Melissa Sweeney

Melissa Sweeney

@sweeneyhere.bsky.social

Doing the write thing.

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Melissa Sweeney
@sweeneyhere.bsky.social

We've betrayed Ukraine to aid Putin. Putin will betray us. Our economy will take a hit. Our ability to project power worldwide will shrink. That's the natural order of things. That's a pattern historians see too clearly.  www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...

nytimes.comUkraine’s Exposure Grows as Satellite Use Is Restricted and Russia Escalates (Gift Article)A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.
Melissa Sweeney
@sweeneyhere.bsky.social

Whatever your views are on capital punishment, this could be the right time to invoke the Eighth Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment. www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/u...

cnn.comTennessee death row inmate Christa Pike still alive after failed state execution attempt, lawyers say | CNNLawyers for Christa Gail Pike filed an emergency motion late Wednesday to the US Supreme Court seeking to immediately halt and stay the execution, saying she was in “unnecessary agony.”

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Jon Cryer
@mrjoncryer.bsky.social

Donald Trump is a convicted criminal. His administration is a criminal organization. Of course he is trying to shut down the International Criminal Court.

Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social

JUST IN: The Trump administration is preparing sweeping sanctions against the International Criminal Court, the WSJ reports. The sanctions would block most transactions with the ICC, including transactions in U.S. dollars, potentially cutting the court off from much of the global financial system

Melissa Sweeney
@sweeneyhere.bsky.social

What, me worry?  "The president ... said ... that crews were performing a safety check on the slide, but that there was no real danger. 'They want to make sure everything works perfectly,' he said. Crews appeared to cart away the emergency slide just before the jet took off." 🫤

Melissa Sweeney
@sweeneyhere.bsky.social

Trump, the Postmaster General/major donor/FedEx board member David Steiner, and GOP co-conspirators are fighting to destroy every election from the midterms forward. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/u...

nytimes.comPostal Service Rule Could Bar Millions From Voting by Mail (Gift Article)A judge temporarily blocked the agency from implementing a strict new rule governing mail voting. The policy could disproportionately affect Democrats and many battleground elections.
Melissa Sweeney
@sweeneyhere.bsky.social

What do we as huge consumers of energy do? Reduce non-renewable energy use now and the foreseeable future. . (Even air conditioning.) Apply massive pressure on government - including deniers - to act. House, Senate, cabinet members' contact info is easily found on Google. Shame them if warranted.

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Mark Jones
@markjonesmotion.bsky.social

Fun fact: Dolly Parton spent decades quietly funding band uniforms and instruments at Black high schools across the South - never once putting her name on it. No headlines, no fanfare — just help, given because it was needed. Wonderful Heart ♥️ RIP Dolly ❤️

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Allison Gill
@muellershewrote.com

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: DHS legal opinion justifying ICE entering homes without a judicial warrant is nothing more than an email written by ICE Deputy Principal Legal Advisor Adam Loiacono, and DHS refuses to release it. www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

muellershewrote.comEXCLUSIVE: DHS Refuses to Release Email Justifying Warrantless Entry by ICEI sued to obtain the General Counsel Memo justifying ICE entering homes without judicial warrants. Turns out it’s not a memo at all - it’s an email - and they’ve wrongly redacted it.
Melissa Sweeney
@sweeneyhere.bsky.social

Boom.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Watters: You think it’s ok to slash a ding-a-ling off El-Sayed: Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised? Watters: Yeah El-Sayed: Then you probably want to move on.

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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social

The Navy is weighing renaming an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor Doris Miller, a Black war hero, and potentially switching it to honor Trump

cnn.comExclusive: Navy weighs renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, potentially switching it to Trump | CNN PoliticsThe US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, three sources familiar wit...
Melissa Sweeney
@sweeneyhere.bsky.social

Trump's mother, Mary Anne aka Màiri Anna Nic Leòid was born into a poor Scottish Gaelic-speaking family in the Outer Hebrides. She came to the US as a young woman, overstayed her visa, re-entered, wed Fred, & had children in the US *before* she became a citizen. 🤫 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comTrump signs new orders targeting birthright citizenshipOrders come after supreme court rejected president’s first bid to restrict guarantee enshrined in US constitution
Melissa Sweeney
@sweeneyhere.bsky.social

Americans no longer agree on what constitutes basic decency.

Jacob Gellman@jacobgellman.com

There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...

oregonlive.comAs Oregon burns and gamblers bet, lawmakers push back against wildfire betting markets drawing millionsWyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause

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Jim of Pennsyltucky
@jimdigs.bsky.social

@maddow.bsky.social Jeanine Pirro failed to reach the level of corruption and lying Trump expects from his loyalists. It's not that she didn't try. She did her best. But she was defeated by the facts and truth. Two of Trump's greatest enemies. #maddow

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Xavier Gonzalez
@xaviergon.bsky.social

Great interview tonight with #Maddow and James #Talarico.

MaddowBlog@maddowblog.bsky.social

"Politicians like Ken Paxton, they use those difficult issues to rile people up, to divide us, to distract us in order to win power for themselves." -James Talarico on not taking the bait on trans panic.