Melissa
@nursicorn23.bsky.social
RN, EOL Doula, Somatic therapy, pro-cannabis & psychedelics, liberal af activist, photographer, lover, mother, creator, pitty mom, and unicorn enthusiast. 🦄
So proud of my alma mater.
Thanks to @commondreams.org for covering the Rutgers University Senate's resolution for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. It's touched a strong chord among academics and others because it charts a truly imaginable (if difficult!) way to stand up TOGETHER.
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Rutgers Senate Proposes Big Ten 'Mutual Defense Compact' to Protect Campus Speech | Common Dreams
Rutgers University Senate takes a stand against Trump's attacks on First Amendment rights, forming a mutual defense compact with other Big Ten schools. Will this bold move inspire other institutions t...
www.commondreams.org
April 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
So proud of my alma mater.
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"Well, the economy is crashing, but at least we're ruled by a mad dictator who is about to persecute his opponents," said the suburban woman staring at the expensive eggs in the picked-over grocery story shelves ravaged by the trade war.
March 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"Well, the economy is crashing, but at least we're ruled by a mad dictator who is about to persecute his opponents," said the suburban woman staring at the expensive eggs in the picked-over grocery story shelves ravaged by the trade war.
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Senate democrats appear poised to remind everyone why people didn't show up to vote for democrats in 2024.
March 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Senate democrats appear poised to remind everyone why people didn't show up to vote for democrats in 2024.
You're not telling me there isn't at least one progressive-minded person with a terminal diagnosis and great aim who could take one for the team and end this all for us?!?
March 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
You're not telling me there isn't at least one progressive-minded person with a terminal diagnosis and great aim who could take one for the team and end this all for us?!?
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Check out this useful calendar of protests: protest.one/calendar/
Calendar – PROTEST_NYC
protest.one
March 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Check out this useful calendar of protests: protest.one/calendar/
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Musk’s status as a “special government employee” limits him to 130 days in the executive branch. However, despite working daily—documented by his own X posts—they claim he only works one day a week, effectively stretching his limit to 130 weeks. This needs to be brought to Congress—please share.
March 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Musk’s status as a “special government employee” limits him to 130 days in the executive branch. However, despite working daily—documented by his own X posts—they claim he only works one day a week, effectively stretching his limit to 130 weeks. This needs to be brought to Congress—please share.
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(Bloomberg) - The Trump administration has canceled an upcoming meeting of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee, a move that could complicate efforts to produce flu shots in time for the upcoming season.
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Trump Administration Cancels Meeting of FDA Vaccine Advisers, Risking Flu-Shot Delay
The Trump administration has canceled an upcoming meeting of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee, a move that could complicate efforts to produce flu shots in time for the up...
www.bloomberg.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
(Bloomberg) - The Trump administration has canceled an upcoming meeting of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee, a move that could complicate efforts to produce flu shots in time for the upcoming season.
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Inspired by the abolitionist and civil rights movements, Get Free is mobilizing young people to turn campuses and communities into freedom beacons that defy Trump-Musk’s authoritarian power grabs.
This youth-led group wants to spark mass refusals to MAGA’s white supremacist agenda
Get Free is mobilizing young people to turn campuses and communities into freedom beacons to defy Trump-Musk's authoritarian power grabs.
wagingnonviolence.org
February 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Inspired by the abolitionist and civil rights movements, Get Free is mobilizing young people to turn campuses and communities into freedom beacons that defy Trump-Musk’s authoritarian power grabs.
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Hi Bill, you could have actually done something to reduce the exponential growth in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks in the US in recent years.
Instead you confirmed RFK Jr.
Just to spell it out: that will have the literal opposite effect.
Was selling your soul worth it?
Instead you confirmed RFK Jr.
Just to spell it out: that will have the literal opposite effect.
Was selling your soul worth it?
February 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Hi Bill, you could have actually done something to reduce the exponential growth in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks in the US in recent years.
Instead you confirmed RFK Jr.
Just to spell it out: that will have the literal opposite effect.
Was selling your soul worth it?
