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Melissa P

@lissa511.bsky.social

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created November 17, 2024

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Please, please, please let Fox or CNN cover this comment so that DJT has an aneurism

29/8/2025, 1:18:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fine with me! Dems should be so lucky

23/8/2025, 11:08:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And Mamdani himself is so good at this

23/8/2025, 10:11:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sorry to bum your rush, but it's a common old-age thing that any IV or blood draw leaves a big bruise. Still, he needs to blend that makeup

23/8/2025, 1:15:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm an American. Daughter of an Air Force pilot, granddaughter of Swedish immigrants, grandmother of a toddler I'm helping raise. Former newspaper editor, occasional protester.

20/8/2025, 2:19:51 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If true, that explains a LOT

18/8/2025, 4:57:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We have a winner! See today's MoDo column

16/8/2025, 4:57:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The neediest leader in the world.

14/8/2025, 3:54:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Agreed. Stewart is funny and smart about many topics -- but he's not original, insightful or well-informed about politics.

12/8/2025, 11:22:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Even hacks like Hegseth and Bondi are embarrassed by this display

11/8/2025, 4:36:12 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's really adopted Trump's style of b.s.: "everybody knows" something means it's not true and no one knows it; "no one knows this" means everyone knows it.

10/8/2025, 5:58:15 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Since the American people own the White House and Trump is a tenant, his gross damages to the rental unit mean he should lose his deposit when he moves out. Oh, he didn't pay a deposit? And he doesn't intend to leave? Well, that is a pickle ...

8/8/2025, 5:05:07 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Black cat and gray tuxedo cat snuggling
5/8/2025, 11:17:49 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No mention of this at NYTimes or Wapo, as far as I know. I suspect they don't want to "platform" racism, but this is how Trump gets away with it. In two or three days some op-ed writers might address it after most of us have moved on. I hope I'm wrong.

5/8/2025, 5:28:04 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Agree, but this should be addressed to Brooks! Amazed that very few people have picked up on how clueless and wrong Brooks was about Epstein's significance. Comparing Epstein to the McMartin Preschool hysteria? Wow.

27/7/2025, 11:29:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In which Brooks makes light of the Epstein story and compares it to the hysteria over the McMartin Preschool case. Capehart gently corrects him to note that Epstein had real victims.

27/7/2025, 11:24:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Brooks: "And every August, we — Washington goes crazy with some stupid story. And then in September, we think, what was that all about? And so this year, we're a little early. We're doing it in July." Then he compares the Epstein case to the McMartin Preschool story. Wow, just wow.

27/7/2025, 10:57:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There aren't many Americans who can afford those larger homes. Or even the smaller homes.

24/7/2025, 7:13:40 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dear Bagel Fragel T-shirt, I have no idea what happened to you because I bought you when I was a Michigan State student decades ago. And if I could find you, you would not fit older me. I hope you are keeping some little kid warm in the third world.

21/7/2025, 1:23:58 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've been a renter for several decades, and the inexpensive but sturdy GE ovens in these places have always been slow. Get yourself a recommended oven thermometer (see ATK or Wirecutter) and find out how slow your oven is. Then adjust accordingly.

20/7/2025, 6:02:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent

You and Jamelle Bouie at the NYT are my go-to sources for political news and analysis. I'm so sad you're leaving, but I'll follow your next move.

17/7/2025, 6:15:47 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Serves white wine with red sauce.

17/7/2025, 12:02:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Disgusted by some of these comments. NHJ has just published an important NYT magazine piece on how the Trump administration is reversing civil rights. Instead of offering help you're piling on the NYT. Maybe you can overlook her employer's deficiencies to support an ally.

29/6/2025, 6:32:39 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melissa P (@lissa511.bsky.social) reply parent

Elie Mystal makes a similar point. Increasing the size of the court lessens the problem of a small but cohesive majority (6 justices!) skewing the court in anti-majoritarian, dangerous ways. A larger court is harder to control by one political faction.

28/6/2025, 4:30:53 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I object to Christian prayer at school events. Somehow this Scotus has no problem with THAT (Kennedy vs. Bremerton School District). I guess it all depends ...

28/6/2025, 4:08:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She found the Sen. Merkley section of her "whaddabout this!" oppo binder to get to "drug kingpin arrested in Oregon."

26/6/2025, 2:48:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bus riders in Portland, OR, do too

25/6/2025, 5:50:39 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There goes your chance to be an ABC news correspondent

24/6/2025, 2:39:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I saw that headline and thought "JFC, NYT blaming progressives again"

19/6/2025, 8:06:40 PM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My 3-year-old granddaughter is already a back-seat driver. "Why do you go so slow?" To her dad: "Why do you go so fast?" Gotta say she's right both times.

19/6/2025, 3:09:10 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I haven't heard anyone ask police how they KNOW it wasn't police -- press just assumes police are telling the truth apparently.

14/6/2025, 5:08:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How nice to exempt Trump opponents, thus assuring a crowd of low-information 20-year-olds

10/6/2025, 10:22:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She's a cultist from way back. Clearly has gaps in critical thinking skills.

10/6/2025, 6:26:09 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What a stunning revelation, thanks

8/6/2025, 9:55:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Agree with the first part, not the "every awful, horrifying aspect there turned up to 11." For the most part, it's a normal place full of normal people. Bad things happen, good things happen. But its dominance in creativity and innovation spawns haters, including our hater-in-chief.

