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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

We have a wild hedgehog who lives in our garden and is friends with our cat (this isn’t their first meeting, they know each other well)

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The new Jim Crow is here MAGA Republicans in Louisiana are canceling elections because of the Supreme Court’s fascist decision to invalidate the Voting Rights Act John Roberts, Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell are destroying democracy by thoroughly corrupting SCOTUS and nullifying the Constitution

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Dr. Melinda Perle Simmons (she/her) @melindaperle.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Awww - 🥲 thank you. Happy mother's day 💐 C is so fortunate to have you. ❤️

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Dr. Melinda Perle Simmons (she/her) @melindaperle.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Explain the Hope Florida scandal to me like I’m 5 | Column url:https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2025/04/25/hope-florida-explained-what-happened-medicaid-desantis/

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Marcella @madmamabear.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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A penguin pointing w a stick at a pic sitting on an easel of a Tesla w a pigeon flying over head pooping on it as 3 pigeons look on

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The puppies Penn & Teller, and Richard @rdaily.medsky.social · 04/04/2025

Fundraiser

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 03/04/2025

political cartoon circa 1908

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Dr. Melinda Perle Simmons (she/her) @melindaperle.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

It is misleading IMO, as the very 1st paragraph states "The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2% from 4.1% in February" & there is this figure...

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 04/04/2025

. This is amazing. Unsurprising it hasn't made much noise, considering the shitshow in which we're all embroiled... But for S. Carolina, it is historic & cataclysmic. Their GOP are on the verge of removing their treasurer for gross incompetence; $1.8 BILLION's worth. apnews.com/article/sout...

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A $1.8 billion mistake could cost the South Carolina treasurer his job

South Carolina lawmakers are going to try to remove a statewide elected official from office, for the first time in over two centuries as a U.S. state.

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Dr. Melinda Perle Simmons (she/her) @melindaperle.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I was told some of NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research websites will go dark tonight. Download the data you need while you can. 🌊🐋🐬🦐🦀🦞🐙🪸🪼🦈

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 01/04/2025

"Hi Senator I am a voter in [your home zip code] and I saw what Sen. Booker did for others and I want that for me. Good day". A phone call like this is worth 10,000 quote posts.

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Hey folks! If you're in Florida and Wisconsin today, GET OUT AND VOTE!

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Dr. Melinda Perle Simmons (she/her) @melindaperle.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Umm... I feel like... in a nontraditionsl sense you did.

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Dr. Melinda Perle Simmons (she/her) @melindaperle.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I took all my intro Bio courses & Math courses at UCSB in an auditorium that seats 1,000 & was typically quite full. It's not ideal...but I made it through to earn tenure... for what that is worth. I wish I had you as my professor.

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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · 19/03/2025

This breaks my heart. My salary at St. Jude was paid through our comprehensive cancer center grant. My wife's oncologist is at a comprehensive cancer center. Millions of children and adults with cancer get treatment in these 57 centers around the country. These are essential locations for research.🧪

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

"When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination."
- Thomas Sowell

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Dr. Melinda Perle Simmons (she/her) @melindaperle.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

"The VA grew significantly under the Biden administration, particularly to help implement the PACT Act that Biden signed into law in 2022 to help expand coverage and eligibility to millions of veterans who were exposed to toxins and hazards like burn pits while serving."

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Dr. Melinda Perle Simmons (she/her) @melindaperle.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"Out-of-date polls to wrong aid amounts: factchecking Trump’s Congress address" "The president’s marathon address to a joint session of Congress was littered with false claims he’s been corrected on but continued to repeat" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Out-of-date polls to wrong aid amounts: factchecking Trump’s Congress address

The president’s marathon address to a joint session of Congress was littered with false claims he’s been corrected on but continued to repeat

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I have to get this out of I'm going to just start screaming in my house and scare everyone: the reason diagnosis of things like Autism and ADHD have risen is because we have a much better understanding of them and improved diagnostic criteria. We've learned MORE about them. THIS IS A GOOD THING.

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Gandolf the Grey @gsnyder.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

My favorite from today’s 50501 March in Boston.

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FMSEA @fmsea.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Annual Florida Marine Science Educators Association Conference will be held in beautiful St. Augustine, Florida, from April 24-27, 2025! 🐠 VISIT FMSEA.ORG TO LEARN MORE 🌊 #FMSEA25 #MarineScience #ProtectOurOceans #StAugustine2025 #AnnualConference #Registernow

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Dr. Melinda Perle Simmons (she/her) @melindaperle.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

"Courts block Trump's DOGE actions — chaos, panic not proving to be best legal strategy" "Not only is this effort not accomplishing the task of weeding out inefficiency, but… It's like cutting off your arm to lose weight," www.npr.org/2025/02/15/n...

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Courts block Trump's DOGE actions — chaos, panic not proving to be best legal strategy

Some legal scholars say that the administration is bungling the chance to expand presidential power.

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Becca Esche @beccasaintpaul.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Kid is selling cookies via Girl Scouts- message me if you wanna buy or donate a box! 💛

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Dr. Melinda Perle Simmons (she/her) @melindaperle.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

"Work requirements" & who decides who is "able-bodied" for fuck's sake 🤬

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Congressperson John Lewis, whose ‘good trouble’ they love to quote so much, was arrested 45 times in his life. The last was in 2013 protesting for immigrants, during the Obama presidency.

Mugshot of John Lewis after gettting arrested in Jackson Mississippi for using a whites only restroom during the 1961 Freedom Rides

Cop jabs Lewis with a night stick in Nashville for attempting to sit in a cafe with other civil rights activists 1964

At a 1962 protest at Herschel's Tic Toc restaurant in Nashville, police officers carry the group's leader, John Lewis, to a waiting police paddy wagon.

Rep John Lewis, now an elected Congressperson, hands cuffed being shoved along by two white cops in 2013 for protesting for immigrants

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Dr. Melinda Perle Simmons (she/her) @melindaperle.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I am a "never literally raise my voice" kinda person, but I march, make signs, protest. I just don't typically scream... I am ready to scream. I am screaming for my trans kid. I am screaming for my "illegal" students. I am screaming for those who cannot scream. If you can, it is time to scream.

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Dr. Melinda Perle Simmons (she/her) @melindaperle.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

"Of course it’s a coup Miss the obvious, lose your republic" snyder.substack.com/p/of-course-...

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Of course it’s a coup

Miss the obvious, lose your republic

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Dr. Melinda Perle Simmons (she/her) @melindaperle.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Can anyone tell me what this cookie cutter is supposed to be?

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

My brother posted this to Twitter - I had never seen it - he just got it this year Thinking of my dad on the Anniversary of his death by suicide x.com/mbeisen/stat...

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Dr. Melinda Perle Simmons (she/her) @melindaperle.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Horrible doesn't scratch the surface. I am so sorry. 💔

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Here is a larger version of the entry for Ellen Brill, the child of a cousin of one of my grandparents. And every branch I wander through in my tree has entries like this. I was not alive at the time of course. But the horror is overwhelming to ponder. #Neverforget #HolocaustRemembranceDay

Entry from Ancestry for Ellen Brill. 1941-1941. Death place entry reads "Killed as an infant in the Holocaust"

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