Melanie See

Melanie See

@seemomster.bsky.social

Artist. Wife. Mother of two adult sons. Feminist.

674 followers646 following818 posts

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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine
@beautifulbizarre.net

Love the cozy, grounded energy of this pigeon... such a recognizable, peaceful form. kibori_nicola Photosynthesis　光合成 100×175×95mm Magnolia wood, painted with acrylic 朴　アクリル絵の具で彩色 2025 #beautifulbizarre #contemporarycraft #woodart #pigeonlove #art

Melanie See
@seemomster.bsky.social

Well, there it is. Guess who worked at CBP in 2013?

Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social

NEW An initially-secret report for Customs and Border Patrol in 2013 found: In many vehicle shooting cases, the “driver was attempting to flee from the agents who intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby … creating justification for the use of deadly force.” 🧵

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cutelilbottom.bsky.social
@cutelilbottom.bsky.social

"They found the coats on Thursday morning. Fifteen winter coats. Good ones, not garbage. Hanging on the chain-link fence outside Lincoln Elementary.No note. No explanation. Just coats zipped up like ghosts waiting for bodies. Principal Morris freaked out. Called the police. "Could be stolen"

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ChriSCREAMa Stephens (🐯🏈💜💛)
@christinastephens.bsky.social

Just a reminder to not let those FSA dollars go back to the corporations. Someone needs medicine and tampons and you have until 12/31 to buy them.

ChriSCREAMa Stephens (🐯🏈💜💛)@christinastephens.bsky.social

I have $1000 left in my health spending account that goes away at the end of the year, time to refill every med I can and maybe … buy a new pair of glasses? American health care is dumb.

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Jeanne Theoharis
@jeannetheoharis.bsky.social

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

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Heather Cherone
@heathercherone.bsky.social

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs. Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social

news.wttw.comJudge Set to Rule Thursday in Case Centering on Federal Immigration Agents’ Use of Force: ‘I Could See Inside the Barrel’Protesters, clergy members and others who say they’ve been directly impacted by a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs will testify before a federal judge weighing wh...

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Andrew Lawrence
@ndrew.bsky.social

Replying to @ndrew.bsky.social

if the president does something so awful it would be indecent to describe and ask about then you very obviously need to describe and ask about it, thats the entire job

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Brent Toderian
@brenttoderian.bsky.social

“Which raises the question: If Trump can’t tell the truth even when it counts most, with legal jeopardy on the line and lawyers there to help prepare him, is he able to apprehend the truth at all?” “This is not normal for a functioning adult.” Read this.

theatlantic.comUnfit for OfficeDonald Trump’s narcissism makes it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires.

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Elise Wang
@elisewang.bsky.social

He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them. Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.

Step and fetch@fetchstep.bsky.social

The camp is to filter out workers for Trumps new Slavery policy where he sells them to businesses. He says so in this video Make Americans Slaves Again

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Sarah should go
@tolcser.bsky.social

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

Melanie See
@seemomster.bsky.social

Appalling. Heartbreaking. Unnecessary. It’s a terrible way to die.

Kentucky Lantern@kentuckylantern.com

Two unvaccinated babies have died from pertussis, better known as whooping cough, in Kentucky in the last six months, the Kentucky Department for Public Health announced Friday. @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/briefs/two-u...

kentuckylantern.comTwo unvaccinated babies die of whooping cough in KY as disease rise is predicted to continue • Kentucky LanternTwo unvaccinated babies have died from pertussis, better known as whooping cough, in Kentucky in the last six months.

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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social

International student decisions are sort of like business decisions: big multi-year investments that you become less likely to make under uncertain conditions in politically erratic places.

Jamie Gangel@jamiegangel.bsky.social

“Since it was too late to apply elsewhere for his undergraduate years, “I can only brace myself,” said Mr. Li, who plans to study applied mathematics. But, “in the future, if I can avoid going to the United States to study, I will. They make people too scared.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

nytimes.com‘They Make People Too Scared’: Chinese Students Reckon With U.S. Visa Bans

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Pam Ronald
@pcronald.bsky.social

Imagine that a trade school would suddenly be responsible for a neuroscience research project that studies how the neurons in the gut change with aging and conditions such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. Who then would train the electricians we rely on? news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

news.harvard.eduFreezing funding halts medical, engineering, and scientific research — Harvard GazetteProjects focus on issues from TB and chemotherapy to prolonged space travel, pandemic preparedness.
Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social

FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value. There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social

Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles

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The Bulwark
@thebulwark.com

Pence: "Individuals who broke into the Capitol, who assaulted police officers...should have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law...The heroes on January 6 were all wearing uniforms...To have pardoned the people who assaulted police officers that day, was wrong."

Melanie See
@seemomster.bsky.social

Finally heard and spotted a summer tanager. Saw the scarlet tanager last week. Such lovely birds! No photo because my phone is old and without a telephoto lens…and tanagers are *fast*. #backyardbirding #summertanager #scarlettanager

Melanie See
@seemomster.bsky.social

I live in the woods…in-town! In the last ten minutes I’ve heard both tanagers, barred owls, cheeky Carolina wrens, red bellied, downy, and pileated woodpeckers, and the omnipresent cardinals. I am beyond fortunate.