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Mel Saywell

@melsaywell.bsky.social

Hodophile. Dog-cuddling enthusiast. Aspiring polymath. Antiracist intersectional feminist. Genderfluid dyke. Perpetually becoming. they/she

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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

The Trump Administration accidentally texted War Plans.

β€œBut HeR eMaiLS” πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’« πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ

24.03.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 121    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 7
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DOJ Asserts Trump Hypothetically Has Power To Purge All Female Agency Heads, Or Those Over 40 The Trump Department of Justice asserted in court Tuesday that, under its...

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doj-tru...

20.03.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Universities Scramble to Avoid Being Trump’s Next Target Amid the DEI backlash and funding threats, universities nationwide are canceling events and rescinding grad school offers.

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

14.03.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Joyful resistance: The AIDS crisis activism shows us how to fight MAGA and win It's time to harness queer joy as an act of rebellion and a tool of resistance.

www.pride.com/gay-activist...

02.03.2025 05:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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US Department of Homeland Security scraps ban on surveillance of LGBTQ+ people A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unit has scrapped policies preventing staff from gathering intelligence on people based solely on their LGBTQ+ status.

If you know WWII history, you know how terrifying this development is.

"The DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis posted an updated policy manual late last week, which removes protections for LGBTQ+ identities in sections that set restrictions on gathering intelligence.

26.02.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America
YouTube video by Blonde Politics | The Silly Serious DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America

This is the best explanation I've seen of what's happening in America. It accurately predicted every move this administration has made, months in advance. youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?...

23.02.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Two headlines, exactly four months apart:

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Hey folks-you know what to doπŸ‘‡πŸ½

22.02.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Musk says all federal employees need to explain their work β€” or be let go His post on X said employees will receive an email β€œshortly” requesting to β€œunderstand what they got done last week.”

TLDR: This random guy--who wasn't elected and whose boss swears he's not in charge of the made-up department he hired him to head--is going to judge whether 3 million employees are excelling in jobs he doesn't understand, based on email summaries of what employees accomplished last week.

22.02.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Magic Disappearing DB Story About Spy Chief Allegations Trump Recruited as a Russian Asset in 1987. So earlier today, the Daily Beast’s Isabel van Brugen published a bombshell story about allegations by Kazakh Spy Chief Alnur Mussayev that the KGB had recruited Donald Trump as a Soviet Asset way bac...

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

22.02.2025 05:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Honestly I wouldn’t have paid much attention to thisβ€”but the appearance of powerful people actively scrubbing it kind of gives it legs…

22.02.2025 04:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly. Preemptive compliance. American eugenics is back.

21.02.2025 05:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is the new Oklahoma bill to make mental illness illegal, end treatment, and replace mental health facilities with prisons.

21.02.2025 05:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING: Steve Bannon just did a Nazi salute at CPAC.

THEY ARE TELLING YOU WHO THEY ARE!

21.02.2025 01:40 β€” πŸ‘ 4178    πŸ” 1829    πŸ’¬ 557    πŸ“Œ 443
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This is insane! When will their first amendment rights be honored? @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

20.02.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2
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Migrants Deported to Panama by Trump Administration Taken to Jungle Camp The group of unauthorized migrants, which includes children, were bused to the camp late Tuesday night. β€œIt looks like a zoo, there are fenced cages,” said one of the detainees.

Migrants, Deported to Panama Under Trump Plan, Detained in Remote Jungle Camp www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

20.02.2025 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think he'll ultimately end up doing that, but he doesn't have to. He can just ignore rulings, golf, and leave the rest to Elon. That's what fascist dictators do.

19.02.2025 03:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you have a plan, I'd love to hear it.

19.02.2025 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I just don't think he cares about that at all. Why would he? He has no interest in governing or following the law of the country he is dismantling.

19.02.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

will write and interpret law independently. And since he controls the formerly independent Justice Dept, there is (as predicted) no actual legal systems left in place to stop him from robbing us blind and burying whatever remains of the nation.

19.02.2025 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think it's intended to dissuade. I read it as an official declaration of what he and Vance have been saying unofficially--that the President --who has already usurped the legislative branch's role by ruling via executive order and has been crowned untouchable by the nation's highest court--

19.02.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Courts have no way of enforcing their rulings, and they've been laying the framework to claim executive privilege for weeks now. And Bondi obviously wouldn't cross him; she's only included to make it seem like a less totalitarian order.

19.02.2025 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jair Bolsonaro charged over alleged far-right coup plot to seize power in Brazil Former president has denied breaking the law after police report accused him of organising a conspiracy to stop Luiz InΓ‘cio Lula da Silva taking power Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has been charged with allegedly helping to mastermind a…

Jair Bolsonaro charged over alleged far-right coup plot to seize power in Brazil

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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Reins in Independent Agencies to Restore a Government that Answers to the American People RESTORING DEMOCRACY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN GOVERNMENT: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order ensuring that all federal agencies are

Well, it happened. We officially have a constitutional crisis, in which the President claims sole power to interpret laws, rendering the judicial and legislative branches irrelevant.

Only the people, united, can stop this.

www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

19.02.2025 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sec. 5.  Initial Assessment and Strategy from the Make America Healthy Again Commission.  (a)  Make our Children Healthy Again Assessment.  Within 100 days of the date of this order, the Commission shall submit to the President, through the Chair and the Executive Director, the Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment, which shall:
(i)     identify and describe childhood chronic disease in America compared to other countries;
(ii)    assess the threat that potential over-utilization of medication, certain food ingredients, certain chemicals, and certain other exposures pose to children with respect to chronic inflammation or other established mechanisms of disease, using rigorous and transparent data, including international comparisons;
(iii)   assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs;
(iv)    identify and report on best practices for preventing childhood health issues, including through proper nutrition and the promotion of healthy lifestyles;

Sec. 5. Initial Assessment and Strategy from the Make America Healthy Again Commission. (a) Make our Children Healthy Again Assessment. Within 100 days of the date of this order, the Commission shall submit to the President, through the Chair and the Executive Director, the Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment, which shall: (i) identify and describe childhood chronic disease in America compared to other countries; (ii) assess the threat that potential over-utilization of medication, certain food ingredients, certain chemicals, and certain other exposures pose to children with respect to chronic inflammation or other established mechanisms of disease, using rigorous and transparent data, including international comparisons; (iii) assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs; (iv) identify and report on best practices for preventing childhood health issues, including through proper nutrition and the promotion of healthy lifestyles;

Trump’s latest executive order (that was no doubt written by psychopath RFK Jr.) goes after antidepressants.

As someone whose life was saved by them, you will pry my prozac from my cold dead hands.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

14.02.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4505    πŸ” 1373    πŸ’¬ 436    πŸ“Œ 746
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CSU Women and Gender Studies Programs Call for Reinstatement of SSU WGS and Legislative Action to Protect, Expand WGS and LGBTQ Studies

Media inquiries can reach out to any of the signatories. #wgss #lgbtqstudies #ethnicstudies #csu #dei #calstate

15.02.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What happens if Trump starts ignoring court rulings? We break it down A court finding that the Trump administration did not comply with an earlier order and a recent statement by Vice President Vance have some experts warning of a potential constitutional crisis.

www.npr.org/2025/02/12/n...

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