Renee Nickolas

@adshubert @jojos444 @AdamParkhomenko @RepBeatty The heart says one thing, the mind says another. The daily assault on democracy and the rule of law triggers the heart. The mind steps back and sees the process. Then the heart seizes up in panic that time is running out. The mind says breathe.

Wow! Worth your time. 🦉

@NeedlessToSay Mr. Martini the young Chiweenie loves to watch them from his perch on the deck above. 🤭

@ReneeNickolas A little serene spot!

Très petite koi pond, and they are precious and taking care of mosquito larvae for me.

@lizzieshore @TomJChicago Every day is the last best day he’ll have. Expect much more recycling.

@TomJChicago Eyes

Dementia Alert: Trump sounds worse than ever. He’s running out of runway.

@floramcg7 @TomJChicago You had me at tarnation.

@TomJChicago What in tarnation:

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” - John Adams, 1797 Treaty of Tripoli

Even a Zombie Newscum still looks healthier than our current President. #PrayersForGrandpa

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has one of the few labs in the world which can study Ebola virus. In March 2025 RFK Jr had it shut down. We now have a huge Ebola outbreak on our hands. What a foolish move

FYI: There is someone really qualified who is running to unseat Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. She’s a doctor, she believes in real policy, other than just bending the knee to Trump, and she’ll actually make South Carolinians’ lives better. Go check her out. Annie Andrews.

The most corrupt president in our history, and every one, from the gutless legislative branch, the non-existent judicial branch, the media, and most sadly-the vast majority of the American people, refuse to hold him accountable.

He also knows he’s not long enough for this world for accountability to finally catch up.

A president's trading of securities for his personal account can in no way be argued to constitute activity that falls within the "outer perimeter" of his "official responsibilities." If it is based on inside information used in violation of his fiduciary responsibilities, it is brazenly criminal conduct, and he would not be immune from prosecution for that criminal conduct even under the Supreme Court's 2024 decision in his favor in the Jan. 6 case.

This is extraordinary. I've been a professional investor for decades and I haven't made this many trades in my career. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

🚨 NEW: Senate Democrats put forward a bill that allows presidents to be prosecuted while in office.

These gerrymandered maps only work if we don’t show up. That is what they are counting on. These maps will break under the pressure of turnout.

Scott MacFarlane slams the legacy media over its handling of January 6 coverage MacFarlane: I’ve said before, and I’ll say again, that legacy media owns some of the blame for the lying about January 6th—platforming demonstrably false information, lies about the Capitol insurrection, giving Trump an unchallenged platform at times to say the 2020 election is rigged, to say the January 6th rioters were political patriots or heroes, and to allow his surrogates to do the same. The Republicans here in Washington at the Capitol down the road—they’re silent generally about January 6th. They won’t defend it declaratively. Most of them won’t. They know it’s wrong. They were hiding for their lives or running for their lives that day. They know it was wrong; they just don’t say anything about it. They let the malignant lies go unchecked. Legacy media has done the same. They have not counterpunched effectively or efficiently against the lies about January 6th. They own some blame for the idea that $1.7 billion in taxpayer money would pay off January 6 rioters. It really is a malignant lie that didn’t get counterpunched effectively. There were a few of us—really talented reporters—and me who covered the January 6 prosecutions, who were in the courtrooms for those hearings. Sometimes there was only a few of us. Sometimes I was alone in the room, and that was negligence by mainstream media, who should have marshaled more resources, more time, more manpower, more energy toward covering the largest criminal prosecution in American history—the 1,500-plus January 6 cases. Just guys like me scrapping in the courtroom, running outside on our phones to tell you what happened. The legacy linear media let the story die. They let it atrophy. They allowed the space and the void for Trump to step in and try to rewrite it, to craft a different narrative, to flat-out lie. They left that space by underresourcing January 6th reporting. It’s really a cardinal sin to not put more time, money, and manpower into covering what I think was the defining criminal case of modern American democracy—and the first attack on the U.S. Capitol since the early 1800s.

Greg Abbott tried to kick me out of office for breaking quorum. Today, the Texas Supreme Court told him that’s not allowed. I will never let the governor bully me out of doing what’s right for Texas. When democracy is on the line, I will always fight back.