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Peg Melchior ❌👑

@pegmelchior.bsky.social
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Ex-journalist. Retired software engineer. Married cat mom. VOTER HELP HOTLINE: 866-OUR-VOTE My dad didn’t fight Nazis in Europe so we could have them here. Vote! 💙🇺🇸

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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Voter resources for NC: - Find your polling place, ballot etc.: vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/ - Mail vote how-to (do it ASAP!): www.ncsbe.gov/voting/vote-... - Track your mail ballot: northcarolina.ballottrax.net/voter/ - www.nc voter.org/ - Voter hotline (text or call): 833- 868-3462 (that’s 833-VOTE4NC)
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There must be some sort of global trauma response involved. We continue to undercount the pandemic’s true toll. It’s hard to get a true count, but with excess deaths/undercounts, the toll rises. I have seen estimates higher than 2 million in the U.S. alone. www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vs...
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Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19
Figures present excess deaths associated with COVID-19 at the national and state levels.
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Durham County Department of Public Health (DCoDPH) @durhamhealthnc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, it's important to know accurate information about COVID-19 in order to protect yourself and others! Get the facts about common myths, and take steps to protect yourself and others.
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
No they are damn well not, because we’re going to show up in numbers too big to rig. Here’s a voter help hotline that you can call if you have questions or see something “off” at the polls. Please keep it in your phone! (866) 687-8683 866-OUR-VOTE Also please check your registration at vote.org
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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
IT concerns? IT CONCERNS??? How about constitutional concerns? How about “we’re supposed to follow court orders, actually” concerns????
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I would love to see one of our media outlets do a story on how these cameras are used (what types of searches can be performed) and the status of data sharing from them in all NC counties.
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
No worries, Trump says he’ll use the military on the bond market if they don’t straighten up 😵‍💫 I wish I were kidding www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Trump’s comments about the military and the bond market betray his economic illiteracy
The president, in a rather literal sense, just doesn’t know what he’s talking about when it comes to economic policies he really ought to understand.
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My suspicion is that they’re deep-down upset because the women play better basketball than the NBA players do
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
American here. Incandescent with rage at the absolute audacity of the demands thrown at Canada at the last minute. ❤️🍁
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We can see why the Secret Service is worried about her. When someone that obsessed gets upset with the object of their obsession, it doesn’t tend to go well
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is not a notifications thing, but I would LOVE to have folders to organize saved posts. Thank you for listening!
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
That photo of the meal with a few carrots, the brown glop and what looks like a strip of wet shoe leather came out MONTHS ago. I can’t believe it didn’t make major headlines back then. 😡😡😡
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I think that was from a satire account. It’s pretty sad when the satire posts are so hard to distinguish from the real news. Says so much about the state of our government 😞
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Sending condolences to you and yours.
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My mother grew up in Fall River not far from the Borden house. Tourists would ask her and her siblings to point it out (this was in the ‘30s so no internet), and they would direct people to a big haunted-looking place. Turned out they were pointing out the wrong house for years. 🤣
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
For years, I have volunteered registering voters. This year, I’ve met two people who thought they had registered, but when I checked for them, their registration couldn’t be found. Both were female. Both had non-Anglo-Saxon names. Weird. 🤔 Check your registration! vote.org
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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
My little buddy checking a recipe to make sure we’re doing it right
A brown spotted Bengal cat looks intently at a recipe on a laptop screen to make sure his people are cooking correctly
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Just searched on whether it’s legal in the U.S., and this is what artificial “intelligence” said: “Greyhound racing is currently legal in only two states in the U.S., both of which are West Virginia. However, commercial greyhound racing is illegal in 44 states.”
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
HANDS OFF OUR VOTE! Trump is trying to sabotage the midterms and we can't let him succeed. We have tremendous power to protect our elections in 2026. Use this link to join us. share.indvs.org/s/zv3FhBgj
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We are democracy's strongest line of defense.
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Wait, LINUS is dead??? Why was I not informed
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I grew up near a naval air base and saw the Blue Angels a lot. They NEVER did maneuvers like this.
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The story leaves some questions: - Was it Blanche who was referred for discipline (implied but not specified)? - Referred to whom? - What is the disciplinary next step? - Who decides?
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Reality imitates satire once again in today’s CNN headline:
Headline reads, “Mitch McConnell, Joe Biden and the growing epidemic of politicians hiding health problems”
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
😢
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Private prison profits are up 700% since Trump's return. This week's Next Comes What looks at the history and present of forcing prisoners in concentration camps to work, profiting off atrocity. Our unique place in history gives us a real chance to stop this injustice.
