Melissa Roark
@melissaroark.bsky.social
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
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Tulsi’s statements and excuses don’t add up.
February 9, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Tulsi’s statements and excuses don’t add up.
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#BOTD February 9th. I was today-yrs-old when I learned that 4 favorites of mine: Carole King, John Williams, Mia Farrow & Batman, all shared a birthday!!!! 🎂 🎂 🎂 🎂 ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ 👍 👍 👍 👍
#HappiestOfBirthdaysToThemALL
#HappiestOfBirthdaysToThemALL
February 9, 2026 at 9:06 PM
#BOTD February 9th. I was today-yrs-old when I learned that 4 favorites of mine: Carole King, John Williams, Mia Farrow & Batman, all shared a birthday!!!! 🎂 🎂 🎂 🎂 ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ 👍 👍 👍 👍
#HappiestOfBirthdaysToThemALL
#HappiestOfBirthdaysToThemALL
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Director and composer of 2017 drama allege breach of agreement after score reused in controversial documentary
Paul Thomas Anderson and Jonny Greenwood demand Phantom Thread music removed from Melania film
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Director and composer of 2017 drama allege breach of agreement after score reused in controversial documentary
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Such a seriously powerful episode this week on @revealnews.org, so proud of my colleagues.
In a Minnesota town, Emily, a nurse who treats many immigrant patients, can’t locate a patient who just had a test result that shows they might have cancer.
The patient was recently detained by ICE. Situations like these have forced the clinic to adapt. This week on @revealnews.org:
The patient was recently detained by ICE. Situations like these have forced the clinic to adapt. This week on @revealnews.org:
How Minneapolis taught America to fight back
Our Minnesotan reporters connect with friends and neighbors back home and find resolute resistance to ICE at every turn.
www.motherjones.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Such a seriously powerful episode this week on @revealnews.org, so proud of my colleagues.
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Read our full story that details how we got inside the Dilley detention center for immigrant families here: www.propublica.org/article/life...
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Read our full story that details how we got inside the Dilley detention center for immigrant families here: www.propublica.org/article/life...
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Hundreds of millions spent on human misery
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Hundreds of millions spent on human misery
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Trump’s gutting of the Solar for All program is deeply felt on the Northern Plains reservations.
From our colleagues at the @dailyyonder.bsky.social:
From our colleagues at the @dailyyonder.bsky.social:
Native families were promised free solar. Trump took it away.
Trump’s gutting of the Solar for All program is deeply felt on the Northern Plains reservations.
www.motherjones.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Trump’s gutting of the Solar for All program is deeply felt on the Northern Plains reservations.
From our colleagues at the @dailyyonder.bsky.social:
From our colleagues at the @dailyyonder.bsky.social:
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Jeff Bezos’s axing of more than 300 jobs at the storied newspaper has renewed fears about the resilience of America’s democracy to withstand Trump’s attacks
As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Jeff Bezos’s axing of more than 300 jobs at the storied newspaper has renewed fears about the resilience of America’s democracy to withstand Trump’s attacks
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”ONLY THE STRONGEST SHOULDERS CAN CARRY THE HOPES OF A NATION.”
Katie Taylor 🇮🇪 boxer / 2012 gold medalist
THANK YOU 🗽🩵🥹🫂
Skier Hunter Hess
Figure skater Amber Glenn
Skier Chris Lillis/Jessie Diggins
Hockey player Kelly Pannek
Snowboarder Stacy Gaskill/Chloe Kim
#Olympics #MoralValues #Courage
Katie Taylor 🇮🇪 boxer / 2012 gold medalist
THANK YOU 🗽🩵🥹🫂
Skier Hunter Hess
Figure skater Amber Glenn
Skier Chris Lillis/Jessie Diggins
Hockey player Kelly Pannek
Snowboarder Stacy Gaskill/Chloe Kim
#Olympics #MoralValues #Courage
February 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM
”ONLY THE STRONGEST SHOULDERS CAN CARRY THE HOPES OF A NATION.”
Katie Taylor 🇮🇪 boxer / 2012 gold medalist
THANK YOU 🗽🩵🥹🫂
Skier Hunter Hess
Figure skater Amber Glenn
Skier Chris Lillis/Jessie Diggins
Hockey player Kelly Pannek
Snowboarder Stacy Gaskill/Chloe Kim
#Olympics #MoralValues #Courage
Katie Taylor 🇮🇪 boxer / 2012 gold medalist
THANK YOU 🗽🩵🥹🫂
Skier Hunter Hess
Figure skater Amber Glenn
Skier Chris Lillis/Jessie Diggins
Hockey player Kelly Pannek
Snowboarder Stacy Gaskill/Chloe Kim
#Olympics #MoralValues #Courage
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I wrote about Jason Myers, who delivered my favorite postgame quote and was perfect in the Super Bowl, and who makes it to the top in the strangest job in sports. defector.com/jason-myers-...
