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Melissa

@martasso.bsky.social
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Mother. Wife. Physician. Impatiently waiting for the arc of the moral universe to bend toward justice.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’d highly recommend that nobody download this app. At best, it’s unfiltered propaganda. At worst, it’s spyware.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 05/06/2026
🚨🗣️⬇️BREAKING: Members of @amdiabetesassn.bsky.social were escorted by police out of the convention center in New Orleans during #ADA2026 as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
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Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
American Diabetes Assocation had police remove some of its very own top officials -- journal editor and ADA past president -- from its conference because those respected scientists criticized Trump's medical research cuts. ADA apparently sides with Trump. Shameful.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.
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Melissa @martasso.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
White grape and peach juice for the bowel prep win!
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
You shouldn’t have to “go through a bunch of hoops” to exercise a fundamental right www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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SAVE America Act author admits married aide ‘had to go through a bunch of hoops’ to vote because she changed name
Roy has repeatedly rejected concerns that millions of Americans would face unnecessary barriers while registering to vote if the draconian bill became law.
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The Surgeon General is the nation’s chief medical communicator. Casey Means can’t fulfill that role because she isn’t a board certified, licensed physician. How can you speak on behalf of other doctors when you’ve tried so hard not to be one? @meidastouch.com www.meidasplus.com/p/meidas-hea...
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Meidas Health Urgent Warning About Trump's Surgeon General Pick
Future Surgeon General? Dr. Vin Gupta Responds to the Casey Means Debate
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 24/02/2026
A whistleblower just told Congress that ICE is teaching new recruits to violate the Constitution. They’re telling agents to enter homes and arrest people without a judicial warrant. This war on our American rights and freedoms has to stop.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/02/2026
DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas. Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe. This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
"In Pennsylvania, the Shapiro administration is warning federal officials that it will not issue required state permits for two planned immigration detention centers..." www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/0...
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Shapiro admin tells ICE to drop plans for PA detention centers
ICE detention centers planned for Berks and Schuylkill Counties would burden residents and possibly violate state legal requirements, officials say.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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Berks County ICE detention center angers residents
Upper Bern Township, PA, residents are trying to figure out how to block ICE’s plan to turn an empty warehouse into a detention center.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
“The SAVE Act will require voters to show proof of citizenship in order to register to vote in federal elections…” “Only half of Americans hold a valid passport…Birth certificates are also problematic for many married women [whose] name may be different than the name on her birth certificate.”
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Elizabeth Shockman @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/02/2026
Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)
image from today's hearing
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 06/02/2026
TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer. (I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
Silence is complicity. We all need to speak up and say that what ICE is doing is wrong.
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We all need to speak up and say that what ICE is doing is wrong.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2026
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Minnesotans on Bde Maka Ska, a lake in Minneapolis. Photo credit WCCO-TV
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/01/2026
This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years. These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2026
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/01/2026
ANOTHER ANGLE. This man was NOT brandishing a firearm. He was holding his phone. He then put his body between ICE thugs and woman. He was then sprayed with a chemical agent, tackled, disarmed, and executed. Plain as day. DO NOT let them tell you otherwise.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/01/2026
NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.
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Andrew O'Neill ❌👑 @andrew-oneill.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
a Kavanaugh Breaking and Entering
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Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.northsky.social · 19/01/2026
I’m the one in the brown hat. What you might not see is the victim in the car. His feet are pointing out the open car door. An agent is sitting on one of his legs. He’s only wearing crocs. Bystanders found his legal work visa in his abandoned car. #AbolishICE
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Melissa @martasso.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Abortion is healthcare.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Let me just say it again: he can’t cancel the midterms. Elections are administered by states. He can’t do it. Stop telling people he can do it. Telling people their votes don’t matter based on absolutely false fantasizing by the demented sociopath is doing the work of voter suppression for him.
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Melissa @martasso.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This seems presidential.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This is brutal 🤬 In Minneapolis, an ICE Goon point-blank pepper-sprayed a peaceful protester without any apparent reason. (1/12|26)
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
WATCH: “Renee Good was not a domestic terrorist. No one acting in good faith actually believes that, no matter what some of our Trump officials say at press conferences,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
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Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good
After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
DOJ use of force policy. He broke the law and murdered a US citizen. Full stop.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Another liar. The ICE agents prevented a local physician from attending to her while she was slumped over in the car after being shot.
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Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 08/01/2026
Kristi Noem calling the victim’s actions “domestic terrorism” is propaganda. Full stop. I served as a White House homeland security advisor. I know what that designation means & when it’s misused. A U.S. citizen is dead. She was a mom. This is what ICE impunity looks like. It cannot be normalized.
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This Was Inevitable. And It Is Unforgivable. ICE Owns This.
A warning ignored. A life lost. This cannot become routine.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It’s January 3, 2026, and the Trump DOJ continues to violate the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
DOJ is still in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 03/01/2026
Some updates: CNN: The Senate Armed Services Committee was not informed in advance of any potential US military action carried out tonight in Venezuela.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
This Jack Smith deposition makes one thing abundantly clear: If Donald Trump wasn’t re-elected, he’d be spending the rest of his life in prison. And he should be.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Hold the fuck on — we just “CAPTURED” another country’s leader?!?
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Unemployment hit a four year high in November. The cost of groceries, utilities, and housing have all gone up. People are choosing between paying their rent or keeping their health insurance. But billionaires and corporations got $1 trillion in tax breaks. Priorities.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 16/12/2025
@simonmaechling.bsky.social #medsky
Because of medicine:
You survived pneumonia that killed millions.  Your grandparents lived long enough to meet you.  You can drink clean water without fearing cholera. A broke.ln leg didn’t become a life-ending infection.  Science saves lives.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Ghislaine Maxwell lied about Trump never going to Epstein's house (directly contradicted by her email correspondence with Epstein), and she was rewarded for that lie with a transfer to a cushier prison. The coverup is happening in plain sight.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Happy discharge petition day to all who celebrate... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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Melissa @martasso.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Hope for our children and their children 🌎
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
As an American, I’m worried about our polarization — and the rise of “not my problem” thinking. When America turns inward, the world gets more dangerous. For all of us.
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