Mel🏳️🌈 she/they universal healthcare now
@knownforms.bsky.social
She/her, they/them. Writer, Researcher. Work in Strange Horizons, Tin House, Electric Lit, and more. I used to do research for Roxane Gay.
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The Get-Get Man
The Get-Get Man travels at night, sharp as a scalpel, dark as soot. He cuts through the yards and streets, slicing and taking what doesn’t make way. They say...
firesidefiction.com
Some of my sort of scary stories still available online to read for free: firesidefiction.com/issue37/chap...
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The Radical Imagination of Octavia E. Butler
YouTube video by Library of America
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November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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This Day in Labor History: November 25, 1865. Mississippi created the first of the Black Codes. Designed to recreate slavery in all but name, this signified the South’s resistance to the freeing of their labor force and the lengths to which it would go to tie workers to a place under white control.
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 25, 1865. Mississippi created the first of the Black Codes. Designed to recreate slavery in all but name, this signified the South’s resistance to the freeing of their labor force and the lengths to which it would go to tie workers to a place under white control.
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ICYMI, this is great stuff. both better designed and more comprehensive than Biden's child tax credit boost www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...
Rep. Tlaib’s Economic Dignity for All Agenda Would Bring Economic Security for Millions
The agenda would lower poverty by 42% and child poverty by two-thirds.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
ICYMI, this is great stuff. both better designed and more comprehensive than Biden's child tax credit boost www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...
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Resharing our list bc I like it so much
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Discover the novels, memoirs, biographies, and more that entertained and enlightened us
time.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Resharing our list bc I like it so much
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WATCH St. Paul police, aiding ICE, restrain a man and spray him full in the face. They are not and have never been on our side.
Credit: @reportermark.bsky.social
Credit: @reportermark.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
WATCH St. Paul police, aiding ICE, restrain a man and spray him full in the face. They are not and have never been on our side.
Credit: @reportermark.bsky.social
Credit: @reportermark.bsky.social
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In Los Angeles we learned that failure is PIVOTAL to how we grow safety without police and prisons.
Our show In the Field travels all across this land to explore experiments in prison and police abolition.
Watch episode 3, Failure & Growth in LA here: youtu.be/0uDzr1_II5Q
Our show In the Field travels all across this land to explore experiments in prison and police abolition.
Watch episode 3, Failure & Growth in LA here: youtu.be/0uDzr1_II5Q
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
In Los Angeles we learned that failure is PIVOTAL to how we grow safety without police and prisons.
Our show In the Field travels all across this land to explore experiments in prison and police abolition.
Watch episode 3, Failure & Growth in LA here: youtu.be/0uDzr1_II5Q
Our show In the Field travels all across this land to explore experiments in prison and police abolition.
Watch episode 3, Failure & Growth in LA here: youtu.be/0uDzr1_II5Q
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Help them out
Solo mama of 4 now, raising 3 of my sis's kids with 0 family support. Need help with bills + necessities since all child support went to rent, bank account is at zero until next month 😞
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Any little bit helps 🙏🏼 #bipocma
0/200 needed ASAP!
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November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I keep seeing posts about kids getting “weird colds” but it seems like the parents aren’t testing for COVID. The denial is maddening
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I keep seeing posts about kids getting “weird colds” but it seems like the parents aren’t testing for COVID. The denial is maddening
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I need people who are profiling RFK Jr to not recite, uncritically, the number of studies the man says he has read.
One he lies
Two even if he has read them doesn't mean he understands them
Three it's more useful to take one and explain its problems.
One he lies
Two even if he has read them doesn't mean he understands them
Three it's more useful to take one and explain its problems.
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I need people who are profiling RFK Jr to not recite, uncritically, the number of studies the man says he has read.
One he lies
Two even if he has read them doesn't mean he understands them
Three it's more useful to take one and explain its problems.
One he lies
Two even if he has read them doesn't mean he understands them
Three it's more useful to take one and explain its problems.
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I AM YELLING
I gave my mom what I thought was a soup-themed bath bomb some years back, but it was actually soup. She had to call my dad in to get her out of the greasy tub.
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I AM YELLING
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Bed Bath and Bewildered
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Bed Bath and Bewildered
Not sure if it's journalistic best practice to frame "proof of involvement in a decades-long ring of powerful child rapists" as "the greatest challenge to his legacy."
Unless you're trying to actively help him overcome it, I think it should rightly be framed as the final word on his legacy.
Unless you're trying to actively help him overcome it, I think it should rightly be framed as the final word on his legacy.
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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now do it for gENdEr
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
now do it for gENdEr
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This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
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Musk actually killed people by withdrawing their aid. Estimated 15,000 in March. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Musk actually killed people by withdrawing their aid. Estimated 15,000 in March. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
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no one wants to be interviewed so isaac chotiner is just stalking twitter now looking for new eager victims to admit they are dumbos
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
no one wants to be interviewed so isaac chotiner is just stalking twitter now looking for new eager victims to admit they are dumbos
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It’s pronounced Christmas jifts
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
It’s pronounced Christmas jifts
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i put my pants on the same way as everyone else: screaming
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i put my pants on the same way as everyone else: screaming
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My friends and loved ones...
I'm Saeed from Gaza, still doing my best to support my family. This week, we need food for our children, medicine for my parents, and basic supplies costing around €300. Any support, no matter how big or small, means life to us all.
Support link: 🍉
gofund.me/a0a540b8
I'm Saeed from Gaza, still doing my best to support my family. This week, we need food for our children, medicine for my parents, and basic supplies costing around €300. Any support, no matter how big or small, means life to us all.
Support link: 🍉
gofund.me/a0a540b8
Donate to Bring hope back to Saed and his family after the war, organized by Marina Reilly
Dear Comrade,
From beneath the rubble… I write my story!
I … Marina Reilly needs your support for Bring hope back to Saed and his family after the war
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November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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This is an irresponsibly favorable profile of RFK Jr, painting him as a vaccine skeptic rather than what he is: fervently anti-vaccine. Whether the reporter caved to pressure from RFK Jr or is so ignorant of science he doesn’t understand how many will come to harm bc of him, this is shameful. +
Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This is an irresponsibly favorable profile of RFK Jr, painting him as a vaccine skeptic rather than what he is: fervently anti-vaccine. Whether the reporter caved to pressure from RFK Jr or is so ignorant of science he doesn’t understand how many will come to harm bc of him, this is shameful. +
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but someone who’s job is to procure magical items is a sourcerer, right?
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Correct me if I’m wrong, but someone who’s job is to procure magical items is a sourcerer, right?
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honored at how many people continue to visit and share this honest, simple essay. one reader shared that she read it aloud to her teenager who was curious about witchcraft and i just 😭
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what is witchcraft: a samhain meditation
This morning, I woke up and made offerings to my ancestors: water and fire, but also tobacco and whiskey.
jeannakadlec.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:55 AM
honored at how many people continue to visit and share this honest, simple essay. one reader shared that she read it aloud to her teenager who was curious about witchcraft and i just 😭
jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/what-is-wi...
jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/what-is-wi...
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The harassment is never going to stop as long as the companies give in. They're going to fire every person of color, everyone in the LGBT community, every woman, and that still won't placate the "trolls." They'll just assign white male employees they don't like the title of "liberal" and keep going.
Two months after firing over Charlie Kirk comments, Ghost of Yotei dev blames harassment campaign, not 'bad joke'
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November 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The harassment is never going to stop as long as the companies give in. They're going to fire every person of color, everyone in the LGBT community, every woman, and that still won't placate the "trolls." They'll just assign white male employees they don't like the title of "liberal" and keep going.