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@melvalentin.bsky.social

I'm here, I'm there, I'm everywhere. Writer-for-hire. SF-based film critic (Cinapse, Screen Anarchy, That Shelf). Pragmatic progressive.

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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

17.11.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 8435    πŸ” 2536    πŸ’¬ 128    πŸ“Œ 79
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Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...

In 2020, Trump signed legislation to create a report on combating the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous people. Now, the Trump administration removed the report and said it violates Trump’s anti-DEI executive order
oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/14/t...

17.11.2025 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, except for the part where this [insert ban-worthy comment here] has access to the nuclear codes ...

17.11.2025 07:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Bari Weiss Newsmaxification of @CBSNews is a sight to behold, and marg brennan seems content to go right along with it

17.11.2025 04:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4787    πŸ” 1184    πŸ’¬ 551    πŸ“Œ 116
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He knows they have the votes to filibuster in the Senate.

Or they have successfully destroyed everything showing he knew all about what Epstein was doing.

17.11.2025 03:45 β€” πŸ‘ 10325    πŸ” 2423    πŸ’¬ 1403    πŸ“Œ 339

I like how this employee of the federal government, a public servant, posts obnoxious replies to people that are replete with right-wing misinformation.

16.11.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 903    πŸ” 161    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 9

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

17.11.2025 03:33 β€” πŸ‘ 7997    πŸ” 1844    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 30
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Epstein survivors just dropped a powerful message for Congress, and it hits like a warning: no more waiting, the truth is coming, ready or not.

Watch till the end
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@houserepublicans.bsky.social

17.11.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 10560    πŸ” 4119    πŸ’¬ 210    πŸ“Œ 209
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I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE β€œbrown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served.

F that!

16.11.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 22962    πŸ” 6718    πŸ’¬ 1238    πŸ“Œ 670

WE GOT HIM

16.11.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 6746    πŸ” 1329    πŸ’¬ 296    πŸ“Œ 57

Good reminder that the Catholic League is just one very odd guy calling himself the Catholic League

15.11.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 750    πŸ” 134    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 6
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16.11.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 12208    πŸ” 4840    πŸ’¬ 273    πŸ“Œ 184
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Massie: "The president has been saying this is a hoax. Well, he's just now decided to investigate a hoax, if it's a hoax. And I have another concern about these investigations he's announced. If they have ongoing investigations, those documents can't be released. So this might be a big smokescreen."

16.11.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 17707    πŸ” 5515    πŸ’¬ 896    πŸ“Œ 411
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Priorities.

16.11.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 7152    πŸ” 3409    πŸ’¬ 174    πŸ“Œ 136
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16.11.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 7077    πŸ” 2462    πŸ’¬ 426    πŸ“Œ 149
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Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

16.11.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 12405    πŸ” 4709    πŸ’¬ 384    πŸ“Œ 208
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"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."

β€”FDR, 1936

16.11.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 17013    πŸ” 4820    πŸ’¬ 348    πŸ“Œ 163

They're running from it now. But the fact that Senate Republicans tried to give 10 of their colleagues at least $1 million each for nothing but a bogus press op captures the corruption of Trump II. In no other environment wld this even occur to the most corrupt politicians.

15.11.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3782    πŸ” 855    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 26
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When Trump talks about β€˜trillions,’ does he understand what the word means? The president keeps using the word β€œtrillions,” but I don’t think it means what he thinks it means.

"If you’re thinking that the president just likes to say the word 'trillion' without any meaningful connection to reality, you’re not alone..."

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

16.11.2025 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3047    πŸ” 662    πŸ’¬ 239    πŸ“Œ 25

I don’t think US taxpayers should subsidize treason against the United States

15.11.2025 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4541    πŸ” 1465    πŸ’¬ 151    πŸ“Œ 38

If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.

15.11.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 6801    πŸ” 2042    πŸ’¬ 292    πŸ“Œ 65
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What a photograph.

β€œNearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

15.11.2025 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 22886    πŸ” 9955    πŸ’¬ 876    πŸ“Œ 685
The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what β€œworks,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.

The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what β€œworks,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.

15.11.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5229    πŸ” 1417    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 331

Yeah okay, abolish ICE or whatever OR

Eliminate the Department of Homeland Security altogether. Move TSA back to Transportation and restore FEMA as an independent agency. Sort the other half-dozen component agencies back into their natural homes.

Less criminal abuse and around $40 billion savings.

15.11.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 693    πŸ” 150    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 16
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No one should have to face such threats.

It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.

15.11.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 25143    πŸ” 5548    πŸ’¬ 2194    πŸ“Œ 660
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Yes, sadly it is real.

15.11.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 16256    πŸ” 6340    πŸ’¬ 1122    πŸ“Œ 563

Odd that the DoJ is opening an investigation into the Epstein files since they said in July that there was no client list and nothing to release.

15.11.2025 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 27947    πŸ” 7024    πŸ’¬ 928    πŸ“Œ 305

It's not. It's two hours and 42 minutes long. #OneBattleAfterAnother

15.11.2025 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Large far-right German delegation to visit Washington, Trump ally says The invitation to the capital comes as Alternative for Germany politicians seek to build closer ties to the U.S. government.

"The restrictions were intended to prevent a repeat of the Nazi rise to power, when anti-democratic forces were able to subvert democracy from within..."

www.politico.eu/article/larg...

15.11.2025 05:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2682    πŸ” 1102    πŸ’¬ 231    πŸ“Œ 97

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