Melico
@melico.bsky.social
Extremely online and leftist but not an extremely online leftist.
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You will see lots of photos of my cat and dogs.
Support your local library!!
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https://boxd.it/3i7rd
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Saying “reading books in public is performative” is a very quick and simple way to communicate to me that you are a stupid little pig I do not need to listen to and in that sense I appreciate it
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Saying “reading books in public is performative” is a very quick and simple way to communicate to me that you are a stupid little pig I do not need to listen to and in that sense I appreciate it
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Favorite random reddit comment of the day: "Truly wild how Covid broke so many rich people's brains, while we were all like, 'Well, guess I'll get into puzzles.'"
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Favorite random reddit comment of the day: "Truly wild how Covid broke so many rich people's brains, while we were all like, 'Well, guess I'll get into puzzles.'"
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The only thing that stands between you and your dreams are all the things you suck at
November 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The only thing that stands between you and your dreams are all the things you suck at
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I went deeper into the at-bats where Luis Ortiz is accused of throwing balls on purpose.
1) These pitches didn't just compromise games. They helped flip them. Twice.
2) It's the player props, man
3) This is NOT a case where legal sports betting improved the situation slate.com/technology/2...
1) These pitches didn't just compromise games. They helped flip them. Twice.
2) It's the player props, man
3) This is NOT a case where legal sports betting improved the situation slate.com/technology/2...
A Huge Scandal Is Rocking Baseball. Here’s What Needs to Change.
The indictments of two major league pitchers are just the clearest examples yet of the scourge of the prop bet.
slate.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I went deeper into the at-bats where Luis Ortiz is accused of throwing balls on purpose.
1) These pitches didn't just compromise games. They helped flip them. Twice.
2) It's the player props, man
3) This is NOT a case where legal sports betting improved the situation slate.com/technology/2...
1) These pitches didn't just compromise games. They helped flip them. Twice.
2) It's the player props, man
3) This is NOT a case where legal sports betting improved the situation slate.com/technology/2...
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when you're putting a crew together, but the heist is destroying an oligarch on a spiritual level
Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
when you're putting a crew together, but the heist is destroying an oligarch on a spiritual level
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It's one thing I truly loathe about these assholes (who dominate our politics & culture now). They can't tolerate something good & pure *existing*. Even if it's no bother to them, no bother to anyone, they can't tolerate it. Nothing can live outside their control, their narrow boxes, their fear.
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It's one thing I truly loathe about these assholes (who dominate our politics & culture now). They can't tolerate something good & pure *existing*. Even if it's no bother to them, no bother to anyone, they can't tolerate it. Nothing can live outside their control, their narrow boxes, their fear.
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Michael Shannon cooking with gas here:
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Michael Shannon cooking with gas here:
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Last night I watched this documentary about Lilith Fair & it made me a little sad. They created a little bubble of good vibes, love, tolerance, & safety, & for a while it was a beautiful thing, but the world is full of misogynist assholes who can't allow beauty to exist free of their control.
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery - The Untold Story
Drawing on over 600 hours of never-seen footage, this is the untold underdog story of Lilith Fair, the women's music festival of the late 90s.
www.hulu.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Last night I watched this documentary about Lilith Fair & it made me a little sad. They created a little bubble of good vibes, love, tolerance, & safety, & for a while it was a beautiful thing, but the world is full of misogynist assholes who can't allow beauty to exist free of their control.
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Now that Dems have capitulated, at the very least they should now make every future extension of funding contingent on Trump following the law. Any lawbreaking must be met with: No more votes from us, period.
My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Now that Dems have capitulated, at the very least they should now make every future extension of funding contingent on Trump following the law. Any lawbreaking must be met with: No more votes from us, period.
My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
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A church is threatening to evict a soup kitchen, y’all
Central Florida soup kitchen faces eviction after church raises rent, cuts operation hours
The Wildwood Soup Kitchen has operated in the church's fellowship hall for decades, but it's now ending as volunteers say they were told to pay more or get out.
www.wesh.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A church is threatening to evict a soup kitchen, y’all
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seems like one of the best ways to make it have long-lasting impacts on democrats’ electoral chances would be driving a weekslong narrative cycle that paints democrats as vile and beyond redemption and how this will lose them the midterms
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
seems like one of the best ways to make it have long-lasting impacts on democrats’ electoral chances would be driving a weekslong narrative cycle that paints democrats as vile and beyond redemption and how this will lose them the midterms
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A lot of scathing quotes aimed at Pulte for the 50-year mortgage idea in this great piece, but seemingly no blame for Trump who fully bought into it after 10 minutes
‘Sold POTUS a bill of goods’: White House furious with Pulte over 50-year mortgage
The White House was blindsided by the idea and is now dealing with a furious backlash from conservative allies, business leaders and lawmakers.
www.politico.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A lot of scathing quotes aimed at Pulte for the 50-year mortgage idea in this great piece, but seemingly no blame for Trump who fully bought into it after 10 minutes
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Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
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Hate to keep beating the dead horse but sports betting is a societal scourge with serious repercussions www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/s... via @statnews.com
The rise of sports betting is a growing public health crisis
Sports betting is more addictive than ever, and millions of young Americans are paying the price.
www.statnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Hate to keep beating the dead horse but sports betting is a societal scourge with serious repercussions www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/s... via @statnews.com
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Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
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So moved and enraged by the replies to this and was thinking... maybe we should collect them and send them to Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Senate cowards.
Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them.
forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...
Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them.
forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
So moved and enraged by the replies to this and was thinking... maybe we should collect them and send them to Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Senate cowards.
Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them.
forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...
Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them.
forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...
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Elon: Hard times call for hard men. Only through discarding empathy can the West survive the struggles to come.
Also Elon: Old lady is big meanie for bullying me. 😢
Also Elon: Old lady is big meanie for bullying me. 😢
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Elon: Hard times call for hard men. Only through discarding empathy can the West survive the struggles to come.
Also Elon: Old lady is big meanie for bullying me. 😢
Also Elon: Old lady is big meanie for bullying me. 😢
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Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
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“Cue the rebellion.
The Democratic base is enraged at their party's capitulation — and that's a good thing,” writes @paulwaldman.bsky.social: www.publicnotice.co/p/shutdown-d...
The Democratic base is enraged at their party's capitulation — and that's a good thing,” writes @paulwaldman.bsky.social: www.publicnotice.co/p/shutdown-d...
Cue the rebellion
The Democratic base is enraged at their party's capitulation — and that's a good thing.
www.publicnotice.co
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“Cue the rebellion.
The Democratic base is enraged at their party's capitulation — and that's a good thing,” writes @paulwaldman.bsky.social: www.publicnotice.co/p/shutdown-d...
The Democratic base is enraged at their party's capitulation — and that's a good thing,” writes @paulwaldman.bsky.social: www.publicnotice.co/p/shutdown-d...
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The minority party cannot shut down the government. It is impossible. They don’t have the power.
A party that controls the House, Senate, and White House can decide it’d rather not do something on its own and pretend that’s the fault of some minority Senators, thereby shutting down the government.
A party that controls the House, Senate, and White House can decide it’d rather not do something on its own and pretend that’s the fault of some minority Senators, thereby shutting down the government.
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The minority party cannot shut down the government. It is impossible. They don’t have the power.
A party that controls the House, Senate, and White House can decide it’d rather not do something on its own and pretend that’s the fault of some minority Senators, thereby shutting down the government.
A party that controls the House, Senate, and White House can decide it’d rather not do something on its own and pretend that’s the fault of some minority Senators, thereby shutting down the government.
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The joys of managing your 401k grafted onto the already rough world of health insurance.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The joys of managing your 401k grafted onto the already rough world of health insurance.
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Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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a man who has starved and/or withheld lifesaving medical assistance from hundreds of thousands of people thinks Joyce Carol Oates is mean.
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
a man who has starved and/or withheld lifesaving medical assistance from hundreds of thousands of people thinks Joyce Carol Oates is mean.
Just retrofit Nick Cave's bonkers Gladiator II script for Bond.
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screenrant.com/gladiator-2-...
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Just retrofit Nick Cave's bonkers Gladiator II script for Bond.
screenrant.com/gladiator-2-...
screenrant.com/gladiator-2-...