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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 18h

I have some serious unanswered questions about the Lindbergh Baby

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 18h

They’re going to run through reviewing every conspiracy theory in the book until they cough up the Epstein files, aren’t they

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 19h

the “but my taxpayer dollars!!” people continue to find fascinating uses for taxpayer dollars

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

www.cnn.com

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah been back for a few days!! I wisely left the macaw back where it can annoy everyone in the vicinity

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 4d

Hahahahah

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 4d

Safeway canada really calling me out

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 6d

Heartbreaking.

Premature baby dies of measles in Alberta outbreak's 1st death www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Premature baby dies of measles in Alberta outbreak's 1st death | CBC News

Alberta is reporting its first measles death since outbreaks of the highly contagious illness began in March. The province says a baby, who was born prematurely after the mother became sick, died shor...

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 6d

Wh… what did I miss

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 8d

On the plus side, this was extremely cool

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 8d

My “oh wow parrots in the wild!!!” phase lasted about five minutes

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 8d

I’m on a work trip to Bolivia. This is my first time seeing macaws in the wild. I absolutely cannot understand the first person who listened to the noise these things make and said “yeah, I want that in my house.” The most hideous, ear-splitting racket outside my hotel room window every morning

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 9d

I’m becoming more and more concerned that people at high levels of public discussion cannot identify the difference between a genuinely viral conversation vs a bunch of bots making noise.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 9d

“Bots or likely bots authored 44.5% of X posts mentioning Cracker Barrel in the 24 hours after the new logo gained attention on Aug. 20, according to research for ⁦‪@WSJ‬⁩ by PeakMetrics. That number rose to 49% among posts calling for a boycott.”

Bot Networks Are Helping Drag Consumer Brands Into the Culture Wars

AI tools have made coordinated attacks targeting corporations much more common, researchers say.

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 9d

yeah we noticed that

CNN @cnn.com · 9d

Elon Musk’s X is the “go-to platform for antisemitic posters,” according to a new year-long study shared exclusively with CNN: https://cnn.it/3Wbsj0W

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 9d

An open letter, to the children:

www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/colu...

Opinion: Most refused to listen then, more understand now

An open letter, to the children: It’s late September in Manitoba and the leaves are turning golden. Autumns are beautiful on this land. I hope that, wherever you were, you were able to enjoy it. I hop...

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 9d

Can’t even laugh at this. The idea of these meatheads skulking around my beautiful, glittering jewel box of a city, looking to tackle every non-white person they see, makes me sick to my stomach. This is the real domestic terrorism.

Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 10d

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 9d

An open letter, to the children:

www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/colu...

Opinion: Most refused to listen then, more understand now

An open letter, to the children: It’s late September in Manitoba and the leaves are turning golden. Autumns are beautiful on this land. I hope that, wherever you were, you were able to enjoy it. I hop...

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 9d

I will be there!

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 12d

You can clearly tell when it’s someone’s first time reading Russian official statements

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 13d

May as well just bookmark this tweet now for when it comes true

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 15d

Unquestionably yes.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 17d

They don’t seem very sad that he died

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 17d

Fireworks for Trump at Charlie Kirk's memorial service.

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Cory Noel @corynoel.bsky.social · 17d

Tremendous piece from a Winnipegger coming home after some time away... Funny how this speaks to me.

Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 17d

A little Saturday column: about taking the uncommon opportunity to see one’s home with fresh eyes, finding it both more beautiful and more barren at the same time.

www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2025/0...

Opinion: Seeing hometown anew both sobering and rousing

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 17d

Hahahaah it’s not weird at all, absolutely peak winnipeg to have that be the highlight

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 17d

On a related note, laughed a lot to discover I still had this in storage. Who had the last laugh now?!

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