Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadStephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 26/01/2025The Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, Black pioneer pilots honored for their service during World War II. Also halted, teaching the history of Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, the female World War II pilots who were essential in ferrying warplanes… 956103494402
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadAshley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 22/01/2025🎯🎯🎯 171083297
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Let’s hope that Tik Tok is disabled tonight at midnight and all day tomorrow and Monday. Which means the biggest story on Monday will be… And the reaction from the newly installed President will be … 3658557784799
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadCALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 19/01/2025 459185674506
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadVeronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 15/01/2025We have forgotten what it's like to hold a child paralyzed with polio, or comfort a mom who has lost her child from measles. It wasn’t that many generations ago. And I don‘t want to see us go backward. They protect our kids. They are our best defense against these terrible illnesses. 1177
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadBuilding Back Together @buildingback-us.bsky.social · 08/01/2025TODAY: President Biden announced new actions to expand benefits for Veterans with cancer caused by toxic burn pits by lowering the burden for those who served in the Gulf War and after 9/11 — thanks to the PACT Act he signed into law! www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...usatoday.comBiden administration expands benefits for veterans with cancer exposed to burn pitsThe Biden administration expanded benefits for veterans with some cancers that could be linked to burn pit exposure. 8858193
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadAskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 15/01/2025The number of police that went to arrest President Yoon. This is how you treat a traitor. 17986911869
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadFred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025He is not qualified. 16564401186
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadKodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Why is the United States a country that heath care decisions are based on companies profits and not medical needs. 16379176
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadDebbie Nunnja @iamthephoenixfreed.bsky.social · 05/01/2025@danboriscreates.bsky.social @costplusdrugs.com Cartoonists everywhere are paying homage to Ann Telnaes by reflecting her work. 313242
Reposted by Renee Lessard Moresheaddrew® @drewned.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Calm down SoCal, Donald Trump is on the case... 1227073
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadComediocracy @comediocracy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025"I can't stop the Ukraine war but you can try my new Russian vodka" 27323
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadH. John Tran @johnhtran.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Megyn Kelly’s rant attacking LA’s female fire chiefs as ‘obese lesbians’ is appalling and reeks of outdated misogyny. Firefighters like Kristin Crowley, with decades of service, face budget cuts and climate-driven wildfires—not her ignorance. Diversity isn’t the problem; bigotry is. 3418522
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/01/2025They are such mrons 966160142949
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadNorm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Publishing essays like this moving one from @oliviajulianna.bsky.social is why we founded @contrariannews.bsky.social Standing up for democracy isn’t just about calling out autocrats It’s also about appreciating what is beautiful about our country contrarian.substack.com/p/from-the-t...contrarian.substack.comFrom the Trailer House to the White HouseAn American Story 1659685
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadAlex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Senator: I’ll speak in his defense because to err is human. Who among us hasn’t shown up drunk to work? Who here hasn’t cheated on their wife? Hegseth: Please stop helping me Senator: Who hasn’t taken off their pants at the zoo? 637282974794
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Carrie Underwood has gone from singing disapprovingly about an unfaithful man to singing approvingly *to* an unfaithful man. 791308054525
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 14/01/2025An initiative that was promoted for years as a civil-rights cause—helping poor kids in troubled schools—is threatening to become a nationwide money grab. A collaboration with @propublica.org investigates the dramatic expansion of the school-voucher movement.newyorker.comHow Religious Schools Became a Billion-Dollar Drain on Public EducationA nationwide movement has funnelled taxpayer money to private institutions, eroding the separation between church and state. 827696
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Love this. 767356657674
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13/01/2025"This is the one-sided fight we’ve seen between the legal system and Trumpism. Trump has avoided trial in the federal cases that posed the greatest risk to him. He’s avoided accountability for the insurrection. Trump has won. The legal system has lost." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-brin...thebulwark.comTrump Brings a Cannon to a Knife FightWith friends like these, who needs the DoJ? 3134568
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Trump isn't as strong politically as people think. "Trump is basically doing about the best he’s ever done with public opinion, but that’s still quite a bit worse than any other president-elect. Or, for that matter, any president just after winning re-election." open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...open.substack.comTrump's BounceIt's real. It ain't impressive. 1229256
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadThe Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Jake Sullivan on Trump team questioning NSC staffers about their voting history: “These are professionals who do not have allegiance to party… They're not here to do politics… for them, it is about the mission on behalf of the country, and I hope that the incoming team sees that.” 1615927
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadThe Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 14/01/2025@jenrubin.bsky.social on leaving Wapo, co-founding The Contrarian: “We're at an inflection point in American democracy, and we need a free press that's going to stand up to authoritarianism." 351293300
