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Kelly Langley Cook
@cookstah.bsky.social
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Director of Social Studies Education at the University of Northern Colorado.
LGBTQ+ and civil rights historian (US),
Mom to two kids and two pups. Partner of Jeff Cook @aroundthecircle.
If I’m not here I hope it’s because I’m skiing.
Why aren’t people more embarrassed about being stupid?
This should be the end of Noem’s career in public life. It almost certainly won’t be, however, which is itself damning.
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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President Donald Trump on Thursday fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress — the first woman and first African American to hold the position.

She was informed of the decision in a terse, two-sentence email.
Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
Hayden, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2016, was the first woman and the first African American to hold the position.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Reposted by Kelly Langley Cook
Yaaaaas!!!!!!!

Trisha Calvarese has announced she’s running again to take the House seat in Colorado from Lauren Boebert.

Let’s go!!!!
May 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
More of this!
Exclusive: Leaders of some of the nation’s most prestigious universities have assembled a private collective to counter the Trump administration’s attacks on research funding and academic independence.
Exclusive | Elite Universities Form Private Collective to Resist Trump Administration
Separate from the public dissent, a group of school leaders are strategizing behind the scenes about how to respond and push back against the White House.
buff.ly
April 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Reposted by Kelly Langley Cook
The Gilded Age wasn’t a golden age. Let’s not go back to it.
A Second Gilded Age
Tariffs and favoritism are signs of a poisoned political era.
www.brennancenter.org
April 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Are we great?
April 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
You don’t think it already upsets them that he got to go by his chosen name - not his birth name?
I kinda wish Pope Francis had kept the name Jorge just to upset a few politicians in the US.
April 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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If you wait to declare a Constitutional crisis until he "officially defies" the Court, you'll be waiting until it's too late.

Because that's not how powerful people do rule-breaking. They try to gaslight you and pretend they didn't break the rules or convince you their rule-breaking is justified.
April 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Awkward first post 👋
April 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM