Melissa Combs
@melissacombs.bsky.social
Resist 💙 Trad pub author, devel editor, avid reader, adjunct, MA in English & creative writing. I live to travel. Advocate for the blind. COLTS fan. Optimistic at heart. 💙 She/Her #author #reader #horrorlit #PNR #disability #blind #writing #Democracy
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Once again, if you are expecting the police to protect you and stop ICE, you will spend the rest of time waiting.
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Once again, if you are expecting the police to protect you and stop ICE, you will spend the rest of time waiting.
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This is not just a current political issue. Charging & punishing these particular perpetrators is vital to keeping the fight against the ongoing abuse & killing of women & children by men in the spotlight. "Me Too" was only a start.
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
This is not just a current political issue. Charging & punishing these particular perpetrators is vital to keeping the fight against the ongoing abuse & killing of women & children by men in the spotlight. "Me Too" was only a start.
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There was a time when the United States looked down its nose at the countries in South America for being lawless banana republics. Who's the banana republic now, bitches?
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
There was a time when the United States looked down its nose at the countries in South America for being lawless banana republics. Who's the banana republic now, bitches?
YES: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and other Democratic senators are launching a new coalition to REPLACE Chuck Schumer and his do-nothing, caving corporate friends with REAL progressives. They've been called the "Fight Club." 💪👏 Let's go! 💙
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
YES: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and other Democratic senators are launching a new coalition to REPLACE Chuck Schumer and his do-nothing, caving corporate friends with REAL progressives. They've been called the "Fight Club." 💪👏 Let's go! 💙
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Indiana unfortunately is getting another data center in Fort Wayne. IN already has 75. Why does the weakest of the industrialized nations have the most 5,426 data centers? Because the filthy rich control Congress. 🤢 Wtaf #datacenters
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Indiana unfortunately is getting another data center in Fort Wayne. IN already has 75. Why does the weakest of the industrialized nations have the most 5,426 data centers? Because the filthy rich control Congress. 🤢 Wtaf #datacenters
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Why is ICE using full body torture devices known as the WRAP? Detainees can’t move, breathe properly, or call for help. #humanrights #civilrights
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Why is ICE using full body torture devices known as the WRAP? Detainees can’t move, breathe properly, or call for help. #humanrights #civilrights
Congressional switchboard: 202-224-3121 Call out the Republican bullcrap
Speaker Mike Johnson has reportedly told the White House that most Republicans aren't interested in extending ACA subsidies.
Reminder that 57% of ACA Marketplace enrollees live in congressional districts represented by a Republican.
They're selling out their own voters.
Reminder that 57% of ACA Marketplace enrollees live in congressional districts represented by a Republican.
They're selling out their own voters.
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Congressional switchboard: 202-224-3121 Call out the Republican bullcrap
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Impeach, convict, remove.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Impeach, convict, remove.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
My grandma was born and died in the Appalachian mountains of Eastern Kentucky. Her best friend was her sawed off shotgun. I’d even seen her pull it on family. Grandmas with guns is a tradition. #ICE
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
My grandma was born and died in the Appalachian mountains of Eastern Kentucky. Her best friend was her sawed off shotgun. I’d even seen her pull it on family. Grandmas with guns is a tradition. #ICE
ICE shouldn’t be the most powerful law enforcement agency in the history of America. What ICE is doing to communities is wrong. #immigration
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
ICE shouldn’t be the most powerful law enforcement agency in the history of America. What ICE is doing to communities is wrong. #immigration
America doesn’t need the white Christian Nationalists reign to continue. The white Christian Nationalists behind Project2025 has wrecked America. It will take progressive Social Democrats to right the wrongs of Trump’s regime. #Democrats
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
America doesn’t need the white Christian Nationalists reign to continue. The white Christian Nationalists behind Project2025 has wrecked America. It will take progressive Social Democrats to right the wrongs of Trump’s regime. #Democrats
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Waters: This is an important press conference that is being held to let you know what we're all doing: resisting this lowdown dirty no good filthy president
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Waters: This is an important press conference that is being held to let you know what we're all doing: resisting this lowdown dirty no good filthy president
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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SEN. KELLY : “They informed me of this in a tweet because this is not about the law. This is about the media cycle, and intimidation… We basically repeated the uniform code of military justice, and they're saying that's in violation of it. It's absurd. Comical.”
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
SEN. KELLY : “They informed me of this in a tweet because this is not about the law. This is about the media cycle, and intimidation… We basically repeated the uniform code of military justice, and they're saying that's in violation of it. It's absurd. Comical.”
I wish America had more Mark Cubans & Dolly Partons.
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I wish America had more Mark Cubans & Dolly Partons.
ICE picked up a woman from the UK in San Diego at her final immigration hearing. Her husband works for the sheriff dept. and they have a 5 month old baby. #ICE are fiends.
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
ICE picked up a woman from the UK in San Diego at her final immigration hearing. Her husband works for the sheriff dept. and they have a 5 month old baby. #ICE are fiends.
Arizona has a great Senator representing them in Mark Kelly. 💙
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Arizona has a great Senator representing them in Mark Kelly. 💙