@lkleizear.bsky.social
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Theresa Claiborne
"retired badass Black woman pilot 👩🏾✈️✈️💙"
7 years USAF active duty
13 years USAF Reserves duty
34 years as a united pilot (767 and 787)
President of Sisters of the Skies
And most recently, recipient of the Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Aviation Inspiration Award
"retired badass Black woman pilot 👩🏾✈️✈️💙"
7 years USAF active duty
13 years USAF Reserves duty
34 years as a united pilot (767 and 787)
President of Sisters of the Skies
And most recently, recipient of the Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Aviation Inspiration Award
October 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Theresa Claiborne
"retired badass Black woman pilot 👩🏾✈️✈️💙"
7 years USAF active duty
13 years USAF Reserves duty
34 years as a united pilot (767 and 787)
President of Sisters of the Skies
And most recently, recipient of the Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Aviation Inspiration Award
"retired badass Black woman pilot 👩🏾✈️✈️💙"
7 years USAF active duty
13 years USAF Reserves duty
34 years as a united pilot (767 and 787)
President of Sisters of the Skies
And most recently, recipient of the Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Aviation Inspiration Award
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NEW: We just filed a class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration for its creation of massive secret databases of millions of Americans' personal information, violating the Privacy Act.
This illegal overreach is unacceptable.
This illegal overreach is unacceptable.
Class action lawsuit challenges Trump-Vance administration’s unlawful “National Data Banks” - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The Trump-Vance administration’s creation of massive government databases consolidating legally protected personal information is unlawful.
www.citizensforethics.org
September 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
NEW: We just filed a class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration for its creation of massive secret databases of millions of Americans' personal information, violating the Privacy Act.
This illegal overreach is unacceptable.
This illegal overreach is unacceptable.
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This is some of the best messaging I’ve seen so far from the Democratic Party. Please forward far and wide.
@indivisible.org
@indivisiblenoco.com
@indivisible-co.bsky.social
NOCO
#copolitics
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Hold the line -
@hickenlooper.senate.gov
@bennet.senate.gov
@indivisible.org
@indivisiblenoco.com
@indivisible-co.bsky.social
NOCO
#copolitics
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Hold the line -
@hickenlooper.senate.gov
@bennet.senate.gov
October 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is some of the best messaging I’ve seen so far from the Democratic Party. Please forward far and wide.
@indivisible.org
@indivisiblenoco.com
@indivisible-co.bsky.social
NOCO
#copolitics
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Hold the line -
@hickenlooper.senate.gov
@bennet.senate.gov
@indivisible.org
@indivisiblenoco.com
@indivisible-co.bsky.social
NOCO
#copolitics
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Hold the line -
@hickenlooper.senate.gov
@bennet.senate.gov
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Four Black girls were murdered in a church for daring to exist in a desegregated America.
Decades later, justice came, because people refused to let the story die.
Watch Sen Doug Jones and historian Heather Cox Richardson break it down.
History isn’t past. It’s a warning.
youtu.be/bccqUo0mZvQ?...
Decades later, justice came, because people refused to let the story die.
Watch Sen Doug Jones and historian Heather Cox Richardson break it down.
History isn’t past. It’s a warning.
youtu.be/bccqUo0mZvQ?...
American Conversations: Senator Doug Jones
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
youtu.be
September 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Four Black girls were murdered in a church for daring to exist in a desegregated America.
Decades later, justice came, because people refused to let the story die.
Watch Sen Doug Jones and historian Heather Cox Richardson break it down.
History isn’t past. It’s a warning.
youtu.be/bccqUo0mZvQ?...
Decades later, justice came, because people refused to let the story die.
Watch Sen Doug Jones and historian Heather Cox Richardson break it down.
History isn’t past. It’s a warning.
youtu.be/bccqUo0mZvQ?...
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This is America.
August 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This is America.
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We should have the House right now. Let me say it again: we should have the House.
This ain’t just a Texas problem, it’s a national problem. They’re stealing seats to keep power, and that’s how we ended up with Speaker Johnson instead of Speaker Jeffries.
They can’t win fair, so they cheat.
This ain’t just a Texas problem, it’s a national problem. They’re stealing seats to keep power, and that’s how we ended up with Speaker Johnson instead of Speaker Jeffries.
They can’t win fair, so they cheat.
August 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
We should have the House right now. Let me say it again: we should have the House.
