Real Mel Valentin
@melvalentin.bsky.social
I'm here, I'm there, I'm everywhere. Writer-for-hire. SF-based film critic (Cinapse, Screen Anarchy, That Shelf). Pragmatic progressive.
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Michael Caine is sat waiting for his bill at a charming little bistro in Paris. He looks up and realises with shocked delight that, far from being killed in the explosion at the movie’s climactic moment, James Bond is at the next table over.
November 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Michael Caine is sat waiting for his bill at a charming little bistro in Paris. He looks up and realises with shocked delight that, far from being killed in the explosion at the movie’s climactic moment, James Bond is at the next table over.
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BREAKING: Twenty-four survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes have issued an emotional and urgent appeal to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, demanding that Congress vote to release the long-awaited Epstein files. meidasnews.com/news/survivo...
meidasnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
BREAKING: Twenty-four survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes have issued an emotional and urgent appeal to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, demanding that Congress vote to release the long-awaited Epstein files. meidasnews.com/news/survivo...
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It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.
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I commented on the election because I lived in NYC most of my life. This dumbass lives in Beverly Hills and probably still thinks NYC is the way it was depicted in MIDNIGHT COWBOY.
Jon Voight Begs Trump to ‘Terminate’ Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Mayor Win: ‘Only He Can Stop This Horror’
Jon Voight posted a bizarre video message, begging President Trump to "terminate" Zohran Mamdani's election win to be New York City mayor.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I commented on the election because I lived in NYC most of my life. This dumbass lives in Beverly Hills and probably still thinks NYC is the way it was depicted in MIDNIGHT COWBOY.
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In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
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These Megan Kelly clips are pretty good proof that a lot of people have gotten much much much worse over the last 10 years
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
These Megan Kelly clips are pretty good proof that a lot of people have gotten much much much worse over the last 10 years
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No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...
YELLEN: “.. businesses feel paralyzed by the uncertainty about policies that represent the strong but really personal whims of a single individual.”
@bloomberg.com
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November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...
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It’s the hottest economy in history with $21 trillion coming in.
Also: we need the Fed to cut rates and “prop up this economy.” 🤪
@atrupar.com
Also: we need the Fed to cut rates and “prop up this economy.” 🤪
@atrupar.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It’s the hottest economy in history with $21 trillion coming in.
Also: we need the Fed to cut rates and “prop up this economy.” 🤪
@atrupar.com
Also: we need the Fed to cut rates and “prop up this economy.” 🤪
@atrupar.com
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NEW: Pope Leo XIV will share a meal this Sunday with Alessia Nobile and four fellow transgender Catholic activists, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor — marking the most significant public encounter shared between a pope and the trans community.
NEW: Transgender Activists to Dine with Pope Leo XIV during Sunday's Jubilee for the Poor
Papal luncheon with trans advocate Alessia Nobile set for Sunday at Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor, highlighting a legacy of outreach and hopes for continued inclusion.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
NEW: Pope Leo XIV will share a meal this Sunday with Alessia Nobile and four fellow transgender Catholic activists, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor — marking the most significant public encounter shared between a pope and the trans community.
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The author(s) of this memo will come out and they should be shunned the rest of their careers in the law. (Seeing as how John Yoo is a law professor, I’m not getting my hopes up)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The author(s) of this memo will come out and they should be shunned the rest of their careers in the law. (Seeing as how John Yoo is a law professor, I’m not getting my hopes up)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
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Catholic bishops collectively taking to Tik Tok to decry the war on immigrants is very notable: www.tiktok.com/@usbishops/v...
“We as Catholic bishops love our country and pray for its peace and prosperity. For this very reason, we feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignit...
TikTok video by usbishops
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November 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Catholic bishops collectively taking to Tik Tok to decry the war on immigrants is very notable: www.tiktok.com/@usbishops/v...
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Friction
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November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Just a reminder, the coward who refused to accept an election loss in 2020 and then committed crimes trying to overthrow that election will certainly cheat, abuse his powers, and break the law to try to win the 2026 & 2028 elections.
He’s a real threat to democracy. Believe it.
He’s a real threat to democracy. Believe it.
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Just a reminder, the coward who refused to accept an election loss in 2020 and then committed crimes trying to overthrow that election will certainly cheat, abuse his powers, and break the law to try to win the 2026 & 2028 elections.
He’s a real threat to democracy. Believe it.
He’s a real threat to democracy. Believe it.
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"The reason why this is of concern, is—he's the president of the United States, he's been found in another case by a civil jury to have been liable for sexually abusing a woman in a department store, he's a convicted felon, and he's had dozens of women accuse him of sexual abuse."
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 AM
"The reason why this is of concern, is—he's the president of the United States, he's been found in another case by a civil jury to have been liable for sexually abusing a woman in a department store, he's a convicted felon, and he's had dozens of women accuse him of sexual abuse."
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This is odd, it looks like the DOJ skipped suing Texas entirely. The Justice Department is now suing California over the new congressional district boundaries that voters approved just last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday in a post on X. Who are they going to sue, the voters?
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
This is odd, it looks like the DOJ skipped suing Texas entirely. The Justice Department is now suing California over the new congressional district boundaries that voters approved just last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday in a post on X. Who are they going to sue, the voters?
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the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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Quite a read the day after the Epstein emails
gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Quite a read the day after the Epstein emails
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This is a BIG reason I wrote Burn It Down. I was v tired of doing One Bad Man stories & wanted to shout from the rooftops that every He's Just One Bad Man is NOT a one-off--each 1 is propped up by multiple interlocking systems of enabling, protection & even celebration. The SYSTEMS are def evergreen
Terrific book that unfortunately remains evergreen.
ANYWAY! My 2023 book -- about systemic, institutionalized, longstanding patterns of misconduct, abuse, predation, and the enabling and even the celebration of same by the powerful -- was titled Burn It Down 🔥🔥🔥🔥 just sayin' bookshop.org/p/books/burn...
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is a BIG reason I wrote Burn It Down. I was v tired of doing One Bad Man stories & wanted to shout from the rooftops that every He's Just One Bad Man is NOT a one-off--each 1 is propped up by multiple interlocking systems of enabling, protection & even celebration. The SYSTEMS are def evergreen
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The front page of today’s @nydailynews.com.
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The front page of today’s @nydailynews.com.
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A reminder that the Epstein files aren't a distraction from the oligarchy. They're an integral part of it.
A reminder: The perpetrators in the Epstein files are Oligarchs, and so are the ones protecting them.
November 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A reminder that the Epstein files aren't a distraction from the oligarchy. They're an integral part of it.