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Shelley Rees

@mdmepsychosis.bsky.social
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Educator, English PhD, black belt, runner, vegetarian, Texas Rangers fan, woke lib. Ask me about my dogs.

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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still thinking about David Foster Wallace catching strays this week on @ifbookspod.bsky.social
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Cotton-Eyed Joe at Rangers games as well
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
If McConnell pops up tomorrow glowing with renewed health we should demand a thorough autopsy of Graham...
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
constitutional birthright citizenship survives by 1 vote. and to think people were worried about this beautiful institution.
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Mine did that and then tore the other one about a year later. But recovery wasn't as terrible as I had feared. You'll get through it! If you have access to a pool, swimming is excellent rehab when he's ready. Good luck!
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I'm sorry some people are so terrible. Ohtani does seem like a real gem. I'm such a miserable cynic anymore I'm half waiting for him to get exposed as a secret asshole, but I hope not.
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Deke Fanboy (welcome back lad!) @sjbrewer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Mexican fans spot a South Korean fan and immediately adopt him
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
But, but...
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is like one of those puzzles where you have to find the errors. Except it's a serious post from the Department of Education. We're all doomed.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/05/2026
very good and it zeroes in on a really important dynamic: the way the professionalization of the court and the industry around it serves to insulate the justices from democratic feedback as well as contribute to the idea that the justices are law wizards to whom we *ought* to defer.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026
horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...
propublica.org
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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NPR @npr.org · 20/04/2026
The ALA says 4,235 titles were challenged at libraries across the country – the second-highest year on record. Forty percent of the challenged works involved LGBTQ+ subjects or the experiences of people of color. n.pr/4vFxjvp
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The American Library Association has released its list of the most challenged books of 2025
The ALA says 4,235 titles were challenged at libraries across the country – the second-highest year on record. Forty percent of the challenged works involved LGBTQ+ subjects or the experiences of people of color.
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Someone on YouTube uploaded the entire season, but it must have been taken down since I watched it. 😥
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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
‘And lo, it came to pass the Lord God did smite the nation, for they had turned from all that was good.’ - Psalms 1:30 (minutes on high)
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.
Someone Has to Be Happy. Why Not Lauren Sánchez Bezos?
As half of an unfathomably powerful couple, Mrs. Sánchez Bezos seems to have influenced the uber-rich to stop apologizing, and start enjoying themselves.
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
media.tenor.com
a man is standing next to a woman sitting on a couch in a living room .
ALT: a man is standing next to a woman sitting on a couch in a living room .
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It is in the NYT, though, as usual, not with the urgency it deserves: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...
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After Criticizing Pope, Trump Posts Image of Himself as a Jesus-Like Figure
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Great British Sewing Bee is also great
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Great British Sewing Bee (from the same Love Productions who do GBBO and Pottery Throwdown) is also delightful.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.
Photograph of a car with a squirrel inside of it, perched on the steering wheel. The car is the color of champaign at a beige convention, and the squirrel is the color of squirrels. The squirrel is holding a package of crackers in it's mouth. They are the kind like you get at a restaurant, where you get two crackers wrapped in plastic.

The driver's side window is slightly cracked. This is how the squirrel got in, and how it got out. It threw the crackers out first, and then climbed out after them. Everything in this operation suggested that this was not the squirrel's first rodeo.A closeup of the squirrel sitting on the steering wheel. The squirrel deserves a name, so we'll call her Anjeloma, and she's what you might call a winner. She is still squirrel colored. The crackers are white, and labeled "Zest." As if Anjeloma needed more zest. Squirrel, please.

You can't see much of the car, but you can see smudges of grunge at the edges of the windshield, where the wipers have cast aside the debris of previous rains and pollen-falls.
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Looking forward to hearing you tell this story on multiple podcasts! 😉
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I hope all you non-Okies understand what a shockingly moronic person Markwayne Mullin is.
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I feel like I do, in fact, realize this.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/02/2026
in fact you do not have to show your ID when you board a train in the united states, you only need to show your ticket (which can be purchased without an ID)
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I installed a ceiling fan a few weeks ago with only YouTube as my guide. I didn't know how anyone ever did anything before.
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Oklahoma is irredeemable and the country is close.
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Tenured faculty already have 5-year review. I know people who lost positions after tenure review. Politicians trying to make people believe we are, oh, I don't know, SUPREME COURT JUSTICES, with cushy lifetime gigs and no guard rails? They are lying. Disdain for educators helps them evade scrutiny.
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
They want to tie individual teachers to student "job placement"? And "economic alignment"? What does that even mean? Hey, politicians with power, maybe work on making the economy support regular people so they can afford college and have jobs. How the fuck does a teacher have any control over that?
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
He's a bot or a scammer. You can just block him.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
please watch:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun. Any second now, I'm sure. He was a white guy, if that helps? Hello? NRA?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/01/2026
an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
For years, we have been lectured on the importance of major news outlets — about how their integrity prevents our democracy from dying in darkness. Yet Donald Trump just stood on a well-lit global stage and declared his intention to abuse the criminal justice system to destroy electoral democracy.
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Donald Trump just announced breaking news. The legacy media ignored it.
Not only is Trump repeating a lie about the conduct of the 2020 election, but he is also announcing — at an international conference — that his administration will soon prosecute his political opponen...
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I am none of the letters, at least so far, but somehow I have never had difficulty just... believing people when they tell me about themselves? Even when penises are not centered? Patriarchy is a helluva drug, yo.
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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Look at this absolute queen
When someone asked "Why would you as a business choose to piss off 1/2 of your potential customers? Just curious what sense that makes." the bakery responded with "I don't want those customers."
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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 14/01/2026
I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives.

Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil.It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago.

It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”.

It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing.

The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States.Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all.

As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/01/2026
once again shoutout to every dipshit who insisted it was hysterical to talk about trump and white supremacy in the same breath www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...
rawstory.com
Trump appalls with attack on Civil Rights Act: 'White people very badly treated'
Critics pounced on President Donald Trump Monday after he complained to the New York Times that the Civil Rights Act – the landmark 1964 legislation that outlawed racial discrimination – was “unfair i...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Congress should pass a law requiring agents to show their faces, identify themselves, & wear their badges. It’s not agent safety we have to worry about these days. End so-called Kavanaugh stops & admin warrant-based forced entry into homes too. Let’s have a Constitution.
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
BEEEEEAAAAAARRRRRRS
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Also true
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I understand the sentiment, but children are their own persons. I'd be happy to drop Ivanka, Eric, and Donnie down a well, but because of their own actions, not their parents'.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/01/2026
masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
me every single day
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"I’m going to walk y’all through why this is very bad, and I’ll attempt to make it as clear as possible to outline the unnecessary risks and complications Trump is now forcing upon our country and the people of Venezuela and international stability."
charlotteclymer.substack.com
Trump Invaded a Country While You Were Sleeping
Illegally and immorally.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/12/2025
it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.
theatlantic.com
The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates
Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Powdered icing sugar is great, 10/10, seriously, but I have yet to find a containment system that allows me to use it without powdering my kitchen.
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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 22/12/2025
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
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Shelley Rees @mdmepsychosis.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
What the fuck
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