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@melewski.bsky.social
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PT. Brain nerd and general nerd.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/02/2026
“This isn’t just about us being able to get outside, but it’s actually a safety hazard. If I need to go to the hospital, or if I need to go to the doctor’s office, I can’t do that with the snow being how it is.”
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Snowstorms are hell for wheelchair users—but they don't have to be
"You can't physically move. You can't do anything."
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Mel @melewski.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Please sign me up for this tax
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 31/01/2026
Students walked out. Workers stayed home. Thousands filled the streets in hundreds of cities with one message: Get Trump's immigration agents out of our communities. This is for Renée Good, Alex Pretti, and 5-year-old Liam Ramos—sick in a Texas detention center.
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Get out of our cities: Another nationwide uprising against ICE
Powerful mages from around the country show thousands of demonstrators participating in a national day of action.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2026
very fun to think that there are at least four votes for "the president can unilaterally rewrite a constitutional amendment"
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
They used "anti-semitism" as a pretext to deport foreign-born students and chill free speech, and their deportation chief -- the one with the nonstandard Hugo Boss-style greatcoat -- was spouting anti-semitic insults at a US attorney
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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Now Noem says: “This individual went and impeded their law enforcement operations...had a weapon on him, and multiple dozens of rounds of ammunition, wishing to inflict harm on these officers.” So “had a weapon on him”, not brandishing. Last time i checked they worked hard to make that a right.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
they chucked the tea into the bay
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Masked government agents are conducting “show me your papers” stops, detaining 5-year-olds to use them as bait, and brutally murdering U.S. citizens. Call it what it is — fascism. History will not look fondly on politicians and so-called "leaders" of this country who stood by and enabled this.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10/01/2026
The courts are ruling against Donald Trump yet again tonight. A federal judge just blocked his unlawful funding freeze for child care and other critical programs in Illinois with a temporary restraining order. His abuse of power against the families of this state won’t stand.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Ugh.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes
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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
While Trump announces America will “run the country” of Venezuela, a prospect that could cost billions of dollars, don’t forget that countless American families just lost their health care two days ago and millions more saw skyrocketing costs
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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 20/12/2025
BREAKING: Governor Hochul has vetoed the Freedom to Read Act. At a time when right-wing extremists are trying to purge libraries nationwide, the Governor neglected to sign a bill that would have combatted censorship in NY and solidified students’ right to read free from viewpoint discrimination.
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Maybe focus on not causing rolling nationwide flight delays and leave the workout plans to travelers.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/11/2025
Gender-affirming care saves lives
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Mel @melewski.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
“…the system is designed to return profits rather than improve health.”
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Overall flu circulation is still low in the US but is steadily rising. Was on inpatient ID consult service last week. Anecdotally I saw more COVID positives than flu positives. Lots of rhinovirus & parainflueza. Interestingly no rsv. Get vaccinated now is the time. www.nbcnews.com/health/cold-...
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Flu season is just beginning, but doctors are already on high alert
While flu levels are still low, a strain that has wreaked havoc in the U.K. and Canada is behind most cases so far in the U.S., mostly affecting kids.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/11/2025
To even remotely understand what Kennedy is talking about requires one’s brain to be thoroughly bathed in the corrosive acid of the right-wing internet.
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Trump's brain rot cabinet
How right-wing internet conspiracies are an integral part of his second administration.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/11/2025
he hangs out in group chats with teenaged nazis, so there’s that
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 21/11/2025
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like: “The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.” “I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
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“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
So he did exactly what he said in his confirmation hearing that he would not do. Perhaps it’s time to haul his ass back in there. Also congrats to everyone, including Olivia Nuzzi, who helped normalize this man. So many people will die of preventable diseases as a result.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Trump is being nicer to Mamdani than Democratic leadership was lol
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
If there was any doubt at all that the CDC is fully destroyed, this page on autism and vaccines on its website confirms it. It's now just another vessel of dangerous health misinformation. I have no words. This is beyond sad.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This pile of flap meat has more spine than Chuck Schumer
4lbs of carne asada on a 2lb plate
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This right here.
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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 09/11/2025
I love this meme. We do need piñata economics!
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks. So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 10/11/2025
If a budget deal goes through without restoring Medicaid & ACA subsidies, they will never be restored. That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I am relieved that families across New York will finally start to see their SNAP benefits this weekend. My office will continue to fight to protect this lifesaving food assistance for New Yorkers and all Americans.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
Rudy press conference at 4 seasons total landscaping
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 08/11/2025
When the president gets ordered, multiple times, to pay out federal food benefits as the law requires:
The 47th president of the United States, seated at a desk in the Oval Office while sporting a s––-eating grin and an American flag pin on his suit's lapel. I've desaturated the image to make it look a slightly sepia black-and-white — and added superimposed text in the style of a Michael Jordan-themed Jumpman meme. In this image as in the Jumpman meme, the text reads:

"F–– them kids."

The seal of the president of the United States is placed in the image where the Jumpman logo would be seen in the original meme.
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Nature @nature.com · 08/11/2025
Watson – who won the Nobel Prize for his role in divining the structure of DNA; was instrumental in initiating and propelling the Human Genome Project; and who became notorious for his history of racist and sexist comments – has died at 97 Read the full story: go.nature.com/47NJ6wy
A card showing James Watson on one side, and the headline "DNA pioneer James Watson has died ― colleagues wrestle with his legacy" on the other
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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Happy Andrew Cuomo Moving To Florida Eve to all who celebrate
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/11/2025
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
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Maurice Mitchell 🐺 @mauricewfp.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Every talking head is going to try to sell you the idea that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's win was a fluke. But working people are sending a message: they WANT a politics that prioritizes them, not the billionaires.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
WOULD JAMES CARVILLE AND GAVIN NEWSOM LIKE TO COME FORWARD AND EAT SHIT
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
To coin a phrase, booyakasha.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
In case you were waiting for someplace besides the Decision Desk, here it is!!!!!!
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 04/11/2025
Be like Zohran. Vote down the Working Families Party line if you're in New York (or Connecticut). A vote on the Working Families ballot line (Row D) is a vote to tax the ultra-rich to invest in universal childcare, affordable housing, healthcare, and a city where working people win.
Mamdani the Democratic nominee voted for himself on the Working Families Party's ballot line, rather than the Democrat's line, according to a campaign spokeswoman
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Matt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Tom Cruise in the courtroom scene at the end of A Few Good Men but he's saying "that sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?"Jack Nicholson in the courtroom scene at the end of A Few Good Men but he's saying "a little bit is coming out the bottom"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/11/2025
i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
People are really losing their goddamn minds about this really nice dude running for mayor
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
HUGE. Important first result tonight. Decision Desk has called Virginia governor for Spanberger. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...
Virginia Governor General Election
County Results
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DOHQ Last Updated: Nov 4, 2025, 7:33 PM
11% est. reporting
Candidates
Abigail Spanberger •
Party
DEM
Votes
217,272
Pct.
55.4%
Winsome Earle-Sears
GOP
Total
* Incumbent
174,643
44.6%
391,915
Election Date: 11/4/2025
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
“A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates.”
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Authorities Investigating Explosion at Harvard Medical School, Believed To Be Intentional | News | The Harvard Crimson
A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliat...
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NPR @npr.org · 01/11/2025
The Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office has an unusual unit at its office: A team dedicated to working with defendants who have cognitive disabilities. The office helps these people access treatment. n.pr/4oj2jNz
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How one legal team is building support for people with cognitive disabilities
The Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office has an unusual unit at its office: A team dedicated to working with defendants who have cognitive disabilities. The office helps these people access treatment.
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