8/6/2025, 8:34:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I just watched the Billy Crudup version. What a touching, brilliant movie. It holds up well

7/6/2025, 9:14:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Reporters: Make them explain how they justify this move. Don't accept "it doesn't align with our priorities." Why doesn't it? Get it on the record: Drill down until you get Pete Hegseth or his mouthpiece to admit that they're homophobes or reveal that they're afraid to say so.

5/6/2025, 1:47:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I miss reading print editions

18/5/2025, 6:12:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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St. Paul's School, Concord. Lovely!

2/5/2025, 9:17:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He doesn't know who Poilievre is or how to spell his name, so he's just whiffing here.

29/4/2025, 2:06:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love your voice! It brightens my Sundays when I'm listening to NPR

27/4/2025, 1:46:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In my area, electricians and car detailers but also a bagel store and coffee shop I'll never buy from again

27/4/2025, 12:02:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A seemingly hip local coffee shop I've patronized is on the list. Never again. Thanks for this!

26/4/2025, 2:07:11 PM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Curry chicken noodle soup at a Burmese restaurant in Oakland in the late 1980s. I've tasted similar noodle dishes many times since then, but nothing as amazing as that restaurant's version.

24/4/2025, 2:37:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The ladies of Strict Scrutiny call him Pee Wee German

24/4/2025, 2:26:15 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She got the Utah hair for nothing

15/4/2025, 1:48:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Axis of evil

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29/3/2025, 7:23:36 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/QNfGl-hpnJg?...

28/3/2025, 7:09:15 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Umm, I trust Jeffrey Goldberg over Hegseth, 100 percent.

26/3/2025, 5:50:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When my 2-year-old granddaughter sees something she wants when we're shopping, she says "Me have it!" I (usually) tell her no. (Hey, I'm a grandma.) She and Trump aren't so different, but there's apparently no one to tell Trump no.

26/3/2025, 5:28:22 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Big Church Lady energy

26/3/2025, 4:36:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As far as I can tell, she was the ONLY Republican black woman congresswoman ever elected -- have there been any since?

24/3/2025, 1:33:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Baghdad Barbie

17/3/2025, 7:17:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's also an example of "male flight," when a previously male-dominated job or status -- say, veterinary medicine or attending college -- becomes majority female: straight white men begin to see it as beneath them. It's the Little Rascals' He-Man Woman Haters Club.

17/3/2025, 3:05:51 AM | 21 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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With any luck, Trump will screw him over like he did the WH fotog his first term: take his images and publish a book just as Witty prepares his own.

10/3/2025, 2:10:12 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who are these liberal posters who don't want black kids in "their" universities?

8/3/2025, 9:12:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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HELL TO PAY?? More like ..

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6/3/2025, 2:22:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Great episode, but too funny to sleep through ;) Now I have to buy her books.

5/3/2025, 4:26:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I like the idea of all the bread Kenny can eat. The Kenny I know can eat a lot of bread.

3/3/2025, 8:06:43 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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@wydensenategoi.bsky.social

3/3/2025, 2:35:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Military service by [blah, blah, blah] ... is incompatible with military service.” These people don't know how to think or write.

27/2/2025, 5:18:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Every month for the next year, I will offer Post readers insight into Pennsylvania’s culture and politics." Who asked for this?

25/2/2025, 1:44:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

20/2/2025, 9:01:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Then Breitbart and One America News would have to listen to Karoline Leavitt's "Dear Leader" shtick. Let them! Then let the mainstream media do their job of actual reporting on a corrupt administration.

15/2/2025, 4:25:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Featured on Jeopardy! last night, I think

1/2/2025, 7:44:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fed workers read this: wapo.st/4aFrVyc

31/1/2025, 2:38:06 AM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump has paused PEPFAR, which is Bush's signal -- perhaps only -- achievement. Bush should be condemning Trump from the rooftops.

30/1/2025, 11:32:19 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bernie, not RFK Jr. 😠

29/1/2025, 5:57:08 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So sweet 😍

29/1/2025, 5:56:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's something very funny, and endearing, about Bernie Sanders yelling about onesies

29/1/2025, 5:19:07 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And they WILL be mad, once Trump's immigration crackdown starts causing even higher food prices, shortages of construction labor, etc.

27/1/2025, 7:13:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had a job once where I shared tight quarters with a guy who was fine but who had a boss who was an absolute nightmare. I got permission to finish my writing projects at nearby libraries (which were uniformly quiet and lovely), and that was my saving grace.

23/1/2025, 11:41:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It would be a shame if that email address was overwhelmed with fake reports

23/1/2025, 2:14:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump and Melania know they've been revealed as bigots. Tiffany and J.D. are trying to rally their fellow bigots, but everyone else is too shocked at the truth-telling.

21/1/2025, 9:15:06 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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J.D. keeps looking for affirmation from his wife. She doesn't give it.

21/1/2025, 9:10:58 PM | 23 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yep, love the cognitive dissonance. And now "Gloria"

19/1/2025, 11:26:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yep, I tried it without the space and got results about "AI and xxxx." One space works

14/1/2025, 7:21:29 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Google John Sununu and climate change

11/1/2025, 11:04:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You've described Matt Zaffino at KGW, Portland, OR

10/1/2025, 4:17:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They all acquiesce eventually. I'll be shocked if DeSantis is the exception.

14/12/2024, 9:19:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kevin Drum has been on this for more than a decade www.motherjones.com/environment/...

9/12/2024, 7:46:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jane Mayer is the best

2/12/2024, 9:08:12 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If I could control the MSM I would ban "firebrand" from descriptions of right-wing nutballs

1/12/2024, 12:35:56 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view