Melissa
@youcancallmemel.bsky.social
maker of things 👩🏻🍳 🍽️ 🧶 ✂️ 🪡 🧵
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Vin Scully once told a story about me ⚾️
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Vin Scully once told a story about me ⚾️
The most gifted individuals.
January 15, 2026 at 3:50 PM
The most gifted individuals.
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I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.
January 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.
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They have fucking assault rifles and we have whistles and they’re scared shitless, because they know we’d rather be righteous and dead than ever be them.
January 15, 2026 at 3:56 AM
They have fucking assault rifles and we have whistles and they’re scared shitless, because they know we’d rather be righteous and dead than ever be them.
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Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
January 15, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
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I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
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The most enlightening and disappointing thing to come out of this ICE shooting is that the right legitimately does not give a fuck about human life if it harms their political narrative.
Watching people malign a 37 year old mother for being murdered by her country is insane.
Watching people malign a 37 year old mother for being murdered by her country is insane.
January 8, 2026 at 11:50 PM
The most enlightening and disappointing thing to come out of this ICE shooting is that the right legitimately does not give a fuck about human life if it harms their political narrative.
Watching people malign a 37 year old mother for being murdered by her country is insane.
Watching people malign a 37 year old mother for being murdered by her country is insane.
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These are dead enders. And they now have an army of thugs on the federal payroll, with a license to kill..... 11/
January 8, 2026 at 6:25 PM
These are dead enders. And they now have an army of thugs on the federal payroll, with a license to kill..... 11/
Okay - really am taking a mental health break. Be well, everyone.
January 7, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Okay - really am taking a mental health break. Be well, everyone.
the heroes we need 🫡
I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
I’m eating lunch, I’m having a panic attack, I’m charging my phone, and then I’m going back out to try and keep my neighborhood safe.
January 7, 2026 at 9:11 PM
the heroes we need 🫡
How physically fit does one have to be to pull a trigger.
January 7, 2026 at 8:45 PM
How physically fit does one have to be to pull a trigger.
Took him 6 years to officially rewrite the history of January 6th. Took him a couple hours to rewrite today’s horrific events. Neither of those actions changes the facts that we all witnessed with our own eyes.
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
January 7, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Took him 6 years to officially rewrite the history of January 6th. Took him a couple hours to rewrite today’s horrific events. Neither of those actions changes the facts that we all witnessed with our own eyes.
What will waiting til Nov do to stop this insanity & holy crap man, in this moment for your message to be wait *10 more months* to try & do something, anything, is just 🤯
By your own admission, we got *HERE* in less than a year but, sure, let’s see where we’re at that many more months from now 🤯🤯
By your own admission, we got *HERE* in less than a year but, sure, let’s see where we’re at that many more months from now 🤯🤯
Trump is using ICE like a secret police force. They’ve used Gestapo-like tactics to terrorize communities for nearly a year, and now they’re literally killing people. This can’t be America.
I was the first member of Congress to call for abolishing ICE. November’s elections can’t come soon enough.
I was the first member of Congress to call for abolishing ICE. November’s elections can’t come soon enough.
There is video of the shooting of a woman by ICE in Minneapolis circulating that shows an ICE agent repeatedly shooting her at point blank range while she tries to drive off. There was no obvious threat to any ICE agent.
January 7, 2026 at 8:38 PM
What will waiting til Nov do to stop this insanity & holy crap man, in this moment for your message to be wait *10 more months* to try & do something, anything, is just 🤯
By your own admission, we got *HERE* in less than a year but, sure, let’s see where we’re at that many more months from now 🤯🤯
By your own admission, we got *HERE* in less than a year but, sure, let’s see where we’re at that many more months from now 🤯🤯
I guess it remains to be seen if the rest of the world is as willing to bend the knee to him as we have shockingly proven ourselves to be. He’s counting on it.
January 7, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I guess it remains to be seen if the rest of the world is as willing to bend the knee to him as we have shockingly proven ourselves to be. He’s counting on it.
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Perfect messaging from The Overpass Visibility Brigade:
January 7, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Perfect messaging from The Overpass Visibility Brigade:
Today’s heroes are anyone brave enough to continue documenting the daily atrocities this administration is carrying out on all of us. 🫡
That seems poorly worded but I have a splitting headache and don’t care.
