Ruth D.

Iowa girl on the East coast. Hawkeyes, Cards, WNBA, USWNT and LPGA. Mom to Tater (RIP) and Mitch (RIP), and wife of Kate. Travel, golf & blue cheese. 🖤💛

[Ruth D. @moomoonme]

The sweetheart in my profile photo passed away last night, and I’m completely 💔. Thankful to have had the rescue boy for almost 14 yrs. Diagnosed w/ kidney disease in March, so blessed to have had the add’l time w/ him. I love you and am missing you, my buddy boy. 😭💔🌈

[Ruth D. @moomoonme]

@jemelehill I clearly see the CC pattern; but I don’t see the 22 pattern. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Can someone please point out the 2s tome? Ido love the colors! 🩷🔥

[Ruth D. @moomoonme]

@bretatwood @DraftKings Yes, please!!!

[Ruth D. @moomoonme]

@CaitlinUpdate22 @LetCaitlinCook @WNBA Can’t as far as I know, but if you find a way, pls lmk.

[Ruth D. @moomoonme]

@Amyn222222 Need to have a WNBA ID account to vote now.

[Ruth D. @moomoonme]

@YoitsRosie WNBA ID - you need to have one to vote, so no voting from multiple devices. Also prevents multiple accounts.

[Ruth D. @moomoonme]

Unfortunately, you can only vote if you have an account at https://t.co/3QLWQnaorO (or the app). 🙁🙁🙁

[Ruth D. @moomoonme]

Iowa/Fever/CC fans!!! Caitlin is in FIFTH place in votes (she’s even behind Paige), so please vote! Today is a DOUBLE VOTE day, so it’s a perfect time to vote! If you don’t have a WNBA ID, it’s easy to get one @ https://t.co/KjbPM7n03a.

[WNBA @WNBA]

First returns for WNBA All-Star Voting presented by @Ally are in! Is your favorite player at the top of the list?

Don't forget that votes count 2x today ⤵️

🔗: https://t.co/2I7ZfpfqQV

[WNBA @WNBA]

First returns for WNBA All-Star Voting presented by @Ally are in! Is your favorite player at the top of the list?

Don't forget that votes count 2x today ⤵️

🔗: https://t.co/2I7ZfpfqQV

[Ruth D. @moomoonme]

@stillnothawkize Thank you for sharing - sending love to you and your Perry family! 🩷🩷🩷

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Hayes: “According to the NYTimes, the USPS has proposed a new rule that would allow it to REFUSE to deliver mail ballots in states that don’t turn over voter rolls to the federal government. That vaguely written rule released last week calls on states to compile lists of mail voters that postal service employees would use to screen ballots for eligibility. And if states refuse to comply, the post office could refuse to send their mail ballots. Can you imagine postal workers deputized by the Trump administration just refusing to deliver mail ballots to Californians? What about states that comply? Imagine postal workers at some place reviewing a state’s voter roll to determine who can vote and who can’t? Its unconstitutional, its chaotic, It’s maybe the wildest attempt yet to interfere in free and fair elections, short of course, of using federal agents to criminally investigate voting rights activists, to raid their office, maybe even perp walk them in for charges. That of course has been a classic old school tactic of election-rigging autocrats for generations around the world.” 😳

[LASIK.com @LASIKdotcom]

Still offering free LASIK to @WNBA refs…

[LASIK.com @LASIKdotcom]

Still offering free LASIK to WNBA refs...

[Carol Leonnig @CarolLeonnig]

🚨EXCLUSIVE >> @FBI agents raided Cleveland office of Ohio voter registration group, in what many consider part of broader Trump administration effort to intimidate and sow doubt about voting integrity in key swing states. Agents fanned out across Ohio, following and questioning canvassers and volunteers.
"Straight up intimidation" said group's board member.
https://t.co/aRySmBGuKB

[Texas Democratic Party @texasdemocrats]

Governor Abbott closed out his speech at the Texas GOP convention with a live elephant. It then peed on the floor as it left the room.

The perfect metaphor for the Texas Republican Party.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Trump may as well have called the rest of us peasants.

According to him, it wasn’t workers who built America. It was rich guys like him and his cabinet:

“These people built the country, not the complainers. The complainers didn’t build the country…. Whether it’s fishermen or farmers or anything else. Me. Guys like me, they built the country. And you know, I watch all these ingrates, they’re always complaining, complaining. They didn’t build anything, they couldn’t build anything.”

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it." - Roald Dahl

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Trump walking out on Kristen Welker today reminded me of his 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl in 2020. Different interviewer, same result: when he can’t control the narrative, he walks out like the petulant man-child he is. Fucking snowflake.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blocked the promotions of at least seven Navy officers in a move that targeted women and minority officers. https://t.co/1vww7IxOf1

[Paul Graham @paulg]

This is an actual page on the White House web site. It reads like something written about a third world dictator. So embarrassing. I have not seen any branch of the federal government sink this low in my lifetime.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: O.M.G. The woman accusing Graham Platner of "intimidation" has been EXPOSED as a top Republican operative who has worked with his opponent, Susan Collins!

This is EXACTLY what they did to Al Franken…

On Thursday evening, the New York Times ran a story in which a woman, Lindsey Fifield, accused Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner of grabbing her by the arm, twisting her arm, and of standing in a doorway menacingly blocking her exit.

The New York Times could not corroborate any of her accusations, but ran the story anyway, along with allegations from a few other women that Graham Platner could be unsettling, had dark thoughts, and generally had spooky vibes as a boyfriend.

They also spoke to several other women who said he was a lovely boyfriend and they happily supported his candidacy.

It’s now coming out that Lindsey Fifeld is a lifelong GOP operative who has worked with Platner’s Republican opponent, Susan Collins, and successfully persuaded her to vote in favor of Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s Supreme Court justice who is an ACTUAL rapist.

In one message to a friend, Fifeld wrote “I will personally go campaign for Collins.”

Reporter Ryan Grim at Drop Site News reports that “In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.”

“In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.“

“The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was ‘a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns.’”

“Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and [Zionist extremist Bethany] Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then.”

It should be noted as well that Lindsey Fifeld has a long history of making up baseless lies about Palestinians targeted by the Trump administration like Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk.

Folks, pardon our French, but this is *bullshit.*

This is an abhorrent attempt to weaponize domestic violence and the mental trauma of dealing with PTSD in order to sink a leftist candidate who staunchly opposes the Israeli genocide of Gaza.

Oh, and if that wasn't enough, the reporter on this article is Katie Gluek, an ardent Zionist whose parents are Israeli settler-occupiers in the West Bank.

Platner’s campaign responded with “Let’s be very clear: This is a lifelong G.O.P. operative who’s dedicated her career to electing Republicans.”

What else is there to say?

Graham Platner is obviously a very imperfect person, but we are not electing him to be our boyfriend. He has been very open about his struggles with PTSD; he saw four of his squadmates killed in an IED explosion in Iraq.

This smear campaign, based on uncorroborated allegations by a woman who literally said she would work for his opponent, is part of his punishment for being a progressive who isn’t afraid to stand against Israel, to stand against the health insurance behemoths, and to demand a better life for the American people.

They managed to sink Al Franken like this. They will NOT succeed again!