Maggie Melchior
@maggiemelchior.bsky.social
There's a lot in this world about which to be joyful!
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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
August 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
🙏🏻Thank you, Holy Father. 🕯
"Lord, now you let your servant go in peace; your word has been fulfilled: my own eyes have seen the salvation which you have prepared in the sight of every people: a light to reveal you to the nations and the glory of your people Israel"
"Lord, now you let your servant go in peace; your word has been fulfilled: my own eyes have seen the salvation which you have prepared in the sight of every people: a light to reveal you to the nations and the glory of your people Israel"
April 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🙏🏻Thank you, Holy Father. 🕯
"Lord, now you let your servant go in peace; your word has been fulfilled: my own eyes have seen the salvation which you have prepared in the sight of every people: a light to reveal you to the nations and the glory of your people Israel"
"Lord, now you let your servant go in peace; your word has been fulfilled: my own eyes have seen the salvation which you have prepared in the sight of every people: a light to reveal you to the nations and the glory of your people Israel"
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You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here.
But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.
But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.
![Palantir @PalantirTech • 26m
Dropping at select colleges today.
[Embedded image of a billboard ad:]
A moment of reckoning has
arrived for the West.
Our culture has fallen into shallow consumerism while abandoning national purpose. Too few in Silicon Valley have asked what ought to be built - and why.
We did.
We built Palantir to ensure America's future, not to tinker at the margins. On the factory floor, in the operating room, across the battlefield - we build to dominate.
Join us.
[signed by the Palantir founder]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreibnnhk4kfvgsvqnrjitt27efuetj44x5opwvjayzgrr55eqa5eive@jpeg)
April 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here.
But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.
But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.
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Pretty stunning to see the difference between Fox News and Fox Business.
They know how much they are lying to people.
They know how much they are lying to people.
April 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Pretty stunning to see the difference between Fox News and Fox Business.
They know how much they are lying to people.
They know how much they are lying to people.
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Musk is now way over $20 million deep into his attempt to buy Wisconsin's Supreme Court. The direct effects of Wisconsin's majority will be enormous. But there's now another huge question at play: can Musk buy whatever election he wants? If Crawford wins, his perceived political power collapses.
March 27, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Musk is now way over $20 million deep into his attempt to buy Wisconsin's Supreme Court. The direct effects of Wisconsin's majority will be enormous. But there's now another huge question at play: can Musk buy whatever election he wants? If Crawford wins, his perceived political power collapses.
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
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I didn't need twitter. Twitter needed me. My attention is the product, and the places that monetize my attention need me more than I need them.
March 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I didn't need twitter. Twitter needed me. My attention is the product, and the places that monetize my attention need me more than I need them.
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I love leaving voice mails for my senators where I say things like "the USPS is very important to our country" as if I'm helping a small child with a book report or describing our civilization to an alien
February 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I love leaving voice mails for my senators where I say things like "the USPS is very important to our country" as if I'm helping a small child with a book report or describing our civilization to an alien
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Thanks for saying so. I feel like if each one of us does a little something when we can to help others, we bring this world closer to what we would like it to be. There are more of us, who like to help and want to be kind, than there are who want to be cruel and hurt.
February 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Thanks for saying so. I feel like if each one of us does a little something when we can to help others, we bring this world closer to what we would like it to be. There are more of us, who like to help and want to be kind, than there are who want to be cruel and hurt.
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“Finally, someone has to make a start. We only said and wrote what many people think. They just don’t dare to express it.” Sophie Scholl, 9 May 1921 - 22 February 1943.
February 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
“Finally, someone has to make a start. We only said and wrote what many people think. They just don’t dare to express it.” Sophie Scholl, 9 May 1921 - 22 February 1943.
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Many people don't know that Pope Pius XII's final act as pope was to order the US bishops to publish a statement against racism that they had been dithering over for months
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
February 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Many people don't know that Pope Pius XII's final act as pope was to order the US bishops to publish a statement against racism that they had been dithering over for months
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
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NPR's Scott Simon remembers Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny, who died a year ago Sunday in a Russian prison.
Opinion: Navalny's words of love
NPR's Scott Simon remembers Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died a year ago Sunday in a Russian prison.
www.npr.org
February 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
NPR's Scott Simon remembers Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny, who died a year ago Sunday in a Russian prison.
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Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.
February 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.
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if Jesus set foot in #maga America, no mercy.. he’d be deported faster than you can say Christ! nasty tone, talks like a commie, looks like an immigrant, $rump would say. and white Christian nationalists would stay silent.
#JesusChrist #FightFascism
#staystrong
#JesusChrist #FightFascism
#staystrong
January 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
if Jesus set foot in #maga America, no mercy.. he’d be deported faster than you can say Christ! nasty tone, talks like a commie, looks like an immigrant, $rump would say. and white Christian nationalists would stay silent.
#JesusChrist #FightFascism
#staystrong
#JesusChrist #FightFascism
#staystrong
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Giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are out of quarantine and in the spotlight after a three-month wait and 8,000 mile trip from China.
Photos: See the pandas' official return to the National Zoo
Giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are out of quarantine and in the spotlight after a three-month wait and 8,000 mile trip from China.
www.npr.org
January 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are out of quarantine and in the spotlight after a three-month wait and 8,000 mile trip from China.
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If you think this country is going broke taking care of the poor, you should see how much it spends taking care of the rich.
December 27, 2024 at 11:51 PM
If you think this country is going broke taking care of the poor, you should see how much it spends taking care of the rich.
Thanksgiving Eve Prep Day
with "Shibboleth" and "The Indians in the Lobby" in the background and I never fail to tear up when President Bartlet gives Charlie the knife... 😭😭😭
cottonbureau.com/p/UW5TGC/shi...
(Thank you @hrishikesh.co for making the shirt available!!!)
with "Shibboleth" and "The Indians in the Lobby" in the background and I never fail to tear up when President Bartlet gives Charlie the knife... 😭😭😭
cottonbureau.com/p/UW5TGC/shi...
(Thank you @hrishikesh.co for making the shirt available!!!)
He Gave Him the Knife! by The West Wing Weekly
The West Wing, Season Two, Thanksgiving:
“My father gave this to me. His father gave it to him, and now I’m giving it to you.” —President Bartlet, to Charlie. ("Shibboleth")
In honor of one of The ...
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November 27, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Thanksgiving Eve Prep Day
with "Shibboleth" and "The Indians in the Lobby" in the background and I never fail to tear up when President Bartlet gives Charlie the knife... 😭😭😭
cottonbureau.com/p/UW5TGC/shi...
(Thank you @hrishikesh.co for making the shirt available!!!)
with "Shibboleth" and "The Indians in the Lobby" in the background and I never fail to tear up when President Bartlet gives Charlie the knife... 😭😭😭
cottonbureau.com/p/UW5TGC/shi...
(Thank you @hrishikesh.co for making the shirt available!!!)
This is very timely given @hankgreen.bsky.social's most recent video!
A List of Things People Blamed on Radio
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November 22, 2024 at 9:39 PM
This is very timely given @hankgreen.bsky.social's most recent video!
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I think one of the worst quirks of online spaces is the idea that if someone doesn't post about something, they don't care about it. It encourages performative posting often makes things worse.
I care a lot. I just don't want to add another poorly-informed voice. I'm reading & thinking.
I care a lot. I just don't want to add another poorly-informed voice. I'm reading & thinking.
October 8, 2023 at 1:23 PM
I think one of the worst quirks of online spaces is the idea that if someone doesn't post about something, they don't care about it. It encourages performative posting often makes things worse.
I care a lot. I just don't want to add another poorly-informed voice. I'm reading & thinking.
I care a lot. I just don't want to add another poorly-informed voice. I'm reading & thinking.
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He gets a New York charge, he gets a Florida charge
He gets a DC charge, he gets a Georgia charge
He enters the pleas that remind him of the good times
He enters the pleas that remind him of the better times
He gets a DC charge, he gets a Georgia charge
He enters the pleas that remind him of the good times
He enters the pleas that remind him of the better times
August 15, 2023 at 2:00 AM
He gets a New York charge, he gets a Florida charge
He gets a DC charge, he gets a Georgia charge
He enters the pleas that remind him of the good times
He enters the pleas that remind him of the better times
He gets a DC charge, he gets a Georgia charge
He enters the pleas that remind him of the good times
He enters the pleas that remind him of the better times
Definitely didn't expect to cry at both Oppenheimer AND Barbie, yet here we are?
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July 21, 2023 at 4:59 AM
Definitely didn't expect to cry at both Oppenheimer AND Barbie, yet here we are?
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