Tina Melquist
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Tina Melquist
@tinamelquist.bsky.social
If you can’t tell I’m not a bot, that’s on you.
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Stop telling me there is no difference between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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sucks to suck. they’ve killed hundreds of thousands of children.

i won’t lose a second of sleep if they are sentenced to life in prison for violating every national security law in the book
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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I would like to say that the online MAGA people are NOT in fact the persuadables. They aren't going to be brought *onboard.* That will happen or not in actual community with people. Sorry.
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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The president of the most powerful nation on Earth is so terrified of the tales that an imprisoned sex trafficker can tell that he plies her with a comfort puppy and custom meals and is holding out the prospect of a pardon.
77 million people voted for this.
November 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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crazy

IG em_clarkson
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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The funniest thing about Twitter these days is that right wing dipshits still think their content is being suppressed by some unseen liberal forces.

Elon Musk has owned the site for over three years now.
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Right wing men: being a wife and a mother is the most important job in the world.

Also right wing men: that bitch should have gotten a “real” job instead of taking my money.
this is the trump guy urtext
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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This is called rent, except you’re responsible for all the expenses, insurance and taxes.
November 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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"It is difficult to anticipate problems of readers who are inattentive."
-- E. P. Thompson
November 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
November 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Folks really should read up on Jordan Wood. Mills isn’t the only other Dem running.
Cons:
- No prior elected office (same as Platner)
Pros:
+ Congressional staffing experience
+ Under 70 years old (36, fwiw)
+ Not a former mercenary
+ No Nazi tattoos
Jordan Wood for Maine
A reformer who works for Maine, not corporations and lobbyists. Join us today to defeat Susan Collins.
electjordan.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing

go.nature.com/3WB8bFS
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the country is losing.
go.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess).
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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They're STILL protecting the sexual predators who raped young girls procured by Epstein and Maxwell.

And there's strong evidence to suggest one of those predators is currently the President of the United States.
November 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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"If we had a contingency fund."

You mean like this contingency fund the Trump Administration just deleted off their website? The one they are legally required to use to keep SNAP funded?
www.notus.org/trump-white-...
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I cannot believe there are still people in my mentions arguing that boycotting an election because the candidates aren’t addressing your issue is a way to get them to pay attention.
two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works
ALT: two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works
media.tenor.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Graham Platner’s campaign thought they could silence me by offering me money and calling me a liar in the press.

I was going to let it go.

It has become increasingly clear they are unfamiliar with Maine women.
October 29, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Apropos of nothing, this piece by @anildash.com is very, very good (and accurately reflects my views and those of many of my colleagues)

www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...
October 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
These pundits show the same lack of humility and inability to own their mistakes that they complain about in politicians. Is it really too hard to say, “Pod Got Hoodwinked?”
And honestly, their listeners would understand. These guys are pundits, not reporters. They got snookered. Just own it.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee should let the people of Maine decide their Senate candidate.
October 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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we dont know you, you worked for blackwater, youve never voted on policy. you have to earn trust man, go run for state house and vote the way youre talking for a decade and then we’ll talk
October 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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This guy is a progressive running for the Senate in Maine. He has a tattoo, too. But it's an Obama one, not a Nazi one.
I've been getting a lot of questions about tattoos, so time to fess up — I have one.

I got this tattoo a few years ago as a reminder of what hope and a positive vision can do in our politics. And yes, I knew what it was when I got it.
October 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Folks, Jordan Wood is running for the U.S. Senate in Maine in 2026.
He’s a Democrat. He’s 36 years old. He’s a progressive.

His campaign emphasizes anti-corruption, standing up against corporations and wealth, and pro-democracy reform.

Check him out…
@jordanwood.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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MAHA’s out here all smug with their lies about vaccines and sat fats while the same administration cuts nutrition benefits for children.

Talk to me about removing food dyes when every kid in the U.S. has enough to eat.

We are the richest country in dollars and the poorest in humanity.
October 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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The US actually supplies illicit fentanyl to Canada, not the other way around. But Trump would not be OK with Carney vaporizing random American fishermen on the Great Lakes on suspicion of bringing fentanyl into Canada.
October 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM