Melissa (she/her)

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?

Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!

A thread!

“… the data out of Montgomery County, Maryland makes one thing unmistakably clear: this crusade is not a mass movement. It’s the obsession of a vanishingly small minority …”

ROSE FREAKING KOUASSI

#FREEDC

Spooky

Boo!

Armed Guards and Muscle Milk: Senate Investigation Reveals DOGE Takeover Details A new Senate report claims DOGE put every American's Social Security number at risk—and that officials at federal agencies essentially obstructed an investigation, all but denying DOGE even exists.

A new Senate report claims DOGE put every American's Social Security number at risk—and that officials at federal agencies essentially obstructed an investigation, all but denying DOGE even exists. www.wired.com/story/armed-...

Incredible news

Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."

Jimmy Kimmel’s show to return on Tuesday | CNN “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will return to air on ABC on Tuesday night, the network announced in a statement.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/e...

Glenn Beck’s media outlet The Blaze just gave an interview last month to the person who killed the politicians in Minnesota

This work? The work of preventing all children in America from playing sports in their public schools with their friends?

Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah took down X posts Tuesday making an apparent connection between Gov. Tim Walz and the man accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, and blaming “Marxists” for the murders. The change comes after blowback from Sen. Tina Smith and her staffers as well as Minnesota Democratic and Republican lawmakers. One X post said “Nightmare on Waltz Street,” with pictures of Boelter, who is accused of killing Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and shooting Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in the early morning hours of June 14. Boelter also went to the homes of two other state lawmakers that night; one house was empty, and at the other, a police officer pulled up to the house shortly after Boelter arrived, so Boelter left. Another Lee post read, “This is what happens When Marxists don’t get their way,” with a picture of Boelter.

No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman.

wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump adm...

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

I saw daycare staff frantically ushering children inside. One woman was spurning while carrying two toddlers. A colleague asked me "were those gunshots?" I replied "I don't know but the daycare thinks so."

1/3 One month ago Aug 8, a gunman fueled by vaccine disinformation fired 500 rounds at CDC. Nearly 200 bullets struck 6 buildings.
Officer Rose was killed.
92 children had to be evacuated from a campus daycare.
A CDC employee recounts their harrowing experience.
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Exactly.

I'm really tired of cis men who JUST discovered sports that aren't men's sports.

I am a cisgender woman who has played with and against transgender women and non-binary athletes in a full contact, competitive sport (roller derby). There is no valid argument for excluding trans athletes from competition.

I went out at 3am to get a photo this wide open

Night blooming white flower

Mine too!!!

Photos from 3am and 7am this morning on our second rush of blooms.
#plantsky

i forgot how bad it is for the soul to listen to this dumpster speak.

This is a great article - and fuck those guys.

9:30 pm

9:00 pm

8:35 pm

7:45 pm

Our Queen of the Night - Orchid Cacti is blooming tonight. 9 flowers for a one night only show. Another 8 tomorrow night, probably.
#plantsky

It feels like daydreaming about winning the lottery. Except, one day it will happen.

Wow