Melinda Spong
@melspong.bsky.social
Feminist | smbc of two, plus cats and a dog | Nonprofit fundraiser | Mount Holyoke alum | Cincinnati by way of Hamburg, South Hadley and Des Moines
#MHC #MountHolyoke #globalcitizen #pride #transrights #reproductiverights #WhyIStayed #timesup 🏳️🌈
#MHC #MountHolyoke #globalcitizen #pride #transrights #reproductiverights #WhyIStayed #timesup 🏳️🌈
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Iowa has the 2nd highest rate of cancer and the fastest-growing cancer rate in the country—it’s also one of the top states for pesticide use.
Iowa Republicans Want to Shield Pesticide Firms From Cancer Lawsuits
A bill threading its way through the state legislature would make it almost impossible to sue pesticide companies for health complications caused by their products.
newrepublic.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Iowa has the 2nd highest rate of cancer and the fastest-growing cancer rate in the country—it’s also one of the top states for pesticide use.
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Amid 20,000 HHS jobs lost, here's one new hire: A fixture of the anti-vaccine movement, brought in to study the link b/t vaccines and autism.
Mr. Kennedy has been citing him since '05.
w @sherylnyt.bsky.social & Emily Baumgartner
GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
Mr. Kennedy has been citing him since '05.
w @sherylnyt.bsky.social & Emily Baumgartner
GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
RFK Jr. Turns to a Discredited Vaccine Researcher for Autism Study (Gift Article)
David Geier has been hired as a senior data analyst at H.H.S. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between vaccines and autism that were debunked long ago.
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Amid 20,000 HHS jobs lost, here's one new hire: A fixture of the anti-vaccine movement, brought in to study the link b/t vaccines and autism.
Mr. Kennedy has been citing him since '05.
w @sherylnyt.bsky.social & Emily Baumgartner
GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
Mr. Kennedy has been citing him since '05.
w @sherylnyt.bsky.social & Emily Baumgartner
GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
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But Her Emails?
But Her Emails?
3.24.25
www.todaysamericannews.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
But Her Emails?
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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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media.tenor.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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Over and out with some good news and cuteness to close. 🐈⬛
March 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Over and out with some good news and cuteness to close. 🐈⬛
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This will be remembered as another embarrassing point in history.
A Moronic, Shameful Low: Attacks on Freedom of Thought and Expression in Ohio and American Education
This will be remembered as another embarrassing point in history
www.citybeat.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This will be remembered as another embarrassing point in history.
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Journalists are trying to understand Trump’s irrational behavior, and are generally unwilling to consider the possibility that it's not some grand strategy, but a madman with increasingly diminished mental faculties.
There Is No Method to Trump’s Madness. He’s Simply Insane.
His defenders try to apply reason to his erratic, nonsensical decisions. That’s a fool’s errand—but fools abound in this administration.
newrepublic.com
March 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Journalists are trying to understand Trump’s irrational behavior, and are generally unwilling to consider the possibility that it's not some grand strategy, but a madman with increasingly diminished mental faculties.
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The Trump administration is cracking down on colleges and universities whose behavior it finds objectionable.
(via @wbur.org)
(via @wbur.org)
Mount Holyoke College president: 'Colleges are not the enemy'
The Trump administration is cracking down on colleges and universities whose behavior it finds objectionable.
www.wbur.org
March 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The Trump administration is cracking down on colleges and universities whose behavior it finds objectionable.
(via @wbur.org)
(via @wbur.org)
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Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
March 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
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We need to trust our eyes.
Nazi salutes, racist purges, an ambush on the Ukrainian president by a far-right regime. If what we see aligns with what we know and is also in line with an established track record, our default assumption should be that what is happening is actually what it looks like.
Nazi salutes, racist purges, an ambush on the Ukrainian president by a far-right regime. If what we see aligns with what we know and is also in line with an established track record, our default assumption should be that what is happening is actually what it looks like.
March 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We need to trust our eyes.
Nazi salutes, racist purges, an ambush on the Ukrainian president by a far-right regime. If what we see aligns with what we know and is also in line with an established track record, our default assumption should be that what is happening is actually what it looks like.
Nazi salutes, racist purges, an ambush on the Ukrainian president by a far-right regime. If what we see aligns with what we know and is also in line with an established track record, our default assumption should be that what is happening is actually what it looks like.
