Melissa Westbrook
@themelwestbrook.bsky.social
Public education advocate; long-time blogger mostly about Seattle Schools. Not a fan of charters, hate vouchers. Public education got men to the moon...and back.
Don't make me mad. Still, I smile. NO DMs.
Don't make me mad. Still, I smile. NO DMs.
Kansas Redistricting Was on the Fast Track. Then Some Republicans Said No. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
Kansas Redistricting Was on the Fast Track. Then Some Republicans Said No.
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Kansas Redistricting Was on the Fast Track. Then Some Republicans Said No. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
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We just launched the biggest primary program in Indivisible’s history. Help us (literally) send Schumer and the surrender caucus a message. open.substack.com/pub/ezralevi...
Democratic leaders failed us again. Time to get some new leaders.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
We just launched the biggest primary program in Indivisible’s history. Help us (literally) send Schumer and the surrender caucus a message. open.substack.com/pub/ezralevi...
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Dictator chic.
Trump shows off all the gold he’s added to the Oval Office to look more like the Kremlin.
“This is not Home Depot stuff.”
“This is not Home Depot stuff.”
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Dictator chic.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?
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A reminder: Trump has mocked captured veterans (McCain), and those who died defending you (those lost at Bellevue Wood in WW1 - "suckers" and "losers").
If you side with Trump on veterans, YOU hate the troops
If you side with Trump on veterans, YOU hate the troops
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A reminder: Trump has mocked captured veterans (McCain), and those who died defending you (those lost at Bellevue Wood in WW1 - "suckers" and "losers").
If you side with Trump on veterans, YOU hate the troops
If you side with Trump on veterans, YOU hate the troops
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Trump said he's "recommending to Senate Republicans" that money going to insurance companies instead be sent to Americans to buy health care (from insurance companies).
Basically, that's what the ACA does, except money is in the form of subsidies. He just wants to send less and rename it Trumpcare
Basically, that's what the ACA does, except money is in the form of subsidies. He just wants to send less and rename it Trumpcare
November 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Trump said he's "recommending to Senate Republicans" that money going to insurance companies instead be sent to Americans to buy health care (from insurance companies).
Basically, that's what the ACA does, except money is in the form of subsidies. He just wants to send less and rename it Trumpcare
Basically, that's what the ACA does, except money is in the form of subsidies. He just wants to send less and rename it Trumpcare
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No, not Home Depot stuff 😂
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
No, not Home Depot stuff 😂
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🚨 💰 WOW — @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn snuck a provision into the spending bill that would let them sue the government for $500,000 because Jack Smith looked into their phone records around Trump’s insurrection.
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
🚨 💰 WOW — @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn snuck a provision into the spending bill that would let them sue the government for $500,000 because Jack Smith looked into their phone records around Trump’s insurrection.
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
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Trump reveals he has no idea how to pay the $10K he promised air traffic controllers who kept working through the shutdown
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Trump reveals he has no idea how to pay the $10K he promised air traffic controllers who kept working through the shutdown
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There was a time when 90% of Americans would have understood how deranged in every conceivable way a post like this is
I mean if you showed this to any American in 2001 they wouldn't even understand what they were looking at or what sort of deranged creature could possibly speak like this in public
I mean if you showed this to any American in 2001 they wouldn't even understand what they were looking at or what sort of deranged creature could possibly speak like this in public
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
There was a time when 90% of Americans would have understood how deranged in every conceivable way a post like this is
I mean if you showed this to any American in 2001 they wouldn't even understand what they were looking at or what sort of deranged creature could possibly speak like this in public
I mean if you showed this to any American in 2001 they wouldn't even understand what they were looking at or what sort of deranged creature could possibly speak like this in public
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This Veterans Day it is important to remember that Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to keep veterans from receiving their SNAP food benefits.
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This Veterans Day it is important to remember that Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to keep veterans from receiving their SNAP food benefits.
