Rick Lefton

Cincinnati boy..husband, father of 5 & sports nut! I tweet about things I find amusing & interesting! Love my Buckeyes, Reds, Bengals, Bearcats & Musketeers!

[Mr. Christopher @iamalmostlegend]

Van Lathan & Rachel Lindsay had one of the best takes summarizing who Trump is, what he represents, and why he’s untouchable.

[Rick Lefton @rlefton]

@BlakeJewellNFL Correct

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
- George Orwell, 1984

[Michael Cohen @MichaelCohen212]

I'm sure you read this but in case you missed it...To my fellow Jews supporting Trump:
An essential read from
Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, Park Avenue Synagogue, NYC:
“As a matter of principle and policy, I do not endorse candidates. But as a matter of principle and policy, when I see the behavior of any person, presidential candidates included, threatening the well-being of the Jewish people, I have to speak out.
So let me not mince words. President Trump is trafficking in the most base form of antisemitism. As far back as Pharaoh, as far back as Haman, there have been leaders who have accused Jews of dual loyalty, of being a fifth column, of being a threat to the well being of the general population. And that’s what Trump did on Thursday night.
The suggestion that the only consideration an American Jew has when approaching the ballot box is Israel reeks of accusations that American Jews are somehow suspect citizens. The suggestion that blame for a prospective loss should lay at the feet of less than 2% of the electorate — our 2% — puts the Jewish people in grave danger.
This is beyond dog-whistle. It is a form of preemptive scapegoating aimed to scare Jews into voting for Trump. Under the rhetorict, cover and guise of being a defender of the state of Israel, President Trump has endangered the Jewish people. It is abhorrent, it has no place in our national discourse, and it must receive blanket condemnation from every person of conscience.”

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning leaked video, Project 2025’s author says that it will be Donald Trump’s plan to cut funding for relief of communities hit by hurricanes. Retweet so all Americans see this.

[Rick Lefton @rlefton]

Submitted for your approval @LanceMcAlister…

[LanceMcAlister @LanceMcAlister]

It really is the oddest thing that the social media account of a team fighting for the best record in the AL has spent two days tweeting about Cincinnati/Kentucky. And the team fighting for that record is putting on t-shirts about it? Wait. What?
Guys. Focus. 😂

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove:

“As a matter of principle and policy, I do not endorse candidates. But as a matter of principle and policy, when I see the behavior of any person, presidential candidates included, threatening the well-being of the Jewish people, I have to speak out.

So let me not mince words. President Trump is trafficking in the most base form of antisemitism. As far back as Pharaoh, as far back as Haman, there have been leaders who have accused Jews of dual loyalty, of being a fifth column, of being a threat to the well being of the general population. And that’s what Trump did on Thursday night.

The suggestion that the only consideration an American Jew has when approaching the ballot box is Israel reeks of accusations that American Jews are somehow suspect citizens. The suggestion that blame for a prospective loss should lay at the feet of less than 2% of the electorate — our 2% — puts the Jewish people in grave danger.

This is beyond dog-whistle. It is a form of preemptive scapegoating aimed to scare Jews into voting for Trump. Under the rhetorict, cover and guise of being a defender of the state of Israel, President Trump has endangered the Jewish people. It is abhorrent, it has no place in our national discourse, and it must receive blanket condemnation from every person of conscience.”

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: J.D. Vance provided the Wall Street Journal with a police report in which a local resident claimed her pet might have been taken by her Haitian neighbors.

Well, guess what!

A reporter visited Anna Kilgore’s house (pictured below) last night, and she confirmed that her missing cat, Miss Sassy, who disappeared in late August, was actually found safe a few days later—hiding in her own basement. So much for that story!

They keep doubling and tripling down but only make themselves look like even bigger fools.

[John W. Miller @jwmjournalist]

Why we need professional journalists: @JDVance rep tells @wsj about Anna Kilgore, a Springfield OH woman whose cat went missing in August, so @Kris_Maher drives to her house. She found the cat in her basement and apologized to her Haitian neighbors.

[Rick Lefton @rlefton]

1000% spot on…

[David DeWitt @DC_DeWitt]

Ohio's US Senator politically exploited an Ohio community to spread a racist lie, and now Springfield is being subjected to threats of hate-fueled violence against elementary school children. It's a despicable thing for a U.S. Senator to perpetrate onto his own constituents.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Michelle Obama just laid into Donald Trump like no one has before. Retweet to make sure all Americans see this takedown.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Tim Walz just spoke at Aliquippa High School’s Football Practice. That Walz can walk into a football practice and communicate like this makes him one of the strongest communicators in the Democratic party. Retweet so all Americans see this

[Oren Barsky @orenbarsky]

A must-watch: “One point of view is based on truth and history, and the other is fiction, fraud, and lies.”

“Arabs don’t own the word Palestine.”

A truth bomb that this reporter wasn’t ready for:

[Rick Lefton @rlefton]

@rhirschheimer Momma Hirschheimer!!

[Rick Lefton @rlefton]

@MorganTrau Happy Father’s Day Fra Trau!

[Rick Lefton @rlefton]

@MorganTrau @OhioEA @WEWS @WCPO @OhioCapJournal @scrippsnews @EWScrippsCo Well deserved…congrats!

[Rick Lefton @rlefton]

@ajgold20 #baller

[Daniel Greenfield - "Hang Together or Separately" @Sultanknish]

If Columbia U kicked out Khymani James, it wasn't because he talked about killing Jews.

The University already knew that because he told it to its staff.

Columbia let him stay for months after the threats.

Khymani was kicked out because everyone found out about it.

[Rick Lefton @rlefton]

@MorganTrau @OhioEA @ToddKleckner @WEWS @WCPO @OhioCapJournal Mazel Tov!

[Noa Tishby @noatishby]

HOW DARE YOU @GretaThunberg. How DARE you call for ethnically cleansing the Jewish people from our ancestral land?? You know nothing. No history, no reality, no truth. So I have this to say to you.

Israel is not a colonialist state – it’s a refugee state which was literally decolonized from Britain.

The majority of Israeli Jews are people of color, whose families were ethnically cleansed from other parts of the Middle East.

Throughout history, the only indigenous sovereign entities to exist in the land have been Jewish states.

Jews originate from the land, derive our religion and our practices from it and despite centuries of exile and displacement have always kept an unbroken presence there.

And you Greta Thunberg, are chanting “crush Zionism” on the streets of Sweden.

Zionism is the Jewish people exercising our right to self-determination in some parts of our only historic, ancestral and indigenous homeland.

Hamas showed us on October 7 what “crushing Zionism” looks like and you want to cheer that on Greta?

Greta Thunberg, if I can borrow your famous phrase, “how dare you!”

But this is how antisemitism works – Find what is most evil to you, and blame it on the Jews, or today - on the Jewish state.

I can understand that younger generations in western societies feel guilty about the evils of colonialism.

But Israel’s history is not your history, and whatever guilt you feel, supporting the massacre of Jews in their ancestral land will not wash away the sins of your fathers. When your ancestors were colonizing the world, my ancestors were being slaughtered by Cossacks.

We were dreaming – next year in Jerusalem – of building a life raft in our homeland. We fled genocidal violence in Europe. We were ethnically cleansed from Arab countries all over the Middle East. And we built a liberal, democratic Jewish state. That is not a colonial enterprise.

Zionism is not a colonial enterprise – Zionism is the decolonization movement of the Jewish people.
And to anyone who cannot accept our presence or who slanders Israel as something it is not, we are here to say: “how dare you.”