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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The @NBA season kicks off today 🔥 Wishing good luck to our Hawkeyes!
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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.
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Wu Tang is for the Children
@WUTangKidsOct 17
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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Barbara Clark 🚫 👑 retweeted
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 🩺
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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
Rep. Hinson voted for the Epstein Files Transparency Act (H.R. 4405) in Nov. 2025 after a discharge petition passed without her signature. She voted for prior procedural motions blocking standalone votes and did not sign key discharge petitions. iowastartingline.com/news/politics/… epsteinwiki.com/knowledge-base…
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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.
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Pete Hegseth announced that the Department of Defense would publicly execute Nidal Hasan and live stream the execution. There is no doubt that Nidal Hasan is a murderer who took the lives of 13 people and injured dozens. He should face justice for that. But a public execution? Here in the United States? It’s the kind of thing Iran and the Taliban do. Is this who we want to be associated with? Pete Hegseth’s campaign of “maximum lethality” and his comments about “killing people” and now his desire to publicly execute a prisoner indicate to me that his expiration date in this job has long passed. He should be removed immediately. And this administration needs to reevaluate its priorities. How about they trade glorifying violence for solving some problems and delivering for the American people? We need to be reminded of the nation we can be at our best. As President Ronald Reagan said “compassion, vision, and a fundamental sense of decency are the hallmarks of our national character.” That is not what we’ve seen from this President and his administration. We need to find that again.
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Replying to @OutFrontCNN
This intent violates the UCMJ and federal law. Damn shame the Secretary of Defense is unaware or intends to violate!
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Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Game 6 Kid Captain: JJ Ward ⭐
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades. The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors. ms.now/news/trump-midterms-o…
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9/11 was one of the worst days on American soil in history,,, we just honored its 25th anniversary. This “patriot” is encouraging something worse by 957,671%. A million times worse,,, actually.
Trump on Iran: Let 'em take out Los Angeles and San Diego, it's a small price to pay
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Barbara Clark 🚫 👑 retweeted
9,000 campus trees. 350+ species. 17 straight years recognized as a 'Tree Campus' by @arborday 🌳 Fall has a pretty good canvas here.
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MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊@AzPetrichOct 5
So - Kash Patel is going to Russia to meet with Putin, huh. Why the fuck does the Director of the FBI need to meet with the President of Russia?
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Barbara Clark 🚫 👑 retweeted
This should outrage every American. This is the president of the United States telling Iran to bomb American cities. I live in Los Angeles, but that’s beside the point. Tommorow it could be your city. My fellow Americans, this is not normal. This is not funny. This behavior should ring alarm bells for us all!
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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Meet our Week 6 Kid Captain JJ Ward – a 6-year-old from Davenport, Iowa. 💛🏈 uihc.pulse.ly/qc4ermyhk7
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