Melanie Welch
@mnapoleonwelch.bsky.social
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(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
Reposted by Melanie Welch
Reposted by Melanie Welch
This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about
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Libraries are doing more than ever. This #GivingTuesday, your gift strengthens the work that makes moments like this possible.
Support ALA and help build stronger libraries and stronger communities. Give today: bit.ly/ForOurLibraries
Support ALA and help build stronger libraries and stronger communities. Give today: bit.ly/ForOurLibraries
December 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Libraries are doing more than ever. This #GivingTuesday, your gift strengthens the work that makes moments like this possible.
Support ALA and help build stronger libraries and stronger communities. Give today: bit.ly/ForOurLibraries
Support ALA and help build stronger libraries and stronger communities. Give today: bit.ly/ForOurLibraries
Chicagoans, this is a joyful trip down memory lane. I was giggling with glee. My parents actually BOUGHT the videotape (they never bought frivolous stuff, ever) to watch on a rented VHS player back in 1985. I always loved Mike Singletary and this reminded me why. www.hbomax.com/movies/super...
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Watch The Shuffle on HBO Max. Plans start at $10.99/month. The Shuffle chronicles the making of the 1985 Chicago Bears' iconic rap music video "The Super Bowl Shuffle," which became a cultural phenome...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Chicagoans, this is a joyful trip down memory lane. I was giggling with glee. My parents actually BOUGHT the videotape (they never bought frivolous stuff, ever) to watch on a rented VHS player back in 1985. I always loved Mike Singletary and this reminded me why. www.hbomax.com/movies/super...
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Trust in science will increase when we stop all the money being used to fund anti-science political attacks and spread disinformation.
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Trust in science will increase when we stop all the money being used to fund anti-science political attacks and spread disinformation.
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Since Bovino left it seems every day or every other day I hear of someone abducted by ICE agents. It’s slower, less flashy, but still happening.
“Rey Wences, senior director of deportation defense at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, noted that “abductions” continue happening “every day in both the city and the suburbs.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Since Bovino left it seems every day or every other day I hear of someone abducted by ICE agents. It’s slower, less flashy, but still happening.
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NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
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Outside of Chicago, on the grounds of a former armory, decades ago an alliance of various orgs began restoring the prairie, and at Midewin Tallgrass Prairie they imported bison to roam the prairie once more. I love to visit my very large bi sons 💚🦬
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Outside of Chicago, on the grounds of a former armory, decades ago an alliance of various orgs began restoring the prairie, and at Midewin Tallgrass Prairie they imported bison to roam the prairie once more. I love to visit my very large bi sons 💚🦬
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"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny
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Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute
Photos: White House East Wing Demolished For Trump’s Ballroom
The privately funded ballroom will be approximately 90,000 square feet, much larger than the White House itself.
www.forbes.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute
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Trump’s EPA: where chemtrails are real and climate change isn’t.
EPA Commissioner Lee Zeldin announces his agency is launching a major investigation into the right-wing conspiracies about chemtrails and weather manipulation to get to the bottom of it.
October 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Trump’s EPA: where chemtrails are real and climate change isn’t.
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Jarrell (TX) Community Library became a true community hub with mental wellness programs, including neurodivergent youth support and dementia caregiver help. Director Susan Gregurek calls the ALA grant “a lifesaver.”
Your small and rural library could be next! Apply by Dec 11: ala.org/LTCAccess
Your small and rural library could be next! Apply by Dec 11: ala.org/LTCAccess
October 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Jarrell (TX) Community Library became a true community hub with mental wellness programs, including neurodivergent youth support and dementia caregiver help. Director Susan Gregurek calls the ALA grant “a lifesaver.”
Your small and rural library could be next! Apply by Dec 11: ala.org/LTCAccess
Your small and rural library could be next! Apply by Dec 11: ala.org/LTCAccess
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Chicago public bathroom reviews? A comedian’s commode takes go viral. 🚽
Delivered in his peppy Chicago accent, Al Scorch’s Instagram video reviews highlight the workmanship and unique features of public restrooms across the city. blockclubchi.co/43zQ6fu
Delivered in his peppy Chicago accent, Al Scorch’s Instagram video reviews highlight the workmanship and unique features of public restrooms across the city. blockclubchi.co/43zQ6fu
Chicago Public Bathroom Reviews? Comedian's Commode Takes Go Viral
Delivered in his peppy Chicago accent, Al Scorch’s Instagram video reviews highlight the workmanship and unique features of public restrooms across the city.
blockclubchi.co
October 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Chicago public bathroom reviews? A comedian’s commode takes go viral. 🚽
Delivered in his peppy Chicago accent, Al Scorch’s Instagram video reviews highlight the workmanship and unique features of public restrooms across the city. blockclubchi.co/43zQ6fu
Delivered in his peppy Chicago accent, Al Scorch’s Instagram video reviews highlight the workmanship and unique features of public restrooms across the city. blockclubchi.co/43zQ6fu
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Locally, in recent weeks especially, our communities have been very well served IMO by @blockclubchi.bsky.social @thetriibe.com @southsideweekly.bsky.social @unraveledpress.com @chicago.suntimes.com @wbez.org They are on the ground doing good work on the daily, give them support/$$ if you are able 💚
once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able
Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist
October 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Locally, in recent weeks especially, our communities have been very well served IMO by @blockclubchi.bsky.social @thetriibe.com @southsideweekly.bsky.social @unraveledpress.com @chicago.suntimes.com @wbez.org They are on the ground doing good work on the daily, give them support/$$ if you are able 💚
This sound is imprinted in my brain.
September 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This sound is imprinted in my brain.
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A minor thing that I love in Europe: the attached bottle cap.
September 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
A minor thing that I love in Europe: the attached bottle cap.
I’m waiting at the airport for a connection and the person to my right and the person to my left are both watching social media videos, full volume on speaker, a la dueling banjos. Why do people do this?
September 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I’m waiting at the airport for a connection and the person to my right and the person to my left are both watching social media videos, full volume on speaker, a la dueling banjos. Why do people do this?
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Every country on the planet has hate, conflict, domestic violence, and people in crisis.
But all of those things are exponentially more lethal here in the U.S., because all of those things are combined with easy access to guns.
You can’t shoot someone if you don’t have a gun in your hand.
But all of those things are exponentially more lethal here in the U.S., because all of those things are combined with easy access to guns.
You can’t shoot someone if you don’t have a gun in your hand.
September 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Every country on the planet has hate, conflict, domestic violence, and people in crisis.
But all of those things are exponentially more lethal here in the U.S., because all of those things are combined with easy access to guns.
You can’t shoot someone if you don’t have a gun in your hand.
But all of those things are exponentially more lethal here in the U.S., because all of those things are combined with easy access to guns.
You can’t shoot someone if you don’t have a gun in your hand.
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3 children were shot in a Denver high school today. There was an assassination at a political event on campus.
We need to protect our schools from guns and political violence.
We need to protect our schools from guns and political violence.
September 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
3 children were shot in a Denver high school today. There was an assassination at a political event on campus.
We need to protect our schools from guns and political violence.
We need to protect our schools from guns and political violence.
YES!
Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens?
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
YES!
Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
My favorite place in all of Chicago: Lincoln Park’s Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool Reopens After Years Of Renovation blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/10/l...
Lincoln Park’s Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool Reopens After Years Of Renovation
Designed by the famed architect behind Promontory Point, the pool is one of the city’s most treasured and celebrated architectural achievements.
blockclubchicago.org
September 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
My favorite place in all of Chicago: Lincoln Park’s Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool Reopens After Years Of Renovation blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/10/l...