Melissa Ryan

2 weeks ago | progressive.org | Melissa Coulter Ryan |Melissa Ryan

“i used to be mutuals with someone who is now a real school shooter ;-).” —post on an X (formerly Twitter) account believed to belong to Solomon Henderson Natalie Rupnow, the fifteen-year-old who opened fire in December on her fellow students and teachers at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, killing two people before taking her own life, didn’t fit the loner white male school shooter stereotype.

1 month ago | open.substack.com | Melissa Ryan |Micah Sifry

Two weeks ago, I wrote that “the cost of opposing Trump has never been higher, but that cost will only rise as time goes on.” We’ve since seen a terrifying escalation from the Trump Administration, which is making it clear that they plan to relentlessly attack and punish dissent, using every lever of power available to them.