Melissa L. Weber

Freelance science writer; contributing writer @farmanddairy newspaper. she/her #SCBWI #NASW #swiftieover50

[Melissa L. Weber @Melwriter]

Sam sees the snowy owl swoop across the road and CRASH! OH NO! Can they help her? #WMPitch A story of wild animal rescue, rehabilitation and release. Includes back matter on snowy owls and veterinary medicine for wild animals. #STEM

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

In America today, we rank 34th out of 35 countries in childhood poverty and millions of children are food insecure.

Maybe, just maybe, my Republican colleagues would consider holding a single hearing about how we improve the lives of American kids.

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

Because of your voice on Delaney Hall, the Trump admin just released 18 yr old high school senior whose story I told. They released the pregnant women held inside. These releases show ICE isn’t targeting the violent criminals. ICE is feeling the pressure. Keep raising your voice.

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

Three powerful pieces on the Save Our Bacon Act dropped this weekend: from @NickKristof, @kathleenparker, and @Noahpinion.

This is much needed. The mainstream media has been silent on what may be the greatest legislative threat to animal welfare in a generation.

There's been a grassroots revolt against the Act on X -- led by conservatives. But only one network has covered it: Fox, thanks to @TomiLahren.

This is exactly what the pork industry wants. It knows the Act is deeply unpopular. Its paid-for politicians can only pass it if they're never forced to defend it publicly.

They were hoping you wouldn't notice. They're now hoping you'll stay quiet. Prove them wrong.

[Ryan Shead @RyanShead]

@Riley_Gaines_ Jesus would have loved all God’s creatures and blessings, regardless of sexual preference or gender identity.

You would have nailed Jesus to the cross yourself.

[Melissa L. Weber @Melwriter]

An amazing picture books explains the horror in a way even kids can understand. “Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre” by Carole Boston Weatherford.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

105 years ago today — May 31, 1921 — horror came to Tulsa.

A thriving, self-made Black community known as "Black Wall Street" was brutally attacked by white mobs in one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in American history.

They burned it to the ground. Hundreds of Black-owned homes and businesses — symbols of pride, prosperity, and hard-won success — were looted and reduced to rubble. At least 36 Black residents were murdered, over 800 were injured, and thousands more were left homeless, their dreams and life's work destroyed in a single night of terror.

A community that had risen against all odds was violently crushed. We remember Greenwood. We remember the lives stolen. We remember the pain that still echoes.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

105 years ago today — May 31, 1921 — horror came to Tulsa.

A thriving, self-made Black community known as "Black Wall Street" was brutally attacked by white mobs in one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in American history.

They burned it to the ground. Hundreds of Black-owned homes and businesses — symbols of pride, prosperity, and hard-won success — were looted and reduced to rubble. At least 36 Black residents were murdered, over 800 were injured, and thousands more were left homeless, their dreams and life's work destroyed in a single night of terror.

A community that had risen against all odds was violently crushed. We remember Greenwood. We remember the lives stolen. We remember the pain that still echoes.

[Melissa L. Weber @Melwriter]

@RepJackKimble Are you being ironic?

[Melissa L. Weber @Melwriter]

@queenie4rmnola I just can’t fathom the trauma of losing your baby to such (human) monsters and being powerless to save them. How did Black women survive? Reparations isn’t enough.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

If you help a turtle across the road, move it in the direction it was already heading. Never turn it around.

It's turtle season. Females are crossing roads right now to reach nesting sites, and they know exactly where they're going. If you turn one around "toward the water" or "back to safety," it will just try to cross again the moment you leave.

If it's safe for you to stop, pick the turtle up by the sides of the shell, keep it low to the ground, and walk it across in the same direction it was facing. Don't relocate it somewhere "better." Turtles have small home ranges they spend their whole lives in, and a relocated turtle will often wander trying to get back, crossing more roads to do it.

One exception: snapping turtles bite and have long necks. For those, slide a car mat under them and drag it, or lift from the very back of the shell near the tail, never the front.

The turtle knows where it's going. Your only job is to get it to the other side faster.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Talarico: “This is the oldest strategy in the world—divide and conquer. They divide us by party, by race, by gender, by religion, by all this culture war stuff, so we don’t notice that they are picking our pockets, that they are closing our public schools all over Texas, they are gutting our healthcare, raising our premiums for Texans all over the state, and they are raising taxes on all of us while they cut taxes for themselves…Texans see through this game. They realize that we are being pitted against each other with these old, tired culture war fights so that corrupt politicians like #KenPaxton can hold on to power and continue to enrich themselves and their billionaire mega donors.”👊

[Melissa L. Weber @Melwriter]

@RyanShead Thank you.

[Melissa L. Weber @Melwriter]

@Meta I've now been waiting with a chatbot to discuss a billing problem for 6 hours. I plan to stop payment on all of my ads until I can talk with someone!

[Melissa L. Weber @Melwriter]

@SenJonHusted Our brightest days are ahead because we'll be sending @SherrodBrown to the United State Senate.

[Melissa L. Weber @Melwriter]

@SpeakerJohnson I only know people who are desperate for services and can't get them because of the obscene cuts you've made. This administration is the most corrupt in history, pocketing our tax dollars and taking away vital services.

[Melissa L. Weber @Melwriter]

@DrNeilStone Perhaps he thinks all Jewish males are autistic since obviously all Jewish boys are circumcised?

[Melissa L. Weber @Melwriter]

@cmclymer Strongly disagree. With a dear friend who transitioned 40 years ago and a close relative now, I do not recommend this administration. Zero stars. (Love your sarcasm.)

[Melissa L. Weber @Melwriter]

@AnnetteWhipple Those 3-day weekends cause ripples...

[Melissa L. Weber @Melwriter]

@hwinkler4real What is wrong with that man? Why this fascination with autism? Why does he make up medical diagnoses?