lisa bradner

Media maven (old and new) passionate about delivering strategy and results. Former Forrester analyst in CPG, retail and digital. Opinions are my own

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

By Michele Van Allen
Pennsylvania Women Forward
"A day in the Life of Sue Republican.
Sue gets up at 6 a.m. and fills her coffeepot with water to prepare her morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.
With her first swallow of coffee, she takes her daily medication. Her medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised.
All but $10 of her medications are paid for by her employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Sue gets it too.
She prepares her morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Sue's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
In the shower, Sue reaches for her shampoo. Her bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for her right to know what she was putting on her body and how much it contained.
Sue dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air she breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air.
She walks to the subway station for her government-subsidized ride to work. It saves her considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Sue begins her work day. She has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Sue's employer pays these standards because Sue's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union.
If Sue is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, she'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn't think she should lose her home because of her temporary misfortune.
It's noon and Sue needs to make a bank deposit so she can pay some bills. Sue's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Sue's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.
Sue has to pay her Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and her below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Sue and the government would be better off if she was educated and earned more money over her lifetime.
Sue is home from work. She plans to visit her father this evening at his farm home in the country. She gets in her car for the drive. Her car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards.
She arrives at her childhood home. Her generation was the third to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.
She is happy to see her father, who is now retired. Her father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Sue wouldn't have to.
Sue gets back in her car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Sue enjoys throughout her day. Sue agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm self-made and believe everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump has fired USAID Inspector General Paul Martin just one day after he released a report critical of Elon Musk's efforts to shut down the agency.

RETWEET if you stand with Martin against Trump!

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Federal Judge James Boasberg has blocked the Department of Justice from removing January 6th videos from a public database.

RETWEET to thank Judge Boasberg for standing up for our democracy!

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨BREAKING: Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson has blocked Donald Trump from firing U.S. Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger. He is responsible for enforcing ethics laws and protecting government whistleblowers.

RETWEET to thank Judge Jackson for standing up for our democracy!

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Elon Musk has called for U.S. District Court Judge Paul Engelmayer to be impeached for blocking Musk from access to Americans’ private data. This is a dangerous attack on our checks and balances.

RETWEET if you stand with Judge Engelmayer against Musk!

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has blocked Elon Musk's DOGE from accessing personal information, including social security numbers and bank accounts, from the Treasury Department.

RETWEET to thank Judge Kollar-Kotelly for standing up for our privacy!

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Senate Democrats are considering voting NO or delaying every Trump nominee as retaliation for his overreach on ending USAID.

Smash the RT if you SUPPORT this plan. ZERO votes from Democrats!!

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

🚨Read/copy/repost if you can:

From an anonymous OPM employee on Reddit. submitted 3 hours ago by Throwaway918284: "I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM. I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.
Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen.
The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest “yes man” you'll ever meet. He never says no. It’s clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck.
Under his name, they’ve sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn’t even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security.
Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency.
Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various “test” message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road.
The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed.
Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it’s looking pretty grim."
H/T @sandibachom

[Susan For San Jacinto City Council @ifudontlike2bad]

Fed employees at OPM are blocking doors trying to protect everyone from Musk stealing our data. Please boost & if you can, help. @ICJ_org @briantylercohen
@MSNBC @CNN @NewsHour @NPR @maddow @samstein @AnonOpsSE @ArtCandee @darafaye @Acyn @atrupar
Credit TikTok - philosophybread

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now referring to Elon Musk as an “unelected oligarch” and encouraging people to call their elected representatives to ask them what they plan on doing about it.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

It’s been over 24 hours and we still don’t know why Elon Musk hijacked US payment systems, what he plans on doing with it and everyone’s personal data, and who else now has access to it.

This is a crisis that deserves non-stop attention and scrutiny.

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

Read/copy/repost if you can
From an anonymous OPM employee on Reddit. submitted 3 hours ago by Throwaway918284: "I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM. I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.
Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen.
The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest “yes man” you'll ever meet. He never says no. It’s clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck.
Under his name, they’ve sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn’t even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security.
Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency.
Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various “test” message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road.
The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed.
Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it’s looking pretty grim."

[lisa bradner @lisabradner]

@AdtechGod Because what adtech needs is another acronym and MLM is just the thing!

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

I just talked to the family of Officer Brian Sicknick, who was killed on Jan 6. He grew up in NJ, served his nation, but was assaulted and killed. His assailants sentenced to prison until pardoned by Trump. Let us lift up Sicknick’s name and memory: THREAD

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

The good dogs (and people) of the LA wildfires ❤️ 14/10 for all

[Manish Kumar Shah @manishkumar_dev]

The 30 Most Creative Ads I've Collected This Month:

(Don't miss out on the 4th one)

1. Loctite

[Colin Gorrie @colingorrie]

In 410 AD, the Goths sacked Rome

History remembers them as barbarians who destroyed the greatest empire on earth

But they weren't barbarians — they were Rome's own soldiers, betrayed by their masters

And they would continue Rome’s legacy

This is the true story of the Goths 🧵

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is Rep. Michael Guest, chair of the House Ethics Committee. His committee was scheduled to vote on releasing a damaging report on Attorney General nominee Matt Gaetz prior to his resignation.

RETWEET if you think @RepMichaelGuest should release the Gaetz report!