Megan Colello
@megenta.bsky.social
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Looking for a seasonally-appropriate throwback read? Last year @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social wrote about the Christian Christmas complex and the holiday blues.
The Most? Wonderful? Time? of the Year
The Christian Christmas industrial complex wants us to buy the illusion of unity while fascism prepares to enter the White House.
www.theflytrapmedia.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Looking for a seasonally-appropriate throwback read? Last year @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social wrote about the Christian Christmas complex and the holiday blues.
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Check out these baddies waging a psyops campaign outside the hotel where ICE agents were *trying* to sleep.
Mariachi for the win!! 💃
Mariachi for the win!! 💃
June 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Check out these baddies waging a psyops campaign outside the hotel where ICE agents were *trying* to sleep.
Mariachi for the win!! 💃
Mariachi for the win!! 💃
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I do not think dixiecrat segregationists are the bar we should be aiming to clear in 2025
Also Byrd unreservedly repented from his previous views, Platner has nothing but excuses about how he didn't know it was a nazi tattoo bu if he did it's not a big deal anyway
Also Byrd unreservedly repented from his previous views, Platner has nothing but excuses about how he didn't know it was a nazi tattoo bu if he did it's not a big deal anyway
We cannot survive a world where Susan Collins returns to the Senate. If Platner has a better chance of beating her than his 77 year old opponent, then so be it. The Democrats lived with Senator Robert Byrd for years. Look him up.
October 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I do not think dixiecrat segregationists are the bar we should be aiming to clear in 2025
Also Byrd unreservedly repented from his previous views, Platner has nothing but excuses about how he didn't know it was a nazi tattoo bu if he did it's not a big deal anyway
Also Byrd unreservedly repented from his previous views, Platner has nothing but excuses about how he didn't know it was a nazi tattoo bu if he did it's not a big deal anyway
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So, I am now in a bit of a panic about the nearly $4k in refunds I have to issue via Stripe.
If you believe in helping small, marginalized creators who depend on our writing for income get off Substack, I could really use a show of support now.
Please subscribe at www.bugbeardispatch.com
If you believe in helping small, marginalized creators who depend on our writing for income get off Substack, I could really use a show of support now.
Please subscribe at www.bugbeardispatch.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
So, I am now in a bit of a panic about the nearly $4k in refunds I have to issue via Stripe.
If you believe in helping small, marginalized creators who depend on our writing for income get off Substack, I could really use a show of support now.
Please subscribe at www.bugbeardispatch.com
If you believe in helping small, marginalized creators who depend on our writing for income get off Substack, I could really use a show of support now.
Please subscribe at www.bugbeardispatch.com
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eat shit, this isn’t “doubling down”, it’s a plain statement of oregon law, bondi’s inability to read is her own problem
In a Tuesday letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Gov. Tina Kotek defended Oregon’s sanctuary laws and said Bondi’s assertions that the state hampers enforcement of federal immigration laws are unfounded.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
August 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
eat shit, this isn’t “doubling down”, it’s a plain statement of oregon law, bondi’s inability to read is her own problem
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Could folks please share this post? The stakes are pretty high for me to get the word out.
Fwiw--and I don't mean to whine, as leaving Substack is necessary and there will never be a "good" time--Ghost's upfront costs are high. For me, about $700 that I put on a credit card
Fwiw--and I don't mean to whine, as leaving Substack is necessary and there will never be a "good" time--Ghost's upfront costs are high. For me, about $700 that I put on a credit card
So I ran into some technical issue with the automated migration from Substack to Ghost, and now all I can do is ask those affected--about 200 people--to please subscribe to The Bugbear Dispatch on Ghost once I shut down paid subscriptions on Substack
bugbeardispatch.substack.com/p/update-2-o...
bugbeardispatch.substack.com/p/update-2-o...
Update 2 on the Migration to Ghost: What to Do if You Weren't Automatically Migrated
Hello to everyone who is still reading this!
bugbeardispatch.substack.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Could folks please share this post? The stakes are pretty high for me to get the word out.
