Melissa

“Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins…” -John Locke

Personal news: I’ve kept quiet I was diagnosed w slow onset ALS in my 40s. Last year, my body decided to speed it up. This summer I declined quickly. I chose no medical intervention & started hospice last week. I’ll continue fighting for our country until my last breath. And laughter is mandatory.

Please let this be real…please let this be real…please let this be real! I really want Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) sworn into office, but I also want the Grindr release, if it’s real. If Grindr guy isn’t a troll, may we have both?

Eric Adams is out of the NYC mayoral race. After posturing from Adams & the remaining candidates, polls still have Mamdani winning with Adams’ candidacy over. “When pollsters asked likely voters for their preferences in a race without Adams, Mamdani still led Cuomo by a double-digit margin.”

Grindr having problems in the Phoenix area Sunday night through Monday evening during a large gathering of Republicans in Glendale (northern Phoenix.) Hmmm, what could be going on?

It would have probably been more cost effective for companies to pay fair corporate taxes as opposed to the shakedown money from the regime, as well as the losses from public economic boycotts.

Economic boycotts are one of the best tools the people can use to protest the authoritarian regime & companies willing to go along with their unconstitutional behavior. Disney didn’t pay attention to Target’s loss of $12.4 billion due to economic boycotts.

Trump’s text accidentally posted on Truth Social confessing he’s trying to go after political opponents will go no where. Who the hell is going to hold him responsible? No one has held him responsible for the bajillion illegal things done under his name by this administration thus far.

My money is on Newsom’s account referencing Gov Newsom signing into law California’s ban on ICE agents wearing masks. When written & posted the way Felon47 writes & posts, his sycophants in office have aneurysms & tell daddy’s investigators.

In Congress, Republicans are getting a crash course in grammar from Democrats and learning what “pronouns” really mean. Your tax dollars hard at work…🤦🏻‍♀️

If ICE protesters started dressing like the ICE kidnappers, that would make for a confusing situation. If some of the ICE guys are not going to wear insignia and put masks on, what’s to stop protesters dressing the exact same way. Just a thought…

Since “antifa” isn’t an organization, rather an ideology, declaring this so-called group a terrorist organization is going to be abused to attack anyone who speaks out against the fascist regime. Some will be scared to stand up against authoritarianism. How this gets enforced will be shocking.

“…comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether. We’re the banana peel in the coal mine. When a society is under threat, comedians are the ones who get sent away first. It’s just a reminder to people that democracy is under threat…” -Jon Stewart

Sometimes I forget this is really happening & feel I’m reading a silly article in The Onion. THIS IS THE FCC CHAIRMAN responding to a tweet! How are there so many authoritarian sycophants in positions of power?! The dumbing down of America which allowed this power grab will take decades to repair.

🚨October 18th’s No Kings protest needs to be the largest countrywide protest we have ever seen. We have one month to organize locally, spread the word, make arrangements to attend the closest protest near you. If everyone who attends brings a friend, we can make this a landmark protest.

Waiting on the rest of America to realize there are more of us who don’t support an authoritarian regime than there are those in the authoritarian regime…

We live in both the stupidest and scariest times.

Seven authoritarian tactics…and the US has achieved all seven.

“The notion that tyranny requires great effort — because there are many more of us. Because our small acts of defiance and resistance and our demands for freedom cannot be ignored.” -Robert Reich

Just add a string of curse words here…the gestapo doesn’t want lawmakers to see what they are doing.

These particular politicians are literally following the Nazi handbook of instructions.

We can’t depend on politicians to protect our constitutional rights. I hope more will do the work beyond strongly worded letters & expressing concern. It requires everyone to do what is required to protect our fundamental rights. Grass roots organizing needs to expand bc many are unsure what to do.

At this point, we have to assume the 1st amendment is not recognized by the regime. It doesn’t mean you roll over and accept what the regime is doing. It means you proceed knowing the cost and willingly do so because it’s the right thing to do.

Info if you’re interested in helping California pass Prop 50 in response to Texas taking 5 Congressional seats in an unprecedented redistricting of the House map.

This whole former CDC director senate hearing has been dystopian… How do we as a country stop this train barreling down a decline prepared to go off the tracks?

Watch the House Judiciary Committee hearing with Kash Patel. It’s been combative…

This breaks my heart. Here’s the real-world harm of what has happened to one family whose mother was detained while at her immigration check in. She and her daughter (who sounds like a typical American young woman) were deported. Two months later, her mother has died. Fuck this administration.

