Melissa Good Piggy 🐽 🇺🇦🌻🤍

@meltart.bsky.social

Liberal Dem| Bad Buddhist | Somatic and Ashtanga Yoga | Scorpio | Anti-fascist | Bibliophile | Wanderer | Champagne Lover

Every once in a while, ordinary people remind the powerful that influence has limits. Billionaires, special interests, and endless spending don’t always guarantee the outcome they want. Yesterday was one of those days. Enjoy it. Celebrate it. Let it remind us that our future isn’t for sale.

Congratulations to Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on his historic victory. AIPAC poured a record $30 million into backing Haley Stevens and still lost. Voters can’t be bought when they’re paying attention. Don’t let the next wave of billionaire PAC ads fool you. They’re buying influence, not looking out for you

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A Republican dark money group is dumping millions into Georgia to smear Jon Ossoff with false attacks. One of the biggest lies is that he cut the Child Tax Credit. He fought to expand it. Senate Republicans blocked it. 100% false.

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One Nation, the dark money non-profit associated with Senate Republicans, is spending millions blanketing Georgia with this brutally dishonest ad. Among other things, the ad attacks Ossoff for suppo...

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At least once a week, my daughter and I try to get together for lunch /dinner and catch up. Last night she wanted steak. We have a little beach butcher that sells three bacon wrapped filets for $23.99. The last time I went, they were $27.99. Yesterday: $63. We ate them and agreed from now on fish.

Wall Street bankrolled Epstein’s trafficking network for years. Treasury is withholding the records. Bari Weiss’s CBS never aired its 60 Minutes investigation and fired Sharyn Alfonsi. The corruption is so vast because the banks, the government and the media are all protecting one another.

Todd Blanche, Trump’s criminal defense attorney, is set to become AG. That’s horrifying, but it’s on brand. Strip it down and what remains is 273 Republicans in Congress and a handful of the world’s richest oligarchs dismantled America one institution at a time. I no longer believe it’s reversible.

Well, today's the day, August 3rd. They have to conceal Mitch's condition until midnight tonight, and then they're in the clear. No special election for Kentuckians. And then the clock's ticking. Shall we take bets on how long before they announce he's, I don't know, tits up?

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Cornyn and Tillis folding like rusty lawn chairs to hand the DOJ to Trump’s personal criminal defense lawyer isn’t shocking, but they can spare us every future lecture about law, justice, integrity, or the Constitution. They pissed away the last ounce of credibility they had.

Just because Alex Jones is calling for Trump's impeachment doesn't rehabilitate this rancid lunatic. The next time something shiny sparkles in the corner, he'll go chasing after it, because he's a fucking lunatic and I don't give a shit what he says. He's not worth listening to.

Let me explain my outburst below. Chuck Schumer's Dems had one job, replace Platner. The best they could do was Troy Jackson, a cousin fucker who fathered two kids with his own cousin. We've likely lost this Senate seat unless Mainers hold their nose and vote for the cousin fucker over Collins.

If you have investments or retirement funds tied to the market: it doesn't matter how good your stockbroker is or what you're paying them. When someone pays $100,000 a month to play a game you can't afford, by the time your trade goes through, the price already moved because they had the tea first.

Five Wall Street firms have already signed up to fuck the public using Trump's new Truth API. Nobody knows who they are. That means insider info sold to traders, Trump profiting off his own posts, and a sitting president financially incentivized in what he says and when. It's a Criminal Enterprise!