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Mel Cowan

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.
chicago.suntimes.com
Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed
Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...
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Cassidy Hettesheimer @cassidyhett.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Lynx held a moment of silence for Alex Pretti and Renee Good ahead of the season opener at Target Center:
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Mel Cowan @iamnotmelcowan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Landismaxxing is when you have any amount of Max Landis which is always too much www.avclub.com/max-landis-h...
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Paramount hires potential HR liability, Max Landis, to write G.I. Joe reboot
Paramount hires potential HR liability, Max Landis, to write G.I. Joe reboot
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Mel Cowan @iamnotmelcowan.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
One of the absolute best to do it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Since July, Trump’s immigration goons have illegally detained at least 2,300 people without bond or due process. Meanwhile, two private prison corporations who donated millions to Trump are profiting off these blatant constitutional violations. Cashing in on cruelty.
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'Fucking Insane': Journalist Finds at Least 2,300 Illegal ICE Detentions Since July | Common Dreams
There have been at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled that immigration officials illegally detained pe
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Mel Cowan @iamnotmelcowan.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
So important to find your angle
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
This is the photo.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto mobbed by teammates
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/10/2025
A Chicago-style No Kings Day. #NoKings
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
A thousand writers: “SEE IF I WRITE THIS YOU TELL ME IT’S TOO ON THE NOSE”
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 18/10/2025
Best view of the Seattle protests so far
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I am just so fucking proud of her.
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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I’m no fancy politics guy, but i’d say any country where you can’t put a man in prison for accepting a literal bag full of cash in exchange for favors from the government is not, in fact, a functioning state.
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Mel Cowan @iamnotmelcowan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Great day to check in on your free speech absolutist buds and make sure they’re ok. They all seem super quiet and not free speechy for some reason.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025
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FCC Chair Carr’s post from 12/30/23:

Free speech is the counterweight—it is the check on government control. That is why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.
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Mel Cowan @iamnotmelcowan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
These motherfuckers
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Mel Cowan @iamnotmelcowan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
ICE shouldn’t exist.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Dear god let this man cook.
Pritzker: It’s time for us to be done with optimism about their motives. Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research… Autistic kids and adults who are loving contributors to our society don’t deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed a dead bear in his car. Our military service members don’t deserve to be told by a washed-up Fox TV commentator, who drank too much before being appointed Secretary of Defense, that they can’t serve their country simply because they are Black, gay, or a woman.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/04/2025
According to Kash Patel’s own financial disclosure statement, he pocketed $25,000 from a production company operated by a filmmaker associated with a Kremlin-subsidized propaganda project, a pro-Putin oligarch, and a pro-Kremlin disinformation agent. @davidcorn.bsky.social's NEW video explains:
youtu.be
The Curious Case of Kash Patel's $25,000
YouTube video by Mother Jones
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Absolutely right. If you know how movie financing works you know they were popping champagne corks Monday morning at the studio, and that was *without* this insane second weekend. All this “concerned” coverage is bullshit.
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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Anyone who still thinks that our systems of checks and balances will stop us from sliding into this dark, dark period of oppression and surveillance isn't living in reality. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
freep.com
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.
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Mel Cowan @iamnotmelcowan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This is fucking horrifying
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Mel Cowan @iamnotmelcowan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I realized why I get sad when I see those delivery robots trundling around the city. Movies taught me that lil’ robots are supposed to be delivering secret plans or singing along to Hello Dolly but instead they’re bringing Klondike bars to stoned dudes in East Hollywood.
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Mel Cowan @iamnotmelcowan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
kash patel always looks like he's just farted and is hoping no one notices
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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 18/02/2025
This is fucking incredible.
