Ted Wlezien

Displaced Chicagoan, but still reppin' Bears, Blackhawks, White Sox. USN veteran and NJROTC dad. Hallcon driver. @909thebridge member.
Taxi si, #ubered no!

[Ted Wlezien @TedWlezien]

She did it!!!
Class of 2019
Shawnee Mission North HS
@SMNindians

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Rep. Ted Lieu DESTROYS Trump's Agriculture Secretary over her insane lie that Joe Biden is to blame for the screwworm outbreak — which is a direct result of DOGE cuts!

Democrats are done playing nice with these liars...

"Dear@SecRollins: You keep getting fact checked for your lies," the congressman wrote on X. "It’s your Administration that cut the Screwworm programs. Also, the life cycle of a Screwworm is 14 to 54 days. The trump Administration has been in office over 500 days. If you can’t stop lying, you need to resign."

Lieu was reacting to a video of Rollins insisting that this new screwworm problem traces "back to the last administration" and Biden's nonexistent "open border policy."

This is yet another blatant example of the Trump administration coming into power, breaking something that they don't understand, and then blaming Biden for the consequences. They are pathologically incapable of taking responsibility for any of their blunders.

"Dear @SecRollins: Did the Screwworm come from the trump Administration’s beef import plan with Argentina?" Lieu wrote in a followup post, boosting a report that Trump signed a trade deal with Argentina that permitted "unrestricted beef imports" from that country despite its screwworm problem.

Screwworms, which devour tissue and can kill cattle, have been detected in a growing number of calves in Texas. One case has been discovered in a dog. The pest had been considered eradicated in the United States for decades, but under Elon Musk's tenure at DOGE, the government slashed preventive measures and funding aimed at hampering the spread of the creature.

Before those cuts, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), spent tax dollars on monitoring and containing the spread of screwworm in Central America. It was one of the most worthwhile government investments on the books, because it helped stop destructive outbreaks like the one we're currently witnessing.

"Trump GUTTED funding for screwworm detection and fired 25 percent of workers whose job it was to monitor the disease," Congressman Shri Thanedar wrote on X.

We know who's to blame here and it's not Joe Biden. It's Donald Trump and Elon Musk, ignorant oligarchs who were so hellbent on slashing spending to pay for more tax cuts for the obscenely rich, that they didn't care what they destroyed in the process.

Please ❤️ and share to demand a full investigation into DOGE!

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Trump froze Medicare enrollments for home health and hospice providers — immediately, no warning.

Seniors and disabled Americans needing care at home are now blocked from getting it.

They call it “anti-fraud.”
We call it what it is: abandonment.

#TrumpMakesUsSick

[MLB Network @MLBNetwork]

This angle of Braden Montgomery's walk-off home run 🤩

(via #BallparkCam) | @whitesox

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: @tedlieu just said what we were all thinking:

"President Trump has repeatedly fallen asleep at multiple Cabinet meetings, at multiple White House events, and most recently at a raucous basketball game last night. The White House needs to explain why Trump keeps going to the hospital and why they keep giving him cognitive tests..

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

Stephen A. Smith claps back at Trump:

“The brother wasn't awake. If it was that important for you to be there, why did you look like you were asleep? Didn't you call out former President Joe Biden, 'Sleepy Joe'? Well, what should we call you?”

(via @FirstTake, h/t @NBA__Courtside)

[Acyn @Acyn]

Lieu: The president is not well. He has tremendous difficulty staying awake on the job. He has repeatedly fallen asleep at Cabinet meetings, at White House events, at a Memorial Day ceremony, and most recently at a very loud NBA game last night.

The White House needs to explain why Donald Trump keeps going to the hospital and taking cognitive tests.

[CHGO Bulls @CHGO_Bulls]

The following statement was released today through Bulls PR, on behalf of the family of Stacey King.

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[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Ok

[newsense @newsense]

@RpsAgainstTrump Oh, “Special Military Operation,” where have i heard that one before…

[A Random Person @ARandomProgress]

@RpsAgainstTrump Yeah a military conflict that did nothing but cause more damage to us.

[TheChefTrevor @TheChefTrevor]

@RpsAgainstTrump So... 13 Americans died so you could practice a military conflict? You started an illegal war, lost it and this is how you're trying to downplay your idiocy? You arrogant, dismissive sack of orange garbage!

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

ABSOLUTELY FUCKING REPULSIVE THAT PETE HEGSETH REMOVED COLIN POWELLS NAME FROM A LIST OF NOTABLE AMERICANS BURIED AT ARLINGTON CEMETERY 🤬 HE ALSO REMOVED THE NAMES OF EVERY PERSON OF COLOR AND EVERY SINGLE WOMAN ON THE SAME LIST 🤬ONLY WHITE MEN WERE LEFT IN PLACE 🤬

SO PLEASE TELL US ONE MORE TIME HOW THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION RESPECTS AMERICAS FALLEN HEROES 🤬

[Fred B. Mitchell @kicker34]

Happy heavenly birthday to my longtime friend, Bears Hall of Famer, Gale Sayers.

[Reich-Wing Watch @ReichWingWatch]

🚨 ANOTHER NEO-CONFEDERATE P*DOPHILE BITES THE DUST!

39-year-old Joshua Bryan, Gainesville, FL, a proud traitor waving the Confederate flag, just got 25 years in prison for distributing child s*xual abuse material online.

This wasn’t his first rodeo—he already did 4 years for the same sick shit in 2021.

His Facebook is drenched in treasonous Confederate imagery—the same symbols of a slave empire explicitly built on white supremacy and the “right” to own Black people.

These Lost Cause clowns aren’t defending “heritage,” they’re predators hiding behind racist nostalgia.

Lock ‘em up. The Confederates can’t stop losing over 100 years later. 🇺🇸

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

There is no world in which this is okay.  

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 

His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated. 

If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself. 

This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it. 

The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next. 

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW. 

Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do. 
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[FFRF @FFRF]

Churches are free to discuss politics and social issues from the pulpit.

What they can't do is intervene in elections by endorsing or opposing candidates, telling congregants how to vote, or using tax-exempt resources to campaign.

That's the line the law draws.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HELL YES! A federal judge orders the removal of Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center and halts his shutdown of the beloved center.

This is an astonishing defeat for MAGA...

U.S. District Judge ‌Christopher ⁠Cooper has given the Trump administration just 14 days to remove every single sign at the center bearing Trump's name and to delete all references to a "Trump Kennedy Center" in official materials for the center.

Cooper's ruling is a permanent injunction which asserts that the center’s board of trustees — which is stocked with Donald's MAGA cronies — may not proceed with its plans to close the institution for two years. The bizarre closure was originally announced after a string of prominent artists canceled performances in response to Trump’s takeover of the center. Ticket sales were also struggling.

The judge explicitly stated that all signage is barred from indicating that the building “is named for any person other than President John F. Kennedy.”

Cooper slammed the board for using “an insufficient, one-sided presentation of information” when it moved to close the center. Meanwhile, federal law “makes crystal clear” that the center is named after Kennedy, an actual President.

This court defeat is a major black eye for Trump because unlike the Iran War or the skyrocketing price of groceries, it’s something he actually cares about.

As it becomes increasingly clear that he will go down as the worst President in American history, a leader who failed his people, future generations, and basic morality, Trump has been scrambling to carve out some kind of legacy for himself. It’s the same warped pathology that has him fixated on his ballroom, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, his Triumph Arch, and slapping his face on $250.

Please ❤️ and share to thank the judge!