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Melina Hammer

@melinahammer.bsky.social
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Award-winning author, A YEAR AT CATBIRD COTTAGE. Chef. Photographer. Stylist. Forager, gardener… Queer, clear-eyed about terrors of the imperial machine & the need to meet the climate crisis. catbirdcottage.substack.com

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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Germany: Protect the North Sea and its harbour porpoises!
Harbour porpoises are among the smallest marine mammals, once abundant in the North Sea, and recognizable by their cute little squeaks they make when surfacing. They are shy and rely heavily on echolo
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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Buy and protect the most species-rich place on Earth!
This is mind-blowing: there’s a place in the Amazon that scientists argue has more species per square kilometer than anywhere else on the planet. Ferocious jaguars, emerald green boas, powerful harpy
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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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The Drey Dossier (@thedreydossier)
Trump isn’t building a ballroom. This much is obvious. TikTok pulled my video at 7-8 million views without appeal, and people keep asking where it went — so I’m reposting it here. I’ll just say thi...
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Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/10/2025
SHE DOES NOT HAVE ANY CONSTITUENTS UNTIL YOU SWEAR HER IN, MIKE
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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Google: Stop fueling Israel’s lies action.eko.org/a/google-sto...
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Google: Stop fueling Netanyahu’s lies
In August, as people in Gaza were being starved, one YouTube ad by the Israeli foreign ministry showed misleading images of markets full of food. The text on the ad read “There is food in Gaza. Any ot
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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Help Dr. Hamza and his family to survive chuffed.org/project/1331...
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Help Dr. Hamza and his family to survive
Help & prayers needed.
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Funny Karate Bear (But Festive) @thedimpsler.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Mamdani cruises to easiest victory ever recorded as 37 unlikeable freaks split the vote on the independent ticket (good ending)
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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Stop the big corporations fueling Gaza’s destruction. action.eko.org/a/stop-fueli...
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Stop fueling the “economy of genocide”
A historic new UN report just did what the UN almost never does — it named dozens of global corporations fueling Israel’s “economy of genocide”. They’re helping bomb Gaza and steal Palestinian land fo
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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Abdullah and his family face unimaginable challenges in Gaza, and every donation can make a real difference in helping them find safety & food. If you're able to, please consider clicking the link below to donate or share it with others who might want to help. Thank you!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
What’s wild about the current political use of “antisemitism” (as opposed to its actual instances) is it has nothing to do with Jewish people at all. So much so that an Italian sexual harasser can wield it against a Muslim who is endorsed by a Jewish candidate. It’s just all nonsense.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Keep spreading the word: Don't rank Cuomo.
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Pam🫘🧶💙🏳️‍🌈🐸 #NoKings🚫👑 @pmmcdaniel.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
@mayor.lacity.gov needs to rein in her police force. Those horses are being mistreated and the cops are using unnecessary and excessive force on peaceful protesters. I saw another video of cops trying to use their horses to trample protesters. Start disciplining this behavior.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
"The survey, conducted by Public Policy Polling for Democrat Justin Brannan’s city comptroller campaign, found Mamdani beating Cuomo 35 percent to 31 percent — a difference that is narrowly within the 4.1 percent margin of error." good things are still possible www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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Mamdani surges in new poll, leading Cuomo for first time in New York mayor's race
The former governor has topped every voter survey since entering the race, but the democratic socialist is gaining on him.
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Tactical agents and ICE min-tanks expected in Chicago tomorrow www.cbsnews.com/chicago/vide...
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City officials confirm Trump will send tactical ICE agents to Chicago
At a news conference Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chief of Staff Cristina Pacione-Zayas confirmed reports Trump is sending tactical immigration agents to Chicago.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Good for him! Stand strong Brother! www.timesofisrael.com/nyc-mayoral-...
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NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani declared he’s anti-Zionist at 2021 protest, video shows
Clip shows socialist in 2nd place ahead of primary rejecting Jewish sovereignty in Israel, insisting anti-Zionism isn't antisemitic, amid questions over his position on Israel's right to exist
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US
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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Please PLEASE NYC friends, vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for mayor. We all deserve a smart, forward-thinking, authentic mayor for a change. Let’s manifest this reality. Spread the word!!
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
"HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?""I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside," Boxtown resident Alexis Humphreys said through tears, holding up her asthma inhaler during a public hearing about the turbines on A April "HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?"
