Reposted by Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” ByrneAaron Strauss @aaronstrauss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Next up is the Trump+13 district NJ-2, the seat turncoat Rep. Van Drew holds. He was elected as a Dem back in 2018 but then decided to become a Trump crony. Voters in this district are out for revenge, as 44k Dems turned out in the primary vs just 35k Rs (even with an R senate primary). 101
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It also tells you how to report migrants. Its so gross. 000
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 952516668
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Do they get proper vaccines? For example yellow fever and typhoid is sent to West Africa? 001
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Do we need a court tho? lol. Congrats!! Cant wait to read. 010
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You should check out Know Your IX for info on why its up to survivors to choose the path forward. 030
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
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026They call it a center— but does it function as a center or is it just a few articles that comes out? 100
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026No I meant- is the jacob center as actual center or just a brand? 100
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Also the jacobin a center or just folks who blog? 100
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It started with Roosevelt Institute ans grew from there. It is bad. 100
Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026First order is honestly ensuring folks get sworn in. 301
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 291926810
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. 26536
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 · 01/09/2026Can yall demand the shuttering of yale law too? 000
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. 38984414235
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. 181523317
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 181945490
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 6277262026
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