Randie Melton
@randiem.bsky.social
Retired old tranma from the land of the Pines (N.C.). Glacially transitioning. Like cooking, wine, some sports, dogs, family, discovering myself
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The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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one of the reasons I stopped engaging in these discussions is our opponents are incapable of addressing criticism. but the point for them is not to hash out these issues, it's to repeat the same thing over and over again until it starts to look like the "truth" for people with institutional power.
Utterly baffling to insist any description of sex as a phenomenon in humans must be applicable to every species with a sex, not least when the more universal a definition of sex becomes the less utility it has.
(And has the state of the argument really progressed so little in six years!?)
(And has the state of the argument really progressed so little in six years!?)
December 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
one of the reasons I stopped engaging in these discussions is our opponents are incapable of addressing criticism. but the point for them is not to hash out these issues, it's to repeat the same thing over and over again until it starts to look like the "truth" for people with institutional power.
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People
A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic.
(Note for free subscriber...
www.burnsnotice.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
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Knees in the trap
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...
American Student Ends Up Trapped in Giant Vagina Sculpture
Firefighters embarked on an "extraordinary rescue mission" when an American exchange student got his leg trapped inside a giant vagina sculpture.
www.nbcnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Knees in the trap
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...
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Trans people: If your partner insults your appearance, mocks your efforts to transition, says they support you in one breath and then that you ruined their lives in the next, are embarrassed to be seen with you, or makes you feel like a burden, that's not your partner, that's your abuser.
December 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Trans people: If your partner insults your appearance, mocks your efforts to transition, says they support you in one breath and then that you ruined their lives in the next, are embarrassed to be seen with you, or makes you feel like a burden, that's not your partner, that's your abuser.
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“I just want to be a monster, and get away with it,” informs the politics of a depressingly large cross-section of our country.
That is a very bad thing to want! Want anything else, and your life will be richer for it!
That is a very bad thing to want! Want anything else, and your life will be richer for it!
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
“I just want to be a monster, and get away with it,” informs the politics of a depressingly large cross-section of our country.
That is a very bad thing to want! Want anything else, and your life will be richer for it!
That is a very bad thing to want! Want anything else, and your life will be richer for it!
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There is simply no medical reason to take a person, cold-turkey, off of a medication they've been stable on for almost a decade, with no offer of anything else - and when the lack of that medication causes irreversible lifelong issues up to and including death.
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
There is simply no medical reason to take a person, cold-turkey, off of a medication they've been stable on for almost a decade, with no offer of anything else - and when the lack of that medication causes irreversible lifelong issues up to and including death.
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X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
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Gaza today from my camera
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Gaza today from my camera
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I heard there was a Cohen song,
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I heard there was a Cohen song,
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
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The only thing that's interesting about Nuzzi is the story of how an amoral careerist with no interest in policy and abysmal ethics became an acclaimed national political reporter. But rather than tell that story, the entire media seems desperate to play a part in it.
It rocks that all 20 people who genuinely think the Olivia Nuzzi stuff is interesting have editorial discretion at major media outlets. Just publish your group chats
November 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The only thing that's interesting about Nuzzi is the story of how an amoral careerist with no interest in policy and abysmal ethics became an acclaimed national political reporter. But rather than tell that story, the entire media seems desperate to play a part in it.
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Disney has hiked prices and laid off hundreds of workers this year.
Yet Disney paid its CEO $41B in 2024. It just reported a 36% increase in net profits for parks and streaming. And it plans to double stock buybacks next year.
Remember this as Disney turns to AI.
Yet Disney paid its CEO $41B in 2024. It just reported a 36% increase in net profits for parks and streaming. And it plans to double stock buybacks next year.
Remember this as Disney turns to AI.
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users
(via THR)
(via THR)
November 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Disney has hiked prices and laid off hundreds of workers this year.
Yet Disney paid its CEO $41B in 2024. It just reported a 36% increase in net profits for parks and streaming. And it plans to double stock buybacks next year.
Remember this as Disney turns to AI.
Yet Disney paid its CEO $41B in 2024. It just reported a 36% increase in net profits for parks and streaming. And it plans to double stock buybacks next year.
Remember this as Disney turns to AI.
BOOO! Future’s not looking too bright for GB. They’ll be lucky to win 2 or 3 more if they keep playing like this.
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
BOOO! Future’s not looking too bright for GB. They’ll be lucky to win 2 or 3 more if they keep playing like this.
Wait! I take it back! 🙃
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Wait! I take it back! 🙃
Prolly all she wrote. The offense has just fallen apart.
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Prolly all she wrote. The offense has just fallen apart.
3 points enough tonight? Maybe!
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
3 points enough tonight? Maybe!
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We need to dump Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We need to dump Schumer
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Who needs enemies when you have your own thoughts
November 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Who needs enemies when you have your own thoughts
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
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I often think about how The Jetsons claimed to be futuristic, but was actually a very ordinary "white patriarchy - with robots."
And the fact that the AI Bros grew up dreaming of precisely that identical future is the reason we're regressing and progressing in idiotically clashing ways in 2025. 🧵👇🏼
And the fact that the AI Bros grew up dreaming of precisely that identical future is the reason we're regressing and progressing in idiotically clashing ways in 2025. 🧵👇🏼
November 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I often think about how The Jetsons claimed to be futuristic, but was actually a very ordinary "white patriarchy - with robots."
And the fact that the AI Bros grew up dreaming of precisely that identical future is the reason we're regressing and progressing in idiotically clashing ways in 2025. 🧵👇🏼
And the fact that the AI Bros grew up dreaming of precisely that identical future is the reason we're regressing and progressing in idiotically clashing ways in 2025. 🧵👇🏼
Le bum. Every time I’m ready to believe in the Packers, they lay an egg. FIRE LAFLEUR!!🤬🤬 (jk)
November 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Le bum. Every time I’m ready to believe in the Packers, they lay an egg. FIRE LAFLEUR!!🤬🤬 (jk)
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Want to see a microcosm of America? Immigrants won the World Series for the Dodgers and immigrants will be unwelcome and hunted at the victory parade.
November 2, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Want to see a microcosm of America? Immigrants won the World Series for the Dodgers and immigrants will be unwelcome and hunted at the victory parade.