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Melissa

@melissaleigh123.bsky.social
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Health policy, college football, and Taylor Swift. BBQ and sweet tea connoisseur. They’re all good dogs, especially the Dawgs. I was stress baking before it was cool.

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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 6h
Wish I could teleport back in time to tell my 2003 self about Woke Bill Kristol.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An eye opening question to ask a man is “How old were you the first time you were sexually harassed at work?” Just leave it there and see what they say. In my experience, they bumble around and finally say “never.” Right.
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UGA Nihilist @uganihilist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A running back named Peanut? How does Kirby keep finding deeper and deeper shades of Georgia-ness?
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
RUN THE DAMN BALL BOBO
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bobo what was that
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The announcers just absolutely WILLING Oklahoma and Mateer to do something
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh no
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hootin’ some, hollerin’ some
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Has Mark Richt lost control of the Longhorns?
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Clearly, Pope Bob can multitask.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026
IT IS TIME. buff.ly/pykYN6f
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My most Boomer opinion is that the schools need to bring back handwriting drills, times tables, phonics, and reading books in elementary school. I don’t know WHY we moved away from that stuff (I’m sure some combo of standardized tests, Common Core, and NCLB) but it is basic stuff.
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Arch Situation is terrible but let’s not forget that the precipitating event - Sark’s impetuous, childish reaction to Holly in the first place - is also worthy of contempt. I doubt he would treat a male sideline reporter the same way.
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Matt @mbunchanumbers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Also not just “a woman”. Maybe the most prominent and respected woman in the sport.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
have we reached a consensus yet on arch being exceedingly mediocre
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Watching Georgia decline to sleepwalk through a noon first half two weeks in a row is giving me muscle confusion 
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Dangit Kirby these WKU players have families.
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Nats need to install a rage room for starting pitchers who have their starts blown up by the bullpen.
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly did what other disaster nonprofits are too chicken shit to do — she gave the families affected by a wildfire a universal basic income. www.bpr.org/news/2018-12...
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How Dolly Parton Gave $12.5 Million And Unprecedented Research To Sevier County
It’s been two years since wildfires burned Western North Carolina and devastated the town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Country music superstar Dolly Parton…
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One of her best songs, TBH
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
CASH THOSE ROYALTY CHECKS YOU ABSOLUTE ICON
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton dying hits so hard. She felt like one of those figures who always was and always will be. She felt like America when it was trying to be the place it promised to be. As beloved as her music is, it’s even better than people give it credit for. There won’t be another one like her.
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly understood that you only have power and self-determination as long as you completely own all of your art. Porter wouldn’t play ball so she told him to pound sand. A woman before her time. RIP.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hear me out: The John F. Kennedy and Dolly Parton Memorial Center for the Performing Arts
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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly having a 100% approval rating at age 80 is one of the more remarkable things about someone who was in public life for so long.
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
🫡
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Woke 2 will include launching this clown into the sun.
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Chicken pox, rotavirus, and meningitis vaccines. Drugs that have turned HIV and cystic fibrosis from death sentences into manageable chronic conditions. Anti-smoking campaigns. Seat belt adoption and other car safety features.
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
DIOS MIO
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Vineyard Dawg @vineyarddawg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
UGA and Alabama have played more times just in the SEC Championship Game. And that's not even a rivalry. (Or, at least, not a top 3 rivalry for either school.)
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
By “appeal” I assume they mean “counteroffer.” Related: this has made me realize just how cooked my brain is from watching SEC football for 25+ years because none of this is surprising or even particularly upsetting, I’m just enjoying the show.
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
As if there was any doubt. They are just in it for the love of the (corruption) game.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
David Purdue's "TOTALLY EXONERATED, NO WRONGDOING" ad but with Folarin Balogun
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Falorin Balogun has defeated a challenge to birthright citizenship and Bosnia-Herzegovina and FIFA, back-to-back-to-back. What can't he do?!
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
We were forged in the fires of college football, do not mess with Americans.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Now we appeal the Balogun suspension in the Northern District of Texas
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Health policy Q: would Medicaid have covered the costs of Balogun’s delivery? Or would Medicaid not have kicked in until he was born?
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Chapel Bell Curve @chapelbellcurve.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I'm at fucking 7pm SEC game levels of fuck you right now.
Kirby smart hates these FIFA refs
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
TAKE THAT REF
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 02/07/2026
PSA: Had the Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Barbara this week gone the other way, Folarin Balogun, who just scored for the U.S. in the World Cup, would likely not be considered a citizen. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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World Cup 2026: Folarin Balogun, the US star who would not be allowed under Trump's plan
Folarin Balogun scored two goals on his World Cup debut, but he is the type of person President Trump is trying to ban under birthright citizenship.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
As a former professional athlete, this is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Your kid has a less than 1% chance of getting an athletic college scholarship. You’re better off putting the money into a 529 plan.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Your kid isn't getting admitted on an athletic scholarship no matter how much you drive her to practice, but it always feels better to have an Other to blame, especially one that isn't real and can't be falsified.
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is quite simply delusional and is a complete indictment on the youth sports complex in this country. It is destroying childhoods and adult social bonds (hard to have friends when you are constantly at SPORTZ).
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If you don’t want your game to end in penalty kicks, I suggest you simply outscore your opponent in regulation or extra time 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Melissa @melissaleigh123.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
If a Medicare beneficiary voluntarily enrolls in Part D and doesn’t fill a prescription during the plan year, are they fraudulently enrolled?
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 21/06/2026
This is incredible. So satisfying. I was going to say it’s “cutting” but it’s more a knifing to the gut or maybe a beheading. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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The French aristocrat and the all-American idiot: Henry v Lalas is the World Cup’s most compelling battle
Fox’s broadcast at the tournament has become a story of two contrasting styles. And there is one clear winner
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Fascists are not welcome at this party. Get lost
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