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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Pinned
•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.
Multiple prosecutions are needed here, as well as impeachments.
If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Multiple prosecutions are needed here, as well as impeachments.
Jazz pianist philosophies as I understand them:
Johnny Costa: A piano by itself, in the hands of a master, is enough to fill a hall.
McCoy Tyner: A piano, surrounded by other instruments working to a common purpose, creates a magical fusion.
Art Tatum: I am at least three pianos.
Johnny Costa: A piano by itself, in the hands of a master, is enough to fill a hall.
McCoy Tyner: A piano, surrounded by other instruments working to a common purpose, creates a magical fusion.
Art Tatum: I am at least three pianos.
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Jazz pianist philosophies as I understand them:
Johnny Costa: A piano by itself, in the hands of a master, is enough to fill a hall.
McCoy Tyner: A piano, surrounded by other instruments working to a common purpose, creates a magical fusion.
Art Tatum: I am at least three pianos.
Johnny Costa: A piano by itself, in the hands of a master, is enough to fill a hall.
McCoy Tyner: A piano, surrounded by other instruments working to a common purpose, creates a magical fusion.
Art Tatum: I am at least three pianos.
I’m proud to have played my part in fighting DOGE, but the fight’s not over yet.
This is no more a victory than when a tsunami begins to flow back out to sea. The destruction from DOGE is incalculable, and goes far beyond what can be measured in money.
Our case, Lentini et al. v. DOGE, is ongoing.
This is no more a victory than when a tsunami begins to flow back out to sea. The destruction from DOGE is incalculable, and goes far beyond what can be measured in money.
Our case, Lentini et al. v. DOGE, is ongoing.
The "Department of Government Efficiency" has disbanded eight months early.
DOGE sowed chaos throughout the government and disrupted services relied upon by millions, while finding hardly any savings.
Here's what you should know about damage that DOGE leaves behind.
DOGE sowed chaos throughout the government and disrupted services relied upon by millions, while finding hardly any savings.
Here's what you should know about damage that DOGE leaves behind.
The DOGE Damage Elon is Leaving Behind
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I’m proud to have played my part in fighting DOGE, but the fight’s not over yet.
This is no more a victory than when a tsunami begins to flow back out to sea. The destruction from DOGE is incalculable, and goes far beyond what can be measured in money.
Our case, Lentini et al. v. DOGE, is ongoing.
This is no more a victory than when a tsunami begins to flow back out to sea. The destruction from DOGE is incalculable, and goes far beyond what can be measured in money.
Our case, Lentini et al. v. DOGE, is ongoing.
“Bovino” is actually Portuguese for “Bull Connor”
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
“Bovino” is actually Portuguese for “Bull Connor”
Are there still partisan apparatchiks in the top offices of every Cabinet department and agency purging civil servants and imposing ideological purity tests on the remainder while stealing appropriated funds and steering them towards Trump’s allies?
THEN IT AIN’T DEAD
THEN IT AIN’T DEAD
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Are there still partisan apparatchiks in the top offices of every Cabinet department and agency purging civil servants and imposing ideological purity tests on the remainder while stealing appropriated funds and steering them towards Trump’s allies?
THEN IT AIN’T DEAD
THEN IT AIN’T DEAD
It troubles me that we will spend roughly 5,000,000 times more energy on Greene’s resignation than on the atrocities in Tanzania. Both are instructive about our own political situation. (Trigger warning: extremely disturbing video and photos) www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/a...
‘Oh my God, this is our Tanzania’: CNN investigation shows police shooting protesters, signs of mass graves | CNN
In the chaotic aftermath of Tanzania’s disputed presidential election last month, police and gun-wielding men on patrol shot at groups of protesters, many of whom appeared unarmed or were holding only...
www.cnn.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:27 AM
It troubles me that we will spend roughly 5,000,000 times more energy on Greene’s resignation than on the atrocities in Tanzania. Both are instructive about our own political situation. (Trigger warning: extremely disturbing video and photos) www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/a...
