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Melanie 🐝🐝

@melbeebee.bsky.social

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NC Blue 🔵 democracy💙BLM🌈 feminist/pro-union/NOT giving up in ADVANCE/NOT giving in to fascists. Ret. CC English prof. Hope my students remember 2 ✅sources/think critically. USMC WWll IwoJima daughter #bluecrew #resistance

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Melanie 🐝🐝 @melbeebee.bsky.social · 3d

Just because an action is probably hard, or may not succeed, doesn't mean it shouldn't be attempted.

Keep trying to remove him in any way possible again and again. A tide turns eventually. We gain something with each attempt. By giving up in advance, we gain nothing.

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Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 19h

I’ve seen the pictures of Trump with Epstein’s girls. Here’s what’s in them - @michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Their outrage always seems to skip the actual predators.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 18h

In a few days, you may be notified that your health insurance premiums will double, because of Republican cuts to health care. Democrats are fighting to change that before it's too late.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 21h

Everyone needs to know that Dolly Parton responded to a climate disaster in her community with a temporary universal basic income for everyone who lost their homes.

Here's a short documentary about it:

The Great Equalizer: What Dolly Parton & a Tennessee Wildfire Can Teach About Universal Basic Income

YouTube video by In The Mesh

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Melanie 🐝🐝 @melbeebee.bsky.social · 20h

Looking at you, Pam.

Melanie 🐝🐝 @melbeebee.bsky.social · 20h

These are obscene numbers. Completely obscene.
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Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 22h

While everything that falls under his purview is necessarily also Trump's fault, the direct impact from the destruction of USAid makes Elon Musk one of the worst mass murderers of the post-WWII worldstate and that is not a thing I will ever let go of no matter how hard captured media tries to do so.

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M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 21h

“Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Susan @cobonics.bsky.social · 21h

Many of us know how horrific the cancellation of USAID was and that lives are being lost as a result. It is one of many reasons why I and others protest to Make America GENEROUS Again. We must remove this administration - which cannot come soon enough. THE PEOPLE have enormous power. Let’s use it.

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Melanie 🐝🐝 @melbeebee.bsky.social · 21h

They rape them and protect those who rape them. 😭

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Melanie 🐝🐝 @melbeebee.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you for reminding me. So much has happened since then. I really needed to hear this to remember someone did a good thing for people she didn't know. Although Dolly would say she did know them.

Get well, Dolly. 💙

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 1d

It’s a sad (and chilling) day when legacy media cannot be trusted to follow even the most basic tenets of journalism.

But when one of the world’s most influential and ubiquitous news sources uses a photo from the 1992 LA uprisings to characterize events in 2025 Portland, we’re at that point

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📎 Otto Von Danger @ottovondanger.bsky.social · 1d

Oh look Nazis Christians attacking a Christian priest...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.