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Malevolent Mel

@themel.bsky.social
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GenX Grandma. Quarrelsome Dame. Democratic Socialist 💙 Good Trouble/Chaotic Good. 🍉 Make Critical Thinking a thing again

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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 5h
I support a free Palestine. So why block without ever interacting?
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What if the failed execution of Christa Pike isn't really a failure? She woke up in hell ... which is where we all are right now.
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Big hugs to you 🤗
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
San Diego California has to have one of, or THE, largest military population. I sure hope everyone enlisted are paying attention and not running with the "that's not what he meant" excuse again.
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The corporations are the importers who have to pay the tarrif when their goods arrive. Obviously they had to raise prices and that's how the cost was passed on to us. Check out Costco... they're now lowering prices, such as on coffee! Watch for who else does 😁 and who won't
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Jamie Lynn @jamie-lynn06.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#Blues @coolsprings.bsky.social @nels102.bsky.social @denellduck.bsky.social @jamie-lynn06.bsky.social @spencilular.bsky.social @freddymathies.bsky.social @relieved2bcanadian.bsky.social @bluesandtrout.bsky.social @we3keepers.bsky.social @themel.bsky.social @holyunknown.bsky.social
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In her last hours as DHS Secy, Noem's agency bought 5 planes from a donor at markups. In all, DHS gave $900M in contracts to that donor’s companies during her term. One plane had electronic bidets, 2 bedrooms, bar, wine chiller, a manta-ray skin table. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
nytimes.com
Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 03/10/2026
Brutal (and accurate) community note with key context on Trump’s attempted voter bribery for the midterm elections
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's interesting the MAGA influencers who speak of family values and the need for prayer to be in school are the same people trying to dox a young lady who was drugged and raped at college.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 30/09/2026
The ACLU's Jeffrey Stein called the ruling a "huge step in the right direction." “The public deserves to know how our government is justifying the cold-blooded murder of hundreds of civilians." 🔽
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My question too He enjoys "Absolute Immunity"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
OAN: "The GOP chair of the GA Peanut Commission backs Ossoff ... Donald Chase said Ossoff has his vote, adding he likes to support people he believes in. Chase said he's still a conservative R, but claims character matters, and he wants someone in the Senate who will take the institution seriously"
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You Are What You Consume
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Vote, people!! Even if you have to pinch your nose and select a candidate you're not in love with, vote to take power away from the GOP ... and demand accountability
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JUST FILED: The dire warning from the nation’s food banks The situation is worse than you might think youtu.be/-I0LLITQius?...
youtu.be
I Just Got an URGENT WARNING from Food Banks on Trump's War...
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Trump Lies Again" Good to see this headline. Call it like it is. We're over the "misspoke" or "misinformation" BS.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 28/09/2026
OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity
techcrunch.com
OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity
On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breath of the incidents s alarming.
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
STORY: Last night I was on YouTube. No idea why but the algorithm brought me Chris Yoon who talked about signs Trump is giving and any day now Obama will be arrested for Treason. That was in just the first minute of his video. Didn't watch it all. Today a Republican called for Obama to be executed 😵‍💫
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JUST FILED: Sitting behind her desk in central North Carolina, Amy Beros warned me: “It’s really hard for people in the United States to understand the scale……” of what’s about to unfold macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/they-dont-...
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When Trump launched “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” without ICE facilities to accommodate it, inhumane overcrowding was inevitable. Judge Kaplan’s 9/24 ruling shows the results. Diagrams simulating a NYC holding cell in Aug 2025 look like slave ships. 1/5
Hold Room 1(820.78 sq. ft.)
With 87 people
(out of 193 people total)
Lying Down/Sitting
Diagram showing the largest tenth-floor hold room containing eighty-seven detainees in which each rectangle represents one lying-down detainee with the average height and shoulder width of an adult man and each circle represents one sitting-down detainee with the average shoulder width of an adult man. PX303, Ex. 1.
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What are the repercussions? Are there any beyond tallying how many times "no" is said?
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DOJ alerted a judge that the State Dept. notified Congress about expanding access to passport records for "voter eligibility" uses, but didn't share full details. Bloomberg obtained the doc, which IDs users as fed/state/local gov't agencies as well as non-profits www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
US Seeks to Expand Access to Passport Records for Voter Checks
The US State Department is moving to give state and local officials, as well as potentially some nonprofit organizations, access to passport records to verify voters’ citizenship.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Despite 1st Circuit's 9/18 ruling invalidating DHS's 3d-country removal policy, DHS claims the decision hasn't yet taken effect. Class counsel fears a flight will take class members to Burundi, Rwanda, & Central African Republic *tomorrow.* Asks 1st Cir for emergency action.
