Melanie McFarland
Senior Critic Salon. Fmr prez TCA. Fmr Peabody Awards board. Gardener. Cook. Writer. Opinions are mine. RTs don't ≠ endorsement. If u look like a bot imma block you immediately
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- Reposted by Melanie McFarlandMy ancestors were looking for a better life in their own country when they suddenly got snatched onto some boats
- Super fun question on Day 2 of Black History Month!
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- This D'Angelo tribute just keeps giving. 🔥🔥🔥 #Grammys Here's my tribute from back in October... www.salon.com/2025/10/19/d...
- "Before I say thanks to God, I’m gonna say, ICE out. We’re not savages. We’re not animals. We’re not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans." - Bad Bunny @the Grammys
- I feel like Justin Bieber is playacting America's cry for help.
- Reposted by Melanie McFarlandMichael "5000" Watts, the producer who founded Swishahouse and helped propel Houston’s "chopped and screwed" sound to international heights, has died at 52
- Every time I dare to even *think* my Friday will be "easy" or "low-key" I am reminded that God has endless cans of beer at the ready and countless souls to hand them off to.
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- "“Who knows what will befall us tomorrow? You could be hit by a Mack truck or bopped on the head by a tiny piece of space debris.” - Moira Rose on "Schitt's Creek." Rest in peace, #CatherineOHara. Have more to say but here's an initial remembrance in @Salon. www.salon.com/2026/01/30/s...
- Reposted by Melanie McFarlandI wrote something for Politico about the real issue with Greg Bovino's overcoat. IMO, it isn't about whether the overcoat is tied to any particular regime, but about how immigration enforcement has become increasingly warlike in terms of strategy, discourse, and dress. 🧵
- The Grammys' In Memoriam segment will be headlined by Reba McEntire, joined by Brandy Clark & Lukas Nelson. Also, according to CBS' release, "Ms. Lauryn Hill will perform in honor of D’Angelo & Roberta Flack." ...and Angie Stone, right? I hope so.
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- Could be tonight! Or maybe not! Anyway, I'm pouring one out for poor Ron Funches. #TheTraitors
- Since most people don't know Claudette Colvin's story or read history all that closely, here's the #DrunkHistory version, accurately recounted by Amber Ruffin. Raise a glass of something beautiful in Miss Colvin's memory today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tov2...
- Reposted by Melanie McFarlandWASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.
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- Reposted by Melanie McFarlandI'm glad Sinners won that absurd award, but the nominees for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement included one movie that had not yet opened (Avatar) and another that had no reported box office (Kpop DH), so we should note that the prize does not even have the integrity of its own corruption.
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- Honey. Coffee. Tea. Butter.
- "Ma'am, the air is full of radioactive material. It's like a nuclear blizzard out there. We need to evacuate now." "No! If I leave, Chernobyl wins!"
- For this New Year's piece @hanhonymous.bsky.social merges a highly personal examination of a history most of us don't know about with a concise musical analysis of an ABBA song most of us don't know about. A fascinating read for sure: www.salon.com/2025/12/31/a...
- Will the criminality of this age ever end?
- I guess it's OK if DIREwolfish counts.
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- Time for eggnog and a holiday movie! Maybe even the movie called "The Holiday"!
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- "Contemplate this on the Tree of Woe."
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- Joining @amandamarcotte.bsky.social on the latest #StandingRoomOnly episode to giggle at the whole War on Christmas 2025 lunacy was a blast. And she let me plug Seattle's War on Christmas which, unlike Fox's, is joyful & worth your time! www.shoesandpants.com/scott-shoema...
- "But sire, the peasants cannot afford bread or any other groceries." "Let them get blazed!" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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- Since I have PR peeps among my followers please know, and I say this love, that signing off your emails inviting me to write about a client's protein supplements (not my beat!) with "keep crushing those articles" will not win me to your cause.
- Reposted by Melanie McFarlandPauline Copes Johnson, a descendant of Harriet Tubman, has died at 98. She spent a lifetime guarding that legacy from the small city where Tubman spent her final years www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/11/t...
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- If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
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- Sure, ok. And yet my listening age is 69. Because Spotify thinks I am an old Delta blues man I guess? www.spotify.com/wrapped-shar...
- Happy Friday! You deserve a drink that's on fire, just like you.
- You know who's had a terrific year? Who just dominated 2025?Trash pandas. Just enjoying the finer things, all willy-nilly. apnews.com/article/drun...
- Something to contemplate. (I'm mid-game right now.)
- A worthwhile read from Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez open.substack.com/pub/alisav/p...
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- "You will be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:
- Post something random or have an awful December
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- To the sauce vs. jelly cranberry argument, I need to add that I read Ina Garten's supposed cranberry sauce hack and noticed that it includes raisins. Never before have I doubted the queen but this time I ... I must.
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- Few things are better at solidifying my status as a cat person than being around a blind, incontinent dog who needs to be pet 24/7 and loudly barks until you do his bidding.
- And now, my annual holiday re-sharing of a piece I wrote two years ago. Because some of y'all still don't know how to be in public. www.salon.com/2023/11/22/g...
