Melanie Mallon
@melmall.bsky.social
Writer/editor in semirural Minnesota trying to reschedule the end times (she/her)
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Melanie Mallon
@melmall.bsky.social
· Jul 22
I've been getting to know Mohammed. His home was destroyed before he and his new wife had a chance to live in it. They got married in a tent. He's a teacher who knows which students died, are missing after bombings, or are mutilated. He is also helping his community. He's hungry. gofund.me/7763073d
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Mohammed's account got taken down, but he is real. His wife is real. We've had video calls (lots of attempted sign language!). Please, please, please help them out. They are starving to death!
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Dear neighbor,
I wanted to give an update on the Minneapolis Separation Ordinance being authored by myself, CM @aurinmpls.bsky.social, and CVP @aishaforward10.com. There is a public hearing at tomorrow’s Committee of the Whole meeting at 1:30PM. It’s open to the public, so feel free to testify. 1/
I wanted to give an update on the Minneapolis Separation Ordinance being authored by myself, CM @aurinmpls.bsky.social, and CVP @aishaforward10.com. There is a public hearing at tomorrow’s Committee of the Whole meeting at 1:30PM. It’s open to the public, so feel free to testify. 1/
December 9, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Dear neighbor,
I wanted to give an update on the Minneapolis Separation Ordinance being authored by myself, CM @aurinmpls.bsky.social, and CVP @aishaforward10.com. There is a public hearing at tomorrow’s Committee of the Whole meeting at 1:30PM. It’s open to the public, so feel free to testify. 1/
I wanted to give an update on the Minneapolis Separation Ordinance being authored by myself, CM @aurinmpls.bsky.social, and CVP @aishaforward10.com. There is a public hearing at tomorrow’s Committee of the Whole meeting at 1:30PM. It’s open to the public, so feel free to testify. 1/
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Imagine being ordered to reconsider measles vaccines in light of Uncle Bobby’s Wedding.
December 9, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Imagine being ordered to reconsider measles vaccines in light of Uncle Bobby’s Wedding.
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No city tonight.
December 9, 2025 at 3:46 AM
No city tonight.
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Fucking embarrassing behavior has been a pattern of @aaron.bsky.team and @jay.bsky.team and Bluesky's "Trust & Safety" team, which has proven itself neither trustworthy nor inclined to safeguard anything but their own bruised egos and it's so gross. Users deserve better.
Bluesky’s head of trust & safety responding with a sarcastic image macro to a woman upset her husband was kidnapped by ICE is embarrassingly unprofessional & cruel behavior.
that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?
that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?
December 9, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Fucking embarrassing behavior has been a pattern of @aaron.bsky.team and @jay.bsky.team and Bluesky's "Trust & Safety" team, which has proven itself neither trustworthy nor inclined to safeguard anything but their own bruised egos and it's so gross. Users deserve better.
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Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
December 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
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Trump's farmer bailout will primarily go to massive row-crop farmers. Big Ag as they say. Smaller and diversified farms are getting something else - it rhymes with shackjit.
Trump is going to dump tens of $ billions in payments for huge commodity farmers to compensate for huge losses they will suffer from his idiotic trade war. Meanwhile, small farmers growing for local markets will get nothing. Just canceled grants and "thoughts and prayers". wapo.st/3YXdAbU
A Kansas family farm, barely getting by, grapples with Trump’s cuts
Like many of his rural neighbors in northeast Kansas, Jacob Thomas is trying to compensate for deep losses in federal funding. There’s worry and anger.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Trump's farmer bailout will primarily go to massive row-crop farmers. Big Ag as they say. Smaller and diversified farms are getting something else - it rhymes with shackjit.
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One of the people involved in this is Stephen Coates, an IP lawyer that managed Twitter’s trademarks.
So this hilariously has the weight of not being some rando doing this.
So this hilariously has the weight of not being some rando doing this.
December 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
One of the people involved in this is Stephen Coates, an IP lawyer that managed Twitter’s trademarks.
So this hilariously has the weight of not being some rando doing this.
So this hilariously has the weight of not being some rando doing this.
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#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
(Published Oct. 2025)
(Published Oct. 2025)
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
(Published Oct. 2025)
(Published Oct. 2025)
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Incredible story. Incredible reporting from Phil Williams of Channel 5 in Nashville.
A MUST watch.
Extremely well done, and most alarming. Unsettling. I'm shaking.
A MUST watch.
Extremely well done, and most alarming. Unsettling. I'm shaking.
WATCH: Advocates for political violence among those welcomed to conference at Tennessee state park www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Advocates for political violence among those welcomed to conference at Tennessee state park
For years, the guest list for an annual white nationalist gathering at Tennessee’s Montgomery Bell State Park has been a closely guarded secret.
www.newschannel5.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Incredible story. Incredible reporting from Phil Williams of Channel 5 in Nashville.
A MUST watch.
Extremely well done, and most alarming. Unsettling. I'm shaking.
A MUST watch.
Extremely well done, and most alarming. Unsettling. I'm shaking.
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OK, seriously. This is wild.
Judge Jay Bybee (1) raises a new issue — the Domestic Violence Clause of the Constitution — to consider in the troop deployment cases; (2) extensively details its historical application;
Judge Jay Bybee (1) raises a new issue — the Domestic Violence Clause of the Constitution — to consider in the troop deployment cases; (2) extensively details its historical application;
December 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
OK, seriously. This is wild.
