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Off to find an air gapped smartphone to figure this out.

Will parents and guardians be notified — and what should they do next?

The Treasury (or a trustee it assigns) will oversee and control each account until a parent or guardian claims it and assumes control.
They can do that through the Trump account mobile app. During that process, parents or guardians must verify their identity, confirm their relationship to the child, review their child’s information and accept the account terms, a Treasury spokesman said.

Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 01/10/2026

Already did. I am not finding any reports that JD Vance fired military officers. We know the SecDef has done it; the allegation the VP has done it is new and should be sourced.

Screenshot of DDG search for evidence the VP is firing military officers. No results.

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 01/10/2026

Here’s an example. Same signature.

Veto message from California’s chief failson, vetoing a bill that would create an inspector general position in the Cal Public Utilities Commission, which is notoriously in the pocket of the entities they regulate.

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 29/09/2026

I would like to be a cat today. Specifically, this cat.

Torbie male feline curled up on a mid century modern arm chair, enjoying the sun.

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 17/09/2026

30+ years ago, my college newspaper faculty advisor forced me to apologize for a column I wrote raising an alarm about Ralph Reed speaking on the floor of Congress. I have always regretted complying. 19 months ago, I retracted that apology.

Screenshot from the Westmont Horizon newspaper website (horizontal.westmont.edu), with an image from a college magazine titled “Hyperpluralism in Politics and Society,” headline Letter to the Editor: A Retraction
Melanie Proctor • February 4, 2025
Dear Editor: Thirty years ago, as a freshman at Westmont, I wrote a column for this publication titled "What's Left." In one column, I raised an alarm about the appearance of Ralph Reed on the floor of...

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 22/08/2026

With apologies to my home state, I think the happiest cows are in Switzerland. #happycows #Alps

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 19/08/2026

The Elias Group shut it down with a cease and desist letter. 2/3

This investigation was originally developed for The New York Times, where it underwent eight months of editing, multiple rounds of fact-checking, and independent replication of the underlying methodology. The piece had a scheduled publication date when requests for comment were sent. It was only after the Times reached out to the subjects of the investigation for routine comment that the Elias Law Group, representing the DCCC and DSCC, sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the paper not publish. Although the paper’s fact-checkers and legal department later cleared the piece before sending out a second round of requests for comment, the Times ultimately decided to kill the piece.

The piece was subsequently slated for publication at The Bulwark, where it underwent additional fact-checking, data verification, and legal review. When requests for comment were sent to the subjects of the investigation, lawyers representing the Progressive Turnout Project and Mothership Strategies likewise responded with legal letters demanding that the article not run.

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 17/08/2026

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, partially filmed in Monterey, California.

Screenshot of Wikipedia page for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. A photo of the Monterey Bay Aquarium captioned: “The Monterey Bay Aquarium, viewed from the back. The shallow area behind the rocks was turned into a whale tank via special effects; other changes included the addition of the San Francisco skyline in the background.[21]: 18
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Excerpted text: “Much of the Cetacean Institute, Taylor's workplace, was created by using the real-life Monterey Bay Aquarium. A holding tank for the whales was added via special effects to the Aquarium's exterior. For close-ups of the characters as they watched the whales in the tank, the Aquarium's walls and railings were measured and replicated for a set on the Paramount parking lot. One scene takes place by a large glass through which observers view the whales—and Spock's initiation of a mind meld—underwater. Footage of the actors shot in front of them as they reacted to a brick wall in the Aquarium was combined with shots taken from their rear as”

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 13/08/2026

Does anyone know this person? Found her camera under a bed at a hotel in Munich. Pictures seem to all be from early 2024!

A floral framed selfie taken in Venice
on a 48.0 mega pixels digital camera.

