Wendy Riker Purnell

brash, outrageous & free

[Wendy Riker Purnell @FreeMovement]

Honestly, if the only policy analysis anyone does is to ask “how does this affect the most vulnerable members of our society?” then that’s more than half of the policy chops we need to right this ship and get it back on a course toward freedom and justice for all.

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

'Donald Trump’s life is a moral Chernobyl, and yet there are people — Americans who think of themselves as Christians! — who see him as morally difficult to distinguish from Jesus.' @jimgeraghty

[Wendy Riker Purnell @FreeMovement]

I mean no offense to Liberace, who knew he was garish and over the top. He was in on the joke.

[Wendy Riker Purnell @FreeMovement]

Wal-Mart Liberace is the best description of 47

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Tom Nichols: He's determined to leave his mark here by kind of embedding or just covering the city in this kind of Walmart Liberace design ethos that he has... It's also a sign of his mental and emotional state that this is what he thinks about all day, and not about the job of being the president of the United States.

[The Alex Nowrasteh @AlexNowrasteh]

He made his side the Germans?

[Wendy Riker Purnell @FreeMovement]

This SM person is either profoundly ignorant that this judge, in fact, says it’s illegal for the executive branch to violate the U.S. Constitution. Or this SM person is blatantly lying to Americans. Either way, it illustrates that he is unfit to serve in any govt role.

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

Local judge says it’s illegal to restrict migration and that America actually belongs to 8 billion foreigners—not you or your family and that no matter who you vote for you will be dispossessed. If SCOTUS doesn’t restrain these judges the people will lose all faith in the courts.

[Garrett Exner @Exner_Garrett]

Ray’s Rock - Omaha Beach

On the morning of June 6, 1944, 23 year old Staff Sergeant Arnold “Ray” Lambert came ashore with the first wave of the 1st Infantry Division on the eastern side of Omaha Beach. At this small patch of concrete he saved nearly 20 lives:

The division came under intense fire from several German bunkers surrounding the entrance to the Colville Draw (one of two exits off Omaha Beach). Ray, a medic, immediately went to work.

He was shot in the arm. Moments later he was hit by shrapnel in the leg, but Ray kept pulling men to safety. He pulled nearly 20 wounded soldiers to cover behind this 8ft wide obstacle, treating each soldier before going out in search of others.

After several hours under fire, while pulling a wounded soldier from the ocean, he was struck by a landing craft. It dropped its ramp on top of him, breaking his back. He fell face down in the water, drowning. The craft backed up and nearby soldiers pulled an unconscious Ray to safety, eventually evacuating him off the beach.

Remarkably, Ray had already earned two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts in Sicily and North Africa, prior to landing in France. But here in Normandy his war would end.

He awoke in a hospital back in England a day later. In the next bed over was his brother, who had also been wounded at Omaha.

When asked about his work on D-Day, Ray simply said, “I did what I was called to do.”

Ray Lambert passed in 2021 at 100 years old. He exemplified the best of American grit and why remembering this day is so important.

[Wendy Riker Purnell @FreeMovement]

Last week, the Justice Department deleted thousands of press releases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and other matters. Here they are.

https://t.co/cpYvqsUCYa

[Wendy Riker Purnell @FreeMovement]

@BenjaminPDixon What a bunch of nasty little trolls. We must heal this nation.

[Wendy Riker Purnell @FreeMovement]

@HunterBiden @ABreitbartClips What if your gratitude were paired with some semblance of an acknowledgment that political dynasties are far from the founding Americans’ ideals, charter docs, etc.?

[Wendy Riker Purnell @FreeMovement]

Wild! I have lived in Bozeman and avoided the Sweet Pea Festival (only bc I am crowd/festival averse in my old age) but there is ZERO chance I am missing Digable down the street!

🌈❤️🎶

[Digable Planets @digableplanets]

Ladies & gentlemen are you ready to be active this summer?? We're still celebrating 30 years of Blowout Comb -
https://t.co/xjfCB2HiSp

Artist Presale: Weds, 6/3 @ 10am Local 
Code: BLOWOUTCOMB

On-Sale: Fri, 6/5 @ 10am Local

[Digable Planets @digableplanets]

Ladies & gentlemen are you ready to be active this summer?? We're still celebrating 30 years of Blowout Comb -
https://t.co/xjfCB2HiSp

Artist Presale: Weds, 6/3 @ 10am Local 
Code: BLOWOUTCOMB

On-Sale: Fri, 6/5 @ 10am Local

[Wendy Riker Purnell @FreeMovement]

@cafreiman Exactly!

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

I'd never seen this -- MAD Magazine, 1991. Really good.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

They scream about "importing the third world" while doing everything they can to turn the United States into a tinpot personalist dictatorship where Dear Leader's face is splashed onto everything.

[Wendy Riker Purnell @FreeMovement]

@David_J_Bier Or markets. Or efficiency. Or private enterprise. Or family. They’re threatening to create huge obstacles to commerce and love.

[Patrick Jaicomo @pjaicomo]

ON THE SLOW DEATH OF BIVENS:

The D.C. circuit holds that Americans cannot sue IRS agents who maliciously audit them.

Thanks to this kind of federal immunity, IRS agents now operate in a Constitution-free zone, above the law.

Congress MUST fix the problem of federal immunity.

[Wendy Riker Purnell @FreeMovement]

@Martina @WalshFreedom Je to fricking tak. Pitiful STBaci wannabes!

[Wendy Riker Purnell @FreeMovement]

@opinionate1n The Krass Kardashian Krowd

[Wendy Riker Purnell @FreeMovement]

President Camacho would be so much less embarrassing than this crass spectacle.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

SEE YOU ON THE SOUTH LAWN @UFC

[Wendy Riker Purnell @FreeMovement]

@Macurian1 There are, in fact, a great many amazing things about this administration.

[Wendy Riker Purnell @FreeMovement]

@Weigh_James What I am hearing is that Teddy (far from my favorite POTUS) exercised and took care of himself.

I remember when presidents worked hard to clear their minds & spare us crises of succession.

Watching, rather than sparring in, a cage match might be more analogous to Ancient Rome