Leslie Byrne
@byrneles.bsky.social
Former Congresswoman, State Senator and Virginia Delegate. Mother and Grandmother. Artist.
Study under-medicating too to be valid. But that’s not the point is it? Arriving at preconceived answers is the point.
September 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Study under-medicating too to be valid. But that’s not the point is it? Arriving at preconceived answers is the point.
Dear Congressional Republicans:
How does it feel to self-neuter and become bystanders to your own jobs?
How does it feel to self-neuter and become bystanders to your own jobs?
September 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Dear Congressional Republicans:
How does it feel to self-neuter and become bystanders to your own jobs?
How does it feel to self-neuter and become bystanders to your own jobs?
It pains me to see the TV Network of Walter Cronkite become another rightwing platform.
September 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
It pains me to see the TV Network of Walter Cronkite become another rightwing platform.
I have known many who have served in the National Guard. They are from all walks of life. They train during the year for emergency deployment; not to be used by a megalomaniac as his toy soldiers.
August 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I have known many who have served in the National Guard. They are from all walks of life. They train during the year for emergency deployment; not to be used by a megalomaniac as his toy soldiers.
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Millions of Americans are now facing higher electric bills thanks to surging demand from Big Tech data centers that power AI.
Experts fear their growing needs for power will outstrip supply and prices will spike for everyone. wapo.st/4l2by2j
Experts fear their growing needs for power will outstrip supply and prices will spike for everyone. wapo.st/4l2by2j
The AI explosion means millions are paying more for electricity
Across much of the eastern U.S., electricity bills have jumped. The reason? Data centers required for AI and other tech wonders are driving up electricity demand.
wapo.st
July 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Millions of Americans are now facing higher electric bills thanks to surging demand from Big Tech data centers that power AI.
Experts fear their growing needs for power will outstrip supply and prices will spike for everyone. wapo.st/4l2by2j
Experts fear their growing needs for power will outstrip supply and prices will spike for everyone. wapo.st/4l2by2j
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"The warehouses, which are run by USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), contain between 60,000 to 66,000 metric tonnes of food, sourced from American farmers and manufacturers…"
Heartlessness and stupidity is the worst combination
Heartlessness and stupidity is the worst combination
Exclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage
The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs.
www.reuters.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
"The warehouses, which are run by USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), contain between 60,000 to 66,000 metric tonnes of food, sourced from American farmers and manufacturers…"
Heartlessness and stupidity is the worst combination
Heartlessness and stupidity is the worst combination
Anybody got a pool going on when and how tRump will embarrass our nation at the Pope’s funeral this Saturday?
April 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Anybody got a pool going on when and how tRump will embarrass our nation at the Pope’s funeral this Saturday?
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First came the market manipulation. Now come the bribes.
April 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
First came the market manipulation. Now come the bribes.
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Five thousand dollars net worth gone yesterday, ten thousand today. And I have a small portfolio. Big investors must be going nuts. Every time a Republican is in the White House the same crap happens.
April 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Five thousand dollars net worth gone yesterday, ten thousand today. And I have a small portfolio. Big investors must be going nuts. Every time a Republican is in the White House the same crap happens.
This is the most malignant Administration in the history of the United States!
April 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This is the most malignant Administration in the history of the United States!
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Oh FFS, now he’s selling sponsorships to National Easter Egg Roll 🤦♂️
‘This is not your grandmother’s Easter Egg Roll’: White House seeks corporate sponsorships for Easter event | CNN Politics
The White House, through an outside event production company called Harbinger, is soliciting corporate sponsors for this year’s annual Easter Egg Roll, which is prompting major concerns from ethics ex...
www.cnn.com
March 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Oh FFS, now he’s selling sponsorships to National Easter Egg Roll 🤦♂️
If I say, “Barnacle Billionaire Bamboozler”, who comes to mind?
March 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
If I say, “Barnacle Billionaire Bamboozler”, who comes to mind?
Is the Muskrat working for China? (Is Trump working for Putin?)
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Is the Muskrat working for China? (Is Trump working for Putin?)
The fact we don't know and can't know is itself a problem
open.substack.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Is the Muskrat working for China? (Is Trump working for Putin?)
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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‘They tried to sell the CIA!’ MSNBC's Rachel Maddow tears into ‘indefensible’ Trump moves.
www.rawstory.com/trump-real-e...
www.rawstory.com/trump-real-e...
‘They tried to sell the CIA!’ MSNBC's Rachel Maddow tears into ‘indefensible’ Trump moves
Rachel Maddow ripped into the latest cost-cutting effort President Donald Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency ally Elon Musk have taken on: the unloading of government properties.“They t...
www.rawstory.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
‘They tried to sell the CIA!’ MSNBC's Rachel Maddow tears into ‘indefensible’ Trump moves.
www.rawstory.com/trump-real-e...
www.rawstory.com/trump-real-e...
I just saw a tv ad with sec of Homeland Security (I kill puppies) Nome touting the wisdom of the Orange Menace in deporting migrants who are “illegally”. Summoning her, “I really mean it” voice she threatened migrants. This campaign ad was paid for by tax payers. Cut waste fraud and abuse.
March 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I just saw a tv ad with sec of Homeland Security (I kill puppies) Nome touting the wisdom of the Orange Menace in deporting migrants who are “illegally”. Summoning her, “I really mean it” voice she threatened migrants. This campaign ad was paid for by tax payers. Cut waste fraud and abuse.
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Putin’s Puppet has embarrassed our country.
a blue and yellow flag is waving in the wind with the words i stand below it
ALT: a blue and yellow flag is waving in the wind with the words i stand below it
media.tenor.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Putin’s Puppet has embarrassed our country.
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Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order today officially designating English as the official language of the United States, reversing nearly 250 years of tradition.
meidasnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order today officially designating English as the official language of the United States, reversing nearly 250 years of tradition.
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A damning thread, merely recounting the facts.
GOP lawmakers have ceded to Trump and Musk’s power grab without a challenge. Resistance to Trump’s cabinet picks has crumbled and leaders have sought to normalize the unprecedented early blitz slashing programs funded by Congress. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-05/gop-lawmakers-ced…
GOP Lawmakers Cede to Trump, Musk Power Grab Without a Challenge
Congressional Republicans have managed barely a whimper as President Donald Trump wages a historic push to expand executive branch power, steamrolling them along the way and unleashing anxiety across…
buff.ly
February 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A damning thread, merely recounting the facts.