Melinda
@melinda-rae.bsky.social
I'm a queer naturopathic physician and Chinese medicine practitioner living in Astoria, Oregon at the beautiful and awe inspiring confluence of the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean. 🏳️🌈
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I mean, you could cancel Paramount and support @pbs.org instead.
Did you know that for $5/month, you can get PBS Passport, a service that unlocks the vastness of the @pbs.org libraries?
Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air.
Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air.
Getting started with PBS Passport
PBS Passport is a member benefit from participating PBS stations that gives eligible donors and supporters extended access to an on-demand library of quality public television programming online. If ...
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July 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I mean, you could cancel Paramount and support @pbs.org instead.
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Someone (@lewfoo) posted a long thread on the THREADS app about this. I’m posting the @npr.org story on which her thread was based here. PLEASE READ & SHARE. It’s so important.
@cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social
www.npr.org/sections/the...
@cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social
www.npr.org/sections/the...
When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.
www.npr.org
July 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Someone (@lewfoo) posted a long thread on the THREADS app about this. I’m posting the @npr.org story on which her thread was based here. PLEASE READ & SHARE. It’s so important.
@cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social
www.npr.org/sections/the...
@cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social
www.npr.org/sections/the...
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"We will either act now or wait until autocracy has become so unyielding that we will no longer be able to exercise our basic rights. You will become less afraid when you feel part of a group, so try and pull together a group of friends, or join a civic organization so that you are not alone."
"Fortunately, many people are in fact “doing something." Essential piece from @sifill.bsky.social. sherrilyn.substack.com/p/democracy-...
Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
sherrilyn.substack.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"We will either act now or wait until autocracy has become so unyielding that we will no longer be able to exercise our basic rights. You will become less afraid when you feel part of a group, so try and pull together a group of friends, or join a civic organization so that you are not alone."
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I finally launched my own newsletter! I'm happy to be albeit write what I want when I want. And to put a lot of short in-the-moment essays that used to be on FB at this site instead. Please subscribe! meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/welcome-to-m...
Welcome to Meditations in an Emergency
We are very clearly in a lot of emergencies right now. They demand action. But action demands thought and thoughtfulness: who are we, what are our values, our goals, our allies, our possibilities, and...
meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io
February 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I finally launched my own newsletter! I'm happy to be albeit write what I want when I want. And to put a lot of short in-the-moment essays that used to be on FB at this site instead. Please subscribe! meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/welcome-to-m...
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Ugh this handbasket has like no leg room
January 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Ugh this handbasket has like no leg room
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I just saw Trump’s latest executive order targeting trans kids and shutting down their health care. I’m asking all of us to stand up with one voice for the trans community.
January 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I just saw Trump’s latest executive order targeting trans kids and shutting down their health care. I’m asking all of us to stand up with one voice for the trans community.
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Revolutionizing rebellion:
Experiment with uppity, mischievous optimism
Invoke insurrectionary levels of wildly interesting generosity
Refuse to be chronically fearful
Be as wide-awake as a dissident trickster messiah
Bring reckless levels of creative intelligence to all expressions of love
Experiment with uppity, mischievous optimism
Invoke insurrectionary levels of wildly interesting generosity
Refuse to be chronically fearful
Be as wide-awake as a dissident trickster messiah
Bring reckless levels of creative intelligence to all expressions of love
November 30, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Revolutionizing rebellion:
Experiment with uppity, mischievous optimism
Invoke insurrectionary levels of wildly interesting generosity
Refuse to be chronically fearful
Be as wide-awake as a dissident trickster messiah
Bring reckless levels of creative intelligence to all expressions of love
Experiment with uppity, mischievous optimism
Invoke insurrectionary levels of wildly interesting generosity
Refuse to be chronically fearful
Be as wide-awake as a dissident trickster messiah
Bring reckless levels of creative intelligence to all expressions of love
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Okay, this from @perrybaconjr.bsky.social
is the kind of opinion article that I need to see right now:
Okay, this from @perrybaconjr.bsky.social
is the kind of opinion article that I need to see right now:
Opinion | Don’t doomscroll about Trump. Do these five things instead.
Elections are important, but they’re not the only way to advance progressive policies.
wapo.st
November 27, 2024 at 4:06 PM
wapo.st/3OpGTy9
Okay, this from @perrybaconjr.bsky.social
is the kind of opinion article that I need to see right now:
Okay, this from @perrybaconjr.bsky.social
is the kind of opinion article that I need to see right now:
Astoria double rainbow alert! 🌈
November 25, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Astoria double rainbow alert! 🌈
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Today is the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, founded to draw attention to the tragic ongoing violence directed toward transgender people.
Let's re-double and re-triple our efforts to keep trans people safe and protected.
Let's re-double and re-triple our efforts to keep trans people safe and protected.
November 20, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Today is the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, founded to draw attention to the tragic ongoing violence directed toward transgender people.
Let's re-double and re-triple our efforts to keep trans people safe and protected.
Let's re-double and re-triple our efforts to keep trans people safe and protected.
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Grace Lee
Boggs: “It’s never about critical mass, but critical connections.”
Boggs: “It’s never about critical mass, but critical connections.”
November 20, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Grace Lee
Boggs: “It’s never about critical mass, but critical connections.”
Boggs: “It’s never about critical mass, but critical connections.”