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Melissa Stewart

@lissajostewart.bsky.social
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Civil Rights Lawyer | Drag is not a crime | 🏳‍🌈 | lissajostewart@gmail.com | Memphis | they/she

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 2h
BREAKING A federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center's Trump-installed board to UNSEAL the 163-page report (with redactions) on the $250M+ renovation plan and two year closure. The Board also must unseal a related Powerpoint. Doc buff.ly/E6jyjGl
ORDERED that Plaintiff’s [74] Motion to Unseal is GRANTED IN PART. The Clerk of the Court shall unseal in full the [65-2] Delta PowerPoint. Defendants shall submit to Plaintiff and the Court any proposals for narrowly tailored redactions to the [65-1] JLL Plan, accompanied by particularized and substantial written justifications, no later than October 14, 2026. Plaintiff shall file any response to the proposed redactions no later than October 19, 2026. The Court will then review the proposals and rule by separate order.
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 2h
Government lawyers in Tennessee get away with so much shit. If I tried to pull this, I’d be crucified right there and then.
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 2h
Never a great sign when you claim that you didn’t receive a pleading and the judge says “You are signed up for e-service, correct?”
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h
Tennessee's response is that there is no pending execution, so, the court could give no relief in this case. The judge pushes back, asking the state if they can confirm there wouldn't be a new execution date set in the future, which the lawyer says he can't (essentially ending the argument, imho).
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h
Pike's lawyer also notes that, to the extent the state is complaining about the scope of the requested preservation, that is largely due to the state's own secrecy provisions regarding executions.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h
Note: Texas is planning on killing Jamaal Howard later today. Requests for stays of execution are pending at the Supreme Court.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h
Pike's lawyer is highlighting how the underlying complaint in this case — before the execution — had raised questions about the execution protocol and difficulties the state could face in trying to execute Pike.
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 3h
How I arrived on Bluesky:
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Frodo Baggins: It's Done - Lord of the Rings
Alt: Frodo Baggins: It's Done - Lord of the Rings
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 6h
Not gonna RS the thread that made me think about this (you've likely already seen it, or a similar one) BUT Every person I know who has cut off or gone low contact with a parent took YEARS of agonizing and trying to make things work because damn that's their PARENTS.
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 4h
No you shouldn’t “just pirate the new Harry Potter show” to avoid giving JKR your money. Media companies track illegal streams and downloads! JKR may not profit directly, but by pirating the new show, you are still sending the message that you want and will consume more Harry Potter content.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
one funny thing about Alito is he is constantly fuming over his critics. just a big blubbering baby.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: Following the Supreme Court OK'ing states' trans sports bans, ADF is now taking its targeting of states with pro-trans sports policies to SCOTUS — via the shadow docket in a case out of Washington. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
documentcloud.org
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The joy of trolling top law schools in their Instagram comments >>>>
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People who insist living in doomerism are not my people, sorry! I know creating this climate of fear is what you’ve been sold by people searching for clicks, but it’s not me.
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Stanford volleyball team travelled 10,000 miles back and forth from Pittsburg 3x over the course of ONE MONTH. And that’s just Pittsburg. The NCAA is putting student athletes through hell becuase some billionaires wanted to exploit them for even more money. Bring back the Pac-12.
STANFORD VOLLEYBALL IS EXHAUSTED FROM CROSS COUNTRY TRAVEL AND LETTING EVERYONE KNOW IT
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The fact that sororities are prohibited from having alcohol in their houses also gives frats a lot of power, and the fact that this is still the case in 2026 is absolutely bonkers.
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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not now, Unmapped Region of Antarctica.
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
✅ Watched my Auntie be inducted into the U of M’s Hall of Fame ✅ Watched Minnesota kick Michigan’s ass ✅ Saw my niece swim in person ✅ Spent time with a whole bunch of people I love and miss 10/10 trip, no notes.
Lezlie Weiss being inducted into the Gopher Hall of Fame Students flooding the field of Huntington Bank Stadium after a Gophers victory
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ski-U-Mah
Huntington Bank Stadium, U of M students flooding the field after Minnesota beat Michigan, 20-14
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm trying, Chicago Pope!
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Lauren Dracula 🧛‍♀️ @beavisetc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“RIP to Icarus but I’m built different”
