Melinda Kovacs

Introducing myself: Immigrant in an interracial marriage, eastern European in the Midwest, part of organizing our first Pride in 2013, the feminist Christianity warned you about, educator, avid rescuer of cats and dogs, came to this platform because it is American 1984.

Lookie, I wrote me a political reflection on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/melind...

Hear hear

ICE is a state-sponsored terror organization.

Hungary's special way of preparing for elections in April: telling ambassadors from EU countries that if they criticize anything, they won't be allowed to meet w Hungarian government members. share.google/NIAyiA3WLgHT...

Okay, so apparently we are colonizing Venezuela, right? I mean for over 20 years I have been explaining colonization to students as removing sovereignty and extracting wealth to enrich the colonial center ...

#SCOTUS not overturning Obergefell is a relief and a joy but then why were they so ready to overturn Roe? Marriage equality is protected under the Constitution but bodily autonomy isn't? Or misogyny is stronger than homophobia?

Every single moment of every single day, this delusional, Demented Disgrace spews shit out of his vile piehole. It's embarrassing that he is infesting the Oval.

DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie] SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in

I never wanted to learn this much about how stupid Senators can be.

Fuck every spineless folding Democrat. #Shutdown

Congratulations California on letting your voice be heard! Prop 50 passes!!! Lets not forget, Republicans started this! We will finish it!!

That NYC has a new mayor who is 34, a Democratic Socialist, a Muslim and of South Asian descent, makes me think maybe the America I came to 30 years ago is not completely lost. #Elections #ElectionNight

One of the first things I read this morning was @mehdirhasan.bsky.social saying Dick Cheney should have died alone in a prison cell at The Hague. I like it when ppl are not afraid of saying things.

When Graham Platner says "regular guy" and "regular people" he means white, right?

Had to block bot accounts again. To all the bots I haven't yet purged, nicely played. To all the actual people I want to talk to, here is one of our cats. His name is Balàzs.

Boom.

I was sleeping like a sleeping thing, when a giant paw forcefully hit me and I was greeted with this "Mommy I need you" face. So I got up a half hour before my alarm because I am not a monster and Mozart needed me. Still unclear for what, though. Still: antidote to the world.

We need to find a pressure point that will make him stop. I like the suggestion that somehow we need to go after his money.

. Here’s what nobody’s talking about. The government is shut down because they’re waiting for the Supreme Court to shut down the voter rights act. There, I said it. #GovShutDown #MikeJohnson #Epstein #SupremeCourt #VoterRightsAct .

Hiya! I think I haven't been here in about six or seven weeks. Sorry. Mental health, physical health, political landscape, everything makes me want to hide. But maybe I should read what y'all say.

@cajunblue.bsky.social hello! Long time no talk! Different platform - hope you are doing amazing

Where and when I grew up it was political opponents who were disappeared in the middle of the night. Not children.

Out for a stroll on another incredible Chicago day. This is ‘meet me on Milwaukee,’ a car free event in the Wicker Park neighborhood. Happy people & happy dogs everywhere. Remember this when Trump tries to paint an ugly picture of our beautiful city. #chicago

Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com is so elegant, the elegance almost masks how ruthless he is. Almost. And I love him for it.

Clock it.

Yo, anyone got an interpretive frame for the "we love you God" line from the presidential address tonight? I mean other than cognitive decline?

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS ST. JOSEPH - MO” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Love means letting someone sleep with her leg on you. #Lepke #Neville #DogsofBluesky

OMG @maddow.msnbc.com is featuring Alex Wagner and I am losing my mind because they are discussing Hungary which is where I am originally from and now I live in the US and there is authoritarianism in both places. Thank you.

I can't make things better in any way other than posting a box'o kitteh w #Milo #Ruby and #Balazs for #Caturday #CatsofBlueSky

Teaching HS history means you get to ask warmup questions each day. And get this answer to what happened in the 1920 elections. Ratification is even wrong as an answer but 19th Amendment Gratification needs to be on T-shirts.

Don't mind me, I am just watching @maddow.msnbc.com reporting on the protests over the weekend and I am choking up watching the nursing home residents marching w their walkers.

Selfie w #Jambalaya #CatsofBlueSky

March today. Run tomorrow. We'll help you get started. runforwhat.net

Thank you, Good Sir.

L. F. G.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you claim that empathy is the fundamental weakness of Western civilization, you sound like the Anti-Christ. Fundy Christianists done and fucked up.

Might save a life.

This one goes out to Pete Hegseth youtu.be/d5XJ2GiR6Bo?...

Countless emails asking how Americans can directly aid Ukrainian soldiers. Here’s an easy answer: savelife.in.ua/en/

I saw this image that spoke to me. In curse words. Which is my favorite mode of expression.

Watched the Nazi circle jerk that passed for SOTU last night. Mother Nature shut down our schools again, so I am working on catching up, and I am wearing my favorite sweatshirt. And smiling. Because #JoyIsResistance

Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS

Trump's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," and the trans community have one clear purpose: If we are angry at each other, we won't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.

Hey Dems who are in attendance, become ungovernable already and raise some hell. Don't let Al Green be the only one to get kicked out!!!!

I will take @timothysnyder.bsky.social as my prophetic voice any day.