Melissa Hartman

People keep comparing MAGA/ICE/CBP/MAHA to 1930s Germany.

It's also more and more like late 1960s China, during Cultural Revolution. Or mid 1970s Cambodia, during "Year Zero."

A war against knowledge itself.

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This is 100% worth the subscription price to read.

I have a thread where I am compiling resources and instructions for both tabs people in Kansas and people who want to help

I’d love a boost 💕

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Noem’s luxury ‘deportation’ jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets.

SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way.

Half are luxury jets.

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This week's cover @thelancet.com

Embedding unreliable AI deep into the source code of the military without human oversight is the single stupidest thing we could do as a species.

And that is *exactly* what the United States is about to do.

I finally subscribed because I had to read the whole thing, and then I sat there for a long time thinking about it after I read it. And I know I'll return to it. It's just one of those pieces that sticks. Thank you.

Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.

This is it. Way past time for everyone in this country - literally everyone - to find practical ways to support trans people and immigrants, this regime's primary targets.

Starting right now, find something practical to do to actually help people.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

Meridith McGraw Follow • • @meridithmcgraw First Lady Melania Trump will preside over a UN Security Council meeting on Monday, per a @FLOTUS statement, which "will mark the first time a sitting U.S. First Lady presides over the Security Council as members consider education, technology, peace, and security." 8:12 PM • Feb 25, 2026 • 552 Views

This is not how the Security Council works. Our unaccomplished, inarticulate, unqualified Third Lady has no business there and it’s an insult to the world to send her.

I live in Minnesota and I want the federal government to stop trying to kill us. And hurt us. I want them to stop attacking us.

It sucks.

We’re just trying to live our lives and take care of each other and we don’t deserve all this.

I kid around sometimes here but I’m not kidding now.

The cruel opposite of the logic behind universal basic income that says better to help someone who doesn't need it than to not help someone who does

One would think that this would merit an emergency convening of all Blue state governors, Attorneys generals and Congressional representatives. It's a declaration of war on one state which means they'll do it to others too.

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.

They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

Millions of moms struggle with depression during their pregnancy.

America deserves a Surgeon General who can state plainly that SSRIs are SAFE for the majority of pregnant women.

We don't need more junk science charlatans. I'm voting NO on Casey Means' confirmation.

The guy who staged a failed coup last time is building a massive personal militia staffed with lawless thugs. At this point it’s just naïve not to see where this is going.

The cover of Baltimore Beat. It is designed to look like a zine, with places to fold it and collaged images on it. Yellow text reads “Baltimore Beat” and “The Literary Issue.”

Issue 78 of Baltimore Beat is live! It’s our literary issue! Our zine-inspired cover was designed by nat raum.

This hedgehog wandered into my house a lot in 2019. One time my mate Louise was over, a bit drunk, telling me a longish story, and I noticed him having a sleep on the kitchen floor. I didn't want to rudely interrupt so I quietly picked him up and put him outside while Louise continued...

These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all

Fun reminder that Jared Kushner's dad is a convicted felon who along with his other crimes hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and record it when he learned the brother-in-law was cooperating with authorities, and Trump not only pardoned him but made him ambassador to France.

“I’m just saying … bsky.app/profile/ronf...

A gray tuxedo cat in a crocheted bed on a fireplace hearth. The fireplace is lit, and the cat has his front paws crossed and one back leg extended over the edge of the bed, looking completely elegant and blissed out.

The best part of a snowstorm ... is not being out in the snowstorm.

Opinion | What Exactly Is a ‘Concentration Camp’?

"Always, always, always concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. These people that are getting rounded up because whoever’s in power wants to do something that they can’t do using the letter of the law..."

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We are the laughingstock of the world because of our moronic and psychotic president. Deservedly so.

as far as i can tell “bio hacking” is just a goofy term for giving yourself some combination of an eating disorder and a drug addiction

Trump aides struggle with how to spend $500 billion more on military Some senior officials resisted the decision to approve the major military spending increase, people familiar with the matter say.

Reading this story—about how the Pentagon has been given so much extra money it's struggling to spend it all—while thinking about the formerly homeless tenants I've spoken with in recent weeks whose housing vouchers are being discontinued for "lack of funds."