Melanie Nicole

Melanie Nicole

@melanienicole76.bsky.social

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Mother of gamers and cats. Book dragon. Gen X snarky, pessimist. I refuse to idolize any politician. Formally The Neverending Hell Loop of Doug Ford’s Ontario on the site that must not be named. She/her

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F@cking Doug Ford. 🤬

@fordnation‬⁩ destabilizing childcare: ‘actively working against public expansion. TDSB has dozens of shovel-ready projects Ford is blocking & municipalities can only ⬆️ their public centres as a last resort if no private sector provider is available www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Doug Ford’s dangerous child-care planwww.thestar.com If Ontario had an active plan to expand, coupled with adequate capital and operating funding, the non-profit and public sectors would be able to offer spaces to all the parents

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Don’t worry, #Toronto. Help is on the way!

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If you're feeling like Project 2025 is farfetched and won't reach fruition, I beg you to read this essay from Kelly Jensen about how the framework for it has been built under and around us for years. It's achievable bc facets of it have been ACHIEVED. wellsourced.substack.com/p/youve-alre...

You've Already Been Living The Project 2025 Test Drivewellsourced.substack.com Shock over public school closures, public library book bans, ending of child labor laws–this *is* the plan.

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We're delighted to announce — with help from Electric Literature — the shortlist for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Congratulations to the authors! The recipient of this year's prize will be announced on Ursula's birthday, October 21st. electricliterature.com/announcing-t...

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I love Pedro Pascal.

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"Why should cyclists get to do this thing when drivers aren't allowed to. 😡😡😡" Because bicycles are not cars, hope this helps.

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If you wanna know why JD Vance sucks ass there is no better place to start.

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If you want access to free books, please get a library card. In the US, the more people there are with library cards, the more funding libraries have access to. Libraries provide more than books. They are a community resource. As an author and reader, I support libraries! #books #libraries

I love Courtney’s amazing insight and her kissing novels.

Hello Blue Sky followers! I know that not everyone is, like, expected to know who I am, and I truly do not expect that. Just in case you missed it, I write romance novels. They have kissing in them.

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For those freaking out about Project 2025 now and how the word pornography will be weaponised to silence and imprison people, spare half a thought for the sex workers who have been ringing the alarm bell on this for decades.

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Reminder as it has never been more important than ever

Was going to go camping this weekend as a holiday but the campground is flooded. The road trip we were going to take while camping is also flooded. I guess I’m cleaning for vacation now lol. You could swim on our campsite. 😬

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Sticker mule losing several ten thousand followers on IG but gaining several thousand followers on Twitter tells you everything you need to know about what’s going on on twitter and their new main demographic. It’s not a good place to be and not a place where I’ll keep sharing my art.

Anyone still ordering at Sticker Mule? Don’t!

It’s a safe bet that when PP’s lips are moving he is lying.

Poilievre is lying to you, he did not build thousands and thousands of homes under Harper.

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This is the best book review ever written and it took 15 seconds to do.

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Tinniest mypillow drops

Low-energy

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From America's hardest-hitting investigative journalists at @teenvogue.bsky.social, a BEAUTY of an introductory piece (I've gifted annual subscriptions to random small-town libraries; you can, too!) www.teenvogue.com/story/everyt...

Every Gen Z Issue JD Vance Is Againstwww.teenvogue.com From guns, and climate change to abortion and LGBTQ rights, the Republican VP is being called “Anti-Gen Z.”

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This whole excerpt tells you multitudes about our current political moment.

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Vance was Heritage's pick so don't forget about Project 2025, which proceeds apace

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He shouldn't be allowed to forget this (should be a gift link) wapo.st/3Lp7zNO

Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance argues against need for rape and incest exceptions in abortion lawswapo.st The author and venture capitalist running for the GOP Senate nomination said in a local interview that unborn babies should be allowed to live even if the circumstances are “somehow inconvenient.”

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This is an unsurprising position from Pierre Poilievre. Vicious attacks on his political rivals have been key to Poilievre's rise. He'd be lost without his ability to attack and mock Trudeau. Harnessing anger -- of mainly white men -- is what Poilievre does.

Pierre Poilievre worries about threats against his family — but says there’s no need to tone down political criticismwww.thestar.com Poilievre was among Canadian leaders who condemned political violence in the wake of the weekend shooting at a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania.

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Elon is not stupid enough to say “there should not be women in the secret service” but here is his nod to the discourse

Working on oldest kid’s bedroom today. Ugh. I despise painting with a passion. I don’t know how my dad did it for close to 65 years for a living!!!!

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I think this is having a real effect. I know some reporters might think it's "political" to call for getting off the platform, but really they are making a radical, political choice by staying.

I’ve said this a million times, but I’m genuinely frightened about what Musk’s fascist propaganda network is doing to do to our politics. I really wish someone, anyone, would come up with a collective strategy to get journalists, organizers and elected officials off the platform.

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Biden has done 3 live tv appearences related to the shooting since where he calls for unity. Trump has disappeared and done nothing. The resulting press coverage is covering an imaginary version of Trump as if he had said unity stuff. Like literally they are making up a fake guy to praise.

I have never read anything more credulous than Axios’s thing about Trump this morning. Like…

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I see Dead People. Well, technically they're stupid people, but give me a few minutes...

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This is how you do it.

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We've been watching kids get slaughtered in school with guns, I fear every goddamn day I drop my kid off at Kindergarten. WTF are you talking about, assholes?

WTF are you smoking, BBC?