Melisa
@melisa23.bsky.social
Sassy liberal with opinions, here to fight for the best in us. Sometimes funny, sometimes bleak, mostly terrified.
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I wrote about the supposed conservative "civil war" over antisemitism as more of a lovers' spat for @liberalcurrents.
The Heritage Foundation, Groypers, and the Narcissism of Small Differences
Fuentes is the fly born of Heritage’s maggot.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I wrote about the supposed conservative "civil war" over antisemitism as more of a lovers' spat for @liberalcurrents.
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NEW:
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
w @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
w @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
NEW:
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
w @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
w @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
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LOL for all those people who said “they don’t have the cards.” 🤡
Chinese Exports Shifting from the US to Asia
Torsten at Apollo
Torsten at Apollo
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
LOL for all those people who said “they don’t have the cards.” 🤡
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State propaganda with a taste for her friends
NEW:
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
w @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
w @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
State propaganda with a taste for her friends
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NEW: DHS launched a $200mln+ ad campaign, featuring, Kristi Noem, aimed at stemming illegal immigration.
We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.
@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.
@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
NEW: DHS launched a $200mln+ ad campaign, featuring, Kristi Noem, aimed at stemming illegal immigration.
We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.
@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.
@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
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Trump is demanding that GOP side with him over Epstein's victims, Rep Ansari tells me. She had a harrowing exchange with one victim who recounts how her mom had cancer and he exploited that.
Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Trump is demanding that GOP side with him over Epstein's victims, Rep Ansari tells me. She had a harrowing exchange with one victim who recounts how her mom had cancer and he exploited that.
Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
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NEW: A company run by the husband of Kristi Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson (and that has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides) secretly got money from $220 million DHS ad contracts 👀 by @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
NEW: A company run by the husband of Kristi Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson (and that has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides) secretly got money from $220 million DHS ad contracts 👀 by @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
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Throughout the Epstein debacle and the shutdown mess; the destruction of the East Wing and the skyrocketing of healthcare costs; the threats of war with Venezuela and the implementation of the Big Ugly Bill
ICE has been brutally and needlessly destroying people's lives
ICE has been brutally and needlessly destroying people's lives
ICE abducted a 57 year old US Citizen and Veteran along with 11 others, outside of the Portland ICE Detention Center.
11/11/25
11/11/25
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Throughout the Epstein debacle and the shutdown mess; the destruction of the East Wing and the skyrocketing of healthcare costs; the threats of war with Venezuela and the implementation of the Big Ugly Bill
ICE has been brutally and needlessly destroying people's lives
ICE has been brutally and needlessly destroying people's lives
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Shockingly craven even by 2025 standards
2023: "They're taking advantage of a 16-year-old MINOR!! I have a daughter close to that, if you come near her as a 31-year-old man, we're going to have a SERIOUS PROBLEM!!"
2025: "He was not a pedophile; he was into the barely legal type. Like he liked 15-year-old girls... that is what I believe."
2025: "He was not a pedophile; he was into the barely legal type. Like he liked 15-year-old girls... that is what I believe."
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Shockingly craven even by 2025 standards
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Coming out strong for SNAP isn't just smart; it's essential, since Trump has gone on the attack against it before and after the funding fight.
One way the shutdown deal might actually help Democrats
A plurality of voters approve of the deal to end the government shutdown. Democrats have an opportunity to claim they saved SNAP & other government programs, which could help repair the party's image
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Coming out strong for SNAP isn't just smart; it's essential, since Trump has gone on the attack against it before and after the funding fight.
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This is the same administration that has ordered the return of a Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery--one which celebrates the "loyal slave" narrative as represented by the images of the "faithful mammy" and a body servant (slave) in Confederate uniform. 🗃️
www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/p...
Display about Black soldiers in World War II removed from US military cemetery | CNN Politics
Decades ago, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old 1st Lt. Jeffersons Wiggins, along with hundreds of other Black soldiers in, were tasked with burying the...
www.cnn.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This is the same administration that has ordered the return of a Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery--one which celebrates the "loyal slave" narrative as represented by the images of the "faithful mammy" and a body servant (slave) in Confederate uniform. 🗃️
www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/p...
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I hope none of these people are from the Northeast of England because I'm told the 1970s and 1980s weren't super awesome up here...
Absolute nonsense. Anyone who lived through the period, or who has studied the period, will know how daft, how dangerously silly, this kind of rot is. If I may, I was there. It was FAR more grey, tough, poor, bigoted, boring, terrifying, violent & frequently flat-out insane than nostalgia insists.
November 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I hope none of these people are from the Northeast of England because I'm told the 1970s and 1980s weren't super awesome up here...
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This is Carl.
He was just woken up from a nap.
Hopes for your sake the house is on fire.
12/10
He was just woken up from a nap.
Hopes for your sake the house is on fire.
12/10
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This is Carl.
He was just woken up from a nap.
Hopes for your sake the house is on fire.
12/10
He was just woken up from a nap.
Hopes for your sake the house is on fire.
12/10
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We seriously have Republicans talking about going back to the “good old days” of high-risk pools, which just meant that people with preexisting conditions like cancer couldn’t get health insurance.
Tom Emmer: "You're gonna have to create high risk pools again. Just go back where Minnesota was before the ACA."
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We seriously have Republicans talking about going back to the “good old days” of high-risk pools, which just meant that people with preexisting conditions like cancer couldn’t get health insurance.
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Please share this far and wide!!
