Claire Tondreau
@claire4takeoff.bsky.social
Global villager, proud Social Worker, former marketer, lover of cargo pants. Working toward liberation and justice for all.
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Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
January 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
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“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” - Ray Goforth
December 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” - Ray Goforth
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social I think the overwhelming response was all you.
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social I think the overwhelming response was all you.
Today—the height of “they knew”-ness, Sarah Kendzior is banned. Talk about irony. @jay.bsky.team Bring Sarah back!
November 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Today—the height of “they knew”-ness, Sarah Kendzior is banned. Talk about irony. @jay.bsky.team Bring Sarah back!
Dear Veterans—Thank you. May you each find the health, peace, and benefits you earned and deserve.
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Dear Veterans—Thank you. May you each find the health, peace, and benefits you earned and deserve.
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Republicans need to act now to make sure those benefits are available to people who depend on them. If they don’t, millions of children, seniors, and low-income Americans will go hungry ahead of the holidays.
October 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Republicans need to act now to make sure those benefits are available to people who depend on them. If they don’t, millions of children, seniors, and low-income Americans will go hungry ahead of the holidays.
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More than 47 million Americans — including one in five children — don’t have reliable, affordable access to nutritious food. And as the cost of living skyrockets, more families are depending on SNAP benefits, or food stamps, to put food on the table.
October 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
More than 47 million Americans — including one in five children — don’t have reliable, affordable access to nutritious food. And as the cost of living skyrockets, more families are depending on SNAP benefits, or food stamps, to put food on the table.
I graduate with my MSW today! From now on, when someone asks what I do, I will proudly say, "I am a social worker."
May 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I graduate with my MSW today! From now on, when someone asks what I do, I will proudly say, "I am a social worker."
April 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name." -- John Stuart Mill (1867)
April 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name." -- John Stuart Mill (1867)
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Sadly, climate-related risks will not vanish if they are denied. With the deliberate choice to undermine climate science, knowledge production and science-based university programs, people will be less informed, less prepared.
www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
www.commerce.gov
April 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Sadly, climate-related risks will not vanish if they are denied. With the deliberate choice to undermine climate science, knowledge production and science-based university programs, people will be less informed, less prepared.
www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
@booker.senate.gov Thank you. What you’re doing is so necessary, and makes me proud. Thank you for standing up! (And for staying standing up!)
April 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
@booker.senate.gov Thank you. What you’re doing is so necessary, and makes me proud. Thank you for standing up! (And for staying standing up!)
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“If NIH doesn’t study the health impacts of climate, we are not going to be able to prevent some of those health impacts, and we aren’t going to be able to find ways to deal with them.”
NIH Ends Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
NIH Ends Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...
www.propublica.org
March 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
“If NIH doesn’t study the health impacts of climate, we are not going to be able to prevent some of those health impacts, and we aren’t going to be able to find ways to deal with them.”
NIH Ends Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
NIH Ends Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
Please read this entire thread.
I haven't ever really spoken about this to anyone, but when I was litigating the so-called "comfort women" case, I went to the National Archives to obtain and read the testimonies of women and girls who were held in sex slave camps by the Japanese military following their release.
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March 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Please read this entire thread.
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NOAA Saves Lives.
Last night a tornado hit a trailer park just miles from where I used to live. In Talladega, a bus was thrown into the roof of a high school. Several schools in the path would have been out on the roads at Prom if not for the warnings of the National weather service last night. Thank NWS.
March 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
NOAA Saves Lives.
@johnathanperk.bsky.social I appreciate you for what I’m taking in as my on-going lesson on white privilege. Not always pretty to face, but critically important. Sending you and all teachers gratitude.
February 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
@johnathanperk.bsky.social I appreciate you for what I’m taking in as my on-going lesson on white privilege. Not always pretty to face, but critically important. Sending you and all teachers gratitude.
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This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.
February 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.
Black history is American history. I continue to learn so much that I didn't know—some triumphs, some horrors, but all critically important.
February 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Black history is American history. I continue to learn so much that I didn't know—some triumphs, some horrors, but all critically important.
A Social Worker made all the difference to my family today. With incredible expertise and warmth, she made things happen that really eased our path—and our minds (and fully eclipsed the medical staff, tbh).
A shoutout for such grace in embodying Social Work values. @naswsocialworkers.bsky.social
A shoutout for such grace in embodying Social Work values. @naswsocialworkers.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
A Social Worker made all the difference to my family today. With incredible expertise and warmth, she made things happen that really eased our path—and our minds (and fully eclipsed the medical staff, tbh).
A shoutout for such grace in embodying Social Work values. @naswsocialworkers.bsky.social
A shoutout for such grace in embodying Social Work values. @naswsocialworkers.bsky.social
"Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child."
—Cicero
—Cicero
January 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
"Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child."
—Cicero
—Cicero
"History is not the past, it is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history."
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin
January 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"History is not the past, it is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history."
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin
Frances Perkins was, among other things, a Social Worker.
She set the badassery bar high for all of us who follow that path.
She set the badassery bar high for all of us who follow that path.
President Biden just established the Frances Perkins National Monument in Newcastle, Maine — honoring the historic contributions of America's first woman Cabinet Secretary and the longest-serving Secretary of Labor.
Perkins was the leading architect behind the New Deal.
Perkins was the leading architect behind the New Deal.
December 17, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Frances Perkins was, among other things, a Social Worker.
She set the badassery bar high for all of us who follow that path.
She set the badassery bar high for all of us who follow that path.
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”
—Audre Lord
—Audre Lord
December 12, 2024 at 1:58 AM
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”
—Audre Lord
—Audre Lord