Melanie 🐝🐝

Do NOT GIVE UP IN ADVANCE! 🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️💙💙💙💙💙💙

Night night sweet dreamies Never feel you have to hide the hurt you carry Your feelings are not a weakness, nor are they something to be ashamed of They are simply part of being human, and even on your hardest days, you are no less worthy of love, kindness and understanding.

Our students and our labor movement in Michigan are ready for a BLUE WAVE!

As a former teacher, I never scrubbed in for a gender reassignment surgery, but I did instruct the kids on how to get the window screens off in case of an active shooter…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a primary architect & driving force behind the organized movement that ultimately won American women the right to vote in 1920. She died on #OTD in 1902 & never got to vote in her lifetime. Because of her (and others), we can. #VOTE #WomensRights #WomensSuffrage

Trump’s presidency is a wealth transfer from the bottom to the top

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

This is HUGE, y'all. Annie Andrews for Senator SC: Two former govs from different parties agree to endorse Dr. Annie Andrews! 💙🗳️🌊 C'mon SC, do it for SC and for all of us

60 people have now died in ICE custody since Trump's return to office. Our country is set to spend $268 BILLION on mass deportations and detentions through the end of Trump's term. Instead of death and cruelty, imagine what we could have invested that money in instead?

Kerry Kennedy says she 'absolutely' blames her brother, Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr., for recent measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania. The state has surpassed more than 1,000 measles cases this year, making it the largest state outbreak in more than three decades.

One of those moments I'll never forget.

TRUMP DOJ BRINGS NEW ESPIONAGE ACT CHARGES AGAINST FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY Mercado Media

Even though these are national and global layoffs, one should read its timing as Microsoft’s effort to stop WA’s millionaires tax, as right-wingers will blame that tax for these layoffs despite there being no actual connection.

🔥KULINSKI: “Who’s more responsible for your life being hell: trans people, Muslims, immigrants or billionaires? You know... 2 years of an anti-immigrant regime, is your life better? As @jamestalarico says the minority destroying 🇺🇸 are billionaires.” (H/T @marco.foster)

Ever heard someone say "protest doesn't change anything"? Brazil and Serbia just proved them wrong. 🇧🇷 🇷🇸

H5N1 on the move

Got tariffs? The Dump Crime family has solutions!

Slept for more than four hours for the first time in a month. Woke up blissfully politically hungover, with deep eye bags from crying and a renewed belief in the power of people. So thrilled.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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I believe in government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Mike Rogers believes in government of the billionaires, by the corporations, and for the special interests.

In case facts still matter

Another stunning defeat for a Trump-aligned right-wing leader in Europe. Serbian students voted out their authoritarian leadership after months of protests against corruption, taking their fight from the streets to the ballot box and turning people power into political power.

And the People said, Amen.

Ohio’s biggest newspaper broke its own rules to endorse Amy Acton, calling Ramaswamy’s vile attack ad disqualifying. “Using childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it crosses a line Ohioans should defend, whatever their party.” thedailybeast.com/trumps-maga-...

Congratulations to Brazil. The cool cats won!

Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done. Baloney. Economist Gabriel Zucman debunks their lies. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNg2Uea6uUs

Novelist Anne Tyler was born #OTD in 1941. One of America's greatest chroniclers of family life, marriage & the eccentricities of ordinary people. She wrote 24 novels including "The Accidental Tourist," 1985. She won the 1989 #Pulitzer Prize for #Fiction for "Breathing Lessons." #BookSky #LitSky

#ResistanceRoots “We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and mistrust. … We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.” — Thurgood Marshall

Trump is straight up saying during speeches that he wants white people coming to the country but not black. I don’t know what else people need to see.

Stained glass artwork by English artist Tamsin Abbott. The #Fullmoon in October is known as #HuntersMoon #WomensArt

Humbled to have the 44th president with us in our movement to demand more for working people in Michigan. Change is in the air. 🤝

Mike Rogers got caught on a hot mic planning voter suppression, and Abdul El-Sayed called it out on the debate stage:

This is the President of the United States just said that Abdul El-Sayed — BORN IN MICHIGAN, a Rhodes Scholar with an MD from Columbia and a doctorate from Oxford — is a physical threat who needs to go through a metal detector before entering the Senate. Why? Because he’s Muslim.

😆🤣💙

Not quite the last rose of summer

🔥 @rolandsmartin.bsky.social encourages Black voters to back @abdulelsayed.bsky.social: “We cannot play games with this election.”

The only Planned Parenthood in the UP closed in 2025. Medicare for All means access to medical care for all, in every corner of the country.

Hasn't the Catholic Church enough to be ashamed of? Outrageous Sad for Pope Leo.

Victorian artist & naturalist Marianne North (b. #OTD in 1830) defied gender norms to document global plant life. Over 14 years, she traveled solo across 6 continents and 15+ countries, creating a revolutionary visual archive of the natural world. #WomenInSTEM #Art #ArtSky

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

In his new book (of course), Senator Thom Tillis says that top NC Republican leaders together told him directly that Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" would cost North Carolina almost $2 billion per year, every year, for a decade. Full story: www.wral.com/news/nccapit...

"Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world." ~ Oscar Wilde W𝐢n𝐝s𝐰e𝐩t A𝐮t𝐮m𝐧 🎨 Jo Grundy

American Corporations take our Tax Dollars to build something and then believe they own it! This is what Oligarchs do, serve themselves, rather than people… “Starlink only exists because it’s been heavily subsidized by the US government. That is an excellent reason to nationalize it.”

Absolutely 💯 Agree…..