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Melody

@jaidling.bsky.social
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She|Her. I'm 37, with 2 partners, and 5 cats. I like cats, civil liberties, books, people, and rye (in that order). I'll stop screaming when they stop being evil. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇦🇹🇺🇦🇺🇸🍉 @vitrum-eidolan.bsky.social is mine <3

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Merri, Princess of Maid-dom. @vitrum-eidolan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The catgirls are supposed to be allowed to lay on the tables and push your food and drink off at will.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
::low whistle::
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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
For Pride, I want to share my favorite medieval poem: Even Bochan by Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, a transgender Jewish woman born in the 13th century. Her profoundly moving words are proof that we have always been here, in every community. Full text: voices.sefaria.org/sheets/11532...
Oh, but had the artisan who made mecreated me instead—a fair woman.Today I would be wise and insightful.We would weave, my friends and I,and in the moonlight spin our yarn,and tell our stories to one another,from dusk till midnight.We’d tell of the events of our day, silly things,matters of no consequence.But also I would grow very wise from the spinning,and I would say, “Happy is she who knows how to work with combed flax and weave it into fine white linen.”
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Melody @jaidling.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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Shawn Connolly @divinecoffeebinge.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Sometimes we all need a reminder: When optimism is in short supply When you’re having real trouble believing in a better tomorrow When the despair comes Remember There’s always spite Endure, because those fuckers don’t get to WIN Fuck ‘em Sometimes that helps Sometimes it’s enough
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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
“Two of them went to Atlanta. One of those was symptomatic. They’re in a biocontainment lab in Atlanta. The other 16 are now in Nebraska. One of them is symptomatic.” So one of the symptomatic patients wasn't sent to the biocontainment lab?
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RFK Jr.: ‘We’re not worried’ about hantavirus spreading after cruise ship outbreak
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Monday the U.S. has the hantavirus “under control.” During a press conference in the Oval Office about mental health, a…
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Melody @jaidling.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Babe, you have to include the source m.youtube.com/watch?v=7RLx...
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Candi Carpenter - Biblically Accurate Angel | Official Lyric Video
YouTube video by Candi Carpenter
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Lisa @pepper55.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
It was spelled out for us in October 2024 “These are well-coordinated, dangerous, and profoundly racist attempts to transform American life to match a vision rooted in a nationalist ideology that America was founded as a white nation and should remain so.” www.americanprogress.org/article/proj...
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Project 2025’s Distortion of Civil Rights Law Threatens Americans With Legalized Discrimination
Far-right extremists have a plan to dismantle many civil rights protections that have advanced equality in America over the past 60 years.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/05/2026
For the record, now that we know the Constitution is not inherently a one-way ratchet, I think we should just fucking go for broke on the ninth amendment. My theory of Constitutional interpretation is "fuck you, everyone gets rights, what do you mean, I can't hear you."
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Melody @jaidling.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
film you've watched more than six times with a gif hard mode: no star wars, star treck, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixa, dreamworks, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli
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Melody @jaidling.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
"mail order brides" are not only not new, but they're still a entire subgenre of relationship model and we definitely should talk about it
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Andrew Kinsey @andrewkinsey.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Holy shit this is wild. Whoever their inside source is has the goods.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/02/2026
INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday. They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.
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Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash
Civil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Isn't a judge supposed to know the law? I mean, isn't that the point of having judges in the first place?
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This one could make you cry. (For years international adoptees became U.S. citizens only when their adoptive parents took the needed steps to get them naturalized; a 2000 law automatically naturalizes legal adoptees on arrival, but that came too late for this woman).
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 19/02/2026
in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.
tweet from @cliftonhowze on twitter

