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Mellisa
@pixyofwhimsy.bsky.social
780 followers 2.3K following 27 posts
County Librarian, former local journalist. My home is full of books and rescue dogs.
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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atrupar.com
Trump: "The word 'affordability' is a Democrat scam"
December 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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briecallahan.bsky.social
Starbucks set up shop next to my fav local coffee house in the 90s and ran it out of business. And I have bought not one single thing from them since.

It has been so long, I do not even remember the name of the coffee shop.

Some of us have been waiting, longing for a new foe.
cuteosphere.bsky.social cuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · 1d
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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willmckinley.bsky.social
"The question was: could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3 year olds who sang beer commercials.”

— Joan Ganz Cooney #BOTD

Happy 96th b'day to the co-founder of Children’s Television Workshop + co-creator of SESAME STREET and THE ELECTRIC COMPANY. #PBS #SesameStreet
Joan Ganz Cooney in the 1970s w/ the SESAME STREET Muppets.
December 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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alyalyoops.bsky.social
I am debating starting up the Anti Brain Rot Reading Challenge by @thisstoryaintover.bsky.social.... Anyone wanna try with me? Booksky people?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHpH...
🧠 the Anti Brain Rot Reading Challenge by @thisstoryaintover | purpose, rules, discord, notion etc
YouTube video by thisstoryaintover
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November 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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samanthamclark.com
Reading graphic novels is reading. I loved comics as a kid and now I'm an avid reader of novels and an author. Give kids whatever books they want. #kidlit
amitha.bsky.social Amitha Jagannath Knight @amitha.bsky.social · 3d
My kids can never get enough graphic novels. Our local libraries all have graphic novel shelves, so I just check out a whole bunch. I also go through and request based on lists of new graphic novels (because the popular titles often aren't there). We buy the ones they loved and want to reread.
November 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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astrokatie.com
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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bcfinucane.bsky.social
I worked these issues with Todd.

He knows what he’s talking about.

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Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats “amounts to murder,” said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign. Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight “would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,” said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law.
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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deadbird.bsky.social
drew a Thanksgiving hand turkey
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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nickknudsenus.bsky.social
Tell the billionaires: WE AIN’T BUYIN’ IT!!!

No buying from Target, Home Depot or Amazon over the next week!

Throw in union-busting Starbucks too!! 🙃

Pass it on!! 👇👇👇
Tell the Billionaires We Ain’t Buying It
This week, we use our wallets like a weapon and remind every corporate giant that people—not profits—set the terms.
www.digitaldrumbeat.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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indivisible.org
Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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wsj.com
Exclusive: Republicans plan to challenge vehicle-safety mandates, such as automatic emergency braking and alarms that remind drivers a child is in the back seat.
Senate Committee to Challenge Auto-Safety Mandates That Hurt ‘Affordability’
Republicans are questioning the value of some features, such as automatic braking and rear-seat reminders.
on.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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mrspowersdayjob.bsky.social
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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truthnothingbut.bsky.social
In a leaked call Xi Jinping connected with Trump last night. Xi told Trump 2 things
1. There are NO deals with China
2. China will invade & and take Taiwan

Xi is not asking. He is telling the weakest president in history what the US is going to do. NOTHING

Xi feared Biden but knows Trump is a joke
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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motherjones.com
Medicaid-funded services are their lifeline—and make their work possible. But the Trump cuts to the program could change it all.

Meet Audrey and Jeremy, who went viral for talking about how the GOP's Medicaid cuts could devastate their everyday.
What Trump's Medicaid cuts mean for two podcasters with Down syndrome
Medicaid-funded services are their lifeline—and make their work possible.
www.motherjones.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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gshans.bsky.social
Another horrific story from these times, featuring the tireless and heroic work of my Cornell Law colleague Liz Brundige and her clinic students. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
She Was Deported in Error. Her Child Was Left Behind.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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readingtheend.bsky.social
I think about this tweet every day
tweet from @wlwsaavik from December 9, 2020: "it is so satisfying to know that spock and leonard nimoy would probably be best friends and play the lute together or something but jim kirk would absolutely beat the shit out of william shatner in an applebee's parking lot"
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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jefftiedrich.bsky.social
SO NOW YOU'RE GOING TO TELL ME IT'S WRONG FOR THE DEGENERATE WHO WAS FOUND LIABLE FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT TO BE ALONE FOR HOURS WITH A TEENAGE GIRL IN JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S HOUSE. WOKE HAS GONE TOO FAR! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY POST IN WHICH I EXPLAIN THIS. LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/4qYtWx2
now, let’s not jump to conclusions here. just because Donny was holed up for hours at Epstein’s house with one of those underage ‘spa girls’ doesn’t mean that anything untoward was going on. maybe Donny was helping her with her math homework. maybe he was explaining how you can lower the price of a prescription drug by a thousand percent. maybe she was giving him makeup tips on how not to look like a fluorescent tangerine fuckwit. if so, he wasn’t listening.
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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chucktingle.bsky.social
always fascinated by idea that i am not being sincere or that my tinglers are a joke or that this is a 'bit'. on one hand i get it because my art is BY DEFINITION unusual, but i just think WHAT IS ALTERNATIVE? what would me being 'fake' even mean? imagine writing 400 books over 10 years for a 'bit'
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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leahfeiger.bsky.social
SCOOP: In text messages sent in 2017, Jeffrey Epstein appears to position himself as a middleman between president Donald Trump’s administration and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. He seemingly represents himself as passing on information directly from Trump to Gates through an intermediary.
Jeffrey Epstein Claimed Intimate Knowledge of Donald Trump’s Views in Texts With Bill Gates Adviser
In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary.
www.wired.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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melissagiragrant.com
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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atrupar.com
Raskin: "The DOJ hasn't released any of these emails that mention Trump's name & identify his role in all these activities. Those came from the Epstein estate. So this is a demonstration the govt is deliberately withholding the info everybody is actually looking for & could be damaging to Trump"
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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penamerica.bsky.social
Fired for online speech. Doxxed and swatted for covering breaking news. Bombarded with death threats for exposing corruption. These are just a few of the safety concerns that U.S. journalists are now navigating. (1/2)
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM