Melanie Bailey

Francophile, Music Lover, Historian, Professor of European/ World History and Humanities at PVCC

[southpaw @nycsouthpaw]

replace Russia with the British Empire in this thread and see how it reads

[Emma Wiles @emmabwiles]

CVS is being sued for asking customers to donate to the American Diabetes Association when they check out. Those donations are in fact *not* sent to the ADA, but instead reimburse the CVS for a legally binding obligation of $10M that CVS promised earlier

https://t.co/t8IAiqyu43

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

There's simply not enough evidence at this stage to indicate that the Iranian regime is either shutting down its notorious morality police or backing down on the issue of mandatory hijab based on some vague remarks by one official.

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

What Elon Musk’s Twitter files have revealed so far is that content moderation at Twitter WAS being decided by a team of people with differing viewpoints.

Now it’s being decided by the richest man on Earth with an axe to grind against one political party — a true scandal.

[southpaw @nycsouthpaw]

Not sure this headline is really backed up by the content of the report. https://t.co/brhWpqDehv

[Laura Litvan @LauraLitvan]

NEWS: John Thune, the No. 2 Senate GOP leader, says in interview Senate Repubs want to leverage the next US debt limit increase to force federal spending cuts and changes to Social Security and other entitlement programs.

[David Neiwert @DavidNeiwert]

The Boring Company was never a legitimate enterprise. Its entire purpose was to persuade states and municipalities to abandon mass transit initiatives by offering a tantalizing alternative that in fact would never work.

Just another con by our red-pilled billionaire.

[Manya Koetse @manyapan]

Amazing photos coming from the Communication University of China, Nanjing, where students are protesting, making their voices heard at a time of growing unrest in light of zero Covid, following the Urumqi fire.

[JB Schneider @JohnB_Schneider]

How humankind is forced into the ugliness of war by the stupidity and ego of one man.

Thx @Noobieshunta_ for the initial image.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Blame - and never forgive - Joe Manchin.

[Oleksiy Goncharenko @GoncharenkoUa]

One story that you understand what is happening in UA right now.

In Odesa's children hospital, a generator can only work for 10 hours. Doctors prepare Ambu bags. This is such a device to manually pump the lungs. There are children in the hospital who are on ventilators.

[NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @NOELreports]

Three people died as a result of today's rocket attack on #Kyiv, says mayor Klitschko. "Among them a 17-year-old girl. 11 residents were injured. 10 of them were hospitalized in the city's medical facilities. Doctors provided assistance to one victim on the spot".

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

You read this and think it’s going to be about the CIA staging a coup or something but it’s actually a complaint that Vogue, rather than the White House press corps, was given access to Naomi Biden’s wedding.

[Omid Memarian @Omid_M]

Iranian fans raised the "Woman, Life, Freedom" banner during the #IranvsEngland game. The game was overwhelmingly under the shadow of the protests & the killings in Iran. Many want their team to publically support the protests.
#MahsaAmini #WorldCup #Qatar2022 #IranRevoIution

[southpaw @nycsouthpaw]

No. You literally wrote that it does not.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

And now the American people receive their prize for electing a MAGA majority in the House. Endless investigations airing Donald Trump’s grievances to settle scores with his political enemies. And not much else. Enjoy.

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

Unfortunately, despite improving their capabilities it is not an 100% defense. This Russian terror strike in Dnipro hit rush hour. #Ukraine #Dnipro https://t.co/ZfJY08Ry6L

[Brian Beutler @brianbeutler]

If the agenda is so ambitious, surely it received significant news coverage during the campaign…

[southpaw @nycsouthpaw]

You already know this is going to be the screenshot on the left side and whatever pro-Trump fluffery you write in a year will be the screenshot on the right, don’t you?