D. Leigh Henson

30 yrs. high school Eng. teacher; 14 yrs. university tech writing professor; anti-demagoguery&bigotry; pro-Lincoln legacy (conservative progressive).

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨THIS RIGHT HERE: JB Pritzker just dropped a bomb, saying that Trump’s infiltration of U.S. cities is part of his aim to stop the election in Nov 2026.

Pritzker, who's Jewish, compared it to how the Nazis came to power in Germany: "Donald Trump is just following that playbook."

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

BREAKING: In a shocking moment, Trump appears to place limits on the 2nd Amendment: "You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns."

And MAGA thought Obama would take their guns!

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

The White House is in full blown panic mode right now. Kristi Noem is throwing Stephen Miller under the bus, Miller is throwing Greg Bovino under the bus, Republican senators are calling for Noem to be fired… it’s a mess.

And I’m enjoying every second of it.

[(((DeanObeidallah))) @DeanObeidallah]

NEW: Kristi Noem Says ‘Everything I’ve Done’ Has Been Directed by Trump and Stephen Miller per Axios. Noem goes full "I was just following orders." This also sounds like she is throwing Trump and Miller under the bus. https://t.co/WAcpCtOuFP

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Stephen Miller is the architect of the greatest and most systematic violation of the civil rights and constitutional liberties of Americans in our era.

This country isn’t safe until he’s held accountable and punished to the fullest extent of the law for his crimes.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

MAGA is turning on Donald Trump. The movement is falling apart as we speak.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Trump didn’t capitulate on MN because he has a conscience (he doesn’t). He capitulated because the optics became radioactive for Republicans facing a shutdown vote. Two dead civilians, a rogue commander making indefensible claims, FXNws, and NY Post turned.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Trump on Orban: It's a leader that we like. We like Viktor Orban. He likes him, I like him. It's a country that's a safe country. He's done a very good job. He's been a very good leader.

- FC: Orban has destroyed Hungary’s democracy and economy. @atrupar

[Alex Vindman 🇺🇸 @AVindman]

In just the first nine hours of this campaign, we have seen an outpouring of donations across the state. I’m honored to have your support - thank you!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Pope Leo's top cardinal in the United States enrages MAGA by calling for ICE to be defunded because it's a "lawless organization” engaged in the "machinery of death."

The Catholic Church has become one of Trump's most formidable enemies...

“Will you ask them, for the love of God and the love of human beings, to vote against renewing funding for such a lawless organization?” Cardinal Joseph Tobin asked of the congregants at an interfaith prayer vigil.

Not content to simply engage in rhetoric, the cardinal urged Catholics to contact their lawmakers and demand that they oppose any new funding for the paramilitary group.

"How will you say 'no?' How will you say 'no' to violence?" he asked. "How will you say 'no' this week when an appropriations bill is going to be considered in Congress? Will you contact your congressional representatives, the senators and representatives from your district? Will you ask them, for the love of God and the love of human beings, which can't be separated, to vote against renewing funding for such a lawless organization?"

According to Christopher Hale of the "Letters from Leo" substack, Tobin's comments "mark the first time an American cardinal has so directly urged defunding a federal agency." Pope Leo XIV has been outspoken in his criticisms of the Trump's regimes brutal treatment of migrants and has urged the American Catholic Church to speak out more forcefully.

Unlike the far-right Evangelicals who constitute Trump's MAGA base and who bray for more violence and state-sponsored bigotry even as they profess their own self-righteousness, Cardinal Tobin espoused the true message of Jesus Christ.

He drew upon the parable of the Good Samaritan, which urges Christians to show mercy and compassion for their neighbors regardless of nationality, ethnicity, or religion.

Tobin stated that "one way that we say ‘no’" to ICE's brutality is to focus on their victims.

"One way that we say 'no' is that we mourn, we do not celebrate death, and, what is probably worse, we do not pretend it doesn't happen. We say names. We pray for the dead," the cardinal said. "We mourn for a world, a country, that allows 5-year-olds to be legally kidnapped and protesters to be slaughtered."

"How will you scrawl your answer on the wall?" Tobin asked, referring to a novel called "Bread and Wine" in which a character asks a priest how best to resist fascism. He tells her that fascists fear the person who is brave enough to write "No" on the wall in a public square.

"How will you help restore a culture of life in the midst of death?" Tobin concluded.

Please ❤️ and share to thank the cardinal for speaking out!

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

“I just checked—it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say ‘The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the f*ck they want and make sh*t up as they go along.’” — George Conway

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Snyder: The United States in its current form wants to undermine European democracy.

In particular, it wants to undermine European Union, and those two things work together. The Union helps create the conditions for democracy. 1/

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Pay attention to the distractions.

Greenland. Immigration theater.

Gruesome headlines designed to dominate the cycle. None of it is random.

The real gravity is elsewhere — the Epstein files — and the procedural games keeping them buried.

Politics today isn’t just policy; it’s misdirection.

Keep the outrage machine humming, and the uncomfortable questions stay off the front page.

If you’re wondering why the noise never stops, that is the strategy.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

Share before they ban this image. Yes, it's the same thing.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Thanks to Trump, right-wing multibillionaire Larry Ellison will now control the TikTok algorithm, along with:

CBS
MTV
The Free Press
BET
CMT
Simon & Schuster
Nickelodeon
Paramount+
Pluto TV
and more

This is what Oligarchy looks like.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Applebaum: Trump fundamentally sympathizes with Putin, and in some ways with Xi as well.

He likes leaders who rule without checks and balances, without opposition, without critical media. He envies that. He would like to be like that. 1/

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Trump is either leaving office peacefully, or he's going to be forcefully removed. The U.S. Armed Forces have a choice: Either support the American people and the constitution — or a fascist authoritarian regime that is a facsimile of Hitler's Third Reich.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.

Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

[Aasma Shaukat MD MPH @AasmaShaukatMD]

One of my former research assistants was killed by ICE in Minneapolis today😢

Alex was the kindest, sweetest human and a ICU nurse with a bright future ahead of him
May his soul rest in peace and this senseless carnage stop💔

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Drop a ❤️ to honor Alex Pretti