Brian Rice

[Reich-Wing Watch @ReichWingWatch]

🚨52-year-old Trump supporter Thomas Lenard — Arkoma, OK schoolteacher, former police chief, devout church member, and prolific poster of Bible memes and pro-Trump rants — has been arrested on child s*x crimes charges.

Lenard was arrested Friday after the LeFlore County District Court issued a warrant charging him with 8 counts of Lewd or Indecent Acts to a Child Under 16, per the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

Back in 2023, multiple students at Arkoma Public Schools came forward saying Lenard made inappropriate contact with them. The district placed him on administrative leave. The Arkoma Police Department — the department he used to run — asked OSBI to investigate.

After a lengthy probe, OSBI got the warrant on June 26, 2026. Lenard turned himself in that evening and was booked into LeFlore County Jail.

This is a man who spent years online lecturing strangers about “Christian values,” posting “I’m a gun-toting, Bible-quoting Southern gentleman,” and sneering that liberals are the ones who are “mentally ill.” He mocked people for thinking there are more than two genders. He shared memes about “Resurrection Day.” He called himself “the reason Obama has never been in Oklahoma.”

Now he’s facing 8 felony counts involving a child.

This is the pattern, every single time. The loudest “family values” crusaders are usually the ones hiding the most horrific secrets.

Given Lenard is not a drag queen, trans, gay, or an immigrant — and is instead the conservative Christian usual suspect — national outrage over this case is unlikely.

Share this and make sure ALL child predators get the attention they deserve.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

In 1999 the Supreme Court ruled in Olmstead v. L.C. that disabled Americans have the right to receive care in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs. Twenty-seven years of law followed from that decision. Last week the Department of Justice published a memo authorizing states to institutionalize more people with disabilities - returning to the legal posture that Olmstead was designed to end.

More than half of states have already cut home- and community-based services following Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill. Special education civil rights enforcement is being moved from the Education Department to HHS. HHS is run by a man who said last summer that autistic people will never pay taxes, hold a job, play baseball, write a poem, go on a date, or use a toilet unassisted.

Stephen Miller was reportedly behind the DOJ memo, though the White House denied it. The number-two official at the Office of Legal Counsel that wrote the memo previously served as Texas's principal deputy solicitor general. Texas is leading a group of states suing to make it easier to forcibly institutionalize disabled people.

The 27th anniversary of Olmstead was last Monday.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Kagan's dissent is the legal document that will be read when historians examine what this Court did in this moment. She found that the majority's conclusion required setting aside comments that were "so repellent and racially inflected" that the Court itself would not reproduce them in its opinion - and then ruling anyway that those comments were insufficient evidence of racial animus.

The legal standard the majority applied: courts cannot question the process immigration authorities use to revoke TPS, regardless of the statements accompanying that process. The practical consequence: 350,000 people who have lived here legally, worked, built families, enrolled children in schools - exposed to deportation to a country where four women returned in February were found beheaded. Viles Dorsainvil, who runs a support center for Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, said families are going to work, kids are going to school, and the Court just put all of it on stop. The Senate has a bipartisan House-passed bill sitting in front of it. They could act today.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

McRaven served with most of the fired officers in combat. He calls Donahue one of the most brilliant officers he knows. Lincoln explained McClellan's firing. Truman issued a statement on MacArthur the day it happened. Gates held a press conference. No explanation has been given for any of these nine removals. The chilling effect on honest military advice is the actual national security risk.

[Michael Steele @MichaelSteele]

This is what it sounds like when idiots gather, pound their religious breasts and sow stupidity. The words “separation of church and state” do not appear in the Constitution, but the words are a metaphor (you know what that is, right?) from an 1802 letter written by Thomas Jefferson (since relied on as precedent by our Supreme Court) in which he stated that the First Amendment built a "wall of separation between Church & State."
Jefferson should know what those words meant; so if it’s good enough for him…perhaps the idiocracy should sit down and pick up a book they haven’t burned or banned. #BringBackCivics

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

Here’s an in-depth New York Times article on how Trump, his family, and his cronies are abusing their government power to line their pockets and using billions of your tax dollars to facilitate their grifting. Note that the $8.9 billion in federal money going to the 14 Trump and Lutnick companies is equal to the entire amount of federal assistance Western North Carolina has received for Hurricane Helene recovery.

Rampant corruption in plain sight . . . and Republicans see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil.

Here’s an excerpt from the article and a free link to the entire piece:

“Ahead of the deal, the Trump administration approved preliminary applications for as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing for the American company, now called Kaz Resources, which plans to break ground on the project in rural Kazakhstan.

It was not only Mr. Trump and Mr. Lutnick who saw an opportunity.

Their sons were soon doing business with partners in a deal that their fathers were negotiating, continuing a pattern of self-enrichment in the second Trump administration that has few precedents in American history.”

. . . . .

“One or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies that are actively working with the federal government on critical mining deals, including the Kazakhstan project, according to federal filings examined by The New York Times.

All 14 of these companies have either benefited directly from offers of financial assistance from the Trump administration, or have pending permit applications before the Commerce Department, which Mr. Lutnick oversees, The Times found. The total amount of federal funding that the Trump administration has provided or is considering providing to the companies exceeds $8.9 billion, according to public statements by the companies and federal government.”

https://t.co/HvoK9qva0H

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

McRaven writes that throughout his career as a senior officer, he never once hesitated to provide his best military advice even when it contradicted the secretary or the president. He never feared that candid advice would end his career. He describes that honest engagement as the mechanism that kept senior leaders from making poor military decisions.

The firings of Donahue, George, Brown, Franchetti, and the others dismantle that mechanism. They send a message to every officer still in uniform: the cost of honest advice is your career. Hegseth says he is trying to "revive the warrior ethos and restore trust in our military." McRaven - who has more warrior ethos in his service record than Hegseth has had in his career - says the opposite is happening. The experienced voices the president needs to avoid military miscalculation are being shown the door. No explanation. No congressional notification until Democrats wrote it into the budget. No accountability.

[Charles M. Blow @CharlesMBlow]

This is what has been unleashed in this country: a return to emboldened racism. They feel validated and vindicated. They no longer have to couch their bigotry in polite language. It can now, once again, be raw and visceral. This is what we are fighting people.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who agrees that it should be a MUCH bigger story that trump's cabinet member, RFK Jr, tried to dangle a gov't job to an Iowa candidate in exchange for dropping out of the race.

“As a liaison with the White House”
CORRUPT AF.

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

Full article with additional details on the origins of the Russian disinformation campaign that Tulsi Gabbard just revived:

https://t.co/6PF7w7pIlp

[colleen @waysandmeans71]

@atrupar @SecretaryBurgum If you think we are going to let you blame Americans for vandalizing OUR POOL, you’re out of your mind. Your ridiculous President drove TEN SUVs on it before the sealant was dry. I have never in my life seen such a sick, citizen-hating administration.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This is one of the weirdest and scariest pieces of propaganda ever created by the government—or anyone.

It asserts that the separation of church and state is really a myth created by godless existentialists like Nietzsche, Sartre and Foucault.

It has the DOJ logo on the front.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 A sitting Maine Republican rep has been charged with domestic violence after allegedly strangling his wife.

Republicans refuse to remove him from office.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Elias's comparison is the one worth sitting with. When Bill Clinton briefly boarded Loretta Lynch's plane on a Phoenix tarmac in 2016 and they talked about grandchildren and golf - no documented request, no documented outcome, a conversation - the media treated it as a scandal that required weeks of coverage. Trump stood at a podium in Pennsylvania, described personally calling a federal prosecutor to investigate an election while his preferred candidate was losing, and the Pennsylvania federal prosecutor was sitting in the audience being publicly thanked. Elias: none of the reporters present found this worthy of a question.

The normalization that allows that to happen is not benign. When the president describes using the federal prosecution apparatus to intervene in a state election and it registers as a moment of rally color rather than a constitutional question, the mechanism that would otherwise produce accountability has been eroded. That erosion is itself the story underneath the story.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Pete Hegseth is removing or blocking the promotions of all military officers who he has determined would not participate in an illegal pro-Trump self-coup (auto-coup) in 2028.

You can believe me now or believe me in 2028.

Either way, stop seeing what Hegseth is doing as random.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

It'd be nice to have a Speaker who'd say: "And let them, we have nothing to hide, and they'll look like fools for doing it."

But what he's saying here is: They're gonna uncover a lot of stuff, and you don't want that.

[David Bowman @DRBowman65]

@GOP__Ls

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

This is the most corrupt words to come out of a Speaker's mouth imaginable. The job of Congress isn't to protect the President and his family. It's to provide checks and balances on the Executive Branch. You're damn right we will investigate crimes and corruption. Who moved $180 million in oil futures 15 minutes before Iran announcements? Who has gotten sole source contracts because of their connections to the Trump family? Where did our social security data go when DOGE downloaded it into portable hard drives? Where are the rest of the Epstein files? On and on this Congress has chosen covering up crimes instead of stopping them. That ends in November. @WellmanForMO

[Justice is Served @pleasesaveour]

#Cruelty

This is the work of Stephen Miller

The memo argues that states do not have to provide in-home or community-based care to people with disabilities who need support. He's calling for instutionalizing them https://t.co/sd8Z5Yg1cF

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Stephen Miller: “America’s doors are fully closed to asylum seekers… If you want asylum, we’ll find another country to take you.”

Since October 2025, 4,499 refugees have been resettled in the U.S., according to the Refugee Processing Center. All but three, who were from Afghanistan, were South African.

Meanwhile, The New York Times reports the Trump administration has prepared a welcome package for future white South African refugees arriving in the U.S. that includes an Android tablet, an American flag, copies of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, and Trump-approved literature promoting a version of American and South African history that criticizes racial equity and civil rights laws while promoting claims of discrimination against white people.

It doesn’t get more racist than this. Refugees are welcome as long as they’re white.