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Mel

@melsf.bsky.social
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Sort of retired COMM professor; interested in travel, good books, and loyal friends. Oh so blue, definite lib. Gone from X. No crypto.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 18h
Maybe Amy Klobuchar can explain to Eric Schmitt what an “own goal” is?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16h
NEWS: A unanimous 11th Circuit just REFUSED to halt sanctions stemming from Trump’s $1.8 billion insurrectionist “slush fund” saga
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Trump Loses Bid to Freeze Sanctions Over His IRS Scheme
A unanimous Eleventh Circuit panel left Judge Kathleen Williams free to enforce restrictions born from her finding that Trump used a federal lawsuit to manufacture judicial legitimacy for an administr...
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 20h
Trump: Kim Jong Un is a friend of mine. He likes Trump. Doesn't like a lot of other people. I'm the only person in the entire world that he likes. And I like him.
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MS Now: Former Special Counsel Jack Smith testifies to the Senate about his investigation into Trump's efforts to subvert the 2020 election and storage of classified documents. Spill the dirt, Jack! #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h
After heavy lobbying and huge donations from Big Tech, Trump killed a proposed Biden-era rule requiring AI companies to disclose their riskiest experiments to federal officials. Everything is for sale. This is worth a read: www.levernews.com/ai-regulation-was…
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AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest
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S.J.💙🩵💙🦋🦓 @glimmers2.bsky.social · 18h
A study in valor. Imagine testifying against the most powerful criminal on the planet?
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Karen Sue Waters @karensuew.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I miss having a POTUS who not only could be trusted around children but touched our hearts with his deep affection for all of them. How did the busiest man in the world always find time to play with the little ones? I miss it. And every time I see that repulsive orange pedophile I miss it even more.
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nowbluesky99.bsky.social @nowbluesky99.bsky.social · 17h
substack.com/@doughh/note...
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Dough (@doughh)
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Karen Sue Waters @karensuew.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I counseled thousands of recovering addicts over the years. This, my friends, is what quality sobriety sounds like.
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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 16h
WATCH: John Oliver lists Ken Paxton’s many, many scandals Securities fraud. Bribery. Abuse of office. The list goes on.
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🇺🇲📎Gigi Alexander 🇺🇦 Democracy Defender! 🌊 ❤️America.🌈 @gigialexander123.bsky.social · 17h
LMFAO
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pictures like this give me hope. 💙💙💙
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 17h
Eric Schmitt might actually be dumber than Tommy Tuberville.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The GOP should have realized that Jack Smith has the receipts. #USDemocracy
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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 16h
And for some more interesting tidbits on Ricketts… rickettsforsenate.com
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Pete Ricketts for U.S. Senate — Corporate PAC Pete
For sale, and proud of it.
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Lisa ⚖️🌎 @lhalljd.bsky.social · 16h
Fucking pig.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16h
really worth watching the whole thing play out...
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JohnnyMangu @johnnybarbu.bsky.social · 16h
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Missouri, your senator Eric Schmitt smeared Jack Smith claiming he had perjured himself about being in Atlanta at some game when in fact he was in Maryland watching Caitlyn Clark. Klobuchar let Schmitt have it. It was a display of malicious lies.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020
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BobBowersArtist @bobbowersartist.bsky.social · 16h
Oh, now I understand what Super Artificial Intelligence is.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 18h
Russell Brand is currently charged in the UK with 3 counts of rape, 3 counts of sex assault, and 1 count of indecent assault. He is set for trial in London in two weeks. ~ Meidas Touch
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moneill16.bsky.social @moneill16.bsky.social · 16h
Mike Johnson promises more failure if GOP wins midterms www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Mike Johnson promises more failure if GOP wins midterms
“What we would do in the next two years is exactly what we have been doing already.”…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not the flex you think it is, buddy
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RedStateBlues @coolsprings.bsky.social · 17h
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WilliamHaugh @williamhaugh.bsky.social · 16h
Qurious
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M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 18h
I want to save this photo!! 😆😆
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Working Class Ferret @workingclassferret.bsky.social · 16h
If I fucked up at work and looked the absolute fool like Senator Eric Schmitt did, I would never show up to that job again. 🤣🤡🤡🤡
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My office has handled a lot of sexual harassment cases. “Her shirt was too tight” “She drank too much” “Why did she put herself in that position” “She was asking for it.” No. No. No. No. It’s not HER job to be on DEFCON 5 at all times. It’s HIS job not to be a predator. ~ Attorney Ryan
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 23h
Today's cartoon by Nick Anderson. "America’s farmers are finding out the hard way that the president they helped elect has been a disaster for them."
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Choosin' Blexas @fkamono.bsky.social · 16h
SEC Young Republican cultural ascendancy on full display
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 16h
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Russ @pappyparki.bsky.social · 16h
Sen Schmitt says he has no shame. Lying to America & making up lies is what he does www.tmz.com/2026/09/29/e...
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Sen. Eric Schmitt Says Botched 'Gotcha' Moment in Jack Smith Hearing Wasn't Embarassing
Senator Eric Schmitt's standing behind his line of questioning in the Jack Smith hearing ... even though it seems his "gotcha" moment totally backfired.
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MantaHunk 🌎🏳️‍🌈☮️🟧 @mantahunk.bsky.social · 16h
Did everyone notice who was holding the other end of the Senator Schmitt's poster? Good old Southern Boy, lip-smacking Senator Kennedy. He had no idea he was joining in on Schmitt's face plant. Karma.
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Lonewolf @lonewolf1970.bsky.social · 16h
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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 18h
Eric Schmitt did not clown alone today. Nearly every rightwing news outlet and media persona joined him in looking really fucking stupid for mixing up the Hawks with the Hawkeyes. I’m glad that *this time* the normal GOP bullshit didn’t work.
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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schmitt: "Did you attend a Hawks game on February 3rd?" Smith: "That is incorrect. I was in Hollywood attending a dinner gathering at the home of actor Ethan Hawke." Schmitt: "AHA! WE GOT YOU!"
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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 16h
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 16h
John Fetterman accidentally calls himself ‘a lifelong Republican’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #FreudianSlip #Blues
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John Fetterman accidentally calls himself ‘a lifelong Republican’
Social and news media commenters seize on senator’s gaffe, with some characterizing it as a Freudian slip
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16h
Honestly, the scariest thing about the last ten years has been realizing that over a third of the country just watches democracy get dismantled and acts like it's totally normal.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 18h
This fiasco was not just embarrassing. It was also revealing, demonstrating that Republican Senators actually believe the kind of paranoid, and just plain stupid, conspiracy theories that Trump peddles.
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Jack Smith Defends Trump Charges as Senator’s Perjury Claim Falters
A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Imagine Sen. Eric Schmitt R-MO thinking he had a 'gotcha' moment at a hearing with Jack Smith - "I think you've already perjured yourself" - and it turns out his staff doesn't know the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes - unbelievable.
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Dan Why-Ner @danweiner.bsky.social · 19h
always was my favorite Atlanta Hawks player
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Our Common Defense @ourcommondefense.bsky.social · 16h
Sen. Grassley is just one Scaramucci away from being fully McConnell
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16h
Dead on balls accurate!
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naugtynonnie.bsky.social @naugtynonnie.bsky.social · 16h
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h
Owning the libs.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amateur hour.
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Leo @leok123.bsky.social · 17h
Dont forget this gem: Bluesky vs blueski...... "Republican Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) pronounced Bluesky as "bloohski" (rhymes with brewski) during a Senate Budget Committee hearing in March 2026 while questioning a witness about social media posts"
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