Jeri Ryan

So. I’ve spent years cultivating and (at least until the past several years) enjoying the following I’ve grown here. But I’m done. I won’t delete my account because I don’t want to give Leon the ability to take it. I may post occasionally for professional reasons if I have to promote something, but other than that, I’m out. I’ll miss all the relationships we’ve built here, and I truly hope we can all find each other elsewhere — I’m the same user name everywhere else, so it shouldn’t be too hard to find me. And so, with a hardy FUCK YOU to Elon, I’m out.

We focus a lot on what DOJ is trying to force on blue states but what about the red states? What about red counties that are willing to collaborate with Trump's schemes? We need to protect their voters as well. I do what I can as a lawyer in court. We all must call it out.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 This is so accurate it’s ridiculous

Lmaoooooo I’m crying

THE SHATTERING OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM: How One Persian Gulf Nation Is Exposing the Empire’s Fragility While Trump Suppresses the Truth Barack Obama once famously declared that America is “exceptional” - not because it is perfect, but because it is “indispensable” and possesses a unique capacity to lead the world through strength, moral authority, and unmatched military power. That illusion is now collapsing in real time, dismantled not by a peer superpower, but by a single determined nation in the Persian Gulf: Iran. As the war with Iran enters its most dangerous phase, the Trump administration has mastered the art of information suppression. While the mainstream media dutifully chases every Trump tweet, photo-op, and distraction, the real story - the steady erosion of American military superiority - is being buried. The corporate press, acting less like the “fourth estate” and more like a stenography service, has largely ignored the mounting evidence that the United States is being systematically outmaneuvered by a country it once dismissed as a weak, backward adversary. The most glaring example is the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s most advanced and expensive aircraft carrier. On March 12, 2026, the Ford suffered a catastrophic “fire” that took 30 hours to extinguish and displaced 600 sailors who lost their living quarters. The ship is now docked in Greece for what defense analysts warn could be a repair and maintenance period of 12 to 14 months. This is not a minor setback. The U.S. Navy’s total carrier fleet stands at 11 ships. Three are currently deployed or in active service, two are in post-deployment maintenance, and four are in scheduled repairs. In other words, America’s “indispensable” global power projection now rests on a dangerously thin bench. If Iran manages to damage or neutralize even one more carrier, the United States would be effectively neutralized in the region. This is the brutal reality the Trump administration and its media allies are working overtime to obscure. Instead of honest reporting on these vulnerabilities, we get endless headlines about “productive Iran talks” and carefully staged optimism. The same corrupt media that once celebrated American exceptionalism is now complicit in hiding its rapid decline. Iran, a country that has spent decades preparing for exactly this kind of confrontation, is proving that determination, strategic depth, and patience can humble even the mightiest empire. What began as a war of choice by Washington is rapidly becoming a war of attrition that the United States is structurally ill-equipped to win. The illusion of American exceptionalism - the comforting myth that the U.S. can project power indefinitely without consequence - has been shattered by a single nation in the Persian Gulf. Trump, left with no viable off-ramp and no credible plan, is reduced to the only tool he has left: suppressing information and hoping the public never notices how badly the empire is bleeding. The arc of history is not bending toward American dominance anymore. It is bending toward exposure. And the exposure is happening right now, in real time.

Zohran Mamdani’s administration has secured $1.8 million in restitution for 800+ NYC fast food and retail workers whose labor rights were violated.

🚨 Breaking: House Natural Resources SHUT DOWN over Don Jr. Subpoena! 🚨 Donald Trump Jr’s 1789 Capital investment firm made a major investment in a rare earth mineral company called Vulcan Elements months before it received $620 million in the largest loan in Pentagon history from DOD and  $50 million from Commerce. This was at the same time Trump Sr. was threatening to blow up our NATO alliance and invade Greenland, where Vulcan has significant rare earth interests.   We know Trump and his family are lining their own pockets with corrupt government deals. But, when we tried to subpoena his Jr. to answer questions today, Republicans shut it down. ⬇️ @Rep_Grijalva @RepHuffman @RepDexterOR @RepYassAnsari @NRDems

BREAKING: Bruce Springsteen just announced that his band will be doing a tour in effort to fight back against Donald Trump's authoritarian overreach. The Boss is back!

BREAKING: The United Nations has voted 123-3 in favor to condemn the enslavement of millions of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The three countries voting against it? 🇺🇸 USA 🇮🇱Israel 🇦🇷 Argentina Nearly all of Europe abstained.

Lordy there are tapes👀

Dems....THIS IS THE WAY!! Well done, Rep. Magaziner.

Democratic House Rep. Maxine Dexter: “I just motioned to subpoena Don Trump Jr. for funneling $670 million in taxpayer dollars to a critical minerals company he has financial stake in. Republicans left the hearing room.” But…but…Hunter Biden sold a painting. 🙄

Judge Cannon blocked this part of the report Bondi was in such a rush to try and frame Jack Smith that she accidentally ended up releasing files that show why. Trump profited from classified information as a private citizen. He didn’t declassify it as president. He didn’t just fail to return it. He knowingly kept, shared and monetized sensitive US information, Including information that only 6 people had access to that was deemed a “severe national security risk”

Trump casually admitting he's knowingly violating the Constitution.

Early Monday morning, seconds before Trump posted he was postponing escalation of the war in Iran, a handful of oil market bets were made to cash in on Trump's post. These were people with inside info - most likely in the White House. You need to know this story of corruption.

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms. You have to listen to this.

We all saw President Trump's piles of classified documents in Mar-a-Lago ballrooms and bathrooms. But why did he take them? New documents obtained by @HouseJudiciary reveal the president may have taken the documents and sold out our national security to enrich himself—and the DOJ is working hard to block the evidence.

BREAKING: For the 11th time, Republicans have blocked Democrats from paying TSA. Republicans have been given ELEVEN chances to send TSA agents their paychecks, but they refuse.

BREAKING: I just motioned to subpoena Don Trump Jr. for funneling $670 million in taxpayer dollars to a critical minerals company he has financial stake in. Republicans left the hearing room.

Trump's Justice Department has agreed to pay Michael Flynn $1.25 million in taxpayer money even though he pleaded guilty twice to making false statements to FBI agents about his interactions with Russian officials. @alanfeuer nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/…

BREAKING: Congressman Jamie Raskin just torched Pam Bondi in his opening remarks. This is amazing.