That seems poorly worded but I have a splitting headache and don’t care.
January 7, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Today’s heroes are anyone brave enough to continue documenting the daily atrocities this administration is carrying out on all of us. 🫡
That seems poorly worded but I have a splitting headache and don’t care.
That seems poorly worded but I have a splitting headache and don’t care.
I cannot seem to convince either the Mariners or the Kraken that I really am unable to afford season tickets, even if I was interested in them.
January 7, 2026 at 8:00 PM
I cannot seem to convince either the Mariners or the Kraken that I really am unable to afford season tickets, even if I was interested in them.
I feel sick.
November is eons away and flipping the house, even if we have a free and fair election, is not going to stop them from murdering us in the streets. I’ve seen pleas, of late, for nonpolitical feed fodder but this is too much. I’m terrified.
November is eons away and flipping the house, even if we have a free and fair election, is not going to stop them from murdering us in the streets. I’ve seen pleas, of late, for nonpolitical feed fodder but this is too much. I’m terrified.
big mental health mistake to logon this AM
apropos of nothing:
I detest milk but used to drink a daily latte for the calcium. A coworker told me that the caffeine in my drink canceled out the calcium in the milk and I’m still perplexed about that to this day.
Still open to book suggestions. ✌🏻
apropos of nothing:
I detest milk but used to drink a daily latte for the calcium. A coworker told me that the caffeine in my drink canceled out the calcium in the milk and I’m still perplexed about that to this day.
Still open to book suggestions. ✌🏻
January 7, 2026 at 7:38 PM
I feel sick.
November is eons away and flipping the house, even if we have a free and fair election, is not going to stop them from murdering us in the streets. I’ve seen pleas, of late, for nonpolitical feed fodder but this is too much. I’m terrified.
November is eons away and flipping the house, even if we have a free and fair election, is not going to stop them from murdering us in the streets. I’ve seen pleas, of late, for nonpolitical feed fodder but this is too much. I’m terrified.
honoring this by following my coffee-and-a-piece-of-chocolate breakfast with a cup-o-noodles-and-another-piece-of-chocolate lunch
January 7, 2026 at 7:17 PM
honoring this by following my coffee-and-a-piece-of-chocolate breakfast with a cup-o-noodles-and-another-piece-of-chocolate lunch
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murder is murder is murder is murder
O'Hara says that Minneapolis police are investigating ICE's killing of a woman to see "if any state laws within the state of Minnesota have been violated"
January 7, 2026 at 6:57 PM
murder is murder is murder is murder
big mental health mistake to logon this AM
apropos of nothing:
I detest milk but used to drink a daily latte for the calcium. A coworker told me that the caffeine in my drink canceled out the calcium in the milk and I’m still perplexed about that to this day.
Still open to book suggestions. ✌🏻
apropos of nothing:
I detest milk but used to drink a daily latte for the calcium. A coworker told me that the caffeine in my drink canceled out the calcium in the milk and I’m still perplexed about that to this day.
Still open to book suggestions. ✌🏻
January 7, 2026 at 4:58 PM
big mental health mistake to logon this AM
apropos of nothing:
I detest milk but used to drink a daily latte for the calcium. A coworker told me that the caffeine in my drink canceled out the calcium in the milk and I’m still perplexed about that to this day.
Still open to book suggestions. ✌🏻
apropos of nothing:
I detest milk but used to drink a daily latte for the calcium. A coworker told me that the caffeine in my drink canceled out the calcium in the milk and I’m still perplexed about that to this day.
Still open to book suggestions. ✌🏻
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Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.
January 3, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.
Funny, I heard him say ‘I am the strongman and I am taking control’, but whatever lets you sleep at night…
Rep. Darrell Issa: "We really have the opportunity to give the Venezuelan people an opportunity to have that free and fair election without some strongman taking control. And that's what the president is clearly looking to do."
January 3, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Funny, I heard him say ‘I am the strongman and I am taking control’, but whatever lets you sleep at night…
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The Cuckold Bridegroom, by Jan Havicksz, 1670, 📸 by Justin Ford
January 2, 2026 at 4:48 AM
The Cuckold Bridegroom, by Jan Havicksz, 1670, 📸 by Justin Ford