Jerald Lentini

@jerald.bsky.social

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Civil rights lawyer. Lead plaintiff in the 1st lawsuit against Trump, Musk and DOGE. AFSCME member. Proud progressive serving on Manchester CT’s town council and CT’s Lottery Board.

Vincent Schiavelli in “Ghost”
Google AI stating (correctly) that open carry of firearms is illegal in Connecticut.
From Futurama: a hippie says “We taught a lion to eat tofu.” A very thin and sickly lion is shown coughing weakly.
"Is this cry of Socialism anything new? Not to a man with my experience. I have heard it raised by the reactionary element of the Republican Party in my own State over a period of a quarter of a century. Every forward-looking, progressive, up-to-date legislative enactment in New York was at some time or another referred to by reactionary Republican leaders as State Socialism. "I recall vividly to my mind the debate in the Assembly when I was the leader of the Democratic Party on the floor of that house on the question of pensions for widowed mothers. The Republican leader referred to it as paternalism and as Socialism. The Workmen's Compensation Act, enacted by a Democratic Legislature and signed by a Democratic Governor, was referred to as paternalistic and Socialistic. All of the salutary amendments to the factory code intended to promote the health and well being of women and children in industry were decried as being Socialistic and paternalistic. ...The cry of Socialism has been patented by the powerful interests that desire to put a damper on progressive legislation." -Al Smith, 10/24/1928, Boston, MA
An anthropomorphic collection of vegetables captioned “Starchy Pete is a Vitamin Cheat”
Regina George saying “So you agree. 26+6=1”
A 1992 editorial cartoon from Mike Luckovich comparing the swastika at the 1936 Olympics to the Georgia state flag at the upcoming 1996 Olympics
A bird in Belfast about to give a statue of Queen Victoria an avian whitewash.
Dean Wormer in Animal House
Donald Trump with his very good friend, Jeffrey Epstein
A big honking box of PG Tips with a not-as-big-but-still-kinda-honking box of Clipper on top of it. Not pictured: an 80-pack of Barry’s Gold and a 20-pack of Taylors of Harrogate’s Lapsang Souchong, ‘cause I was feeling a little smoky.
The mural of John Lewis in Manchester, Connecticut
Washington Post EXCLUSIVE Pentagon bars press photographers over 'unflattering' Hegseth photos Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's staff took issue with images taken in a rare briefing last week and decided to shut out photographers from two subsequent news conferences.
A Google AI result that utterly mangles a passage from Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle,” even while citing sources that have the passage accurately quoted. The AI says: This is a quote from Kurt Vonnegut's 1963 novel "Cat's Cradle". It is a calypso sung by the character Bokonon, reflecting the novel's themes of existentialism and absurdity by suggesting humans act out of necessity, often in a confused or messy manner ("muddily"). The full, often-quoted lyrics from Cat's Cradle are: "We do, doodley do, doodley do, doodley do, What we must, muddily must, muddily must, muddily must; Muddily do, muddily do, muddily do, muddily do, Until we sud-denly die." This is wrong. The actual lyrics in Cat’s Cradle are: “We do, doodley do, doodley do, doodely do, What we must, muddily must, muddily must, muddily must; Muddily do, muddily do, muddily do,muddily do, Until we bust, bodily bust, bodily bust, bodily bust.”
My NESA Life Member certificate and a page from the program of my Eagle Court of Honor listing my merit badges, Eagle project, and Scouting activities including the Order of the Arrow (Brotherhood member), a Friendship Exchange to Japan, Florida Seabase, JLT, and visiting the birthplace of Scouting at Brownsea Island.
A fox trotting through the snowstorm
Rabbit/duck optical illusion
Superintendent Chalmers says “she’s like a female Eleanor Roosevelt”
A portrait of George Washington
Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech”
A search of the Epstein Files for “Milkshake Duck” returns no results.
Tobias from Arrested Development saying “…but it might work for us.”
The famous photo of a heavily armed federal agent pointing a gun at a terrified six-year-old Elián González, who was hiding in a Miami closet with a relative.
A mugshot of John Lewis
Geordi/Drake meme. Top panel says “RIGHT-WING IDEOLOGUE WHO'S SO INCOMPETENT THAT STORIED INSTITUTIONS ARE DESTROYED IN RECORD TIME” Bottom panel says “Iconoclast”
A big ass pile of snow in the woods that just keeps coming
An entire block of Philadelphia homes lay in smoldering ruins after police built and dropped bombs onto several buildings and prevented efforts to extinguish the fires.
John Lewis is beaten by an Alabama State Trooper near the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on Bloody Sunday
Birmingham firefighters use a high-powered fire hose to attack Black teenagers at a civil rights demonstration
Birmingham police dogs attack a Black teenager during a civil rights demonstration
Dennis Hastert, who led an ultra-right Congress during the George W. Bush administration, and also was a fat stupid pedophile.
A picture of the 4/19/25 Dead & Co. show at the Las Vegas Sphere.
Photo of a bald black man having bottles water poured into his eyes with this caption: Freelance photo journalist King Demetrius Pendleton has his eyes flushed after being hit with chemical irritant in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Photo credit: Ben Hovland, MPR News
A statement by Heidi Hall, candidate for Congress The Trump Administration kidnapping of Maduro and his wife is a destruction of the international rules based order that has kept the world from exploding for decades. The fact that Maduro was a bad guy is irrelevant. Trump did this without cause, without Congressional approval, without advice and consent, and without consideration of what comes next for this country. Trump is a dangerous, ignorant, narcissist who is trying to deflect from the Epstein files and his failing approval numbers. This is also about oil, and our desire to take it. Congress needs to make sure his actions are stopped,. This is illegal, immoral, and exceedingly harmful to the US people and the world.
A wedge of cornbread topped with whipped cream and fresh blueberries
The cover to 1993’s “A Return to the Inner Experience” by Sky Cries Mary
Godzilla next to a menorah
Kent Brockman speaking on TV: I'VE SAID IT BEFORE, AND I'LL SAY IT AGAIN: DEMOCRACY SIMPLY DOESN'T WORK.
Article I: Congress shall have the power… 8.10 To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations; 8.11 To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; 8.12 To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; 8.13 To provide and maintain a Navy; 8.14 To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
An image of David “Big Papi” Ortiz in a Red Sox uniform next to his quote to the crowd at Fenway Park following the Boston Marathon bombing. “This is our fucking city, and nobody is going to dictate our freedom!”
William Calley, who ordered and personally participated in the murder of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre.