Just Melissa (she/her)
@pnwmelissa.bsky.social
Rescue & foster dogs, photogenic cats, gardening, social justice, etc. Coast Guard veteran. Free Palestine. “Leftists” who shit on “libs” can get fucked. I don’t believe all cops are bastards, but definitely more than half. Somewhere near Seattle, USA.
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To the whole world:
After Gianni Infantino's World Cup Draw 💩 show:
BOYCOTT World Cup 2026 in Trump's America !
It's not safe there anymore.
💠 🧐 💠
To the whole world:
After Gianni Infantino's World Cup Draw 💩 show:
BOYCOTT World Cup 2026 in Trump's America !
It's not safe there anymore.
💠 🧐 💠
December 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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To the whole world:
After Gianni Infantino's World Cup Draw 💩 show:
BOYCOTT World Cup 2026 in Trump's America !
It's not safe there anymore.
💠 🧐 💠
To the whole world:
After Gianni Infantino's World Cup Draw 💩 show:
BOYCOTT World Cup 2026 in Trump's America !
It's not safe there anymore.
💠 🧐 💠
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So many scandals now but pay attention to this: DOJ has sued 14 states-12 led by Dems-to demand full unredacted voter files in order to turbocharge Trump voter suppression plans
@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
So many scandals now but pay attention to this: DOJ has sued 14 states-12 led by Dems-to demand full unredacted voter files in order to turbocharge Trump voter suppression plans
@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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You THINK you know Canada? I’ll bet you don’t even get half of these right! 😜
December 5, 2025 at 5:32 AM
You THINK you know Canada? I’ll bet you don’t even get half of these right! 😜
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🏠 Home for the Holidays 🏠
MELIA is only 3.5 years old, around 50 lbs, needs a peaceful adult only home. No dogs. Cats are ok. Shes needs a patient, kind, caring, loving human. Please be her hero. Over 810 days
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
MELIA is only 3.5 years old, around 50 lbs, needs a peaceful adult only home. No dogs. Cats are ok. Shes needs a patient, kind, caring, loving human. Please be her hero. Over 810 days
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
December 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
🏠 Home for the Holidays 🏠
MELIA is only 3.5 years old, around 50 lbs, needs a peaceful adult only home. No dogs. Cats are ok. Shes needs a patient, kind, caring, loving human. Please be her hero. Over 810 days
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
MELIA is only 3.5 years old, around 50 lbs, needs a peaceful adult only home. No dogs. Cats are ok. Shes needs a patient, kind, caring, loving human. Please be her hero. Over 810 days
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
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In a world awash with negative science/health news this is unashamedly great news. connectsci.au/news/news-pa...
Seventh patient in HIV remission after stem cell transplant | News | ConnectSci
connectsci.au
December 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM
In a world awash with negative science/health news this is unashamedly great news. connectsci.au/news/news-pa...
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🚨BREAKING: “Roshel armored vehicles in Ontario has just completed a deal to supply 20 vehicles to ICE.”
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I think I can speak for most Canadians: WTF 🤬😡
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I think I can speak for most Canadians: WTF 🤬😡
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
🚨BREAKING: “Roshel armored vehicles in Ontario has just completed a deal to supply 20 vehicles to ICE.”
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I think I can speak for most Canadians: WTF 🤬😡
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I think I can speak for most Canadians: WTF 🤬😡
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LIVE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON REACTION
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM
LIVE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON REACTION
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VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE THAT WILL WORK TO EARN YOUR VOTE
Tomorrow is election day, TN-7, and I'm humbly asking for your vote. I promise to be accessible and only beholden to the voters of the district, never donors or special interests. Polls open at 7 AM & close at 7 PM. Let's go out and win this!
Tomorrow is election day, TN-7, and I'm humbly asking for your vote. I promise to be accessible and only beholden to the voters of the district, never donors or special interests. Polls open at 7 AM & close at 7 PM. Let's go out and win this!
December 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE THAT WILL WORK TO EARN YOUR VOTE
Tomorrow is election day, TN-7, and I'm humbly asking for your vote. I promise to be accessible and only beholden to the voters of the district, never donors or special interests. Polls open at 7 AM & close at 7 PM. Let's go out and win this!
Tomorrow is election day, TN-7, and I'm humbly asking for your vote. I promise to be accessible and only beholden to the voters of the district, never donors or special interests. Polls open at 7 AM & close at 7 PM. Let's go out and win this!
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UW and Fred Hutch researchers, and many others, are bringing us closer to a cure for HIV.
In Washington state, we're proud to thank our scientists today on World AIDS Day.
In Washington state, we're proud to thank our scientists today on World AIDS Day.
Path to HIV cure includes Seattle scientists
Two new studies provide insights into a possible cure for HIV, and feature the work of researchers from the UW and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.
www.seattletimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
UW and Fred Hutch researchers, and many others, are bringing us closer to a cure for HIV.
In Washington state, we're proud to thank our scientists today on World AIDS Day.
In Washington state, we're proud to thank our scientists today on World AIDS Day.
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Now seems a very good time to remind Americans that the Queer Liberation Library exists, and its online.
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Now seems a very good time to remind Americans that the Queer Liberation Library exists, and its online.
