Melody

Melody

@jaidling.bsky.social

She|Her. I'm 37, with 2 partners, and 5 cats. I like cats, civil liberties, books, people, and rye (in that order). I'll stop screaming when they stop being evil. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇦🇹🇺🇦🇺🇸🍉 @vitrum-eidolan.bsky.social is mine <3

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::low whistle::

Abbey@abbeyarletto.bsky.social

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

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“Two of them went to Atlanta. One of those was symptomatic. They’re in a biocontainment lab in Atlanta. The other 16 are now in Nebraska. One of them is symptomatic.” So one of the symptomatic patients wasn't sent to the biocontainment lab?

thehill.comRFK Jr.: ‘We’re not worried’ about hantavirus spreading after cruise ship outbreakHealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Monday the U.S. has the hantavirus “under control.” During a press conference in the Oval Office about mental health, a…

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It was spelled out for us in October 2024 “These are well-coordinated, dangerous, and profoundly racist attempts to transform American life to match a vision rooted in a nationalist ideology that America was founded as a white nation and should remain so.” www.americanprogress.org/article/proj...

americanprogress.orgProject 2025’s Distortion of Civil Rights Law Threatens Americans With Legalized DiscriminationFar-right extremists have a plan to dismantle many civil rights protections that have advanced equality in America over the past 60 years.
Shepherd@neolithicsheep.bsky.social

Whiteness will always move to protect its privilege unless there is active pressure to the contrary. White people *nationwide* have failed to keep up that pressure. We have not made it clear to our legislators that restoring the VRA mattered after Shelby County v Holder in 2013.

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Replying to @courtneymilan.com

For the record, now that we know the Constitution is not inherently a one-way ratchet, I think we should just fucking go for broke on the ninth amendment. My theory of Constitutional interpretation is "fuck you, everyone gets rights, what do you mean, I can't hear you."

film you've watched more than six times with a gif hard mode: no star wars, star treck, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixa, dreamworks, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli

Merri's Spooky Maid Agenda 🎃@vitrum-eidolan.bsky.social

film you've watched more than six times with a gif hard mode: no star wars, star treck, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixa, dreamworks, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli

"mail order brides" are not only not new, but they're still a entire subgenre of relationship model and we definitely should talk about it

adonis (and cait)@cait.bsky.social

"passport bros" are not at all new and they are not "frustrated with modern dating" they just want women who are completely subservient to them and have zero power in their own lives

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INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday. They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

phillyburbs.comQuakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clashCivil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.

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Isn't a judge supposed to know the law? I mean, isn't that the point of having judges in the first place?

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This one could make you cry. (For years international adoptees became U.S. citizens only when their adoptive parents took the needed steps to get them naturalized; a 2000 law automatically naturalizes legal adoptees on arrival, but that came too late for this woman).

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So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it. WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY

Ghostly Bree@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

and the lady in our inbox who caused us to go into a Whistles Out: a Benoit Blanc Mystery spiral for half the day because she had rallied so many people to request whistles to the same town that we thought it was a scam, but no she just convinced like 700 people to mobilize and we love her so much

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In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.

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Replying to @gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social

Chris Rufo: “We launched the Claudine Gay plagiarism story from the Right to smuggle it into media apparatus of the Left, legitimizing the narrative to center-left actors who have power to topple her. Then squeeze.” Mediocre "meritocracy" NYT editors who hate Me Too and give him affirmative action:

NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25" While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12 Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans:

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Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.

Sam Youngman@samyoungman.bsky.social

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

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People assume test-blind admissions were the result of some hyperwoke crusade against bureacracy and not that "SAT scores poorly predict academic performance" being an exercise in this leftist tract textbook... *check notes* Introductory Econometrics by Jeffrey Wooldridge

Maia@maiamindel.bsky.social

There's this idea that 2010s progressive policies wrt labor and crime were insane activists pushing an ideological agenda contrary to evidence when what actually happened is a lot of the evidence was quite *favorable* to progressive policies

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Replying to @meowdelyn.bsky.social

We are hostile to anyone being less than supportive because we understand where this two step you're doing into transphobia leads. And that place you're softly stepping your way towards is full of the bodies of our dead friends, put there by folks just asking questions about our humanity.

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“A quiet street full of broken glass”: every a.m. rush hour in the Twin Cities, a new kristallmorgen. Every smashed-window kidnapping, a new kristallabend.

Andrew Karre@andrewkarre.bsky.social

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

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THE FUCK?

Andrew Karre@andrewkarre.bsky.social

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

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🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.

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NEW: The DHS arrest records make no mention of the Tren de Aragua gang even though officials repeatedly cited its presence in the building as motivation for the raid, in which agents descended from a Blackhawk helicopter and zip-tied U.S. citizens.

propublica.orgThe Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment BuildingThe Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

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This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.

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Maidens has never been more real

O cool The hypothesis that the elite were trying to segrigate trans people from society purely to keep us as sex slaves was real, but only for trans women since they see trans men as undesirable for sex and want them eliminated which is EXACTLY THE POLICIES AND RHETORIC WE'RE SEEING HAPPEN RIGHT NOW

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Replying to @taniel.bsky.social

UPDATE: The Democrat won the latest batch of roughly 6,000 votes, continuing to dominate in the count. The Election Day vote is bluer than the early vote day so far. With 55K votes in, Rehmet is up 57% to 43%. This is a 30% swing since 2024 for now.