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Melissa Paints

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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

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    Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social

    Probably important in this moment to make sure that the many methods of nonviolent resistance that people are employing daily get as large of a platform as possible or at least a portion of the national attention one could get if they simply crashed out about a restaurant logo being woke.

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    Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social

    “Some activists launched ‘No sleep for Ice’ rallies, with chants and music blaring through the night, in hopes of pressuring the hotels to kick agents out.

    Now, public records shared w/the Guardian show that the protests indeed sent federal agencies scrambling …” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

    Exclusive: Organizers disrupted Trump’s immigration crackdown by targeting hotels where officers were staying, documents show

    LA Ice protests spurred US military to identify ‘hotels to avoid’ due to ‘harassment’

    Exclusive: Organizers disrupted Trump’s immigration crackdown by targeting hotels where officers were staying, documents show

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    Melissa Paints @melissavandiver.bsky.social

    My fat azz and tiddies saving my life again

    What's fun about this is it actually disincentivizes health (as much as you can control) because being healthier means you have to expose yourself to more risk

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    Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social

    Hang onto this image of CDC's full list of underlying conditions tied to severe risk of COVID.

    If you're an adult aged 18-64, RFK Jr. is now making you show some proof of one of these underlying conditions in order to get a COVID vaccine.

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    Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social

    Jon Lovett’s face when LA City Councilmember Imelda Padilla said she forced an affordable housing project to go down from six stories to three stories and add in EV charging spaces

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    Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

    🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time.

    When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

    In images shared by firefighters from the scene, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle is parked nearby. Officers wearing "Police" vests are seen arresting a firefighter, while another appears to be restrained. According to one of the firefighters, they were denied the chance to say goodbye to the detained crew members. "I asked them if his (family) can say goodbye to him because they're family, and they're just ripping them away," the firefighter told the Times. "And this is what he said: 'You need to get the (expletive) out of here. I'm gonna make you leave.'"
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    Greg Pak @gregpak.net

    They’re gonna turn people over to ICE.

    Just don’t use their trash at all. It’s bad for your brain and they’re an evil company.

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    derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social

    IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction

    A family outside their home. Their deck is loaded with guns. A man in his living room. His living room is full of guns. There's also a big safe labeled "Liberty."A man outside his home. The walkway into his home is full of guns. A woman outside her garage. The front of her home is full of guns, some laid out in a star formation.
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    David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social

    Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.”

    Either way, they take zero responsibility.

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