Linda Fenner
zpdlin.bsky.social
Linda Fenner
@zpdlin.bsky.social
Wife, mother, grandmother, passionate advocate for public education and for teachers, founding member of Citizen Advocates for Public Education (CAPEOhio.org)
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Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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“Rep. Eric Swalwell sues housing official [Bill Pulte] who's made multiple criminal referrals for Trump critics” 11/25/25 www.cbsnews.com/news/eric-sw...
Rep. Eric Swalwell sues housing official who's made multiple criminal referrals for Trump critics
Trump housing official Bill Pulte also submitted criminal referrals for investigations into Sen. Adam Schiff, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook.
www.cbsnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Is there an amount of wealth you can acquire that helps you sleep better at night when, as a specially appointed official representing the US, you side with and embrace a murderous dictator like Putin? Does material wealth make Witkoff feel good about that? How much does it take?
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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The type of things that happen when a foolish reality TV actor appoints a petty, drunk talk show chatterbox to run our military:
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Like he has no influence in this situation. What a sad, defective example of the human species.
The president and his special envoy are primarily concerned with finding a way to make Putin happy by providing a sufficient reward for his brutal and sadistic war of aggression. We have become a country that sells out our friends and embraces the worst people on the planet.
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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When the leopard starts eating your face 🫣🐆
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Once I reviewed the classified OLC memo last week—after the Admin delayed access—I felt disappointed & dissatisfied with the supposed legal justification for attacks in the Caribbean & East Pacific. I'm calling for public release so Americans can assess it for themselves.
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.

Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Sharon and Andy Longhurst’s kitchen opens onto what they call “the ICU”: a garage filled with heated incubators, microscopes and hedgehogs fighting for their lives.

For the past three years, they have turned their home into a hospital, taking in more than 622 hedgehogs. https://wapo.st/48aTBtV
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Don't be evil?

"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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I'm so proud of local Chicago journalists & their fearless coverage of the ICE/CBP terror campaign. Now retired broadcast journalists are also playing a role with a powerful new letter to the people of our city. I talked to Phil Ponce, who led this effort.
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
Retired journalists raise the alarm about state sponsored terror in Chicago
"It is without precedent that the biggest names in Chicago journalism have come together to condemn a public action"
open.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."

Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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This is a good point. (No snark.) I'm sure this SCOTUS sneers at Trump in private, but the conservative majority is trying to bank power for a better version of a right-winger.
They don’t want Trump to have as much power as possible. They want some future Federalist Society/Opus Dei-approved President to have as much power as possible. They’re willing to hold their nose and give it to Trump as a means to that end.
November 7, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Just finished Tim Alberta’s book so I would watch.
One day I'm gonna host an in-depth religion-and-politics-related Election Night livestream, and I swear it'll be *absolutely lit* for all four of y'all that actually watch.
November 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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One day I'm gonna host an in-depth religion-and-politics-related Election Night livestream, and I swear it'll be *absolutely lit* for all four of y'all that actually watch.
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Essential reading about how our entire economy has been warped by a bunch of woo woo nonsense
November 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Obama: As for the president, he has been focused on critical issues like paving over the rose garden so folks don't get mud on their shoes and gold plating the Oval Office and building a ballroom… If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry. He will save you a dance.
November 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Has moronic Don Jr. *ever* earned a dollar that couldn't be traced back, one way or another, to who is father is?

It's a family tradition. We wouldn't even know Donald's name if his daddy hadn't bailed his incompetence out to the tune of over $400,000,000.
October 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Sleepy Joe never provided for his son the way Donald Trump has smh
NEW: Don Trump Jr.--after helping pick top Pentagon officials to join his dad's administration--has now become an investor and advisor to Pentagon drone builders. This as President Trump orders Pentagon to buy more drones. A NYT investigation of this latest conflict.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
Trump’s Son Is Poised to Profit From Pentagon Drone Proposal
www.nytimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Shall we call it a “Roberts reward”?
As Trump plans to steal $230 million from taxpayers, we can thank John Roberts
Shall we call it a "Roberts reward"?
www.motherjones.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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That's such a good question! Tell me, did you try endorsing his opponent in the 2024 election?
October 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
October 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM