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Melissa Vandiver (she/her), artist & illustrator in New Orleans. Board member New Orleans Women and Children's Shelter. Noted loudmouth. Follow my art account for art and less loudmouth: @mvandiverart.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/mvandiverart

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The blood of thousands is already on their hands

12.03.2026 06:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am starting to think that Bibi has fallen for the propaganda we've all been fed about the unlimited resources of our military

12.03.2026 04:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you β™₯️

11.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mind blowing they thought this was going to just work out for them?? Like Adobe did with artists, they are directly and specifically biting the hand that feeds them

11.03.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How are you? I know you've been struggling.

I'm really exhausted from freaking out about this war/the economy, learning my dog is probably in her last months, and getting tragic news about a friend yesterday.

11.03.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Well this explains some things for me this morning

11.03.2026 17:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Good I'm glad someone is saying this - the broad ideas are popular but he is doing the opposite of what people think he stands for; if you put scrutiny on those ideas his beliefs are batshit. People hear "oh get all the bad stuff out of my food" and he'll be like "yeah like the vegetables!"

11.03.2026 17:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone is taking this as really haunting news and I'm taking it as excellent news that they know their days are numbered and they're appropriately afraid of the American people. That's public US property they'll lose access to at some point, hopefully sooner than later

11.03.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Deep down they are doing this all for likes

11.03.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Talking to a population of people that shits their pants at the idea of acpoor person buying soda with government money

11.03.2026 06:54 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dying

11.03.2026 06:49 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lol I meant I've never heard of it outside our general area haha

11.03.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.

Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

11.03.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 14656 πŸ” 3251 πŸ’¬ 510 πŸ“Œ 490

And their math explanation is like "well it always cost more so the city's subsidy stayed the same" but that makes no sense, unless the trash contractors didn't reduce their price! Which...Bad contract!

I also thought 2x was overkill though haha. Price aside I've never heard of that anywhere else

11.03.2026 02:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

JUST IN: Democrats flip a seat in the New Hampshire state House.

Dem Bobbi Boudman has won today’s special election, NHJournal reports.

(Boudman was the Dem nominee in 2024 & lost by 14%; Trump won here by 9%.)

This is Dems’ third legislative flip so far this year, after Texas and Arkansas.

11.03.2026 01:57 πŸ‘ 4531 πŸ” 979 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 59

Jesus Christ

11.03.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And yet rather than becoming alarmed that Trump had suddenly and obviously developed a childlike belief he can determine the leadership of any nation, our whole political class continued in its conviction that there is some kind of deeper strategy underneath it. "Maybe it's about constraining China"

11.03.2026 01:09 πŸ‘ 478 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

It's maddening because his fundamental stupidity is obvious in quite literally every public statement he makes. He doesn't understand half the words he reads off teleprompters, evinces no familiarity with very basic concepts, and regularly asserts completely inane nonsense.

11.03.2026 00:59 πŸ‘ 711 πŸ” 76 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

The Price is Right except rich people have to guess how much shit in the grocery store costs

11.03.2026 00:27 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

No one knows how money works at the store better than poor people

11.03.2026 00:26 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mom read the nutrition labels and calculated calories per dollar so we could stretch our foodstamp money.

11.03.2026 00:22 πŸ‘ 416 πŸ” 70 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 3

I actually think this is the quickest way to produce new communists

11.03.2026 00:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Big Charity Big Charity is a feature-length documentary about the painful sacrifices of progress, and the demise of one of America's oldest hospitals,, New Orleans' iconic Charity Hospital.

He was a Democrat who was State Treasurer of Louisiana immediately after Katrina and did a lot of good work around investigating fraud and restructuring state debts after the storm. If you watch the documentary Big Charity your mind will be blown by his evolution. www.bigcharityfilm.com

10.03.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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10.03.2026 22:43 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Beside the point but this has to just be like an instant diarrhea situation right

10.03.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

PROTEIN MAXXING AND GRAIN MAXXING

10.03.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Boots for you!!

10.03.2026 20:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The price of oil started dropping as soon as news broke that Trump called the war "very complete." In my opinion it's all vibes and cope.

10.03.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

LOL that's good. I did get fake Melissa's store credit to Halara from a return she made so that's something haha.

10.03.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

WILD

I used to work a public-facing job where I would have to get potential customer's emails from them over the phone or via an online signup form, and lemme tell you people DO NOT know their own emails. I would say like 1/20 were just wrong, all the time.

10.03.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0