Rena M Leddy

Trump effectively ran on both slashing and spiking inflation. He came through on one of those.

How can they justify leaving right now? Diesel costs just hit an all-time high. Our nation is at war. The bond market is quivering. The urgency of AI regulation has come to a critical moment. Congress should be working overtime. Instead Speaker Johnson sent them home.

Pritzker: So here’s the truth, plain and simple: Our state is under siege. Not by protesters, immigrants, the deep state, the press, Canada or Mexico or Greenland, Antifa or Jewish space lasers or pride parades. No. Our state's under siege by a petty, corrupt man in Washington.

At Daisy Chain Fields tonight, Olivia Rodrigo brought out Sarah McLachlan for “Building A Mystery” and “Angel,” dedicated to Dolly Parton. The pop star's festival, which was inspired by McLachlan’s Lilith Fair, raised $10M for women's rights nonprofits, an amount Melinda French Gates is doubling.

Thou must avoid eating jalapeños, salsa, guacamole, pico de gallo, iceberg lettuce, shredded lettuce, eggs, frozen blueberries, frozen mixed berries, ricotta, requesón, cuajada, tomato bisque soup, super greens, and moringa unless thou wishes to have explosive RFK Jr. diarrhea.

You know when there's a rumour at work somebody is rattling a colleague and then at the next social function their spouse, who never goes to these things, turns up nailed to their arm? Yeah.

I travel almost every week. With all the food recalls it’s getting harder and harder to eat anything healthy. For the first time in my adult life I’m choosing McDonald’s hamburger over vegetables. Can we please make food safety happen again?

1. Donald Trump lost a war he started, the only president in history to accomplish such a feat. Perhaps worse is he *continues* to lose it in the absence of a hard stop. His challenge now seems to be preventing the American public from knowing the truth. I mean, everyone *else* seems to know.

Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/14/h...

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what would be actually beneficial is for seasoned/experienced politicians to start mentoring and preparing younger people in their party like they're supposed to, instead of just holding onto the office until they literally die

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"That Americans get more angry about gas prices than a seditious revolt against the Constitution tells you something about how decadent and self-absorbed a nation we've become." ~ @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/E5Z9wa7... (~49:15)

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me. He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits… …while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.

It’s going to take ages to pay all these people

#nokings rally I went to in Extremely Normie Chicago suburb was easily triple the size of earlier one. TRIPLE. & that was much bigger than I thought it would be. Previous one, occasionally cars would beep, this time every single car was leaning on the horn the whole time. Encouraging cacophony. 👊🏻💚

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Texas proudly invading Illinois. It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

If it wasn’t so disgraceful it’d be laughable

Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "I was elected as the Labor Secretary for all Americans" (She was not elected)

Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day

"Donald Trump is not governing—he is waging war on the American government itself...This is all the same project: attacking the government and re-engineering it to serve as a weapon against the American people." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cdc-th...

Two children were killed and seventeen people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. A Cracker Barrel logo change received far more scrutiny and attention than any fight against the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Our priorities remain idiotic.

"A lot of people are saying, ‘Maybe we like a dictator.'" Name one.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Allies of the fascist regime are referring to the residents of our capital city as “cockroaches.” This is explicitly neo-Nazi language used in service of making Jeffrey Epstein‘s best friend into dictator for life.

"Even in the worst circumstances, people have power, the power to decide how they will conduct themselves in the choices that remain to them, and that includes the power of our words."

Ghislaine Maxwell, "one of the most depraved and sick child sex traffickers that we've encountered," is now in a "Club Fed type prison," enjoying...goat yoga classes, maybe? If you're saving your outrage, this is a good time to use it. @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social:

The Epstein birthday card is now public. (Trump can continue to pretend it's not real, but that's not the point.) The point: If the card were the worst thing for Trump in the files, why wouldn't Trump now make the Epstein files public? Conclusion: There are worse things for Trump in the files.

This is from The Guardian. Forget Cancun or anything else the man is known for and nail Ted Cruz to this for the rest of his life. He did this LAST WEEK.

whoa! (gift link so you can read without the paywall) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

A real war just broke out in the Middle East bc of his incompetence and recklessness and Trump is going to have a military parade for his birthday.

Rep. Lynch: “Trump deported a 10-year-old girl, a U.S. citizen who was recovering from brain cancer…Trump deported another U.S. citizen, a two-year-old toddler, from Fort Lauderdale…Are cities safer now that this ten-year-old girl and this two-year-old toddler are gone?”

The media is going to BOTH SIDES us right into martial law

Think about it - 200,000 voters in four states. And the 40% who couldn’t be bothered. As France’s Europe Minister said “We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every 4 years”. They get it. We don’t.

And there you have it. ICE didn't target migrant workers in Kristi Noem's farms or Sarah Huckabee Sanders' meatpacking plants because they wanted to create a riot in LA as a pretext to declaring martial law. They don't care about undocumented migrants, they only care about controlling US citizens.

Sounds like a job for “Too Late” Powell. 🤡

I’ll say this as many times as I have to. No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.

Bringing this to Bsky bc @steverattner.bsky.social hasn't posted it yet and it's so critical. The entirety of the cuts to Medicaid and food benefits are to pay for tax cuts for people earning more than half a million a year. Call Congress: 202-224-3121

"Tapper and Thompson want to be the center of the conversation because it will help them sell books. But with daily assaults on our constitution by the current inhabitant of the White House, the rest of us have, or should have, more important things to focus on."

Some psychological terms on display here: tangential thinking, circumstantiality, flight of ideas, slurred speech - all concerning behaviors in an elderly person

I love it when the season-long plot lines finally converge

Beto gave up a House Seat and then... Ran for President: Lost Ran for Senate: Lost Ran for Governor: Lost And yet... www.huffpost.com/entry/beto-o...

He really is the the Joan Rivers of Hitlers

I have SO MUCH to say about our #ResistancePope. www.thebulwark.com/p/seven-thin...

You’ll notice they talk about this from the standpoint of little girls. Nobody says “Men will have to get by with one box of ammo per year instead of 30 boxes.”