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Gail McGowan Mellor (authorpendragon)
@gailmmellor.bsky.social
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US females were legally property until 1993. We dug out. You can. Reporter with a Pulitzer nom on first story, went indie once I saw inside. Married, mom and grandmom, I write for 99%, work to empower people and land, and love hearing wild water run.
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Gail McGowan Mellor (authorpendragon) @gailmmellor.bsky.social · Nov 16
The day I joined. Heaven here. Thank you!
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Jaz @jazco.dev · Nov 15
Bluesky by the Numbers today:

1.3M people Posted 6.5M posts
2.3M people Liked 37.5M posts
2.9M people Followed 41.5M people (!!!!!)

Over 1,000,000 people joined the network!!!!!!

We broke all-time traffic records by over 30% today across the board.

Follows are up 20x from 2 weeks ago!

Holy Moly
Graph of posts and likes per day over the past 11 days showing growth from 2.2M posts per day to 6.5M posts per day and 11.7M likes per day to 37.5M likes per day. Graph of follows per day and unique users following someone per day over the past 11 days showing growth from 2.1M follows per day and 417k people following someone to 41.5M follows per day and 2.9M people following someone. The growth is clearly exponential.
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Gail McGowan Mellor (authorpendragon) @gailmmellor.bsky.social · 8h
THANK YOU, BROWN!

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Brown University Rejects a White House ‘Compact’ to Receive Special Treatment
www.nytimes.com
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h
white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans
www.nytimes.com
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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 9h
Opening the comments section to find out it’s actually $40 billion now
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Victoria Sanders @valsandler.bsky.social · 9h
Even King Charles III cannot do this.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10h
He gives $20 Billion of OUR dollars to bailout Argentina without consulting Congress or the American people. Does that seem like the actions of a KING to you?

Join us & let him know just what you think about that this Saturday, 10/18

#NoThronesNoCrownsNO_KINGS 👑
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 9h
NEW: After over two hours of oral argument in a high-stakes Louisiana redistricting case, the Supreme Court seems ready to scrap fair elections and hand red states the power to freely draw electoral maps that eviscerate the political power of minority voters.
SCOTUS Seems Ready to Scrap Fair Elections, Greenlight Racial Discrimination and Hand House Control to GOP
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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Press Release Central @prc4aam.bsky.social · 9h
Another republican degenerate pedophile is exposed.
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 1d
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Earthbound420 @earthbound420.bsky.social · 9h
Big ugly bill🙄🖕🏼
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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 9h
What global white supremacy looks like: overhauling the refugee process to favor white people - like the racist Afrikaners - rather than helping people of ALL sorts who need safety, stability. We need to protest and vote to oust the Bozo Fascist and his minions. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
www.nytimes.com
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Gail McGowan Mellor (authorpendragon) @gailmmellor.bsky.social · 9h
That is not funny. It's 1950s misogynist, with a bit of pedophile (i'm not talking about Trump) on the side.
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KQ5 @kq5.bsky.social · 9h
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 9h
More info on the Charlie Kirk fan who mowed down two teens in NJ:

"The suspect also was behind two SWATing incidents and that police allowed the teen's father to drive him away from the victim's home after the second SWAT hoax call"

nj1015.com/police-misco...
SWAT calls and stalking warnings: Inside the NJ police connections behind the Jeep homicides
In Cranford, the tragic loss of two teen girls raises questions about police favoritism and the suspect's troubling behavior linked to law enforcement ties.
nj1015.com
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Immy Grainger #FBPE 🇪🇺 @immyg97.bsky.social · 19h
Happy Hour Hegseth.
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carolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 @carolmac80.bsky.social · 1d
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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 19h
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The Ice Woman: Mary Engle Pennington’s Revolutionary World of Refrigeration.
In the early 20th century, buying and consuming food of any sort in an urban center was a fraught proposition, particularly in the days before the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 which brought some mea...
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Bob Lawrence 💙 @trumpluvsobama.bsky.social · 18h
Gavin has been busy. 😁😉😂
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Kool Karyn @koolkaryn.bsky.social · 18h
Cruelty has always been the point! 🤬
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Jes 👊🇺🇸🔥 ([email protected]) @jestastrophy.bsky.social · 18h
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 1d
Congressional Democrats marched to Mike Johnson’s office demanding that he swear in Democrat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, who would become the crucial 218th signature on the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.
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UncleRicoReturns @unclericotnt.bsky.social · 18h
@sonsofliberty.bsky.social en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_A...
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Sassenach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @pnutluvr.bsky.social · 1d
ncnewsline.com/2025/10/13/n...
NC’s medical debt relief program has wiped out $6.5B owed, exceeding expectations • NC Newsline
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein announced Monday that the state’s medical debt relief initiative has eliminated $6.5 billion in medical debt.
ncnewsline.com
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CUDDY @ptcontagion.bsky.social · 1d
Be sure to take plenty of pictures for the future generations of your family…
So that they might know how beautiful our planet once was…
Planet's first climate tipping point already reached: international study
An international report from climate scientists suggests tipping points for coral reefs have been reached, putting them at risk of dieback.
www.abc.net.au
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Gail McGowan Mellor (authorpendragon) @gailmmellor.bsky.social · 1d
Your logic on that?
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d
Future historians may well argue that the Jim Crow era, which, depending on how one periodizes, lasted for roughly 75 years, represented a longer time period than the modern civil rights era, which, even if one starts with Brown v. Board, is barely 70 years old.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
Will the Supreme Court Use a Louisiana Case to Gut the Voting Rights Act?
www.nytimes.com
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d
Yes, we indeed have a serious problem.
A tweet by Robert Reich reads: “The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d
Last Sunday, @demiforillinois.bsky.social, @raygunsite.com and I hosted a No Kings protest sign-making party with the best problem:

So many people showed up, we ran out of table space.

This is what community care looks like.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.
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