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 13/01/2025JUST HITTING THE DOCKET: Judge Cannon has entered this order wherein she is allowing the release of Vol. 1 (1/6 election interference) of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Final Report. However she is not releasing Vol. 2 (MAL classified docs) at this time. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...storage.courtlistener.com 2181731379
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadThe Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 13/01/2025“It was our retirement. It was our investment. It was our equity. It was everything.” Teachers, plumbers and nurses bought into L.A.’s affluent neighborhoods decades ago. The bulk of their fortunes are tied up in homes that are now ash. on.wsj.com/3PTw2gJ 2663990720
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadGuillaume Bonnet @zazb.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Sean Sutter, the creator of Relicblade, took the time to sketch Leaf (from my Isoctober) in my copy of Cursebreaker. This man is a legend 🤩 11524
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 13/01/2025READ THIS. THEN READ IT AGAIN. 1644149966949
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/01/2025“The startup’s tagline, ‘Not owned by anybody,’ is a pointed reference to billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and other moguls who, in Rubin’s view, have ‘bent the knee’ to President-elect Donald Trump.”cnn.comJen Rubin exits Washington Post, joins Norm Eisen to launch new outlet countering ‘authoritarian threat’ | CNN BusinessVeteran opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin is becoming the latest in a long list of Washington Post figures to leave the troubled institution. 25696241995
Reposted by Renee Lessard Moresheaddaily lovirae @dailylovirae.bsky.social · 13/01/2025🐘 Elephants mourn their dead and recognize themselves in mirrors. Their trunks have over 40,000 muscles, making them tools, snorkels, and straws all in one. Gentle giants with big brains! 🌳 18210
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadNPR @npr.org · 13/01/2025Republican voters say they trust the 2024 election was administered well, yet pro-Trump conservatives are pushing some sweeping reforms to voting systems.npr.orgDespite Trump's win, 'election integrity' activists still seek sweeping voting changesRepublican voters say they trust the 2024 election was administered well, yet pro-Trump conservatives are pushing some sweeping reforms to voting systems. 6231269
Reposted by Renee Lessard Moreshead🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Gavin Newsom made a website to fight the misinformation about the fires. Give it a read. REPOST gavinnewsom.com/california-f...gavinnewsom.comCalifornia Fire Facts | Governor Gavin NewsomGet the facts about the Los Angeles fires. 378136986507
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13/01/2025Seen in Venice Beach today 58126211700
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13/01/2025A century ago, the temperance movement fought to transform the soul of the country. Today, sobriety is all about the transformation of self, Shayla Love writes:theatlantic.comNot Just Sober-Curious, but Neo-TemperateHow sobriety went from a radical social movement to a tool of self-optimization 6778
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 13/01/2025"You deserve leadership in Washington that does not answer to the lobbyists… or to the corrupt special interest but answers only to you, the hardworking citizens of America," Trump said during his 2024 campaign After he won, TRUMP IMMEDIATELY NAMED A CORPORATE LOBBYIST AS HIS CHIEF OF STAFFpopular.infoThe corporate lobbyist who will run the Trump White HouseDuring the 2024 campaign, Trump condemned the power of lobbyists in Washington, DC, and pledged that, if he returned to the White House, they would have no influence. 792428759
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadGovernor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 11/01/2025Firefighters from Mexico just arrived at LAX. They'll be joining 14,000+ personnel already battling the #PalisadesFire. California is immensely grateful to our neighbors' support in the fight against the wildfires in Los Angeles. 542241944385
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/01/2025Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv ready to swap North Korean soldiers for Ukrainian PoWs, Zelenskyy saystheguardian.comUkraine war briefing: Kyiv ready to swap North Korean soldiers for Ukrainian PoWs, Zelenskyy saysUkrainian president says there ‘should be no doubt left’ that Russia is dependent on military assistance from North Korea. What we know on day 1,055 * See all our Ukraine coverage Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday he was ready… 312020
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 12/01/2025This is the kind of leadership failure we should notice. Forget Trump here. These California Republicans thought it was more important to go to Florida than help in whatever way they could where the crisis is happening. 19330461111
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/01/20251. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!erininthemorning.com2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day! 380236989673
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Problems with Pete Hegseth ranked from very bad to way, way worse: 6. drunkenness (common); 5. incompetence (common); 4. corruption (common); 3. raving bigotry (common); 2. alleged rape (less common); 1. Proposing military attack on US cities to exterminate all enemies. (That’s a new one). 472531713
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Corporations give money to Trump because they, like him, only care about themselves. 268103843316
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadMari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Discovering women’s history in Boston: the Boston Women’s Memorial with Lucy Stone, Abigail Adams and Phillis Wheatley 🗃️ 3506
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadKevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 12/01/2025This is certainly a long shot, but it does reflect the overall trend of public memory of the Civil War era, even in the South. 🗃️ www.supertalk.fm/mississippi-...supertalk.fmMississippi lawmakers working to remove Confederate statues from Washington - SuperTalk MississippiLawmakers in both chambers of the Mississippi Legislature are working to rid of two Confederate statues that have represented the state in Congress for nearly 59320
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadNick Le Huray @nickleh.bsky.social · 12/01/2025You can find every episode of the podcast talking about the German occupation of the Channel Islands on the link below. We talk about it from the view of the civilian population and the military view. 🗃️ island-fortress.com/podcast-epis...island-fortress.comPODCAST EPISODES AND INFORMATION - Island FortressHere you can find the supporting information for each podcast episode where we put images and documents relating to the items we talk about on the 'Islands at War' podcast episode by episode. You can ... 1184
Reposted by Renee Lessard MoresheadAdroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Oh YEAH they do! 🗃️ 05410