This ain’t just a Texas problem, it’s a national problem. They’re stealing seats to keep power, and that’s how we ended up with Speaker Johnson instead of Speaker Jeffries.
They can’t win fair, so they cheat.
This ain’t just a Texas problem, it’s a national problem. They’re stealing seats to keep power, and that’s how we ended up with Speaker Johnson instead of Speaker Jeffries.
They can’t win fair, so they cheat.
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Newsflash, Wannabe Dictator:
I don’t care how many times you shake the Etch A Sketch trying to redraw these lines. I’m not disappearing.
I’ll be back, still on your behind every step of the way. (1/2)
I don’t care how many times you shake the Etch A Sketch trying to redraw these lines. I’m not disappearing.
I’ll be back, still on your behind every step of the way. (1/2)
August 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Newsflash, Wannabe Dictator:
I don’t care how many times you shake the Etch A Sketch trying to redraw these lines. I’m not disappearing.
I’ll be back, still on your behind every step of the way. (1/2)
I don’t care how many times you shake the Etch A Sketch trying to redraw these lines. I’m not disappearing.
I’ll be back, still on your behind every step of the way. (1/2)
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🔥WATCH: “This is not a TV show. This is real life.”
Turns out Dean Cain’s kryptonite is @thebulwark.com’s @timmiller.bsky.social —spend the 2 mins👇🏽
The policy is self-defeating.
The tactics un-American.
Big difference between controlling the border vs. making this a place nobody wants to come 🇺🇸
Turns out Dean Cain’s kryptonite is @thebulwark.com’s @timmiller.bsky.social —spend the 2 mins👇🏽
The policy is self-defeating.
The tactics un-American.
Big difference between controlling the border vs. making this a place nobody wants to come 🇺🇸
August 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
🔥WATCH: “This is not a TV show. This is real life.”
Turns out Dean Cain’s kryptonite is @thebulwark.com’s @timmiller.bsky.social —spend the 2 mins👇🏽
The policy is self-defeating.
The tactics un-American.
Big difference between controlling the border vs. making this a place nobody wants to come 🇺🇸
Turns out Dean Cain’s kryptonite is @thebulwark.com’s @timmiller.bsky.social —spend the 2 mins👇🏽
The policy is self-defeating.
The tactics un-American.
Big difference between controlling the border vs. making this a place nobody wants to come 🇺🇸
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The core of our message should be about everyday life in America, and how much better it could be - with different leadership and different policies.
August 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The core of our message should be about everyday life in America, and how much better it could be - with different leadership and different policies.
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He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore.
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
June 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore.
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
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If you'd like to see and hear @hcrichardson.bsky.social deliver her blow-by-blow account of the lighting of the lamps in the Old North Church – where she gave this address – and the Ride of Paul Revere 250 years ago, someone did us the service of recording it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv5l...
Heather Cox Richardson Speech - 250 Year Lantern Anniversary - Old North Church
YouTube video by VanTidesDIY
www.youtube.com
April 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
If you'd like to see and hear @hcrichardson.bsky.social deliver her blow-by-blow account of the lighting of the lamps in the Old North Church – where she gave this address – and the Ride of Paul Revere 250 years ago, someone did us the service of recording it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv5l...
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Has anyone noticed that the Republican discourse about North Carolina’s storm recovery vanished after the election? Nothing. Not a peep from them.
Probably because they don’t want you to know THEY LITERALLY DENIED FUNDING FOR NORTH CAROLINA THIS WEEK!
Crazy how that works!
Probably because they don’t want you to know THEY LITERALLY DENIED FUNDING FOR NORTH CAROLINA THIS WEEK!
Crazy how that works!
April 20, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Has anyone noticed that the Republican discourse about North Carolina’s storm recovery vanished after the election? Nothing. Not a peep from them.
Probably because they don’t want you to know THEY LITERALLY DENIED FUNDING FOR NORTH CAROLINA THIS WEEK!
Crazy how that works!
Probably because they don’t want you to know THEY LITERALLY DENIED FUNDING FOR NORTH CAROLINA THIS WEEK!
Crazy how that works!
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These cuts mean worse forecasts, fewer alerts, and more lives at risk during fires, floods, and storms. Cutting off the data that keeps communities safe is dangerous, shortsighted, and unacceptable.
