Shouting out to all #Veterans #USAF and @votevets.org We need to push back on this travesty of erasing women who served our country selflessly. My sister is an USAF Security Forces veteran. Will she be erased too? - ThreadSky

thejenniwren.teamlh.social • 34 days ago

Shouting out to all #Veterans #USAF and @votevets.org

We need to push back on this travesty of erasing women who served our country selflessly.

My sister is an USAF Security Forces veteran.

Will she be erased too?

Reposted from Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫

The Air Force has removed videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military — to comply with the Trump admin’s crackdown on DEI initiatives.

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Comments

tlaloch.bsky.social•33 days ago

61% of Vets voted for Trump. That includes the women. This is what they asked for as a majority.

thejenniwren.teamlh.social•33 days ago

Wrong type of rhetoric. Hear me out: fascists & autocrats thrive on creating division. They succeed when we blame one another. We need to coalesce in unity to beat them.

tlaloch.bsky.social•33 days ago

Fascists thrive when good people don't fight fascists. When people try to kumbaya with fascists they normalize them. That is EXACTLY how Hitler came to power. No more partisanship when one side is Nazis. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Time to fight.

thejenniwren.teamlh.social•33 days ago

Please reread what I wrote. I’ve studied & researched the topic extensively. I’m stating unity in how we communicate, not as in kindness to MAGA. Pointing fingers at anyone other than the felon & his cronies creates more division & chaos which fascists desire.

tlaloch.bsky.social•33 days ago

12 Senate Democrats voted for the Laken Riley Act. In the House, it was 46! There is no unity with people voting for full-blown extremist GOP policies. We have spent the last 15 years trying to unify and connect. THEY stepped on that unity. It is time to change that. The norm is not the norm anymore

thejenniwren.teamlh.social•33 days ago

You win. You obviously have read On Tyranny, Democracy Awakening, Surviving Autocracy, On Freedom, Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall, Autocracy, Inc., How Fascism Works, anything by George Lakoff, Jason Stanley, Erica Chenoweth, Ruth Ben Ghiat, Masha Gessen, etc..🙄

tweetybirdy1215.bsky.social•34 days ago

It’s 1984

thejenniwren.teamlh.social•34 days ago

Dystopian nightmare

quercus48.bsky.social•34 days ago

Will fight for them. We had women serving with us in Vietnam, while he with false masculinity, had his daddy buy his way out of Vietnam.

el-zee-ethel.bsky.social•34 days ago

This whole thing is so ridiculous. He is a petty, jealous little man. Our women and any minority who has served in our Armed Forces is to be admired and lauded. Learning about the Tuskeegee Airmen made all of us proud. Learning more about women who served in wars makes us all proud. He’s pathetic.

longducdong.bsky.social•34 days ago

And the punches keep on punching

unewme.bsky.social•34 days ago

They are once again whitewashing history. They want to teach that white men built America. It hasn’t been that long since we learned about women who had a tremendous impact on our country. They want to go back to those days. Guess strong women make them feel emasculated.

thejenniwren.teamlh.social•34 days ago

Research shows fascists & autocrats fear women as when women are involved in resistance movements, either on their own or with men, the movements are far more likely to be successful and have lasting egalitarian democracies.

unewme.bsky.social•34 days ago

I do not doubt that at all. They can act all macho, but they know the power of women.

jenbone.bsky.social•34 days ago

It's def time for a revolution.
Trump's America is white, male, under-achievers with nazi proclivities.

divadelmastro.bsky.social•34 days ago

When I go to the VA for treatment, I hear the other Vets saying ignorant things about Trump and his administration. One Vet insta next to was trying to tell me that JFK Jr was going to take the additives out of fast food to make it taste better. How do you speak common sense to that?

thejenniwren.teamlh.social•34 days ago

You can’t. It takes a long time and a lot of listening to even start to change that thinking. Not worth your valuable time.

uglygoose.bsky.social•34 days ago

Yep, she will be.

The majority of veterans voted for it.

thejenniwren.teamlh.social•34 days ago

Where is that data?

uglygoose.bsky.social•34 days ago

According exit polls on Election Day, 12% of the voters in this presidential election had served in the U.S. military and 65% of them said they voted for Donald Trump, while 34% said they voted for Kamala Harris.

drshowup.bsky.social•33 days ago

Cat Jones, “Women are frightened but it’s our anger when united that has the power to become a tsunami and it’s only when the waters rage that landscapes will change”
The Jetty S1 epi 3

lolamiso.bsky.social•34 days ago

WTF
You can’t erase history!!!!!!!!
What the damn fuck!!!!

amjmaryland18.bsky.social•34 days ago

Are you kidding me? The WASPS and Tuskegee Airmen were f&$@@@@ heroes. They are my heroes.

