Melanie Taylor

Proud South Texas Boy Mommy and Hubby lover.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

My post about France went viral. Thousands of likes. Many Americans told me: "Democrats aren't socialists. America will never be France." I want to answer that seriously, step by step.

Start with a simple observation. Look at what has gotten cheaper in America over the last 25 years: TVs, phones, software, clothes, toys. Now look at what has exploded: college tuition, healthcare, childcare, housing.

What separates the two lists? The first lives in competitive markets. The second is exactly where government is most involved: subsidies, mandates, licensing, zoning, regulation.

College. Washington lends students almost unlimited money. Universities know the money will always come, so they raise tuition and hire more administrators. The student pays the bill for twenty years. More government money, higher prices.

Housing. Why can't a nurse buy a home in the city where she works? Not because of capitalism. Because of zoning laws, permits, environmental reviews, years of procedure to build a single building. The most expensive places to live in America are the places where it's hardest to build. When building is nearly illegal, prices explode.

Healthcare. The patient almost never sees the price. A third party pays, regulations limit who can compete, and costs climb year after year with no one able to say no.

So here is the trap. The problems you suffer from are not the failure of free markets. They are the places where the market has already been replaced by the state. And the solution you're being offered is more of the same.

That's the Trojan horse. It always works the same way. A real problem. A generous-sounding promise. A program that makes things worse. Then the failure of that program becomes the argument for the next one. People who lived under communism in Poland learned to recognize the lie and the mask the lie wears. The lie never presents itself as a lie. It presents itself as compassion.

In France we are at the end of that road. Debt we can never repay. Young people who can't afford a home. Our best people leaving. And every few years our cities burn. Nobody voted for this. They voted for one more generous promise, fifty years in a row.

If you're a Republican, share this with the Democrat in your life. Not to win an argument. To start a conversation.

If you're a Democrat, I'm not asking you to switch teams. I'm asking you to look at the pattern. Wherever the state took over, life became unaffordable. Don't fix the failures of government with more government.

Stay American. Ask for less state, not more.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

I didn’t really get the problem with gender ideology at first.

I’m liberal-minded about most things. ‘Live and let live’ has generally been my motto. I believed in inclusion, kindness and not causing unnecessary offence.

I knew some adults chose medical treatments or surgery to resemble the opposite sex. That seemed to me a matter of personal autonomy. Adults can do what they wish with their own bodies.

What I hadn’t realised — and I feel slightly embarrassed admitting this — was that I’d misunderstood what was being claimed.

I thought “transgender” meant a form of self-expression. A man who liked wearing women’s clothes. Someone changing their name. Gender non-conformity.

What I hadn’t grasped was that some activists weren’t just asking for tolerance. They were asserting that declaring yourself the opposite sex made you the opposite sex. Not metaphorically. Literally.

And that this wasn’t just cultural. It had legal consequences.

It meant men who said they were women were demanding access to women’s sports, prisons, domestic violence shelters and hospital wards.

It meant the rewriting of healthcare language — “pregnant people”, “bodies with cervixes” — to avoid saying “women”.
It meant children struggling with identity being affirmed onto medical pathways with lifelong implications.

And also redefining same-sex attraction. Lesbians called ‘bigoted’ for not wanting relationships with men who identify as women. Gay men accused of prejudice for saying they’re not attracted to female bodies.

I’d also overlooked how deeply this had spread into public institutions, schools and workplaces.

And how easily disagreement was framed as cruelty. Speaking up felt risky — because others were being publicly humiliated for doing so.

None of this is abstract.

Because sex is the basis on which safeguarding works. On which data is collected. On which cancer screening programmes run. On which fair sport and single-sex spaces depend. It’s written into law — including the Equality Act — because material differences matter.

If sex becomes a ‘feeling’ rather than a biological category, those protections become unstable.

And once reality becomes negotiable, everything does.

Once I saw it, I couldn’t unsee it.

But I needed to be sure.

So I read. Books, research papers, policy documents. When I finally spoke publicly, there was backlash from all directions.

Many women thanked me, while some feminists criticised me for speaking too late.

Others were angry about a past interview I’d done with the parent of a transgender person, accusing me of promoting harm.

It takes courage to speak when you know your reputation, friendships or livelihood may be on the line — when you know raising your voice could strain, or even end, relationships you value.

Once I understood what was at stake, staying silent was no longer an option.

I lost my livelihood simply for saying I didn’t like the phrase “pregnant people”. That alone tells you something is deeply wrong.

It shouldn’t be this way.

I don’t expect praise for admitting it took me far too long to understand what was happening. Or to say so publicly.

I can only be honest about what I believed then and what I understand now.

But it does take courage to admit publicly that you got something wrong. All I hope is that by acknowledging I wasn’t paying enough attention, another woman (or man) might feel emboldened to do the same.

Because, as many of us know first-hand, there can be professional, social and financial consequences to speaking out.

And I won’t pretend I understood something before I did, simply to make myself more acceptable to those who got there sooner.

Which is why I will never judge another woman for how long it takes her to find her voice.

