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Melissa Downs

@mkdowns.bsky.social
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Retired SLP turned Animal Wellbeing Advocate in the TX Hill Country. Wife. Mama to rescue cats and dogs. Likes hiking, cooking, books, science, and LSU football.

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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I was an essential worker-Team A during Nola hurricane season. I had lunch daily w/your Nana during Covid when she couldn’t understand why you weren’t allowed in & thought she was abandoned. I relived old war plane documentaries with your “Pop,” and he communicated after his strokes. #professional
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I can’t speak for all Democrats, in fact I consider myself socially progressive and fiscally conservative, but slavery was on the wrong side of history…so is the MAGA cult.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Read the room.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Rapists, pedophiles, and generally shit humans are not accepted in anything other than the Republican Party, apparently.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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a crowd of people sitting in a room with the words she doesn 't even go here
ALT: a crowd of people sitting in a room with the words she doesn 't even go here
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Folks in Iowa: research her opponent, Nathan Sage. Combat veteran, mechanic, educated. You guys can make a difference with your vote!
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Lafayette LA. No Kings.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
#50501 #NoKings Lafayette, Louisiana…Let’s geaux!!!
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Final tally: 402 supporters today at our Kerrville #handsoff event
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
It should scare us all.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
300 strong in red Kerrville, TX
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Despicable.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We have a friend group who buys a few extra of something, and we swap as needed. Everyone pitches in a little, and it goes a long way.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Slammed is an overstatement. Roberts helped create this shitstorm.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The Trump administration has deported a 10-year-old girl to Mexico who is a US citizen and is recovering from brain cancer. Her family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup when they were detained.
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U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents
The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
@meidastouch.com
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
FEDERAL WORKER AT A VIRGINIA TOWN HALL: “And to top it all off one of Musk’s top lieutenants and his wife and young child have shacked up on the 6th floor.” 🤔 Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2r7Y3V7/
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy dancing naked in front of a window and getting his hairy nipple licked on reality TV. This is who Trump put in charge of the country’s flight safety.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Convince him to stay there and golf as much as he wants. He’s significantly less damaging to all of us that way.
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Aquilino A. Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Each email and call log is a different violent rioter who assaulted me in the tunnel. If you are defending these people who brutally assaulted the police, maybe you ARE NOT a supporter of the police and the rule of law to begin with. If you did you would want accountability.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 23/01/2025
Trump’s ‘Gender Ideology’ order creates a federal mandate defining gender as the sex of an embryo at conception. Impacts: As all embryos have female sex characteristics at conception, all Americans are now defined as female under this order. (3/3)
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
It’s public knowledge who has been charged. Our neighbors deserve to know who is lurking nearby. Say their names!
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
We have one in my town, Elizabeth Rose Williams.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
So, are we at that point of pubically naming the J6ers where we live? I’ve got one, in a smallish town in Texas. It’s public knowledge, so…this chick is a “life coach” and performed Sopranos at our Symphony of the Hills in 2019.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
That part got me, as well. WTF!🤬
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/01/2025
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Abbott and the Texas ring-kissers are doing the same here. It’s shameful and divisive.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
💜💜💜
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Facts matter.
Facts matter.  Facts matter.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
That part, in particular, gave me a new level of the icks.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Same.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Same.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
He’s my state rep. It’s embarrassing and disgusting.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Can I just say, eff off?
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This is so disappointing.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hegseth & RFK Jr.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I voted for you for Senate. I truly believed you would be the best person for the job. I’m saddened that you voted for H.R. 9495 and helped get this passed.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Release the report. Americans deserve to know the full breadth of this Cabinet nominee’s background. For the women involved, they deserve to tell their stories and have their voices heard.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
That kinda hurts, cousin.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I think you might be missing my point in that don’t let them take away your power. If they are colleagues they won’t make you feel that way. Call them out.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Former gas station kitty with a broken leg and lacerated eye just living his best life. We love you Spider-Man bka Tiny Cat. Best free cat we’ve ever gotten.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Possibly unpopular opinion: I use whatever bathroom is available rn because I have a tiny bladder and big “leave me alone” vibes.
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
How dare you go after Pete! He’s one of the most qualified people for just about any government position. Geez…
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James Tate @jamestate121.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
A North Carolina woman with a genetic disorder that creates serious fetal anomalies wrote to state Sen. Danny Britt about how the state's ban prevents her from expanding her family. Here’s Danny and here’s his official reply. Danny is an asshole!
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
We expect better from you @npr.org
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Here in Texas, all those lovely “avocados from Mexico” addicts are going to be really sad.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
From a friend: “Someone I know had a meeting with a Trump agriculture transition team member. This person said surely you’re not going to impose tariffs on food imports. He responded why wouldn’t we? And my person said: because about 30% of the food Americans regularly consume cannot be grown here…”
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Melissa Downs @mkdowns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Sent to Cornyn & Cancun Cruz, so, ya know…
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