Fwiw--and I don't mean to whine, as leaving Substack is necessary and there will never be a "good" time--Ghost's upfront costs are high. For me, about $700 that I put on a credit card
Fwiw--and I don't mean to whine, as leaving Substack is necessary and there will never be a "good" time--Ghost's upfront costs are high. For me, about $700 that I put on a credit card
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"What began as a modest effort by a few members of a small congregation to reach out to migrants would evolve into a deep experiment in solidarity..."
our new issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is out! today I want to highlight this article by Benji Hart
hammerandhope.org/article/chic...
our new issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is out! today I want to highlight this article by Benji Hart
hammerandhope.org/article/chic...
Venezuelan Migrants, a Black Church, and an Experiment in Solidarity
A pastor in Chicago helps build a coalition that aids recent arrivals by asking them what they need.
hammerandhope.org
August 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"What began as a modest effort by a few members of a small congregation to reach out to migrants would evolve into a deep experiment in solidarity..."
our new issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is out! today I want to highlight this article by Benji Hart
hammerandhope.org/article/chic...
our new issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is out! today I want to highlight this article by Benji Hart
hammerandhope.org/article/chic...
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He doesn’t want to “reduce chronic illnesses,” he wants to reduce people with chronic illnesses
Chronically Ill? In Kennedy's View, It Might Be a Patient's Own Fault www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
Chronically Ill? In Kennedy's View, It Might Be a Patient's Own Fault
These attitudes are shaping policies that affect millions of people
www.medpagetoday.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
He doesn’t want to “reduce chronic illnesses,” he wants to reduce people with chronic illnesses
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i will never forgive The Exorcist for making pazuzu another contextless name for fundies and wannabe occultists to incorporate into their slurry of oc demons
August 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
i will never forgive The Exorcist for making pazuzu another contextless name for fundies and wannabe occultists to incorporate into their slurry of oc demons
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Last thought for now: we live in a time when people are trying to manufacture consent for abuse of racial minorities, sexual minorities, women, disabled people, and vulnerable people generally, by appealing to multiple imaginary pasts and the assumption that they represent natural norms.
July 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Last thought for now: we live in a time when people are trying to manufacture consent for abuse of racial minorities, sexual minorities, women, disabled people, and vulnerable people generally, by appealing to multiple imaginary pasts and the assumption that they represent natural norms.
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One of the dumbest times I went viral on Twitter was for a thread about this and there were creepy people in my mentions for days. So: fun fact, the average age of a bride on her first marriage in 18th-century England was 26.
Sigh.
Squicky people on the internet are at it again about the alleged old days of teen and tween brides, so this is my cue to bring out the graph showing that the median age for first marriage in the US has never been below 20 for the woman from 1890 to the present.
Squicky people on the internet are at it again about the alleged old days of teen and tween brides, so this is my cue to bring out the graph showing that the median age for first marriage in the US has never been below 20 for the woman from 1890 to the present.
July 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
One of the dumbest times I went viral on Twitter was for a thread about this and there were creepy people in my mentions for days. So: fun fact, the average age of a bride on her first marriage in 18th-century England was 26.
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@megenta.bsky.social Hey, I will be teaching 4th grade Math & Science for the 1st time. I'll have 2 classes with 56 plus kids in a Title 1 school. We go back in 2 weeks. Even a share helps. I've added reward items. Thank you!❤️ #clearthelist
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www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
July 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
@megenta.bsky.social Hey, I will be teaching 4th grade Math & Science for the 1st time. I'll have 2 classes with 56 plus kids in a Title 1 school. We go back in 2 weeks. Even a share helps. I've added reward items. Thank you!❤️ #clearthelist
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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Oooooooh. It's revolution poasting. That explains it. Starting a revolution in a country you don't live in and don't understand one skeet at a time, the way Ba'al Marx intended
July 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Oooooooh. It's revolution poasting. That explains it. Starting a revolution in a country you don't live in and don't understand one skeet at a time, the way Ba'al Marx intended
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5 ways to help schools if you don’t have kids
1. Go to donorschoose.org and find a teacher project to support in your zip code
2. Follow the hashtag #clearthelist and donate to a teachers’s wish list
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1. Go to donorschoose.org and find a teacher project to support in your zip code
2. Follow the hashtag #clearthelist and donate to a teachers’s wish list
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DonorsChoose: Support a classroom. Build a future.
