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Melisa
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Sassy liberal with opinions, here to fight for the best in us. Sometimes funny, sometimes bleak, mostly terrified.
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Good news just keeps rolling in! ✊💙
News alert from Philadelphia Inquirer: Democrats sweep Bucks County law enforcement races, ousting a sheriff who sought controversial ICE partnership. Democrats swept two law enforcement races in Bucks County, ousting two incumbents and signaling the swing county has soured on President Donald Trump just a year after voting for him. The sheriff race centered on a controversial decision to partner the agency with ICE as Trump ramps up immigration enforcement nationwide. The victories came in what appeared to be a blue wave election as voters rejected Republican candidates in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia.
November 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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A protester wearing orange similar to Trump's makeup color holds a sign picturing Trump's face in orange clown makeup. The words say, "No Crown for a clown".
October 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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The homemade signs are the best!
A protest sign among a crowd near a brick building says, "Old jippe for free speech".
October 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Hey Baltimore! Westminster here!
#NoKings
A crowd of people lines a road, two wearing inflatable costumes (unicorn and dino skeleton). People are holding up signs and cheering as drivers pass, honking in support.
October 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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#NoKings Westminster MD!
A crowd of people at a No Kings rally, with American flag and signs and cheering!
October 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Westminster MD! ✊💙
A person attending a No Kings rally holds a sign showing Trump in clown makeup with the slogan, No Crown for a Clown.
October 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Sinclair has always been a delivery system for reactionary viewpoints. They're owned by RW christian nationalists and force their news stations to deliver messages written by the company so they get national traction.
A screenshot of a partial Wikipedia entry about Sinclair Broadcasting: a 2019 study by Emory University political scientists Gregory j Martin and Josh mccrane in the American political science review found that stations bought by Sinclair reduce coverage of local politics increase national coverage and move the ideological tone of coverage in a conservative direction relative to other stations operating in the same market. A 2021 study found that viewers in areas with a Sinclair TV station had a lower approval of President Barack Obama and were less likely to vote for Democratic presidential nominees. A 2023 study found that Sinclair owned stations aired fewer reports mentioning masks during the covid-19 pandemic but their reports were more likely to focus on partisan views of the issue. The Washington Post noted that WJLA-TV's news content began to exhibit a conservative slant following Sinclair's acquisition of the station, having established a partnership with the conservative Washington Times newspaper, while the company produces pieces from a Washington bureau that similarly exhibit a conservative viewpoint. Sinclair executive David Smith met with Donald Trump during the 2016 election year, in which he told the future president, "We are here to deliver your message."
September 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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I am old enough to remember the last episode of M*A*S*H and I'm just now learning to knit

I also live with a beautiful senior pup named Bella
A retriever dog with a short, reddish coat and a red collar lies in a fluffy round dog bed with her legs over the bolster.
September 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Looking forward to seeing if she goes for the Full Guilfoyle MAGA lewk
A photo of Kimberly Guilfoyle after a lot of alleged plastic surgery and dark, heavy makeup. She looks like a bloated corpse with smoky eye makeup, puffy lips, and a mouth that they widened by slashing into her fat-injected cheeks. From Getty images.
August 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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An emoji of such hilarious laughter that I'm crying
July 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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I found an Eastern rat snake (I think) in my basement, trying to escape through the vent on a rainy day. I first saw it more than a year before, but it got away from me. I took it outside and let it go, feeling badly that it had been trapped for so long 😔
July 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?
Robert Shaw as Doyle Lonigan in "The Sting". They are playing poker and Lonigan just realized he's lost the game despite having rigged it to win himself. He's wearing a charcoal suit with a white pinstripe, white lapels, a white shirt, and a black tie with white polka dots. He's a sallow, dark haired man with a heavy brow and intense blue eyes. He wears a thin mustache. The photo's perspective is from his opponent, who has just beaten him by cheating, and they both know it. But Lonigan can't call him on it or he'll be exposed for cheating himself. And he's desperate to be considered a respectable gambler.
