🥧 Give Back November – Melissa 🤲
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🥧 Give Back November – Melissa 🤲
@melondc.bsky.social
Living, working, doing OK w/chronic illness. Please #MaskUp indoors and save disabled and elderly lives. We are all related.

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How I became a #MutualAid snack stop for kids:

In late 2022, I was COVID-conscious (just like now) and put out snacks for Xmas for all of the delivery people. I noticed they were taking a LOT of stuff but I shut it down in January 2023. But in 2023, "somebody" started sneaking around....
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Everyone, please help Kamarion go to VA for the Turkey Bowl. They need travel money, food etc plus admission to the Tournament

He has worked so hard, gotten good grades and admission to a tech charter school. He's 13

www.gofundme.com/f/help-send-...

#snackkids #mutualaid
Donate to Help Send Our Son to the Turkey Bowl, organized by Alexis Whitley
Hi I am raising money for my son to go to the turkey bowl which is November 28th-3… Alexis Whitley needs your support for Help Send Our Son to the Turkey Bowl
www.gofundme.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I mistook one appt for another and was 45 minutes early to pt. But no one is waiting with me, so its ok
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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🚨ALERT: 4 people have been detained in Bladensburg this morning, on or close to Baltimore-Washington parkway. All from work vans. Park police were involved.

We recommend staying clear of this area. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Everyone, please help Kamarion go to VA for the Turkey Bowl. They need travel money, food etc plus admission to the Tournament

He has worked so hard, gotten good grades and admission to a tech charter school. He's 13

www.gofundme.com/f/help-send-...

#snackkids #mutualaid
Donate to Help Send Our Son to the Turkey Bowl, organized by Alexis Whitley
Hi I am raising money for my son to go to the turkey bowl which is November 28th-3… Alexis Whitley needs your support for Help Send Our Son to the Turkey Bowl
www.gofundme.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The oldest boy snack kiddo is going to the Turkey Bowl, ha has a GoFundMe. I am in a car going to pt but will put it here later
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Two months ago we were paying all federal workers, SNAP benefits were fully funded, and people could afford their health insurance premiums but a small group of Democratic senators have Stockholm Syndrome and are telling us we have to Sophie’s choice one or two of these things.
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
My hip on the uninjured leg is killing me after a few days of exercise biking and now bench pressing for pt. Uggh
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
OMG one of the food distribution sites here gave away dangerous turkeys
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Going to send them all a fax telling them "You are all John Fetterman to me, now" lol forever

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Unsurprisingly the 7 Dems and 1 Independent (Angus King) that caved to R's to reopen the Fed Govt, NONE are up for re-election In 2026.
Imo, this is a very calculated cave tto R's refusal to negotiate ACA subsidies by Dem Senate leadership.

Your thoughts?
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I am already sore from bench pressing in physical therapy and I swear it was probably 10 pounds. Humbling AF
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
If this swollen lymph node doesn't resolve by next weekend I have to go see my primary care doctor. I'm not sick. My rheumatologist said to give it a week or so on the meds I just started
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Its 50 degrees and the Natoonal Guard is out here in oversized clothing wearing what looks like leather gloves. Dont know where they are from but rhey aren't handling cold very well
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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The Biden Administration reduced the COVID isolation guidelines from 10 days to 5 (when many are infectious for 14 days) because of a letter from the CEO of JetBlue. Fauci defended this decision as "preserving societal function." Sure didn't help anyone who went on to be disabled by Long COVID!
Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I got a Mutual Aid org to give food to D but they no longer want to be mentioned on social media and I didn't know, so I deleted it
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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My morning has been spent unloading in Cory Booker and Andy Kim's inboxes. Highly recommend you do the same with your senators for a little catharsis.
Call your congressperson too and demand that they come out against the deal and demand new leadership. They all need to feel the heat. They all need to know Schumer is a dead man walking. 202-224-3121
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
D just told me that before she found Mutual Aid, she would walk around Walmart with the grandchildren letting them eat food off of the shelf because she just didn't know what to do

If that doesn't break your heart, or make you realize how much disaparity ther is, I don't know what to day
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Ok, I am really just going to have to create a resource list. Our FB Mutual Aid group has a really long list but I need one that is printable
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I faxed Tim Kaine this morning lol and I gave away a pea coat that's too big for me, I've started the morning right

(screw Tim Kaine, lol I told him his national political career is toast)
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This morning I'm getting resources together for D, I found a source of halal Thanksgiving through Food Justice DMV and need to get her plugged into it pronto
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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So would my brother. My parents declared bankruptcy when we were young due to his medical bills (with insurance). He could have never gotten his own insurance prior to the ACA. His body would shut down pretty quickly without his daily medications.
I would literally be dead without the ACA. Many people don't understand. I just wouldn't have been able to get insurance with pre-existing conditions. Being officially diagnosed w/ something was misery sentence, bc once diagnosed, it wasn't going to be covered in the future

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The thing about ACA is that if an American describes how it works to someone from literally anywhere else, the other person will be utterly horrified at its deliberate cruelty.

The way the horror of pre-ACA healthcare sounds to an American, is basically how ACA sounds to everyone else on earth.
November 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
He had to go to ONE game because he's insisting the rebuilt Commanders stadium be named after him lol

Somebody should ask him about ANY footbal rule lol

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November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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getting harder to argue that the establishment democrats actually care about winning and accomplishing things, isn't it. in the sense of defeating the republicans and enacting the policies they run on, anyway
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Being poor is a full-time job. People go to multiple pantries; they have to find transportation, they have to have $ to take that transportation, they don't have money to eat food while out all day waiting in line to get food, and sometimes the line runs out of food!

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To the people who prioritize efficiency & their own convenience over the needs of people receiving SNAP, think again. Think abt those of us on SNAP going to multiple pantries, farmers markets, free fridges to get sort-of what we need while our ability to eat is restricted and debated publicly
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM