Reposted by Jon MeltzerErik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 06/08/2025This is the US Constitution page @ the Library of Congress Sections 9 and 10 have been removed 9 includes habeas corpus, the courts' review of unlawful detention & imprisonment This gov't can't change the Constitution w/ sneaky editing, but it's a new low: constitution.congress.gov/constitution/ 57922486
Reposted by Jon MeltzerTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 15/06/2025I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC 2059174654587
Reposted by Jon MeltzerNoble Scars @noblescars.bsky.social · 15/03/2025From the #TeslaTakedown protest today in the Back Bay in Boston. About 300ish people there today. 16915
Reposted by Jon MeltzerStephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 01/03/2025As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio. 30586735514392
Reposted by Jon Meltzerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/02/2025my superpower for predicting things? paying attention to what people with power say and do 315307124056
Reposted by Jon MeltzerMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today. 5545464215951
Reposted by Jon MeltzerChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Make sure these people are never able to eat in public again 191082332
Reposted by Jon MeltzerSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/02/2025A fun thing to do with this supposed Napoleon quote is to do a google search to see what forums it appeared on with this exact wording before 2022. I'm no computer whiz, so maybe I messed up, but the only hits I got were these two...for Stormfront, a neo-Nazi forum. 642911794
Reposted by Jon MeltzerJohn Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 15/02/2025I hear the nagging question you ask inside your head a few hundred times a day: "Is it me, or has a huge portion of this country lost its mind?" It isn't you. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dont-gasli...johnpavlovitz.substack.comDon't Gaslight Yourself. You're Right To Grieve What's Happening to America.I know what you're thinking. 324115132718
Reposted by Jon MeltzerJohn Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Fascism isn’t coming to America, it’s already here. We are long past the warnings of an approaching existential threat looming on the distant horizon of our story, which many of us spent the past decade imploring people not to ignore. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-is...johnpavlovitz.substack.comFascism Isn't Coming To America, It's Here. Do Americans Have the Strength to Drive it Out?Fascism isn’t coming to America, it’s already here. 45997743032
Reposted by Jon MeltzerWIRED @wired.com · 15/02/2025SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.wrd.cmTop US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security WorkThe US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED 24648302438
Reposted by Jon MeltzerA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12/02/2025"Gulf of America" is just a loyalty test. It's a way of checking who is going to abrogate reality for no reason other than a cowardly refusal to stand up to the bully or an opportunistic willingness to toady up to one. Anyone who will call it that will help you round people up or look the other way. 15566471961
Reposted by Jon MeltzerJust Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025"Daddy says he owns you. Can you get me an ice cream?" 2250477879677
Reposted by Jon MeltzerFoz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 12/02/2025www.politico.com/news/magazin...politico.comVoters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest. 1158
Reposted by Jon MeltzerJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/02/2025As others have said, the greatest transfer of wealth in US history will not be from the Boomers to their children but from them to the US healthcare system. The US is designed to make people insolvent and to keep them poor once they're there. 23696952156
Reposted by Jon MeltzerJohn Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 11/02/2025It’s time for people of faith, morality, and conscience to hold the people in our lives accountable for their willing partnership with this filth. FULL POST: johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-may-nee...johnpavlovitz.substack.comOur New Cold War: We May Need to Cut Ties With Trump SupportersI really hate this. 64785206
Reposted by Jon MeltzerAlmantas, the Old Man @almantasvt.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Ada Palmer is an *incredible* writer and this thread is amazing. I'm now VERY excited for her new book! 092
Reposted by Jon MeltzerOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Look at this Orwellian dumb as fuck bullshit on Google Maps now. We live in the dumbest world. I hate it here. 7870275
Reposted by Jon MeltzerHawaiiDelilah™ 🌊 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧 @hawaiidelilah.bsky.social · 11/02/2025This is how Canadian businesses are advertising. And I don't blame them. Once again, to my Canadian family and friends: I am sorry that millions of my fellow Americans voted for that festering boil. 481949364
Reposted by Jon MeltzerCamille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 11/02/2025" In short, RFK Jr. doesn’t believe in the germ theory. He believes in something called the miasma theory." Oh my God 2430391
Reposted by Jon MeltzerAlways Think 1st so U R #WokeAF @alwaysthinkhow.bsky.social · 10/02/2025FYI, link to all locations www.tesla.com/findus/list/...tesla.com 42512
Jon Meltzer @jonmeltzer.bsky.social · 09/02/2025In response to the latest fraternity ra ... uh, "incident", this will be as deliberately ineffective as all subcommittees, task forces, and kaffeeklatches the Cornell administration has set up since the 80s when I was there. cornellsun.com/2025/02/07/c...cornellsun.comCornell Establishes Task Force to Address Campus Sexual AssaultUniversity leaders launch an initiative to examine prevention strategies, policy reform and elevated institutional accountability surrounding sexual assault on campus. 010
Reposted by Jon MeltzerSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 08/02/2025HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is on sale as an ebook today for only $2.99! Here's an excerpt: 912944
Reposted by Jon Meltzerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/02/2025is it woke to want to end cancer? 733150403665
Reposted by Jon MeltzerAdrian Carrasquillo @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social · 07/02/2025NEW from me: Trump’s Deportation Dragnet Widens and Puerto Ricans Are Getting Caught in It www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-depo... via @thebulwark.bsky.socialthebulwark.comTrump’s Deportation Dragnet Widens and Puerto Ricans Are Getting Caught in ItThe collateral damage increasingly appears to be lawful U.S. citizens. 22314
Reposted by Jon MeltzerPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Please remember something: if you had said a year ago that Trump would do even a fraction of these things, you would have been mocked, belittled, accused of “Trump derangement syndrome,” and dismissed by certain people. Identify those people and block and shun them. 332153052836
Reposted by Jon MeltzerConnie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Posted at 2:16 a.m. Federal judge issued emergency order prohibiting Musk’s DOGE from accessing personal & financial data on millions of Americans at the Treasury Department, noting the possibility for irreparable harm. Also ordered “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded…” 581476285
Reposted by Jon MeltzerDevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Starting tomorrow, get vaccinated. Everything you can. The CDC took down their list. Use this. www.immunize.org/vaccines/vis...immunize.orgVaccine Information Statements (VISs) Overview | Immunize.org| Immunize.orgFind materials on legal requirements to give VISs to patients before vaccinating. 29565633291
Reposted by Jon MeltzerAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Appreciate this candid @pkrugman.bsky.social in the Contrarian on why he left the Times opinion dept. I get it contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...contrarian.substack.comDeparting the New York TimesI left to stay true to my byline 161034154
Reposted by Jon MeltzerFoz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 25/01/2025so hey, not to be That Guy, but remember how SFF fans called for a boycott of Chengdu Worldcon on the basis of the CCP’s actions in Xinjiang and China potentially not being safe for certain authors? are we going to have a similar discussion about Seattle Worldcon given the circumstances, or -? 511637416
Reposted by Jon MeltzerSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025This is absolutely chilling. He truly is a sociopath. 1026248859382
Reposted by Jon MeltzerMark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 22/01/2025This is literally handing over the future of medical science to other countries. Every day this continues will create damage to US research and universities that lasts for years—and can be measured in lives. 412730
Reposted by Jon MeltzerEdwin Mix @edwinmix.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Please report the ADL to the ADL for its Nazi apologia hate speech. www.adl.org/report-incid...adl.orgReport an Antisemitic, Bias or Discriminatory IncidentIf you have experienced or witnessed an incident of antisemitism, extremism, bias, bigotry or hate, please report it using our incident form. 39617