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Being_Melissa

@melissag.bsky.social

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Sassy and Classy! Always full of hope, here to be kind and respectful!!! No mean girls/boys!! INTJ I am NOT MAGA, keep me off your damn lists!!!! PLEASE, NO DM's without permission!!!! I will immediately block 🚫

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Being_Melissa @melissag.bsky.social · Dec 4

I appreciate every follow very much, thank you! I have a lot of you to follow back. However, I am vetting everyone, so please be patient! I will not follow anyone with no posts and no profile! Also, as noted in my profile, if you DM without permission, I will block you!!!!

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 4h

We are effed.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4h

Listen to how casually Justice Gorsuch presents as fact the idea that remedying racial gerrymandering requires racial discrimination.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4h

Listen to how casually Justice Gorsuch presents as fact the idea that remedying racial gerrymandering requires racial discrimination.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 3h

The young Republicans are just boys being boys, but if you dare repeat stuff Charlie Kirk said that sounds essentially the same, you get attacked or deported.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3h

I can't stress enough how young staffers working for Republicans are basically all groyper Nazis now. The leaked texts yesterday saying "I love Hitler" and now swastikas on congressional offices.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 6h

JD Vance - it was a "college group chat."

Peter Giunta – Chief of Staff in NY Assembly

Joe Maligno – Staffer in New York state court system

William Hendrix – Vice Chair, Kansas Young Republicans

Bobby Walker – Vice Chair, NY State Young Republicans

Samuel Douglass – Vermont State Senator

Republicans embroiled in leaked chat controversy:
Top left – Samuel Douglass
Top right – William Hendrix
Bottom left – Peter Giunta
Bottom right – Bobby Walker

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Julz 🦋 🇨🇦🇱🇷🚨 @julzsaveusa.bsky.social · 22h

TRUMP IS WORKING AGAINST AMERICA!!!

WAKE UP!!!

Trump's ADMINISTRATION IS ALSO WORKING AGAINST AMERICA.

How can anyone not see this happening?

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 10h

I’ll admit that I am weird enough to want my taxes to pay for education help for disabled kids in America,

rather than bailing out Argentina.

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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 4h

The cost of holding down ACA premiums for a year is less than this…

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 7h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 5h

What the fuck are we doing?

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 19h

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

Three hours apart. 🤡

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h

By allowing for the dismantling of minority districts held by Democrats, a ruling against the VRA could give President Donald Trump and the GOP enough additional seats to lock in the party’s control of the House for a generation. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Fair Elections — and Perhaps Control of Congress — at Stake as SCOTUS Hears Challenge to VRA

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 8h

this is today's Supreme Court oral argument on the Voting Rights Act in a nutshell

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h

This is the result of a lot of people pretending racism is one of the greatest taboos in our culture while failing to address racism substantively. People are appalled by the idea of being called racist while being totally committed to upholding racism throughout society.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 11h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 1d

Hunh...🤔

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

Bring as many American flags to No Kings as you can.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Scalise refers to No Kings as the "Hate America Rally"

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 8h

John Solomon didn’t stumble onto a secret — he recycled one. The Jan 6 committee’s phone-metadata subpoenas were public and reported years ago. This is how the right keeps the outrage machine humming: rename oversight as spying, erase timelines, and sell déjà vu.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

The Right’s Favorite Magic Trick: Turning Old News Into New Scandal

John Solomon’s “discovery” about Jan 6 phone records isn’t a scoop — it’s a rerun dressed as revelation.

open.substack.com

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 8h

No. I will not vote to allow 15 million people to lose their health insurance and watch 50,000 Americans die each year unnecessarily.

No. I will not vote to double premiums for 20 million.

Republicans must come to the table and negotiate an end to the shutdown.

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Being_Melissa @melissag.bsky.social · 10h

Good morning Christen! 🌞😎☕️

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

A precondition for Republics to transition to autocracies is the politicization of the military. It is why the political & military leaders of the country have been so vigilant to keep partisanship away from it. But this admin is dismantling that concept. www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action | CNN Politics

For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used ...

www.cnn.com

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 10h

Good morning. Before you plunge your face deep into the overfull bowl of our clogged collective news toilet, cleanse yourself with an apple review! Today: the ORLEANS REINETTE.

Apple Review #15: Orleans Reinette

Why is it that sometimes you eat well-regarded apple but find it terrible? Or, the reverse: an apple that sucks is, to you, in that moment, good? There are, of course, a lot of things going on. Som…

terribleminds.com

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Being_Melissa @melissag.bsky.social · 10h

Good morning Bob! You have a fantastic day as well my friend! 🌞😎☕️