justmelaniebigalke (she/they)

“This is not who we are.”❌

“I’m going to speak up and take action to make sure this is not who/what we continue to be.”✅

“We’re acting like [insert region/country/oppressive group outside the U.S.]”❌

“The U.S. has a long history of oppression, discrimination, and harm that informs the present.”✅

Oh no.

Poverty is a systemic failure not a personal failure. Don't buy into calvanist prosperity doctrine garbage.

Poverty is a SYSTEMIC FAILURE.

When people die (especially public figures), it reminds people of how they lived. That means who they were, what they said, and what they did. Dying doesn’t erase those things; it amplifies them. And when you say/do bad things in life, death acts as a reminder and people react in a variety of ways.

The fascists can now tell you what apps you can have on your phone. They don’t even need to pass a law any more.

Cool cool. Cannot forsee any issues with that at all.

Huh

Fix it now. @apnews.com such irresponsible "reporting"

For Ai of course

I also have no nostalgia for the road to fascism, which is a trap I think a lot of liberal and progressive folks are falling into—romanticizing the conditions that preceded this moment of acceleration. The path that led to this mess is not the way out.

92% of Black Women had it on their bingo card but folks weren’t trying to hear us🤷🏾‍♀️

Cover of *What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia* by Elizabeth Catte

Increasing knowledge is also a radical act. More recent reading:

Photo of bookcover for *Someplace Generous, An Inclusive Romance Anthology* edited by Elaina Ellis and Amber Flame

Photo of the cover of *The Pairing* by Casey McQuiston

Queer joy is a radical act. Some reading this weekend.

Exiled Swazi activists protest Trump deportation deal outside US embassy in South Africa : Peoples Dispatch King Mswati III, Africa’s last absolute monarch, is accused of accepting USD 500 million from the Trump administration to accept deported criminals in Swaziland.

Endgame? Comply with US doublethink or rot in foreign prisons.

Swazi activists rage at US embassy: Trump paid King Mswati $500M to dump foreign convicts in their impoverished nation. Trump is outsourcing incarceration with corrupt politicians.

Along with his politics of respectability and both siderism brigade. Fuck them all.

This meaning Ezra, not the quote post 🤣

Fuck neoliberalism and fuck Ezra Klein. This is just hate mongering on the DL

So other than jail time and penalties, why should one keep paying federal taxes?

Asking for a friend.

I have no words.

Trans people: can we have rights?

Conservatives: no because we're killing you.

Centrists: No because you're the reason we can't have unity in this country.

Liberals: No and this is why we have Trump, because you're so selfish.

Leftists: No because we have to focus on real problems first.

I think the problem with rallying around the most privileged when they've been targeted is that it never trickles down.

they're touted as examples for "all of us" but it's not actually true.

Layering of dopamine and oxytocin release, I would think. Maybe adrenaline?

Dopamine means reward system too, so it's maybe job well done?

Wonder if shifts in indoor smoking patterns impact afterglow cigarette habits.

...or the Black female federal employees persecuted and fired. the missing prisoners after the closure of the camps in Florida. genocide with our tax dollars.

It took a rich white guy being censored for white America to sort of start freaking out en masse about their rights.

That's harsh.

I keep getting asked if I’m worried about my job because I often speak up about issues. The answer is no.

I’ve learned over the years that if employers want to hire you or if they want to fire you, they can always find a reason.

It’s not worth compromising your morals or values for anyone.

Now that you're (justly) angry about Jimmy Kimmel, did you know that Palestinian Americans were evicted in 2023 and 2024 for flying Palestinian flags in their windows?

It's true. I have a case before the Seventh Circuit about it.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.

We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.

That's the revolution.

FUCK

so ICE murdered a father in cold blood from a routine traffic stop, we're murdering random Venezuelans in foreign waters, we're shackling S. Koreans for building the factories we need to keep the southern economy alive, and we have a majority party trying to tie passport status to political views

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.