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Melissa Grabau

@melissagrabau.bsky.social
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Radical Leftist Scum in a grandmotherly sort of way

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h
Who's really paying the price for those killer Amazon Prime Day deals?
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 2h
"Ramiro" says, "We’re in the final stretch of the summer strawberry season on CAs Central Coast. We get 3 good months of work. Then in Nov-March, there’s no work. We try to use the little we’ve saved to get through those hard months. It's hard as rent's very expensive. #WeFeedYou
A worker harvesting strawberries
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 1h
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 1h
NEW: After unlawfully firing FBI agents that worked on Trump cases, Patel's FBI is arguing that the reason they can't release Epstein redaction training videos featuring agents is because "assignments to cases are not by choice." Read my latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 5h
October is the busiest month for online historical misinformation about cats, so please prep yourself with this post by @goingmedieval.bsky.social! going-medieval.com/2023/05/16/o...
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On cats
The other night I was mindlessly scrolling about on my phone through Instagram, as one does when they really ought to go to bed but are stuck being entertained instead of resting, when I came upon …
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1h
Holy shit.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h
Why independent media is so needed, in one post👇🏽 Framing matters
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h
CALL ARIZONA U.S. Senators! Let them know they are attacking community members who are protecting their land. Demand federal agents leave tribal land.
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Rob - Feral Cat Dude @rob-feralcatdude.bsky.social · 3h
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Masked CBP agents enter tribal land as contractors prep for border wall
The Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona says armed federal agents and border wall contractors entered tribal land early Tuesday to begin pre-construction work despite warnings from tribal leaders that…
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 3h
It's what explains why Musk runs roughshod over environmental or consumer-safety laws, and Meta thumbs its nose at corporate-tax laws: experience has taught them to expect no punishment. It's elite impunity in practice: when you're a star, they let you do it.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 5h
“We’re not going to just put our hands up and say, ‘Oh well, we tried.' When it opens, it’ll be even more important to pressure to close it. At that point, people are being harmed. We’re just going to keep making a stink of it. "We'll never go away until it’s closed." www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
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‘Shrouded in secrecy’: Louisiana's new ICE facility raises more questions than answers
Under the Trump administration's deportation blitz, ICE's new 'staging center' in Alexandria, Louisiana is run by the operators of Lasalle Corrections, a private, for-profit company with a history of ...
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 5h
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Mexican researcher Eva Ramón Gallegos achieved a milestone that puts Latin American science at the center of the world medical debate: she managed to completely eliminate the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in controlled clinical studies.
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 6h
Elon Musk has repeatedly used his platform to support authoritarian political figures. His backing of the AfD, Marine Le Pen, Javier Milei and Nayib Bukele has been accompanied by interventions in Brazil, Italy and Hungary, as well as direct involvement in the UK’s far-right political landscape.
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Beyond AfD: Tracking Elon Musk’s Support for the Global Far Right
Elon Musk is backing the far right across multiple continents. From Germany’s AfD and France’s Marine Le Pen to Spain’s Vox, Argentina’s Javier Milei and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, the tech billionai...
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Chicago 21222 @chicago21222.bsky.social · 6h
This is some crazy shit. Just stop having kids if you’re an absentee parent who doesn’t gaf about this. This literally enrages me. Kids deserve better. Stop playing games with their lives. www.buzzfeed.com/scarymouse/t...
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Teachers Are Sharing The Everyday Things Students Can't Do For Themselves Anymore
"One kid typed my project prompt into ChatGPT and claimed the result as his work, direct from the screen."
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💙🦋 @humanity101.bsky.social · 4h
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 9h
From Robin Rouby-Progressive Cartoons
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 7h
They took it down edited it and put back up
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 4h
Zelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian strike on boat carrying corn in Black Sea www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Zelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian strike on boat carrying corn in Black Sea
The vessel's captain was killed and 11 crew members were rescued after the attack on the Turkish-owned ship, Ukraine's leader says.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 5h
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 12h
"Denmark has built so much wind power that its grid now regularly produces more than the country can consume, and on the windiest days the wholesale price of electricity falls below zero." via Amazing Maps
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19h
A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 22h
A historic 96-mile protest march is underway, as faith leaders make the multi-day journey from the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in the Mojave Desert, to the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fUo...
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Faith leaders make HISTORIC 96-mile pilgrimage to protest ‘EXTREME CONDITIONS’ in ICE detention
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17h
What booming economy? Is everyone at FT on hallucinogens? The best time to delete this was before it went up, and the second-best time is right now. Like right this very second. This is *humiliating* for FT—to confuse the AI stock bubble with a whole fucking economy. A whole-of-institution fail.
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Nick Schwellenbach @schwellenbach.bsky.social · 20h
Thanks @gillianbrockell.com! Give her a follow if you haven't yet. Her dogged, in-depth reporting on ICE flights, the people impacted, and the companies involved has been indispensable.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Angel Mendez🏳️‍🌈🦋 @akm6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I see some folks asking: what motivates RFK Jr to tell such horrific, dangerous, repulsive lies about the HPV vaccine? Well, he has made $856,559 from suing the HPV vaccine maker (his vaccine adviser, Dr Kulldorff, also got rich the same way) Always follow the 🤑! www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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RFK Jr. plans to keep a financial stake in lawsuits against the drugmaker Merck
RFK Jr. plans to keep collecting referral fees in lawsuits against the drug company Merck even if confirmed as HHS secretary, according to new filings with the Office of Government Ethics.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pennsylvania’s reported measles cases are almost at 1,000 for the year.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just made donations to three Ohio campaigns I care about. If you can, please pick some candidates in close races and do the same.
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God @thegodshow.com · 03/10/2026
“The most ordinary man imaginable” will go down as one of the most memorable putdowns of all time.
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Bless Angie Nixon For Torching JD Vance
Burn it down.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
A tiny bit of gentle advice for the men: before you try to explain or pontificate anything about the Cornell 7 to a woman, please remember chances are she’s already an expert 🙏🏻
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Canuckstan 🇨🇦 @jonchevreau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#via Canadian cartoonist Dave Whamond #CanadaSky #USpol
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Danny Trejo, Harvey Keitel, and Henry Thomas are starring in Pawn Shop—a new pro-ICE film from Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire that will reenact the murder of Renee Good. Truly heartbreaking and infuriating.
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JM 📎🟦🪬🥯🥡🥠🦀 @jmdc88.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In Kolbuszowa, Poland, about half the town was Jewish before the war. Naftali Saleschutz grew up there, the youngest of nine children in a devout Hasidic family. He later became Norman Salsitz. #EternalLight 1/10
An elderly bald man with white hair, wearing a rust-colored button-down shirt, rests his hand on his cheek, looking towards the viewer with a gentle smile. He wears a watch on his left wrist. The background is blurred, showing drapery and furniture.