Instead you confirmed RFK Jr.
Just to spell it out: that will have the literal opposite effect.
Was selling your soul worth it?
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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
February 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
Holy shit, my phone just autocorrected “ducking” to “fucking.”
Nature is healing.
Nature is healing.
February 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Holy shit, my phone just autocorrected “ducking” to “fucking.”
Nature is healing.
Nature is healing.
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I’m the dairy farmer running to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District.
Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?
Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?
February 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I’m the dairy farmer running to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District.
Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?
Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?
What could possibly go wrong?
Insane.
On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down.
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now
Meanwhile...
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now
Meanwhile...
February 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
What could possibly go wrong?
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!?
I really do feel like I’m losing my mind.
This is insane. Eric Adams is on Fox and Friends as Homan’s pet dog, and Holman is openly discussing “the agreement we came to,” and NO DEM ANYWHERE IS SAYING ANYTHING
February 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!?
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Folks are shocked that their institutions, after professing commitments to climate justice and DEI, are now caving to Trump and scrubbing all references.
It's brutal.
And it's the smallest taste of what our students felt when their universities called in the cops b/c they protested a genocide.
It's brutal.
And it's the smallest taste of what our students felt when their universities called in the cops b/c they protested a genocide.
February 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Folks are shocked that their institutions, after professing commitments to climate justice and DEI, are now caving to Trump and scrubbing all references.
It's brutal.
And it's the smallest taste of what our students felt when their universities called in the cops b/c they protested a genocide.
It's brutal.
And it's the smallest taste of what our students felt when their universities called in the cops b/c they protested a genocide.
I’m not entirely sure what the gods were thinking when they aligned the fall of my country with my perimenopausal rage, but here we are.
February 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I’m not entirely sure what the gods were thinking when they aligned the fall of my country with my perimenopausal rage, but here we are.
It is time for this DINO dinosaurs to pack up their toys and leave the sandbox. We have no time for capitulation or “business as usual” politics.
So, David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel are consenting to the deaths of millions who depend on USAID programs, because why? "Optics," "realpolitik"--if this is the Democratic Party today, they can go to hell. What kinds of ghouls say such stupid things?
Very serious Democratic strategists advise the party to allow Trump to illegally dismantle USAID -- a decision that will result in the unnecessary deaths of people around the world.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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February 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
It is time for this DINO dinosaurs to pack up their toys and leave the sandbox. We have no time for capitulation or “business as usual” politics.
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I voted for Trump. But when he said he wanted to let Netanyahu finish the job in Gaza, I didn't know that he meant he was going let Netanyahu finish the job in Gaza.
February 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I voted for Trump. But when he said he wanted to let Netanyahu finish the job in Gaza, I didn't know that he meant he was going let Netanyahu finish the job in Gaza.
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Pam Bondi being sworn in as head of the DOJ by Clarence Thomas is a peak mockery of justice.
February 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Pam Bondi being sworn in as head of the DOJ by Clarence Thomas is a peak mockery of justice.
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The problem of Labour now being the Starmer-Party in a few words.
February 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The problem of Labour now being the Starmer-Party in a few words.
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We'll say it as many times as it takes: Gender-affirming care is life-saving care.
We will not back down.
We will not back down.
February 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
We'll say it as many times as it takes: Gender-affirming care is life-saving care.
We will not back down.
We will not back down.
“Still punk as fuck” I whisper to myself as I look for a gynecologist to prescribe HRT.
February 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“Still punk as fuck” I whisper to myself as I look for a gynecologist to prescribe HRT.
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it's weird how, before the election, everyone was being lied to about the economy. but now that nazis are in office we need to meet them in some imaginary middle.
that middle is a death camp.
that middle is a death camp.
February 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
it's weird how, before the election, everyone was being lied to about the economy. but now that nazis are in office we need to meet them in some imaginary middle.
that middle is a death camp.
that middle is a death camp.
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If these boys haven’t taken the civil service oath, they’re private mercenaries hijacking the government.
The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
www.wired.com
February 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
If these boys haven’t taken the civil service oath, they’re private mercenaries hijacking the government.