Melissa

nerd. bookworm.

[Assassin's Creed @assassinscreed]

@elonmusk @Grummz @Ubisoft Is that what the guy playing your Path of Exile 2 account told you?

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Weird that @JDVance just deleted this from his website

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

If you’re a “senior Democrat” that feels this way, you should absolutely retire and make space for true leadership that refuses to resign themselves to fascism.

This kind of leadership is functionally useless to the American people. Retire.

[mr daywalker (blade)) @poopsmithey]

We were at a vigil for Pauly Likens yesterday. @SenFettermanPA showed up and instead of talking about the trans teen who was murdered and dismembered talked about condemning trump being shot at. It was an absolute insult to the vigil.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Fun Fact: The first bill Trump ever signed into law was to make it easy for mentally ill people to obtain firearms.

[Abraxsys @Abraxsys]

Whatever your feelings about the Trump shooting, it’s worth pointing out that if a Secret Service team can’t protect a presidential candidate, maybe expecting Mrs. Krabappel to protect her 4th grade students from an active shooter is unrealistic.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Missouri law requires women seeking divorce to disclose whether they're pregnant — and state judges won't finalize divorces during a pregnancy https://t.co/eswMqmT2CC

[Ground Game LA @GroundGameLA]

Here’s your funding for mental health care, your street repair, your environmental code enforcement, your bike lanes, your bus routes, your homelessness caseworkers, your housing inspectors, your parks and libraries, your pre-k, your legal aid, your tree canopy,

[Kat Tenbarge is on Bluesky @kattenbarge]

Drake Bell came forward as a child sexual abuse victim in "Quiet on Set." He has also pleaded guilty to crimes against children. But Bell's supporters have attacked his victim and his other accusers, editing court footage for TikTok and sending vile DMs.
https://t.co/ZGWH7jkou8

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

NEW: Media Matters and GLAAD looked at a full year New York Times coverage of anti-trans legislation:
🔴 Two-thirds of stories didn't include trans voices
🔴 18% quoted misinformation without adequate fact-checking
🔴6 articles obscured the anti-trans background of sources 🧵

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Here you go, no charge: “Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a … mass effort to re-educate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn.” — MLK

[Center for Reproductive Rights @ReproRights]

BREAKING: Late tonight, the Texas Supreme Court temporarily halted a lower court ruling that would have allowed Kate Cox, our plaintiff with severe pregnancy complications, to have an abortion to protect her health and future fertility.

[Leah Greenberg says NO KINGS ❌👑 @Leahgreenb]

after Dobbs a lot of Rs insisted that of course women could still access abortions if their health was in danger, and now we're watching every institution in Texas line up to stop a woman from getting a medically urgent abortion and we should be clear that it was always bullshit

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Attorneys for a pregnant Texas woman who challenged the state's abortion ban say she left state to get the procedure.

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

Andre Braugher, the two-time Emmy-winning star of series including ‘Homicide: Life on the Street,’ ‘Men of a Certain Age’ and ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ died on Monday after a brief illness. He was was 61 https://t.co/tVfJxW4BRF

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Billionaires start giving money to schools that actually need it instead of to schools that have 50 billion dollar endowments challenge.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

This is the logical outcome of Tennessee’s new permitless carry law, which eradicated a state requirement that gun owners undergo safety training: https://t.co/Q6IHuB6RdX

[Chad Livengood @ChadLivengood]

NEWS: GOP lawmaker bestows tribute to men acquitted in Whitmer kidnapping plot -- and their attorneys

@GovWhitmer's office called the tribute "disturbing" and said it would "embolden radical extremists."

https://t.co/M4u94QoM8C

via @WordsByJakkar & @detroitnews

[If Books Could Kill @IfBooksPod]

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