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Melissa A.

@drmelalexa.bsky.social

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Retired medical educator, EdD; artist. #Disabled. Following wisdom of Yeshua bin Yosef & prophets before him, not a corrupted version of ‘Christianity“. Micah 6:8. Live with 🐈‍⬛ & 🐕. #Love #Learn #Teach #Kindness #Resist #Freedom 💙🇺🇦🧶🪡

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Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · May 22

A graphic asking Hoosiers to call their U.S. Senators to vote NO on HR1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121. Senator Young: (202) 224-5623. Senator Banks (202) 241-4814. It includes a script: Hello, Senator. This is ________. I am a constituent calling to ask you to vote NO on H.R1, The One Big Beautiful Bill Act. [State briefly how this bill would affect you]; sample text at right).
In addition to the personal impact on me, if voted into law, H.R. 1 will cause collapse of the entire healthcare system, which remains solvent through payments from Medicare and Medicaid. Healthcare is the largest field of employment in the nation. All healthcare workers will face unemployment, which will collapse the entire socioeconomic structure of the U.S.
Again, I am asking you to vote NO on HR1 to prevent a catastrophic collapse of the U.S.
Thank you.

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 1m

be done

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 1m

NO $. You can order or buy whatever by planning ahead or waiting until later.

Finally, in every protest, use signs to give meaning messages. What do you want to see happen as a result of the demonstration? Yes, I fucking hate the admin, too, but that is not a specific message about what needs to

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 1m

needs. On every day make decisions about who you will and will not do business with. In some things, we have no choice except to buy from one oligarch or another.,Even then, some treat workers better than others. But on one day of a general strike, you will not be deprived if you choose to spend

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 1m

participants or being unable to even launch a general strike will result in an American life in which you are no longer even allowed a pittance. Yes, withholding work to communicate injustice is one necessity. But starving oligarchs by not doing business with them is critical, too. Yes, we all have

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 1m

can’t fire a dozen of you. If your employer is the firing type, you’ll be fired for some concocted reason sooner or later - THAT is one of the ways the oligarchs keep us in fear; keep us from asking for more, or seeking better. And finally, achieving less than the known effective percentage of

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 1m

can disagree without doing the appropriate reading yourself - that’s how MAGA does it. Or you can tell yourself you’ll be fired if you take the day off. Here’s the thing; we have personal days and how we use them are no one’s business. Rally all those you trust. If you still fear being fired, they

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 1m

resistance and what they are resisting. Their reaction is “The left are evil Antifa terrorists and they are personally attacking me so I’m going to tell the lies that get the crazies to engage them in violence” From my days in grad school to now, the primacy of general strike has not changed. You

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 1m

General strike, dammit. It works. Starving the oligarchs is the only way to get their attention. You cannot reason morality with them - they are evil. You cannot reason truth with them - they are insane or performatively insane. No Kings gives a message - it tells them approximately the size of the

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 19m

I’m not a frog person, but you will see an AWESOME Angler fish on the 18th

An inflatable anglerfish costume

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 21m

Haters and blamers are predictable. No one is perfect, few approach or stay at ideal. Give credit where credit is due and don’t assess others’ failures without considering your own

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 25m

Of course. Trump repeats his behavior until the courts bury him

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 27m

Hatefulness is free speech but truth is not

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 30m

Yes, and that does not even begin to address necessary reforms in campaigning.

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 33m

What exactly does it mean to be classified as DEI? Unlike it’s actual meaning I’m fairly sure Hegspiss means women, people of color, liberals, and LGBTQ+

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 36m

Don’t believe what you saw with your lying eyes

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 37m

👏👏👏👏

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 38m

Good. But, disappointingly, he has already lied about it in the past week

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 40m

Uh huh.

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 41m

Of course they are. Next to our platform they look like the losers they are.

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 51m

Despite the wait, if that is our only option, then by all means it needs to be done. Other states course as well because his actions are deliberately causing under representation of democrats

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 1h

Good point

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 1h

Perhaps, because of his charisma. He is bold and knowledgeable. Personally, I prefer Pritzker, but feel like a sell-out to Pete.

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 1h

I supported her and voted for her, and thats a lesson the whiners need to learn.

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 1h

Hegseth, like Trump, is a performer. How long will thrir self-imposed media starvation last?

Melissa A. @drmelalexa.bsky.social · 3h

Hey, looking like a vulva will completely escape the notice of maga. RFK Jr. thinks babies develop in the placenta.