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Translation: he has no idea how insurance works
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Translation: he has no idea how insurance works
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#VeteransDay
I grew up with Vietnam Vets
I hope you all some day have the honor to visit the wall
It Will Take Your Breath Away
Honor and Respect to all who served and their families
Vietnam Vets came home to face public indifference, ostaracism, and hostility
No celebration
No honor
I grew up with Vietnam Vets
I hope you all some day have the honor to visit the wall
It Will Take Your Breath Away
Honor and Respect to all who served and their families
Vietnam Vets came home to face public indifference, ostaracism, and hostility
No celebration
No honor
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#VeteransDay
I grew up with Vietnam Vets
I hope you all some day have the honor to visit the wall
It Will Take Your Breath Away
Honor and Respect to all who served and their families
Vietnam Vets came home to face public indifference, ostaracism, and hostility
No celebration
No honor
I grew up with Vietnam Vets
I hope you all some day have the honor to visit the wall
It Will Take Your Breath Away
Honor and Respect to all who served and their families
Vietnam Vets came home to face public indifference, ostaracism, and hostility
No celebration
No honor
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The regime is setting duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports beginning in January.😳
Well, there goes a huge source of clean eating carbs … seems on par for MAHA. 🧐 Since clean made US pasta isn’t clean due to using US wheat which is full of junk,🫤😖
apple.news/AGRDGheVXS_G...
Well, there goes a huge source of clean eating carbs … seems on par for MAHA. 🧐 Since clean made US pasta isn’t clean due to using US wheat which is full of junk,🫤😖
apple.news/AGRDGheVXS_G...
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves — The Wall Street Journal
Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of tariffs it has levied
apple.news
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The regime is setting duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports beginning in January.😳
Well, there goes a huge source of clean eating carbs … seems on par for MAHA. 🧐 Since clean made US pasta isn’t clean due to using US wheat which is full of junk,🫤😖
apple.news/AGRDGheVXS_G...
Well, there goes a huge source of clean eating carbs … seems on par for MAHA. 🧐 Since clean made US pasta isn’t clean due to using US wheat which is full of junk,🫤😖
apple.news/AGRDGheVXS_G...
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Truth Social added AI and it's gone woke as hell 🤣
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Truth Social added AI and it's gone woke as hell 🤣
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Sigh...
Our Veterans and their families deserve better
Yes...Trump .. Hegseth
an insult to those who served
#VeteransDay
Veterans Deserve Better
Our Veterans and their families deserve better
Yes...Trump .. Hegseth
an insult to those who served
#VeteransDay
Veterans Deserve Better
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Sigh...
Our Veterans and their families deserve better
Yes...Trump .. Hegseth
an insult to those who served
#VeteransDay
Veterans Deserve Better
Our Veterans and their families deserve better
Yes...Trump .. Hegseth
an insult to those who served
#VeteransDay
Veterans Deserve Better
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🚨 NEW: ADP report: U.S. LOST an average of 11,000 jobs per week in October 2025.
Let’s compare, shall we:
In 2024, the economy ADDED about 2.2 million jobs in 2024 — an average monthly GAIN of 186,000.
From steady climb to sudden slide.
Let’s compare, shall we:
In 2024, the economy ADDED about 2.2 million jobs in 2024 — an average monthly GAIN of 186,000.
From steady climb to sudden slide.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🚨 NEW: ADP report: U.S. LOST an average of 11,000 jobs per week in October 2025.
Let’s compare, shall we:
In 2024, the economy ADDED about 2.2 million jobs in 2024 — an average monthly GAIN of 186,000.
From steady climb to sudden slide.
Let’s compare, shall we:
In 2024, the economy ADDED about 2.2 million jobs in 2024 — an average monthly GAIN of 186,000.
From steady climb to sudden slide.
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Amen!
Whether on Memorial Day or Veterans Day or Independence Day, or any day we wake up with such a small, cowardly, petty disgrace of a man leading this nation, we should be livid at the insult he is to those who truly loved and love America...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
Donald Trump is an Insult to Those Who Died Serving This Nation
Picture someone you love who died serving this nation, or even someone you’ve never met.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Amen!
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Thanks to all the veterans, and to my two grandfathers (WW1), dad, two uncles, two great uncles and FIL (WW2), and brother (Vietnam).
We honor all who served
We honor all who served
a poster for veterans day with an american flag in the background
Alt: a poster for veterans day with an american flag in the background
HONORING ALL WHO SERVED
VETERANS DAY
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November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Thanks to all the veterans, and to my two grandfathers (WW1), dad, two uncles, two great uncles and FIL (WW2), and brother (Vietnam).
We honor all who served
We honor all who served