Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 27/07/20261. American taxpayers are spending $2 BILLION every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals. 611636787
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialSteve Bowen @stevebowen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026March 27: Here are three graphics that highlight why there is rising concern regarding the prospect of difficult wildfire activity in the months to come. - Widespread drought - Very dry soils - Well below normal Western US snowpack (water equivalent) This is on top of continued anomalous heat. 02015
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialSteve Postman 🇨🇦 @steve1970peng.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Eisenhower 365156665863
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.social👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/02/2026The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there 125156843583
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 03/02/2026Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.propublica.orgTear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let OnIn the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf... 8252742743
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/02/20264 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...salemreporter.comU.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem ReporterA home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor... 28064963431
melodyyy.bsky.social @melodyyy.bsky.social · 22/01/2026We must save Coalie! Let Coalie live in the ground with his family!!! Don’t burn him!!!! 000
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialCongresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 20/01/2026Two men in ICE detention say they saw guards kill a fellow detainee. Now the Trump administration is trying to deport the witnesses. This looks a lot like a cover-up. We need an independent investigation NOW. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...washingtonpost.comDHS seeking to deport two men who said fellow ICE detainee was killedThe two men’s eyewitness accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp differ from the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the incident. 271118545
melodyyy.bsky.social @melodyyy.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Every single crisis right now has been known about and or planned and worked on for over 40 years 000
melodyyy.bsky.social @melodyyy.bsky.social · 18/01/2026They will not successfully “blue no matter who” this man into the White House. 000
melodyyy.bsky.social @melodyyy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026No parties, rank choice voting, campaign spending caps, easy paths to removal if they turn out to be bad at their jobs….Maybe a parliament instead of a president? 000
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 23/12/2025On left: Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review On right: Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal" 6237461037
melodyyy.bsky.social @melodyyy.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Time to remind all your friends how LAME ai is 000
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialDelaney Nolan @delaneynolan.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Wrote for @thenation.com about how we're all gonna drown in hot oceans because we are air conditioning slop bots 💫 www.thenation.com/article/envi...thenation.comAI Is Going to Kill Everyone You Love. The Surprise Is How.It’s not hostile super robots you should worry about—it’s the heat they’ll generate. 6255129
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Whisper: Maybe we should stop messing with the radiative balance of Earth.bloomberg.comPlan to Reflect Sunlight to Power Solar Panels at Night Upsets AstronomersReflect Orbital aims to launch its first of a planned 4,000 satellites into orbit next year. Scientists worry that it would be “ruinous” for research. 1142980
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialjenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 06/10/2025“hand to hand combat against antifa” 44717
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialRyan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 01/10/2025“Let them eat AI cat videos!” 32013
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21/09/2025IN THE USA… Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them? Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-...cbsnews.com100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say 8393109
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.social🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions. 37872522101
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 19/09/2025We need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...humanists.ukRising Christian nationalism: a threat to us allScenes on Saturday of Christian preachers denouncing ‘Secular Humanism’ from the main stage of Tommy Robinson’s radical right Unite the Kingdom rally in London may have been surprising to see on the s... 19933931096
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now. 6993675612637
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialjae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 15/09/2025“On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed that it would stop collecting and publishing greenhouse gas emissions data from thousands of refineries, power plants, and factories across the country.” @heatmap.newsheatmap.newsThe EPA’s Backdoor Move to Hobble the Carbon Capture IndustryWhy killing a government climate database could essentially gut a tax credit 34321
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/09/2025“Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.” The Trump DOJ scrubbed this study from their website.jpaladino.substack.comKash Patel’s DOJ Scrubbed Study Showing Right-Wing Violent Attacks Outpace All Other ExtremismAs MAGA world rages about left-wing violence, the government appears to have removed a research paper showing contrary evidence. 13232581165
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialYellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 10/09/2025"0.3 per cent of the world’s land area – yes, just the land – would be needed to meet the current energy demand from solar alone, which is LESS THAN THE CURRENT LAND FOOTPRINT OF FOSSIL FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE."newscientist.comWhy solar power is the only viable power source in the long runNot only is solar more than capable of supplying all the world’s energy, in the long term it is the only power source that won’t fry the planet 14831348
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/09/2025This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people. Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it. We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people. 471168936792
