Leni Chanel Quick

Writer, editor, educator, photographer - servant to all; constant conduit. She/Her.

[Leni Chanel Quick @LeniChanel]

"Go at it boldly, and you'll find unexpected forces closing round you and coming to your aid."
- William Benjamin Basil King

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

A trail of destruction. Imagine their reaction if Obama had done even one of these things.

[Jay Bookman @jaysbookman]

The Texas screwworm story is a version of this. The Reflecting Pool fiasco is a version of this. The Iranian war is a very large and ongoing version of this.
Everywhere you look, incompetence is having its natural consequences, with more to come. Much more, I'm afraid.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

ICE spent over $1 billion buying 11 warehouses to cage human beings. Now it’s quietly trying to sell or give away seven of them, more than $700 million gone, with not a single facility open and an inspector general investigation hanging over the whole mess.

This is the waste they swore they were elected to root out.

The fraud, the abuse, the blank check spent without a plan.

They bought industrial buildings at up to $145 million apiece, before renovations, with no environmental review, no community buy-in, and no real strategy for what came next. Even Republican officials told them to stop. Taxpayers are left holding the bill for warehouses that detained no one and accomplished nothing but fear.

It’s total hypocrisy.

An administration that lectured the country about efficiency lit $700 million on fire as part of Stephen Miller’s cruel fantasy of mass detention. Imagine what that money could have done for veterans waiting on housing, for families crushed by costs, for the working people they claim to serve.

I’m glad this plan is dying. It was inhumane from the first day, designed to warehouse people far from the rule of law and basic decency. But being glad it failed does not erase how it failed, recklessly and expensively. We must have full accountability for the officials who pushed it.

https://t.co/5nryYka2vq

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @DHSgov: Did you know our starting forward is a US citizen through birthright citizenship? You’re trying to strip away that right.

Did you know an additional 6 Team USA players were born outside US soil?

Did you know half the team are dual citizens?

Also, Happy Juneteenth

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Revolutions are made by people who have done the math and concluded they have nothing left to protect.

The genius of late capitalism is that it never lets the math resolve that cleanly.

You have debt, yes, but you also have a 401k, small, underfunded, but real.

You have a mortgage that owns more of the house than you do, but it's still called "your house."

You have a job that could disappear tomorrow, but hasn't yet.

You have healthcare tied to that job, fragile, contingent, but present.

Every one of these is a small leash.

Not strong enough to make you safe.

Strong enough to make you cautious.

You're not trapped by chains.

You're trapped by a thousand small tethers, each one too minor to revolt over, all of them together heavy enough that you never do.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

How much clearer does the criminal enterprise have to be? We’re looking at comic book level characters at this point.

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went.

The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

I just found out that water is considered a human right in Ireland, and households don’t pay water bills.

Every country should be like that.

Water is a human right and always should be.

[Jacqueline Sweet @JSweetLI]

no one cares about news right now, just Japanese World Cup fans doing rodeo and New Yorkers cheering sanitation workers, and I'm gonna miss this little weird period when it's over

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Good lord the most brutal community note ever. Quoting the MOU directly

[John Saponaro @johnsaponaro]

One of the saddest parts of the Trump-ification of America is people saying “Mamdani’s speech was AI,” because they’ve forgotten what a competent, articulate speaker is. This is the modern version of calling someone “a witch” for knowing how to start a fire. & it’s just as dumb.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

Wait, wait, wait. You're telling that this White House didn't consult people who know what they're talking about? You're saying that they hired their friends to paint the bottom blue without knowing it would raise the water temp which helps the algae? THIS White House? No way.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

No. You didn’t read because you were dissociating or had ADHD; you read because books are a wonderful thing that enriched your life. Finding twisted motives for life’s greatest pleasures will make you miserable. We need to quit pathologizing the things that bring us joy.

[I Am… @HarmoniEquality]

A colonized mind will fight harder to protect the master’s image than to recover its own dignity.

- Frantz Fanon

[w. @doublegee___]

Freddie Mercury, who famously had nothing to do with the LGBTQ movement at Live Aid, a concert that famously didn’t have an explicit political cause.

[MC Squared @mcsquared34]

“Communism sounds good in theory but…”

Let me stop you right there compadre, bc capitalism doesn’t even sound good in theory. Oh ya, 13 people owning 99% of global wealth, ya let’s create a system that makes that possible. What the fuck is wrong with you?

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

Corruption is so normal in the Trump Administration that officials don’t even get fired after being exposed for it.

[Silicon Valley Fodder @Playerinthgame]

I sometimes feel we've REALLY lost our perspective lately because $112 billion in net profit in a year is an INSANE amount of money, yet Apple is saying it's forced to increase prices on consumers. We should just be so much angrier about all of this.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Obama: I am not immune to anger or doubt. But I do know this when we lose faith in each other, when we stop believing that voting matters… we open the door to the most ruthless or the most careless, or the most fearful among us who see some groups and some people as more equal than others and see government as nothing more than a way to divvy up the spoils and punish enemies, and keep those who are different in their place. I do not believe that is the story of America that prevails in the end.

[isha @MibshaD]

*uterus sheds its lining and REGENERATES itself every month*

“a human organ that can self-regenerate - hmm… that’s not interesting at all, let’s never study this.”

-the medical community