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God it sucks having to go off my immunosuppressants to get vaccinated. I got the Nuvaxovid shot last week, and now I’m in a Lupus flare. Absolutely infuriating. But vaccines are good and necessary and if you haven’t gotten an updated Covid vaccine this year, now is the time!
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Couldn’t be happening to a classier team
62-47 Aces beating Fever
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A’ja Wilson. That is all.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS, for a third time, rejects efforts to upend Missouri’s congressional map. Criticizing the Eighth Circuit’s actions, the Supreme Court’s order stated, “Given this Court’s two prior orders in this litigation, our conclusion that this was error should come as no surprise.”
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Breaking: SCOTUS, for a third time, rejects efforts to upend Missouri’s congressional map
Criticizing the Eighth Circuit’s actions, the Supreme Court’s order stated, “Given this Court’s two prior orders in this litigation, our conclusion that this was error should come as no surprise.”
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol. lmao even.
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Palate cleanser
Brandi Carlile’s new release: Returning to Myself (Sad Gay Version)
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If I have to spend the next two years listening to political commentators talk about Minnesota as if it’s a swing state, I’m going to lose it.
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anyway, back to Phoebe and Gracie and Olivia and Noah
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is both terrible writing and also the single most depressing lyric she’s ever written
You only need to find one person in this entire world
Who doesn't find you completely insufferable
And I have an important announcement to make
I found mine (That's right)
Well, I found mine (Hey, hey, hey)
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m sorry but these songs sound like someone asked AI to make bad Taylor Swift music
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cleveland makes me want to stick a fork through my ear drum.
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Much better ☺️
Minnesota Lynx win tonight’s game against Indian Fever, 86-66
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
She really is gonna just keep on feeding the maylors
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hannah Einbinder continues to be my favorite bisexual.
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This feels relevant again
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hear me out
An I mag of the orange eras door. On either side are two images of padlocks, left to right, orange (TLOAS), pink (Encore), blue (midnights) and white (TTPD)
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today felt gloriously cool after MONTHS of oppressive heat and humidity. Had my windows open, thinking it was like 65 max. It was 85° today. This state is gaslighting me. I am being gaslit.
Tennessee got A/C now
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Someone had her teeth cleaned today and she was VERY grumpy about it. (She is now home and devouring her dinner)
A small orange cat laying on a blue fizzy blanket. Her expression might best be described as murderous. A small orange cat laying on a fuzzy blue blanket. She has an iv in one arm. She is dissociating while she imagines taking revenge on the humans who put the iv in her arm
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Note from print pool earlier: "Staff from Fox, CBS & NBC are here but not shooting, as journalists wait to see whether the judge will issue a ruling after hearing arguments today." "There are signs in front of other tripods/cameras that say: NewsNation, Newsmax, RSBN, One America News & Lindell."
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well, at least my expectations for the new music are back down in hell. Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised or something.
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Releasing more TLOAS on Bi Visibility Day is a hate crime, actually
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No one is forcing you to clap, you pinecone.
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I apologize for all the gaylor posts today. I’ve since come back down to earth and have tempered my expectations.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: The Eighth Circuit, Missouri’s maps, and the mess the Roberts Court has brought about. Even as the Supreme Court has tried to stop the Missouri maps chaos, it turns out that a lack of concern for precedent, rules, and stability have trickle-down effects. This evening, at Law Dork:
lawdork.com
The Eighth Circuit, Missouri’s maps, and the mess the Roberts Court has brought about
Even as the Supreme Court has tried to stop the Missouri maps chaos, it turns out that a lack of concern for precedent, rules, and stability have trickle-down effects.
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Shakespeare did not write in Old English. Shakespeare did not even write in Middle English. Stop this nonsense at once.
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is from August 17, 2024. The four 0’s. I hate her so much (complimentary)
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I love whatever is wrong with her.
Taylor swift styled insta story:

You might recognize it [the black lace top in the Patient Zero photos] from this outing back in May! It wouldn't be the first time Taylor has "stolen" something from a photoshoot set.
May 8 was 138 days ago
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