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Mel Mc

@melsaysso.bsky.social
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Dog Enthusiast. 🐕 Pro democracy. 🇺🇸 Pro Ukraine. 🇺🇦 Anti stupid. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Lover of law and policy. ⚖️ I live for when the mountain is out. 🌤️

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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Link didn’t attach www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Trump announces diesel deal with Russia in bid to lower prices
The amount is small compared with U.S. demand, but the deal aligns the U.S. with Russia and against Ukraine’s efforts to bomb Russian refineries.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I hate this man so much. Please boycott Russian fuel. Do not fund the effort to kill civilians and children. Trump announces diesel deal with Russia in bid to lower prices
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What a sick motherfucker. There are so many reasons this is a bad, not just disgusting, idea including that it’s arguably unconstitutional as cruel and unusual punishment. There is no bottom to the depravity of this administration.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Um, do we need to put Lock in? Did the team just fight harder for him or something? What is happening out there, #Seahawks?
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I do my best to never watch commercials. With football it can’t be helped.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Seriously. My mouth fell open about who paid. But, the whole time I was waiting for a D slogan of some kind to pop up cuz it seemed like something better suited as an anti Trump ad.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Holy shit. Had no idea what this was about until a full on campaign ad paid for by “the US government” just showed up during the Seahawks game. There’s so much to be pissed about but my mouth still fell open with this one.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just requiring cursive isn’t good enough. Students should have to speak in iambic pentameter.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
JFC
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In law school, a friend had her drink spiked at a club and woke up under a car with zero idea how she got there. This is a real threat and it should be terrifying. Covering your drink is just normal behavior for every woman I know.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’ve had a drink spiked. It’s scary as hell. I was completely out of it after half a drink at a concert vip bar. Thankfully, I wasn’t alone and I have a very low tolerance for drugs and started throwing up. And I was in my early 30’s. Not even a kid in a bar.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tom needs to make the jump over here! He was one of the my reasons I hung on to Twitter as long as I did but even he’s not enough to keep me there
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🙁
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Sadly, frighteningly, I could see the Trump administration back channeling support to give them cover to do it themselves with Iran
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I adore that golden retriever grunt. I’d never heard it before ours started doing it and I want to hear it forever
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Says the person who has their replies limited. I would’ve preferred to not turn off DMs entirely, so if “No DMs” was a respected boundary I’d leave it on for limited purposes. I get enough sexual harassment and unwanted attention in real life; I don’t want it online, too. This isn’t a dating app.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Remind me what that saying about face eating leopards is? Sorry, not sorry. “There was never a mandate for this president to turn the barrel of the gun and start going after people who legally entered,” says the man who voted MAGA thrice & whose wife was arrested. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...
nytimes.com
Years of Trump Support Came Undone in 15 Minutes in an Airport.
The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
And it’s just so f’ing tacky and ugly. How hard is it to ungild a horse? Asking for the next D majority.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Rs be like: Wildfire smoke? Hell no! Sanction Canada. Smog? Oh, yeah, let’s get me some more of that goodness. I’ve missed it.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I’m so torn. I love the late daylight hours but sunrise at around 9 am in the winter sounds beyond awful. It’s bad enough already.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Just typed this and now see that you already said it. 💯
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Interesting that he’s willing to post this on Twitter but not over here on Bluesky. Unfollowed. What a sad and disgusting comment.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
You’d think, what with being a Seahawks fan and all, soccer wouldn’t feel so stressful.
A golden retriever plays a much less stressful game of soccer on his own in front of the US vs Belgium game on the television behind him
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This guy has <0 charisma
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I love this so much
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
We need a system that taxes based on something other than income unless we redefine income to include all of the ways billionaires get away with not considering their money income, but using net worth without exceptions hurts a lot of other people they’re not aiming at.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I live in WA, where I bought a house during the depths of the great recession that has now skyrocketed in value, much the same as I assume much of California is like. If I were taxed on my net worth, I doubt I could afford to pay the taxes. I’m not wealthy, I just got a good deal on a house.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Bragging that things are so corrupt now that Watergate would be a nonissue is really … something.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Puh-lease, puh-lease, do this.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
My Space. Because it was so long ago and I didn’t know better.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
He has that same little butthole mouth as his dad.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Ah, the type of thing AI should be used for
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I thought the was a euphemism not literal
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Yes!!
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
There are people whose favorite flower is the peony and then there are fools. 🌸
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Enough editing to make a Kardashian proud
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
People should add “Elizabeth Warren was right” to their list. If I recall correctly she was the only presidential primary candidate with a position on court reform. It’s what put her over the top for me.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I get the impulse, but I wish people would stop lumping states together like it’s an easy thing for them all. WA would have to amend their constitution, which takes a super majority of the legislature + a vote of the people. The Ds do not have a supermajority. It’s not they won’t, it’s they can’t.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
💙💛💙💛💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦💙💛💙💛💙💛
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Pretty sure that’s not how it works
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
There’s so much more to it than red vs blue but it does matter cuz blue states are more geographically constrained (eg WA) & have higher gas taxes, climate related costs, labor costs & cost of living. As a % of income $6 gas in a state with a $20 min wage is way better than $3 in a state at $7.25.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Quote posts are disabled so a screenshot it is. This is way too oversimplified. A short explainer ⬇️
Screenshot of a post with AAA’s gas price map asking if it is any coincidence that gas is more expensive in blue states, seeming to blame Trump for that disparity
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
There’s so much more to it than red vs blue but it does matter cuz blue states are more geographically constrained (eg WA) & have higher gas taxes, climate related costs, labor costs & cost of living. As a % of income $6 gas in a state with a $20 min wage is way better than $3 in a state at $7.25.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I wanted to quote post this but that’s disabled and now I can’t seem to delete it. This is way too oversimplified
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
There’s so much more to it than red vs blue but it does matter cuz blue states are more geographically constrained (eg WA) & have higher gas taxes, climate related costs, labor costs & cost of living. As a % of income $6 gas in a state with a $20 min wage is way better than $3 in a state at $7.25.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
So glad I have 9 years left on my passport. Plenty of time to undo this narcissistic idiocy before I have to renew. Top of the list for me next term is to undo all this false idolatry. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Image of Trump to be featured inside new passports to mark America’s 250th
The president’s likeness — along with Declaration of Independence text and the American flag — will be on an inside page of at least some new passports.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
My legal analysis of this is that it is so stupid that Brooklyn Law School, Blanche’s Alma mater, should be embarrassed. But then Google told me that Bernie Madoff and Geraldo Rivera are also among the school’s notable alumni.
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I just wrote a cover letter for a job application, and Grammarly said it looked like 43% was written by AI. So I reworked it and it went up to 57% written by AI. 0% was written by AI. Aargh
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Not the same but I stopped using em dashes because people think that’s a tell for AI
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Mel Mc @melsaysso.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Dummymander is my new favorite word.
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