Starbucks workers are officially on strike, demanding an end to the company’s Unfair Labor Practices!!
REPOST if you stand with workers and promise to NOT BUY STARBUCKS while workers are striking!!!
Starbucks workers are officially on strike, demanding an end to the company’s Unfair Labor Practices!!
REPOST if you stand with workers and promise to NOT BUY STARBUCKS while workers are striking!!!
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Please share this far and wide!!
Starbucks workers are officially on strike, demanding an end to the company’s Unfair Labor Practices!!
REPOST if you stand with workers and promise to NOT BUY STARBUCKS while workers are striking!!!
Starbucks workers are officially on strike, demanding an end to the company’s Unfair Labor Practices!!
REPOST if you stand with workers and promise to NOT BUY STARBUCKS while workers are striking!!!
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I mean Megyn Kelly seems like exactly the right spokesperson for the ACTUALLY IT’S EPHEBOPHILIA movement.
Shitty people, shitty values, shitty culture.
Shitty people, shitty values, shitty culture.
in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I mean Megyn Kelly seems like exactly the right spokesperson for the ACTUALLY IT’S EPHEBOPHILIA movement.
Shitty people, shitty values, shitty culture.
Shitty people, shitty values, shitty culture.
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We're in the "raping young teenage girls isn't pedophilia" part of the cope from MAGA.
These people are evil.
These people are evil.
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
We're in the "raping young teenage girls isn't pedophilia" part of the cope from MAGA.
These people are evil.
These people are evil.
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"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
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Veterans have lined up outside the ICE detention center in Portland, standing in solidarity and calling for accountability and lawful conduct by federal officers.
Their message: Those who once defended the Constitution are now standing to ensure it's upheld at home.
#VeteransDay #Portland #NoICE
Their message: Those who once defended the Constitution are now standing to ensure it's upheld at home.
#VeteransDay #Portland #NoICE
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Veterans have lined up outside the ICE detention center in Portland, standing in solidarity and calling for accountability and lawful conduct by federal officers.
Their message: Those who once defended the Constitution are now standing to ensure it's upheld at home.
#VeteransDay #Portland #NoICE
Their message: Those who once defended the Constitution are now standing to ensure it's upheld at home.
#VeteransDay #Portland #NoICE
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I know he's supposed to be on the side of good now but he still said this:
"And of course, understand that by the very definition, you can't rape your spouse."
--Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's attorney, 7/27/15
re allegations by Trump's ex-wife Ivana claiming that Trump once sexually assaulted her.
"And of course, understand that by the very definition, you can't rape your spouse."
--Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's attorney, 7/27/15
re allegations by Trump's ex-wife Ivana claiming that Trump once sexually assaulted her.
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I know he's supposed to be on the side of good now but he still said this:
"And of course, understand that by the very definition, you can't rape your spouse."
--Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's attorney, 7/27/15
re allegations by Trump's ex-wife Ivana claiming that Trump once sexually assaulted her.
"And of course, understand that by the very definition, you can't rape your spouse."
--Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's attorney, 7/27/15
re allegations by Trump's ex-wife Ivana claiming that Trump once sexually assaulted her.
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
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"The incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy is very low."
--Republican Congressman Trent Franks (AZ), 6/11/13
...explaining why there shouldn't be any exceptions for rape victims to be able to have an abortion after 20 weeks.
(estimate from a decade ago; likely higher since RvW was struck down)
--Republican Congressman Trent Franks (AZ), 6/11/13
...explaining why there shouldn't be any exceptions for rape victims to be able to have an abortion after 20 weeks.
(estimate from a decade ago; likely higher since RvW was struck down)
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
"The incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy is very low."
--Republican Congressman Trent Franks (AZ), 6/11/13
...explaining why there shouldn't be any exceptions for rape victims to be able to have an abortion after 20 weeks.
(estimate from a decade ago; likely higher since RvW was struck down)
--Republican Congressman Trent Franks (AZ), 6/11/13
...explaining why there shouldn't be any exceptions for rape victims to be able to have an abortion after 20 weeks.
(estimate from a decade ago; likely higher since RvW was struck down)
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"Are women themselves being taught to believe they were rapece (the aforementioned 'only sober consent is true consent' notion)? YES."
--Conservative NRO contributor A.J. Degaldo, 4/19/14
claiming that rape victims are brainwashed into thinking they were victims
--Conservative NRO contributor A.J. Degaldo, 4/19/14
claiming that rape victims are brainwashed into thinking they were victims
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
"Are women themselves being taught to believe they were rapece (the aforementioned 'only sober consent is true consent' notion)? YES."
--Conservative NRO contributor A.J. Degaldo, 4/19/14
claiming that rape victims are brainwashed into thinking they were victims
--Conservative NRO contributor A.J. Degaldo, 4/19/14
claiming that rape victims are brainwashed into thinking they were victims
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"Even from these horrible, horrible tragedies of rape...life has come and sometimes, you know, those people are able to do extraordinary things."
--Republican Governor & Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (AR), 8/20/12
in defense of Todd "legitimate rape" Akin
--Republican Governor & Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (AR), 8/20/12
in defense of Todd "legitimate rape" Akin
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 AM
"Even from these horrible, horrible tragedies of rape...life has come and sometimes, you know, those people are able to do extraordinary things."
--Republican Governor & Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (AR), 8/20/12
in defense of Todd "legitimate rape" Akin
--Republican Governor & Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (AR), 8/20/12
in defense of Todd "legitimate rape" Akin