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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne

@mcb.bsky.social
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Cancelling student debt and other fun. Bernie alum.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Worst Catholics ever
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's this really odd pattern with Bari Weiss, JD Vance, Richard Hanania etc, where they rise to prominence because their main skill is cultivating the friendship of wealthy patrons, but it's impossible to figure out how they do it because they constantly exude a pungent strain of anti-charisma.
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@johncusack.bsky.social great event tonight
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 24/09/2026
We must end this costly Iran War that’s leaving Americans behind.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
To me, this feels like an extension of DOGE. Big claims about fraud, using data-matching to drop people from coverage. Without actual data, or investigation, it is impossible to refute the claims, but such transparency is unlikely to be forthcoming.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I want to be 100% clear: @gavinnewsom.bsky.social's fingerprints are all over this deal and he owns the consequences. He has handed control of America's media ecosystem to Trump's top enablers and he should have to answer for it every day for the rest of his career. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Paramount Settles States’ Lawsuit, Clearing Way for Warner Bros. Merger
By resolving a lawsuit filed by a group of states, the media mogul David Ellison removed the last major hurdle he faced in buying Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Gross
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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 13/02/2026
More than a year after its formation, I continue to track DOGE's activities and try to shed light on their staffing based on what limited information I can find. dogetrack.info
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DOGE Track
An automatically-generated and frequently updated site for presenting data on DOGE’s rampage across government, designed to work on large screens and mobile phones.
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
DOGE bros are trash
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“The FCC just let some of the most repressive governments in the world indirectly control nearly all of a combined Paramount-Warner Bros" variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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FCC Approves 49.5% Foreign Ownership of Paramount-Warner Bros.
The FCC has approved Paramount's petition to allow 49.5% ownership by Gulf state sovereign wealth funds as part of its Warner Bros. acquisition.
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hes not on stage with him
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 15/09/2026
Vince Gilligan won the outstanding writing for a drama series #Emmy for ‘Pluribus.’ Gilligan told Rolling Stone he relates to the show’s main character, Carol: “The sarcasm and the negativity and the general miserableness — that’s the easy part for me.” Read: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING CHRIS VAN HOLLEN (esp if not @aoc.bsky.social bc we all love aoc!)
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Not that Dallas y'all hahahahaha #GOBIRDS
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Social pressure at a whole new level
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Techies who think DOGE was onto something have a flawed moral compass.
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Good. Women should never be moved out of public life.
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It’s complicated process but reading this shows @aoc.bsky.social is doing this correctly. Showing dems are strong on enviro health can open up a stream to pull folks out of MAHA and ideally back to public health. One big issue: trump donors literally fund MAHA.
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Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A DC mom asking the national guard for help clearing a tree blocking her kid’s title 1 school: Her: Aren’t you supposed to be here to help? The national guard: Nope.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/09/2026
"So Third Way ends up shadowboxing a left that wants to Do Too Much, and arguing we should Do Somewhat Less instead. Even the title of their big policy agenda is a cut-rate FDR rip-off." prospect.org/2026/09/04/t...
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Third Way Is Copying the Left’s Homework - The American Prospect
No one else has any ideas worth pointlessly compromising.
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I honestly give zero fucks about anything Huang thinks.
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Every never trumper who worked and voted for Bush owns this outcome.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One of the things we have lost is the power to shame public officials. It seems quaint but it is actually very important. Without it, formal law is significantly weaker and our lives are significantly poorer. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/u...
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A Republican Attack Ad Used a Family’s Tragedy. Now They’re Furious. (Gift Article)
Relatives of a family killed by a semi truck say they were not consulted about the ad, which connected the crash to illegal immigration.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026
Because the behavior of the parties is not symmetrical. If we genuinely brought back shaming of shitty, cruel, deceptive behavior, the shame would overwhelmingly fall on the right, and the whole elite political & media system has shown again & again that it values symmetry over decency.
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Also, AOC now has no choice but to run in 2028. The constitution establishes that you are obligated to run for president once a campaign poster has been made out of split peas. I’m sorry, I don’t make the rules
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Oh that’s not all, folks. Antifa Waldo, beatifications of ICE martyrs, ICE agents slipping, and more—all from the likes of corn, barley, and alfalfa
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Sarah Longwell is a Republican neocon.
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
WAWA forever
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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 24/08/2026
Jess's reporting literally got someone off death row last year and now BuzzFeed laid her off.
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Remember that people like Sarah Longwell supported Bush appointed Roberts.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hey remember when the media and gop freaked out when bill clinton spoke to the attorney general for five seconds?
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
One of the great shocks for Irish people is how White the top UK [Russell Gp] unis are, compared to Ireland. The relentless bullying of this academic & the failure of Cambridge to support him is a new low. He was absolved of the charges yet even here they are cited*
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Jason Arday, who resigned from Cambridge University amid plagiarism claims, found dead
The Met Police said a 41-year-old man was found unresponsive at an address in south London today.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
So they are nice while cutting programs that lead to over 600K people dying in a year?
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Had to look up the person driving ~Woke 1 ruined lives~ discourse (today) and it’s a very-obvious-about-it grifter whose MAGA origin story is: 1) Obama didn’t respond to my letter, and 2) I realized illegals took all the good-paying union jobs from White Men
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I understand 60 Minutes is a huge platform. But NYT sets the agenda for American politics and elite discourse. That gave Ross huge power. And he used it poorly and often disingenuously. Good riddance.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Ironically, Ben Shapiro’s concept of Judaism as a religion one has to profess belief in, in the modern Protestant sense, rather than a people one is born into, shows how much he has assimilated his friends in the evangelical right into his concept of Jewish identity.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Is it good when the secretary of defense is so fixated on making sure everyone is white and has tv ready abs that he forgets about munitions bsky.app/profile/carl...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 02/08/2026
this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...
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The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos
Nearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
His goal to be a famous right winger.
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The donors wanted ben. The grunt volunteers wanted Ken
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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Time is a circle
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 26/07/2026
Genuinely funny that Senate Democrats waited 18 months for the historically unpopular sex pest president to become an electoral millstone around the GOP’s neck, and THEN decided to greenlight Trump judges right before the midterms. Unmatched political instincts.
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I Am Begging Senate Democrats to Do Anything Other Than Help Confirm Trump Judges
Four months before the 2026 midterms, three Democratic lawmakers have decided to give a historically unpopular president a little boost.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Pro tip: if you’re going to send out a text blast fraudulently claiming you’re the organizer of No Kings and fraudulently soliciting donations, maybe don’t send it directly to me
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I'm heartbroken to share that Marvin (known to readers of There Is No Place for Us as Maurice) died earlier today in a workplace accident. He was 43. Natasha (Natalia in the book) asked me to share this news because she is too devastated to do so herself. We are all in shock.
Marvin, Natasha, and their newborn child
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