Last night at the #DataCenters meeting in Claremore, Darren Blanchard, who has attended most of these meetings around NE Oklahoma & has some pretty impressive FOIA/ORA skills, was arrested after going over his 3 min. allotted speaking time. First arrest I've seen at one of these.
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Melody @jaidling.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
THEY ARE FOR TAX CODES NOT PEOPLE
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politiburb @politiburb.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The buried lede here is that the woman he had an affair with committed suicide through self immolation
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/02/2026
So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it. WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
@micarosenberg
 et al for ProPublica:
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I can't remember the theorist offhand, but there's a Black scholar who talks about the urgency of white supremacy. "We can't address racism right now, we have to address [emergency]." And there will always be an emergency. It's a common strategy used across most modes of oppression.
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Chris Rufo: “We launched the Claudine Gay plagiarism story from the Right to smuggle it into media apparatus of the Left, legitimizing the narrative to center-left actors who have power to topple her. Then squeeze.” Mediocre "meritocracy" NYT editors who hate Me Too and give him affirmative action:
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/02/2026
Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.
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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
My friend Christa Foster Crawford (HLS '94) has been doing groundbreaking anti-trafficking work in Thailand for the last 25 years. She needs our immediate help to stay in country & continue to work. This has been completely vetted by me. This is real. @kenwhite.bsky.social hhmin.org/charities/ch...
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Christa Crawford - HHMIN
Please help Christa with her Ministry work. All donations are appreciated.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
/2 Anyway, this is what the Smoking Gun was reporting TWENTY YEARS AGO in 2006. It was horrifying then and it’s still horrifying and it unequivocally shows child abuse. www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
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Billionaire In Palm Beach Sex Scandal
JULY 26--Prepare to take a shower after reading this remarkably sleazy probable cause affidavit filed in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who was arrested Sunday for soliciting s
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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
People assume test-blind admissions were the result of some hyperwoke crusade against bureacracy and not that "SAT scores poorly predict academic performance" being an exercise in this leftist tract textbook... *check notes* Introductory Econometrics by Jeffrey Wooldridge
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Library Yeti, Ice Cream Connoisseur @libraryyeti.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
"I fired all the workers at the cat cafe because they wanted to unionize" bro you are the villain.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
My favorite part of the lost blankie story is that they had to re-hire the pilot because there was no one else to fly them home
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Meowdelyn🏳️‍⚧️ @meowdelyn.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
We are hostile to anyone being less than supportive because we understand where this two step you're doing into transphobia leads. And that place you're softly stepping your way towards is full of the bodies of our dead friends, put there by folks just asking questions about our humanity.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 11/02/2026
“A quiet street full of broken glass”: every a.m. rush hour in the Twin Cities, a new kristallmorgen. Every smashed-window kidnapping, a new kristallabend.
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
THE FUCK?
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
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They're Coming for Our Daughters
The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
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Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
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Bex 🖤🏴 @thinlyveiledtruth.cryptoanarchy.network · 06/02/2026
Hey... wasn't there a story a while ago about them buying these? And we were all like "what does DHS need with mortar launchers?" And... yeah... I think a few of us saw this coming.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Here’s a story published yesterday, the day before the current president posted a video depicting the first black U.S. president and First Lady as gorillas. mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
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Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 06/02/2026
Hey remember back when Russian dash cam videos were everywhere and it was a big sign that the state had basically collapsed and people had to record everything to be safe? Yeah, well guess what that's us now. Buy dash cams for MPLS. www.amazon.com/registries/g...
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Dash Cams for rapid responders in Minnesota | Amazon Gift List
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saxton @ghost-waltz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
remember when everything was possibly cake and we were driven mad by the possibility that everything was cake? don't you wish everything was possibly cake now instead of probably ai? we were such fools to squander a cake-based reality.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
CORRECTION: This rule does not go into effect tomorrow, it goes into effect 30 days after tomorrow. My apology.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Executive Office for Immigration Review 8 CFR Parts 1003, 1208, and 1240 [Docket No. EOIR-26-AB37; Dir. Order No. 02-2026] RIN 1125-AB37 Appellate Procedures for the Board of Immigration Appeals AGENCY: Executive Office for Immigration Review (“EOIR”), Department of Justice. ACTION: Interim final rule; request for comments. SUMMARY: This interim final rule (“IFR”) amends Department of Justice (“Department” or “DOJ”) regulations to streamline administrative appellate review by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“Board” or “BIA”) of decisions by Immigration Judges by making review of such decisions on the merits discretionary, by setting appropriate times for briefing in cases that are reviewed on the merits, and by streamlining other aspects of the appellate process to ensure timely adjudications and avoid adding to the already sizeable backlog at the Board. Additionally, the Department is making various technical and non-substantive changes to its regulations. DATES: Effective date: This IFR is effective [INSERT DATE 30 DAYS AFTER PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER]
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.
Thus, rather than require such adjudications, the Department is changing its regulations to provide the Board more flexibility in reviewing appeals. Instead, for appeals taken from decisions issued after this IF becomes effective, as explained in
Section IV.A of this preamble, the default will be summary dismissal unless a majority of current Board members vote to consider the appeal on the merits. And such dismissals
will occur quickly—within 15 days of filing the appeal—allowing aliens to seek Federal court review expeditiously, rather than potentially waiting for years for a Board decision that in the vast majority of cases would affirm the underlying Immigration Judge
decision.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/02/2026
NEW: The DHS arrest records make no mention of the Tren de Aragua gang even though officials repeatedly cited its presence in the building as motivation for the raid, in which agents descended from a Blackhawk helicopter and zip-tied U.S. citizens.
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The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
if ICE can't recruit *this guy* before he goes and gets himself arrested they are Fucked bsky.app/profile/mari...
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 02/02/2026
Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen
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Ashley Finch @ashleyfinch.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Maidens has never been more real
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
UPDATE: The Democrat won the latest batch of roughly 6,000 votes, continuing to dominate in the count. The Election Day vote is bluer than the early vote day so far. With 55K votes in, Rehmet is up 57% to 43%. This is a 30% swing since 2024 for now.
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