MelKo
wouldrathernot.bsky.social
MelKo
@wouldrathernot.bsky.social
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Xmas reminder: If GOP didn’t give 800 billionaires a $2T tax cut (again)—we’d have enough for SNAP & to cancel medical & student debt.

GOP sold out 200M Americans for 800 billionaires.

This is what class war on working people looks like. Stop bootlicking billionaires. Tax them out of existence.
December 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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It is the moral, ethical, and yes legally right for Democratic States and Cities to engage in Soft Secession by withholding federal taxes. This would not violate the Supremacy Clause, has immense precedent in US history, & the time to act is NOW.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/blue-state...
Blue States: It Is Time For Soft Secession
Democratic run State and County Govts contribute 71% of the United States economy, and it's past time they flexed their muscle to protect our humanity
www.qasimrashid.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A fucking beautiful essay 🖤
open.substack.com/pub/youngmim...
i fucking love making billionaires money everyday bro
creating art in time of war
open.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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A ceasefire in Gaza is necessary. But we cannot stop here. We need immediate aid, accountability for those who committed genocide & more crimes, and yes—Palestinian statehood.

Sign the global petition to demand the US Government recognize the state of Palestine:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/peace-for-...
Peace For Palestine (And Israel) Demands Palestinian Statehood
A Ceasefire Is Necessary But Alone Insufficient — Recognition, Aid, & Accountability Must Follow. Sign the petition to demand the United States recognize Palestinian statehood.
www.qasimrashid.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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“Brendan Carr has made very clear that his M.O. is to wield the FCC’s power to approve media mergers, to extract concessions from media companies, to censor content that he dislikes and that President Trump dislikes,” @seth-stern.bsky.social told @fortune.com.
Behind the fall and resurrection of Jimmy Kimmel is a $6.2 billion merger and the companies that serve rural, conservative audiences | Fortune
FCC pressure and multibillion-dollar mergers aren’t even the full story. The future of linear TV is up for grabs.
fortune.com
September 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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One fact is clear—ICE is afraid of us.

ICE boarded up their buildings, put up fences, hid behind masks, forced us to move to a new location, & pepper balled peaceful protestors. They know their only hope is to divide us in culture wars. We cannot let them. www.qasimrashid.com/p/when-prote...
When Protesting ICE, We Need Messengers Not Martyrs
As ICE fascists increase their violence against innocent people, a word of reflection on how we make progress
www.qasimrashid.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Lastly, social media is not useless and that narrative is basically fed shit at this point. They're literally shutting it down and clogging it with AI because of how effective it has been in countering decades of propaganda. Use it while we have it, and have redundancy in your comms.
August 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Hey 👋🏾 It's victim blaming to carp on folks voting like we're the problem when the system is rigged at the top level by the EC, the state level by gerrymandering, & the local level by suppression, plus we can't afford lunch while watching genocide unfold & getting popped by LE

Yes I vote but bffr
May 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
May 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Authoritarian states happen step by step, then all at once. But you couldn't get to this point from a healthy, functional state.

Black folks, Indigenous people, etc have been trying to tell you **based on our lived experience** that "regular" US politics & overt fascism are siblings, maybe twins.
April 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
April 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Endless debate as to what Booker's speech would accomplish, then not a day he later votes AGAINST stopping some weapon sales to the blue and white.

Y'all really have to stop falling for it. We are not just being crabby for no reason. It's the same trick over & over. They. Will. Not. Save. Us.
April 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
😂
"...so like i said a tariff is clearly a tax and in this case it is not even a reciprocal tariff he is just a complete dipshit tbh"
April 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Booker can talk real pretty, (especially right before he mass spams everyone with donation requests), I get it.
His actions are morally reprehensible, and I CANNOT with people trying to gloss over his shit track record because of a fucking speech that accomplished nothing.
What is more morally urgent that stopping the slaughter of men women and children being bombed and starved to death in an open air prison with no where to escape? Funded totally by us tax payers ?
It doesn’t make the first 25 hour morality list? expect human beings to swallow this garbage ?
April 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Here are the names of the 15 Democrats who voted to block sending more bombs to Netanyahu--and the names of the 32 who voted with MAGA Republicans to keep funding genocide and war crimes.

You cannot fight the fascist at home if you're funding a fascist abroad.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/netanyahu-...
Here Are the 15 Democrats Who Blocked Bombs to Netanyahu—the Rest Voted with MAGA
As Netanyahu breaks the ceasefire, again, 85 Senators vote to continue to arm him with even more bombs
www.qasimrashid.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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FBI is turning into online rent-a-cops for CEOs, spying on social media posts it considers threatening to corporate execs, per new FBI doc obtained under FOIA by @ryanshapiro.bsky.social of @propotp.bsky.social. Give them a follow for more FOIA fireworks!
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-become...
FBI Becomes Rent-A-Cops for CEOs
Feds are watching your sarcastic posts online as part of Trump's new war on terrorism
www.kenklippenstein.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Joe Biden, 2019: “I say, ‘Stay a Republican.’ Vote for me but stay a Republican, because we need a Republican Party.”

Consider:
"What are politics for? To appear just tolerable enough to get someone’s vote once, but not bring them to see the world differently, to help them see it how you see it?"
'We Need a Strong Republican Party,' Democrats Always Say. How About a Strong Democratic One?
After nine years of Trump, Chuck Schumer wants you to think there are some Republicans just waiting for the right time to be noble.
zeteo.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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March 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
L O L
February 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
With dogs and books, and lots of snow. It’s all I want 🥲
I want to live in total isolation in the middle of the woods, but with a bustling asian market if that makes sense
February 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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