Reposted by Melissa SJohn Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025We now have a concentration camp in Florida. Stop pretending any of this is normal. If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person. Be human. 9283575811015
Reposted by Melissa SThis Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 22/06/2025“The recent bombing ordered by Trump—justified as preemptive defense against Iran's nuclear ambitions—can be traced back to evangelical dispensationalist theology, which holds that Israel’s geopolitical security and dominance are essential precursors to the second coming of Christ.” 2244
Reposted by Melissa SAndrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 22/06/2025Following a rich white man to war because you didn’t like the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the stupidest things ever. 247101732176
Reposted by Melissa SThe Rooster @rooster.info · 18/06/2025“Surviving Ohio State” should end Jim Jordan’s political career. Will it? I have my doubts. But every Republican in Ohio should have to speak on Jordan’s involvement in the sex abuse scandal. www.rooster.info/p/surviving-...rooster.info"Surviving Ohio State" should end Jim Jordan's political career"If there's one thing OSU is good at, other than football, it's deceit." 1010240
Melissa S @enigmama.bsky.social · 16/06/2025She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...open.substack.comShe Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election. 010
Reposted by Melissa SRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Republicans keep telling us how much he “sacrificed” and “gave up” to run for president. His net worth was leveraged smoke and mirrors in 2016. Not anymore. 1061755496
Reposted by Melissa SQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 22/05/2025To understand what the GOP is forcing through at midnight: •Gutting $880 billion from Medicaid •Gutting $500 billion from Medicare •Gutting funding for SNAP (food assistance) •Gutting clean energy protections, which will also cost 400,000 jobs 1/2 13634041793
Reposted by Melissa SQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 19/05/2025Man child who court ordered to complete mandatory retraining to learn how to not exploit cancer charities has question on why a woman with a Doctorate in Education didn’t detect cancer.😑 The fascism is unbearable enough and the sheer stupidity makes it just that much more insufferable. 65498582377
Reposted by Melissa SMorgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 26/04/2025I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did. 7432061053
Reposted by Melissa SSamuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 23/04/2025FWIW, we've been studying the nationalist pronatalism push for several years now. And it's powerfully driven by what you'd expect: patriarchal gender ideology, perceptions that Whites & Christians are under threat, & Christian nationalism. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 33811274
Melissa S @enigmama.bsky.social · 16/04/2025The Education Savings Scam: How Black Taxpayers Are Funding 'The New Segregation' www.contrabandcamp.com/p/the-educat...contrabandcamp.comThe Education Savings Scam: How Black Taxpayers Are Funding 'The New Segregation'ContrabandCamp examined how "school choice" laws divert tax dollars away from Black schools to fund "segregation academies," white churches and far-right publishers. 020
Reposted by Melissa SMorgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Trump's pause was an intentional manipulation of the markets so his billionaire donors know when to buy & sell to maximize profit off of YOUR losses. THIS IS INSIDER TRADING! Is this what you voted for? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...theatlantic.comWhy Trump Paused the TariffsA stock-market swoon, or even a recession, might not frighten him, but the prospect of a 2008-style meltdown apparently still does. 60856341
Reposted by Melissa SAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/04/2025We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled. 11374173611167
Reposted by Melissa SThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 04/04/2025This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend. 50474763414734
Reposted by Melissa SThe Rooster @rooster.info · 05/04/2025Best picture of the #HandsOff protest I have seen today. Taken from the Vern Riffe building. A patriot passes it along unaccredited; if it’s yours please step forward! 440883
Reposted by Melissa SAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/04/2025I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here? 12423552113060
Reposted by Melissa SJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 03/04/2025It’s as if he’s a Russian asset, trying to destroy America from within. 551113662300
Reposted by Melissa SAndrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 03/04/2025Can we please all agree that this experiment of putting a man who bankrupted a casino in charge of America’s economy is not going well at all? 339109191770
Melissa S @enigmama.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Cory Booker Breaks Senate Speech Record Held by Strom Thurmond open.substack.com/pub/jemartis...open.substack.comCory Booker Breaks Senate Speech Record Held by Strom ThurmondHe stood for justice longer than the man who stood against it. 000
Reposted by Melissa SChristopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 01/04/2025Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits 185228155086
Reposted by Melissa SAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'" 13567444115441
