Melissa T
@telissameasley.bsky.social
Mom, Wife, Dog Mom, Outdoors Appreciator, Self Care Enthusiast, Middle School Counselor, Music Lover, Former Wine-o
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One thing everyone should understand is that DOGE has created the least efficient conditions for government I've ever seen.
*The working conditions are chaotic.
*No clear sense of who works there.
*Routine processes have been stopped.
*No planning can take place.
*People are incredibly demoralized.
*The working conditions are chaotic.
*No clear sense of who works there.
*Routine processes have been stopped.
*No planning can take place.
*People are incredibly demoralized.
“Nobody feels like their job is safe. Everyone is on edge,” said Kim Hasenkrug, an NIH scientist emeritus… “Even the top people can’t keep track because they’re hiring and firing so much. Direct supervisors of those who were terminated didn’t even know that it was happening.”
At NIH, ‘everyone is on edge’ as they brace for deep cuts and more centralized control
As the NIH braces for cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.
www.statnews.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
One thing everyone should understand is that DOGE has created the least efficient conditions for government I've ever seen.
*The working conditions are chaotic.
*No clear sense of who works there.
*Routine processes have been stopped.
*No planning can take place.
*People are incredibly demoralized.
*The working conditions are chaotic.
*No clear sense of who works there.
*Routine processes have been stopped.
*No planning can take place.
*People are incredibly demoralized.
What in the actual fuck?!
Moron Mondays: Bobby Jr Opens His Mouth
The Princeling has once again doned his Fisher-Price stethoscope and gifted us with some stools of wisdom. Since we are repeating ourselves we will keep this short.
The Princeling has once again doned his Fisher-Price stethoscope and gifted us with some stools of wisdom. Since we are repeating ourselves we will keep this short.
Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories
In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
What in the actual fuck?!
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Get in loser, we're tanking the economy
March 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Get in loser, we're tanking the economy
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to kill the Veterans Administration
So they can force veterans into private for-profit hospitals like HCA
And private for-profit insurance like United Health
THEY ARE LOOTING AMERICA — and giving it away to OLIGARCHS
So they can force veterans into private for-profit hospitals like HCA
And private for-profit insurance like United Health
THEY ARE LOOTING AMERICA — and giving it away to OLIGARCHS
March 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to kill the Veterans Administration
So they can force veterans into private for-profit hospitals like HCA
And private for-profit insurance like United Health
THEY ARE LOOTING AMERICA — and giving it away to OLIGARCHS
So they can force veterans into private for-profit hospitals like HCA
And private for-profit insurance like United Health
THEY ARE LOOTING AMERICA — and giving it away to OLIGARCHS
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“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action.
www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...
www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...
"A whole new level of cruelty": Health experts decry "devastating" cuts to HIV treatment programs
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation said the latest cuts will deprive 350,000 people of HIV treatment.
www.salon.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:04 AM
“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action.
www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...
www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...
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I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here
March 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here
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Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...
Congressman Al Green on X: "Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl" / X
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl
x.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...
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This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II.
Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
March 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II.
Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Love this man! Giving all the real new on TikTok! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Yty3gE/
Make them broke. #foryoupage #freedom #foryou
TikTok video by Dannie D
www.tiktok.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Love this man! Giving all the real new on TikTok! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Yty3gE/
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when Trump burst onto the scene just saying “I’m going to do the best things,” all the savvy pundits laughed - your lies need to be better than that! but they do not
Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason."
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...
February 21, 2025 at 4:19 AM
when Trump burst onto the scene just saying “I’m going to do the best things,” all the savvy pundits laughed - your lies need to be better than that! but they do not
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The dumbest people who have ever existed are running the country
February 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The dumbest people who have ever existed are running the country
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JD Vance, the christofascist technoligarch’s love muppet, is signaling that the regime is operating as a dictatorship, enabled by the christofascist SCOTUS supermajority.
The Constitution is in shreds. The fight is to restore it, not defend it.
I do not consent to dictatorship.
#NQNQ247
The Constitution is in shreds. The fight is to restore it, not defend it.
I do not consent to dictatorship.
#NQNQ247
February 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
JD Vance, the christofascist technoligarch’s love muppet, is signaling that the regime is operating as a dictatorship, enabled by the christofascist SCOTUS supermajority.
The Constitution is in shreds. The fight is to restore it, not defend it.
I do not consent to dictatorship.
#NQNQ247
The Constitution is in shreds. The fight is to restore it, not defend it.
I do not consent to dictatorship.
#NQNQ247
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Oops…
Trump is breaking the free trade law *HE* signed in 2020.
February 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Oops…
This makes me sick because it’s just and real now as it was back then.
February 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This makes me sick because it’s just and real now as it was back then.
Hoping maybe Ferris’s teacher can help out here…
Anyone? Anyone?
“It did not work and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression.”
“It did not work and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression.”
February 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Hoping maybe Ferris’s teacher can help out here…
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To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips.
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canada.ca/en/public-he...
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canada.ca/en/public-he...
February 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips.
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canada.ca/en/public-he...
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canada.ca/en/public-he...
12 days in and my groceries are not any cheaper………………………… I do not need to wonder why. 🤦🏻♀️
February 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
12 days in and my groceries are not any cheaper………………………… I do not need to wonder why. 🤦🏻♀️
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This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
CDC Data Are Disappearing
The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.
www.theatlantic.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Donald Trump is scrubbing critical health information from government websites.
This is staggeringly stupid, anti-science, and will have real consequences.
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...
This is staggeringly stupid, anti-science, and will have real consequences.
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...
CDC purges STD and vaccine recommendations after Trump gender order
Health experts say the website purge could result in deaths.
www.cbsnews.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Donald Trump is scrubbing critical health information from government websites.
This is staggeringly stupid, anti-science, and will have real consequences.
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...
This is staggeringly stupid, anti-science, and will have real consequences.
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...
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If you voted for Trump, you just voted to raise your taxes by 25%.
A tariff is a tax -- the cost gets passed along to YOU.
A tariff is a tax -- the cost gets passed along to YOU.
January 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
If you voted for Trump, you just voted to raise your taxes by 25%.
A tariff is a tax -- the cost gets passed along to YOU.
A tariff is a tax -- the cost gets passed along to YOU.