Melanie 🐝🐝
@melbeebee.bsky.social
NC Blue 🔵 democracy💙BLM🌈 feminist/pro-union/NOT giving up in ADVANCE/NOT giving in to fascists. Ret. CC English prof. Hope my students remember 2 ✅sources/think critically.
USMC WWll IwoJima daughter
#bluecrew #resistance
USMC WWll IwoJima daughter
#bluecrew #resistance
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@melbeebee.bsky.social
· Oct 5
Just because an action is probably hard, or may not succeed, doesn't mean it shouldn't be attempted.
Keep trying to remove him in any way possible again and again. A tide turns eventually. We gain something with each attempt. By giving up in advance, we gain nothing.
Keep trying to remove him in any way possible again and again. A tide turns eventually. We gain something with each attempt. By giving up in advance, we gain nothing.
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Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.
msmagazine.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
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Editor in Chief of Christianity Today Magazine 👇🏽
December 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Editor in Chief of Christianity Today Magazine 👇🏽
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12/15/1896 — b. Eslanda Robeson, American anthropologist, author, activist. Her studies focused on the colonized African populations of the world. Member, Council of African Affairs(WWII); CAA observer during formation of the UnitedNations #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #AnthroSky #SciSky #HistSci #woc
December 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
12/15/1896 — b. Eslanda Robeson, American anthropologist, author, activist. Her studies focused on the colonized African populations of the world. Member, Council of African Affairs(WWII); CAA observer during formation of the UnitedNations #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #AnthroSky #SciSky #HistSci #woc
This is open for comment for 60 days. Treating our allies like enemies, again. Utterly disgusting and hate-filled.
www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
What's on your TikTok page? U.S. looks to scour tourists' online profiles
Foreign visitors who are eligible to bypass the visa application process may soon have to turn over five years' worth of social media history to enter the U.S., under a new Trump administration plan.
www.npr.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is open for comment for 60 days. Treating our allies like enemies, again. Utterly disgusting and hate-filled.
www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
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Brown: Autocrats don’t fear the disease or the babies dying from whooping cough — they fear the evidence of it, because evidence exposes their failures, demands accountability, and empowers the public.
December 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Brown: Autocrats don’t fear the disease or the babies dying from whooping cough — they fear the evidence of it, because evidence exposes their failures, demands accountability, and empowers the public.
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The Trump admin is targeting the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA, 1974) that enabled women to get home loans without a male co-signer.
Sign your support for ECOA with the National Fair Housing Alliance before Dec 15.
https://nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org/ecoaregb/index.html
Sign your support for ECOA with the National Fair Housing Alliance before Dec 15.
https://nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org/ecoaregb/index.html
December 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The Trump admin is targeting the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA, 1974) that enabled women to get home loans without a male co-signer.
Sign your support for ECOA with the National Fair Housing Alliance before Dec 15.
https://nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org/ecoaregb/index.html
Sign your support for ECOA with the National Fair Housing Alliance before Dec 15.
https://nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org/ecoaregb/index.html
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There are a lot of ways to get rich in politics that are legal, but still pretty scummy. Scamming the poorest residents of our state out of their tax dollars is one of them.
December 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
There are a lot of ways to get rich in politics that are legal, but still pretty scummy. Scamming the poorest residents of our state out of their tax dollars is one of them.
Chemours wants to add MORE poison 2 our drinking water. Just got a letter from them wanting 2 set up a test of my home's water, about the 5th letter we've received over YEARS/DECADES they've knowingly, willfully polluted the Cape Fear River. It's the drinking water source of 300,000+ people!
This is completely unacceptable. Chemours has been polluting the Cape Fear River for 40 years. We get 80% of our drinking water from the river. Contact your reps and tell them to reject corporations who put profits over public health! Link in bio.
December 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Chemours wants to add MORE poison 2 our drinking water. Just got a letter from them wanting 2 set up a test of my home's water, about the 5th letter we've received over YEARS/DECADES they've knowingly, willfully polluted the Cape Fear River. It's the drinking water source of 300,000+ people!
