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Melissa Ryan

@melissaryan.bsky.social

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I want to help build a world where we can all do our work, share our stories, and live our lives free from hate, harassment, and harm. Newsletter: https://www.altrightdelete.news/ Work with me: [email protected]

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 4d

What does a shutdown mean when America is already so broken? I explore, in this week’s newsletter. www.altrightdelete.news/p/shutting-d...

Shutting down an already broken America

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 11h

Receipt, since this is blowing up and I know some folks will as me for a link. thehill.com/homenews/sta...

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 11h

After Pritzker and Newsom threatened to leave the NGA, the Republican Chair breaks with Trump. Pressure works. Keep it up!

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 20h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 22h

“I’ll kill you in front of your students.”

This is just one of the death threats that has driven @mark-bray.bsky.social to try and flee the US.

But at the airport last night, after checking in and clearing security, his booking mysteriously disappeared

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

The Attorney General of New York was just indicted by our tinpot dictator

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20h

Fascinating moment in the power of DC Think. Democrats are clearly *not* looking for an off ramp right now. They’re actually saying this. Which is a measure of how badly it’s going for the GOP. It’s the GOP that is actually looking for the offeamp.

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 19h

If I could demand just one law exist it would be that anyone, but especially any man, involved in healthcare policy or legislation is forced to take a course and pass a test on human reproduction and pregnancy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 20h

It would be nice if Trump had even 10% of the energy he clearly has for violently occupying American cities to end the shutdown and solve the impending health care subsidies cliff that America is about to fall off.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "Antifa is out of control in Portland and other places ... we're looking for the people that are funding them and those people are gonna be just as guilty as the people that smack people over the head with a baseball bat."

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 23h

I went ahead and did the starting work for someone who wants to chase this angle. Most right-wing influencers who participated in the "Antifa" roundtable at the White House yesterday have easily provable ties to TPUSA (8 of 12). The other four need a closer look I don't have time for right now.

right-wing influencers standing for a photo together at the white house

(Left to Right)

Jack Posobiec - TPUSA employee
Seamus Bruner - Government Accountability Institute (GAI)
James Klug - TPUSA Ambassador
Jonathan Cho - TPUSA employee
Nick Sortor - Influencer
Julio Rosas - Former TPUSA, Blaze Media
Nick Shirley - Influencer
Andy Ngo - Human Events Media Group*
Brandi Kruse - Influencer
Savannah Hernandez - TPUSA employee
Katie Daviscourt - Former TPUSA, Human Events Media Group*
Cam Higby - TPUSA employee

(Human Events Media Group is closely tied to TPUSA. https://humanevents.com/about-human-events )

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

“She plays to an audience of 200 people,” one Hollywood executive with ties to Weiss told Variety. “It just happens to be that audience is made up of people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman." www.rawstory.com/bari-weiss-2...

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," acco...

www.rawstory.com

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly!

Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 1d

Can someone show Trump Portlandia so his references will still be made up but at least more amusing than this?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 1d

They're not even pretending to care about the shutdown. Too busy planning the violent civil war that Trump is so thirsty to incite.

Alex Koppelman @alexkoppelman.bsky.social · 1d

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 1d

This is the energy we need.

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 1d

“If you come for my people, you come for me. So come and get me.”
IL Gov. JB Pritzker talks to @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social about Pres. Trump's call for the governor to be jailed

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 1d

This applies to basically anything in popular culture the Right is outraged about. They're always worked up over something.

Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1d

imagine if we just ignored conservatives' complaints about the Super Bowl every year. they always do this!

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 1d

On the same day Comey was arraigned. Again, the Trump Regime's agenda is clear. They're thirsty to punish their enemies using every lever of power they have, and create new levers to empower the Regime even further.

We have to say "enough." I'm convinced it starts with the blue-state governors.

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

NEW: Trump said on social media this morning that top Illinois Democrats Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson should be imprisoned for allegedly failing to protect ICE officials — a claim that contradicts the reality on the ground in the Windy City.

Trump Claims Illinois Democratic Gov. Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Johnson ‘Should Be In Jail’

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. They keep telling us who they are and what their agenda is. They're not trying to hide it or be coy about it. Society has to respond in kind. Starting with the elites.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Everything they are doing & saying right now is very obviously meant to clear the way for mass repressive violence.

Fact checking is not going to do shit.

Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit.

We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 2d

Huh, it turns out I can still be shocked. WTF were you thinking, @cnn.com?

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 2d

This is one of those *what exactly have I been doing with the last ten years of my life* moments. We made real progress, then came a monster backlash, and now the people whose grift is exploiting terrified parents are running the country.

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d

NEW:

Last month Trump and RFK Jr announced the FDA was was recommending a new drug to treat autism — leucovorin

But they failed to provide any more information. So parents flocked to a Facebook group, that quickly filled with chaos, confusion and conspiracies

www.wired.com/story/chaos-...

Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr’s Autism ‘Cure’

A Facebook group set up to share information about leucovorin has been spammed by affiliate links and supplement companies trying to shame parents of autistic kids.

www.wired.com

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss took the "carry yourself with the the confidence of a mediocre white man," meme as a mantra, huh? So much that she's convinced the powers that be she's one of them.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 3d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 2d

Well then.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 3d

If @govpritzker.illinois.gov & @governor.ca.gov leave the National Gov Association for being silent as the Trump admin unleashes on Chicago, Portland @tinakotek.bsky.social @governorferguson.bsky.social @governorwalz.mn.gov @governor.ny.gov and other Dem gov should also do the same in solidarity.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 4d

Bari is going to run CBS News not because of her journalism, or even because of The Free Press, but because much of the mainstream media serves as a vessel for elites to distribute power to their allies

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 A call for a Blue constitutional convention.

"Like the founders, we should create a limited, invitation-only body – an embryonic constitutional convention – that the anti-Trump blue states exclusively set up for themselves, limit to themselves, and control."

🧾 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how | Thomas Geoghegan

States opposed to Trump can create a compact – a new prototype for American government – even if it’s perceived as political theater

www.theguardian.com

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