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Melinda Renken

@thebookgoblin1404.bsky.social

Melinda is an author and historian currently working on her first manuscript (slowly…like a sloth that has also been tranquilized.) and knows too much history to allow Hate to win. #MS Warrior Woman, dx 2014. 🚫DMs, No Posts = No follow. 🚫 Dating, 🚫 Porn.

created November 9, 2024

2,941 followers 2,178 following 2,061 posts

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Profile picture Cricket48750 (@cricket48750.bsky.social) reposted

September 3rd: The Day Silence Ends www.meidasplus.com/p/september-...

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Profile picture Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) reposted

This is not reporting. This is propaganda.

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2/9/2025, 1:10:48 PM | 9512 2160 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melinda Renken (@thebookgoblin1404.bsky.social) reply parent

2/… it (slavery) has been a part of the fabric of our nation since the beginning. The Founders were not Gods. They were wealthy, white landowners who wanted to ensure the continuation of their own prosperity and perceived nobility. Slavery was how they did it. #BLM #AlwaysRemember

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Profile picture Melinda Renken (@thebookgoblin1404.bsky.social)

#HistoryMatters This is #publichistory done correctly. As a historian, I am pleased to see this. The Enslaved’s story is one that we cannot afford to forget nor accept the erasure of that stain in our history. Many think slavery was only a part of society during the Civil War era, but…

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Profile picture Anna Maltese (@annamaltese.bsky.social) reposted

Just an observation here, but I couldn't help but notice that, even though we've all seen that orange shitstain sundowning for a long-ass time, the speed of his decline really picked up after Camille Zapata began her campaign of absolute deadass bangers.

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Profile picture Karen (Harris/Walz Alaskan Democrat) (@danceswithseagulls.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) reposted

Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...

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Profile picture Princess Tabi 🌈👑💜 + Dezi (@chieftabi.bsky.social) reposted

Pronunciation matters 🎯🤷‍♀️ 😛 #Memes #HappySunday #facts

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Profile picture permiejerome.bsky.social (@permiejerome.bsky.social) reposted

This is abhorrent. @washingtonpost.com deserves a complete boycott.

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Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture I Post Animal Vids... 😊 (@realjfairclough.bsky.social) reposted

Difference between a husky and border collie... 👀😅🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky

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Profile picture Charlotte Crist (@touchesky.bsky.social) reposted

Maybe it would be Helpful if We Added a Course of Common Sense to our Education Curriculum right along w/ Civics?

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Profile picture Melinda Renken (@thebookgoblin1404.bsky.social) reply parent

I kinda want some Coven mitts…😉🤔🤭

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Profile picture AnarchoTerran (@anarchoterran.bsky.social) reposted

The Drug Spectrum

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Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

Pick a letter.

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Profile picture Kara Swisher (@karaswisher.bsky.social) reposted

No notes

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Profile picture Melinda Renken (@thebookgoblin1404.bsky.social)

AND Atheists, witches, witchcraft, other people who have to pee in public restrooms not having the preferred genitalia, FACTS, TRUTH, integrity, humanity, compassion, Love and…Bigfoot. Obviously.

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Profile picture Nancy B 💙🐱🐶📚💀 (@extremebeautylv.bsky.social) reposted

IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!

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Profile picture Greed Apocalypse (@juanmunoz.bsky.social) reposted

substack.com/@ellenmitche... TENS OF MILLIONS OF TAXPAYER MONEY TO HIS RESORTS EVERY HOLIDAY & WEEKEND.

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Profile picture Melinda Renken (@thebookgoblin1404.bsky.social)

*September is in 40 minutes

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Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

I like the rebrand.

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Profile picture Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted

Fatality.

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Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:

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Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

👇👇

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Profile picture donni saphire (@donni.bsky.social) reposted

It is honestly so boring to feel this pissed off all the time

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Profile picture Bad Choices Make Good Stories (@badchoices.us) reposted

❤ if you think #DonaldTrump should go fuck himself.

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Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted

California stepping up.

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Profile picture God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted

The entire fascist plot relies on us being terrified and sad. This is why they’re constantly trying to scare everyone with theatrics. They want you to see him as unstoppable and not as a 79-year-old with severe health problems who will die soon.

