Lynn Purdy

Innovative marketing & communications healthcare leader. Once upon a time I was a cheerleader-still am (sans cartwheels) with plenty attention grabbing skills.

[Lynn Purdy @LynnPurdy]

Well data doesn’t lie.

[Jean-Claude Damn Van™ (commentary) @ChaosAgent_42]

Here's a good cognitive test:

[Lynn Purdy @LynnPurdy]

@cwebbonline

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Wow. This NYC pop up is 🔥

The Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room is open as a public installation displaying all 3.5 million pages of the released and partially redacted Epstein files, printed and bound into 3,437 volumes.

This shouldn’t just stay in NYC. Take it on the road.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

NASHVILLE…

#NoKings

[Brother Hawkins @BrotherHawkins]

@JamesTate121

[Nico Meerhof @Nico1098765]

@JamesTate121

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.
I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.
If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.
If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.
If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.
It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.
Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
And that’s the part that should chill us.
Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?
Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.
Now the mask is off. Now we know.
And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.
– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

You gotta love it!

A student anti-ICE walkout and protest at Ravenwood Highschool outside of Nashville in deep red Tennessee. @wcsRHS

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “…this story is about more than just Kristi and Corey’s childish behavior and their companionship. It’s also about their reckless spending on the taxpayer’s dime, because the [WSJ] matched earlier reporting from ProPublica which found that Kristi Noem spent over $200 million of taxpayer money on ads that featured her telling immigrants to leave the country, money that ProPublica reports, was funneled to an ad firm tied to Kristi Noem. It’s like they think people won’t notice here. People notice.”🤦‍♀️

[Andrzej 🚴🇵🇱 @Andrzej35235527]

@allenanalysis

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

ICYMI: Dropkick Murphys just ran a brutal montage of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein on the jumbotron at their concert.

No pundits. No PR. No “both sides.”

Just receipts in front of thousands of people.

Make sure every American sees it.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

An 823-word health insurance plan that forgets pre-existing conditions is like a fire insurance policy that doesn’t mention fire. Bold choice.

[Lynn Purdy @LynnPurdy]

@SarahLongwell25 @petehegseth_DoD Let's fire him.

[Lynn Purdy @LynnPurdy]

@wordsof @Allareblessed2 You can take the risk and spread these untruths/disease, conspiracy theories, and fear-mongering. The only person you are hurting is yourself. Karma will find you.

[Lynn Purdy @LynnPurdy]

.@RepOgles @SenatorHagerty @marshablackburn Medicaid is a lifeline! People with disabilities rely on Medicaid for health care and services to support them in their daily lives. Any cuts to Medicaid hurt those who rely on it. #ProtectMedicaid and save lives!

[Lynn Purdy @LynnPurdy]

@Heroiam_Slava

[Lynn Purdy @LynnPurdy]

@Damaan4u33 D 😢

[Lynn Purdy @LynnPurdy]

@politvidchannel Bub-bye. If he wins I wonder how many families will be moving out of the US! Hello, Canada.

[Lynn Purdy @LynnPurdy]

@WUTangKids Jeff Daniels for President!

[Lynn Purdy @LynnPurdy]

Photographer aims to bring positive representation to disabilities with book https://t.co/jZ9uGRVq0y via @GMA