Cynthia Leonard

Mom, pastor and fan of anything drenched in chocolate

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

“Struggles to show”?

You mean “completely makes up”

[ProPublica @propublica]

In a buried report, oil regulators pinpointed nearly 600 wells operating illegally, threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

Then there were 1,400+ wells that had operated for decades without any limits at all — grandfathered in from an earlier era.
https://t.co/gXgd4L8oOp

[Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @JudiciaryDems]

Release the full Jack Smith report.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Over 1 million people have died, half of them children, because USAID was dismantled. You’re happy with that. You are a monster.

[ProPublica @propublica]

ProPublica obtained 3,000 pages of emails sent last year by executives asking that their facilities be exempted from Clean Air Act requirements.

The White House approved more than 180 requests and is considering more.
https://t.co/Jgl96sNhtd

[Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @JudiciaryDems]

We just told a circuit court: no more hiding the report on Trump’s classified documents misuse.

Release Volume II of the Jack Smith report.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Because it's a lie.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here:

Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track. 

Spread the word. Stand up for science.

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: Despite precise instructions from Congress on how billions of dollars in foreign aid should be spent, Trump officials have failed to fund some projects and labeled money meant for global health as “unallocated” to control how it is spent. https://t.co/akeHrswGLf

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents and obstruction of justice is still hidden, thanks to Trump’s personal lawyers taking over the DOJ.

I’m filing a brief — joined by every member of @JudiciaryDems — to make it clear to the court that the corrupt process that hid the report must not prevail. Congress and the public are entitled to the truth.

[Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @JudiciaryDems]

BREAKING: Senate Democrats file legal brief supporting appeal of Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision blocking release of full Jack Smith report on Trump’s misuse of classified documents.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

KAINE: Was the 2024 election rigged?

HAL DUNCAN: President Trump won the 2024 election

KAINE: How about that? He was asked twice if the 2020 election was rigged, and he wouldn't answer the question. You're afraid of making an insecure president mad.

[Susan Rice @AmbassadorRice]

This is a jaw-dropping, horrific surrender document complete with hundreds of billions in reparations. It is the predictable result of incompetent negotiation and the foolhardy strategic catastrophe of starting and pursuing this disastrous war. The U.S. will not soon recover from this, the biggest national security blunder in decades.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

My friend Jamie Raskin is one of the most careful and principled people in Congress. So when he says the director of the FBI may be running a taxpayer funded slush fund, I pay attention.

Here is what he found.

Kash Patel directed more than $1 million in bonus payments to a small circle of agents in his inner circle and on his security detail.

Some were getting nearly $8,000 every two weeks on top of salaries that were already maxed out at the federal ceiling. A number of them collected close to $40,000 over consecutive pay periods.

The payments came so fast that the FBI’s bonus reserve accounts ran dry and some checks bounced.

So who got the money?

Agents on Patel’s so-called "director’s advisory team."

That is the unit created in 2025 and described internally as a payback squad, built to dig up dirt on the law enforcement officials who investigated Trump and his allies.

Raskin has given Patel until June 29 to account for every payment, every recipient, and any internal review of whether this was even legal.

Patel should answer for all of it.
https://t.co/HZPeRJ2Kqg

[Harry Litman @harrylitman]

"Stephen Miller, a man with no legal training, blithely tried to sell Trump on suspending the most basic safeguard of human liberty that Anglo-American law has ever produced." https://t.co/XD6fMiiK7F

[ProPublica @propublica]

Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican.

After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges.
https://t.co/G29lph1tnE

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

The question inside Trump's White House wasn't whether suspending habeas corpus was a good idea. It was how much the administration could get away with before the courts stopped them.
That's a warning worth paying attention to.
Read here:
https://t.co/jRv5GR7PGa

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Fmr. DOJ Prosecutor Brendan Ballou exposes Trump's massive UFC scam. He confirms the administration is selling $1.5M VIP packages for White House cage fights.

Washington is openly using public monuments to generate private profits. Pure corruption!

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Are you fucking kidding me?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

SUBRAMANYAM: You tweeted in March that the US Navy had successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz. Was that true?

CHRIS WRIGHT: No.