DonorsChoose connects teachers in high-need communities with donors who want to help.
donorschoose.org
July 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
5 ways to help schools if you don’t have kids
1. Go to donorschoose.org and find a teacher project to support in your zip code
2. Follow the hashtag #clearthelist and donate to a teachers’s wish list
🧵 1/3
1. Go to donorschoose.org and find a teacher project to support in your zip code
2. Follow the hashtag #clearthelist and donate to a teachers’s wish list
🧵 1/3
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Yet another excellent piece today.
Free advice for this Sunday morning:
When you see the byline “Eli Saslow,” you drop whatever the hell you’re doing and click on the link.
Gift link ⤵️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
When you see the byline “Eli Saslow,” you drop whatever the hell you’re doing and click on the link.
Gift link ⤵️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now?
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Yet another excellent piece today.
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The political value of LLMs is in how they are used to gaslight us. A CEO pays you less because they insist they can just as well replace you with AI. A politician roles out AI urgent care to “make healthcare accessible”. Meanwhile the wealthy will always have access to the real thing.
July 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The political value of LLMs is in how they are used to gaslight us. A CEO pays you less because they insist they can just as well replace you with AI. A politician roles out AI urgent care to “make healthcare accessible”. Meanwhile the wealthy will always have access to the real thing.
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Every day watching these particular nightmarish incompetent weird fascists wreak ignorant havoc
February 17, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Every day watching these particular nightmarish incompetent weird fascists wreak ignorant havoc
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I’m so filled with rage at the messaging so many of us exvangelicals have gotten for the past 8+ years : “be nicer to the conservatives in your life, because if you aren’t — they will gleefully vote in a dictator to punish you because you hurt their feelings.”
February 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I’m so filled with rage at the messaging so many of us exvangelicals have gotten for the past 8+ years : “be nicer to the conservatives in your life, because if you aren’t — they will gleefully vote in a dictator to punish you because you hurt their feelings.”
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"Most of the Homeschool/Unschool blogs you see on the internet are written and promoted by the parents. There aren’t very many positive blogs written by the children."
It’s Not Just the Religious Homeschoolers: Alianne’s Story
“Our mother and father epitomized the braggadocio of homeschool parenting.”
homeschoolersanonymous.net
February 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"Most of the Homeschool/Unschool blogs you see on the internet are written and promoted by the parents. There aren’t very many positive blogs written by the children."
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Not a single disabled person I know would be surprised by this: the parents, families and friends of disabled people often are the very people who traumatize us, who present us as "burdens" and worse.
Proximity to a disabled person means nothing.
Proximity to a disabled person means nothing.
Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Not a single disabled person I know would be surprised by this: the parents, families and friends of disabled people often are the very people who traumatize us, who present us as "burdens" and worse.
Proximity to a disabled person means nothing.
Proximity to a disabled person means nothing.
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If you’ve already started calling it the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico, you should have no trouble with someone’s preferred name and pronouns.
February 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
If you’ve already started calling it the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico, you should have no trouble with someone’s preferred name and pronouns.
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We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.
Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads (Gift Article)
Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the United States so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.
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⚪️ Evangelicals mad because Kendrick showed how easy it is to call out predators on stage but they won’t do it.
February 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
⚪️ Evangelicals mad because Kendrick showed how easy it is to call out predators on stage but they won’t do it.
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Friendly reminder that the people behind the Jesus commercials fund super PACS that literally lobby for everything that’s the antithesis of what’s shown in that spot. Eg: pro deportation, anti vaxxer, pro higher healthcare costs, etc etc etc #plannerbowl
February 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Friendly reminder that the people behind the Jesus commercials fund super PACS that literally lobby for everything that’s the antithesis of what’s shown in that spot. Eg: pro deportation, anti vaxxer, pro higher healthcare costs, etc etc etc #plannerbowl