Melissa
@hellmel.bsky.social
SE Texas native plant obsessive, Leftist, atheist, 3D printing for funsies, Free Palestine, anti-capitalist, ❤️🐕&🐈, Tough Mudder...
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Abolish ICE is the compromise position. We need to abolish the entire Department of Homeland Security, which was created after 9-11 with the express purpose of terrorizing immigrant communities, activists, and ordinary people in a sickening display of security theater that does not make anyone safer
May 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Abolish ICE is the compromise position. We need to abolish the entire Department of Homeland Security, which was created after 9-11 with the express purpose of terrorizing immigrant communities, activists, and ordinary people in a sickening display of security theater that does not make anyone safer
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See the difference? 🤨
May 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
See the difference? 🤨
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There might be a method to this madness, as several people have noted: tariffs announced, markets fall, rich buddies who know better buy; tariffs revoked, markets bounce back, rich buddies even richer.
May 13, 2025 at 5:13 AM
There might be a method to this madness, as several people have noted: tariffs announced, markets fall, rich buddies who know better buy; tariffs revoked, markets bounce back, rich buddies even richer.
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Remember when the story broke about a worm eating part of his brain and nobody was that surprised?
May 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Remember when the story broke about a worm eating part of his brain and nobody was that surprised?
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Art of the deal is raising the tariff to 145% then cutting it almost in half despite the fact that China has made no concessions and has completely ignored you. Xi just sits back at laughs at our orange clown.
May 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Art of the deal is raising the tariff to 145% then cutting it almost in half despite the fact that China has made no concessions and has completely ignored you. Xi just sits back at laughs at our orange clown.
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100 men vs. 1 gorilla?
How about the working class against the oligarchy?
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.
This is the real fight we need to be talking about.
How about the working class against the oligarchy?
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.
This is the real fight we need to be talking about.
May 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
100 men vs. 1 gorilla?
How about the working class against the oligarchy?
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.
This is the real fight we need to be talking about.
How about the working class against the oligarchy?
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.
This is the real fight we need to be talking about.
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MAGA cultists are like hypnotized sheep following their Dear Leader.
May 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
MAGA cultists are like hypnotized sheep following their Dear Leader.
The only reason to not list the tariffs separately is if the business has no intention of lowering the price after the tariffs are reduced or eliminated.
"Should businesses display how much of a purchase price goes towards paying tariffs?"
Yes: 61%
No: 17%
YouGov / May 5, 2025
Yes: 61%
No: 17%
YouGov / May 5, 2025
May 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The only reason to not list the tariffs separately is if the business has no intention of lowering the price after the tariffs are reduced or eliminated.
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"They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay the longer hours the reduced benefits the end of overtime and the vanishing pension" ~George Carlin
April 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay the longer hours the reduced benefits the end of overtime and the vanishing pension" ~George Carlin
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This is correct from @joeweisenthal.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is correct from @joeweisenthal.bsky.social
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STOP normalizing and repeating their dangerous, rhetoric!
The 238 Venezuelans were NOT deported. They were illegally abducted.
“Suspected gang member”
Being a gang member alone is not a crime. And “suspected” by whom?
Detention centers are concentration camps.
ICE is America’s Gestapo.
The 238 Venezuelans were NOT deported. They were illegally abducted.
“Suspected gang member”
Being a gang member alone is not a crime. And “suspected” by whom?
Detention centers are concentration camps.
ICE is America’s Gestapo.
April 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
STOP normalizing and repeating their dangerous, rhetoric!
The 238 Venezuelans were NOT deported. They were illegally abducted.
“Suspected gang member”
Being a gang member alone is not a crime. And “suspected” by whom?
Detention centers are concentration camps.
ICE is America’s Gestapo.
The 238 Venezuelans were NOT deported. They were illegally abducted.
“Suspected gang member”
Being a gang member alone is not a crime. And “suspected” by whom?
Detention centers are concentration camps.
ICE is America’s Gestapo.
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The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
April 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.
April 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.
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REMINDER: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.
April 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
REMINDER: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.
Yet their cuts to the IRS will cost ~500B in revenue
Musk’s DOGE promised $1T in savings; now admits maybe $150B—if you squint past the math errors, double-counting, and lies. Even libertarians are cringing. It’s not efficiency; it’s cosplay austerity from a tech bro handed federal access he doesn’t understand and can’t control.
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April 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Yet their cuts to the IRS will cost ~500B in revenue
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The United States is the richest country in the history of the world. But who benefits from those riches?
Consider: the richest 10% of Americans hold nearly 70% of the nation’s wealth – while the bottom 50% hold just 3%.
See the problem?
Consider: the richest 10% of Americans hold nearly 70% of the nation’s wealth – while the bottom 50% hold just 3%.
See the problem?
April 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The United States is the richest country in the history of the world. But who benefits from those riches?
Consider: the richest 10% of Americans hold nearly 70% of the nation’s wealth – while the bottom 50% hold just 3%.
See the problem?
Consider: the richest 10% of Americans hold nearly 70% of the nation’s wealth – while the bottom 50% hold just 3%.
See the problem?
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Someone said yesterday that America are the cause of most of the world’s problems and it’s true and has been for at least a century
April 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Someone said yesterday that America are the cause of most of the world’s problems and it’s true and has been for at least a century
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One of the most amazing things about the tariff rollout was that they used (at least) three mutually exclusive arguments to justify them and everything they've done since the initial rollout has proven a different one of them false
April 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
One of the most amazing things about the tariff rollout was that they used (at least) three mutually exclusive arguments to justify them and everything they've done since the initial rollout has proven a different one of them false
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Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism"
"That theory has been debunked"
"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
"That theory has been debunked"
"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
April 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism"
"That theory has been debunked"
"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
"That theory has been debunked"
"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"