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melinalapage.bsky.social
Amateur writer, professional psychotherapist. I have sweet daughters and salty political opinions. Pacific Northwest born and bred.
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Yeah, Marco Rubio can go to The Bad Place. (The real one. Not the one with Adam Scott and Ted Danson being funny.)

An IT worker for the nat'l parks drove to a bridge & called a friend to talk him down. A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family. A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Unnecessary cruelty from sadistic fascist thugs...

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

Has anyone done this yet?

It's tough to refer to someone as a criminal if you've given them no due process to determine whether they're a criminal. Like if you get arrested and get a trial and are convicted of 34 felony counts. That's due process. You can call that guy a criminal.

OMG. Must-watch🔥 The brilliant @jimmykimmel.com eviscerates Hegseth, saying: "The Defense Secretary is defenseless—you leak so much, you should be wearing Depends to work." Hegseth desperately tries to justify his incompetence, but he is circling the drain and knows it. Resign, Leaky-Pete!

Get in, losers. We’re going to a conclave.

And on today’s episode of 🎵 I Never Thought the Leopards Would Eat My Face 🎶 …

THIS is what we want from our Democratic leaders FIGHT MAGA has NOTHING on the Democrats Our ideas are better Our policies are better Our leaders are better And the country is ALWAYS demonstrably better after a Democrat is president @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social will prove it The Reformers