Massive cuts at National Weather Service spark fears about forecast quality, public safety
Mass firings at the National Weather Service have started to affect local offices across the nation, with some locations limiting operations. And it could just be the beginning with further budget cut...
www.latimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
These cuts mean worse forecasts, fewer alerts, and more lives at risk during fires, floods, and storms. Cutting off the data that keeps communities safe is dangerous, shortsighted, and unacceptable.
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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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The times require that elected officials be not just representatives of our communities and states but organizers defending American constitutional democracy and leaders out of this lapse into authoritarian rule.
Watch this clip from @podsaveamerica.crooked.com:
Watch this clip from @podsaveamerica.crooked.com:
April 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The times require that elected officials be not just representatives of our communities and states but organizers defending American constitutional democracy and leaders out of this lapse into authoritarian rule.
Watch this clip from @podsaveamerica.crooked.com:
Watch this clip from @podsaveamerica.crooked.com:
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We’re in the middle of spring tornado season
National Weather Service employees were encouraged to take early retirements at an all-hands meeting Thursday. The union believes as many as 1,000 could leave in the coming months - out of a workforce of just over 4,000.
With @weathersullivan.bsky.social (gift):
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
With @weathersullivan.bsky.social (gift):
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Weather Service Merges Offices as Staffing Pressure Mounts
The US National Weather Service will merge two of its largest forecasting units as it prepares for the loss of as many as 1,000 staffers.
www.bloomberg.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
We’re in the middle of spring tornado season
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You can draw a direct line from these guys back to the antebellum proslavery writers.
Its funny. Corey Robin's book was very controversial when he defined conservatism as a defense of hierarchical rule, and I got some push back for insisting that it was premised on a rejection of equality.
Now a lot of conservative thinkers just affirm that view unambiguously and proudly.
Now a lot of conservative thinkers just affirm that view unambiguously and proudly.
March 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
You can draw a direct line from these guys back to the antebellum proslavery writers.
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I've mentioned how I came to the US on a Fulbright, and met my wife-to-be, then years later was seated at dinner beside Fulbright's widow, who said this kind of connection was why he had wanted the program. Trump is building an America that no-one will want to come to or have anything to do with.
I’m a former IIE Fulbright recipient. I hope to see a statement from Fulbright about the detention of Rumeysa Ozturk, doing doctoral research at Tufts’ Child Study and Human Development program. Her work addresses childrens’ media. She is the co-founder of an independent children’s media initiative.
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I've mentioned how I came to the US on a Fulbright, and met my wife-to-be, then years later was seated at dinner beside Fulbright's widow, who said this kind of connection was why he had wanted the program. Trump is building an America that no-one will want to come to or have anything to do with.
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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She appears to have been taken to an ICE facility in Louisiana, against a judge’s orders
NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine
“I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.
zeteo.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
She appears to have been taken to an ICE facility in Louisiana, against a judge’s orders
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I know I say this a lot, but I hope we are done—finally done—with accepting the GOP’s efforts to equate its “tough on crime” stance as meaning it actually want to ensure that laws are obeyed.
It’s about social control—enforcement as a means of regulating disliked out groups.
It’s about social control—enforcement as a means of regulating disliked out groups.
here's video of AG Pam Bondi claiming on Fox last night that the Trump administration "absolutely" will keep doing deportation flights even in the face of court orders telling them to stop
March 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I know I say this a lot, but I hope we are done—finally done—with accepting the GOP’s efforts to equate its “tough on crime” stance as meaning it actually want to ensure that laws are obeyed.
It’s about social control—enforcement as a means of regulating disliked out groups.
It’s about social control—enforcement as a means of regulating disliked out groups.
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The Revolution will be AI-icized
February 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Revolution will be AI-icized
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I’m thinking about federal income tax.
If the federal government isn’t meeting its obligations why should we?
Specifically, I’d love to see states get the money first and hold it in trust pending litigation. I want to pay my taxes but not to a government that doesn’t respect the constitution.
If the federal government isn’t meeting its obligations why should we?
Specifically, I’d love to see states get the money first and hold it in trust pending litigation. I want to pay my taxes but not to a government that doesn’t respect the constitution.
February 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I’m thinking about federal income tax.
If the federal government isn’t meeting its obligations why should we?
Specifically, I’d love to see states get the money first and hold it in trust pending litigation. I want to pay my taxes but not to a government that doesn’t respect the constitution.
If the federal government isn’t meeting its obligations why should we?
Specifically, I’d love to see states get the money first and hold it in trust pending litigation. I want to pay my taxes but not to a government that doesn’t respect the constitution.