Melissa Stewart
@lissajostewart.bsky.social
Civil Rights Lawyer | Drag is not a crime | 🏳🌈 | lissajostewart@gmail.com | Memphis | they/she
Pinned
The rebound woke is hitting like a cigarette on a winter night on the back porch of the drag bar
It’s feeling rather cozy in here
November 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
It’s feeling rather cozy in here
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It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him
"In the months leading up to the D.C. deployment, Beckstrom worked for a community health center that serves people with mental illness and substance abuse disorders." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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I have been informed my TikTok Shop privileges may be revoked.
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I have been informed my TikTok Shop privileges may be revoked.
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Do y’all ever think about how Simba and Nala were half siblings and also cousins?
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Do y’all ever think about how Simba and Nala were half siblings and also cousins?
This year’s menu:
- Gorgonzola-stuffed bacon-wrapped dates
- mashed sweet potatoes
- pancetta peas
- cheddar jalapeño cornbread
- mac & cheese (Midwestern poor people version, which I grew up on and which you can take out of my cold dead hands).
Pumpkin pie to follow.
Happy Thanksgiving, oomfs.
- Gorgonzola-stuffed bacon-wrapped dates
- mashed sweet potatoes
- pancetta peas
- cheddar jalapeño cornbread
- mac & cheese (Midwestern poor people version, which I grew up on and which you can take out of my cold dead hands).
Pumpkin pie to follow.
Happy Thanksgiving, oomfs.
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This year’s menu:
- Gorgonzola-stuffed bacon-wrapped dates
- mashed sweet potatoes
- pancetta peas
- cheddar jalapeño cornbread
- mac & cheese (Midwestern poor people version, which I grew up on and which you can take out of my cold dead hands).
Pumpkin pie to follow.
Happy Thanksgiving, oomfs.
- Gorgonzola-stuffed bacon-wrapped dates
- mashed sweet potatoes
- pancetta peas
- cheddar jalapeño cornbread
- mac & cheese (Midwestern poor people version, which I grew up on and which you can take out of my cold dead hands).
Pumpkin pie to follow.
Happy Thanksgiving, oomfs.
I’m not saying that Trump’s speech last night was AI, but also yes I am.
November 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I’m not saying that Trump’s speech last night was AI, but also yes I am.
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Denigrating Native Americans is an essential part of the white supremacist narrative (along with downplaying chattel slavery). It's meant to whitewash any sins committed in the formation and expansion of the European colonies in the Americas.
What is Vance’s obsession with this? He’s talked about it multiple times?
VP JD Vance stood before a crowd and tried to falsify history, claiming Christians ended widespread mass child-sacrifice practices among Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Denigrating Native Americans is an essential part of the white supremacist narrative (along with downplaying chattel slavery). It's meant to whitewash any sins committed in the formation and expansion of the European colonies in the Americas.
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I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
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The last thing your civil rights see:
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The last thing your civil rights see:
No longer a jobless gaylor
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
No longer a jobless gaylor
Jesus that’s bad
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Jesus that’s bad
You’ll be visited by three spirits
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
You’ll be visited by three spirits
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
Hey. Hey guys. Hey guys guess what?
I don’t have to start a cult ☺️
I don’t have to start a cult ☺️
Job market so rough I’m considering quitting the practice of law and starting a cult
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Hey. Hey guys. Hey guys guess what?
I don’t have to start a cult ☺️
I don’t have to start a cult ☺️
It’s equivalent to Windsor, not Obergefell, but this is excellent news!
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It’s equivalent to Windsor, not Obergefell, but this is excellent news!
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No. But, thank you.
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
No. But, thank you.
They should invent a Michael Hobbes podcast that releases episodes every week.
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
They should invent a Michael Hobbes podcast that releases episodes every week.
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This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
My partner, a southern Californian: “It’s really annoying that they stopped putting kale in this salad.”
Me, a Minnesotan, happily pouring dressing over a pile of iceberg lettuce: “Fuck yeah.”
Me, a Minnesotan, happily pouring dressing over a pile of iceberg lettuce: “Fuck yeah.”
November 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
My partner, a southern Californian: “It’s really annoying that they stopped putting kale in this salad.”
Me, a Minnesotan, happily pouring dressing over a pile of iceberg lettuce: “Fuck yeah.”
Me, a Minnesotan, happily pouring dressing over a pile of iceberg lettuce: “Fuck yeah.”
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Worth noting that Bowman played a big role in bringing the infamous Chicago Police Department commander/torturer Jon Burge to justice.
Kohjasteh was a partner at the private firm that represented Trump before he entered the Consumer Protection Branch of DOJ Civil.
Kohjasteh was a partner at the private firm that represented Trump before he entered the Consumer Protection Branch of DOJ Civil.
And, here is Bovino's third day of depositions, November 4: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The lawyers:
Locke Bowman for the plaintiffs.
Sarmad Khojasteh for the government.
The lawyers:
Locke Bowman for the plaintiffs.
Sarmad Khojasteh for the government.
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Worth noting that Bowman played a big role in bringing the infamous Chicago Police Department commander/torturer Jon Burge to justice.
Kohjasteh was a partner at the private firm that represented Trump before he entered the Consumer Protection Branch of DOJ Civil.
Kohjasteh was a partner at the private firm that represented Trump before he entered the Consumer Protection Branch of DOJ Civil.
Tag yourself, I’m “Stop it.”
And, here is Bovino's third day of depositions, November 4: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The lawyers:
Locke Bowman for the plaintiffs.
Sarmad Khojasteh for the government.
The lawyers:
Locke Bowman for the plaintiffs.
Sarmad Khojasteh for the government.
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Tag yourself, I’m “Stop it.”
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Love is work, but it is joyous work. It nourishes you. There will be days when you can’t do it as well as you’d like, but you rest, and you heal, because you are eager to get back to the work of love.
Don’t you dare ever settle for someone who resents the work of loving you.
Don’t you dare ever settle for someone who resents the work of loving you.
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Love is work, but it is joyous work. It nourishes you. There will be days when you can’t do it as well as you’d like, but you rest, and you heal, because you are eager to get back to the work of love.
Don’t you dare ever settle for someone who resents the work of loving you.
Don’t you dare ever settle for someone who resents the work of loving you.
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Long live the Stuart Constitution.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL CONFIRMS FBI HAS REQUESTED INTERVIEWS WITH SIX U.S. LAWMAKERS WHO WARNED ABOUT ILLEGAL MILITARY ORDERS
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Long live the Stuart Constitution.