Jerald Lentini
@jerald.bsky.social
Civil rights lawyer. Plaintiff in the 1st lawsuit against Musk, Trump and DOGE. AFSCME member. Progressive on Manchester CT’s city council, running for re-election.
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Jerald Lentini
@jerald.bsky.social
· Nov 6
•Elected in 2023 with 5,138 votes
•Sued Trump and Musk
•Budgeted for working families
•Built new housing
•Fought ICE
•Defended abortion rights
•Opened new parks
•Re-elected on Tuesday with 7,761 votes, more than twice my closest opponent
Stand up for folks, and they’ll stand with you.
•Sued Trump and Musk
•Budgeted for working families
•Built new housing
•Fought ICE
•Defended abortion rights
•Opened new parks
•Re-elected on Tuesday with 7,761 votes, more than twice my closest opponent
Stand up for folks, and they’ll stand with you.
Make no mistake: if Trump, Miller, Noem, and Homan could just put the Klan on retainer, they would.
Exclusive: ICE officials plan to spend $100 million to recruit gun-rights supporters and military enthusiasts through online influencers and a geo-targeted ad campaign, part of what the agency called a “wartime recruitment” strategy to hire thousands of officers, according to an internal document.
ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans
An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Make no mistake: if Trump, Miller, Noem, and Homan could just put the Klan on retainer, they would.
I’m really enjoying “The Copenhagen Test” on Peacock. Simu Liu is a better Jack Ryan than basically any Jack Ryan, there’s serious Broadway royalty (Brian D’Arcy James and Kathleen Chalfant), Saul Rubinek is Saul Rubineking like crazy, Melissa Barrera is killing the covert op role…
December 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I’m really enjoying “The Copenhagen Test” on Peacock. Simu Liu is a better Jack Ryan than basically any Jack Ryan, there’s serious Broadway royalty (Brian D’Arcy James and Kathleen Chalfant), Saul Rubinek is Saul Rubineking like crazy, Melissa Barrera is killing the covert op role…
Developers & leasing companies have every incentive to provide the right amount of parking to meet market demand, and car-free residents shouldn’t have to pay for spaces they won’t use.
Parking mandates come with a heavy cost in dollars, labor and lost opportunities for the land that lots take up.
Parking mandates come with a heavy cost in dollars, labor and lost opportunities for the land that lots take up.
Parking spaces can cost developers up to $50,000 each. Dropping the mandate to have them at all opens the door to cheaper housing and walkable neighborhoods.
Lessons from Denver where decisions to eliminate parking minimums follow similar moves in other cities: buff.ly/CONT05v
Lessons from Denver where decisions to eliminate parking minimums follow similar moves in other cities: buff.ly/CONT05v
Denver study shows removing parking requirements results in more affordable housing being built
Structured parking can cost as much as $50,000 per space, making housing more expensive to build and for those living there.
theconversation.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Developers & leasing companies have every incentive to provide the right amount of parking to meet market demand, and car-free residents shouldn’t have to pay for spaces they won’t use.
Parking mandates come with a heavy cost in dollars, labor and lost opportunities for the land that lots take up.
Parking mandates come with a heavy cost in dollars, labor and lost opportunities for the land that lots take up.
I talked to a congressional candidate who thinks the real risk is that failing an attempted impeachment will somehow give approval for the charged conduct. My own view is that targeting Bondi, Hegseth, Bove, or Vought could force resignations and restore confidence in impeachment as a vital tool.
December 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I talked to a congressional candidate who thinks the real risk is that failing an attempted impeachment will somehow give approval for the charged conduct. My own view is that targeting Bondi, Hegseth, Bove, or Vought could force resignations and restore confidence in impeachment as a vital tool.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.
December 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.
And if you’re keeping score at home, @joshuaerlich.bsky.social, @nationalsecuritylaw.org and I are still suing them.
While DOGE has been largely forgotten, it isn't gone. Anna Bower and others have reported it continues to exist, in some form, and DOGE's social media confirms it continues to perform its destructive work.
December 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
And if you’re keeping score at home, @joshuaerlich.bsky.social, @nationalsecuritylaw.org and I are still suing them.
You know how sometime you’ll be watching a movie or show and it’ll just randomly occur to you how fortunate you are to get to watch a particular actor at the height of their craft?
Anyhow, I just watched “Doctor Sleep” for the first time, and we don’t appreciate Rebecca Ferguson nearly enough.
Anyhow, I just watched “Doctor Sleep” for the first time, and we don’t appreciate Rebecca Ferguson nearly enough.
December 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
You know how sometime you’ll be watching a movie or show and it’ll just randomly occur to you how fortunate you are to get to watch a particular actor at the height of their craft?
Anyhow, I just watched “Doctor Sleep” for the first time, and we don’t appreciate Rebecca Ferguson nearly enough.
Anyhow, I just watched “Doctor Sleep” for the first time, and we don’t appreciate Rebecca Ferguson nearly enough.
Both the most and least charitable observation about Vance is that he isn’t acting like this out of principle, because he literally has none.
