Mel Lee-Smith | Writer

Thank you friend ❤️

Thank y'all for your patience as I mourned my dad's passing last week.

On top of the grief, I've experienced abuse, heartbreak, and betrayal unlike anything I've ever known. Therapy and meds are in order to heal.

But looking forward to getting back on track with my resistance projects.

Walter Conway Elledge Walter Conway Elledge, 79, of Ware Shoals, was called home on February 23, 2026 at McCormick Post-Acute after an extended illness. Strong as an oak, Walter lived a colorful, adventurous life. An Army ...

The most important piece I've ever written. Love you, Dad. ❤️

sosebeemortuary.com/obituary/wal...

A man holding a blue fishing rod in his right hand and a small hooked fish on a line in his left. He's wearing a dark blue tshirt, blue jeans, and a camo hat. He's standing on a fishing pier at a lake with evergreens in the background on a cloudy day.

Dad passed away yesterday morning, peacefully in his sleep.

Our family is devastated.

I will be taking as much time and space as I need to grieve him from an ocean away.

Dementia sucks, but Dad's no longer suffering; he's home and rejoicing with his family. ❤️

Please pray for us.

To all the Palestinians following me know you are not forgotten and never will be. I want a Free Palestine 🍉❤️

إلى كل الفلسطينيين الذين يتابعونني، اعلموا أنكم لم تُنسوا ولن تُنسى أبدًا. أريد فلسطين حرة.

Says the same guy who authorized the extrajudicial killing of a teenaged US citizen by drone during his presidency..

theintercept.com/2017/01/30/o...

Pray for South Carolina State University. #RIP

Rejected for a gig I wanted without even getting an interview. Still got one more iron in the fire, but feeling very crummy now. 😞

They say when one door closes, another opens. I’d just be happy if every single door I tried to open didn’t get slammed in my face.

Can’t wait to see what’s next for the archives! 🙏 great work and well done

100% agree ❤️

Told my partner today that I'm experiencing a season of deep spiritual exhaustion. Even when I've been "resting", I've still been on and working on something. How to get this hyperactive brain of mine to just shut off or quieten down, even just for a moment...

we can indeed seize the means of tech production (open source)

Our URL issues have now been resolved 🥳 You no longer need to include .html at the ends of URLs, or add www. to the beginning of our URL.

Thanks, everyone, for your patience during this busy Valentine's week. ❤️

Congressman wants to round up and deport people who liked Bad Bunny’s show. This is the Republican Party.

JUST IN: A federal judge in Michigan has rejected the administration's attempt to obtain the state's voter rolls.

Judge Hala Jarbou, a Trump appointee, said the law does not require the state to turn them over.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

One question I get asked a lot is why I still focus so much on pro bono and sliding scale eviction defense - it's always half my practice - when there's so much else going on.

Here's the answer.

Donald Trump, before he was anything else, was a slumlord.

Screenshot of the Campaigns page of the Gaza Support Hub website. The black header at the top includes the site logo (a watermelon emoji), title, and navigation links. The text following the header reads: "Fundraising Campaigns for Palestinian Families | The volunteers who are working on this website are all personally connected with the Palestinian families featured in these campaigns. This website is still under construction. We're hard at work gathering all the existing vetted campaigns for Palestinians in need and uploading them to our site. Thanks for your patience! Check back often — we hope to update this page with lots of new campaigns soon." Following the body text is a set of buttons to navigate through the 20 pages of campaign results. Following the navigation buttons are the photos of 8 Palestinian families in need, including Belal, Hana, Motaz, Ahmed, Shireen, Alaa, Ruaa, and Mona.

Our campaigns page also includes progress bars for each fundraiser! ❤️🍉

We've really been looking forward to this update, and it's so rewarding to see the results of our hard work.

See it live here: www.gazasupporthub.com/campaigns.html

(Don't forget the .html part of the link for this page!)

Screenshot of the Gaza Support Hub website homepage. There's a black header at the top with the site logo (a watermelon emoji), title, and 4 navigation links. The content following the header reads: "In addition to the genocide inflicted upon them, Palestinians are being silenced and suppressed on social media. Even after verifying their accounts, many have been permanently banned and forced to create new accounts and start fresh. All the major social media players are complicit in the censorship of Palestinian voices and those who support them. This website is currently under construction. It will include mutual aid campaigns and stories of Palestinian families, as well as an honor roll and obituary section where families can honor their loved ones properly. Most importantly, once a fundraising campaign is vetted and added to the Gaza Support Hub, it won't be removed. Even if your social media accounts are removed, banned, or suppressed, your fundraiser will still be here, and we'll still be working to get it in front of as many people as we can." Following this paragraph is 3 cards with a gray border laid out in equal columns showing website stats. These columns read, from left to right: "417 families / $4,881,085 Raised so far / $11,709,000 Total needed" Following the stats cards are photos of Belal and Hana, 2 families living under seige in Gaza.

Our website got upgraded today! Big thanks to our senior developer for their hard work on this. ❤️🍉

- Pagination is now in place
- Totals at the top of the homepage showing the number of families, donations raised so far, and amount still needed

See it live here: www.gazasupporthub.com

Our team has reviewed 20 of ~90 broken campaign links from @mommunism.bsky.social's thread.

Of those:
- All 20 Bsky accounts that Molly reposted sharing the original campaigns are now deleted
- 4 have new, working links
- 1 working link awaiting verification
- 1 confirmed no longer fundraising

I cannot express how much of a gut punch it was, seeing every single original Bsky account deactivated while reviewing these campaigns.

Most of the linked accounts that *are* still up have been marked as spam.

This is exactly why @gazasupporthub.com exists.

No family left behind. ❤️🍉✊

Hi, everyone: we're having some technical issues due to a recent migration to a new platform.

To access the site, please make sure you add "www" to the front of the URL. Or, click here:

www.gazasupporthub.com

Thank you! 🙏❤️🍉

Happy Brigid’s Day. Brigid was a Hiberno-Celtic deity long before she was Christianised & turned into a Saint. Her story is an example of the complexity & echoes of Irish history & mythology. The RIA bio is a good place to learn about one of the patron saints of Ireland!

In the background of my human rights work, my dad's been in hospital the last 3 weeks.

I'm mourning, celebrating, and coordinating for him from an ocean away. I've been on the phone several times a day, every day.

He's stable now, but transitioned into hospice care yesterday. Pls pray for us. 🙏🩷

Thank you for this work!

Tagging to amplify

@hebagowayed.bsky.social
@anna-orridge.bsky.social
@walkinginaustin.bsky.social
@lubottom.bsky.social

This morning, 309 campaigns from @mommunism.bsky.social's masterthread (below) were published on @gazasupporthub.com

- Only live campaigns shared up until 12/31/2025 have been published
- We have ~100 broken campaign links to double-check and update
- Pagination & search on the way!

Please share!

Once again, this is a call

Water beneath our feet
Cold that shows no mercy
A tent that doesn’t protect us
Endless nights,
This is our reality now,
not a memory from the past.
If you’re able to help,
even a small donation can make a difference.
Donation link in bio& here Please help us😔🙏

While I believe 2A rights will be the clincher for a lot of conservatives in this case, I’m also over the pearl-clutching from the left over this.

If you’ve been paying attention, you already know this is not hypocrisy or a sudden 180 on the 2A. It’s been their belief this whole time.

Right-wingers have never wanted leftists owning guns.

2A has always been for “them” and not “us”.

“We” are the alleged corruption and tyranny they constantly cite.

Something something white supremacy…

The lies are the point. The lack of investigation is the point. Gaslighting us about videos we've all seen is the point. Disobeying courts is the point. Falsely calling protesters domestic terrorists is the point.

You've never wanted anything as much as Donald Trump wants a civil war.