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Leslie Jackson

@lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social

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Just a small blue dot in an incredibly red state (Oklahoma). Birds are my passion, (I’m a licensed Rehabber) especially raptors. I try to help those less fortunate than me, because that’s what we should all be doing. No DMs.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · 9d

ICE is hiring 14 year olds? Whoa. 😆

Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · 9d

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Kirk's rhetoric put my life in danger as a queer woman. It put my friend's lives in danger as well. So while I'll not celebrate his death, I also will never turn his life into something it wasn't.

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What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

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Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · 17d

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"Meanwhile, the University of California, Berkeley, has notified about 160 students, faculty members and staff that it has given their names to the federal government in connection with “alleged antisemitic incidents.”

BERKELEY????? Let that tell you everything.

Opinion | I Look at This Country and I See a Stranger

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 25d

I recommend everyone watches this

Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · Sep 8

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

So good.

Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

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Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · Sep 8

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So good. Thank you, Mr. Klein.

Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · Sep 1

Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · Sep 1

One Way the Earthbound Can Take Flight www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Margaret Renkle is a gift to me. 💕

Opinion | One Way the Earthbound Can Take Flight

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Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · Aug 30

Can You Still Get the Covid Shot? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/w...

Can You Still Get the Covid Shot?

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Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · Jul 31

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/o...
“The high road’s not available to us anymore,” he said. “The high road is just a cliff you’re walking off.”

Opinion | ‘The High Road’s Not Available to Us’: Texas Democrats Have Had Enough

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Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · Jul 30

How great is this, and how adorable are they???

Yea!!!!!!

Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Opinion | They Saw Their Neighbors Taken Away by ICE. Then They Made a Plan.

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Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · Jul 6

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Shades of Covid....people dying needlessly all the keep the GOP/Trump/GOP voters happy.

Wow.

As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas

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Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · Jun 30

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Read it an try not to cry.

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What's in the Senate Version of Trump's Big Policy Bill? (Gift Article)

The legislation includes tax cuts as well as big cuts to Medicaid, food benefits and other programs, and it would add more than $3 trillion to the national debt.

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pink jimi photon @pinkjimiphoton.bsky.social · Jun 9

Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · May 25

Oh, Marc...this is enough to make me cry. I'm deeply sorry. 😢

Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · May 14

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Why are any of us that understand the basic elements of fascism still here? What we're seeing is just the beginning.

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Opinion | We Study Fascism. And We’re Leaving the U.S.

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Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · Apr 11

Pretty much wraps up how we got here. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...

Opinion | The Stupidity of the Tariffs Are the Achievement of a Lifetime (Gift Article)

Maybe we’re just not good at thinking anymore.

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Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · Apr 9

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"Of all the lawless acts by the Trump administration in its first two and a half months, none are more frightening than its dumping of human beings who have not had their day in court into an infamous maximum-security prison in El Salvador".

Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago (Gift Article)

He is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.

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Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · Mar 31

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First and only time Stitt has done something I approve of. In eight long, long years.

In Oklahoma, Counting Migrant Students May Have Gone Too Far (Gift Article)

A divide between Oklahoma’s governor and schools chief over undocumented students may mark the outer limits of acceptable immigration enforcement, or the next frontier.

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Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · Mar 29

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...

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Opinion | Hillary Clinton: This Is Just Dumb (Gift Article)

The Signal group chat is only the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration.

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Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · Mar 16

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Elon Musk, Marco Rubio, DT and so many others should hang their greedy heads in shame. If there's a hell, they'll all be there.

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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

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Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · Mar 9

Some excellent points from Ezra Klein. Democrats would do well to listen to this....but they won't. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...

Opinion | There Is a Liberal Answer to Elon Musk (Gift Article)

Right-wing populism thrives on scarcity. The answer is abundance. But a politics of abundance will work only if Democrats confront where their approach has failed.

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Leslie Jackson @lesliehawkgirl.bsky.social · Feb 27

How comforting. 😡😡😡