100%, but especially this:
“A university is a place for multiple perspectives and a clash of ideas.”
I sure wish Maric had understood that point a couple of years ago. Then I wouldn’t have had to spend so much time in court defending peaceful protesters who were wrongfully arrested on campus.
“A university is a place for multiple perspectives and a clash of ideas.”
I sure wish Maric had understood that point a couple of years ago. Then I wouldn’t have had to spend so much time in court defending peaceful protesters who were wrongfully arrested on campus.
We stand with UConn faculty as they fight for academic freedom and fair wages & benefits to retain staff! @AFTCT.bsky.social dailycampus.com/2025/11/18/l...
LTTE: Support UConn Faculty’s Reasonable Contract Demands
For months now, the UConn-AAUP negotiating team has made minimal progress at the bargaining table across from the UConn administration’s negotiators.
dailycampus.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
100%, but especially this:
“A university is a place for multiple perspectives and a clash of ideas.”
I sure wish Maric had understood that point a couple of years ago. Then I wouldn’t have had to spend so much time in court defending peaceful protesters who were wrongfully arrested on campus.
“A university is a place for multiple perspectives and a clash of ideas.”
I sure wish Maric had understood that point a couple of years ago. Then I wouldn’t have had to spend so much time in court defending peaceful protesters who were wrongfully arrested on campus.
Thread:
Ok, @washingtonspirit.com, I’m ready for tomorrow…finished knitting just in time!
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Thread:
It’s good to remember sometimes that he’s just a big dumb ol’ racist asshole, doing big dumb ol’ racist asshole things. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Haiti qualified for the World Cup. But the Trump administration says its fans aren’t welcome.
The Caribbean nation joins Iran as World Cup competitors covered by travel ban.
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:50 AM
It’s good to remember sometimes that he’s just a big dumb ol’ racist asshole, doing big dumb ol’ racist asshole things. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Sooooo… impeachment?
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Sooooo… impeachment?
Note that this absolute Nazi shit is being posted the same day that the Coast Guard—which is under DHS—is reportedly relaxing its rules about displaying actual fucking swastikas.
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Note that this absolute Nazi shit is being posted the same day that the Coast Guard—which is under DHS—is reportedly relaxing its rules about displaying actual fucking swastikas.
Subtlety is overrated
November 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Subtlety is overrated
Thanksgiving conversations will turn so fast from how beautiful the food is to how expensive it was.
Trump is absolutely cratering on economy in new Marquette poll:
Overall econ approval: 36-64
On tariffs: 37-63
On inflation/cost of living: 28-72 (!!!)
"We’re looking at a really grim downward spiral for Trump," says @timothynoah.bsky.social. All on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Overall econ approval: 36-64
On tariffs: 37-63
On inflation/cost of living: 28-72 (!!!)
"We’re looking at a really grim downward spiral for Trump," says @timothynoah.bsky.social. All on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Trump’s Anger over Prices Goes Nuclear as Fresh Polls Show Him Tanking
As Trump’s inflation rants grow more unhinged amid brutal new polls for him, an economics writer explains why Trump is ill-suited for the crisis that might be coming—and why the bottom might be about ...
newrepublic.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Thanksgiving conversations will turn so fast from how beautiful the food is to how expensive it was.
Telling Mister Bone Saw you’re glad to be his friend is like telling Jeffrey Epstein that you’re glad to be his friend.
Trump to MBS: "I want to just tell you what an honor it is to be your friend and I very much appreciate the investment of now $1 trillion."
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Telling Mister Bone Saw you’re glad to be his friend is like telling Jeffrey Epstein that you’re glad to be his friend.
He’s managing this entertainment venue as well as he did those ones in Atlantic City, it seems.
