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Melissa Starking

@mstarking.bsky.social

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Ecologist • Wildlife Biologist • Data Analyst • Landscapes 🌳🦌🌲🐦‍⬛🌴🐿🌊🐢🍁🦇🌿 #BIinSci #AuDHD #neuroqueer #ecologist

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Melissa Starking @mstarking.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hi ☺️ 👋 #audhd #BIinSci #ecologist here. I study Wildlife and Forest interactions at the landscape scale. Finnegan the (indoor) cat says hello!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

Boom! Who’s winning the shutdown debate? THE ACA.

More Republicans than Democrats use the ACA marketplace. So the GOP’s base is relying on the same program their party is causing premiums to skyrocket.

45% of ACA marketplace enrollees are Republicans, and most live in GOP-held districts.

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BlueCrew community @libertyovergov.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: Los Angeles County has just declared a STATE OF EMERGENCY over the federal ICE raids.

Only in Trump’s America does a county have to declare an emergency because of what the federal government is doing.

#BlueCrew #Resist #ResistTrump #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #California #ICE #AbolishICE

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23h

Stevens: There’s $1.3 trillion of credit card debt. There are people putting grocery bills on credit cards and then paying interest on them. We are in an affordability crisis. Coffee is up 20%, beef is up 16%, bacon is up over 10%. And now we’re going to see health care costs skyrocket.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Owen From Ohio @owenfromohio.bsky.social · 1d

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Melissa Starking @mstarking.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, this was the melting water that drains into Sunwapta lake, last time I was there it was snow and you could walk right up to it. Its wild to see the changes in person.

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Robert W. Gray @firebobbc.bsky.social · 1d

A new Nature study projects wildfire smoke will cause 71,000 excess deaths annually in the U.S. by 2050, representing $608 billion in damages that exceed all other estimated climate costs combined. news.mongabay.com/2025/10/wild...

Wildfire smoke could kill 71,000 people per year in the US by 2050, study warns

When wildfire smoke from Canada turned New York City’s sky an eerie orange in June 2023, millions of Americans who’d never experienced such pollution got a glimpse of what has become routine for commu...

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Melissa Starking @mstarking.bsky.social · 1d

25 years ago I saw the Athabasca Glacier for the first time and could walk right up to it. Now the only way you can reach it is to pay for a ice truck to drive you there. In front of it, a glacial lake grows 💔

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Melissa Starking @mstarking.bsky.social · 3d

After attending TWS in Edmonton, my partner and I spent the rest of the week exploring Banff, Yoho, Kootenay, Jasper, and Elk Island National Parks in Canada! 🤍❤️

Person standing on a rock next to a lake with mountains in the background

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 15d

Look at that huge jump in Trump's wealth in 2025.

Americans can't afford groceries or health care.

But the Trump presidency is working out great for Donald Trump.

www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

A chart titled "How Rich is Donald Trump: $7.3 billion," showing his wealth skyrocketing in 2025

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16d

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:

2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503

So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days.

We do not have to keep living like this.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20d

It shouldn’t be considered far left to believe in decency & democracy.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 19d

BREAKING: President Trump issued a memo calling for government-wide "terrorism investigations" into political opponents.

His administration is trying to use political violence as an excuse to investigate and intimidate the president's perceived enemies.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20d

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 11

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Sep 5

Trump isn’t coming to the rescue…

📌 Hundreds of Arkansas farmers are begging the federal government for emergency aid as their farm economy collapses. They’re on the edge of bankruptcy.

Watch until the end. Wow!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Sep 5

Sen. Warren Daniel (R–NC, District 46) was caught trading stocks right on the Senate floor.

Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Aug 25

This hits right on time…

My wife and I had the great privilege of visiting the African-American Museum in DC, and let me just tell you if you have not been…It is a masterpiece—go.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Aug 25

Last week Trump said he likes the idea of starting a war so he can declare “no more elections” and stay in office forever.

Today he just said “a lot of people” want “a dictator.”

See where this is going?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Aug 20

Translation: ‘kill mail-in ballots so Democrats can never win again.’

This adds fuel to the idea that Trump is plotting a third term. It’s almost like he thinks Democrats will just roll over and play dead for this.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Aug 16

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Let's go. This is it. We need to wake up. We cannot survive if he rigs not just Texas, but he goes to Indiana, goes to Missouri, goes to Ohio, goes to Florida. We have to have other governors of like mind, and there are many, to now do something, not just say something."

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Portland Bird Observatory @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social · Aug 13

Some exciting overnight migrant mothing at the Obs, notably with Portland's sixth Passenger; a Toadflax Pearl catalaunalis was the first this year + a good selection of other scarces and a few more local hatches of eg dark Small Marbleds

Toadflax Pearl catalaunalis, 13th August 2025

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Aug 10

Where are the hard-working Americans who screamed, “They’re stealing our jobs”?

You’re getting your wish. Immigrant workers aren’t showing up, and farm owners are hiring.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Aug 4

ATTENTION📢

“For folks watching at home that believe that voters should pick their politicians instead of Donald Trump picking your member of Congress, call your governor. Call your state legislator & tell them to fight back against what’s happening in Texas.”- @repcasar.bsky.social
#MessWithTexas

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