REYES: [The order] calls an entire category of people dishonest, dishonorable, undisciplined, immodest, who lack integrity, people who have taken an oath to defend this country, people who have been under fire, people who have received medals for taking fire for this country. I want to know from the government whether that language expresses 'animus.' Does that express animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: Not in any constitutional- REYES: In a commonsense way. This is a policy from the President of the United States affecting thousands of people ... to call an entire group of people, lying dishonest people who are undisciplined, immodest and have no integrity. How is that anything other than showing animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: I don't have an answer for you. REYES: You do have an answer, you just don't want to give it... People can make solid arguments as to why some or even most transgender people shouldn't be in the military We're dealing with unadulterated animus. We are dealing with the president of the United States dealing with a group of people serving their country... calling them liars. (Reyes then said she changed her courtroom orders to bar people who graduated from UVA law school from appearing before her because "they're all liars and lack integrity and are undisciplined and can't possibly meet the high rigors of benign a lawyer for the government" She made the DOJ lawyer sit down on that basis, then after he did, she called him back up and asked whether that was a display of animus.)
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The most incredibly stupid spy story I’ve ever heard of, and my father was an Army intelligence officer, I’ve heard a few
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Mel Cowan @iamnotmelcowan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Stupid little gollum-ass looking bitch
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 06/02/2025
- racist DOGE guy (redundant) canned - federal judge upholds birthright citizenship - another judge blocks voluntary resignation - NY state going to court over treasury business - patel put on ice for at least a week
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Mel Cowan @iamnotmelcowan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
ALOHA MOTHERFUCKERS
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Mel Cowan @iamnotmelcowan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"Meddling" makes it sound like a Scooby-Doo villain is up to some light shenanigans, and recycling an old oppositional slogan is corny as hell. Call it what it is: an ALREADY ILLEGAL crime, and do literally everything within your power to shut it down.
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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is, of course, ethnic cleansing.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Put these accurate words on your front page @nytimes.com
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
1. BREAKING Several of Elon Musk’s associates installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — including two recent high school graduates — have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.
muskwatch.com
Musk associates given unfettered access to private data of government employees
The Musk-connected political hires include two recent high school graduates
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Mel Cowan @iamnotmelcowan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
My guy is about to get some donations. Monkey wrench these motherfuckers
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Julie Brister @juliebrister.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Hey UCB folks! Jimmy Jatho just got out of the hospital after heart surgery. Please help him out if you can! gofund.me/01aed96b
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Donate to Support Jimmy Jatho's Heart Surgery Recovery, organized by Lydia Lacey
If you know Jimmy Jatho, you know this about him: he has the biggest heart. R… Lydia Lacey needs your support for Support Jimmy Jatho's Heart Surgery Recovery
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Three of the people Donald Trump pardoned last week have already been arrested on charges related to child sexual abuse. Chuck Schumer is tweeting about how your salsa will cost more next week. Failure in communication is a choice.
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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is a good piece about how uniquely wrong for this moment the leaders of the Democratic Party are.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Once again. A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the former with the same intensity and ruthlessness as we work to prevent the latter.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...
404media.co
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
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Mel Cowan @iamnotmelcowan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
THIS IS HOW WE DO IT
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Mel Cowan @iamnotmelcowan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Actually said "fuck yeah" out loud when I saw this news. Get in the Tiger Van y'all. It's going places.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2025
AOC 🔥🔥🔥
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21/01/2025
BREAKING: In sermon to Trump at inaugural prayer service, Episcopal Bishop Budde pleads for immigrants, transgender rights —> religionnews.com/2025/01/21/i...
religionnews.com
In sermon to Trump, Bishop Budde pleads for immigrants, transgender rights
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The inaugural prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral Tuesday morning featured a number of interfaith leaders, including the Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal Bishop...
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Mel Cowan @iamnotmelcowan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
They wanna ban TikTok? But he seems so polite
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Mel Cowan @iamnotmelcowan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
This is an aesthetically unpleasing Corsi-Rosenthal box, but it works! Highly recommend making one of these and cranking it up to make your air less gross. (BTW, I have named her Rosie.)
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Mel Cowan @iamnotmelcowan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Don't click on this. I'll sum it up for you: "We need a fascist daddy to tell us what to do." An incandescently dumb and unhinged piece of writing. Congrats to all involved.
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