Randie Melton
@randiem.bsky.social
Retired old tranma from the land of the Pines (N.C.). Glacially transitioning. Like cooking, wine, some sports, dogs, family, discovering myself
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Agree 💯 With Steven......
December 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Agree 💯 With Steven......
Ah, the holiday season rolls on. The experiment: can humans subsist solely on sugar and carbs?
December 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Ah, the holiday season rolls on. The experiment: can humans subsist solely on sugar and carbs?
An under appreciated facet of the rural turn towards red is the radicalization/politicalization of evangelicals and rural churches. Literally a sin to vote Democratic in many quarters.
I do think probably the most influential demographic/cultural shift of the last decade or two is that rural America has become culturally and political homogenous practically overnight
December 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
An under appreciated facet of the rural turn towards red is the radicalization/politicalization of evangelicals and rural churches. Literally a sin to vote Democratic in many quarters.
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They don’t even mean christian by faith, not really. They mean christian by ideology, as in, holding their specific right wing resentments and prejudices.
December 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
They don’t even mean christian by faith, not really. They mean christian by ideology, as in, holding their specific right wing resentments and prejudices.
Why did you transition, wrong answers only
Women’s fashion is just so practical!
Women’s fashion is just so practical!
Why did you transition, wrong answers only
Because "Yorkshire lass" just rolls off the tongue.
Because "Yorkshire lass" just rolls off the tongue.
Why did you transition, wrong answers only
Because a granny at the borough market once told me I looked like a pretty girl when I was seven.
Because a granny at the borough market once told me I looked like a pretty girl when I was seven.
December 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Why did you transition, wrong answers only
Women’s fashion is just so practical!
Women’s fashion is just so practical!
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Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power
December 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power
Welp, the Packers needed some ingenuity to lose that one, but they found a way.
December 21, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Welp, the Packers needed some ingenuity to lose that one, but they found a way.
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How the nyt used the Cass report to restart its anti-trans propaganda campaign in the US:
Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science
Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science
One reason the NYT has burned its credibility with trans people is that they still cite the discredited Cass report in reporting on trans healthcare. Never the German, Utah, or other systematic reviews supporting care. They also never provide the political context behind restrictions in care.
December 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
How the nyt used the Cass report to restart its anti-trans propaganda campaign in the US:
Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science
Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science
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Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
December 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
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Whether it's an obscure adjunct professor posting that Charlie Kirk did some bad things or it's the president of the United States celebrating Rob Reiner's death, there's plenty of incivility on both sides.
December 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Whether it's an obscure adjunct professor posting that Charlie Kirk did some bad things or it's the president of the United States celebrating Rob Reiner's death, there's plenty of incivility on both sides.
Twitter has sadly ceased to be an open platform. Last time I tried to respond to someone there my tweet was classified as hate speech because I referred to someone “channeling your inner TERF.”
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Twitter has sadly ceased to be an open platform. Last time I tried to respond to someone there my tweet was classified as hate speech because I referred to someone “channeling your inner TERF.”
Fine skeet in its own right, but cloacal purpose is *chef’s kiss.*
Well, do you ever hear anyone talk about Rush Limbaugh? No. He served a purely cloacal purpose. He was a human sewer pipe, and once death rendered him unfit for that purpose, he was forgotten. These are monstrous people.
December 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Fine skeet in its own right, but cloacal purpose is *chef’s kiss.*
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🧵🧵🧵 When @rivkahbrown.bsky.social Published her story in Novara Media evidencing that Hilary Cass was already anti-trans before the Cass Review, I was intrigued by the fact that Cass hadn't tried to sue her or Novara. But if this report by @sophiemolly.co.uk is true, and she is advising on...
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'One parent told me that she was hearing reports of Dr Hillary Cass (of the Cass Review) teaching staff at NHS Sussex on how to detransition trans children.'
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Giving a voice to the voiceless – A trans woman investigates
How and why I investigated what is going on with the treatment of trans children in Sussex, and how if affects the children, their families and me
northwestbylines.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
🧵🧵🧵 When @rivkahbrown.bsky.social Published her story in Novara Media evidencing that Hilary Cass was already anti-trans before the Cass Review, I was intrigued by the fact that Cass hadn't tried to sue her or Novara. But if this report by @sophiemolly.co.uk is true, and she is advising on...
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lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...
December 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...
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White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law
NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law
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NEW:
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
NEW:
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
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The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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one of the reasons I stopped engaging in these discussions is our opponents are incapable of addressing criticism. but the point for them is not to hash out these issues, it's to repeat the same thing over and over again until it starts to look like the "truth" for people with institutional power.
Utterly baffling to insist any description of sex as a phenomenon in humans must be applicable to every species with a sex, not least when the more universal a definition of sex becomes the less utility it has.
(And has the state of the argument really progressed so little in six years!?)
(And has the state of the argument really progressed so little in six years!?)
December 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
one of the reasons I stopped engaging in these discussions is our opponents are incapable of addressing criticism. but the point for them is not to hash out these issues, it's to repeat the same thing over and over again until it starts to look like the "truth" for people with institutional power.
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People
A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic.
(Note for free subscriber...
www.burnsnotice.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
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Knees in the trap
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...
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American Student Ends Up Trapped in Giant Vagina Sculpture
Firefighters embarked on an "extraordinary rescue mission" when an American exchange student got his leg trapped inside a giant vagina sculpture.
www.nbcnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Knees in the trap
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...
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Trans people: If your partner insults your appearance, mocks your efforts to transition, says they support you in one breath and then that you ruined their lives in the next, are embarrassed to be seen with you, or makes you feel like a burden, that's not your partner, that's your abuser.
December 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Trans people: If your partner insults your appearance, mocks your efforts to transition, says they support you in one breath and then that you ruined their lives in the next, are embarrassed to be seen with you, or makes you feel like a burden, that's not your partner, that's your abuser.