Because every voice matters. Whenever it is raised.

[Daniel Di Martino @DanielDiMartino]

This video has over half a million views in the last 24 hours on my instagram

The price of free things is your freedom

[Melanie Taylor @MelanieofTexas]

@EmbraceFiction I wonder about this all the time with the shows I read/watch. If the shows are on multiple apps I have I go & try to get a better understanding of scenes that are unclear to me. Translations same.

[Melanie Taylor @MelanieofTexas]

@Slowblinkin @lovelyuhao UnluckyBae Episode 1

[Hou Minghao's REAL Julia @ItsMeNerooooo]

Xiao Family 🥹❤️

#KeytothePhoenixHeart

[Melanie Taylor @MelanieofTexas]

@Yyorryy @mrsn0b0d1 He is from Bittersweet Love

[Melanie Taylor @MelanieofTexas]

@Tuusey @Mrs_N0B0D1 No kid but has 2 big plot twists.

[Melanie Taylor @MelanieofTexas]

@BeThe_LoneWolf @cantik95 Go to My Drama List site then go to The Prosecutor’s Proposal & go to discussion section. There is a link there.

[Melanie Taylor @MelanieofTexas]

@chayaployp @Mrs_N0B0D1 I think it’s Blazing Him

[Ásia Update @updateasiatico]

Doramas que serão lançados nos streamings (Netflix, Viki, Disney+ e mais) em julho de 2026 — a thread

[Netflix @netflix]

Cha Eun-woo and Park Eun-bin are SUPER good in The WONDERfools

[Melanie Taylor @MelanieofTexas]

@shytan1230 @xixiji99 He is not AI lookup Tian Xuning or Revenged Love 💜

[Melanie Taylor @MelanieofTexas]

@detailsedts I adored them in that show ❤️ Such a sweet romance.

[Liz Wheeler @Liz_Wheeler]

93% of the 4,849 Christians who were murdered for their faith last year were murdered by Islamists.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I've re-writen this so many times...

I feel like I've been telling truly some of the most horrific stories lately.

Every single day I get on this app to share something truly twisted and evil that has happened because of a Democrat policy.

And it's wearing on me.

If I'm honest, I have been depressed this week.

Usually... as strange as this sounds... I can report on a few terrifying stories and find a way to come out on the other side to hug my kids, go to work, coach soccer games, do yard work...

But this week has just hit me so hard.

I can't explain it, but it just has beat me down.

Story after story after story of illegal immigrants doing unspeakably evil things.

Truly vile criminals that should have been locked away for life, getting away with pure evil and violence.

I'm looking at it every single day and it's eating away at me in a way I'm struggle to write down.

I just want it to be fixed.

I don't want any more victims.

I want criminals in jail and everyone who is innocent to be able to walk freely without ever fearing they will be r*ped, m*rdered, st*bbed or worse.

But we can't do that.

Not today.

Today we have to worry about those things, because we do not have justice.

And every single day I find another story of another victim who should have never been a victim.

I'm so sad. I'm so angry.

I just had to write this because I need to tell you it's genuinely hurting me to tell these stories.

I wish I didn't have to.

But until we see change, until criminals are locked up, illegals are deported, judges are held accountable...

We are the only ones.

You get that right?

It's just us.

We are the only ones telling these stories.

Without you, their names are forgotten.

There are no protests for them, no one would ever know their names.

We have to keep going, because if we don't, no one else will.

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

Dear Pope Leo,

Instead of visiting mosques and meeting Islamic leaders in countries like Algeria…

Go to Nigeria.

Go see the millions of Christians being massacred by violent Islamists. Pray with them. Show solidarity with them. Care for them.

Sincerely,
Christians everywhere

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Can someone please explain, in very simple language, how growing almonds in a Californian desert, draining the local aquifer until the ground subsides, spraying the entire crop with fungicides because almonds can't survive without them, killing off the commercial bee population in the process, then refrigerating the harvest and shipping it six thousand miles to Britain is environmentally friendly,

but buying a piece of beef from a farmer twelve miles down the road, whose cattle eat the grass that grows in the rain that falls on the hills that have been there since before anyone had opinions about this,

is a planetary emergency?

Asking for the cow.

[Pursue Truth @PursueTruth92]

I’ve been a registered Republican for seven months. I travel across Colorado for my work, and despite it being a Democrat-dominated state, I see that a majority of Coloradans (including a significant number of gays), align on the actual issues with a conservative platform.

Where the GOP has failed, and the Democrats continue to succeed, is on identity politics and “guilt by association” branding.

I meet people every day who are fundamentally conservative but will not consider voting Republican because they’ve been convinced by an onslaught of Democrat propaganda that doing so would associate themselves with “pedophiles” or “racists” or “anti-progressives.”

So out of social shame and conformist pressure to be viewed as “nice,” they vote for the Democrats and their destructive policies.

The @GOP needs to develop a smart, targeted marketing campaign on social media that interviews diverse Republicans and independents about why they are conservative.

Why is the Republican Party asleep at the wheel on marketing (and so many other issues like the SAVE act)?