Codex O'Healey Melcher
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Writer, Folklorist, Insufferable Historical Gossip.
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Codex O'Healey Melcher
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· Feb 18
"We're just asking questions."
— The Spanish Inquisition
— The Spanish Inquisition
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*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
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thinking about this screenshot from Columbo that makes it look like a 90s point-and-click adventure game
September 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
thinking about this screenshot from Columbo that makes it look like a 90s point-and-click adventure game
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Joyce Carol Oates: Demonstrating the Value of the Humanities through Public Ownership of the Richest Man on Earth
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Joyce Carol Oates: Demonstrating the Value of the Humanities through Public Ownership of the Richest Man on Earth
The people clamor for a Hippocratic CSI.
I want a sheriff to barge into the laboratory of a barber surgeon demanding to know what the status of the victim’s yellow bile was at time of death and a light trim on his bangs.
I want a sheriff to barge into the laboratory of a barber surgeon demanding to know what the status of the victim’s yellow bile was at time of death and a light trim on his bangs.
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM
The people clamor for a Hippocratic CSI.
I want a sheriff to barge into the laboratory of a barber surgeon demanding to know what the status of the victim’s yellow bile was at time of death and a light trim on his bangs.
I want a sheriff to barge into the laboratory of a barber surgeon demanding to know what the status of the victim’s yellow bile was at time of death and a light trim on his bangs.
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Read This When Things Fall Apart made Bookshop's Bestsellers of the Week list!
Bookshop.org Best Sellers of the Week
Last Week's Bestselling Books: A Taste of the US We're leaning in on politics and history nowadays with a compilation of letters to activists and a new exploration of the US Justice Department.
bookshop.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Read This When Things Fall Apart made Bookshop's Bestsellers of the Week list!
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They got all my letters.
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
They got all my letters.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Chuck Schumer has not met this moment and Senate Democrats would be wise to move on from his leadership.
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Chuck Schumer has not met this moment and Senate Democrats would be wise to move on from his leadership.
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Here are the at least 6 House Democrats, 3 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 4 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Here are the at least 6 House Democrats, 3 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 4 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:
It seems I will have to continue to watch the Jonny Lee Miller/Benedict Cumberbatch stage play to sate my book-accurate Frankenstein presentational wants.
There are worse fates. Like being damned by your creator and rejected by a professed enlightened society… oh, wait.
There are worse fates. Like being damned by your creator and rejected by a professed enlightened society… oh, wait.
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
It seems I will have to continue to watch the Jonny Lee Miller/Benedict Cumberbatch stage play to sate my book-accurate Frankenstein presentational wants.
There are worse fates. Like being damned by your creator and rejected by a professed enlightened society… oh, wait.
There are worse fates. Like being damned by your creator and rejected by a professed enlightened society… oh, wait.
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
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This is such nonsense, Athanasius Kircher wrote a whole book about them showing that they are living creatures
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is such nonsense, Athanasius Kircher wrote a whole book about them showing that they are living creatures
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Good work being done here.
NEW — Starting next week, the Cook County Public Defender’s Freedom Defense Center of Roseland, in partnership with the Village Legal and Community Project, will offer free attorney office hours for community members.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
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Cook County Public Defender’s new community legal hub to expand legal resources for South Siders • The TRiiBE
Free legal services will roll out on Nov. 19 at the Cook County Public Defender’s Freedom Defense Center in Roseland through a partnership with The Village Legal and Community Project.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Good work being done here.
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one of the biggest contributors to Elon’s loser energy is that he desperately wants to be cool, but doesn’t understand that a big part of being cool is appearing unaffected. he’s one of the most affected men of all time.
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
one of the biggest contributors to Elon’s loser energy is that he desperately wants to be cool, but doesn’t understand that a big part of being cool is appearing unaffected. he’s one of the most affected men of all time.
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some good news: kim davis publicly ate shit, again
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
some good news: kim davis publicly ate shit, again
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November 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
It’s “we’re moving on from COVID” all over again. One thing all sides of the aisle can agree on is not caring about disabled people or people with illnesses.
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 AM
It’s “we’re moving on from COVID” all over again. One thing all sides of the aisle can agree on is not caring about disabled people or people with illnesses.
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I don't understand the men who feel lost in their identity, like they don't know who to be, like they don't know how to find love.
There's a whole manual that tells you. It's called Lord of the Rings. Just be Samwise Gamgee.
They even made movies about Sam. They're pretty good movies.
There's a whole manual that tells you. It's called Lord of the Rings. Just be Samwise Gamgee.
They even made movies about Sam. They're pretty good movies.
October 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I don't understand the men who feel lost in their identity, like they don't know who to be, like they don't know how to find love.
There's a whole manual that tells you. It's called Lord of the Rings. Just be Samwise Gamgee.
They even made movies about Sam. They're pretty good movies.
There's a whole manual that tells you. It's called Lord of the Rings. Just be Samwise Gamgee.
They even made movies about Sam. They're pretty good movies.
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In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead
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I truly don’t know how you look at the past week and THEN decide THIS is an appropriate — let alone the right — response.
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I truly don’t know how you look at the past week and THEN decide THIS is an appropriate — let alone the right — response.
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This right here.
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This right here.