Melissa Hendricks
@gl0bals0j0urner.bsky.social
Lawyer. Mom. Oregonian.
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LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
October 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
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Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!
Just the one!!
Just the one!!
October 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!
Just the one!!
Just the one!!
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BOOM 🔥:
Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.
Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.
October 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM
BOOM 🔥:
Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.
Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.
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It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.
October 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.
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I just met with the Vice President of El Salvador as we fight for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I’m speaking to the press now with the latest on our efforts.
Tune in here:
Tune in here:
Senator Chris Van Hollen is live!
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
www.youtube.com
April 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I just met with the Vice President of El Salvador as we fight for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I’m speaking to the press now with the latest on our efforts.
Tune in here:
Tune in here:
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I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."
But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
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But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
1/
April 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."
But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
1/
But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
1/
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The president who in 2020 had unidentified federal agents deployed against protesters is now encouraging a foreign dictator to build more prisons to accommodate "homegrown" "criminals," as he ignores a court order to effect the return of a guy sent to a foreign prison without any due process.
April 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The president who in 2020 had unidentified federal agents deployed against protesters is now encouraging a foreign dictator to build more prisons to accommodate "homegrown" "criminals," as he ignores a court order to effect the return of a guy sent to a foreign prison without any due process.
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Oh, I just realized that I should have used the baby-having conversation to plug my look at how immigration has backstopped the economy as America skews increasingly older. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The historically bad timing of Trump’s war on immigrants
An aging United States will need more workers. Immigrants could fill that gap — if we let them.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Oh, I just realized that I should have used the baby-having conversation to plug my look at how immigration has backstopped the economy as America skews increasingly older. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."
April 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."
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NEW: An @npr.org review of thousands of pages of records across more than a dozen federal lawsuits finds an alarming pattern across agencies, where DOGE has given conflicting information about what data it has accessed, who has that access, and most importantly — why. w/@jennamclaughlin.bsky.social
DOGE says it needs to know the government's most sensitive data, but can't say why
DOGE staffers have skirted privacy laws, training and security protocols to gain virtually unfettered access to financial and personal information stored in siloed government databases.
www.npr.org
March 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
NEW: An @npr.org review of thousands of pages of records across more than a dozen federal lawsuits finds an alarming pattern across agencies, where DOGE has given conflicting information about what data it has accessed, who has that access, and most importantly — why. w/@jennamclaughlin.bsky.social
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Why would anyone share intel with us now?
March 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Why would anyone share intel with us now?
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This, of course, is top secret intelligence shared in the chat.
The point being when Tulsi Gabbard testified,
“Senator, I’ll reiterate that there was no classified material that was shared”
she perjured herself
open and shut
The point being when Tulsi Gabbard testified,
“Senator, I’ll reiterate that there was no classified material that was shared”
she perjured herself
open and shut
March 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This, of course, is top secret intelligence shared in the chat.
The point being when Tulsi Gabbard testified,
“Senator, I’ll reiterate that there was no classified material that was shared”
she perjured herself
open and shut
The point being when Tulsi Gabbard testified,
“Senator, I’ll reiterate that there was no classified material that was shared”
she perjured herself
open and shut
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The founder of Signal releases a response to SignalGate:
“There are so many great reasons to be on Signal.
Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”
“There are so many great reasons to be on Signal.
Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”
March 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The founder of Signal releases a response to SignalGate:
“There are so many great reasons to be on Signal.
Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”
“There are so many great reasons to be on Signal.
Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”
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BREAKING: Colorado's State Capitol releases new presidential portrait
March 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
BREAKING: Colorado's State Capitol releases new presidential portrait
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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Either everyone has a right to due process or no one does. Why? Because if you create categories of people who “aren’t entitled” to due process, all the govt has to do is SAY you’re in that category. They don’t have to be right or have evidence, and you have no chance to prove your innocence.
March 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Either everyone has a right to due process or no one does. Why? Because if you create categories of people who “aren’t entitled” to due process, all the govt has to do is SAY you’re in that category. They don’t have to be right or have evidence, and you have no chance to prove your innocence.
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Our national shame knows few bounds these days.
March 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Our national shame knows few bounds these days.
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I am reading & laughing at many of your group chat joke posts, but has anyone else gone ice-cold with terror about how our national security is now a global punchline & we have no one protecting us against the world's bad actors, who can apparently just drunk-sext Pete Hegseth whenevs?
March 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I am reading & laughing at many of your group chat joke posts, but has anyone else gone ice-cold with terror about how our national security is now a global punchline & we have no one protecting us against the world's bad actors, who can apparently just drunk-sext Pete Hegseth whenevs?
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18 U.S.C. § 793(f) makes it a federal crime to for people entrusted with information related to the national defense to, with gross negligence, disclose it to others in violation of that trust.
March 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
18 U.S.C. § 793(f) makes it a federal crime to for people entrusted with information related to the national defense to, with gross negligence, disclose it to others in violation of that trust.
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And then I wondered … had Pete Hegseth really meant to text me the state secrets?
March 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
And then I wondered … had Pete Hegseth really meant to text me the state secrets?
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Txt STOP to opt out of updates on war plans
March 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Txt STOP to opt out of updates on war plans
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Maybe just maybe, the Secretary of Defense being an utterly incapable idiot and raging day-drunk is a national security problem.
Who could have guessed?
Who could have guessed?
March 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Maybe just maybe, the Secretary of Defense being an utterly incapable idiot and raging day-drunk is a national security problem.
Who could have guessed?
Who could have guessed?
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“Trump intentionally hired amateurs for top jobs. This is their most dramatic blunder”
www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/p...
Analysis: Trump intentionally hired amateurs for top jobs. This is their most dramatic blunder | CNN Politics
I was already writing an edition of the “What Matters” newsletter Monday about how President Donald Trump’s choice of businessmen and political allies to shake up and downsize government work has also...
www.cnn.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
“Trump intentionally hired amateurs for top jobs. This is their most dramatic blunder”
www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/p...
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The Trump administration just blatantly broke the law according to their own top intelligence official.
March 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The Trump administration just blatantly broke the law according to their own top intelligence official.
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So… the very same Republicans who said they were cutting SNAP because hunger could be “addressed by food banks”, just cut $500 MILLION in funding for…
You guessed it.
Food banks.
You guessed it.
Food banks.
March 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
So… the very same Republicans who said they were cutting SNAP because hunger could be “addressed by food banks”, just cut $500 MILLION in funding for…
You guessed it.
Food banks.
You guessed it.
Food banks.