FIFA gets a free 3 week residency at the Kennedy Center for World Cup events and all it cost them was a fake Peace Prize for the sorest loser in the world.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Kennedy Center already reeling from Trump lets FIFA use it for free for World Cup
The alleged deal to use the Kennedy Center complex comes as ticket sales are reportedly declining after Trump’s takeover
www.the-independent.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
He’s managing this entertainment venue as well as he did those ones in Atlantic City, it seems.
I am begging, BEGGING, anyone in the White House press corps who gets the chance to ask Donald Trump for his thoughts on Millennium Challenge 2002. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Trump’s Don’t-Call-it-a-‘Day-After’ Plan for Venezuela
The administration is discussing whether to exile the dictator and how to lift sanctions on his wrecked country.
www.politico.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I am begging, BEGGING, anyone in the White House press corps who gets the chance to ask Donald Trump for his thoughts on Millennium Challenge 2002. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Every mushroom is edible at least once.
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Every mushroom is edible at least once.
Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
My brain, seven times already this afternoon:
“BRING THE FLAVOR TO THE RICE”
Absolutely nobody:
My brain, seven times already this afternoon:
“BRING THE FLAVOR TO THE RICE”
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
My brain, seven times already this afternoon:
“BRING THE FLAVOR TO THE RICE”
Absolutely nobody:
My brain, seven times already this afternoon:
“BRING THE FLAVOR TO THE RICE”
In 2017–the same year he made the former US Attorney who gave Jeffrey Epstein an extremely favorable and illegal plea bargain his new Secretary of Labor—Donald Trump had his lawyer, Alan Garten, tell the press that he “had no relationship with Mr. Epstein and no knowledge whatsoever of his conduct.”
CNN: Do you still have a question about whether Donald Trump knew about the sexual abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein?
GOP REP. PETE SESSIONS: Well, I've not gone through all of the documents
GOP REP. PETE SESSIONS: Well, I've not gone through all of the documents
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
In 2017–the same year he made the former US Attorney who gave Jeffrey Epstein an extremely favorable and illegal plea bargain his new Secretary of Labor—Donald Trump had his lawyer, Alan Garten, tell the press that he “had no relationship with Mr. Epstein and no knowledge whatsoever of his conduct.”
Like health care and groceries, working families can’t afford Chuck Schumer’s bullshit at this moment in time.
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Like health care and groceries, working families can’t afford Chuck Schumer’s bullshit at this moment in time.
I hate poll-based arguments like this because shutdowns flat-out suck for anyone who needs federal services (i.e. all of us), and especially for the working poor. The polls were favorable, but even setting the political math aside, any deal that continues to fuck over workers isn’t worth making.
"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I hate poll-based arguments like this because shutdowns flat-out suck for anyone who needs federal services (i.e. all of us), and especially for the working poor. The polls were favorable, but even setting the political math aside, any deal that continues to fuck over workers isn’t worth making.
Reposted by Jerald Lentini
Over the past few months I’ve moved from “Schumer should retire at the end of his term” to “Schumer should step down from leadership at the end of this Congress” to “Schumer should step down from leadership immediately” to “Schumer should resign at the end of this Congress” to “Jesus fuck, man.”
Schumer on the Democratic response to Trump's shakedown of Harvard: "We sent him a very strong letter just the other day asking eight very strong questions."
April 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Over the past few months I’ve moved from “Schumer should retire at the end of his term” to “Schumer should step down from leadership at the end of this Congress” to “Schumer should step down from leadership immediately” to “Schumer should resign at the end of this Congress” to “Jesus fuck, man.”
I’m just saying, has anyone checked to make sure Tim Kaine didn’t place a prop bet on this?
Thoughts on Dems throwing a game they were winning. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...
16 Thoughts On The Dem Shutdown Cave
Another disgrace, and a new path forward.
www.offmessage.net
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I’m just saying, has anyone checked to make sure Tim Kaine didn’t place a prop bet on this?
Many fools have bought magic beans, but it takes a special sort of chump to buy them on layaway like this.
My statement on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care:
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Many fools have bought magic beans, but it takes a special sort of chump to buy them on layaway like this.