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Profiting off forced labor in ICE camps
Listen to Profiting off forced labor in ICE camps from Next Comes What wherever you get your podcasts!
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I’ll take that bet
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Tell Your Republican Members of Congress: Not One Penny More for ICE Brutality act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo...
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Tell Your Republican Members of Congress: Not One Penny More for ICE Brutality
Email your Republican Members of Congress and urge them to vote NO on any budget reconciliation bill that will shovel more taxpayer dollars to ICE and Border Patrol.
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Tell Your Republican Members of Congress: Not One Penny More for #ICE Brutality act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo...
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Tell Your Republican Members of Congress: Not One Penny More for ICE Brutality
Email your Republican Members of Congress and urge them to vote NO on any budget reconciliation bill that will shovel more taxpayer dollars to ICE and Border Patrol.
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CNN @cnn.com · 22/05/2026
Consumer sentiment sinks to all-time low, with Americans feeling worse now than they did during wars, 9/11, the Great Recession and Covid-19 pandemic. cnn.it/4a2sliS
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Step 1: cat hates food Step 2: buy cat new food Step 3: cat loves new food Step 4: move heaven and earth to buy cases of new food Step 5: cat hates new food 😽
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thank you for fact checking. Heaven knows Trump has done a boatload of heinous things to post about; our side shouldn’t be making stuff up.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11/05/2026
Billions for a ballroom and bonuses for ICE thugs — the GOP is trying to shovel even more tax money to the regime and its secret police. Republicans think they can get away with it because people aren’t paying attention. If you’ve got a GOP Member of Congress, send them an email in a few clicks. 👇
act.indivisible.org
Tell Your Republican Members of Congress: Not One Penny More for ICE Brutality
Email your Republican Members of Congress and urge them to vote NO on any budget reconciliation bill that will shovel more taxpayer dollars to ICE and Border Patrol.
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
He says he didn’t even read Iran’s proposal? One of the few things he’s ever said that I believe.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The Trump appointee in charge of grazing policy owns at least 5 cattle operations that will directly benefit from the opening of federal lands to cattle grazing.
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Tell Your Republican Members of Congress: Not One Penny More for ICE Brutality act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo...
act.indivisible.org
Tell Your Republican Members of Congress: Not One Penny More for ICE Brutality
Email your Republican Members of Congress and urge them to vote NO on any budget reconciliation bill that will shovel more taxpayer dollars to ICE and Border Patrol.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/04/2026
“We’re asking people to not just show up on a Saturday, but actually flex the economic power that you have.” @ezralevin.bsky.social and @maddow.bsky.social talk about the many ways you can join us on May Day, and why a nationwide day of economic disruption is how we prepare to protect the midterms.
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Ok, so the story focuses on lack of mail delivery, which is bad. But how in the heck is our military, in the year 2026, with the obscenely massive budget they have, feeding our troops this sort of a “meal”?
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
New economic analysis finds that nearly all Americans will pay more in taxes this year, with just the top 5% of earners getting a tax cut.
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I just sent an email to the VP’s office asking Vance to invoke the 25th Amendment over Trump’s threats to #Iran. vice.president@whitehouse.gov
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5 Calls @5calls.org · 07/04/2026
Yes, Congress is in recess. Yes, they should probably come back now. Yes, you can still call them while they're out. Call a local office! We have those numbers for you @ 5calls.org 🔥📞🔥
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/04/2026
You can use our new database to explore the financial disclosures — and potential conflicts of interest — of President Donald Trump and more than 1,500 of his appointees. Here's what Trump budget chief Russell Vought has disclosed:
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Russell Vought - Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their…
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Tell Congress: Push back on Trump's attacks on our voting rights Take action: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Push back on Trump's attacks on our voting rights
Contact Congress today!
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Well that would explain much of Trump’s current cabinet
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
History is clear: People-led movements—not force, not one politician—are how we end authoritarianism. Every time Trump escalates attacks on everyday people, our movement grows STRONGER. March 28 will prove we will not back down. #NoKings2026 social.demcast.com/s/LuU2BmX4
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
💯 Anybody with a Democratic Senator, please light up those phone lines!
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
So we’ll actually be able to teleport to a Waffle House? 😏
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This reflects badly on Scott Jennings, of course, but it also reflects horribly on @cnn.com. A news organization should not allow this kind of performative nonsense.
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Peg Melchior ❌👑 @pegmelchior.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
No kings! ❌👑 (Except Elvis, of course.)
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