Dr. Melinda Perle Simmons (she/her)
@melindaperle.bsky.social
Education & outreach, Oceanography, Biology, Marine Science, Science Communication, & DEI. My beliefs are my own. She/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally BLM 🌊🦠 🧪🧬🔬Read banned books. Born & raised blue in a red state. Degrees from UCSB, UCSD, UCSC, yet still learning.
Explain the Hope Florida scandal to me like I’m 5 | Column url:https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2025/04/25/hope-florida-explained-what-happened-medicaid-desantis/
April 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Explain the Hope Florida scandal to me like I’m 5 | Column url:https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2025/04/25/hope-florida-explained-what-happened-medicaid-desantis/
Israeli military strikes Gaza City's last functioning hospital
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April 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Israeli military strikes Gaza City's last functioning hospital
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Fundraiser
April 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Fundraiser
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political cartoon circa 1908
April 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
political cartoon circa 1908
It is misleading IMO, as the very 1st paragraph states "The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2% from 4.1% in February" & there is this figure...
April 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It is misleading IMO, as the very 1st paragraph states "The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2% from 4.1% in February" & there is this figure...
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This is amazing.
Unsurprising it hasn't made much noise, considering the shitshow in which we're all embroiled...
But for S. Carolina, it is historic & cataclysmic.
Their GOP are on the verge of removing their treasurer for gross incompetence; $1.8 BILLION's worth.
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This is amazing.
Unsurprising it hasn't made much noise, considering the shitshow in which we're all embroiled...
But for S. Carolina, it is historic & cataclysmic.
Their GOP are on the verge of removing their treasurer for gross incompetence; $1.8 BILLION's worth.
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A $1.8 billion mistake could cost the South Carolina treasurer his job
South Carolina lawmakers are going to try to remove a statewide elected official from office, for the first time in over two centuries as a U.S. state.
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April 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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This is amazing.
Unsurprising it hasn't made much noise, considering the shitshow in which we're all embroiled...
But for S. Carolina, it is historic & cataclysmic.
Their GOP are on the verge of removing their treasurer for gross incompetence; $1.8 BILLION's worth.
apnews.com/article/sout...
This is amazing.
Unsurprising it hasn't made much noise, considering the shitshow in which we're all embroiled...
But for S. Carolina, it is historic & cataclysmic.
Their GOP are on the verge of removing their treasurer for gross incompetence; $1.8 BILLION's worth.
apnews.com/article/sout...
I was told some of NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research websites will go dark tonight. Download the data you need while you can. 🌊🐋🐬🦐🦀🦞🐙🪸🪼🦈
April 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I was told some of NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research websites will go dark tonight. Download the data you need while you can. 🌊🐋🐬🦐🦀🦞🐙🪸🪼🦈
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"Hi Senator I am a voter in [your home zip code] and I saw what Sen. Booker did for others and I want that for me. Good day". A phone call like this is worth 10,000 quote posts.
Call your senators and tell them you saw it and like it, too. Maybe someone else will do this again.
To put in another way: this is Cory Booker turning a big dial that says "opposition" on it, and he's looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right. make sure he knows we're happier the more he turns it up.
April 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"Hi Senator I am a voter in [your home zip code] and I saw what Sen. Booker did for others and I want that for me. Good day". A phone call like this is worth 10,000 quote posts.
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Hey folks! If you're in Florida and Wisconsin today, GET OUT AND VOTE!
April 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Hey folks! If you're in Florida and Wisconsin today, GET OUT AND VOTE!
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This breaks my heart. My salary at St. Jude was paid through our comprehensive cancer center grant. My wife's oncologist is at a comprehensive cancer center. Millions of children and adults with cancer get treatment in these 57 centers around the country. These are essential locations for research.🧪
The NCI grant supporting the Columbia comprehensive cancer center was terminated. Tell me how terminating support for cancer research helps the economy.
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March 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This breaks my heart. My salary at St. Jude was paid through our comprehensive cancer center grant. My wife's oncologist is at a comprehensive cancer center. Millions of children and adults with cancer get treatment in these 57 centers around the country. These are essential locations for research.🧪
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This is why Canada has plenty of eggs — and the U.S. doesn't
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This is why Canada has plenty of eggs — and the U.S. doesn't
While the U.S. grapples with an egg shortage caused by avian flu, eggs remain plentiful and affordable in Canada. There are reasons for that, including that egg farms there tend to be smaller.
