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Melissa Hughes

@snappysparrow.bsky.social

I study birds & shrimp and live with cats & birds. Also poetry.

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New Jersey Governor General Election
County Results
VOHQ Last Updated: Nov 4, 2025, 8:18 PM
19% est. reporting


Candidates
Party
Votes
Pct.
Mikie Sherrill β€’
DEM
399,717
63.7%
Jack Ciattarelli
GOP
224,307
35.8%
Vic Kaplan
LIB
1,761
0.3%
Joanne Kuniansky
OTH
1,380
0.2%
Total
627,165

* Incumbent

Election Date: 11/4/2025

New Jersey Governor General Election County Results VOHQ Last Updated: Nov 4, 2025, 8:18 PM 19% est. reporting Candidates Party Votes Pct. Mikie Sherrill β€’ DEM 399,717 63.7% Jack Ciattarelli GOP 224,307 35.8% Vic Kaplan LIB 1,761 0.3% Joanne Kuniansky OTH 1,380 0.2% Total 627,165 * Incumbent Election Date: 11/4/2025

NEW: Decision Desk has called New Jersey governor for Sherrill. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...

05.11.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 629    πŸ” 152    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 55

A problem older than time…

03.11.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s been FIFTEEN YEARS and the media is still letting Republicans pretend they have some super-secret concept of a hidden plan to maybe consider a covert proposal that could theoretically be implemented in a hypothetical simulation of a Congress run by people who are not actually clowns.

02.11.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2793    πŸ” 650    πŸ’¬ 154    πŸ“Œ 23
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Humans outperform Merlin Sound ID in field-based point-count surveys - American Ornithological Society Merlin’s sound classifier feature has revolutionized interaction with the avian world since its release in 2021. It works by learning the unique features of a species’ vocalization, and then recognizi...

The latest on Wing Beat: "Humans outperform Merlin Sound ID in field-based point-count surveys" by Brooke Goodman
americanornithology.org/humans-outpe...
Related paper: doi.org/10.1093/orni...
#ornithology #pointcountsurvey #soundID #birdsong

24.10.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 8
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#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

18.10.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 8833    πŸ” 3808    πŸ’¬ 1538    πŸ“Œ 1575

Brb just writing a screenplay about a struggling inflatable costume factory in a wholesome but dying American small town that unexpectedly helps save democracy, and democracy saves it right back.

18.10.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3547    πŸ” 657    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 38

I was told the revolution would be televised. I was not informed it would be amphibian

18.10.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

'β€œCan we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote'

'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'

14.10.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 775    πŸ” 372    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 78

Wow, they did all that and got *two* suspected gang members? Suspected? Wow. And two of them? Wow.

Plus a guy with a previous charge of marihuana possession? Wow.

Wow, that is impressive. Wow, when are we throwing these heroes a parade? Wow.

04.10.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2823    πŸ” 811    πŸ’¬ 160    πŸ“Œ 39

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

03.10.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1515    πŸ” 1156    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 17

Live your life so that when you die, 10s of millions feel the weight of the torch of hope you lit over your lifetime for the world to carry forward, together

02.10.2025 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 414    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

In all the horrible we’ve just become accustomed to, somehow this absolutely gutted me.

01.10.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you're blaming the Democrats for the shutdown of a government that is run entirely by Republicans, why stop there?

Go wild, man. Blame the shutdown on leprechauns, or the Seattle Mariners, or maybe the cast of "She's the Sheriff."

You've decided facts don't matter, so have some fun with it!

01.10.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4747    πŸ” 1024    πŸ’¬ 186    πŸ“Œ 63

The Giving Tree is the story of a man who exploits a woman until she fucking dies, it should be called The Patreearchy.

24.09.2025 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 348    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 0

We apologize for the convenience.

24.09.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, what do Germans know about creeping fascism anyway?

