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Melanie

@melscott98.bsky.social
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Scientist, writer, animal lover

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pentagon never disclosed that eight US Marines were injured when an Iranian cruise missile hit their vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on September 14, NBC reports. Injuries were eventually added to the casualty record with no announcement ten days later.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A dozen Republican states led by Missouri asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order attacking mail voting go into effect before the midterm elections in November. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP states join DOJ in asking Supreme Court to let Trump block some mail ballots
The states essentially contend that it’s too soon to block a very likely illegal order because we don’t yet, less than 100 days before the midterms, have any idea how the administration might attempt ...
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/07/2026
Dr. Fauci is a national hero. Leave him alone. Donald Trump is the moron who told people to drink bleach and got hundreds of thousands of Americans killed.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Weird he can’t bring this kind of energy towards his colleague who is accused of beating up his daughter.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Josh Turek has plans to make life better for every Iowan. Now, Iowa, the ball is in your court. Let’s work to get @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social to the U.S. Senate. Turek4Iowa.com
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Kristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Hurling F-bombs at an 85-year-old scientist who won’t fight back doesn’t make you tough. Staying silent after your own daughter accused Rep. Max Miller of holding a gun to her head, pushing her against a wall, and fracturing your granddaughter’s collarbone makes you a coward.
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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Great game, Mr. President. 🏀 Iowa, you heard President Obama. The ball is in your court. Join our campaign and help us Push For Change: Turek4Iowa.com
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
After today's shameful display of medical McCarthyism, imagine the next pandemic. Imagine that world's foremost expert on infectious diseases considering jumping in to help millions of people. We are in a deeply dark and disturbing place for the future of science. And for the future, period.
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chercat208.bsky.social @chercat208.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Don’t let this clip get memory-holed
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/07/2026
New in PN: The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift "It’s impossible not to wonder whether part of Trump’s loathing for universities is that there's no way for him to corrupt the process and make money off it in the same way he can by giving billions to Silicon Valley types."
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The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift
Trump wants to run scientific research like his family business.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Another late night preparing for what comes next in the fight for free and fair elections. Thanks to everyone who has supported Democracy Docket this month. If you haven't yet signed up, now would be a great time to do so. demdock.com/4w6emld Thanks. Marc
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The way republicans are going after Dr. Fauci you’d think he was prominently mentioned thousands of times in the Epstein files.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“Ms. Moreno, the daughter of Senator Moreno ... has said that Mr. Miller scalded her chest and stomach by throwing hot water from a skillet at her body; held a gun to her head; pushed her against a wall and hit her head; and fractured their daughter’s collarbone and bruised her shoulder. ...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
😕🤷🏼
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS Department of Justice Lawsuit to compel New Jersey to provide the DOJ with access to its statewide voter registration data. Another victory for voters DOJ is now 0-18 in these cases. ELG remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-je...
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🚨 United States of America v. Caldwell
Learn more here.
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Zoe Washburne Rebel Scum @zoewashburne.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
#MAGACultMorons always blame someone else. F*ck rand paul
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED......
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“Experts worry that the litany of unanswered questions surrounding medical frailty will lead to more vulnerable people getting kicked out of the program. Preliminary estimates from the Congressional Budget Office suggest over 7 million people will lose coverage in coming years.”
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Chronically ill people face confusion over new Medicaid work rules and ‘medically frail’ exemption
Patients, advocates, and experts fear the difficulty in documenting a frailty exemption to Medicaid work requirements will lead to millions losing coverage.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The 6 largest oil companies will collectively rake in $45B in profits in the second quarter of 2026 — nearly double what they made in the first quarter. Meanwhile, Canada, France, and Spain are battling record-breaking wildfires spurred by the climate crisis. Big Oil profits while the world burns.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My Latest: Elections are won in inches. In the fight for mail-in voting, we just gained a foot. newsletters.democracydocket.com/-elections-a...
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Elections are won in inches
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Reminder... Any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message — they can't win on their ideas alone.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
My quote of the day A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Thomas Jefferson (Declaration of Independence)
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
on this day in 1633 "the Holy Office (Vatican) in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the solar system". let us not allow faith to blind us to truth and scientific advancement.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump said he will nominate Jay Clayton, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, to be the next director of national intelligence just days after the attorney endorsed false conspiracy theories about California’s primary vote count. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump taps Jay Clayton, prosecutor who echoed California election lies, as intel chief
Trump has said he expects his next intelligence director to continue probing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Buttigieg: The folks in charge are offering a different account of what it means to be an American. To them, the answer is ancestry. You're an American based on how many of your ancestors are in a Civil War battlefield even if some of them were fighting against the US.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
CNN’s Harry Enten: “Trump's ‘I love the inflation’ is one of the most politically tone deaf statements I've ever heard. No president before him ever had a -50 point or worse net approval in an inflation poll. Trump's done it 8+ times. Trump's the only prez to ever hit 80% disapproval on gas prices.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
WaPo, CBS and now it is being reported that when the Paramount deal goes through, Bari Weiss will oversee CNN's editorial direction. If you value independent media that cannot be bought, help Democracy Docket grow by subscribing now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Buttigieg: We didn't know it, but we've all been trusting our lives to the restraint of whoever the president might be. And now we have a president who is completely unrestrained. And so the only answer to that is a functioning Congress. It turns out we do not have a functioning Congress.
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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We have no idea just how far behind the United States will be in 2028. We'll have nothing: no national science infrastructure, no agricultural progress, no medical progress. The oligarch class has decided to hollow America out in a hedge fund takeover. We are being robbed of our future.
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BYD to install thousands of 5-minute EV chargers across Europe
It wants to build 3,000 chargers across the continent by 2027.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 11/06/2026
Babies are dying because parents, confused by an HHS that deliberately sows distrust, won't give their newborns a vitamin K shot that used to be standard www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Who knows what the President meant when he said he loves the inflation - but it's clear that inflation keeps getting worse, while he stays focused on anything but the cost of living.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
HPV vaccination can prevent these devastating cancers. “While HPV leads to 11,100 cervical cancers each year, the virus causes 16,000 cancers in the head and neck… The incidence of HPV-related head and neck cancers tripled from 2000 to 2017” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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‘Something I’d never heard of almost killed me’: Men face rising threat of HPV-related cancers
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Feministory @feministory.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
6/11/1875 — b. Addie Waites Hunton, American educator, suffragist, political organizer, author. Civil + #womensrights leader; natl organizer, Natl Assn of Colored Wmn(1906-10). A leading suffragist for blk wmn voters @ Natl Woman’sParty convention(1921) #womenshistory #WriterSky #PolSky #EduSky #woc
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
NEW: Major posts are vacant. Waves of scientists are gone. Ebola looms. My look at how RFK Jr. manages HHS: “If the C.E.O. lacked deep expertise in the company’s business and the leaders of its most important divisions were missing, investors would revolt." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/u...
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Kennedy Shows Minimal Engagement With Vast Health Portfolio
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Ooohh boy. Kennedy threw a long Twitter tantrum about this. He just ranted and raved.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The politicization of scientific positions appears to hit NIH particularly hard. www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘Weird and capricious’: Experts struggle to understand new list of political jobs at science agencies
NIH programs and leadership are hit especially hard, while other science agencies are barely mentioned
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New @privateeyenews.bsky.social.
Cartoon showing a man on a branch. He is cutting it off with a saw, and will fall down with it. A sign reads Brexit reenactment, 10th anniversary celebration.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor spread false conspiracy theories Monday about California’s still-ongoing primary vote count, suggesting that delayed results may be evidence of fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Top DOJ prosecutor is latest to spread lies about California vote counting
Though his jurisdiction lies nearly 3,000 miles from California, Jay Clayton also took aim at the state’s mail-in voting laws.
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." ~ George Orwell
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Report from AAUP at Yale on academic freedom. aaupyale.org/report/ 1/3
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The State of Academic Freedom at Yale
A Report from the Yale Chapter of the AAUP — SPRING 2026 This report presents findings from a survey of the Yale faculty on the state of academic freedom at the University. The survey was conducted…
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 26/05/2026
"If you want $3 gas, you're going to have to wait 6 years. We will not get back down to that sub-$70 oil level until 2032"
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
A total U.S. surrender.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
BREAKING: Votes on the Republican ICE/ballroom funding bill are CANCELLED. Thune sending everyone home for 10 days. Why? Republicans don’t want to vote against an amendment to stop Trump’s new $1.7B slush fund. The problem? That amendment doesn’t go away for them in 10 days.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Can't thank Stephen Colbert enough for the decades of laughs he's given us. He's been positively therapeutic in these troubled times & I can't wait to see what he does next! 👀 (plus, he let me sit behind his desk) 🙏
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 21/05/2026
Interesting how so many in the GOP cannot come out and clearly say "I do not think there should be a fund that pays people convicted of violence against police officers on Jan. 6 with American tax dollars." Only a handful have even acknowledged it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
If you are waiting for huge corporations to pass along the tariff refunds they are about to get from the government to consumers who bought tariffed products, you haven’t been paying much attention to the way things work in this country.
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