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Posts by Melanie Sue Hicks, PhD

Over the last decade I have been told hundreds of times how much I remind them of @amypoehler when I teach or present. Now I’m on a mission to meet this sheer legend. Who can help?

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I think @michaelhobbes.bsky.social is literally the best researcher in media today. I’ll listen or read anything with his fingerprints on it bc I trust the rigor and integrity.

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True story, and the same reason Trump's been gutting the DOJ.

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@dogs.bsky.social Does anyone else have a “brunch dog”? My doodle likes to sleep till 9 and have breakfast around 10.

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Courtesy of my manuscript advisor telling me I can tell to speed things along, and to write the "reader's draft", I'm doing my best writing to date (and now tweaking it further)

Here's to the next book featuring my best writing to date

#WritingCommunity
#WriterSky
#ReaderSky
#BookSky
#LGBTQIA+

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The SAVE America Act is a voter suppression scam. It would take away the rights of working people to make their voices heard at the ballot box.

The Senate must reject this bill.

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We need more of this.

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Love this humor so much!! Thanks @thetraecrowder.bsky.social

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One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

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Perhaps time for a reintroduction…
Avid adventurer and global philanthropist- 47 countries - Nepal ♥️
Executive trainer specializing in leadership failure & workplace resilience
ADHD late diagnosed
DV Survivor
Wrote a manual on healing through travel - Incongruent: Travel, Trauma, Transformation

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I can’t figure out how to cultivate my feed to talk to real people. Anyone out there?

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As a DV survivor, you couldn’t be more spot on

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From slogans to Greg Bovino’s uniforms: The Nazification of ICE feels deliberate History may not repeat itself, but it echoes, and the 1930s taught us why symbolism matters. Fascism did not arrive with a single marching column, says historian Guy Walters, it arrived by making brut...

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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NEW: Minnesota's top federal judge says ICE has been violating court orders repeatedly — detaining noncitizens or rushing them to Texas despite judges' commands.

He wants ICE's director to answer for it "personally," and could level contempt sanctions.

www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

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If this is what they do when they're out on the street with people pointing cameras at them, what do you think is happening inside the ICE prison camps that they keep denying Members of Congress access to?

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Always junk science.

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What are those of us not in Minneapolis doing to feel less helpless? #resist

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Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

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Target Center dunkers wear “ICE OUT” t-shirts

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We are too! Sincerely, Colorado

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If we tolerate this as a nation, we can never call ourselves great again. This has to stop.

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The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.

wapo.st/49Zqv1L

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The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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THIS. #HandsOff

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I saw someone criticizing a very funny poster for making jokes instead of posting about politics, and I am reminded of a favorite line from E. B. White: We should strive not for balanced books but balanced libraries

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I feel seen!

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Quote on resilience

Quote on resilience

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April Fools!!

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Chop wood, carry water
#sober #progress #odaat #AA #sobersky

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Can they buy Colorado also please.

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