Eric Melley
@ecmelley.bsky.social
Richest man in the world: family, music, teaching and learning
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People ask what they can do in this moment: here's a crucially important election. There are 52,000 elections taking place next month, many of which will be determined by turnout.
Dispatch from Pennsylvania on a highly unusual state Supreme Court election—one of the few most consequential matters on the ballot anywhere in the country next month. New from me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...
Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts
The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.
boltsmag.org
October 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
People ask what they can do in this moment: here's a crucially important election. There are 52,000 elections taking place next month, many of which will be determined by turnout.
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Dearest Martha,
The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover.
Yours in glaze,
The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover.
Yours in glaze,
August 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Dearest Martha,
The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover.
Yours in glaze,
The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover.
Yours in glaze,
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Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
June 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
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As an exercise, try to imagine Ron Johnson being wrestled to the ground in Wisconsin; or Tommy Tuberville in Alabama; or Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. Yeah, neither can I.
charliesykes.substack.com/p/no-kings-n...
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No Kings. No Emperors. No Thugs.
MAGA celebrates the Padilla outrage.
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June 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
As an exercise, try to imagine Ron Johnson being wrestled to the ground in Wisconsin; or Tommy Tuberville in Alabama; or Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. Yeah, neither can I.
charliesykes.substack.com/p/no-kings-n...
charliesykes.substack.com/p/no-kings-n...
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Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
June 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
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its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....
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Liberal arts majors rise up www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...
May 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Liberal arts majors rise up www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...
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“Joe Biden did nothing to fix the system that they knew was broken.”
He did nothing — except pass a $105 billion program to fix the system.
Reporters, Sean Duffy thinks you’re incapable of a simple Google search.
He did nothing — except pass a $105 billion program to fix the system.
Reporters, Sean Duffy thinks you’re incapable of a simple Google search.
Sean Duffy: "We're all been reporting and seeing what's happening at Newark airport. And I think it's clear that the blame belongs with the last administration."
May 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“Joe Biden did nothing to fix the system that they knew was broken.”
He did nothing — except pass a $105 billion program to fix the system.
Reporters, Sean Duffy thinks you’re incapable of a simple Google search.
He did nothing — except pass a $105 billion program to fix the system.
Reporters, Sean Duffy thinks you’re incapable of a simple Google search.
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This is our whole trade negotiation strategy
May 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This is our whole trade negotiation strategy
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Here's a glimpse into the world of extra limbs and how they could reshape the future.
6 Arms, 3 Thumbs: I Tested The Future of Robotic Limbs | Superhuman | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
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May 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Here's a glimpse into the world of extra limbs and how they could reshape the future.
"Be cool" has the vibe of the friend who picks you up in his car and lurches forward every time you try to open the door. Except in this case the car is actually the world's most powerful economy.
April 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"Be cool" has the vibe of the friend who picks you up in his car and lurches forward every time you try to open the door. Except in this case the car is actually the world's most powerful economy.
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I hate this dipshit so fucking much and also acknowledge it’s very important to show him momentarily having some kind of moral realization and share this with the dipshits in your lives
WATCH: “It’s horrific.”
Joe Rogan reacts to the story of Trump’s ICE grabbing innocent people with no criminal record like a gay makeup artist (Andrys) and sending him to a hard labor prison in El Salvador.
Joe Rogan reacts to the story of Trump’s ICE grabbing innocent people with no criminal record like a gay makeup artist (Andrys) and sending him to a hard labor prison in El Salvador.
April 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I hate this dipshit so fucking much and also acknowledge it’s very important to show him momentarily having some kind of moral realization and share this with the dipshits in your lives
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It took just two months to drive two of our closest and most important allies into China's arms.
* CHINESE STATE MEDIA: CHINA, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA REACH A CONSENSUS THAT THREE SIDES WILL JOINTLY RESPOND TO THE U.S. TARIFFS
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March 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It took just two months to drive two of our closest and most important allies into China's arms.
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Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.
Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."
March 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.
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It gets worse.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
March 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It gets worse.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Grammar rule:
Please capitalize “Signal” when referring to the messaging app.
However, you should leave “signal” in lower case when the president of the United States refers to it and clearly has no earthly idea what he’s talking about.
Please capitalize “Signal” when referring to the messaging app.
However, you should leave “signal” in lower case when the president of the United States refers to it and clearly has no earthly idea what he’s talking about.
March 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Well, here displayed in the words of the "Colossus of Independence," history sure rhymes.
Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant
March 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Well, here displayed in the words of the "Colossus of Independence," history sure rhymes.
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Sen. Michael Bennet: "Did you know that the president's Middle East adviser was in Moscow on this thread while you were, as director of the CIA, participating in this thread, were you aware of that? Are you? Are you aware of that today?"
Ratcliffe: "I'm not aware of that."
Ratcliffe: "I'm not aware of that."
March 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Sen. Michael Bennet: "Did you know that the president's Middle East adviser was in Moscow on this thread while you were, as director of the CIA, participating in this thread, were you aware of that? Are you? Are you aware of that today?"
Ratcliffe: "I'm not aware of that."
Ratcliffe: "I'm not aware of that."
For no particular reason, I just feel like a lot of people should listen to this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZYH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZYH...
Ray Charles - America The Beautiful (Official Video)
YouTube video by Ray Charles
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March 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
For no particular reason, I just feel like a lot of people should listen to this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZYH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZYH...
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
Oh crap. Can we fast-forward to the "find out" phase? Ouch.
The #tradewar is on. Real-time electricity prices doubled few minutes after midnight EST in New England. 🔌💡
March 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Oh crap. Can we fast-forward to the "find out" phase? Ouch.
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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
March 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
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I tweeted about this guy last night and got all these replies from random people who said he'd saved their baby's life. Fuck being rich I would love to have been this guy, imagine how cool it would be to know you'd helped so many people. We need to name an airport after him or something
March 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I tweeted about this guy last night and got all these replies from random people who said he'd saved their baby's life. Fuck being rich I would love to have been this guy, imagine how cool it would be to know you'd helped so many people. We need to name an airport after him or something