Melanie Welch
@mnapoleonwelch.bsky.social
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Outside of Chicago, on the grounds of a former armory, decades ago an alliance of various orgs began restoring the prairie, and at Midewin Tallgrass Prairie they imported bison to roam the prairie once more. I love to visit my very large bi sons 💚🦬
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Outside of Chicago, on the grounds of a former armory, decades ago an alliance of various orgs began restoring the prairie, and at Midewin Tallgrass Prairie they imported bison to roam the prairie once more. I love to visit my very large bi sons 💚🦬
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"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny
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Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute
Photos: White House East Wing Demolished For Trump’s Ballroom
The privately funded ballroom will be approximately 90,000 square feet, much larger than the White House itself.
www.forbes.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute
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It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.
(📸 Getty Images)
(📸 Getty Images)
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
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Trump’s EPA: where chemtrails are real and climate change isn’t.
EPA Commissioner Lee Zeldin announces his agency is launching a major investigation into the right-wing conspiracies about chemtrails and weather manipulation to get to the bottom of it.
October 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Trump’s EPA: where chemtrails are real and climate change isn’t.
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Jarrell (TX) Community Library became a true community hub with mental wellness programs, including neurodivergent youth support and dementia caregiver help. Director Susan Gregurek calls the ALA grant “a lifesaver.”
Your small and rural library could be next! Apply by Dec 11: ala.org/LTCAccess
Your small and rural library could be next! Apply by Dec 11: ala.org/LTCAccess
October 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Jarrell (TX) Community Library became a true community hub with mental wellness programs, including neurodivergent youth support and dementia caregiver help. Director Susan Gregurek calls the ALA grant “a lifesaver.”
Your small and rural library could be next! Apply by Dec 11: ala.org/LTCAccess
Your small and rural library could be next! Apply by Dec 11: ala.org/LTCAccess
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Chicago public bathroom reviews? A comedian’s commode takes go viral. 🚽
Delivered in his peppy Chicago accent, Al Scorch’s Instagram video reviews highlight the workmanship and unique features of public restrooms across the city. blockclubchi.co/43zQ6fu
Delivered in his peppy Chicago accent, Al Scorch’s Instagram video reviews highlight the workmanship and unique features of public restrooms across the city. blockclubchi.co/43zQ6fu
Chicago Public Bathroom Reviews? Comedian's Commode Takes Go Viral
Delivered in his peppy Chicago accent, Al Scorch’s Instagram video reviews highlight the workmanship and unique features of public restrooms across the city.
blockclubchi.co
October 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Chicago public bathroom reviews? A comedian’s commode takes go viral. 🚽
Delivered in his peppy Chicago accent, Al Scorch’s Instagram video reviews highlight the workmanship and unique features of public restrooms across the city. blockclubchi.co/43zQ6fu
Delivered in his peppy Chicago accent, Al Scorch’s Instagram video reviews highlight the workmanship and unique features of public restrooms across the city. blockclubchi.co/43zQ6fu
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Locally, in recent weeks especially, our communities have been very well served IMO by @blockclubchi.bsky.social @thetriibe.com @southsideweekly.bsky.social @unraveledpress.com @chicago.suntimes.com @wbez.org They are on the ground doing good work on the daily, give them support/$$ if you are able 💚
once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able
Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist
October 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Locally, in recent weeks especially, our communities have been very well served IMO by @blockclubchi.bsky.social @thetriibe.com @southsideweekly.bsky.social @unraveledpress.com @chicago.suntimes.com @wbez.org They are on the ground doing good work on the daily, give them support/$$ if you are able 💚
This sound is imprinted in my brain.
September 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This sound is imprinted in my brain.
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A minor thing that I love in Europe: the attached bottle cap.
September 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
A minor thing that I love in Europe: the attached bottle cap.
I’m waiting at the airport for a connection and the person to my right and the person to my left are both watching social media videos, full volume on speaker, a la dueling banjos. Why do people do this?
September 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I’m waiting at the airport for a connection and the person to my right and the person to my left are both watching social media videos, full volume on speaker, a la dueling banjos. Why do people do this?
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Every country on the planet has hate, conflict, domestic violence, and people in crisis.
But all of those things are exponentially more lethal here in the U.S., because all of those things are combined with easy access to guns.
You can’t shoot someone if you don’t have a gun in your hand.
But all of those things are exponentially more lethal here in the U.S., because all of those things are combined with easy access to guns.
You can’t shoot someone if you don’t have a gun in your hand.
September 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Every country on the planet has hate, conflict, domestic violence, and people in crisis.
But all of those things are exponentially more lethal here in the U.S., because all of those things are combined with easy access to guns.
You can’t shoot someone if you don’t have a gun in your hand.
But all of those things are exponentially more lethal here in the U.S., because all of those things are combined with easy access to guns.
You can’t shoot someone if you don’t have a gun in your hand.
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3 children were shot in a Denver high school today. There was an assassination at a political event on campus.
We need to protect our schools from guns and political violence.
We need to protect our schools from guns and political violence.
September 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
3 children were shot in a Denver high school today. There was an assassination at a political event on campus.
We need to protect our schools from guns and political violence.
We need to protect our schools from guns and political violence.
YES!
Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens?
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
YES!
Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
My favorite place in all of Chicago: Lincoln Park’s Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool Reopens After Years Of Renovation blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/10/l...
Lincoln Park’s Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool Reopens After Years Of Renovation
Designed by the famed architect behind Promontory Point, the pool is one of the city’s most treasured and celebrated architectural achievements.
blockclubchicago.org
September 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
My favorite place in all of Chicago: Lincoln Park’s Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool Reopens After Years Of Renovation blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/10/l...
I can confirm, as I personally saw this myself over the weekend in Grant Park: Chicago Is Not Using Salt Trucks To Thwart ICE, Despite Viral Posts Claiming Otherwise blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/07/v...
City Is Not Using Salt Trucks To Thwart ICE, Despite Viral Posts Claiming Otherwise
A social media post claimed salt trucks were blocking interstates into Chicago to thwart ICE. The video actually shows trucks blocking Grant Park for the Taste of Chicago.
blockclubchicago.org
September 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I can confirm, as I personally saw this myself over the weekend in Grant Park: Chicago Is Not Using Salt Trucks To Thwart ICE, Despite Viral Posts Claiming Otherwise blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/07/v...
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Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
September 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
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if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war
September 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war
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How is this not a screaming massive headline across every news site? This is insane, a virtual declaration of civil war. We fought a revolution to not be subjected to this kind of tyranny
September 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
How is this not a screaming massive headline across every news site? This is insane, a virtual declaration of civil war. We fought a revolution to not be subjected to this kind of tyranny
Joy is resistance.
Pilsen’s Mexican Independence Day parade carries on — and brings out the crowds — despite President Donald Trump's threats of deportations. blockclubchi.co/4m72866
Pilsen's Mexican Independence Day Carries On Amid Trump's Threats: 'Joy Is Resistance'
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were notably not present at Pilsen's Independence Day Parade, which featured a mobilization of volunteers keeping watch.
blockclubchi.co
September 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Joy is resistance.
The current American president wants to go to war with the people of the city of Chicago. I am sick.
This is frankly one of the worst things Donald Trump has ever posted, which is really saying something
September 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The current American president wants to go to war with the people of the city of Chicago. I am sick.
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Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
September 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.