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NYC: ICE is staging at Centre and Howard St. Get down there if you can.
Happening now near Canal Street, federal agents had been staging inside a fed owned parking garage, now being confronted by a group of protesters. masked agents are looking on from above.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
NYC: ICE is staging at Centre and Howard St. Get down there if you can.
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The heart and soul of Trumpism in one tweet
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The heart and soul of Trumpism in one tweet
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ICE is using Uber stickers in order to disguise themselves and kidnap people. Spread this for awareness!
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
ICE is using Uber stickers in order to disguise themselves and kidnap people. Spread this for awareness!
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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1. It would appear that in recent reporting, the BBC is now using the phrase "biological male who identifies as a woman" when they mean to talk about a transgender woman.
This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
BBC Now Calling Trans Women 'Biological Males Who Identify As Women'
These stories come in the aftermath of allegations that a small but mighty cabal of “LGBT reporters” had somehow seized control of the BBC and “censored” right-wing views.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1. It would appear that in recent reporting, the BBC is now using the phrase "biological male who identifies as a woman" when they mean to talk about a transgender woman.
This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Joy "joyah" 🐶
Adult female American Staffordshire Terrier mix
Adoptable from Sunnyside Street Dogs (Houston, TX)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/joy-joyah-79691520/pa/state-college/sunnyside-street-dogs-tx2720/
Adult female American Staffordshire Terrier mix
Adoptable from Sunnyside Street Dogs (Houston, TX)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/joy-joyah-79691520/pa/state-college/sunnyside-street-dogs-tx2720/
November 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Joy "joyah" 🐶
Adult female American Staffordshire Terrier mix
Adoptable from Sunnyside Street Dogs (Houston, TX)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/joy-joyah-79691520/pa/state-college/sunnyside-street-dogs-tx2720/
Adult female American Staffordshire Terrier mix
Adoptable from Sunnyside Street Dogs (Houston, TX)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/joy-joyah-79691520/pa/state-college/sunnyside-street-dogs-tx2720/
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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A video surfaced showing the brutalization of community members by ICE and the St. Paul, Minnesota PD after ICE abducted two of their neighbors. As a result of the chemical munitions and police beatings, eight people, including a journalist, were hospitalized. 11/25/25
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
A video surfaced showing the brutalization of community members by ICE and the St. Paul, Minnesota PD after ICE abducted two of their neighbors. As a result of the chemical munitions and police beatings, eight people, including a journalist, were hospitalized. 11/25/25
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Sometimes military members are given orders which are legal but that they feel are clearly immoral. The GI Rights Hotline can help: 1-877-447-4487
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Sometimes military members are given orders which are legal but that they feel are clearly immoral. The GI Rights Hotline can help: 1-877-447-4487
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Are you in the military? Are you concerned that the chain is command is fucking up and giving illegal orders? Call the GI Rights Hotline 1-877-447-4487
girightshotline.org
girightshotline.org
GI Rights Hotline: Military Discharges and Military Counseling
Are you in the military or thinking about joining? Are you unsure of where to get reliable answers? Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487. Call for yourself or someone you care about Free and c...
girightshotline.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Are you in the military? Are you concerned that the chain is command is fucking up and giving illegal orders? Call the GI Rights Hotline 1-877-447-4487
girightshotline.org
girightshotline.org
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Not only is Waymo ICE, but they killed a cat!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/waymo-san-francisco-kit-kat.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3k8.pZjL.9oiY_Eewir9c&smid=nytcore-ios-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/waymo-san-francisco-kit-kat.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3k8.pZjL.9oiY_Eewir9c&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Waymo Was Thriving in San Francisco. Then One of Its Driverless Cars Killed a Cat.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Not only is Waymo ICE, but they killed a cat!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/waymo-san-francisco-kit-kat.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3k8.pZjL.9oiY_Eewir9c&smid=nytcore-ios-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/waymo-san-francisco-kit-kat.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3k8.pZjL.9oiY_Eewir9c&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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X's new location transparency feature shows that a slew of MAGA-branded accounts are apparently based outside the U.S., and also stirred speculative outrage over where the Department of Homeland Security account was created.
X's new location transparency feature unleashes questions about origins of MAGA accounts
The function, which shows that a slew of MAGA-branded accounts are apparently based outside the U.S., also stirred speculative outrage over where the Department of Homeland Security account was created.
nbcnews.to
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
X's new location transparency feature shows that a slew of MAGA-branded accounts are apparently based outside the U.S., and also stirred speculative outrage over where the Department of Homeland Security account was created.
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We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation.
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation.
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Find a place in your heart for Bette, located in Lawrenceville, GA.
Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/cat/bette-77396606/ga/lawrenceville/society-of-humane-friends-of-ga-inc-ga336/
Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/cat/bette-77396606/ga/lawrenceville/society-of-humane-friends-of-ga-inc-ga336/
November 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Find a place in your heart for Bette, located in Lawrenceville, GA.
Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/cat/bette-77396606/ga/lawrenceville/society-of-humane-friends-of-ga-inc-ga336/
Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/cat/bette-77396606/ga/lawrenceville/society-of-humane-friends-of-ga-inc-ga336/