Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrnePam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026America.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 952516670
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneJames Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000. 151359303
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There'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. 402779319
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026@johncusack.bsky.social great event tonight 000
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneSenator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 24/09/2026We must end this costly Iran War that’s leaving Americans behind. 16715
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026To 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. 36704198
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I 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...nytimes.comParamount Settles States’ Lawsuit, Clearing Way for Warner Bros. MergerBy 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. 27415150
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneJacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 13/02/2026More 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.infodogetrack.infoDOGE TrackAn automatically-generated and frequently updated site for presenting data on DOGE’s rampage across government, designed to work on large screens and mobile phones. 415639
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This 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 291927810
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne@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...variety.comFCC 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. 26636
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 15/09/2026Vince 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... 2928
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING CHRIS VAN HOLLEN (esp if not @aoc.bsky.social bc we all love aoc!) 010
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneProf. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Not that Dallas y'all hahahahaha #GOBIRDS 1161
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Social pressure at a whole new level 010
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Techies who think DOGE was onto something have a flawed moral compass. 010
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Good. Women should never be moved out of public life. 100
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026It’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. 030
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneErie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A 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. 510351
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrneryan 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...prospect.orgThird Way Is Copying the Left’s Homework - The American ProspectNo one else has any ideas worth pointlessly compromising. 34210
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I honestly give zero fucks about anything Huang thinks. 010
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Every never trumper who worked and voted for Bush owns this outcome. 000
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Extraordinary, 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. 38984434236
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026One 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...nytimes.comA 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. 121280274
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026Because 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. 181523316
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneTim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Also, 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 482493
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneTim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Oh 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 181946491
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneTim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Live 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 6277282026
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Sarah Longwell is a Republican neocon. 060
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneSam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 24/08/2026Jess's reporting literally got someone off death row last year and now BuzzFeed laid her off. 126979
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Remember that people like Sarah Longwell supported Bush appointed Roberts. 020
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Hey remember when the media and gop freaked out when bill clinton spoke to the attorney general for five seconds? 863932888
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneDr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026One 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*jrnl.ieJason Arday, who resigned from Cambridge University amid plagiarism claims, found deadThe Met Police said a 41-year-old man was found unresponsive at an address in south London today. 1024461
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I’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. 20678011428
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026So they are nice while cutting programs that lead to over 600K people dying in a year? 000
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneCharles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Had 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 25513
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrnePerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I 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. 241035115
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Ironically, 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. 371513232
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Is 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... 34385021891
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrneryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 02/08/2026this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...inverse.comThe adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photosNearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told. 453087784
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026His goal to be a famous right winger. 031
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The donors wanted ben. The grunt volunteers wanted Ken 010
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 26/07/2026Genuinely 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.ballsandstrikes.substack.comI Am Begging Senate Democrats to Do Anything Other Than Help Confirm Trump JudgesFour months before the 2026 midterms, three Democratic lawmakers have decided to give a historically unpopular president a little boost. 13440107
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Pro 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 421105185
Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I'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. 46952205