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Melanie 🐝🐝
@melbeebee.bsky.social
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NC Blue 🔵 democracy💙BLM🌈 feminist/pro-union/NOT giving up in ADVANCE/NOT giving in to fascists. Ret. CC English prof. Hope my students remember 2 ✅sources/think critically.

USMC WWll IwoJima daughter
#bluecrew #resistance
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She's just a black cat stretched out next to a pillow that says PEACE. Good luck with the next few months!✌️
A black cat named Bear is stretched out on her back and side forming a twisted "C" shape. She's asleep on a blue chair next to a pillow that reads PEACE.
November 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Bear assured me a red cushion shows her loveliness to best advantage.
Black cat, asleep on a red chair- cushion on a porch somewhere in Carolina. Flowered cushion at her back. Traditional Caturday pose. #caturday
October 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Carolina Bluesky in October is divine. Thank you, Canada, for sending us the cooler air. 💙🇨🇦 #October #nature
Carolina blue sky with thin white clouds, seen through the green, acorn filled branches of a live oak tree. Not seen, but heard: mockingbirds singing their hearts out.
October 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Bear on Mom's lap. Snore snore snore. 😆
5 year old mostly black cat named Bear, sleeping on a green blanket, snoring.
September 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I do love an enthusiastic mockingbird singing her heart out on a cloudy Sunday.

And coffee.
A large 70 year old Carolina live oak tree, full of acorns. Cloudy day. Black metal cage around two hydrangeas to keep deer from eating them. Small chiminea, lower right.
September 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Here's ours, in progress. I keep thinking I should de-clutter, but I apparently love clutter. 😆
White bookshelf wall in progress of being filled with books and bric a brac. Library ladder lying on the floor.
September 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Bear is ready for Fall. She has the gourds guarded. 😆 #caturday #cats #fall
An adult black cat is curled up sleeping next to 4 green & orange colored decorative gourds. She's on a white fireplace mantle with a mirror in the background.
September 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Thanks to @nurse-chapel.bsky.social for sharing this from Bernice King. It's great advice.
September 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Especially for women. Even this book written from slave narratives has trouble trying to explain what horrors occurred.
Book cover for Far More Terrible for Women edited by Patrick Minges. The cover has a photo of a thin, elderly Black woman in a long white apron holding a long walking cane. She has stoic expression as she sits in a straight backed wooden chair. Photo probably c. 1930s.
August 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Flowering ginger. Smells divine. The cat likes to nap under it. Oh, and a tree frog, upper left quadrant. 😁
#bloomscrolling
Large patch of white flowering ginger, 3-4 ft. tall on green fronded stems. A crepe myrtle tree in upper left has a 2 ft tall metal sculpture of a green fog smiling and holding an umbrella. The ginger flowers resemble large lilies or orchids and have a light, sweet smell.
August 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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The ginger is blooming. Smells so good! #bloomscrolling
Flowering ginger in bloom. Green frondy stalks 3 to 4 feet high. White cup-shaped flowers in clusters at the top of the green stems. Mottled trunk of a crepe myrtle tree in upper left corner.
July 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Another candle in the void... Dr. Annie Andrews is running for Lindsey Graham's seat in SC!
Dr. Annie Andrews for Senate poster. Contributions received in Q2 are over $1.2 million raised, with over 38,000 contributions, average donation of less than $31.00, zero dollars from corporate PACs!
July 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Red ball cap ala maga but reads "We're all going to die"
May 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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"We're all going to die" on a maga style red ball cap.
May 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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How can anyone look at our extraordinary planet, heartbreakingly beautiful, full of wondrous life, and not want to save it? Let Mars be Mars. We have Earth. 💙
Our heartbreakingly beautiful planet Earth in the black void of space. Blue oceans, east Africa, Middle East, India, and Asia show brown & green under wispy white clouds.
May 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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The air was awful.
Top image of heavy smog in downtown Los Angeles in c. 1970 vs. much cleaner air c. 21st century after the Clean Air Act.
May 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Black cat under a gray electric blanket with only ears, tail, front paws visible.
April 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Relax. Take a moment. Have you ever seen prettier tomatoes?
Three vined, perfectly ripened red tomatoes on a yellow plate. The plate is on a weathered red and blue picnic table on a sunny spring day. Grown in a greenhouse by our Canadian friends.
April 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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I'm thinking a lot about this, also. Made this last night...
Homemade cardboard sign reads Because the Constitution Says So in blue sharpie. Pocket copy booklet of the Constitution laid on the right side of the sign.
April 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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I'm there. It's near me at all times.
Homemade cardboard sign reads Because the Constitution Says So!!! in blue sharpie.
April 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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A box AND tissue paper?! Bear hit the jackpot! #caturday
Half face showing of a black cat named Bear hiding under tissue paper in a cardboard box.
April 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Dang, FL, represent! Tallahassee is kicking it!
April 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Bring them all home from the El Salvador prison. Bring them all home NOW.

No action has been taken by US regime to release Maryland man they admit was sent to prison "in error." The men will be tortured and die if we don't demand their return. They received NO due process. Please share.
El Salvador prison guards wearing masks roughly throw a shackled prison into an overcrowded gray prison cell, lined with many other shackled prisoners.
April 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Ooh! I have a Caturday! This is a fully grown cat, not just a few scattered cat parts, I promise!
Adult black cat sleeping under a gray electric blanket with a cream and white quilt underneath. Only 2 paws, 2 ears, and 4 inches of her tail are showing. The rest of her is cozy under the blanket.
March 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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WAPO wouldn't publish this ad. Guess why not?
February 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM