Melissa Kotačka
@mkotnc.bsky.social
Feisty nerd | Educator | Counselor | Thanatologist | my two degrees in Slavic literature might not be useless after all 🇺🇦 | She/hers | Views mine, all mine
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Take all the time you need with this because you’ve got 3½ more years to ponder:
If you sat out the 2024 election, you voted against your own interests too— by way of abstention.
If you sat out the 2024 election, you voted against your own interests too— by way of abstention.
May 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Take all the time you need with this because you’ve got 3½ more years to ponder:
If you sat out the 2024 election, you voted against your own interests too— by way of abstention.
If you sat out the 2024 election, you voted against your own interests too— by way of abstention.
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New to Bluesky? Want to find all the #AltGov accounts in one neat package? Here we are!
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April 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
New to Bluesky? Want to find all the #AltGov accounts in one neat package? Here we are!
go.bsky.app/FLUwv5d
go.bsky.app/FLUwv5d
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Shooting memorial cancelled because of a shooting is so very American.
April 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Shooting memorial cancelled because of a shooting is so very American.
"When you let a clown into the castle, the clown doesn't become king. The castle becomes a circus."
@heathergay.bsky.social of #RHOSLC is a sage of our time & listening to #GoodTimeGirl is as fantastic as #BadMormon ❄️
@heathergay.bsky.social of #RHOSLC is a sage of our time & listening to #GoodTimeGirl is as fantastic as #BadMormon ❄️
March 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"When you let a clown into the castle, the clown doesn't become king. The castle becomes a circus."
@heathergay.bsky.social of #RHOSLC is a sage of our time & listening to #GoodTimeGirl is as fantastic as #BadMormon ❄️
@heathergay.bsky.social of #RHOSLC is a sage of our time & listening to #GoodTimeGirl is as fantastic as #BadMormon ❄️
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for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
February 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
I can't wait to explain Kendrick's halftime show to all the liberal boomers at my gym this week
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February 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I can't wait to explain Kendrick's halftime show to all the liberal boomers at my gym this week
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Somebody said "but he didn't do anything with those Black bodies but put them in red, white and blue" and I'm just like...
Like I don't wanna call nobody simple but if you don't understand the power of that image during NFL halftime at ANY moment but especially this moment?
Like I don't wanna call nobody simple but if you don't understand the power of that image during NFL halftime at ANY moment but especially this moment?
February 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Somebody said "but he didn't do anything with those Black bodies but put them in red, white and blue" and I'm just like...
Like I don't wanna call nobody simple but if you don't understand the power of that image during NFL halftime at ANY moment but especially this moment?
Like I don't wanna call nobody simple but if you don't understand the power of that image during NFL halftime at ANY moment but especially this moment?
The "But her emails!" crowd is so quiet
Musk is developing a payment app in partnership with Visa. Additionally, his staff has connected external hard drives to CFPB systems, raising serious concerns about unauthorized access to trade secrets from enforcement actions involving companies that compete with his future ventures.
February 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The "But her emails!" crowd is so quiet
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Red, White and Blue. The American Flag in one perspective.
But, in another, Bloods, Crips and the Klan.
And in another -- White is purity, religious, sacred-- very Daughters of the Dust.
It all depends on who holds the power and their intent.
In this essay, I will analyze Kendrick Lamar's--
But, in another, Bloods, Crips and the Klan.
And in another -- White is purity, religious, sacred-- very Daughters of the Dust.
It all depends on who holds the power and their intent.
In this essay, I will analyze Kendrick Lamar's--
February 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Red, White and Blue. The American Flag in one perspective.
But, in another, Bloods, Crips and the Klan.
And in another -- White is purity, religious, sacred-- very Daughters of the Dust.
It all depends on who holds the power and their intent.
In this essay, I will analyze Kendrick Lamar's--
But, in another, Bloods, Crips and the Klan.
And in another -- White is purity, religious, sacred-- very Daughters of the Dust.
It all depends on who holds the power and their intent.
In this essay, I will analyze Kendrick Lamar's--
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An American flag built on the backs of Black people...
Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways
All this in New Orleans... What a moment
Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways
All this in New Orleans... What a moment
February 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
An American flag built on the backs of Black people...
Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways
All this in New Orleans... What a moment
Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways
All this in New Orleans... What a moment
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Kendrick brought America together the way that "Country Roads" ad was supposed to.
February 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Kendrick brought America together the way that "Country Roads" ad was supposed to.
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Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.
February 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.
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only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Guts Key Aviation Safety Committee, Fires Heads Of TSA, Coast Guard
The committee will technically continue to exist, but it won't have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports.
www.huffpost.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
January 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
The cruelty is the point
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tfw you don't know how the roaring 20s ended
January 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
tfw you don't know how the roaring 20s ended
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And here is some advice for civil servants from @protectdemocracy.org
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
Dear civil servant
A guide to the new executive actions on the federal workforce and what you can do now
open.substack.com
January 26, 2025 at 6:13 AM
And here is some advice for civil servants from @protectdemocracy.org
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
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Preparing mass layoffs of civil servants in order to replace them with loyalists is another move from the authoritarian playbook
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
‘I am terrified’: Workers describe the dark mood inside federal agencies
“I would love to leave, but I don't know where I'd go," said one staffer.
www.politico.com
January 26, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Preparing mass layoffs of civil servants in order to replace them with loyalists is another move from the authoritarian playbook
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
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It would be pretty cool if society could do something about making teaching seem like a cool, rewarding, respected profession instead of treating them like resources to be used up and thrown away.
Teachers buy school supplies for their students, pay for their meals, protect them from school shootings, & now protect them from ICE raids
Meanwhile SCOTUS says police have no duty to protect our kids from school shootings & instead allows police raids of our schools to abduct our kids
Horrific😓
Meanwhile SCOTUS says police have no duty to protect our kids from school shootings & instead allows police raids of our schools to abduct our kids
Horrific😓
January 26, 2025 at 5:57 AM
It would be pretty cool if society could do something about making teaching seem like a cool, rewarding, respected profession instead of treating them like resources to be used up and thrown away.
My emotional state is "Weeping over the Wild Robot trailer on the Peacock homescreen while waiting for my instant noodles to soften"
a group of animals including a moose and a bear
Alt: Scene from Wild Robot in which the forest animals surround and hug ROZ the robot as one of their own
media.tenor.com
January 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My emotional state is "Weeping over the Wild Robot trailer on the Peacock homescreen while waiting for my instant noodles to soften"
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No, Donald Trump cannot rewrite the U.S. Constitution with the flick of his pen.
No, the Fourteenth Amendment is not ambiguous about this. Its plain meaning in written English is clear.
Need a refresher? Here it is:
No, the Fourteenth Amendment is not ambiguous about this. Its plain meaning in written English is clear.
Need a refresher? Here it is:
January 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
No, Donald Trump cannot rewrite the U.S. Constitution with the flick of his pen.
No, the Fourteenth Amendment is not ambiguous about this. Its plain meaning in written English is clear.
Need a refresher? Here it is:
No, the Fourteenth Amendment is not ambiguous about this. Its plain meaning in written English is clear.
Need a refresher? Here it is:
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Why did I start scrolling. Christ.
January 23, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Why did I start scrolling. Christ.
At some point I have to stop doomscrolling and try to get setting resembling sleep, but I am begging folks to look not just at 1930s Germany but also 1930s Russia
cc @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
cc @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 4:42 AM
At some point I have to stop doomscrolling and try to get setting resembling sleep, but I am begging folks to look not just at 1930s Germany but also 1930s Russia
cc @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
cc @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
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Having ordinary civil servants turn against one another is a critical aspect of the authoritarian project.
Again, the gateway is racism.
Again, the gateway is racism.
These emails, sent across agencies, compel all federal employees to snitch on any colleague whose work might have some vague DEIA inflection. Those who refuse to snitch will be disciplined.
Seems designed to put all workers who aren’t white men under a cloud of suspicion. Truly vile stuff.
Seems designed to put all workers who aren’t white men under a cloud of suspicion. Truly vile stuff.
The acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (the feds' H.R. department) is telling federal employees to rat out their DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility) colleagues by emailing "[email protected]."
chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...
chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...
January 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Having ordinary civil servants turn against one another is a critical aspect of the authoritarian project.
Again, the gateway is racism.
Again, the gateway is racism.