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Queen of the bees. Any and all opinions are mine alone unless my dogs develop opposable thumbs. she/her + masto @melico24 @better .boston @melico .bsky.social

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I think this place is rapidly becoming intolerable. If I ghost, y'all can find me elsewhere: Threads at @melicour24 @melico .bsky.social Mastodon melico24 @better .boston Insta @melicour24 Rarely used at Spoutible @ melico Plus an old Tumblr somewhere.
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@Lookingtooclose @4lisaguerrero Don't you dare speak for women.
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@nytopinion @DouthatNYT Short answer: no. Feminism does not strip rights from other women. Feminism does not treat LGBTQ+ as second-class citizens. Feminism does not take away healthcare from millions of people. One woman's quest for individual power is not feminism.
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@Sen_JoeManchin Who is "we"? You're the one preventing these things from happening.
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@JackHarbon Don't enter *any* proprietary content into ChatGPT
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@EricGreitens Someone with your violent criminal history is the best advertisement for red flag laws.
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@NYMag @lizweil A teenage boy who did a really shitty thing faced social approbation but otherwise no real consequences, and I'm supposed to be outraged?
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@KimKardashian People can't afford to bury their loved ones lost to covid, but at least you had fun.
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@TwitterComms Virtually every woman I know on here has gotten death threats or rape threats and you haven't done squat.
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@asymmetricinfo @NYCdisinterest @JillFilipovic Maybe to save time you should let us know the exact number of raped elementary school girls that would make the problem statistically meaningful for you.
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@anamariecox I'm a pathologically early person who hates lateness, but I'd rather everyone I ever have plans with be late rather than not wash their hands.
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@bdomenech The law and order crowd thinks it's fine to put false information on a visa application.
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@liz_churchill8 There have got to be easier ways to get attention than making the lives of overworked medical professionals even more difficult.
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@annehelen Not great for Team "Needs a Bra".
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@DBrodyReports Someone so worried about his safety that he tweeted and took photos while driving with his windshield wipers off (in what looks like 1/2 inches of snow).
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@madsadbabycad It's none of your business. Why are you being so cruel to a stranger?
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@sustaingluttony A 100% of creeps lurking around women in a gym taking photos without permission are men.
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@SBANYPD @RitchieTorres This unprofessional and childish tweet pretty much confirms that Torres is right.
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@ByronYork I pointed to the guns and pipe bombs and tasers and all the blunt objects used to bash in the skulls of Capitol police, but I guess I hadn't taken into consideration that they hadn't gotten a proper building permit for their cosplay execution device.
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@LucasFoxNews The Constitution is less than 100 pages but you guys never seem to read as far as the part about separation of church and state.
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@MittRomney This you?
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@KLoeffler @MLB @Braves Honor him by supporting a law to suppress the votes of his descendants?
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@ejdickson Of course they have rights, but they shouldn't be allowed to freely do things that could be dangerous to themselves or others.
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@Maladroithe It's extra funny, because these companies are obviously having Mother's Day promotions in the first place, so how does it follow that they are somehow erasing mothers?
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@KristySwansonXO Oh no, without "unnamed blonde girl", both movies just fall apart!
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@anne_theriault "What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses." John Irving, The Cider House Rules
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@RandPaul Counting legal votes isn't stealing, even if they don't vote for you.
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@erichhartmann I think it's a litmus test for how much one enjoys looking at clips of muscular men covered in mud.
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@dylanmatt It's not copaganda because of some dark ruling class conspiracy, it's copaganda because it largely uncritically treats the police position as infallible.
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@pattonoswalt Sorry kids, I know you wanted to ski today, but Daddy needs to have a very important tantrum.
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@DanCrenshawTX You have friends who wouldn't pass a background check AND you see fit to loan them guns? Yiiiikes
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@curaffairs During the worst days of the AIDS epidemic, people were not allowed in hospital rooms with their partners and could be kicked out of their own homes by their loved one's families when they died.
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@asymmetricinfo @JudyPrincz @JillFilipovic Sure, it'll warp her bones, crush her internal organs, and probably render her infertile going forward, not to mention the psychological damage from the rape and the forced pregnancy she barely understands, but she *might* not die. USA! USA!
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@ComradeDoyIe You're right, let's give America back to the indigenous peoples from whom it was stolen.
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@happydiplodocus @BlakeBlakebabee "Feminine hygiene" was always a weak outdated euphemism because people thought periods were icky. Are you afraid of the word "period"?
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@EliLake Modern conservatism is animated by childish spite, not principle.
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@benshapiro You guys are whining about optics because you know the substance of the speech was true.
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@JDVance1 It's not his community. He and his mommy went on a murder field trip.
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@Noahpinion The ladies in the hats were right about *everything* and they actually showed up to do something, so I can see how you'd feel alienated.
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@alexandriajwitt Imagine if people in the "heartland" examined their biases against those of us on the coasts. We're getting pretty tired of being told we're not real Americans.
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@oliverdarcy I'm sorry the attempted overthrow of our government is so boring to you.
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@KyleMartinsen_ I'm from NY and I hate football and I immediately knew the reference, guessing people *actually from Pennsylvania* will get it too.
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@jonathanweisman Is there a little machine in your newsroom that dispenses a tasty pellet each time you type "both sides"?
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@adamwren @meganmesserly The story should have included information from doctors about what a full term pregnancy would have done to the body of this small child.
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@LillyPad You should apologize to the people you're price gouging who will die without your product.
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@RepJimBanks So do all of your district's constituents live in caves, or just you?
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@Ancef_FC @kingseth648 @SeemaCMS In 2013 it was 2 million per year: This took ten seconds to Google.
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@DouthatNYT I get that you don't give a damn about women and trans people but it's actually a good thing that Biden does.
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@Twiceoniie @_celia_bedelia_ Catholicism forced pregnant Irish girls into institutions and then sold their babies.
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@2old4Timberlake @GRK42769 @RobLowe She founded the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which keeps financial companies from ripping off their customers. For one.
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@RepStefanik Is this some sort of right wing grievance random word generator?
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@MZHemingway Maybe if you could give us a dollar amount of what each American life is worth to you we could better calculate how many people need to sacrifice their grandparents so the mall can reopen.
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@elonmusk @mrddmia There have got to be better ways to work through a midlife crisis.
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@2pumpPedro I'm guessing a lot of things baffle you, JuddBob.
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@mideastXmidwest @EconClubNY Can he feel the flames of hell gently tickling his toes yet?
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@oliverdarcy @ReliableSources Huh, a group notoriously hostile to any and all criticisms of how they do their jobs is anonymously whining about how someone else does their job. Pearls remain unclutched.
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@JDVance1 My worldview is that the state shouldn't be able to coerce women to have children or *not* have children. No one should have fewer rights and freedoms than JD Vance just because they have a uterus.
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@JohnJHarwood White men are 31% of the population but have held 94% of all Supreme Court seats.
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@nytopinion They are perfectly free to express their views, but the rest of us are also perfectly free to tell them their views are bad. It's that second part that vexes the poor dears.
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@JonLemire Imagine how tired he'd be if he ever did any real work.
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@Nithin0dha @zerodhaonline I don't see anything about health, I see a celebration of lucky genes or promotion of eating disorders.
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@JasonSCampbell Someone who hates Americans as much as she does should not be serving in our government.
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@NBCNews Children were served floor sealant by adults entrusted to care for them.
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@davidmfaris The problem is that you and Mounk and many others are conflating the impacts of the pandemic with the impacts of mitigation measures. What good is a proclamation of normalcy when thousands die every day and still more face possibly permanent disability?
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@ZSharf When did Friends once educate anyone about bigots? The main characters themselves had dated and bigoted views, that's why there is criticism of the show now.
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@brikeilarcnn @EvanMcS Are they bathing in the milk?
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@bendreyfuss I'm guessing not *everybody* felt safe getting drunk with their profs and guys like you probably got unearned benefits from the increased access.
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@BuenoForMiami I'm proud that I don't need to put other people who have never harmed me in any way down to make myself feel important.
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@JimHawk67327371 @StephenKing All you had to do on premusk twitter to not get censored is not doxx anyone, not send death threats, and not tweet obvious racial slurs. Was that difficult for you?
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@GShaneMorris They don't, actually. But whatever you need to tell yourself to get over your jealousy of the free time and extra disposable income your single and childless peers enjoy.
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@BrianKempGA That wasn't your philosophy in your last election.
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I can totally visualize Dowd swanning in from her 3 hour liquid lunch to complain that the youngs are too lazy, meanwhile she's been writing the same column over and over again for 20+ years.
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“I’m mystified when I hear so many of our 20-something news assistants prefer to work from home. At that age I never could have latched onto so many breaking stories if I hadn’t raised my hand and said, “I’ll go.” Maureen Dowd w Requiem for the Newsroom
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@KellyannePolls I haven't seen empty shelves since the great TP shortage of '20. Remind me who was president then?
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@MargaretAtwood @TorontoStar Please don't give aid and comfort to transphobes.
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@JennaEllisEsq Being a transphobic jerk at this exact moment in time is a choice you are making.
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@heywillconway @Fwd_Party This is more like showing up at a job interview with a blank resume.
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@KellyO That definitely doesn't raise any questions.
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@AbwogoK @Maanda_mu Look, if you resent your childless siblings that's your prerogative, but don't project it on normal people.
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@downtown_design @johnpavlovitz @realDonaldTrump He's been whining about it constantly, so ask him?
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@USOPM Maybe they can trade phony medical diagnoses to keep their landlord's son out of military service for rent?
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@AnnieLinskey "I made a funny about the President being sad about his deceased loved ones, sorry if you were offended."
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@SenatorSinema Civil rights are not an 'agree to disagree' issue.
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@RdotSpoon Also your dog is not having any fun accompanying you on your errands, it is stressful and overstimulating.
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@stacey_rudin @Soozieceu You could have just, you know, worn the mask instead of repeatedly making yourself the center of attention, but I suspect that latter was your intention all along.
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@AndrewCMcCarthy The fact that several justices apparently perjured themselves during confirmation when they said Roe was settled law doesn't bother you though.
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@DavidLimbaugh The right tried to kill the VP and Congress, pretty sure you've cornered the market on "too far."
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@transscribe @Harrichael @creation247 And also most women didn't dress like those in the top row, ever?
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@abbydphillip So, like Trump, he's mad about the revelation of the interference more than the interference.
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@apagliar Donald Trump could only get elected in a country where Bill Maher's opinions are considered relevant or smart.
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@GadSaad So you're the type of customers who summon your server by snapping your fingers and yelling "Miss?!" at them, gotcha.
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@RealAlexRubi Dude, I was nerdy as hell in school and even I'm embarrassed for you.
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@brikeilarcnn @EvanMcS The Stotlers in the dairy aisle.
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@benshapiro Who is "we", little man? If you're ignoring the breadth of his works because they're inconvenient to your politics, the dream has no context. Kind of like what you guys do to the Constitution.
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@privilegelog No. PTO is compensation and it is management's job to make sure there is adequate staffing for the workflow. Good communication within the team should prevent any problems.
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@Jason_Aldean How many people die in small towns because of the guns you love so much? Who is looking out for them?
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@IAmSophiaNelson Ask any Muslim- or Sikh-American if this is true.
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@KLoeffler @MLB @Braves Hahahahaha she blocked me for this!
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