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Fact-check: true
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Fact-check: true
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The A.I. oligarch takeover of 🇺🇸 continues:
“Google paid state lawmakers upwards of $2,000 as “gifts” to cover their attendance at a secret all-inclusive summit with “educational” sessions extolling the benefits of A.I. & other issues they’ll vote on…” jacobin.com/2025/12/goog...
“Google paid state lawmakers upwards of $2,000 as “gifts” to cover their attendance at a secret all-inclusive summit with “educational” sessions extolling the benefits of A.I. & other issues they’ll vote on…” jacobin.com/2025/12/goog...
December 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The A.I. oligarch takeover of 🇺🇸 continues:
“Google paid state lawmakers upwards of $2,000 as “gifts” to cover their attendance at a secret all-inclusive summit with “educational” sessions extolling the benefits of A.I. & other issues they’ll vote on…” jacobin.com/2025/12/goog...
“Google paid state lawmakers upwards of $2,000 as “gifts” to cover their attendance at a secret all-inclusive summit with “educational” sessions extolling the benefits of A.I. & other issues they’ll vote on…” jacobin.com/2025/12/goog...
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12/8/1805 — b. Adeline Blanchard Tyler, American nurse, Episcopal deaconess. The first Union Army nurse + a #CivilWar hospital administrator; later the “lady superintendent” of Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA(1869–72) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #NurseSky #MedSky #PedsSky #HistNursing #HistMed #BOTD
December 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
12/8/1805 — b. Adeline Blanchard Tyler, American nurse, Episcopal deaconess. The first Union Army nurse + a #CivilWar hospital administrator; later the “lady superintendent” of Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA(1869–72) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #NurseSky #MedSky #PedsSky #HistNursing #HistMed #BOTD
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Do you exhibit (what the Trump administration would interpret as) “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” or “anti-Christianity”? Do you display “hostility towards traditional views on family, religion, and morality”?
This might constitute domestic terrorism.
This might constitute domestic terrorism.
Trump just took this giant step towards authoritarian rule — and the media ignored it
The Trump FBI is drawing up an enemies list that could encompass well over half the US public: Do you “advance … opposition to law and immigration enforcement”? Do you have “extreme views in favor of ...
www.rawstory.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Do you exhibit (what the Trump administration would interpret as) “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” or “anti-Christianity”? Do you display “hostility towards traditional views on family, religion, and morality”?
This might constitute domestic terrorism.
This might constitute domestic terrorism.
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Chag sameach - and a very happy holiday to all those who celebrate the first night of Hanukkah tonight! 🕎 ✡️
December 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Chag sameach - and a very happy holiday to all those who celebrate the first night of Hanukkah tonight! 🕎 ✡️
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They already cut 30,000 jobs in July, now they're cutting another 35,000 this month? Our veterans are already grossly underserved! No one's talking about cutting Trump's golf outings, which have cost taxpayers upwards of $70M just this year. Is this the greatness? Is this America first?
US Veterans Affairs agency plans health care job cuts, WaPo reports reut.rs/48PYwRd
US Veterans Affairs agency plans health care job cuts, WaPo reports
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing an internal memo, Veterans Affairs staffers and congressional aides.
reut.rs
December 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
They already cut 30,000 jobs in July, now they're cutting another 35,000 this month? Our veterans are already grossly underserved! No one's talking about cutting Trump's golf outings, which have cost taxpayers upwards of $70M just this year. Is this the greatness? Is this America first?
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On Monday night, the Randolph County Board of Commissioners voted to dissolve the entire board of trustees of the county's public library system.
The future of the Randolph County public library system itself is now anyone's guess.
www.wfae.org/2025-12-09/r...
The future of the Randolph County public library system itself is now anyone's guess.
www.wfae.org/2025-12-09/r...
December 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
On Monday night, the Randolph County Board of Commissioners voted to dissolve the entire board of trustees of the county's public library system.