1uniquaphiliaism.bsky.social•34 days ago

loves2write.bsky.social•34 days ago

Is the Army going to remove all references to the 442nd Infantry Regiment of WW II?

earthdaddy.bsky.social•34 days ago

This is a fucking slap in the face of all who served, what is the fucking point of doing that besides being petty

thejenniwren.teamlh.social•34 days ago

Agreed. I’m furious.

jackmahogoff.bsky.social•34 days ago

Scary to me, no push back at all. This is military history and it belongs to everyone who fought and sacrificed. Will the military comply so easily when commanded to eliminate protesters?

divadelmastro.bsky.social•34 days ago

This is a big worry of mine, as a USN Veteran. Will the military follow orders to fire on American citizens on US soil? I certainly hope not but there are a lot of Trumpers in the military and police force.

thejenniwren.teamlh.social•34 days ago

IDK. I wish I had more faith in them but the capitulation of so many to a rapist and felon has me at a loss.

edlucke.bsky.social•34 days ago

this is a racism movement . it's not just illegals

thejenniwren.teamlh.social•34 days ago

Agreed

nutsandhappy.bsky.social•34 days ago

My mother was in army Air Corp in WW2. Her best friend in the coast guard cause they wouldn't let her in the marines. Joined when they were 19. Served our country just like my dad, the Marine.

mlh-3.bsky.social•34 days ago

🤬🤬🤬 cowards

terridawnarnold.bsky.social•34 days ago

Thank goodness for artists. We can keep producing movies, TV series', music, books, etc. about this and it will live on. The Tuskegee Airmen should always be remembered, and stories about many brave women in the military are waiting to be told.

senorwokeasphuck.bsky.social•34 days ago

MAGA soon forgets that what made this country great was service. Something Tя☭mp and the GOP know nothing of...

allthingsfiber.bsky.social•34 days ago

Clearly they lie when they say they want a meritocracy because these airmen were the best of the best, should be remembered as such, and given merit for their achievements!

bimpson.bsky.social•34 days ago

Will the US military still be the greatest in the world once it has fired all its women and nonwhite members?

thejenniwren.teamlh.social•34 days ago

No.

lazydave.bsky.social•34 days ago

OrangeX must re-write history; it’s their White Christian Nationalist mandate after all.

balloonatic.bsky.social•34 days ago

Many of us tried to warn folks this type of stuff was going to happen in a second Trump administration only for us to be accused of unsubstantiated fear-mongering. Maybe next time people will listen assuming, of course, we are actually allowed to have a "next time".

gardenia2112.bsky.social•34 days ago

There won't be a next time. We did try to warn people.

per52oskar.bsky.social•34 days ago

TO COWARD AND SCARED TO SERVE !

ONLY THINK ABOUT HIMSELF. !

tmayesmi.bsky.social•34 days ago

This isn't even scrapping. Call it what it is. Erasure of the role of people of color during the segregation of the U.S. military.

thejenniwren.teamlh.social•34 days ago

POCs and women.

tmayesmi.bsky.social•34 days ago

I stand corrected. I apologize.

thejenniwren.teamlh.social•34 days ago

No worries! I wasn’t upset. 😊

ladycross.bsky.social•34 days ago

These should also be in the archives? I hope the archives are being protected.

texasmusicgirl.bsky.social•34 days ago

Women are DEI. Ok.

mamacorin.bsky.social•34 days ago

Wow. That's so messed up. They're really drilling into completely destroying the US.

4alack24.bsky.social•34 days ago

erasing women who served is not a travesty that is actually happening, it's a misleading narrative. women's contributions to the military are well-documented and respected.

vivianofthesierras.bsky.social•33 days ago

@sierrakim5.bsky.social This is vile shit.

dona-dvet.bsky.social•34 days ago

They’ve already erased us … the VA is proof of that

mustangsky.bsky.social•34 days ago

Such a disgrace.
Stand up #USAF!!

mycrazywrld23.bsky.social•34 days ago

But do you know how many veterans voted for this man!? It's disgusting because he does not have their back for anything! So I hope you do reach veterans and maybe you can talk some sense into them? I mean did they not all fight for democracy? Because we are losing that right now

gardenia2112.bsky.social•34 days ago

This veteran did not vote for him either time. I voted for the "email lady" in 2016 and our VP in 2024. My husband (also a vet) did the same.

lisettek.bsky.social•34 days ago

Fuck Trump

letty787.bsky.social•34 days ago

This is history not DEI

jthayer.bsky.social•34 days ago

Oh, come on. JFC. Do not back down.

thejenniwren.teamlh.social•34 days ago

I’m not

jthayer.bsky.social•34 days ago

In my mind, I was addressing US AF. Thank you!!

katillogical.bsky.social•34 days ago

So now we're making a "safe space" for white men who feel threatened...

thejenniwren.teamlh.social•34 days ago

Isn’t that always the case? Patriarchy

olivia10.bsky.social•34 days ago

We will not allow Trump to rewrite history. Not January 6th, not the Tuskegee Airmen, and not the brave Airmen, Sailors, or Infantrymen and women of color. Especially, not from a man who disparages their service and who is himself a draft dodger, a criminal felon, and a sexual assaulter.

thejenniwren.teamlh.social•34 days ago

I love this!
You’re a fierce voice!

olivia10.bsky.social•34 days ago

I'm mad. Two years of yelling about Project 2025 and fighting against the main media. I'm not tired, I'm pissed off!