Plaintiffs-Appellants seek an emergency order clarifying that this
Court's September 18, 2026 decision is in effect as binding precedent and that this Court's March 16, 2026, stay "pending appeal" has been dissolved
now that the Court has issued its decision and judgment. In the alternative,
Plaintiffs-Appellants request the Court either issue an order lifting the
March 16, 2026 stay or issue the mandate. Emergency action is needed because Plaintiffs-Appellants have learned that Defendants-Appellees are proceeding with removing class members to third countries in Africa,
pursuant to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) guidance which
this Court found unlawful and set aside, tomorrow. In response to an email
from class counsel, Defendants-Appellees' counsel confirmed in a 5:14 p.m.
email today that their position is that this Court's stay remains in effect until
the mandate is issued. Exhibit A. In addition, counsel for Defendants-
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
JUST IN: POLITICO's joint lawsuit with CNN and MSNOW to lift the White House ban is now live. Read it here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In case anyone was wondering why Trump is pushing AI so hard and doesn’t want any government regulation.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/09/2026
KARL: Do you support Trump banning news organizations because he doesn't like what they're reporting? SCALISE: Look, Biden removed the press credentials from 400 agencies KARL: That's not true. 400 reporters who had credentials didn't reapply. They weren't banned from the WH. That did not happen.
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We're talking about children Children being traumatized Children having limbs amputated Children being slaughtered "I don't want to get political" ????
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What I'd love to hear is.... Them: That's because the Biden administration... Us: Trump said he would fix it on day one. So did he lie or are you admitting he's dumber than Biden?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The FCC will allow the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, & Abu Dhabi to own nearly 50% of a merged Paramount-Warner Bros — potentially giving them sway over our media. This of course comes after Trump received gifts or struck business deals with these countries. See the problem?
variety.com
FCC Approves 49.5% Foreign Ownership of Paramount-Warner Bros.
The FCC has approved Paramount's petition to allow 49.5% ownership by Gulf state sovereign wealth funds as part of its W
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That can't be real
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
man what do you even say anymore
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Caused by Sleepy Joe Biden" ... A statement made by this administration for 2 years now. We don't let our small children play the blame game anywhere near this long! Excuses do not produce Solutions. Our country is being run by bratty toddlers.
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Child's Temper Tantrum on Leafy Ground
Alt: Child's Temper Tantrum on Leafy Ground
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Map showing percentage increase in each state of gas prices since beginning of Iran war.
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Gasp I love ham and pineapple pizza
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If there is one thing we have all learned over the past 10 years, but even more so recently, it's you don't have to be smart to be rich $ Apparently, you just need to empty yourself of heart and soul.
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Gary Whitta @garywhitta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
David Ellison is moving one of the most storied studios in the history of Hollywood out of California because he is a pissy little bitch. Just another reason why I will never work for this nepo baby fuck.
deadline.com
Paramount To Leave California Amid Antitrust Battle & Stalled Warner Bros Merger
Leaks out of David Ellison's inner circle said the CEO wold take his Paramount ball & leave California if state AGs didn't back off on their antitrust suit
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ron White: Eight of Ken Paxton’s assistants turned him into the FBI for fraud... They sued and won $6 million. Guess who paid that $6 million? You and me paid the $6 million for his bribery. His own party impeached him. He’s a criminal.
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I get the anger towards Ed Sheeran. But why aren't we putting a list together of everything Robert Kraft owns and organizing a boycott?!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Lovely
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
At what point can taxpayers refuse to pay federal taxes based on refusing to fund genocide?
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Who will be the new opening acts to play with Ed now?
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Medicare for All means we will no longer be nickeled and dimed by corporations who exist specifically to hold our healthcare dollars and pay out as little as possible.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred DHS from threatening to prosecute a man who harshly criticized ICE’s acting director following the fatal shootings in Minnesota. It violates his free speech, Judge Contreras ruled. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Malevolent Mel @themel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I 2nd this!! More worried that he'll throw a tantrum and have the building demolished.
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Am I understanding that Robert Kraft, whose hobby is paying for sex with sex trafficked victims, is upset with Macklemore for opposing genocide? And the NFL chose to listen to Kraft?
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