Native Iowan, former New Yorker. Civic minded retired higher ed international educator. Author. Huge 💛Hawkeye fan🖤 #TeamPete 🐝
Iowa City, IA
Joined October 2008
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Just signed up for the Iowa Ladies Football Academy! Help me raise money for the NICU at the Stead Family Children’s Hospital! #Hawkeyes helpmakemiracles.org/partici…
How scary for Jalen Hurts! Glad nothing serious happened to him and he can get the treatment he needs.
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Meet our Week 7 Kid Captain Kaelyn O’Brien – a 13-year-old from Jesup, Iowa. 💛🏈 Get to know Kaelyn and read more about her journey: uihc.pulse.ly/8ah9avs5fg
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This is what billionaire ownership of the media means:
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta shut down the No Kings account for hours during the height of their protests.
Meta suppressed accounts supporting Brazil President Lula da Silva in the recent election.
Larry Ellison’s TikTok blocked advertising for a documentary criticizing Elon Musk.
Fight back. Defeat oligarchy. Preserve democracy.
Love this!!
Tonight, we’re kicking off our Clear Eyes, Full Hearts Tour with some special guests from the cast of Friday Night Lights.
We’ve come this far together. Now it’s time to leave it all on the field.
Join us: mobilize.us/talaricofortexas…
What a bunch of exciting college football games yesterday! I tried to stay awake to watch that Oregon vs Nebraska game, but couldn’t. I see Nebraska did their usual 4th quarter collapse again!
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They tried to stop a North Carolina HBCU from voting and the kids said not on our watch 💪
Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state.
The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via @tmsimmons) greensboro.com/news/local/go…
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Students from NC A&T (the largest HBCU) marching back from going to vote. The county closed the polling place on campus. Students marched to town to vote anyway. A&T is where @RevJJackson went to school. His legacy lives on. linkedin.com/posts/todd-simm…
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Breaking News: President Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was fired after less than a week on the job, according to people familiar with the matter. nyti.ms/4yuECpZ
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Eight women joined Iowa’s first medical class in 1870.
The Carver College of Medicine was America’s first coeducational medical school 🩺
ALT Photo of the Carver College of Medicine Class of 1880.
Vote for @turek4iowa
Iowa's @HinsonAshley lies about her voting to release the Epstein Files and @RepThomasMassie calls her out.
If Hinson will lie about his, she'll lie about other things as well. When someone shows you who they are, remember that the first time you see it.
Iowans remember.
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For 63 days, the bipartisan discharge petition that ultimately led to the release of the Epstein files was a single signature short.
Ashley Hinson could have signed. She had every opportunity to buck her party leadership and sign the petition.
She did not.
Vote @turek4iowa.
I voted to release the Epstein files and have spent years working across the aisle to protect survivors of sexual abuse.
Men like Epstein, who hurt children, they’ll have to answer to God. But men who lie about it to win an election, they’ll have to answer to you.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Hinson voted aye on the final Epstein Files Transparency Act but did not sign the discharge petition to force earlier consideration and voted yea on procedural motions that blocked related release efforts.
clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025289
clerk.house.gov/DischargePetit…
clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025194
thegazette.com/federal-govern…
politifact.com/factchecks/202…
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FUN FACT: Rep. Ilhan Omar has been a citizen longer than Melania trump AND Elon Musk.
I stand with Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Yesterday I received this bouquet from @Chewy with a beautiful note for the loss of my cat, Zelda. What a beautiful thing for a company to do! I am very touched.