Alexis Humphreys holds out her asthma inhaler while asking the Shelby County Health epartment rO deny a permit for XAl'S methane gas turbines. | Ariel Wittenberg/POLITICO's E&E News
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Really can’t get over the fact that Trump is trying to score a $400 million luxury jet for himself on the same day his party announces a budget that’d rip health insurance from 13.7 million Americans.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The Trump administration claims white Afrikaners face racial discrimination, even though South Africa’s white minority still own the vast majority of farmland decades after the end of apartheid rule.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Look, it’s not uncommon for recent suburban transplants to hide all day in their luxury apartments. The city can be a little overwhelming when you’re used to Westchester!
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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Dreamboat salmon, grain mustard-caper vinaigrette, purple potatoes + custardy eggs
With some Easter menu favorites, like garlicky spice-crusted leg of lamb
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Elise Stefanik has invoked the great replacement theory (as in "Jews will not replace us...") when it is politically useful to her, fashions herself as a fighter against antisemitism when that is helpful to her career. "Moral rot" Elise? You're soaking in it. www.yahoo.com/news/rep-eli...
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Rep. Elise Stefanik Flamed For Pushing Racist Theory Embraced By Accused Buffalo Shooter
The third-ranking House Republican's hometown newspaper denounced her "hateful rhetoric" months before the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.
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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Today. Something to divine spring: catbirdcottage.substack.com/p/roasted-rh...
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Roasted rhubarb
For breakfast and dessert
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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Let’s help these brothers find bread and survive this horrific genocide: Share and donate.
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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
It is truly inspiring to see how much energy the #HandsOff rallies are channeling. What’s next? Flex your economic power. Boycott the corporations that are buying our democracy.
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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
SO GOOD!
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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is beautiful
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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Sooooo great!
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
At the #HandsOff protest at Bryant Park in NYC. There are too many people to count… and also bagpipes.
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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Hell yes
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Maryanne Chisholm 🌊 💙 @maryannechisholm.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
So proud of American Resisters today! #Handsoff
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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
A war between the U.S. and Iran—or a major Israel-Iran conflict—would be catastrophic. Tell your representatives to do everything they can to prevent a disastrous war with Iran. rootsaction.org/no-war-with-...
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No War With Iran
A war between the U.S. and Iran—or a major Israel-Iran conflict—would be catastrophic. Tell your representatives to do everything they can to prevent a disastrous war with Iran.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Israel’s war on aid workers
Polygraph | Newsletter n°298 | 4 Apr 2025
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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
These people are in a living hell. Please share and donate what you can.
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BNO News @bnonews.com · 01/04/2025
NEW: National Weather Service says messages will not be translated until further notice due to a "contract lapse"
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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
A moment of beauty from my early spring garden.
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Steve Chamraz @tmj4steve.com · 02/04/2025
:: BREAKING NOW: Multiple polling places across Milwaukee are running low or have run out of ballots as turnout is at record levels. MKE Election Commission is aware and sending out fresh ballots. If you are in line -- or know someone who is -- ballots are on the way.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The important thing to understand about the Trump administration is that it is always lying. It isn't simply indifferent to the truth; it has contempt for it and for those who tell it. This must be broadly understood.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
In California, UC Davis has suspended its Law Student Association and seized its funding in retaliation for the group’s vote backing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel amid its war on Gaza. www.democracynow.org/2025/3/27/he...
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UC Davis Suspends Law Student Association over Its Vote to Divest from Israel
In California, UC Davis has suspended its Law Student Association and seized its funding in retaliation for the group’s vote backing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel amid ...
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 27/03/2025
Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
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Melina Hammer @melinahammer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
We need to step back, refocus, and decide what kind of world we want to live (and die) in.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/03/2025
Former Columbia law professor @katherinefranke.bsky.social says the Trump administration held the school ransom by freezing $400 million in funds and demanding drastic changes on campus. "Columbia considered it and did more than what the ransom note demanded, for which it got nothing in return."
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
We speak with the Brennan Center’s Faiza Patel, who warns the Trump administration is ramping up efforts to target international students and other visitors and immigrants to the United States over pro-Palestinian speech. www.democracynow.org/2025/3/21/ca...
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“Catch and Revoke”: AI-Driven State Dept. Program Targets Pro-Palestinian Students & Visa Holders
We speak with the Brennan Center’s Faiza Patel, who warns the Trump administration is ramping up efforts to target international students and other visitors and immigrants to the United States over pr...
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