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Melissa Westbrook

@themelwestbrook.bsky.social
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Public education advocate; long-time blogger mostly about Seattle Schools. Not a fan of charters, hate vouchers. Public education got men to the moon...and back. Don't make me mad. Still, I smile. NO DMs.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Why not release the Epstein files?
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2h
America has a systemic rape culture problem, and putting a man with a documented history of sexual abuse in the Oval Office proved that millions of voters and powerful institutions were willing to look the other way for political power.
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 11h
Michigan families are paying for Trump’s war every time they buy groceries or fill the tank. Gas rose more than a dollar a gallon after the U.S. action in Iran. We could have chosen peace. Instead, Trump chose a war and handed working people the bill. #momsky#sheshed
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Dale Walls @dalewalls1.bsky.social · 2h
Unfortunately, right now we’re opposites
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funkyartlady.bsky.social @funkyartlady.bsky.social · 2h
So don't be around men cause that is where this is hesded.
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Love2026 @love2024.bsky.social · 4h
Only this MF would say this. Hate him.🖕🖕🖕
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Melissa Westbrook @themelwestbrook.bsky.social · 2h
Well the people behind him weren’t cheering.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 9h
Rest in hell, grifter. A cultural taboo of speaking ill of the dead is always a way to silence victims and launder the memories (legacies) of cruel predatory men.
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Televangelist Jim Bakker, Who Fell From Grace Over Sex And Financial Scandals, Dies
Bakker and his first wife, Tammy Faye, built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful TV show “The PTL Club.”
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Mister Clear Skies @rudymadrox.bsky.social · 2h
Everyone should be uniting against the #republican party under the common ground of wanting to push back against the orange madman in the White House. All paths to brighter futures involve first voting the corrupt tyrants out of power (and yes, there will be more battles to fight after that)
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 4h
#FL25 The GOP wantS to cut your Social Security after you paid in for 40 years. That's not a budget decision-that's theft. The people floating these cuts took corporate cash & now they're coming for what you earned. Jared Moskowitz will defend your hard-earned money! #ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 2h
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Reuters @reuters.com · 3h
US Senator Murphy says Pentagon denied him access to US base in Qatar reut.rs/4hP5HOp
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US Senator Murphy says Pentagon denied him access to US base in Qatar
Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy said the US Department of Defense denied ​him access to a key US military base in ‌Qatar during a visit to the Middle East, describing it as part of a US government effort to conceal the impact of the Iran war.
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ninersfl1984.bsky.social @ninersfl1984.bsky.social · 2h
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 3h
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dc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 2h
Trump you are the cause. Everyone on the planet knows it. www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...
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Trump blames Democrats and Ukraine for soaring US fuel prices, not Iran war
Trump shifts blame for fuel price hikes to blue states like California and Ukraine strikes on Russian oil refineries.
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Melissa Westbrook @themelwestbrook.bsky.social · 2h
But he does want this do he can burn Iran to the ground. Do our Middle East allies want this?
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 4h
Absolutely 👇
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Rick Deckard @gotoguy.bsky.social · 3h
Admired the US since I was a kid. Now only utter contempt 🤮
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dc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 2h
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 3h
On what Trump said last night about letting Iran blow up Los Angeles or San Diego: Sure, don’t be outraged if you don’t believe it warrants outrage, but don’t just say he misspoke or was “sloppy” with his wording. Don’t do that. Trump stopped deserving getting any benefit of the doubt ages ago.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 12h
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 2h
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 6h
THIS! 👇🏼 #FDT #Pinks
SUPREME COURT EXPANSION.
TERM LIMITS FOR JUSTICES.
A BINDING CODE OF ETHICS.
JOHN LEWIS
VOTING RIGHTS ACT.
DEFEND OUR DEMOCRACY.
CONGRESSWOMAN AYANNA PRESSLEY
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 3h
Republicans in the greater LA/SD metro areas (including LA, SD, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino counties): there are about 3.2 million of you and Trump has just admitted he does not care about your lives. Vote Blue in November to hold this mad man accountable!
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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 6h
In ‘24, out of approximately 245M Americans who were ELIGIBLE to vote, 174M voted. Trump created an affordability crisis, war, dared Iran to bomb 2 American cities, & attacked our rights to free speech, press, privacy, & due process. Don’t sit this one out! Vote for a better life, & vote early.