18.09.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3484    πŸ” 839    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 10
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

Dr. Robert W. Malone
Spread misinformation on Covid shots

Vicky Pebsworth
Works for an anti-vaccine nonprofit

Martin Kulldorff
Skeptical of certain vaccines

Retsef Levi
Skeptical of certain vaccines

Dr. Evelyn Griffin
Skeptical of Covid vaccines

Dr. Kirk Milhoan
Skeptical of Covid vaccines

Catherine M. Stein
Critical of Covid vaccine mandates

Dr. Cody Meissner
Critical of Covid vaccine mandates

Dr. Joseph R. Hibbeln

Dr. James Pagano

Hillary Blackburn

Dr. Raymond Pollak

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Dr. Robert W. Malone Spread misinformation on Covid shots Vicky Pebsworth Works for an anti-vaccine nonprofit Martin Kulldorff Skeptical of certain vaccines Retsef Levi Skeptical of certain vaccines Dr. Evelyn Griffin Skeptical of Covid vaccines Dr. Kirk Milhoan Skeptical of Covid vaccines Catherine M. Stein Critical of Covid vaccine mandates Dr. Cody Meissner Critical of Covid vaccine mandates Dr. Joseph R. Hibbeln Dr. James Pagano Hillary Blackburn Dr. Raymond Pollak

This is the committee who will advise the CDC on COVID and other vaccines this week. Not good.

16.09.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 172    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 16

For the record.

My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.

I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

15.09.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 36510    πŸ” 9302    πŸ’¬ 1823    πŸ“Œ 482
HIGH
Nationally, the wastewater viral
activity level for COVID-19 is currently high.

HIGH Nationally, the wastewater viral activity level for COVID-19 is currently high.

Just FYI: while CDC is no longer tracking much of anything, wastewater data is still being reported. COVID-19 levels have just been nationally upgraded to β€œhigh”

15.09.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 895    πŸ” 444    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 29

Yeah, if you're in the media and someone insists that "they" were celebrating his murder and therefore "they" have to suffer some sort of retribution, you have an obligation to ask who "they" are and what, specifically, they did to celebrate this.

You can't just let them throw that gas on the fire.

14.09.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4118    πŸ” 897    πŸ’¬ 88    πŸ“Œ 25

When someone says hugely racist and bigoted things, I don’t actually need to hear anything else from that person. I can listen to non-racists instead.

14.09.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A LOT of normies have learned about Groypers and the farthest right of online subculture and that is a VERY GOOD THING. The number of posts I’ve seen that said β€œI had to explain groyers” is GOOD. Extremely dangerous people should NOT only be understood by their targets, victims, and the β€œtoo online”

14.09.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1245    πŸ” 317    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 17

How the fuck do you write a piece like this and not talk to a single professor targeted by Kirk's professor watch?

14.09.2025 08:40 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

14.09.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 20249    πŸ” 6964    πŸ’¬ 717    πŸ“Œ 341

Have these psychopaths offered *any* examples of the alleged radicalization that this shooter received from his one semester at Utah State?

And he decided college wasn’t for him and dropped out. That’s the person whose life was allegedly immediately and radically transformed? The guy who left?

13.09.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1222    πŸ” 225    πŸ’¬ 82    πŸ“Œ 11
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ABS Latin American Conferences & Travel Support Request View this form on Formsite

Apply for funding to support Animal Behaviour-related conferences in Latin America. fs10.formsite.com/spltrak/fneb... #animalbehavior #ABS

12.09.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Covid and flu for me - settled in for a long evening…

12.09.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump officials to link covid shots to child deaths, alarming career scientists The move to link coronavirus vaccines to 25 child deaths alarms career scientists who say the shots have been extensively studied.

β€œThe U.S. government is now in the business of vaccine misinformation.” Trump officials to link covid shots to child deaths, alarming career scientists. Story by @lenasun.bsky.social @rachelroubein.bsky.social @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/47LFKvL

12.09.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Walgreens asked me for a prescription but cvs didn’t

11.09.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

wtf

09.09.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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