Donald Mellen
@donaldmellen.bsky.social
Playwright, Computer geek, Theater nerd, TV and Movie fan-boy.
Nothing is impossible! ... but most things are highly improbable
https://www.pioneerdrama.com/AuthorDetail.asp?ac=MELLENDONA
Nothing is impossible! ... but most things are highly improbable
https://www.pioneerdrama.com/AuthorDetail.asp?ac=MELLENDONA
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A minor detail is missing from the headline.
September 16, 2026 at 12:20 AM
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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Seen a lot of these, but this one is my favourite 😎
September 12, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Seen a lot of these, but this one is my favourite 😎
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Perfect description of what's going on.
September 7, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Perfect description of what's going on.
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when you hear everyone wishes you’d die and you don’t understand homophones
what is the world is going on with Trump's hair?
(Jim Watson/AFP via Getty)
(Jim Watson/AFP via Getty)
September 5, 2026 at 9:24 PM
when you hear everyone wishes you’d die and you don’t understand homophones
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I’m surprised he didn’t say “I’m the WHAT secretary? Isn’t ‘secretary’ a girl job? And what even IS energy?”
BASH: Gas prices Labor Day weekend are the highest on record. Isn't it possible gas prices could go up even more?
CHRIS WRIGHT: I don't want to have an opinion on that
BASH: As the energy secretary, shouldn't you have an opinion?
WRIGHT: If I had to guess, they are more likely to go down than up
CHRIS WRIGHT: I don't want to have an opinion on that
BASH: As the energy secretary, shouldn't you have an opinion?
WRIGHT: If I had to guess, they are more likely to go down than up
September 6, 2026 at 1:56 PM
I’m surprised he didn’t say “I’m the WHAT secretary? Isn’t ‘secretary’ a girl job? And what even IS energy?”
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Claiming the moon is a Gru thing, right?
September 6, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Claiming the moon is a Gru thing, right?
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There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.”
ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
ysph.yale.edu
September 2, 2026 at 9:05 AM
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?
Ahead of the midterms, Trump isn’t even being subtle about his brazen politicization of federal disaster relief aid, explicitly tying approvals to campaign endorsements and election results.
It’s one of the underappreciated scandals of his second term.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
It’s one of the underappreciated scandals of his second term.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Trump approves disaster relief funds for 7 red states, after denying aid to blue states
Ahead of the midterm elections, the president isn’t even being subtle about his scandalous politicization of disaster aid.
www.ms.now
September 2, 2026 at 2:13 PM
The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?
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Sure everything keeps getting worse but it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that everything is also getting dumber.
September 2, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Sure everything keeps getting worse but it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that everything is also getting dumber.
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And yes, there is actually a federal law saying Presidential $1 coins cannot feature a living current or former president.
September 2, 2026 at 3:18 PM
And yes, there is actually a federal law saying Presidential $1 coins cannot feature a living current or former president.
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Bless Alan Ritchson for not holding back about Trump and the Epstein files.
September 2, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Bless Alan Ritchson for not holding back about Trump and the Epstein files.
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Personally I don’t think you should be able to speak about universal healthcare when you clearly don’t know what it is or how it works.
Lisa McClain questions why El-Sayed's wife doesn't treat patients for free if he's really a supporter of universal healthcare 🤔
August 31, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Personally I don’t think you should be able to speak about universal healthcare when you clearly don’t know what it is or how it works.
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Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.
August 31, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.
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Kurt Schlicter once told a disabled veteran to off himself.
I know because I was that veteran.
I know because I was that veteran.
EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian government roles.
They include Rob Maness, Kurt Schlicter and Tom Anderson, better known as Cynical Publius.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
They include Rob Maness, Kurt Schlicter and Tom Anderson, better known as Cynical Publius.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles
Conservative veterans with large social media followings have been hired by the Defense Department and are amplifying Pete Hegseth’s culture-war fights.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 30, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Kurt Schlicter once told a disabled veteran to off himself.
I know because I was that veteran.
I know because I was that veteran.
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a little message from me before my song comes out 🩷
August 30, 2026 at 5:48 PM
a little message from me before my song comes out 🩷
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Mystery solved: the Freedom Fuel Network was able to charge so little for gas because it stiffed its supplier and refused to pay for it
Trump lauded low prices at Freedom Fuel. A supplier says some gas wasn’t paid for.
Mansfield Oil Company of Gainesville claimed in a federal lawsuit this month that it was never paid for more than a million gallons of fuel from a terminal in Pennsylvania between late May and early J...
www.washingtonpost.com
August 29, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Mystery solved: the Freedom Fuel Network was able to charge so little for gas because it stiffed its supplier and refused to pay for it
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if secretary breakfast gin really does decide to run for president here’s a sneak peek at the early oppo
a man who gets an email like this from his own mother should be legally required to reveal it to every woman he ever meets ever ever
![We still love you, but we are broken by your behavior and lack of character. I don't want to write emails like this and never thought I would. If it damages our relationship further, then so be it, but at least I have said my piece. [Redacted]
And yes, we are praying for you (and you don't deserve to know how we are praying, so skip the snarky reply)
I don't want an answer to this... I don't want to debate with you. You twist and abuse everything I say anyway. But...
On behalf of all the women (and I know it's many) you have abused in some way, I say... get some help and take an honest look at yourself...
Mom](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tm3djotsgwdkml5jn5rpubhd/bafkreifcbxiabi7zxvs6muuks5ba2ugax7554oib7ucldsilio3xwaes34)
August 29, 2026 at 12:11 AM
if secretary breakfast gin really does decide to run for president here’s a sneak peek at the early oppo
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This dude is losing his mind.
Can’t win a war but obsesses in AI like the unhinged boomer he is
Can’t win a war but obsesses in AI like the unhinged boomer he is
August 29, 2026 at 6:47 PM
This dude is losing his mind.
Can’t win a war but obsesses in AI like the unhinged boomer he is
Can’t win a war but obsesses in AI like the unhinged boomer he is
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8/29/2026- A Campaign Tradition www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/au...
August 28, 2026 at 10:42 PM
8/29/2026- A Campaign Tradition www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/au...
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This week's comic on the folly of triangulating with oligarchs
August 29, 2026 at 5:50 PM
This week's comic on the folly of triangulating with oligarchs