Melissa S @enigmama.bsky.social · 17/03/2025A big middle finger to the idiots in charge who thought it was a good idea for all government employees to be in offices again. 000
Reposted by Melissa SFred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2025While the Russian Useful Idiot in the White House is busy claiming bullshit wartime authority to further his efforts destructing Democracy, just a reminder that everything he has said is a lie & everything that he says going forward will be a lie. As for his enablers, screw them. 21215062313029
Reposted by Melissa SJoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Donald Trump is LITERALLY shutting our government down as we speak. WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORITY. He will continue to do this if they pass the CR. What the actual fuck don’t the Democrats understand about this?!!! 29567031441
Reposted by Melissa SQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14/03/2025Call each of these Senators to NOT vote with the GOP & instead grow a spine. Each number starts with 202-224 Schumer - 6542 Hassan - 3324 Peters - 6221 Durbin - 2152 Schatz - 3934 King - 5344 Shaheen - 2841 Fetterman - 4254 Cortez Masto - 3542 Gillibrand - 4451 21135522052
Melissa S @enigmama.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Primary Sources: The Secret Slave Revolt That Started the Civil Rights Movement www.contrabandcamp.com/p/primary-so...contrabandcamp.comPrimary Sources: The Secret Slave Revolt That Started the Civil Rights MovementThe story of the Underground Railroad, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer and Emmitt Till begins with a national slave revolt. 000
Reposted by Melissa SGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/03/2025As Orwell predicted. 618280605775
Reposted by Melissa STrey Ferguson @pastortrey05.com · 10/03/2025Good morning, beloved. Sometimes, we need to try new things. But you are not a thing. So, don’t let anyone try you. Encourage them to try the library instead. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good. 320327
Reposted by Melissa SGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/03/2025What a different world we could have. 7815599112502
Reposted by Melissa SMorgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 08/03/2025TAKE WEEKENDS BACK AGAIN!!! Don't let Trump terrorize you with all his BS fake domestic terrorist threats that he'll be forced to walk back on Monday. While he golfs, enjoy your families or pets and know that Donald suffers greatly in his inner life and that everyone dies. 561313242
Reposted by Melissa SAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Crockett: We had an opportunity to have a woman lead this country and I promise you, she would have led us to the promised land. But instead we got somebody that seems like he wants to take to us hell 9955694512181
Reposted by Melissa SMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary. It can't get a distributor in the US. Which tells you everything about censorship in the US. 234215756026
Reposted by Melissa SQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 25/02/2025Tiffany Cross ❌ Mehdi Hasan ❌ Alex Wagner ❌ Joy Ann Reid ❌ Ayman Mohyeldin ❌ Joe and Mika ✅ Fire Black, brown, & Arab journalists who condemn Trump & keep white journalists who support Trump—yet still insist it has nothing to do with race. “I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.” 32827201
Melissa S @enigmama.bsky.social · 18/02/2025I will never forgive so many people for jeopardizing my kids' future career goals. National park ranger, pilot, foreign service. I'm raising smart kids that have grown up learning how to serve and wanted to keep doing that. And now I have to try and convince them and myself it's all going to be ok. 010
Reposted by Melissa SAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/02/2025Omg Kate McKinnon and Meryl Streep. “Now remember, I was Donald duckin’ it. No shirt, no pants. And my poke bowl and my smokey hole were out.” “This devil wears nada” 😂😂😂 1222831185
Melissa S @enigmama.bsky.social · 17/02/2025I have loved SNL since my high school years, and all the amazing actors and movies it created. It's just my kind of humor. And one of the few bright spots in this dreary climate. So of course I'm watching #SNL50 tonight. 050
Melissa S @enigmama.bsky.social · 14/02/2025The biggest disappointment of my adult life has been the moral and theological failure of so many people I once looked up to. 000
Melissa S @enigmama.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Don't tell me you love our national parks if you support this current admin. 000
Reposted by Melissa STrey Ferguson @pastortrey05.com · 14/02/2025The entirety of the anti-woke crusade can be boiled down to one proverb: “Where knowledge is a burden, ignorance is bliss.” The opposite of “woke” is “sleep.” 223247
Reposted by Melissa SJennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Because you're stupid and choose to stay that way. 402198243275
Reposted by Melissa SBonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Every year, as the "David raped Bathsheba" cycle arrives on the twiturgical calendar, and the pro-rape guys try to minimize David's vile act ... I always wonder why no one talks about Abraham and Hagar. Slaves cannot consent. Ask Sally Hemings. 2404
Reposted by Melissa SJoy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 12/02/2025It's called The Gulf of Mexico. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. 885415554855
Melissa S @enigmama.bsky.social · 09/02/2025He is the best. Got me through the pandemic on Colbert and saw him there in person in 2022. 010