Judge Jay Bybee (1) raises a new issue — the Domestic Violence Clause of the Constitution — to consider in the troop deployment cases; (2) extensively details its historical application;
Judge Jay Bybee (1) raises a new issue — the Domestic Violence Clause of the Constitution — to consider in the troop deployment cases; (2) extensively details its historical application;
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6 year old asked “does space have a end?” right before bed and I watched my wife have an existential crisis
December 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
6 year old asked “does space have a end?” right before bed and I watched my wife have an existential crisis
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“Mom! I got the part!!!”
“Oh that’s great honey!!! What’s the part?”
“Oh that’s great honey!!! What’s the part?”
December 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
“Mom! I got the part!!!”
“Oh that’s great honey!!! What’s the part?”
“Oh that’s great honey!!! What’s the part?”
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just trying to take the edge off here
December 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
just trying to take the edge off here
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Women, we don't need to contort ourselves to fit into spaces that are too small for us.
From Zimbabwe by Tapiwa Mugabe
From Zimbabwe by Tapiwa Mugabe
December 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Women, we don't need to contort ourselves to fit into spaces that are too small for us.
From Zimbabwe by Tapiwa Mugabe
From Zimbabwe by Tapiwa Mugabe
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ICE in Bloomington, MN
December 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
ICE in Bloomington, MN
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NYC’s congestion pricing cleaned the air. This is also what happened when EZ-Pass was put in place in NJ.
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
NYC’s congestion pricing cleaned the air. This is also what happened when EZ-Pass was put in place in NJ.
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In a group chat with more PhDs/JDs than members. We are gonna crack this thing.
Through a comedy of errors and bad luck, we find ourselves with our basement door basically barricaded from the other side. Fortunately neither of the cats were in the basement when this happened. Hoping our handyman gets back to me tonight or tomorrow....
December 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
In a group chat with more PhDs/JDs than members. We are gonna crack this thing.
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The economy is FAR WORSE than the government is acknowledging. This holiday season, if you know folks struggling, don't be afraid to leave a mystery box of groceries or some gifts from Santa for the kids on their porch. Maybe drop a grocery store gift card in their mailbox.
Be the Christmas magic.
Be the Christmas magic.
December 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The economy is FAR WORSE than the government is acknowledging. This holiday season, if you know folks struggling, don't be afraid to leave a mystery box of groceries or some gifts from Santa for the kids on their porch. Maybe drop a grocery store gift card in their mailbox.
Be the Christmas magic.
Be the Christmas magic.
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The USA is a client state of a tiny genocidal country. Blame AIPAC for that. Politicians are corrupt.
Wild: So both Biden & Trump bypassed Congress to send aid to Israel—to support Israel’s "defense" in "wartime."
That "defense" made other nations embargo Israel.
Now (despite the Trump-led "ceasefire"), this policy would give the US another way to send even more arms to Israel.
That "defense" made other nations embargo Israel.
Now (despite the Trump-led "ceasefire"), this policy would give the US another way to send even more arms to Israel.
NEW: Buried in the new defense bill is a policy to fill weapon “gaps” Israel gets as other nations embargo it.
As in: citing "wartime" needs, the US armed Israel’s genocide.
Nations responded by restricting weapons to Israel.
Now, citing those very restrictions, the US may send Israel *even more.*
As in: citing "wartime" needs, the US armed Israel’s genocide.
Nations responded by restricting weapons to Israel.
Now, citing those very restrictions, the US may send Israel *even more.*
December 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The USA is a client state of a tiny genocidal country. Blame AIPAC for that. Politicians are corrupt.
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It’s Election Day tomorrow!
And it’s a big one because Democrats have a big shot at flipping the mayor’s office in Miami.
And also they’re aiming for an upset flip in the state House in Georgia.
Both on my guide of elections to watch. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
And it’s a big one because Democrats have a big shot at flipping the mayor’s office in Miami.
And also they’re aiming for an upset flip in the state House in Georgia.
Both on my guide of elections to watch. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
December 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
It’s Election Day tomorrow!
And it’s a big one because Democrats have a big shot at flipping the mayor’s office in Miami.
And also they’re aiming for an upset flip in the state House in Georgia.
Both on my guide of elections to watch. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
And it’s a big one because Democrats have a big shot at flipping the mayor’s office in Miami.
And also they’re aiming for an upset flip in the state House in Georgia.
Both on my guide of elections to watch. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
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They aren't going to make the July 1st deadline and even if they did it will take another year to get colleges able to collect the data required and programs have to exist for 1 year to be eligible so you would have had to collect data you didn't know you needed for the last year at least.
Education Dept. Wants to Begin and End Workforce Pell This Week
Higher ed policy experts question whether one week of negotiations will be enough to figure out how to expand the Pell Grant to workforce training programs. https://bit.ly/3MqjUoK
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Higher ed policy experts question whether one week of negotiations will be enough to figure out how to expand the Pell Grant to workforce training programs. https://bit.ly/3MqjUoK
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
December 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
They aren't going to make the July 1st deadline and even if they did it will take another year to get colleges able to collect the data required and programs have to exist for 1 year to be eligible so you would have had to collect data you didn't know you needed for the last year at least.
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In the recent FTC trial, Meta attorneys acknowledged that only 7% of the eyeball time on Instagram is spent looking at content from a person's actual friends they follow. More and more, I am moving to mail — both email & postcards — to reach people without addictive algorithms. youtu.be/zN-rElTzR_4
Why everyone is quitting social media
YouTube video by Matt D'Avella
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
In the recent FTC trial, Meta attorneys acknowledged that only 7% of the eyeball time on Instagram is spent looking at content from a person's actual friends they follow. More and more, I am moving to mail — both email & postcards — to reach people without addictive algorithms. youtu.be/zN-rElTzR_4