Dr. Melinda Perle Simmons (she/her)

Awww - 🥲 thank you.
Happy mother's day 💐
C is so fortunate to have you. ❤️

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/

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Israeli military strikes Gaza City's last functioning hospital
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A penguin pointing w a stick at a pic sitting on an easel of a Tesla w a pigeon flying over head pooping on it as 3 pigeons look on

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Fundraiser

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...

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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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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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. 🌊🐋🐬🦐🦀🦞🐙🪸🪼🦈

"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.

Hey folks! If you're in Florida and Wisconsin today, GET OUT AND VOTE!

Umm... I feel like... in a nontraditionsl sense you did.

I took all my intro Bio courses & Math courses at UCSB in an auditorium that seats 1,000 & was typically quite full. It's not ideal...but I made it through to earn tenure... for what that is worth. I wish I had you as my professor.

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.🧪

"When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination." - Thomas Sowell

Trump's handling of Ukraine and tariffs has NATO rethinking the U.S.-made F-35 fighter The F-35 was meant as a one-size-fits-all fighter that could be used across NATO. But strained U.S.-Europe relations are giving some member countries second thoughts about the U.S.-built plane.

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EPA aims to cut pollution rules projected to save nearly 200,000 lives: ‘Real people will be hurt’ Moves to roll back 31 pollution regulations risk public health and big annual healthcare savings, Guardian analysis shows

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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.

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 | 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.

"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

"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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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.

"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 | 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...

‘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.

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...

"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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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.

My favorite from today’s 50501 March in Boston.

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