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Melissa Downs
@mkdowns.bsky.social
Retired SLP turned Animal Wellbeing Advocate in the TX Hill Country. Wife. Mama to rescue cats and dogs. Likes hiking, cooking, books, science, and LSU football.
I was an essential worker-Team A during Nola hurricane season. I had lunch daily w/your Nana during Covid when she couldn’t understand why you weren’t allowed in & thought she was abandoned. I relived old war plane documentaries with your “Pop,” and he communicated after his strokes. #professional
November 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
#50501 #NoKings Lafayette, Louisiana…Let’s geaux!!!
April 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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The Trump administration has deported a 10-year-old girl to Mexico who is a US citizen and is recovering from brain cancer.

Her family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup when they were detained.
U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents
The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.
www.nbcnews.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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FEDERAL WORKER AT A VIRGINIA TOWN HALL: “And to top it all off one of Musk’s top lieutenants and his wife and young child have shacked up on the 6th floor.” 🤔

Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2r7Y3V7/
February 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy dancing naked in front of a window and getting his hairy nipple licked on reality TV.

This is who Trump put in charge of the country’s flight safety.
February 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Each email and call log is a different violent rioter who assaulted me in the tunnel. If you are defending these people who brutally assaulted the police, maybe you ARE NOT a supporter of the police and the rule of law to begin with. If you did you would want accountability.
January 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Trump’s ‘Gender Ideology’ order creates a federal mandate defining gender as the sex of an embryo at conception.

Impacts: As all embryos have female sex characteristics at conception, all Americans are now defined as female under this order. (3/3)
January 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
So, are we at that point of pubically naming the J6ers where we live? I’ve got one, in a smallish town in Texas. It’s public knowledge, so…this chick is a “life coach” and performed Sopranos at our Symphony of the Hills in 2019.
January 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Facts matter.
January 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Former gas station kitty with a broken leg and lacerated eye just living his best life. We love you Spider-Man bka Tiny Cat. Best free cat we’ve ever gotten.
November 19, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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A North Carolina woman with a genetic disorder that creates serious fetal anomalies wrote to state Sen. Danny Britt about how the state's ban prevents her from expanding her family. Here’s Danny and here’s his official reply. Danny is an asshole!
November 16, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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From a friend: “Someone I know had a meeting with a Trump agriculture transition team member. This person said surely you’re not going to impose tariffs on food imports. He responded why wouldn’t we? And my person said: because about 30% of the food Americans regularly consume cannot be grown here…”
November 14, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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Former AG Kamala Harris enjoyed a glass of wine while playing a game with kids.
MAGA: THAT IS DISQUALIFYING WHO DOES THAT!!!!

Potentially future AG Matt Gaetz is accused of sex trafficking kids.
MAGA: THIS IS EPIC!!! CRY HARDER LIBS!!!
November 14, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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One part of our upgraded infrastructure may affect your profile.

If you see your handle now says “Invalid handle,” please reverify it by navigating to Settings > Change my handle > Type in your current handle > Verify DNS Record > Update.

(Basically, update to the same handle.)
August 18, 2023 at 9:35 PM