Melinda Hunt
@melindahunt.bsky.social
Childless Cat Lady. I like to sing.
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
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November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
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This is extrajudicial murder. It is illegal and unethical. And it is a pathetic use of American military force, demonstrating not strength but weakness.
U.S. strikes alleged drug vessel, this time on the Pacific side.
In what is the eighth known U.S. attack on a boat since Sept. 2, two to three individuals aboard the vessel were killed.
www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-str...
In what is the eighth known U.S. attack on a boat since Sept. 2, two to three individuals aboard the vessel were killed.
www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-str...
U.S. strikes 8th alleged drug vessel, this time on the Pacific side
This is the first U.S. strike against an alleged drug vessel on the Pacific side of South America.
www.cbsnews.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is extrajudicial murder. It is illegal and unethical. And it is a pathetic use of American military force, demonstrating not strength but weakness.
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Timeline cleanser 🐈
September 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Timeline cleanser 🐈
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News outlets like @wsj.com have a critical responsibility to report the truth.
Promoting false information that ties our LGBTQ+ community to the Utah shooting is reckless, irresponsible, and puts trans people especially in danger.
Anyone with a platform must do better. Lives are on the line.
Promoting false information that ties our LGBTQ+ community to the Utah shooting is reckless, irresponsible, and puts trans people especially in danger.
Anyone with a platform must do better. Lives are on the line.
September 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
News outlets like @wsj.com have a critical responsibility to report the truth.
Promoting false information that ties our LGBTQ+ community to the Utah shooting is reckless, irresponsible, and puts trans people especially in danger.
Anyone with a platform must do better. Lives are on the line.
Promoting false information that ties our LGBTQ+ community to the Utah shooting is reckless, irresponsible, and puts trans people especially in danger.
Anyone with a platform must do better. Lives are on the line.
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jesus christ
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
September 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
jesus christ
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Good God - why does it have to be Rand Paul saying the obvious stuff? Where the F are Democrats?
Rand Paul: "The reason we have trials & we don't automatically assume guilt is what if we make a mistake and they happen to be people fleeing the Venezuelan dictator? ... off our coast it isn't our policy just to blow people up ... even the worst people in our country, they still get a trial."
September 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Good God - why does it have to be Rand Paul saying the obvious stuff? Where the F are Democrats?
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Being disappeared to a foreign gulag is the equivalent of being buried alive. We cannot forget them.
Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 109 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 109 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
July 2, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Being disappeared to a foreign gulag is the equivalent of being buried alive. We cannot forget them.
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Rank me #1.
Rank Zohran #2.
Rank the rest of the WFP Slate.
And Don’t Rank Andrew Cuomo.
Rank Zohran #2.
Rank the rest of the WFP Slate.
And Don’t Rank Andrew Cuomo.
June 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Rank me #1.
Rank Zohran #2.
Rank the rest of the WFP Slate.
And Don’t Rank Andrew Cuomo.
Rank Zohran #2.
Rank the rest of the WFP Slate.
And Don’t Rank Andrew Cuomo.
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You know what I see? I see a community reacting to gangs of armed masked men who look like nativist vigilantes, not legitimate, accountable law enforcement.
June 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
You know what I see? I see a community reacting to gangs of armed masked men who look like nativist vigilantes, not legitimate, accountable law enforcement.
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Want to bring back respect to the justice system and our government, someone step up and bring this about.
May 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Want to bring back respect to the justice system and our government, someone step up and bring this about.
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Getting into the punishment part of my whiteness values series and I realized this week that a whole lot of white people’s primary framing for consequences is retribution.
May 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Getting into the punishment part of my whiteness values series and I realized this week that a whole lot of white people’s primary framing for consequences is retribution.
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We are in literal 'mad king' territory. The president is in obvious, undeniable cognitive decline. He's been obsessed with tariffs since the 1980s, when the big scare was the Japanese economic powerhouse. I don't think one person is secretly controlling him, I think everyone around him is trying to.
April 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We are in literal 'mad king' territory. The president is in obvious, undeniable cognitive decline. He's been obsessed with tariffs since the 1980s, when the big scare was the Japanese economic powerhouse. I don't think one person is secretly controlling him, I think everyone around him is trying to.
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There is something different about him. Miller is a true believer and stays out of the spotlight. Trump, RFK, and Elon lie all the time but are also legitimately delusional. Vance is just so comfortable lying in bold ways that clearly target small groups of private individuals.
April 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
There is something different about him. Miller is a true believer and stays out of the spotlight. Trump, RFK, and Elon lie all the time but are also legitimately delusional. Vance is just so comfortable lying in bold ways that clearly target small groups of private individuals.
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I don't really have anything especially profound to say, but yeah man this is it. They won't obey even the most milquetoast SCOTUS orders and are talking about sending US citizens to foreign gulags. It's happened here.
April 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I don't really have anything especially profound to say, but yeah man this is it. They won't obey even the most milquetoast SCOTUS orders and are talking about sending US citizens to foreign gulags. It's happened here.
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Just in case those of us fighting for democracy in court didn't need another challenge, Big Law turning collaborators is here and growing. My firm and others continue to fight.
We will never back down. We will never bend a knee. We will never obey.
We will never back down. We will never bend a knee. We will never obey.
April 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Just in case those of us fighting for democracy in court didn't need another challenge, Big Law turning collaborators is here and growing. My firm and others continue to fight.
We will never back down. We will never bend a knee. We will never obey.
We will never back down. We will never bend a knee. We will never obey.
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pretty grim that the economy is undeniably worse than it was two weeks ago but because the president has briefly paused the degree to which he is actively making it worse the market responded as though its good
April 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
pretty grim that the economy is undeniably worse than it was two weeks ago but because the president has briefly paused the degree to which he is actively making it worse the market responded as though its good
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No. It's based on the fact that he and his advisors want to collapse the economy. You're confusing their shitty explanation with their actual goals
April 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
No. It's based on the fact that he and his advisors want to collapse the economy. You're confusing their shitty explanation with their actual goals
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Here’s an updated list of students known to have been targeted by the Trump administration for speaking out about what Israel is doing to Palestinians in Gaza, in a clear attempt to chill/stop free speech: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19058...
March 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Here’s an updated list of students known to have been targeted by the Trump administration for speaking out about what Israel is doing to Palestinians in Gaza, in a clear attempt to chill/stop free speech: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19058...
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El Salvador is a signatory to the Rome Statute; some Democratic Senators should send a letter to the ICC Prosecutor asking them to investigate Bukele for human trafficking.
March 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
El Salvador is a signatory to the Rome Statute; some Democratic Senators should send a letter to the ICC Prosecutor asking them to investigate Bukele for human trafficking.
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this is in line with the government hiding the identities of DOGE workers. the regime has a right to know who you are. you have no right to know who rules you.
It's a minor point amidst the serial violations of due process occurring here, but one of Trump's conditions to Columbia University for retaining funding was to ban masks. But the people sweeping up students are masked armed security officials.
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 27, 2025 at 3:29 AM
this is in line with the government hiding the identities of DOGE workers. the regime has a right to know who you are. you have no right to know who rules you.
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I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.
March 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.