Leftie Lucy

I try to be nice and sometimes I succeed.

[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

The United States has now reported the highest number of measles cases in any year since 1991. And the year still has more than 5 months to go. This is an almost 100% vaccine preventable illness. Why is RFK Jr still Health Sec?

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

*Trump defunds NPR, Voice of America, USAGM, has the FBI raid a WAPO reporter, sues broadcasters and threatens journalists over sourcing.

MAGA Congresswoman: the socialists are going to get rid of the media.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump claimed his tariffs would bring about a golden age of American manufacturing.

Yet since his re-election, we've lost 75,000 manufacturing jobs. Over the same period, Biden had created 625,000.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

It’s insane that Trump accidentally declassifies documents from his own intelligence agencies that prove the conspiracy about Burisma was Russian propaganda that the GOP *knowingly* helped spread, and that multiple GOP worked with Russian agents against the US…

And MAGA still calls it a hoax and assumes Hunter is lying.

They just flat out can’t read!

[Will Sommer @willsommer]

Trump's big document release tonight, supposedly meant to prove China stole the 2020 election, includes this classified intel graphic making clear that Russia was the only country trying to meddle in American voting systems.

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

We. Use. Auditable. Paper. Ballots.

Even if tabulation machines are vulnerable (a predicate I don't accept), and even if connected to the internet (not true), then any manipulation would still be revealed in post-election hand counts.

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, several of his close relatives told The Associated Press.
David Brouillette has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, according to those relatives. They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

As I wrote a year ago, watch the actions of the Trump admin through the eyes of someone who has watched democracy turn into autocracy. Centralizing election authority, expanding federalized troops and putting them in the streets, cracking down on the press. It's not original.

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

This action by the US government to subpoena reporters for reporting legitimate news on security concerns about Air Force 1 should alarm every American.

“The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects,” said David McCraw, The Times’s top newsroom lawyer, in a statement on Friday evening.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

What people need to understand about this guy and people like him, is that they know they have no moral authority after supporting Trump. So their only option is to try and drag others down into the muck with them. Even if they have to lie to do it. They learned that from Trump.

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

NEW -- NATO was designed from the start to deal with a murderous, expansionist Russian like Vladimir Putin.

Its founders never dreamed that it would also have to deal with a saboteur from within like Donald Trump.

https://t.co/aMI7P388zX

[Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar]

Abbott Labs gave $500K to Trump's inauguration.

Now the criminal investigation into whether their formula sickened and killed babies has been shut down.

[New York City Council @NYCCouncil]

💵 EVERY NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL KINDERGARTENER WILL NOW RECEIVE A $1,000 @NYCKIDSRise COLLEGE SAVINGS ACCOUNT! 💵

This is how we invest in the next generation: building wealth, expanding educational opportunities, and helping more children achieve their dreams.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Whether it’s Obama attracting 1.8 million people to his inauguration or Trump attracting 80 people to his 250th anniversary celebration, both presidents attracted unusual numbers of people to their signature events.

[🏃🏻‍♀️ @bagelaureate]

5-4 decision for something written and enumerated plainly by the Constitution of the United States

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“The pursuit of extreme wealth should be seen as an abomination of the spirit. We are glorifying the wrong instincts. We have gone beyond the desire to provide for our own families into the realm of greed as the goal itself.

When I look at the mansions and megayachts that line the wealthy enclaves on the oceanfronts of the USA, I do not see something aspirational but something that is deeply broken.

How can one live in luxury when so many others live without? This is of course, an age old question, but one that has never before been so pressing as it is in this perilous moment. We have approached the precipice as a people, and if we do not learn to pull back, we will all suffer.

There is a better way, and that that does not mean living in austerity. It means reaching for equanimity before opulence - and realizing that true luxury is living in a world where no child goes hungry and not one person goes without.

It means sharing the abundance that isn’t necessarily man-made, but universally given. We must move from hoarding to harmony to protect our very existence.

This truth applies to all of us in the United States and the world beyond.”https://t.co/DK6M2n5VkI

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

A fake election fraud bill is more important than having somewhere to live. Good to know!

[Jim DeFede @DeFede]

A @cbsmiami investigation into Alligator Alcatraz reveals it cost taxpayers more $3,500 per day per detainee to keep individuals at the detention center in the middle of the Everglades - more than 20 times higher the national average.

https://t.co/Iqo8Ln0bK2

[Gary Koepnick @garykoepnick]

FBI informant who lied about Biden 'bribes' pleads guilty https://t.co/CgXuotrElw

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

In Trump's war, the Pentagon burned through “around 1,100 long-range stealth cruise missiles built for a war with China, close to the total number remaining in the US stockpile.” It fired 1,000+ Tomahawk cruise missiles, 10x the number it buys each year. https://t.co/2Oi8G09i7F