Official Twitter Page for Melanie Nicholls-King
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Mel Nicholls-King retweeted
Every time your phone tells you where you are, it is using a mathematical model of the shape of the Earth.
A Black woman from rural Virginia spent decades building that model by hand, and almost nobody knew her name until she was in her eighties.
Gladys West. She grew up in a sharecropping family in Dinwiddie County and understood early that the alternatives were the tobacco fields or the factory. She finished top of her high school class, which came with a scholarship, and took it.
Her work was satellite geodesy: taking the raw data coming down from orbit and using it to compute, correction by correction, the true irregular shape of the Earth. Not a sphere. Not even a neat ellipsoid. A lumpy thing with gravitational highs and lows.
That model is the foundation the Global Positioning System sits on. You cannot locate a point on a surface until you know precisely what the surface is.
She did this for decades, largely unremarked, and retired in 1998.
She was recognised in 2018, when her sorority mentioned her biography at a function and someone realised what was in it.
The Air Force inducted her into its Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame. She earned a PhD in her seventies.
WOW!!! Time certainly flies! Even the young’uns aren’t so young anymore! 🤣🤣👏🏾💪🏾❤️
📺Today TV History: ROOKIE BLUE #RookieBlue Premiered 2010 ABC Starring @mperegrym #GregorySmith @enukaokuma #TravisMilne #CharlotteSullivan @BenBassOfficial @MattyBGordon @lyriqbent @melnking @noamjenkins @_adammacdonald About bit.ly/a0dnH1
Did Oprah’s New Dating Show "Somebody’s Son"
I know Maureen and she needs to get her props, her credit AND HER MONEY!!! She’s one of the hardest working people I know and she deserves to get full compensation!!!
Borrow a Black Woman’s Idea? mediatakeout.com/did-oprahs-…
Mel Nicholls-King retweeted
BREAKING: President Biden just announced that he thinks Kamala Harris is going to make one hell of a President. Retweet so all Americans see President Biden’s ringing endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Mel Nicholls-King retweeted
BREAKING: Donald Trump gets devastating news as billionaire Mark Cuban and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman join forces and unite over 100 venture capitalists to back Kamala Harris for president.
And it gets even better...
"We spend our days looking for, investing in and supporting entrepreneurs who are building the future," reads the "VCs for Kamala" website. "We are pro-business, pro-American dream, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-technological progress."
"We also believe in democracy as the backbone of our nation," the site goes on. "We believe that strong, trustworthy institutions are a feature, not a bug, and that our industry — and every other industry — would collapse without them."
"That is what’s at stake in this election. Everything else, we can solve through constructive dialogue with political leaders and institutions willing to talk to us. In this pivotal moment, we are united in our support for Vice President Kamala Harris," it reads.
The announcement is a powerful rebuke to far-right Silicon Valley billionaires like Elon Musk who have thrown their support behind Donald Trump's fascist movement in the hopes of more tax cuts.
Please retweet and ❤️ to thank Mark Cuban and his allies for supporting Kamala — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new pro-democracy social network that is exploding in popularity because Twitter and Facebook are trying to stop its growth — which is only making Tribel grow even faster. Please follow us on Tribel to get all of our breaking news alerts sent straight to your phone or computer by clicking the following link: tribel.app.link/okwPIHYCIqb
Mel Nicholls-King retweeted
FLASHBACK
1993-In congressional testimony, Donald Trump said that Native casino owners didn't deserve special status because “they don’t look like Indians to me.”
Mel Nicholls-King retweeted
Earlier this week, Michelle and I called our friend @KamalaHarris. We told her we think she’ll make a fantastic President of the United States, and that she has our full support. At this critical moment for our country, we’re going to do everything we can to make sure she wins in November. We hope you’ll join us.
Mel Nicholls-King retweeted
President Biden lays out some of his accomplishments:
—Strongest economy in the world
—Nearly 16 million new jobs, a record
—Wages up
—Inflation coming down
—Racial wealth gap lowest in 20 years
—Historic infrastructure investments
—Lower prescription drug costs
—Record health insurance coverage
—Most significant climate law ever
—First major gun safety law in 30 years
—First Black woman on Supreme Court
—Help for 1 million veterans exposed to toxins
—Violent crime rate at 50-year low
—Border crossings lower than when Trump left office
Mel Nicholls-King retweeted
Liaten to those CHEERS when Kamala Harris says "when I'm President of the United States..."
CHILLS.
Mel Nicholls-King retweeted
I just overheard someone say “I’m not voting for Kamala Harris because she is a woman, I’m voting for Kamala Harris because I AM a woman”
This needs to be said more.
Mel Nicholls-King retweeted
My uncle is panicking. He’s running against a strong Black woman—and a former prosecutor—who isn’t afraid to call him out or mock him. His whole campaign strategy was based around attacking Joe Biden—his age, his infirmity, his cognitive decline. It was all projection, of course, but because Pres. Biden is old and has slowed down in the last four years, and because he doesn’t shout or bully, Donald was able to make the attacks stick thanks, in large part, to his foot soldiers in the corporate media.
Mel Nicholls-King retweeted
Since the FBI Director Wray has raised the valid question of whether trump's ear was struck by a bullet or by shrapnel, shouldn't the American people get to see the medical report on this?
After all, if it were a question of his nation of birth, news outlets would DEMAND to see his birth certificate, wouldn't they?
I mean, nobody asked if we wanted to see pictures of private citizen Hunter Biden's junk, it didn't stop them from whipping them out on the floor of the House.
If you can show us dick pics, you can show us authentic ear pics.
SHOW US THE MEDICAL REPORT.