June 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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That's what my sign says! I'm working today, but I'm with the protesters in spirit!
Two white sash windows over a brick sill, taken from the outside. The left lower pane shows a sign that reads, "No Kings - United against tyranny since 1776". The right lower pane shows an open laptop inside and has a small lucite bird feeder affixed to the outside.
June 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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I have to work today, but I'm with you all in spirit!
This and other download-to-print signs from Wave Loudly (www.etsy.com/shop/wavelou...) on Etsy!
Two sash windows with a red brick sill. In the left lower window is a sign that says, "No Kings - United against tyranny since 1776". The other window shows the top of an open laptop inside and a small lucite bird feeder affixed to the outside.
June 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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My Bella, the latest of 7 rescue pups! Shelters make it possible for good dogs and good people to find each other ❤️
A happy red English Labrador on a blue blanket inside a black crate with the door open, giving a huge smile.
June 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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A tale of two young men. One, a 23 yo victim of state-sponsored terrorism. The other, an ignorant, inexperienced 22 yo put in charge of state terrorism prevention. One story follows naturally from the other.
A screenshot of two Bluesky posts in a row. One is the story of some 22 year old dumbass that Elon or Trump or one of their lackeys put in charge of US terrorism prevention. And notes he is, unsurprisingly, not qualified for that job. The post immediately following is from the Auschwitz Memorial, showing the photo and giving the birthday and fate of a young man of the same age. He was killed in the Nazi concentration camp by the Nazis who the current US regime is actively modeling our political system on.
June 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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I have yard "pets" too! Here's a young one chatting with a bunny!
The base of a large oak tree with a tiny squirrel perched upside down, clinging to the trunk near the ground and a fat rabbit on the ground below. It was taken from my kitchen window and there's a frond from the rhododendron in the foreground.
May 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Bella is ready for the big storms coming into Maryland soon.
A reddish retriever dog sitting in a large crate with a red collar and purple compression "hood" around her ears to keep her safe from the sky booms.
May 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Desk Set
An early 1960s era computer takes up one wall of an office setting. It has a large desk-like console in front, with a paper reel where results are printed out and a large toggle switch. The computer behind it has a long, tall bank of dot-matrix type lights between two glass-fronted cabinets housing reel-to-reel tapes. The whole thing is steel blue and there's a woman standing at the left side behind the console, looking at a piece of paper.
May 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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They're very hard to see in a photo from my kitchen window but there are squirrels and birds enjoying the food I scatter for them in this area.
Photo of a section of yard with a tree to the left where a pile of old broken branches around the trunk provide habitat for chipmunks. There's a blue bowl of water and a black bowl of food that backyard birds and critters enjoy. There is also a lot of food scattered on the bright green grass. Three squirrels and a mourning dove are gleaning the dried corn and seeds from the grass.
May 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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They need cheap tanning beds to maintain the MAGA lewk (image: Mother Jones)
Image courtesy of Mother Jones, showing Kristi Noem, Matt Gaetz, Lara Trump, and Kimberley Guilfoyle in close-up with their ugly fills, makeup (yes, Matt's wearing it too), and generally repellent aesthetic.
May 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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It's getting pretty warm here in the mid Atlantic so I put up my summer reflective window film today! It's not a fun task but keeps my house much cooler. 🥵🌡️ Only covers 3/4 of the window because it's hard to match the seams and the sun doesn't come in directly at that low point.
A large window with light blocking film covering the upper 3/4, overlooking a portion of lawn with an azalea in front of the window and trees in the yard and across the road.
May 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Kaboom! My first childhood cereal love 😛
A bright yellow box of cereal with "Kaboom" in large red letters and a cartoonish clown in a polka-dot costume and large shoes. He is balancing a bowl of Kaboom cereal on the tip of one toe, and holding a tiny purple umbrella in the opposite hand. The bowl says, "Vitamin & Iron Cereal" in red letters. The manufacturer is General Mills, and the tag line says, "100% minimum daily requirements of vitamins and iron in 1 oz. sugary oat cereal with marshmallow stars!"
May 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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April 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM