Mel Owen
@mellikins.bsky.social
Feminist, Christian, Grandmother, Liberal, Democrat. She/Her/Y’all. I mostly read social media for information. Don’t do a lot of posting, do like and re-post and sometimes reply. Grew up in MS, lived in ME, now in NH.
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And, yes, it's real
Fuck Trump - Necklace
It’s a quiet protest and a personal pledge to unity, justice, and accountability. Wear it as a symbol of strength, solidarity, and the power of speaking truth — even in code.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
And, yes, it's real
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December 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Mark Warner: "I hope it would remind folks that J6 was an ugly, awful day, and this administration and president basically pardoned all the perpetrators. It's that kind of picking and choosing of facts from this crowd that makes me a little bit crazy."
December 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Mark Warner: "I hope it would remind folks that J6 was an ugly, awful day, and this administration and president basically pardoned all the perpetrators. It's that kind of picking and choosing of facts from this crowd that makes me a little bit crazy."
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“I keep thinking about Anne Frank, who was kept alive with her family by a good friend named Miep,” said the Rev. Jane Mauldin, a Unitarian minister who was one of the volunteers who raced to the North Kenner raid on the roofers … “I keep in my head saying, ‘What would Miep do?’”
I went to New Orleans to see what it looks like when a great American city comes under siege from the government, as masked goons of 'Catahoula Crunch' lie about nabbing bad guys before swarming Home Depot, roofing jobs for folks with brown skin
My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-...
My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-...
Life during wartime in New Orleans as feds terrorize Latinos who saved a city | Will Bunch
The first day of long-feared federal immigration raids across Greater New Orleans exposes the Big Lie of mass deportation.
www.inquirer.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“I keep thinking about Anne Frank, who was kept alive with her family by a good friend named Miep,” said the Rev. Jane Mauldin, a Unitarian minister who was one of the volunteers who raced to the North Kenner raid on the roofers … “I keep in my head saying, ‘What would Miep do?’”
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On purpose.
A drone attacked a kindergarten in the village of Horoshe, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
On purpose.
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The same people who freaked out over Bill Gates supposedly installing microchips in us are cool with Palantir compiling files on all Americans, our Social Security info compromised, and the DOJ suing states to obtain unredacted voter information. But no more “big government,” right MAGA?
December 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The same people who freaked out over Bill Gates supposedly installing microchips in us are cool with Palantir compiling files on all Americans, our Social Security info compromised, and the DOJ suing states to obtain unredacted voter information. But no more “big government,” right MAGA?
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No #evidence of an increased mortality risk from #COVID19 #vaccines in a large cohort study, but strong evidence showing protection from severe COVID-19 and COVID-19-associated deaths. #vaccine #vaccination #Covid #MedSky 🧪 #PoliSky
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
jamanetwork.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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A drone attacked a kindergarten in the village of Horoshe, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
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t.me/dnipro_dnepr...
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
A drone attacked a kindergarten in the village of Horoshe, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
t.me/dnipro_dnepr...
t.me/dnipro_dnepr...
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Still can't believe that this administration has got me cheering the Catholic Church
Church displays ‘ICE was here’ sign in Nativity scene
A church in Massachusetts is making a statement with its Nativity scene.
www.wowt.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Still can't believe that this administration has got me cheering the Catholic Church
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Putin owns trump.....
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Putin owns trump.....
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“It’s a pretty safe bet whose back Lee Beaman will have.”
-@SenWhitehouse highlights the Trump TVA appointee’s ties to Big Oil, says he’s going to keep TVA hooked on fossil fuels even at higher prices
-@SenMarkey asks the cheapest energy — Beaman doesn’t know 🤷🏼 (It’s solar🌞)
-@SenWhitehouse highlights the Trump TVA appointee’s ties to Big Oil, says he’s going to keep TVA hooked on fossil fuels even at higher prices
-@SenMarkey asks the cheapest energy — Beaman doesn’t know 🤷🏼 (It’s solar🌞)
December 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“It’s a pretty safe bet whose back Lee Beaman will have.”
-@SenWhitehouse highlights the Trump TVA appointee’s ties to Big Oil, says he’s going to keep TVA hooked on fossil fuels even at higher prices
-@SenMarkey asks the cheapest energy — Beaman doesn’t know 🤷🏼 (It’s solar🌞)
-@SenWhitehouse highlights the Trump TVA appointee’s ties to Big Oil, says he’s going to keep TVA hooked on fossil fuels even at higher prices
-@SenMarkey asks the cheapest energy — Beaman doesn’t know 🤷🏼 (It’s solar🌞)
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NEW: Judge Lorna Schofield heard arguments today on whether northern New York’s top federal prosecutor, John Sarcone, was lawfully appointed.
The NY attorney general, Letitia James, is challenging the legality of Sarcone’s authority to oversee a grand jury investigation targeting her office.