The future of the Randolph County public library system itself is now anyone's guess.
www.wfae.org/2025-12-09/r...
The future of the Randolph County public library system itself is now anyone's guess.
www.wfae.org/2025-12-09/r...
December 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Briggs Brook Falls, Erving, MA.
60 feet of cascades. Very runoff dependent. 4/14/24.
Trailhead
42.601500, -72.440000
#NewEngland
#Massachusetts
#waterfalls
#photography
#waterfallphotography
#longexposure
#chasingwaterfalls
#landscapephotography
#hiking
#explore
#nature
60 feet of cascades. Very runoff dependent. 4/14/24.
Trailhead
42.601500, -72.440000
#NewEngland
#Massachusetts
#waterfalls
#photography
#waterfallphotography
#longexposure
#chasingwaterfalls
#landscapephotography
#hiking
#explore
#nature
December 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Briggs Brook Falls, Erving, MA.
60 feet of cascades. Very runoff dependent. 4/14/24.
Trailhead
42.601500, -72.440000
#NewEngland
#Massachusetts
#waterfalls
#photography
#waterfallphotography
#longexposure
#chasingwaterfalls
#landscapephotography
#hiking
#explore
#nature
60 feet of cascades. Very runoff dependent. 4/14/24.
Trailhead
42.601500, -72.440000
#NewEngland
#Massachusetts
#waterfalls
#photography
#waterfallphotography
#longexposure
#chasingwaterfalls
#landscapephotography
#hiking
#explore
#nature
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BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis has ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia: "since Abrego Garcia's wrongful detention in El Salvador, he has been re-detained, again without lawful authority."
December 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis has ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia: "since Abrego Garcia's wrongful detention in El Salvador, he has been re-detained, again without lawful authority."
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While we concern ourselves about SNAP benefits…
December 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
While we concern ourselves about SNAP benefits…
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The US military didn’t seize an oil tanker. They stole it.
The US military, acting under the orders of the Commander in Chief, stole an oil tanker from a sovereign nation.
The US military, acting under the orders of the Commander in Chief, stole an oil tanker from a sovereign nation.
December 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The US military didn’t seize an oil tanker. They stole it.
The US military, acting under the orders of the Commander in Chief, stole an oil tanker from a sovereign nation.
The US military, acting under the orders of the Commander in Chief, stole an oil tanker from a sovereign nation.
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Magnificent Aurora over Loften, Norway ~ time lapse
December 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Magnificent Aurora over Loften, Norway ~ time lapse
They cheat on prices and get away with it. Constantly.
“Dollar General stores have failed more than 4,300 government price-accuracy inspections in 23 states since January 2022, a Guardian review found.
Family Dollar stores have failed more than 2,100 price inspections in 20 states over the same time span, the review found.”
Family Dollar stores have failed more than 2,100 price inspections in 20 states over the same time span, the review found.”
How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
They cheat on prices and get away with it. Constantly.
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My son was in preschool when Republicans first promised to have a better plan than the ACA.
He’s a sophomore in college now.
He’s a sophomore in college now.
Only had 15 years and four different Republican House speakers since ACA was passed.
Roger Marshall on Republicans replacing the ACA: "It's gonna take us a while to figure out the right way to do it"
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
My son was in preschool when Republicans first promised to have a better plan than the ACA.
He’s a sophomore in college now.
He’s a sophomore in college now.
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One woman’s premiums are about to explode 345% in January without ACA subsidies — not just a financial death sentence, but a literal one for anyone who can’t afford care. This is Trump’s America: go broke or go without. Cruelty is the point. #TrumpInflationCrisis #USDemocracy #MomSky
December 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
One woman’s premiums are about to explode 345% in January without ACA subsidies — not just a financial death sentence, but a literal one for anyone who can’t afford care. This is Trump’s America: go broke or go without. Cruelty is the point. #TrumpInflationCrisis #USDemocracy #MomSky