31/8/2025, 5:38:30 PM | 3567 855 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted

More name changes afoot… Department of Defense = Department of War Department of Education = Department of Keeping You Stupid Center for Disease Control = Center for Crackpot Conspiracies Department of Agriculture = Department of Subsidies for Farmers going broke from tariffs

31/8/2025, 6:37:45 PM | 3810 1064 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melinda Renken (@thebookgoblin1404.bsky.social)

I’m American and I say: YAY CANADA!!

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Profile picture 💙Christine Slemmer💙 (@slem63.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Jonathan Edward Durham (@thisone0verhere.bsky.social) reposted

Phone calls should come through with a little subject line like emails do, like I’m sorry but I need to know before I pick that thing up

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Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

"The lunatics are running the asylum."

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Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

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Profile picture John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 (@lippoenen.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted

He starts randomly jabbering on about getting into heaven. Mysterious bruising on his hand. He disappears from the public eye for days. Even a child would suspect something was up. Everyone but Congress and mainstream media.

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Profile picture God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted

Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages should’ve made that very clear.

31/8/2025, 6:12:57 PM | 12023 2804 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bob Lawrence 💙 (@trumpluvsobama.bsky.social) reposted

Works for me!👏

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Profile picture darren32359.bsky.social (@darren32359.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."

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Profile picture Rae Radford (@raeradford.bsky.social) reposted

#BookSky

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Profile picture Ambassador Greg Delawie (@gregdelawie.bsky.social) reposted

Thank goodness we still have the foreign press, since American journos are unwilling to report clearly on the Gang that Couldn't Think Straight.

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Profile picture Reluctant Antagonist (KJ Colt) (@moistenedtart.bsky.social) reposted

What we think serial killers look like vs what they actually look like:

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Profile picture Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 (@alcappuccinoit.bsky.social) reposted

If you’re in favor of shutting down museum exhibitions or banning books because they make you feel bad, that’s a pretty good tip that you deserve to feel bad.

31/8/2025, 3:34:50 PM | 4214 736 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melinda Renken (@thebookgoblin1404.bsky.social)

I suddenly don’t resent my subscription fee as much.

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Profile picture Chronic Illness Humor (@chronicillness.bsky.social) reposted

FRIEND: Sometimes it feels like you're not really that sick. ME: [sarcasm] You caught me. I just collect doctors and MRIs for fun.

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Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs

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Profile picture Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) reposted

Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.

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Profile picture Charlie to the Rescue! (@charlietotherescue.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Deb Brown 🚨🇺🇲 (@debpixcom.bsky.social) reposted

🙃 #GavinNewsom #EpsteinFiles

Gavin Newsom passed the Montreal Cognitive Assessment today by reciting
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Profile picture Ricky Davila (@therickydavila.bsky.social) reposted

The President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa called the orange felon a Russian asset in a live televised speech. Well done, this is how you do it. 👏

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Profile picture Mister (@2snarky.bsky.social) reposted

CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.

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Profile picture Melinda Renken (@thebookgoblin1404.bsky.social)

I have just been watching this on repeat because I miss him.

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Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

CHICAGO…

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Profile picture Al Jazeera English (@aljazeera.com) reposted

US president is seeking to overhaul country’s electoral system, falsely claiming his 2020 loss was a result of fraud.

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Profile picture ACW1234 (@acw1234.bsky.social) reposted

😀

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Profile picture Michelle (@cloverjag.bsky.social) reposted

“He’s behind me, isn’t he?”

Kittens, Spicy Bruce Wayne and Clover, sitting pretty.
30/8/2025, 11:59:18 PM | 10767 717 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melinda Renken (@thebookgoblin1404.bsky.social) reply parent

That is my new favorite curse.

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Profile picture Andrew Halweg (@andrewhalweg.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

IT IS TIME FOR ANOTHER PROTEST! Summer is over so no excuses. The first NO KINGS protest was CRAZY SUCCESSFUL, so let's keep the Democratic momentum going! If anyone is organizing please share info/links with everyone. We need to do our part, our Govs and Mayors need our help. Please share/repost

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Profile picture Melinda Renken (@thebookgoblin1404.bsky.social) reply parent

If people wanted you to write well about them, they should have behaved accordingly. That was something one of my creative writing professors said that really helped me to get past some of my shame. The single only piece I have published was a personal essay about some of my trauma. It’s helped.