2004 portrait of Norman Salsitz
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The next generation of A.I. sucks chatbutt.
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AI’s rogue hallucinations
A cartoon by Brian McFadden.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 03/10/2026
Kushner spent Friday whining about misleading stories. Then the Times reported that the Lukoil deal he helped shape has bidders including his Albanian resort partners and a fund that bankrolls his private equity firm. He says he ignores the press, yet he found time to complain.
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Jared Kushner tied to new 'alarming' deal day after he blasted 'misleading' scandal story
Jared Kushner's questionable ties to a deal he helped negotiate are again in the spotlight a day after he spoke out to defend himself.On Saturday, The New York Times reported that Kushner's business p...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
An ICE jailer's PAC wrote two checks on the same day. Three weeks later, both recipients voted for $45 billion in new ICE jails. One is Alaska's senator. One wants to be Iowa's. Both kept the money and lost our number. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Composer & Singer…..
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Ashley ✨ @ashfordemocracy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The corruption is breathtaking and not in a good way. #PaytoPlayPresident #VoteBlueNoMatterWho U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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PoliticalNash @politicalnash.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Communist or Trump? When MAGA throws around the word communism to attack democrats or anyone anti-Trump, they have no idea what the comminism means. Learn you asswipes #DV1 #ProudBlue
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Correct. NEPA's trigger is a "major federal action" & the deal excludes natural gas pipelines from definition of "major federal action." Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, 15 U.S.C. § 717f, is what confers FERC w/natural gas pipeline authority. Major win for fossil fuels & data centers.
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 02/10/2026
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has stopped classifying deputies as “undercover” to shield their body camera footage from the public, following a campaign by public defenders for more than a year and rebukes from at least three judges. minnesotareformer.com/2026/10/02/h...
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Hennepin County sheriff drops undercover classification for some task force deputies • Minnesota Reformer
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has stopped classifying deputies as “undercover” to shield their body camera footage from the public, following a campaign by public defenders for more than a year...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A new stage of the war. Russia has started striking Ukrainian bridges with jet-powered drones. In particular, Russia carried out several strikes on the Southern Bridge across the Dnipro - one of the key transport arteries not only of #Kyiv but of Ukraine as a whole,⤵️
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looks like Trump’s new “steel plant” in IA, announced to shore up support in midterms from people his policies have crushed, where he said construction has already begun, is nowhere close to happening and contingent on Iowans giving tax breaks & incentives to a company in India.
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Eliana @otrodia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Amerikkka needs to recognize that we NEED the amigos! #SocialSecurity www.cbpp.org/blog/immigra...
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Immigrants Contribute Greatly to the Social Security Trust Fund’s Solvency
Immigrants are a critical part of the U.S. workforce and play a key role in strengthening Social Security’s finances. Like all other workers, immigrants contribute to the trust fund through payroll...
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Brendan Parry Kaufmann @bpkaufmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Damn, the skills. The *flare*. I can't even use a hammer, without it exploding in my hands. Come to Australia, guys - we *revere* tradies, and we need you. Wages here are much, much higher than you're getting, we have universal health care, and the beer is better. A LOT better. :-)
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hispanics working in the USA 👏🏽
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