PS: if you can’t sleep tonight, check out Kash Patel’s Senate hearing from earlier today. The Democratic senators were spectacular in calling out all of Patel’s BS, catching him in lies, & eviscerating everything he’s done in his short tenure as FBI director. I love these types of hearings!

I’ll chime in. I had to attend a work seminar held at the Redford Conference Center—an environmentally-friendly 3500 sq ft building in the Utah mountains. It’s a beautiful example of how you can build something without impacting the environment. It was amazing working ensconced in nature. Peaceful.

I agree with Just Jack that fascism is already here. Sadly, we are merely at the beginning and haven’t even hit the most painful parts. And saying THAT hurts because where we are at now is already extremely painful. We have a blueprint to stop it, but there are not enough people fighting against it.

It was never really about the price of eggs which got Trump elected. The egg voters merely used it as an excuse to reelect an unfit person who matched their own hatred and bigotry.

I appreciate this way of remembering Robert Redford’s iconic roles. His environmental activism is what I found most endearing about him. (1936-2025)

If this bill passes, revoking passports will be weaponized against political opponents, people who speak out against the regime, anyone who doesn’t cooperate w the gov regardless if the request is constitutional, or simply posting you don’t like someone. Government is terrorizing its own citizens.

State terrorism charges dropped for Luigi Mangione as they don’t meet the legal requirement, murder charge stays, and trial set for Dec 1st. He still has federal charges to face.

Trump’s rant and NYT’s defamation lawsuit has no teeth. In his own filing he shows he suffered no harm as he won the election. More importantly, we will be here for a bit if we are going to list all the times newspapers made an editorial decision to endorse a candidate. That pesky 1st amendment…🙄

As someone living in Utah, it’s been laughable how the press laud Gov Cox as this great moderate who will bring political violent rhetoric down. I don’t believe him. He was a moderate con as Lt Gov who helped the LGTBQ community in UT, once the GOP went MAGA, Cox catered to MAGA to win elections.

Orwellian society is our new reality.

‼️Nepal, WOW! Gen Z protested the government, gov shuts down social media, protesters use Discord to organize, then they toppled the gov, PM resigns, new elections held on Discord, voted an interim prime minister (retired Chief Justice Sushila Karki, Nepal’s first woman to hold the office of PM.)

Fox News is pushing Nazis ideology RE homeless people. Nazis categorized homeless as “asocials” & were identified by wearing an inverted black triangle. Homelessness was criminalized, raids started in 1933, eventually police bypassed courts to deport or send these people to concentration camps.

It’s Government Shutdown Groundhog Day! Congress already missed all the budget bill deadlines, and now we are back to waiting on the adults in the room to actually do their jobs in a bipartisan effort to keep the government open. Stock up on wine or beer, it’s going to be messy.

Dinesh saw Tyler Robinson went to one semester of university and this is his conclusion? REALITY: Robinson has been in electrical school for three years. I didn’t realize there was a radical leftist electrician agenda going on, Dinesh. This man is ridiculous. 🙄

For the record, this is political violence.

I’m still trying to wrap my head around Fuentes’ group pushing Kirk was a moderate Republican. The political ideology definitions have drastically changed, thus skewing the political spectrum scale.

And herein lies the problem with the swathes of disinformation immediately following the Kirk incident leading to major right-wing social media accounts & political figures calling for retribution against Democrats. Nothing is known abt the shooter, but MAGA is ready to “go to war” against liberals.

If anyone is expecting the CURRENT president to lower the temperature and soften the political rhetoric, they will be waiting for quite some time. It will never happen. He acts as if empathy is a weakness and shouldn’t be part of leadership.

When you make your AI a little too fascisty, it will make up the most ridiculous propaganda. Grok’s settings backfired today…🤦🏻‍♀️

The Dutch fighter jets were probably already back home & the pilots resting after helping Poland intercept Russian drones by the time POTUS knew what was going on.

The Senate continues to debase itself in order to confirm Trump nominees. The upper chamber is absolutely competing with the House for the title of Worst Collection of Politicians in the 21st Century.

The news is hyper focused on one particular act of gun violence today, but there was another school shooting in America today. This time Evergreen, Colorado (a Denver suburb) grieves the unnecessary violence inflicted on their children.

Christian nationalist goes to Mormon Utah after being cursed by Etsy witches is one hell of a lede…