Text at the top of the cartoon says: “This is one of THE most important comics of all time. Please vote this year! The comic is a drawing of two groups of people. One group is wearing “I voted” tshirts. The other group are wearing blank tshirts and the dialogue balloon above their heads says: “WE DIDN’T VOTE BECAUSE IT WON’T MAKE A DIFFERENCE!”
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 3h
I’m bummed out that our president thinks that Iran taking out Los Angeles or San Diego is a small price to pay. I realize the right-wing media will do their best to spin what he said. I live in NYC. I know what a terrorist attack can do to a city. Trump is a disgrace.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 3h
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 3h
NEW AD: Introducing SCANDUEL! The only betting app where you can parlay Ken Paxton’s scandals — and get paid! Here’s a tip: Always bet that he did the thing. 💰
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Liberal Warrior 🏳️‍🌈👬🌊💙🌊👭🏳️‍🌈 @liberalwarrior.eu · 2h
James Talarico slicing through a Fox News host’s gerrymandering spin is something to see. No shouting, no theatrics — just a sword of truth. Truth rules the room. No wonder Trump tries to keep him off cable news 😆 @jamestalarico.bsky.social #Blues youtube.com/shorts/H_XGe...
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Fox News host CUTS OFF interview after James Talarico fact checks him
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 2h
doing push-ups never got supplies to a unit or protected our personnel from enemy attack
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Melissa Westbrook @themelwestbrook.bsky.social · 2h
As long as it’s him first, sure
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SpringForward🌻☘️🥀🌺🦋 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇧 @springforward1.bsky.social · 2h
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 3h
For more than 75 years, the Blue Angels had never had a woman F/A-18 demonstration pilot. Then came Lt. Commander Amanda Lee. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
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Wayne Clifford @wayneclifford.bsky.social · 3h
FFS he was debarked for dirty money dealing! Impeach his orange ass!
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 2h
The President of the United States just gave a foreign adversary permission to bomb the United States of America, while standing on American soil. WAKE THE FUCK UP EVERYONE.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 21h
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SaveDemocracy123 @savedemocracy123.bsky.social · 2h
Trump has repeatedly shown that his loyalty lies with his hero/financier/authoritarian mentor Putin, and NOT with USA nor our people. Lest we forget the time he sent very in demand ventilators and medicines to Putin, instead of it being used to save Americans’ lives during COVID? And 1000+ examples.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h
Not my president. Clearly, not a president for all Americans. “Let them (Iran) take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.” Then Trump called it a “small price to pay.” Millions of us dead. And his audience laughed. Reporting from my local news…
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 13h
Strange coincidence… What are the numbers up to now? #TrumpEpsteinCoverup
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 13h
The world needs more libraries like this Original post
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13h
When you see ICE in the streets, tell them how you really feel. It's our first amendment right and if you don't vote this November, you're not gonna have it for long.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19h
Trump's people are using blue curtains to hide empty seats at this evening's rally in Grand Island, Nebraska. Those accurate reports of poor turnout in Ohio and Alabama *really* got under his skin.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17h
Thousands of Cornell students have taken over the main plaza on campus to demand the Cornell 7 be held accountable for their crimes. 21% of undergraduate women are raped or sexual assaulted during their time on campus.
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quiltersblock.bsky.social @quiltersblock.bsky.social · 19h
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 13h
The President of the United States is calling for journalists to be jailed for publishing an inconvenient fact. That isn’t “fake news.” That isn’t “media bias.” That is an attack on the First Amendment from the man sworn to defend it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h
WATCH — Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social on Fox: “Obama had contained the Iranian nuclear threat. Trump came in and tore the JCPOA agreement up… and started a war people in the state of Michigan are now paying for.” (Piker: “and never wanted”)
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 23h
chat is this good
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A customer just tried to use an employee discount code that ChatGPT gave her. I work at a high-end clothing store and clocked in to my manager telling me about the most unhinged interaction from yesterday. A woman walked in asking if she could use a 40% off code she got online. We don't have any sales running, so my manager looks at the screen and realizes ChatGPT straight up handed this woman a real employee's internal ID number.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15h
An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22h
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Rebecca @rebeccad1960.bsky.social · 16h
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