It Feels Great, Dude | Defector
The history of professional football is long enough and strange enough to include a placekicker or two who had “a normal career.” Theoretically. I have found scant evidence of that, but presumably the...
defector.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:40 PM
I wrote about Jason Myers, who delivered my favorite postgame quote and was perfect in the Super Bowl, and who makes it to the top in the strangest job in sports. defector.com/jason-myers-...
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MAGA’s Super Bowl alternative was filled with spite, Charlie Kirk memorials, and jorts.
The biggest thing missing from TPUSA's halftime show: joy
Instead, MAGA's Super Bowl alternative was filled with spite, Charlie Kirk memorials, and jorts.
www.motherjones.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:17 PM
MAGA’s Super Bowl alternative was filled with spite, Charlie Kirk memorials, and jorts.
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This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained.
She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.
She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/
She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.
She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/
February 9, 2026 at 11:21 AM
This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained.
She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.
She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/
She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.
She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/
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A federal security contractor that received millions from the Department of Agriculture hired notorious Patriot Front enforcer Ian Michael Elliott to work security patrols for the US Forest Service last year.
My latest with Sean Craig for @theguardian.com 🧵
My latest with Sean Craig for @theguardian.com 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 7:29 PM
A federal security contractor that received millions from the Department of Agriculture hired notorious Patriot Front enforcer Ian Michael Elliott to work security patrols for the US Forest Service last year.
My latest with Sean Craig for @theguardian.com 🧵
My latest with Sean Craig for @theguardian.com 🧵
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🦠 Tuberculosis (TB) is infectious.
💀 Untreated, it can be deadly.
Active TB in a U.S.-run concentration camp?
Yeah — that’s a public health nightmare 🚨
Quick TB facts ⬇️
🦠 Tuberculosis (TB) is infectious.
💀 Untreated, it can be deadly.
Active TB in a U.S.-run concentration camp?
Yeah — that’s a public health nightmare 🚨
Quick TB facts ⬇️
Two cases of tuberculosis detected at El Paso ICE facility — The Texas Tribune
Officials said 18 cases of COVID-19 were also identified at the 5,000-bed tent Fort Bliss Army facility, where a Democratic congresswoman said many “chronic issues” persist.
apple.news
February 9, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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🦠 Tuberculosis (TB) is infectious.
💀 Untreated, it can be deadly.
Active TB in a U.S.-run concentration camp?
Yeah — that’s a public health nightmare 🚨
Quick TB facts ⬇️
🦠 Tuberculosis (TB) is infectious.
💀 Untreated, it can be deadly.
Active TB in a U.S.-run concentration camp?
Yeah — that’s a public health nightmare 🚨
Quick TB facts ⬇️
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If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico
The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.
slate.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:59 AM
If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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You're laughing? The team that lends their plane for deportation flights and whose owner is best pals with Trump got utterly humiliated in front of a hundred million viewers, and you're laughing?
February 9, 2026 at 3:24 AM
You're laughing? The team that lends their plane for deportation flights and whose owner is best pals with Trump got utterly humiliated in front of a hundred million viewers, and you're laughing?
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February 8, 2026
February 8, 2026
On February 9, 1950, Senator Joe McCarthy (R-WI) stood up in front of the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, at a gathering to celebrate President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:26 AM
February 8, 2026
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This is the message MAGA is protesting.
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
This is the message MAGA is protesting.
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It's weird that they're both posting as if they don't live in puerto rico, where they both moved to avoid paying taxes
February 9, 2026 at 4:49 AM
It's weird that they're both posting as if they don't live in puerto rico, where they both moved to avoid paying taxes
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That’s Brett Ratner there on the right.
February 9, 2026 at 5:03 AM
That’s Brett Ratner there on the right.
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BREAKING: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says Juan Pablo Guanipa, a former governor and one of her closest allies, was kidnapped hours after being released from prison.
Venezuelan opposition leader Machado says a close ally was kidnapped hours after prison release
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says one of her closest allies has been kidnapped hours after being released from prison.
bit.ly
February 9, 2026 at 5:13 AM
BREAKING: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says Juan Pablo Guanipa, a former governor and one of her closest allies, was kidnapped hours after being released from prison.