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Profile picture 🧷PussyCatsResist🧷 (@pussycatsresist.bsky.social) reposted

The face of Smallpox. This poor child died a couple days after this photo was taken. Vaccine Science rendered Smallpox extinct in the “wild”, but it still exists in Biohazard Labs. What if it gets accidentally or purposely released? Today’s kids are NOT immune! Young adults are NOT immune!

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Profile picture Melinda Renken (@thebookgoblin1404.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m from Western Washington, so I’m partial to Tahoma (Rainier, although it should never have been named that.) However, I also lived in Gresham for 5 years and Mt. Hood holds a special place in my heart. Beautiful shot. 🥰

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Profile picture Melinda Renken (@thebookgoblin1404.bsky.social)

I was looking at this more closely. At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, what do the symbols I circled represent? I’m assuming the Q is QAnon, but what is the weird X? I’m deeply suspicious of the BS this administration tries to hide.

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Profile picture Melinda Renken (@thebookgoblin1404.bsky.social)

Propaganda says what?

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Profile picture God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted

Some personal news: My Son is officially canceling his second coming until y’all are actually ready to listen to Him.

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Profile picture Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted

He can pretend to be dead all he wants. I still want the Epstein files released.

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Profile picture Grumpy Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇪🇺 (@brian770.bsky.social) reposted

Mustn't let this go!

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Profile picture Melinda Renken (@thebookgoblin1404.bsky.social)

Is he using a T-shirt for a sling? Hey Dumbfuck…you know you can get a real one from almost any store for like, $10? God, I can’t believe I had a crush on Superman back during his Lois and Clark days. 🤢🤢 (In my defense, I was like, 14)

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Profile picture Helena Fitzgerald (@hellafitzgerald.bsky.social) reposted

“maybe it will happen today” - early 21st century american proverb

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Profile picture ACW1234 (@acw1234.bsky.social) reposted

😯

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Profile picture Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted

Conclusive proof thoughts and prayers don’t work: he’s fine.

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Profile picture Marie 🇨🇦 (@pawbaby2.bsky.social) reposted

Just in case any of you missed this! ⬇️⬇️ Don’t let up on the Epstein Files everyone! #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #USDemocracy #Pinks

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Profile picture Uncle Duke (@uncleduke1969.bsky.social) reposted

you just know somebody’s being called by their full name right now

A striped cat appears to be “yelling” at a kitten with the exact same coloring. The kitten’s eyes are wide open and their ears pinned back.
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Profile picture Jonathan Edward Durham (@thisone0verhere.bsky.social) reposted

I think it’s important to remember that “the village idiot” isn’t necessarily that village’s ONLY idiot, he’s just the most famous one

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Profile picture 🎀FANCY🎀 (@fancysplace.bsky.social) reposted

🎀🎀

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Profile picture Caroleeena (@caroleeena.bsky.social) reposted

Chris Murphy: "First of all, no one is attacking prayer. Prayer is important." Prayer is wishing, hoping and handing off responsibility to a deity who doesn't exist while taking no responsibility or action for human made problems. I wish humanity could free itself from this delusion. It hobbles us

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Profile picture Melinda Renken (@thebookgoblin1404.bsky.social)

This makes me wish I lived in Iowa just so I could vote for him. substack.com/@adamparkhom...

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Profile picture Alexander Dent (@follicular.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Maybe this finally worked

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Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?

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Profile picture ACW1234 (@acw1234.bsky.social) reposted

🪖

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Profile picture Melinda Renken (@thebookgoblin1404.bsky.social) reply parent

ME TOO! In fact that’s how I plan to spend my day.

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Profile picture Rep. Jan Schakowsky (@schakowsky.house.gov) reposted

To all those in the 9th District, and across the Chicago area, it’s crucial that you KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. Please go to my website for more info or call my office if you need assistance. We are, and always will be, a nation of immigrants.

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