Melissa Kotačka
@mkotnc
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Feisty nerd | Educator | Counselor | Thanatologist | my two degrees in Slavic literature might not be useless after all 🇺🇦 | She/hers | Views mine, all mine
Durham, NC
Joined July 2011
Every time Harrison Butker misses a field goal a woman gets a PHD 🗣️
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“The humanities are useless” is propaganda, designed to discourage young people from pursuing careers in literature and the arts because those careers are vital to a flourishing society. We’re reaping the results with a public that is compliant and ill-informed, as was intended.
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Bad, bad news: More data is being lost. This is not a good sign heading into Hurricane Season. Weather service offices are severely understaffed and underfunded. Weather data will continue to be degraded across the United States. This is unacceptable. We should be funding more…
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There is a lot happening in NOAA and the National Weather Service. I recommend reading this joint statement from @ametsoc and @nwas: https://t.co/fD8NxRabtK
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@Acyn Autistic people pay taxes. Autistic people work. Autistic people fall in love. RFK Jr. just doesn’t see them as human. That’s the problem.
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Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.
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Ok. I guess I have to address this. The information on your phone app comes FROM data provided by NOAA for free. NOAA gathers weather data (daily balloon launches) and feeds it into the modeling so your phone can tell you it's going to rain tomorrow. Saying we don't need NOAA or
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We went from “what good are the humanities?” to “suddenly, no one can read” in about a year, and the answer to the first question is the disinformation and lack of critical thinking you see all around you. *That* is why you need the humanities. This is what they prevent.
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The guy in the WH refused to release his own tax returns, but he wants to give some random billionaire access to yours.
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Hey all of these things are examples of a eugenics playbook in action: 1. Normalizing epidemic diseases 2. Removing proven drug therapies from market 3. Claiming disabled people can "work out" to restore health 4. Institutionalizing ppl in "health" camps 1/3
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🚨 Promises kept! That’s what you’re supposed to say, right? Terminated “based on performance”… That’s how some folks who gave everything during Helene are being treated. That’s disgusting, and it absolutely fills me with rage.
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every time i hear a republican say they want to "protect women and girls" i get the violent urge to throw a brick at them. you voted for a literal convicted felon who has committed several sexual assaults against women. stop pretending you give a single shit about women's safety.
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Musk hasn't found any fraud though. Not a single example of it. He's just found various government programs he 1) doesn't agree with ideologically, or 2) doesn't understand the purpose of, and is summarily firing people involved with them with no proper review or oversight.
What’s crazy to me…is the insanity of people literally imploding over the people finding massive fraud, rather than the people doing massive fraud.
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I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. — Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.
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I miss the days when very rich people used their money to fund libraries, public art and philanthropic endeavors rather than launching slow-motion coups against the federal government.
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