Mel🥄MeMe LaS'Mores
Educator originally trained in political science. Immigrant. Pottymouth. Spoonie. Into cats AND dogs, bellydance, and cancer survivorship. She / her. Typos.
Joined Apr 2022
#Illness #Politics
Old Fashioned ordered at 4:30 because retina doc no longer sure he can protect optic nerves and referring me to glaucoma specialist. While at bar w drink + food, got rejected for job I interviewed for AND our mayor did NOT nominate queer pastor to Library Board. Then pharmacy said cardiologist didn't do prior auth for meds, so now I have to buy 4 pills for $56 to tide me over and keep ticker in rhythm. I. Just. Fucking. Cannot. Any. Longer.
#CityCouncilStJoe #Politics
A Sunshine request obtained the letter of the Buchanan County Central Committee of the Republican Party in which they are threatening the mayor and the council of they should allow the queer pastor to serve on the Library Board. There is an effing culture war in my dusty little town in MO 😢
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CCO6RSSjFbxdB-mHeIJ1BFPlA7kFCADc/view
Berlin was amazing, now Howard Jones is starting, I have put up my pretty hair because it is hot, and CONGRATULATIONS OHIO! #Politics is always present and for now, so will repro rights in OH.
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Lovelies, on this Sunday, I shall proclaim a professional political scientist's insightful take on American politics. Ready?
Fuck. Cornel. West.
Caught a bit of Ali Velshi on #MSNBC . The data quoted: one in 100 Black women giving birth in the US will die. One country that has better maternal mortality stats than that: Rwanda. #Politics and #ReproductiveRights or #ReproductiveJustice make me weep.
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Holy fucking shit, did Jack Smith know we have convened our circle of friends with whom we celebrate indictments, for dinner tonight? TFG is so very indicted, we have gone to a bunch of dinners w like-minded folk
#CityCouncilStJoe #Politics
If you have been following the #LibraryBoard controversy in our town, you will appreciate this from my friend Brian, the pastor at the center of it all
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Dear Republicans,
You are running a guy who is a proven rapist against a guy who is the proven parent of an adult child with a history of addiction, which is a disease. What was your point exactly?
#Politics #PoliticalPhilosophy
Jeremy Bentham was a fuckface. Nonetheless, as the quote shows, he recognized and considered suffering. In non-human animals. The only way you can do what #GregAbbott wants (pushing kids back into the river) if you deny humanity and sentience in your victims. The way it was done in concentration camps. This fucking world hurts my soul big time.
#Politics #TransRights #TransSafety #NonbinaryAwareness
It is nonbinary awareness week, folks. And because we live in evil times, I am worried for all the trans folk I know in person or on sm, whether they transitioned from one gender to another or away from gender entirely. This is not a safe 'holiday' and this is not a safe country. Take care of yourselves, loves.
https://heckinunicorn.com/blogs/heckin-unicorn-blog/when-is-non-binary-awareness-week-2023
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The person making a documentary about the Library Board position being denied to the gay pastor in our town, just identified my post with my letter to the Mayor as the spark that ignited the documentary project. Then said that I used to be their poli sci prof and therefore they trust what I say. I am proud of the difference I made and sobbing over losing the opportunity to do so in a full-time capacity.
#CoSoConfession #Politics #July4
I was born and raised in Hungary. Lived in Algeria for three years as a teen. Been in the US since the mid-90s. For the two decades my country of origin was not shit, I was away from it and living in a US going to hateful hell. Now Hungary is openly shitting on freedom and turning fascist. Some elements of the US are, too. I dragged my feet on becoming naturalized and only did it out of fear, finally, in 2018. ++
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For those who have been following my posts about our little hometown and its Christianist dealings, the friends I refer to as the rainbow side are going to have a Facebook like page. I created the shell of it and there are four of us serving as admins. If you still have FB and like quirky small town shit, give us a follow.
There is a documentary short film project based on the Library Board
Area affiliate of NPR has now picked this up.
Mel🥄MeMe LaS'Mores
Educator originally trained in political science. Immigrant. Pottymouth. Spoonie. Into cats AND dogs, bellydance, and cancer survivorship. She / her. Typos.
Joined Apr 2022