Trump admin has clawed back necessary funding for critical research, prevention, and care.
This HIV Cure Research Day, tell Congress to restore HIV funding: hrc.im/FederalCuts
JFC
Get new jobs, FFS. 🤦🏼♀️
Get new jobs, FFS. 🤦🏼♀️
"What did you do today at work, babe?" asks the trooper's wife. "Well, hon, I stood outside the women's room telling ladies to prove to me they were born with vaginas before I let them pee." Not all fetishes are fascist, but all fascism is fetishistic. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...
Enforcement of Texas’ bathroom bill draws challenges
In its first week, one group’s test of the new restrictions was met with ID checks at women’s restrooms at the Capitol while the Austin City Council moved to circumvent the law's intent.
www.texastribune.org
December 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
JFC
Get new jobs, FFS. 🤦🏼♀️
Get new jobs, FFS. 🤦🏼♀️
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To agree, amplify, and emphasize:
Trusting the scientific process *does not* mean skipping to the results, reading them, and being "Guess that's capital-T Truth." It's a rigorous and continuing interrogation of *how those results came to be.*
You can't hide shitty science in your Methods.
Trusting the scientific process *does not* mean skipping to the results, reading them, and being "Guess that's capital-T Truth." It's a rigorous and continuing interrogation of *how those results came to be.*
You can't hide shitty science in your Methods.
I know this makes some people in the trans community nervous, but I know the science well and I have confidence in it.
Ultimately, I believe trans people exist - meaning we are observable, physical, measurable.
Ultimately, I believe trans people exist - meaning we are observable, physical, measurable.
I've had online convos with @evanurquhart.bsky.social about how if someone gave us good evidence we'd deffo change our outlook. Science is about exploration, learning new things, and expanding our understanding, even if it means changing what we think 180 degrees. For now, research backs GAC.
December 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
To agree, amplify, and emphasize:
Trusting the scientific process *does not* mean skipping to the results, reading them, and being "Guess that's capital-T Truth." It's a rigorous and continuing interrogation of *how those results came to be.*
You can't hide shitty science in your Methods.
Trusting the scientific process *does not* mean skipping to the results, reading them, and being "Guess that's capital-T Truth." It's a rigorous and continuing interrogation of *how those results came to be.*
You can't hide shitty science in your Methods.
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womp womp
December 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
womp womp
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this of course puts JKR and her fellow anti-trans crowd into the same category as the Creationists. They simultaneously want us to believe the evidence is on *their* side, and that *we're* the irrational ones. But if they had evidence, they wouldn't need to lie and make shit up.
I mean, that's no different from any other scientific position, really. Would we reevaluate evolution if we found evidence against it? Of course! Is that likely to ever happen? Nope. The evidence is *strongly* in favor of trans healthcare.
December 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
this of course puts JKR and her fellow anti-trans crowd into the same category as the Creationists. They simultaneously want us to believe the evidence is on *their* side, and that *we're* the irrational ones. But if they had evidence, they wouldn't need to lie and make shit up.
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The report also noted the return of several troubling themes: the association of abortion with isolation, shame, and death, a near-total lack of medication abortion portrayals, and the invisibility of the context in which people obtain abortions.
Fewer characters on TV had abortions this year — and more stories reinforced shame — NPR
Researchers at the University of California San Francisco track how abortion comes up on television. They say the trends from 2025 are concerning.
apple.news
December 14, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The report also noted the return of several troubling themes: the association of abortion with isolation, shame, and death, a near-total lack of medication abortion portrayals, and the invisibility of the context in which people obtain abortions.
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This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.
December 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.
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“The Heritage enterprise will advance policies at the state and federal level to restore the nuclear family to the center of American life and to reduce both the demand and supply for abortion at all stages of human development with courage and compassion.”
Heritage Foundation Project 2026
Heritage Foundation Project 2026
December 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
“The Heritage enterprise will advance policies at the state and federal level to restore the nuclear family to the center of American life and to reduce both the demand and supply for abortion at all stages of human development with courage and compassion.”
Heritage Foundation Project 2026
Heritage Foundation Project 2026
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Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.
December 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.
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thanks brett kavanaugh!
Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
December 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
thanks brett kavanaugh!
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My campaign is now getting third graders fired up about the Geneva Conventions.
December 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
My campaign is now getting third graders fired up about the Geneva Conventions.
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“No, WE didn’t forget the mother in this situation. YOU did. You voted for this… it was ok until it happened to YOU.” #ForcedBirthNation
December 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“No, WE didn’t forget the mother in this situation. YOU did. You voted for this… it was ok until it happened to YOU.” #ForcedBirthNation