Katy Franz Lyle

someone made a tiktok asking if any other women woke up at 3 am the night of the election with a *knowing* that trump had won, and it was so bizarre bc i totally did. like, i was *jolted* awake at 3 am and could barely make myself check my phone.

Zelenskyy calling Putin a “fucking terrorist” on live TV is the energy I’m bringing into 2025 and 2026.

As usual, President Biden quietly attended Mass in Delaware this evening, keeping up his record as the most consistently church-going president in modern history. Faith isn’t a prop for him—it’s personal, something he genuinely lives by. Meanwhile, Christian conservatives just helped elect someone who would probably need a GPS to find a church. I'll never understand it.

To recap, the Republican Party has opposed: -Paid sick leave -Paid family & medical leave -Universal childcare -Universal pre-K -Tax increases on corporations & the rich -The expanded Child Tax Credit -Student debt relief Doesn't sound like the party of the working class to me.

A new study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of tax cuts in the U.S. — which promised to “trickle down” and eventually boost jobs and income for everyone — have only helped one group: the rich. cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-…

#WickedMovie premiere with my sisters @KChenoweth, Cynthia, and Ariana. The film is so loving and respectful of the original show but then builds on it in so many beautiful ways I never thought possible. The cast is spectacular. Cynthia and Ariana will blow you away. Extremely moving and emotional for me. 💚

Trump's 10 point plan for education: - eliminate the Dept. of Education - cut federal funding - promote Christian Nationalism - attack teacher's unions - give public money to for-profit private schools He warned us, and you voted for him anyway.

Not enough ppl talking about this

S/O to Whole Foods, Nordstrom, Target, Ulta & Costco. They did NOT donate to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. 💙💙💙

I, like many of you, have been contemplating our predicament since election night. We are in a losing war for our democracy and I'm not sure we collectively know who our true adversary is. It's not the voting blocks...white women, Latinos, Gen X. It's not MAGA. It's not even Trump. It's an insidious power that has been hiding in the shadows for some time...and when the stakes were at their highest in this election, it fully revealed itself. The American Oligarchy. They control our Supreme Court, much of Congress, and the flow of information to the masses via legacy, mainstream and social media. They decide the national conversation, how to keep us at each other's throats while they continue to amass wealth and power completely unchecked. They put their thumbs on the scale of justice and poured billions into this election. They chose Trump because he was desperate and would capitulate to their demands. They chose a running mate to replace him in case he became too unhinged to control. Consider how many disqualifying facts about Trump never saw the light of day...or didn't get the attention they deserved...or got drowned out by propaganda. They took a mentally spent buffoon and presented him as a hero to the masses. Despite Biden successfully steering us out of a global recession and strengthening our economy, they maintained the national tone about the price of groceries being too high. Despite Trump's obvious mental decline, their media outlets remained reticent to press the issue. We struggle to unite as a nation because they're too good at keeping us divided. We are drowning in disinformation because they control all of it. They have successfully created imaginary villains for us to fight...each other. It seems like we are a democracy careening towards fascism, when the reality is they're using the specter of fascism to keep us on edge while they turn America into a compliant oligarchy. Whether you are a democrat, republican, independent or MAGA, we have a common foe. Some of us just don't know it yet.

It's actually so simple ....

Billie Eilish delivers speech before performing ‘Your Power’ at her concert in Nashville, Tennessee tonight: “Someone who hates women so, so deeply is about to be the President. This song is for all the women out there. I love you, I support you.”

Jimmy Kimmel tears up while talking about Donald Trump’s victory: “It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hard working immigrants who make this country great, for health care, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech”

Little boys were saying “your body, my choice” to little girls at school today. But tell us more about the scary books in the library.

TRUMP WINS AMERICA LOSES WHAT ELSE IS NEW

I tried. We tried. I tried to educate people about tariffs, I tried to explain that undocumented immigrants pay billions in taxes and are the foundation of this country. I explained Project 2025, I interviewed to show that they supported it. I can not compete against the propaganda machines of Twitter, Fox News, JRE, and NY Post. These spaces will continue to create reality unless we create a more effective way of reaching people.

Thank you, Texas.