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melissamctastic.bsky.social
Just happy to be here. She/her Anti-Trump, pro-choice, 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally. Comedian, mom of humans and dogs, writer, and organizer. Formerly @fromrvatola on Twitter.
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JEFFRIES: “we have no leverage” SCHUMER: *pulls out a lime and limply waves it around* BERNIE:

submitted 8 hours ago • 185 comments

I swear to small tiny baby in a manger Christ, if Mitch McConnell can do what he did to Obama while they had the minority WE CAN HOLD THE LINE as the minority party in office. Stop using this as an excuse you cowards.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

submitted 17 hours ago • 38 comments

So, not as clear cut as he though it was. No surprise, really. DEI programs had to be implemented with laws and regulations - contracts have been made over those laws, you can not just nix them out of nowhere, just because your racist needs demand you to: apnews.com/article/dei-...

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

Yes! This is how change comes. Make those phone calls, send those emails, attend protests, etc. There are so many ways to do it. It makes a difference. thehill.com/policy/healt...

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

"A swath of Airbnb hosts are ditching the platform in response to its billionaire co-founder Joe Gebbia going full MAGA since President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Gebbia joined Elon Musk’s doge last week. www.thedailybeast.com/airbnb-hosts...

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

We're doing it, folks

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Seniors lose Medicare telehealth benefits on 3/31 Why? Trump demanded that Republicans kill the bill extending the benefits. So they did. Trump comes before seniors. We're emailing every single reporter in these vulnerable Republicans districts to make sure their constituents know

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Everything Trump does comes with “strings”, all of these dorks are beholden to strings; it’s the only think making them walk upright.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Part of my stand up set was about going down a k-hole, and after watching this I need to edit it out. I want no associations with k-holes.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I still quite like Ossoff, and with the election race against fucking MTG, he has a *real* chance to distinguish himself on the national stage. Let’s hope he puts his back into it.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

@abroshar.bsky.social everything is Reagan’s fault.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

submitted 1 day ago • 828 comments

Diving into Traitors to feel something.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Yes the man who famously showed his taxes and has never gone bankrupt is definitely someone with a keen sense of business acumen.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Some guy told me they do need to look into fraud because his uncle was arrested last month for cashing his dead grandmothers social security check; and like yes that’s wrong? But maybe let’s go after the bigger criminals not the .01% ?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Do feel like the theatre kids could start using their powers for good and doing a cappella singalongs of full musicals in politically expedient places. Weaponized annoyingness if you will

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

When I say, I fucking hate it here, I am not over exaggerating.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

look i'm no mayor pete stan but i have a biological, fundamental need to see him humiliate sean duffy

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

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NO KINGS ONLY TRAINS

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 2 days ago • 3418 comments

Thank god we did all our remodeling.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

You may be asking yourself, “how did I get here.”

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

submitted 2 days ago • 180 comments