Lynne Ihrig

I've NEVER voted republican. Not once! I believe in liberty and justice for all. Doing what I can to make it so.
No Lists, Dms.

[Lynne Ihrig @LynneIhrig]

@pptsapper Today I stood across the street from a crowd of armed and unarmed men, who were protesting Governor Whitmer. I discovered a lot about people, especially trump supporters. These men started harassing me the minute they saw my sign.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

BACK TO MITCH McCONNELL WATCH

If you believe that photo of Mitch McConnell fresh and perky is real, you need to check out what his neighbor said:

“I was able to get a good look at his face. He was pale, with a blank stare, and his mouth hanging open.”

Another neighbor said staffers were “crying” as McConnell was carried into an ambulance.

“He was not conscious. His eyes were closed. He had oxygen tubes strapped to his nose. I knew by [his aides] running in and out that it was something serious.

There weren’t a lot of sirens. That was the thing that was interesting.”

[Martin Heinrich @SenatorHeinrich]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it looks like we're in for another round of public land attacks from President Trump this week.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Stunning new reporting just revealed that defense contracting firms connected to Donald Trump's sons, Eric and Don Jr., have netted $3.2 billion in Pentagon contracts. This is brazen corruption. The American people deserve answers.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Haitian TPS holders lost the legal right to work today. Not next month. Today. The Supreme Court cleared the way, and the people hit hardest first will be the eldercare facilities in Florida and Ohio that have quietly depended on this workforce for years, the New York Times reported on that strain months before Vance ever claimed he needed to invent a crisis to get anyone's attention.

Here's the detail worth sitting with while that deadline lands. JD Vance amplified the Springfield pet eating hoax to eleven million views after the city manager had already told him it was baseless. Not unconfirmed. Baseless. He said the quiet part out loud later, explaining he had to "create stories" to make small town suffering newsworthy. That's not spin. That's a vice president admitting under his own name that he manufactured a slander against a legal, working immigrant community because the truth wasn't dramatic enough.

Exodus twenty verse sixteen says thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Vance has spoken publicly and often about his Catholic conversion shaping how he sees the world. A man doesn't get to invoke that faith as a character reference while confessing, on the record, to fabricating a story that led to bomb threats against a school district. The hoax collapsed within eight days in 2024. The policy consequence just landed anyway.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Donald Trump is making more money than ever before. Literally BILLIONS last year alone. It's not normal. Not even close. https://t.co/xof8Hjqf3g

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

Every last Republican is a hypocrite.

Byron Donalds has the audacity to speak on crime crackdown.

Byron Donalds is in Congress today from the blood, sweat, and tears of the Civil Rights Movement and he repays the Black Community by fostering White Nationalism.

It makes sense, Byron hasn’t been an upstanding citizen, has he?

He was arrested in 1997 for the distribution of weed and in 2000, he pleaded no contest to a felony bribery charge as part of a scheme to defraud a bank. Now this.

Byron may have the dirty qualities Republicans embrace, but he doesn’t have the skin color. #DemsUnited

[nic @grqntt]

sam neill, thank you so much for always spreading positivity and blessing us with all of these silly videos during covid times ❤️ i'm gonna miss it so much

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

As you watch the scramble for U.S. Senate in South Carolina...

Lindsey Graham was sworn on January 3, 2003, succeeding Strom Thurmond.

Thurmond took that seat on November 7, 1956.

That's only two Senators in nearly 70 years.

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

CNBC ranked the 10 worst states to live in based on the quality of life in each of them. Using Trump’s vernacular, these “shithole” states all share one common characteristic, but I just can’t put my finger on it?

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Gilded age 2.0

[BMB Empower Network @Bmbempower]

🚨 HISTORY IS BEING MADE! ✊🏾🏛️

A first-of-its-kind institution is coming to Portsmouth, Virginia.

The Museum of Black Women Innovators (MOBWI) is opening to honor the extraordinary achievements of 250 historical and contemporary Black women whose inventions, ideas, leadership, and innovation have helped shape America and the world.

Backed by a $1 million investment from Virginia lawmakers, this groundbreaking museum will celebrate excellence in science, technology, medicine, education, politics, the arts, and civil rights—while inspiring future generations to dream bigger and achieve more.

For far too long, many of these stories have gone untold. Now, Black women’s brilliance will have a permanent home where their legacies can educate, inspire, and empower generations to come.

👏🏾 This is more than a museum—it is a celebration of history, innovation, and the limitless power of Black women.

#BlackWomenInnovators #BlackHistory #Innovation #RepresentationMatters #PortsmouthVA #Virginia #BlackExcellence #STEM #Education #HistoryMatters #BMBEmpowerNetwork

[Shawn Harris for Congress @ShawnForGeorgia]

113 days until Election Day!

Northwest Georgia deserves real leadership, not more political games and loyalty tests.

Momentum is building across #GA14. Let’s go win this thing!

Leadership Matters!

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

“Graham’s motivations remain a mystery. Perhaps he craved proximity to power. Perhaps he feared losing his Senate seat, and with it any claim to relevance. Deep down, though, he must have known he was betraying the ideals of his younger self” https://t.co/So9J7XFky6

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

It just imagined if Mitch McConnell is dead in their covering it up what kind of soulless perverts deny a man a decent burial. So let’s say August 2 comes and goes. Does he then have a state funeral?

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Here are the top corporate contributors to Trump's pet projects:

Meta, Amazon, Coinbase, Google/Youtube, RTX, Lockheed Martin, Mastercard, Exiger, Scotts Miracle-Gro, Altria Group, BlackRock, Nvidia, Palantir, Comcast, and Chevron.

Yes, they all want something from Trump.

[Dittie @DittiePE]

The whistleblower disclosure — via the Government Accountability Project — alleges the Center rushed a series of renovations driven by the President’s aesthetic whims and his desire to star in a series of televised events in December, timed around Trump accepting the new FIFA “Peace Prize.” In the process, longstanding federal contracting controls were reportedly set aside.

The physical evidence, per the letter: steel columns rusting through fresh paint, a reflecting pool that may have to be torn out and rebuilt entirely, and a brand-new bathroom floor torn out because Trump didn’t like the tile color. Staff reportedly warned at the time that the cosmetic rush work would need to be redone.

https://t.co/E8E6sOoyhi

[Khary Penebaker @kharyp]

He pressured a secretary of state to find exactly enough votes to flip a state he lost. That is not a complaint about an election. That is a recorded attempt to steal one. The tape exists.

[Richard W. Painter @RWPUSA]

This is a fascinating series on the Epstein Class and how it works.

5. The Epstein class's secret weapon, by @AnandWrites https://t.co/UywlEQKlkC

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

When I was on active duty, government ethical standards meant my daughter couldn’t sell a $2 bar of band candy on base in order to avoid the appearance of impropriety. Now, impropriety on a grand scale is the Trump family’s primary business. We need to make ethics matter again and put an end to the rampant corruption!

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Actor Sam Neill has sadly died aged 78. As well has being a fantastic actor, he regularly showed his love of nature and farming. Here he is with his beloved duck. A lovely man who understood the value of the simple things in life. RIP Sam Neill.