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Melissa Kotačka

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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
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@mkotnc
Melissa Kotačka
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@KenniMiddleton
Kendra Middleton
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Every time Harrison Butker misses a field goal a woman gets a PHD 🗣️
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@SketchesbyBoze
Boze the Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️
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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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@Nick_Pettigrew
Nick Pettigrew
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Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act.
@Kasparov63
Garry Kasparov
7 months
Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.
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@EthanClarkWX
Ethan Clark wx
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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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@RyanBretonWX
Ryan Breton
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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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@AMarch4OurLives
March For Our Lives
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Your "prayers" don’t mean a damn thing when you’ve spent years blocking every common sense gun law and making Florida more dangerous. Where’s your action, Governor?
@GovRonDeSantis
Ron DeSantis
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Our prayers are with our FSU family and state law enforcement is actively responding.
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@nikosunity
Nikos Unity
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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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@RBReich
Robert Reich
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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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@TonyPannWBAL
Tony Pann
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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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@SketchesbyBoze
Boze the Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️
11 months
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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@malcolmkenyatta
Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta
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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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@MollyJongFast
Molly Jong-Fast
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You voted for RFK JR
@SenBillCassidy
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D.
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This is a serious measles outbreak in Texas. The measles vaccine has been proven safe & effective since 1963.
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@Nicole_Lee_Sch
Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD
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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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@EFisherWX
Evan Fisher
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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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@NycStormChaser
Nicholas Isabella
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The defund the National Weather Service replies to this tweet are wrong but not surprising at all. People who are fed bullshit misinformation are the same people who say "the government never gets the weather right.” People don’t realize just how much they rely on the National
@ryanhallyall
Ryan Hall, Y’all
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For just $3 of your tax dollars a year, the @NWS (part of #NOAA) save countless lives and billions in damage with their forecasts! Best bang for your buck in government spending if you ask me!
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@thatqueerkiwi
queereotype ☻
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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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@fawfulfan
Matthew Chapman
11 months
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.
@adamhousley
Adam Housley
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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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@Strandjunker
Andrea Junker
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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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@SketchesbyBoze
Boze the Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️
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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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