Leslie Lytle

Bless their hearts.

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

What they want is Dems to join them in dabbling their fingers in the blood.

There are absolutely no circumstances under which anybody loyal to the Constitution should vote to fund a government controlled by Donald Trump. They are covering their own asses by demanding that line not be clearly drawn.

You cannot trust the federal government Everything they say should be assumed to be a lie.

New in PN: You cannot trust the federal government

"The FBI has proven it can’t be trusted to provide narrative-free evidence to the public. This is par for the course for the rest of the govt under Trump, which can’t be trusted at all because everything in it exists only to serve Dear Leader."

Federal judge orders closure of Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration jail Judge’s order finds jail, which has attracted waves of criticism, was causing severe harm to Florida Everglades

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Gosh, I wonder who picks fresh vegetables.

This list tells you: (1) very little diplomatic spadework went into this (no surprise with Trump); (2) very little diplomatic implementation effort will come out of anything; (3) it's about money and theater; (4) U.S. diplomacy as we knew it is dead.

A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it.

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What my parents left for me to find For months now I have been watching as democracy wobbles like a roller coaster. Only this isn’t a game, it’s real. People are already dying, already suffering. Intergenerational trauma of epic prop…

This year I'm examining my roots and slowly getting back to writing. Here's a piece on what my parents left me posthumously. I hope you enjoy it.

www.leslielytle.com/2025/07/07/w...

Recollections of my Younger Self: Heart Butte Early January 1978On a quiet and listless night at the hotel, a friend showed up and asked if I would like to accompany him to Heart Butte the next day. I didn’t have to think twice to say yes Hear…

I hope you enjoy this piece, written when I had just turned 22 in 1978. For two days that winter I got stuck on the Blackfeet Reservation in a home where healing was happening. I am truly grateful to have this experience in my memory pool. It helps right now.

www.leslielytle.com/2025/03/28/r...

Reinstate Target's DEI Programs NOW! When companies invest in DEI, they invest in people. Now's the time for Target to stand firm in its values, not retreat. Will you add your name to call on Target's leadership to reinstate its DEI prog...

When companies invest in DEI, they invest in people. Now's the time for Target to stand firm in its values, not retreat. Will you add your name to call on Target's leadership to reinstate its DEI programs? sign.moveon.org/petitions/ta...

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

Thank you!

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

Despite his dreams, Trump is not a King. Marisa Kabas may have again broken the news. The Washington Post writes: "The White House budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing federal grants, according to a copy of a new memo obtained by The Washington Post, after the administration’s move to halt spending earlier this week provoked a backlash." He didn't back down because it was a good idea. It wasn't a change of heart. It wasn't a feint. It was a genuine administrative coup that — for now — has been thwarted. He backed down because people pushed back — getting media to do their job and alert us to an impending problem, calling Senators who (more or less) found their spines, lawyers challenging the coup, telling the story of the many who would suffer under such an order, joining last-minute DC protests… We'd like you to pause before your inner cynic speaks up (the one that says "he'll try another version" or "look at all the other things he's destroyed and people suffering"). The point is stunningly important: Trump can lose when we fight. He is not invincible and he is not all powerful. It doesn't mean we will win every fight. But it does mean that anyone who is telling you it's hopeless is wrong. Folks need to get this message: our feelings are valid, but any conclusion that says it's over is wrong. They, too, will get a chance to join and we hope they do.

Choose Democracy was great--ready to stand up and take action early yesterday morning when most activist organizations were still digesting the news. We don't always win when we fight, but we never do when we don't. And we won this one. For now. On to the next.

I do. Meghan is that you?