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Melissa Jo Peltier

@melissjpeltier.bsky.social

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Veteran film/TV/media maker; NYT bestselling author; storyteller; dog mom. Direct descendant John Alden & Priscilla Mullins 1620. My American ancestors were defending democracy since 1776. 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 & #Ally 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 3d

#DailyZiggy: another sunset swim; visiting cruise ship in the background. Serenity.
#DogsOfBlueSky

Perky-earned dog from behind; swims through glassy water toward ball; stunning orange sunset & lighted cruise ship in bg.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 15h

Pardoning JG thugs was part of the plan. They were already violent.

The majority of violent & destructive incidents during BLM summer 2020 were agitators. It’s in the records

This is their playbook.

Agitators make peaceful protests into riots.

Riots cause more police/LE aggression.

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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 17h

Y’all. She’s importing criminals to Portland. Keep an eye out for this guy, causing problems. www.wweek.com/resizer/v2/B...

David A Medina circled in yellow as part of the January 6th insurrection inside the US Capitol

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Aonghus Ó hAlmhain @aonghusoha.bsky.social · 1d

Tusa
An bhfuil an ríomhlóid á cur chun cinn agat?

Saighdiúir Rúiseach le suaitheantas an dreama dearg ar a hata Budjonny

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 16h

Thank God you’re safe. Looking forward to hearing your story.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · Feb 18

A cost-of-living crisis isn't the easiest time to sell art, but: www.ciaraioch.com is where you can support my work, with each archival-quality print on textured heavy paper being produced here in Ireland, shipping internationally in eco-friendly packaging, with free mini-treats in every order 🎁

Collage of different prints from my online store

Close up of the Irish Aquatic Life print

Linocut print of Men Of The Blaskets, with small flowers beside it

Imbolc print next to purple flowers

#speirgorm #speirghorm #art #traditionalart #artist

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therealchely.bsky.social @therealchely.bsky.social · 1d

They are the evil we were warned about as children - the bad guys, the monsters, satan, the boogeyman under your bed, and we all must summon our strengths in one way or another to defeat them. This is that time. Time to use that rage.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 16h

How, indeed.
As Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
These people don’t self-reflect; they live in the moment like my dog, but unlike him - who milks each moment for maximum joy & affection- they use it to hoard resources & make excuses for themselves.
I don’t understand them.

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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 16h

There are PLENTY of well documented incidents. Rally around those and know they are the tip of the iceberg. If something particularly egregious is documented, work to verify it; the truth is stronger when it can't be easily denied. 4/

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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 16h

This is a reality distortion problem without ANY need for intervention by AI video, which only magnifies the issue. People seeking attention or jumping to conclusions or both create widespread misinformation. Stop and use judgment with video/photo sources before sharing. 2/

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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 16h

So here is an example of why I'm not sharing video purportedly from the scene of federal immigration/repression activities unless it's been authenticated. The first post (which is still up) has 4.5k reposts. The user understands that it is wrong or misleading but left it up. 1/

A screenshot of a bsky post saying "This Portland police officer stood up for his community against ICE agents trying to drive into a crowd of protesters. "You WILL be arrested." An accompanying video has a similar caption. The text and video are crossed out in red.

A follow up post from the same bsky user "A Goddess has NO KING" saying: "UPDATE: It looks like the people in the car may not be ICE but some other trouble makers. The caption on the original video is misleading. I'll turn off comments now, but still grateful for any law enforcement willing to stand up for their community's constitutional right to protest." This post has 39 reshares.

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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 16h

My general rule: Anonymous/pseudonymous accounts are presumed to have zero credibility without further verification. Many are people looking to be active in a way I think is misguided; some are intentionally farming clout. 3/

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 16h

He’s got to be cross-medicating; trading booze for coke or math or speed.

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CJP🫘 @captjohnparker.bsky.social · 1d

Hegs was a defective human being all along. But add the enormous responsibility of that job, commanding those flag officers, any one of whom could chew him up &
spit him out, with quitting (or pretending to have quit) booze cold turkey and a total breakdown would not be surprising.

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CJP🫘 @captjohnparker.bsky.social · 23h

(Continued)
The introduction tells of the still- evident impact to demographics of the coastal Carolinas & Georgia.
We can't ignore our history- it is all around us. White supremacy is the core "value"of this nation, from the "discovery" by the brutal C. Columbus on. Racism has governed EVERYTHING.

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CJP🫘 @captjohnparker.bsky.social · 23h

I just started Bennet Parton's "Somewhere Toward Freedom," an historical chronicle of Sherman's campaign through Georgia that was a major factor in ending the Civil War. It tells of some 20,000 emancipated Black people, joining in. A HUGE part of history I had never heard.
Buy it!
Read it! (More)⤵️

Photo of the dyst jacket cover ofvthe book. Title, description, author, and a photoof a covered wagon with about a dozen Black people of all ages in and around, a Union soldier on horseback to one side.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 16h

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Mr.Eddie8976 @mreddie8976.bsky.social · 23h

Exactly!

The media has failed the country for over a decade now, and they’re likely to keep on failing

Right @cnn.com @nytimes.com @kasie.bsky.social @kaitlancollins.bsky.social @jaketapper.bsky.social @peterbakernyt.bsky.social?

It’s all about the money, isn’t it?

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Jürgen R 💙🇺🇦 🐝 @dailykotzn.bsky.social · 22h

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 16h

There’s a whole lot of projection going on there!!!

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 17h

Steve Miller's rage must be from schoolyard taunts about projecting drive-in movies on his olympic-sized forehead

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 1d

"For any nation to be successful, it cannot teach its children to hate themselves and to hate their country." -Stephen Miller

So teaching the truth about America's racist past makes children hate themselves & country?

History class must have traumatized this snowflake.🔥☕️😏

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 17h

ever optimistic, I feel like we can get there incrementally. show them how it's done with little projects that gain traction. already starting to happen with indie journos

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 17h

bingo. meantime, so long as we have Murdoch's Fixed Noise lying to addicted viewers (and the cable-fees Faustian Bargain under-girding that toxicity) remaking media in the public interest will be next to impossible.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17h

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

George Pearkes @peark.es · 18h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 1d

Early and ad-free for patrons.
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Proudboys With Badges (feat. Adam Klasfeld; Anna Bower) | The Daily Beans & Mueller, She Wrote

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FloridaMan305 @floridaman305.bsky.social · 22h

They cut off his supply, those boats from Venezuela were for him

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

WATCH — @whitehouse.senate.gov : “What became of the $50,000 in cash in that Cava bag? Did the FBI get it back from Homan?”

AG PAM BONDI: *LASHES OUT aggressively, avoids answering entirely* 🤷🏼‍♀️

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