J. D. Vance has “clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid,” Franklin Foer argues.
J. D. Vance Fails a Simple Moral Test
The vice president welcomes anti-Semites into the Republican coalition.
bit.ly
December 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Both the most and least charitable observation about Vance is that he isn’t acting like this out of principle, because he literally has none.
It’s still so disturbing that the voters chose the guy when it was glaringly obvious he’d gone ‘round the bend weeks before Election Day. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
December 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
It’s still so disturbing that the voters chose the guy when it was glaringly obvious he’d gone ‘round the bend weeks before Election Day. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Reposted by Jerald Lentini
Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!
December 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!
And Louis Prima, who did NOT show at the restaurant…
December 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
And Louis Prima, who did NOT show at the restaurant…
We need to come to terms with the idea that the Executive Branch—including DOD and DOJ—are going to have to be purged of leadership that stuck around during this administration. We’re going to lose a lot of operational knowledge and experience, but that’s the price of restoring a modicum of trust.
December 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We need to come to terms with the idea that the Executive Branch—including DOD and DOJ—are going to have to be purged of leadership that stuck around during this administration. We’re going to lose a lot of operational knowledge and experience, but that’s the price of restoring a modicum of trust.
Of all the things that will never be built, this will never be built the most.
President Trump said he will oversee the development of a new class of Navy battleship — named after himself.
Trump unveils new class of Navy battleship named after himself
President Donald Trump on Monday said he will oversee the development of a new class of Navy “battleship” — named after himself.
wapo.st
December 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Of all the things that will never be built, this will never be built the most.
Can I hold a grudge? Well, I still haven’t forgiven Jake “The Snake” Roberts for ruining Miss Elizabeth’s wedding reception at Summer Slam, when I was eight. And I don’t even like pro wrestling.
December 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Can I hold a grudge? Well, I still haven’t forgiven Jake “The Snake” Roberts for ruining Miss Elizabeth’s wedding reception at Summer Slam, when I was eight. And I don’t even like pro wrestling.
Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche should be impeached over this.
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche should be impeached over this.
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
I strenuously object!
I strenuously object!
December 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
I strenuously object!
I strenuously object!
The absolute eagerness with which some senior military figures are sacrificing their integrity to defend Trump’s crimes bodes very, very poorly for us all.
Suffice it to say, click it if you want, but it’s probably the stupidest rationalization you’ll read today.
Suffice it to say, click it if you want, but it’s probably the stupidest rationalization you’ll read today.
The President holds broad independent power and responsibility to defend the nation from lethal threats, even if Congress has been slow to act. usni.org/concerning-...
Concerning Kinetic Strikes on Drug Boats: Law, Not Hyperbole |
The President holds broad independent power and responsibility to defend the nation from lethal threats, even if Congress has been slow to act.
www.usni.org
December 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The absolute eagerness with which some senior military figures are sacrificing their integrity to defend Trump’s crimes bodes very, very poorly for us all.
Suffice it to say, click it if you want, but it’s probably the stupidest rationalization you’ll read today.
Suffice it to say, click it if you want, but it’s probably the stupidest rationalization you’ll read today.
“Bovino” is Italian for “Bull (Connor)”
A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.
December 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“Bovino” is Italian for “Bull (Connor)”
If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation
December 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation
It’s a Kaijew! We must flee!
December 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
It’s a Kaijew! We must flee!
What was the last time Trump apologized for anything? Was it the hostage video he made after the Access Hollywood tape story broke? I honestly don’t recall any from his first term, or post-January 6, or after his many indictments, or after the racist Bund rally he held.
December 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
What was the last time Trump apologized for anything? Was it the hostage video he made after the Access Hollywood tape story broke? I honestly don’t recall any from his first term, or post-January 6, or after his many indictments, or after the racist Bund rally he held.
Yesterday, my son and I watched “Godzilla” together for the first time. At his request. The Toho Co., Ltd. original. Black and white. Subtitled, not dubbed.
He’s 7. This rules.
He’s 7. This rules.
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Yesterday, my son and I watched “Godzilla” together for the first time. At his request. The Toho Co., Ltd. original. Black and white. Subtitled, not dubbed.
He’s 7. This rules.
He’s 7. This rules.
Is it as fun as Christmas? No. But does Christmas come with sacramental donuts? Also no.
December 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Is it as fun as Christmas? No. But does Christmas come with sacramental donuts? Also no.
Reposted by Jerald Lentini
"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
When gutter racists like Musk talk about “Western Civilization,” it’s always (a) racially based instead of philosophically or ideologically, and (b) too weak to win a battle of ideas on its own merits.
What they call “Western Civilization” is just plain old dumb white supremacy, which they love.
What they call “Western Civilization” is just plain old dumb white supremacy, which they love.
The richest man on the planet has a pinned tweet that's just straight up white nationalism. I can't say I miss Twitter!
December 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
When gutter racists like Musk talk about “Western Civilization,” it’s always (a) racially based instead of philosophically or ideologically, and (b) too weak to win a battle of ideas on its own merits.
What they call “Western Civilization” is just plain old dumb white supremacy, which they love.
What they call “Western Civilization” is just plain old dumb white supremacy, which they love.