Melissa Miller aka No Malarkey

Shocked. Shocked, I say.

Critical Mass Boston - July 2025

This is how you fight back: with courage, strategy, and zero patience for authoritarian bullshit. Jasmine reminding everyone that breaking quorum wasn’t cowardice: it was resistance. Let’s match that energy all the way to November this year in key elections in Virginia and beyond

Red, Red Wine

Jazz singer Jeanine sent Donald flowers for years, and now he's turned on his heart light and made her the cracklin' Attorney for DC. At least sweet Pete Hegseth won't be a solitary man at the bar in the September morn.

by Maureen Dowd

NH governor signs off on banning gender-affirming care for minors New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte has signed off on an effort to ban gender-affirming care for minors in the state.

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Birds of a feather…..
This mother fuc*er is part of a huge flock.

Meanwhile, in Canada 💃 🕺 🌈

On this day in 2007, Brian May handed in his astronomy PhD thesis—36 years after trading telescopes for guitars with Queen. His subject? Zodiacal dust clouds. Rock star by night, astrophysicist by day.

even Cynthia Lummis isn't onboard with Trump firing the BLS commissioner

We need to walk and chew gum at the same time. For housing that means more supply and more rental housing assistance.

Texas Democrats LEFT to embrace a flight.

They did not "flee" to avoid one.

Words matter.

Eighty Years Since Hiroshima. We’re Closer Now. - anti capitalist musings In 1984, we built a nuclear bunker out of cardboard boxes in the corner of our classroom. Each of us brought something for survival—Look-In mags, tins of beans, but no tin opener. Even as kids, we kne...

When I was 9 or 10, we built a nuclear bunker out of cardboard boxes in class. Each child brought something for survival. No one brought a tin opener. 40 years on, the bomb is still here, just quieter, closer, and in the hands of lunatics.

🕱 Eighty Years Since Hiroshima. We’re Closer Now.

Trump Tariff Shock Poised to Deepen Rupee’s Underperformance India’s rupee is poised to remain one of Asia’s worst performers in the second half of the year, with US tariffs adding pressure to an already fragile economic recovery, analysts say.

India’s rupee is poised to remain one of Asia’s worst performers in the second half of the year, with US tariffs adding pressure to an already fragile economic recovery, analysts say

LEAKED MEMO: When the Military Becomes ICE—The Plan They Hoped You’d Never Read Inside the Trump and Hegseth blueprint to weaponize soldiers against civilians on U.S. soil.

Leaked memo: Trump’s Pentagon planning years of military‑backed deportations.

Soldiers, helicopters, and ICE. A memo proves Trumpworld is planning domestic militarization most Americans can’t imagine.

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Just-out-smarted people can be so unpleasant.

The average young democratic staffer is a too woke friend and the average young Republican staffer is a Nazi

Opinion: Russia is no longer an empire, but a tool of China in the war with the West
Many still imagine Russia as an independent, strong empire acting in its own interests. However, it is increasingly clear that Russia today is not so much an independent geopolitical actor 1/

You can’t get anything past Grok #MAGACultMorons

This is actually rather common in America. A&W created a third-pounder in the 1980s to compete with McD's quarter pounder at the same price and it flopped because Americans believed "1/3" was less than a "1/4".

Grand Canyon blaze grows into a megafire and creates its own weather. It’s not done yet | CNN The Dragon Bravo Fire exploded in size along the Grand Canyon’s North Rim this week as heat and strong winds drove the growth.

It's almost like gutting the NPS and illegally firing thousands of rangers and wildland firefighters was a stupid idea.

Meet the Press put together a supercut of Trump being for the BLS jobs numbers before he turned against them

Excellent piece, including this quote from the head of Greece's statistical agency about why fights over data are also fights about whether a country can see itself clearly:

Anyway, when all of this started, I kept saying that you have to always look at these new technologies through the contempt that the tech world has for labor, and their campaign to destroy anything they can get their hands on for a bit more money. Human deskilling, not flourishing, is their goal.

This is what is happening right now.

“We all want to go to Crimea.”
- says a Russian woman stuck in a 30-kilometer-long traffic jam.

The official Crimean Bridge TG channel is currently reporting 1205 vehicles in the queue for manual inspection on the Taman (Russian) side of the bridge.