Leslie Kelly

Food/travel writer, recovering restaurant critic, fan of Seattle M's and Memphis Grizzlies. Living the dream, on the road again!

[Leslie Kelly @lesliedines]

Hey y’all! I’m SIXTYFUCKNTWO today!! And all I want is for a few of you good people to make a donation to @WCKitchen cuz they’re heroes, right? Oh, and here’s me doing a dang cannonball in Bellingham Bay which is RT-worthy, right? #birthdaygirl

[Rep. Gloria Johnson @VoteGloriaJ]

It’s really not weird if you work with these racists.

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

The rush to silence Black voters ahead of the 2026 election is stone cold racism.

It's Jim Crow 2.0.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

I asked Director Patel to pass on my thanks for FBI's work stopping a crook who scammed Medicare out of $205 million. He obliged.

Only problem? Trump pardoned that scammer.

So which is it? Should the FBI keep uncovering fraud, or should Trump keep pardoning these crooks?

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Children are being pulled from beneath the rubble in South Lebanon.

This little girl was rescued from beneath the ruins of her home in Maachouk, Tyre.

There is no “ceasefire.”

Only escalation.

Israel is INTENSIFYING its deliberate bombardment of civilian areas in Lebanon.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

NPR ON GAZA: “This all used to be homes. Many collapsed into mass graves… more than 73,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes — thousands more still believed to be in the rubble.”

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel dropped bombs on a school run by nuns today in Nabatieh, South Lebanon.

They obliterated it.

Not a military site.

A school run by religious sisters.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 @Timodc: “Courts canceled TWO elections… and what’s happening in Tennessee is unbelievable. An affront to the law… they just happened to cut the Black voters of Memphis into thirds. Now Nashville & Memphis have no representation.” @GovBillLee #JimCrow

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Republicans' next big legislative push includes:

✅ $70+ billion for ICE & Border Patrol
✅$1 billion for Trump’s ballroom
❌ $0 for health care
❌$0 to help you afford the basics

Budgets show your priorities—and this makes clear Republicans won't lift a finger to help working families.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

This is an outrageous scam. Trump thinks taxpayers are fools and their money is his to use for his billionaire parties.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

I am deeply troubled by reports of physical and chemical force being used inside ICE detention centers.

No person loses their humanity because they are detained. No system should be allowed to hide suffering behind walls, paperwork, or policy language.

My father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., taught us that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. That includes the places many people never see, where vulnerable human beings are too often unseen, unheard, and unprotected.

We cannot create the Beloved Community while accepting cruelty as governance.

We need accountability. We need compassion. We need policies rooted in human dignity.

#MLK #BelovedCommunity #Nonviolence365 #HumanDignity

[Leslie Kelly @lesliedines]

@ProjectLincoln @RepBryanSteil Just paid more than 6 bucks a gallon to fill up in Seattle!

[Leslie Kelly @lesliedines]

I really really really love where TMZ is going these days/daze!!

[TMZ @TMZ]

💰 The House of Representatives has used $300K of taxpayer dollars as hush money in sexual harassment allegations against former members ... newly released documents show. https://t.co/mGXgqRnETN

[Leslie Kelly @lesliedines]

@tedlieu Yes!! How about @springsteen for prez??

[Justin J. Pearson @Justinjpearson]

Now that the Supreme Court has effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act, the right wants to dilute Black voting power in order to gain power & are targeting Memphis District 9 to do it.

Today, Tennessee's special session on redistricting began. Praise community for showing up!

[Geoff Calkins @geoff_calkins]

On Election Day, the shameful work of erasing Memphis begins. Column: https://t.co/Q7qPehXkTy

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

HENSLEY: “Their vote will still count the same.”

STUDENTS: “Then why not leave it the way it was before?”🤔🔥

@joey_senator Hensley (R-Hohenwald) tries to gaslight NASHVILLE students about the Republican push to strip representation from MEMPHIS… and gets immediately owned.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 MUST-WATCH — @mehdirhasan: “It’s very clear Trump is a clear & present danger to the constitution… you don’t have to take my word for it, just ask Mike Pence.”

Mehdi takes @michaeljknowles to school at Dartmouth

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

MEMPHIS SENATOR @SenAkbari: “This is an act of hate. You cannot call it anything but racism. You cannot sugarcoat this.”

Tennessee Republicans are diluting Black representation with white power, stripping their seat in Congress. #JimCrow @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

[usamah andrabi @usamahandrabi]

Not enough people are talking about that at Trump's directive, TN Republicans are starting a special session today to gerrymander the state's only Black majority district — Memphis — out of existence.

#TN09 was on track to elect @Justinjpearson in August