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RFK Jr. and his movement do not simply ignore the need for vaccination, Benjamin Mazer writes. They also trivialize and dismiss preventable child death. theatln.tc/dbdtuQVB
RFK Jr., America’s Leading Advocate for Getting Measles
Contrary to what the health secretary says, the outbreak of disease in Texas is, in fact, unusual.
theatln.tc
February 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
RFK Jr. and his movement do not simply ignore the need for vaccination, Benjamin Mazer writes. They also trivialize and dismiss preventable child death. theatln.tc/dbdtuQVB
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Talk about a good ROI—Vladimir Putin’s investment in Donald Trump is sure paying off.
@davidcorn.bsky.social reports:
@davidcorn.bsky.social reports:
Vladimir Putin’s investment in Donald Trump pays off bigly
After secretly helping Trump's last three presidential campaigns, Russia is getting its money's worth from him.
www.motherjones.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Talk about a good ROI—Vladimir Putin’s investment in Donald Trump is sure paying off.
@davidcorn.bsky.social reports:
@davidcorn.bsky.social reports:
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February 26, 2025 at 3:45 AM
@sandycollins.bsky.social don't forget to follow me 😊
Nearly One in 10 U.S. Adults Identifies as L.G.B.T.Q., Survey Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...
Nearly One in 10 U.S. Adults Identifies as L.G.B.T.Q., Survey Finds
New data shows a rapid increase in recent years, driven by the young. The Trump administration has recently been rolling back L.G.B.T.Q. initiatives.
www.nytimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Nearly One in 10 U.S. Adults Identifies as L.G.B.T.Q., Survey Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...
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DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
February 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
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The Trump’s administration’s unprecedented war on LGBTQ+ health research—erasing data, censoring science and threatening lives—demands urgent resistance from the medical and research communities.
'We Will Not Surrender': How to Stand Up to Trump Administration Attacks on LGBTQ+ Health Research - Ms. Magazine
'We Will Not Surrender': How to Stand Up to Trump Administration's Attacks on LGBTQ+ Public Health Research
buff.ly
February 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The Trump’s administration’s unprecedented war on LGBTQ+ health research—erasing data, censoring science and threatening lives—demands urgent resistance from the medical and research communities.
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🧵 If you’re applauding the abolishment of the Department of Education, you need to do a little research. You have ZERO clue what the DOE actually does.
Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does:
(1/14)
Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does:
(1/14)
February 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
🧵 If you’re applauding the abolishment of the Department of Education, you need to do a little research. You have ZERO clue what the DOE actually does.
Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does:
(1/14)
Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does:
(1/14)
Another fox joining the hen house slaughter
Ed Martin, an advocate of Jan. 6 rioters who was in the mob outside the Capitol in 2021, now runs the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington that investigated them.
Ed Martin, Advocate of Jan. 6 Rioters, Is Now Leading U.S. Attorney’s Office
Ed Martin, a loyal Trump soldier, oversees the U.S. attorney’s office, which is likely to help turn the investigative powers of the government on several of the president’s perceived enemies.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Another fox joining the hen house slaughter
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Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.
The US Government Is Not a Startup
Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.
www.wired.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.
If you voted for Trump "unless you cast your ballot so that South African oligarchs could steal your data, your money, your country, and your future, make it known to your elected officials that you wanted something else. And get ready to protest with people with whom you otherwise disagree."-Snyder
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
If you voted for Trump "unless you cast your ballot so that South African oligarchs could steal your data, your money, your country, and your future, make it known to your elected officials that you wanted something else. And get ready to protest with people with whom you otherwise disagree."-Snyder
Caroline Kennedy says
RFKJr is a "predator ... addicted to attention and power", financially benefitting from a lawsuit denying girls and boys access to cancer vaccines.
RFKJr is a "predator ... addicted to attention and power", financially benefitting from a lawsuit denying girls and boys access to cancer vaccines.
January 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Caroline Kennedy says
RFKJr is a "predator ... addicted to attention and power", financially benefitting from a lawsuit denying girls and boys access to cancer vaccines.
RFKJr is a "predator ... addicted to attention and power", financially benefitting from a lawsuit denying girls and boys access to cancer vaccines.
