Barney Rodwell

Lucky husband, proud father, fortunate son, Dem, good friend & practice law weekly. Looking4 good beer that helps you lose weight! #Resist #BLM #Hookem🤘🏼🇺🇦

[Barney Rodwell @BarneyRodwell]

@AntarcticPasta It’s Pair Land.

[Barney Rodwell @BarneyRodwell]

@markyzaguirre Understand why u say it, but that’s a camel whose nose I don’t want under the tent. 60 Mins is the most reputable TV news entity left in this country. Inserting someone like Rogan just doesn’t meet the standard. It immediately signals a mission of entertainment not credible news.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Jill Biden just exposed the most painfully awkward limo ride of Melania Trump’s life.
In her new memoir “A View from the East Wing,” Jill writes about Inauguration Day 2025, when tradition required her to ride from the White House to the Capitol with Melania after the pre‑inauguration tea. It should have been a symbolic handoff between first ladies. Instead, she says, Melania sat “stone‑faced,” barely speaking, clearly furious over the FBI search of Mar‑a‑Lago for Trump’s hoard of classified documents.
Jill actually tries to show empathy: she notes that as first lady she had her own home searched by agents as part of the investigation, and that she knows “how distressing it was to have agents rummage through your underwear drawer.”
Melania, Jill writes, wasn’t having it. She blamed Joe personally, acting as if the normal chain of law‑enforcement and courts didn’t exist and the president himself had ordered a raid on her bedroom.
The tension was so thick that the inaugural committee didn’t dare put the two women alone together. Jill says they recruited Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s husband, John Bessler, as a human buffer and plopped him in the middle seat.
Bessler did what Midwestern dads do in impossible situations: he tried small talk. He asked about Barron’s studies at NYU. Melania, staring out the window, gave him a single word: “NYU.” Every attempt to shift the conversation back to something neutral — the weather, the ceremony — died in the air. In Jill’s telling, the presidents’ limo up ahead was probably tense too, but at least Joe and Trump were talking. In the first ladies’ car, it was just cold silence and one‑word answers all the way up Pennsylvania Avenue.
Jill uses the story to make a broader point: this wasn’t a one‑off. She writes that Melania declined her invitation to the traditional 2021 inauguration tea when Joe first took office, breaking a norm that has survived even the ugliest transitions.
Four years later, when the roles reversed and the Trumps came back to the White House, Melania still didn’t extend the same courtesy back. In every interaction Jill describes, Melania shows zero grace — even compared to other first ladies who have quietly swallowed humiliations and still showed up for the sake of the country.
And here’s the part that matters beyond the gossip. Trump has spent years telling his followers that the Mar‑a‑Lago search was a personal vendetta by “the Bidens,” not the result of him hiding boxes of classified nuclear and military documents in a ballroom, a bathroom, and a basement.
Melania apparently believes that narrative so deeply that she can’t even make small talk in a limo without seething. Jill, who knows firsthand what it’s like to have agents go through your things, points out the obvious subtext: it’s not the invasion of privacy Melania is truly angry about. It’s that her husband was finally treated like any other citizen who hoards national‑defense secrets and refuses to give them back.
We don’t often get honest, human‑level snapshots of what power feels like up close. This one matters because it captures the collision between entitlement and accountability.
Jill Biden is sitting there thinking about how to show a little solidarity over something painful that neither woman directly controlled. Melania Trump is sitting there convinced that nothing in her orbit — not an FBI warrant, not a criminal investigation, not even the peaceful transfer of power — should happen without her family’s permission, and furious at anyone who suggests otherwise. VIA~~~Josh Helfgott
In a few years, historians will write whole chapters about classified documents, indictments, and constitutional crises.
For now, it’s worth remembering this image: two first ladies in the back of a limousine, one trying to keep a fragile tradition alive, the other staring out the window, still unable to see that the law applies to her husband, too.

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

Ted Lieu on camera:

"The Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped children."

A sitting congressman said this on the record.

[Barney Rodwell @BarneyRodwell]

@TheStampedeUT @CoachMackBrown @JoshPateCFB I was at the 2004 Michigan Rose Bowl and the 2025 Michigan Citrus Bowl. They felt very similar.

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

Scott Pelley just issued a statement on Bari's remarks this morning:

[Jordan Moore @iJordanMoore]

A full list of NCAA schools that finished in the national top 16 this past calendar sports year in:

• Football
• Men’s Basketball
• Women’s Basketball
• Baseball
• Softball

Texas. That’s the list.

And if you expand it to include women’s volleyball, men’s golf, women’s golf, men’s swimming & diving, women’s swimming & diving, men’s and women’s tennis, beach volleyball, women’s rowing, and women’s track & field, Texas finished in the top 16 nationally in 15 of its 17 varsity sports.

The most complete athletic department in America 🤘

[Barney Rodwell @BarneyRodwell]

@CaddieNetwork Spieth with Rob Lowe and Chris Pratt! ESPN could sell that as a featured group.

[Barney Rodwell @BarneyRodwell]

@AmandaMAtwell Love FW and the TRE is a nice way to make a game. Wish they had a bar car!!

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

Every time the shadow docket has touched a contested map, the outcome favors Republicans.

Texas gerrymander: allowed.

New York Democratic flip: blocked.

Louisiana: VRA gutted.

Virginia Democratic map: refused to save it.

Alabama: a Black district erased.

Same direction every time.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

“Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.”

[Barney Rodwell @BarneyRodwell]

@AntarcticPasta Love Texas/ou. Incredibly unique experience. Electric crowds. Getting out of the stadium is the biggest hassle.

Our oldest daughter associates the event with her BDay in early October. Her husband proposed to her that weekend with all of us in Dallas. Big game in our family.

[Barney Rodwell @BarneyRodwell]

We’ve gone too far down a bad path of lawlessness and disregard for the good of the people. We’re lead by a self-centered demagogue who only promotes his good. It’s going to take a full repudiation to get us back to the America we remember. That includes the normal Republicans.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A message to all sane Republicans:

He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.

He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.

He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing.

He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.

He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.

He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing.

He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing.

He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.

His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing.

He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing.

His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing.

He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing.

He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing.

It’s time to start talking.

[Barney Rodwell @BarneyRodwell]

@mcrouchpr @TexasSoftball Terrible take here Mike. But I like your other ones. Here’s a Hook ‘em!🤘🏼

[Barney Rodwell @BarneyRodwell]

@JonathanYarwood It was hard to watch in real time. Where do you think he messed up? His options were limited once he was in the hay after his terrible 2nd shot.

[Barney Rodwell @BarneyRodwell]

@hwinkler4real But did it work?!

[Barney Rodwell @BarneyRodwell]

@yashar @_dannydavis That was my first reaction before rereading it. Seems intentional.

[Barney Rodwell @BarneyRodwell]

@Top100Rick Agree. No idea about this case but policing pace can be tricky. Who’s the real culprit in the group? How do they handle when there’s a need for a ruling? Do we care if the final group is off pace?

None of these questions should stop the effort, but they should be considered.

[Barney Rodwell @BarneyRodwell]

@EvilMopacATX If it’s June, then you’re in luck. The heat only lasts another 110 days.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

This is a slow moving catastrophe that will destroy everything.