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The NY attorney general, Letitia James, is challenging the legality of Sarcone’s authority to oversee a grand jury investigation targeting her office.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
NEW: Judge Lorna Schofield heard arguments today on whether northern New York’s top federal prosecutor, John Sarcone, was lawfully appointed.
The NY attorney general, Letitia James, is challenging the legality of Sarcone’s authority to oversee a grand jury investigation targeting her office.
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The NY attorney general, Letitia James, is challenging the legality of Sarcone’s authority to oversee a grand jury investigation targeting her office.
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Let me get this straight: Trump has a plan for a new ballroom, but barely has a concept of a plan to lower the cost of health care?
December 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Let me get this straight: Trump has a plan for a new ballroom, but barely has a concept of a plan to lower the cost of health care?
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This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.
For the last decade, the pervasive spread of bullshit & manipulation of online platforms have been widely recognized societal concerns. Now non US citizens studying those subjects can be labeled “censors” & denied visas or deported from the US. Censorship, indeed. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Exclusive: Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa
An internal State Department memo said that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech should be considered for rejection.
www.reuters.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.
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growing problem for the dems is that their voters want progressive candidates but the party leadership generally doesn't. so there's no structure to identify and vet good progressive candidates until it's too late.
The noisiest Dem primary so far is probably Maine Senate, and here for instance I think it’s useful to see that despite all the bad publicity Platner still appears to be the favorite:
December 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
growing problem for the dems is that their voters want progressive candidates but the party leadership generally doesn't. so there's no structure to identify and vet good progressive candidates until it's too late.
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"Terrible things are happening outside ... poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." — Anne Frank (Jan 13, 1943)
“I keep thinking about Anne Frank, who was kept alive with her family by a good friend named Miep,” said the Rev. Jane Mauldin, a Unitarian minister who was one of the volunteers who raced to the North Kenner raid on the roofers … “I keep in my head saying, ‘What would Miep do?’”
I went to New Orleans to see what it looks like when a great American city comes under siege from the government, as masked goons of 'Catahoula Crunch' lie about nabbing bad guys before swarming Home Depot, roofing jobs for folks with brown skin
My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-...
My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-...
December 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"Terrible things are happening outside ... poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." — Anne Frank (Jan 13, 1943)
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Radio host Dan Bongino said last January that the FBI was covering up who the J6 bomber was because it was an "inside job."
The next month, Bongino was named FBI deputy director, and today he's crowing because they arrested a J6 bomb subject ... who didn't happen to be working in FBI headquarters.
The next month, Bongino was named FBI deputy director, and today he's crowing because they arrested a J6 bomb subject ... who didn't happen to be working in FBI headquarters.
Dan Bongino on J6 pipe bomb | Media Matters for America
www.mediamatters.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Radio host Dan Bongino said last January that the FBI was covering up who the J6 bomber was because it was an "inside job."
The next month, Bongino was named FBI deputy director, and today he's crowing because they arrested a J6 bomb subject ... who didn't happen to be working in FBI headquarters.
The next month, Bongino was named FBI deputy director, and today he's crowing because they arrested a J6 bomb subject ... who didn't happen to be working in FBI headquarters.
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Holy shit, we almost had a self awareness moment but nah
Patel: When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation's Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life.
But i guess attacking Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police that gets you pardoned and favor with donald. 🙄
But i guess attacking Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police that gets you pardoned and favor with donald. 🙄
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Holy shit, we almost had a self awareness moment but nah
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It turns out, when you mix the 2016 video of Pete Hegseth talking about troops not following unlawful orders with the recent Democratic PSA on the same subject, their message flows together pretty seamlessly.
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It turns out, when you mix the 2016 video of Pete Hegseth talking about troops not following unlawful orders with the recent Democratic PSA on the same subject, their message flows together pretty seamlessly.
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Psaki: Pete Hegseth is "having the worst week of his career."
December 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Psaki: Pete Hegseth is "having the worst week of his career."
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Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released.
“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
December 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released.
“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
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I'm not sure voiding pardons is a path the senile, trouser-soiling former game show host's cult members are going to like...
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I'm not sure voiding pardons is a path the senile, trouser-soiling former game show host's cult members are going to like...
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THIS IS BOTH AMUSING AND ALARMING.
NOTHING IN THIS COUNTRY IS DONE BY PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION, YET EVERY TIME HE DOES THIS, CONGRESS BENDS OVER AND MAKES IT SO.
NOTHING IN THIS COUNTRY IS DONE BY PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION, YET EVERY TIME HE DOES THIS, CONGRESS BENDS OVER AND MAKES IT SO.
December 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
THIS IS BOTH AMUSING AND ALARMING.
NOTHING IN THIS COUNTRY IS DONE BY PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION, YET EVERY TIME HE DOES THIS, CONGRESS BENDS OVER AND MAKES IT SO.
NOTHING IN THIS COUNTRY IS DONE BY PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION, YET EVERY TIME HE DOES THIS, CONGRESS BENDS OVER AND MAKES IT SO.