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March 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is why Canada has plenty of eggs — and the U.S. doesn't
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"The VA grew significantly under the Biden administration, particularly to help implement the PACT Act that Biden signed into law in 2022 to help expand coverage and eligibility to millions of veterans who were exposed to toxins and hazards like burn pits while serving."
"Trump admin plans to cut more than 70,000 jobs at Department of Veterans Affairs, memo says"
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Trump admin plans to cut more than 70,000 jobs at Department of Veterans Affairs, memo says | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is planning to cut tens of thousands of employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to an internal memo obtained by CNN.
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March 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"The VA grew significantly under the Biden administration, particularly to help implement the PACT Act that Biden signed into law in 2022 to help expand coverage and eligibility to millions of veterans who were exposed to toxins and hazards like burn pits while serving."
"Trump admin plans to cut more than 70,000 jobs at Department of Veterans Affairs, memo says"
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Trump admin plans to cut more than 70,000 jobs at Department of Veterans Affairs, memo says | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is planning to cut tens of thousands of employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to an internal memo obtained by CNN.
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March 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"Trump admin plans to cut more than 70,000 jobs at Department of Veterans Affairs, memo says"
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"Out-of-date polls to wrong aid amounts: factchecking Trump’s Congress address"
"The president’s marathon address to a joint session of Congress was littered with false claims he’s been corrected on but continued to repeat"
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"The president’s marathon address to a joint session of Congress was littered with false claims he’s been corrected on but continued to repeat"
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Out-of-date polls to wrong aid amounts: factchecking Trump’s Congress address
The president’s marathon address to a joint session of Congress was littered with false claims he’s been corrected on but continued to repeat
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March 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"Out-of-date polls to wrong aid amounts: factchecking Trump’s Congress address"
"The president’s marathon address to a joint session of Congress was littered with false claims he’s been corrected on but continued to repeat"
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"The president’s marathon address to a joint session of Congress was littered with false claims he’s been corrected on but continued to repeat"
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"Trump administration layoffs hit NOAA, agency that forecasts weather, hurricanes"
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Trump administration layoffs hit NOAA, agency that forecasts weather, hurricanes
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration houses key groups like the National Weather Service. Experts warn the consequences of employee cuts could be drastic.
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February 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"Trump administration layoffs hit NOAA, agency that forecasts weather, hurricanes"
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‘Deadly consequences’: Health agencies reel from thousands of job cuts while critical research grants remain on hold
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‘Deadly consequences’: Health agencies reel from thousands of job cuts while critical research grants remain on hold | CNN
The first month of the Trump administration has brought chaos to US health agencies through mass firings, funding interruptions and communications freezes as the country battles not just the threat of...
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February 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
‘Deadly consequences’: Health agencies reel from thousands of job cuts while critical research grants remain on hold
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this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.
The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.
Federal prisons prep to move trans inmates as early as next week
The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.
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February 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.
"IRS cuts over 6,000 jobs in the middle of tax season"
"Tax experts say any salary savings from the job cuts will be dwarfed by the lost tax revenue that otherwise would have been collected."
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"Tax experts say any salary savings from the job cuts will be dwarfed by the lost tax revenue that otherwise would have been collected."
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IRS cuts over 6,000 jobs in the middle of tax season
The IRS is cutting more than 6,000 jobs this week, as part of the Trump administration's downsizing of the overall federal workforce. The job cuts at the IRS come in the middle of the tax-filing seaso...
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February 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"IRS cuts over 6,000 jobs in the middle of tax season"
"Tax experts say any salary savings from the job cuts will be dwarfed by the lost tax revenue that otherwise would have been collected."
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"Tax experts say any salary savings from the job cuts will be dwarfed by the lost tax revenue that otherwise would have been collected."
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I have to get this out of I'm going to just start screaming in my house and scare everyone: the reason diagnosis of things like Autism and ADHD have risen is because we have a much better understanding of them and improved diagnostic criteria. We've learned MORE about them. THIS IS A GOOD THING.
February 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I have to get this out of I'm going to just start screaming in my house and scare everyone: the reason diagnosis of things like Autism and ADHD have risen is because we have a much better understanding of them and improved diagnostic criteria. We've learned MORE about them. THIS IS A GOOD THING.