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 02/08/2026

Came across this 1937 news item yesterday. So many questions about this! Did Mrs. Anna Sears *really* not know her butler/chef was a woman in disguise? Who was "Alfred Grouard"? She didn't live with the Sears and I did not find anyone by that name in the 1930 U.S. census. #GenealogyMysteries

Screen shot of news item from 16 November 1937:

OYSTER BAY, N.Y., Nov 16 - Death today held the secret of why "Alfred Grouard," a woman, masqueraded for 14 years as a male butler and chef in the household of Joseph M. Sears, retired millionaire publisher.
Investigators were baffled by the lack of information about the woman's early life.
Sears, who said the discovery was an "amazing surprise," explained that his wife, the late Mrs. Anna Wentworth Caldwell Sears, had engaged the butler from a newspaper advertisement.
Fifteen fellow servants, kept at a distance by Alfred's air of austerity, also failed to pierce the deception. They knew only that the butler had been born in France and worked as a chef in a New York hotel before joining the Sears household.
Alfred, tall, about 55 and weighing 180 pounds, was regarded as a "perfect servant." In 13 years she never had asked for a day off.

"Perfect Butler Dead; Revealed as Woman," Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times, 16 November 1937, page 5, col. 4; Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/1191287175/).

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 19/07/2026

And Substack promoted Andrew Tate as recently as this past April! #LeaveSubstack

Screenshot of a Bluesky post, calling out Substack for promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller.

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 12/07/2026

I planned to do some yard work before reading…

Tabby cats stretched out along an outstretched arm

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 12/07/2026

Deconstructing the Costco llama is serious work

A large brown dog lies on a teal couch, toy llama under his white paw so he can really tear into it

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 29/06/2026

Having a cat who demands to be picked up is no small point of joy in our house.

A torbie cat standing up, front paws stretched up on my polka dot pajama pant-clad legs, meowing to be picked up.

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 21/06/2026

@gilduran.com You have an impersonator. I reported & blocked.

Impersonation account of Gil Duran, handle @gilduran1.bsky.social

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 10/06/2026

Now is a great time to migrate to a platform that doesn't promote Andrew Tate!

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 03/06/2026

This is the messaging that persuaded people. Maybe instead of trying the same thing again, the city could try something new, like asking developers to fund it. Other cities get new parks and facilities built by developers as a condition of approving projects. Why not EC?

A chart showing taxes passed in 2008, 2018, 2019, and 2024 to fund things citizens wanted and promises broken.
2008: tax to improve streets and sidewalks; index down by 20%
2018: real property transfer tax for services, including a senior center; no senior center and other services cut
2019: recreation tax to fund pool repairs and recreation services; city still struggling to pay for repairs
2024: fund public safety; city still struggling to pay for new fire engine and other fire safety equipment

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 24/05/2026

Or ironically, $950,000 from McDonalds?

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 24/05/2026

Why is the pro-Becerra PAC taking $950,000 from Meta?

Screenshot from Secretary of State campaign contribution database (powersearch.sos.ca.gov) showing $950,000 contributed by Meta to "Working Families for Healthy Communities supporting Becerra for Governor"

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 18/05/2026

Perfect summary of my life.

Four built in shelves: a cat curled up on a grey cushion on the bottom shelf. A row of books on the shelf above her, containing books about genealogy, trial guidelines, “Caste by Isabel Wilkerson,” and inclusive leadership. On the second shelf, a lemon-lime prayer plant, with two Supreme Court justice bobbleheads peeking out from behind (Souter and Brandeis). On the top shelf, a collection of old family photographs and a bowl of air plants.

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 08/05/2026

Some days, it’s really hard to get up.

Tabby cat tucked under the blanket, front legs outstretched over the edge of the bed.

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 29/04/2026

One of my favorite books growing up was Jane’s Blanket, by Arthur Miller. So it seems appropriate that my Jane would ask me to make her baby blanket - first stitched 15 years ago - usable again. Strict instructions to preserve the worn edges.

A well worn pink-edged cotton blanket with fresh fabric folded on top.

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 19/04/2026

Maybe don’t publish on Substack anymore?

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 18/04/2026

There’s a certain amount of irony in @qasimrashid.com writing this on Substack, given the platform is promoting Andrew Tate.

Screenshot of bsky post showing Substack is promoting Andrew Tate

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Melanie @passifloraresearch.com · 10/04/2026

It’s revised since I last read it and somewhat improved, but still a little more complicated than just saying “capital costs.” I’ll think about this though - thanks! (Much more constructive than ad hominem attacks on seniors in our community.)