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/09/2025@govpritzker.illinois.gov's take on Kirk is the correct one: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it." On point. So glad Democrats are saying this. 191107112185
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10/09/2025This a federally-monitored website. The regime is on highest alert. Anyone posting advocacy for violence right now is a fedposter or a fool. This has nothing to do with what is right or wrong or what you have a right to say. It's simply a fact. 411412347
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.social50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 09/09/2025That building behind Epstein looks awfully familiar… 16371134
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialQagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Running a car ad shoot through the middle of an open streets event the mayor has repeatedly tried to kneecap is peak Bruce Harrell. 716132
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialFree DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 06/09/2025People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC 185135134281
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialjae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 06/09/2025too little attention being paid to the fact battery plants like these are supposed to be a picture of a new Industrial Revolution for electric vehicles & this facility was primed to benefit from the first climate law before it was gutted 440482
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/09/2025This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime. 19833255510090
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/09/2025You don’t say.wsj.comThe Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use ItAI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it. 11678192
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialDerek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 30/08/2025What will be the deranged reason given for this idiotic move? That they might recommend vaccine research or something? RFK Jr. must be removed from office. It’s him or us.wired.comRFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop ResearchNIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s departm... 1017975
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/08/2025NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction. 6823161153
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 28/08/2025I hope people read and react to this idea: what if climate policy focused on flooding the planet with cheap, or free, solar panels? Globalize China and India's panel factories, buying panels by the boatload and just offloading them at every wharf on earth billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-modest-p...billmckibben.substack.comA Modest ProposalWhat if we just flooded the planet with cheap or even free solar panels? 16342101
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialMockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social · 22/08/2025The new Meta data center in northeast Louisiana will be one of the biggest in the world when completed in 2030, and it will need TWICE THE POWER ALL OF NEW ORLEANS DOES ON A HOT SUMMER DAY. Read @delaneynolan.bsky.social on what people in this state are gonna have to pay for bsky.app/profile/dela... 12815
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 20/08/2025the emotional toll of reading something every day and thinking "this is it. the stupidest thing i have ever read in my entire life." and then the next day reading something even stupider 582265366
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 19/08/2025tbh I was more depressed last night than I have been since January, and I couldn't even explain why—but I think it has to do with whatever very small part of me that still believed 'if people only saw cops doing what they are doing they wouldn't tolerate it,' and then seeing them tolerate it 733640
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialClimate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Excellent new video by Youtube channel “Just Have A Think”. The episode discusses topics including @rahmstorf.bsky.social new paper showing 0.4C decadal warming and topics covered by @doctorvive.bsky.social in her book. Definitely worth watching:youtu.beBut what about CHINA's emissions? (and other BS arguments DEBUNKED)YouTube video by Just Have a Think 24117
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialCalifornia Teachers Association @wearecta.bsky.social · 16/08/2025We will not let this power grab go unchecked! We support the Election Rigging Response Act this November! As @seiuca.org President David Huerta said, “It is our time to rise up, for working people to lead the fight to save democracy.” 0101
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 11/08/2025An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comAnas al-Sharif: Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospitalAl Jazeera had condemned a "campaign of incitement" by the IDF against its reporters, but the military claims one of the journalists was part of Hamas. 19661414
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Increasing temperatures from climate change have led to a 40% reduction in blue whale “songs” in just the past 6 years alone. “It’s like trying to sing while you're starving,” said John Ryan, a biological oceanographer. The world's oceans absorb more than 90% of the excess heat from climate changenationalgeographic.comBlue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning signA six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it? 15495233
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialMelanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 05/08/2025For those attacking Zohran Mamdani because he’s a Democratic Socialist, and asking “where has socialism ever worked?”… … 8 of the 12 countries ranked ahead of the U.S. in economic stability are considered social democracies. www.usnews.com/news/best-co...usnews.com 641319432
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialAnthony Iannaccio @mrtonynacho.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Mister Rogers never misses 195248648236
Reposted by @melodyyy.bsky.socialJack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/08/2025This should be a Five Alarm Fire on every G'ddamned media outlet in the world. I very rarely post a link to someone else's newsletter...as I have my own. This, however...is a MUST see. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...open.substack.comEx-CIA Whistleblower: "The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won"Math doesn’t lie—people do. A buried NSA‑authorized audit paved the way for this unelected illegitimate regime. 1077143227646
