Twin Cities based actor. 2016 elections activated me on Twitter. Went there to listen to/amplify the heart of the Democratic Party, Black Women. Guess this is the next evolution. (He/Him/His) www.EricLeeActs.com
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Here's a ray of sunshine in a very dark world Germany has already exceeded its goal of shutting down 8 GW of coal plants - 3 years earlier than expected Amazing what a little sun and wind can do š www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Oh, but wait. I remember reading about the maglev trains in my Weekly Reader, but they also told us about the killer bees! Does this mean the killer bees are coming?!
YES!!! Finally the future I was promised!!!
Yep. Prosecuting. Taxing. Closing loopholes. Thatās how you do it.
I donāt know, but the things Iāve read from them are deeply sickening.
My dad somehow got into them and he occasionally will send me their newsletter in an effort to educate meš¤£š¤£š¤£. Iād just thank him for giving me more to research because wow. Theyāre like where you go after Prager U.
I want to know more about his alma mater. Theyāre scary as hell. www.hillsdale.edu
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Mostly that he has done a lot to atone for his racism, was the most effective and successful president in my lifetime at implementing progressive policy and at appointing a diverse array of Americans in government roles, and all under strong opposition.
Good tautology. So when Rep. James Clyburn says āWe know Joe. And Joe knows us,ā you think he was wrong or lying.
Itās still weird to me that (sigh) Space Force is even a thing. That bloated corpse is once again just pulling his mafia schtick. Donāt budge. Give him nothing.
I fear that as long as us white folks continue to drag our feet, those who wish to depress Democratic turnout have more time to hone their message to shave a few votes here and a few votes there from other demographics. (See my pinned post for more context)
If there is one thing Iād love young Democrats to learn from Joe Biden, itās how to charmingly tell someone (press or otherwise) to STFU and that they have no idea what theyāre talking about.
Man, if MSNBC keeps this up, I donāt know if weāre going to reelect Joe Biden.
Oops. I seem to have upset some people again.š¤·āāļø
Tell me which voters stuck by Joe Biden to propel him to nomination and then election in 2020. Tell me why he started his campaign in Charlottesville.
Clinton, Biden, AND Harris recognized better than anyone what we are dealing with. And thatās why they were punished.
Many of the rest of the mainstream Dems were far more cautious TRYING to court āwhite working classā voters by steering clear of āculture issues,ā while the āprogressivesā think class unity is just a stoneās throw away, and the WWC is just going to toss their racism aside.
FUCK! This is it! Isnāt it? Yes, of course there were the misogyny, the racism, and the ageism, but the cardinal sin of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, AND Kamala Harris was not centering white voters and putting up with their disingenuous bullshit.
Dems care, and try, and for that are punished. GOP lies, hurts people, doesn't give a shit, and is rewarded.
I've written a million threads on this theme, it's pointless, I know. But it's insane. Dems have to try, to be responsible, to please everyone. Republicans just have to jump around like fucking gibbons, throwing shit at the wall, and if they occasionally, accidentally hit something ...
Exactly! Iād guess that MVPās strongest supporters, those of us who came to Biden after supporting her, were also the most trepidatious about her being thrust into those 107 days. We knew damn well what she, and we, were in for, and what people were going to ask of her.
What is a populist going to offer the white working class that would otherwise stay home or vote for a Donald Trump that Biden-Harris wasnāt addressing?
And I would take that back to Secretary Hillary Clinton, as well. These three Democrats were the most explicit about addressing the biases that were driving some of the worst impulses of the American people.
Iād add that two prominent Democrats who made a point of addressing the racism that was being used to activate and manipulate Americans were President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris.
Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. Itās unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Right? I mean, I know Reince Priebus, because, I mean, his name is Reince Priebus.
For the younger folks who want to get a deeper perspective of #Katrina, please watch Spike Lee's "When the Levees Broke". www.hbomax.com/shows/when-t...
Like this is the thing (though the point about dramatically pointless stands): it didn't make us all fascists, it made all the conservatives fascists. That's who broke from the neoliberal consensus of the later 20th century.
Ooooo, that oneā¦
Saw him and Rufus Wainwright out at Ravinia! And what sweetness, Gracie girl.š
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And yet thatās not a solely āleftistā position. And ātax the richā is not a platform. To what end are you going to tax the rich. What are the priorities? And I think that youāll find that Black Americans knew her policies stood to help the most vulnerable, which in turn helps everyone.
I donāt want to step out of line here. But she daily puts together threads of the real work Democrats and Democratic leadership are putting in, doing heroās work to publish, publicize, and champion the work the Democratic Party is doing. Sheās calling out Velshi, who has a much larger platform.
You also talked about Iowa, but you didnāt talk about the fact Ken Martin sent 30,000 volunteers there. In fact, every time we have won one of these elections, the DNC has been there. Every single one of these local wins the DNC has been there asking the campaign: hoe can we help? 3/
In my pinned post, that is. Because there are more ways to depress a vote than there are to earn votes and it takes a lot less energy. Itās a much more efficient way to win. Or rather to make sure your opponent loses.
Iām tired and itās why I laid out explicitly and EXACTLY why I support the Democratic Party and doing everything in my power to make damn sure Democrats win elections. People are letting themselves be manipulated to just hand everything over.
Iām tempted to start compiling and reposting video from Vice-President Harris. Hell, I might just go start finding all the relevant and important stuff from President Biden, too! An alternate history of who they are and what theyāve done has taken root, and we shouldnāt stand for it.
This. Stop giving the President powers he doesnāt have. Pay attention to your Secretaries of State, to your Governors, and make sure they are defending the powers they have over elections.
A thing to do in your own mind is when you assert, trump is going to change thing A to thing B, go figure out what thing A is and try to divine how he's going to change it to thing B. A SOS can just say "lol no" and what is he going to do?
Yep. We differ on what we believe is the most sensible path to protect our most vulnerable, and yet their tactic is to just pile anyone who disagrees with their preferred method into lists of āpro-genocide,ā āanti-trans,ā ābigots.ā Somehow they plan to win elections subtracting from their coalition?
Real help for people. Policies that would have improved so many lives.
As we all know, the American Revolution was fought to ensure the chief executive could impose taxes without representation.
Joseph McCarthy -> Roy Cohn -> Donald Trump
OTD August 30, 967 Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court justice.
Jesus Christ. Listen to the Democrats who do the work telling you what theyāre doing. Guess what. I guarantee most of them ALSO think the āDemocratic strategistsā youāre on about are full of shit.
THIS! Jaime Harrisonās @atourtable.bsky.social is the cure for feeling despondent. And listening to Rep. Lauren Underwood discuss her efforts in congress, recruiting and developing new candidates, AND working on how do we get OUT our message is a balm to soothe the troubled soul.
Let the record show that Democrats werenāt the ones to fall for RFK and Tulsi.
Right? Their initial assertion was batshit crazy. That Iām āgiving upā on an election Iām doing my damndest to keep peopleās heads in. Then they imply that I was āsimpingā for a candidate and I just want to know which Choose Your Own Adventure narrative they were going to paint me with.
We can pray and/or work on meaningful gun laws that work. Iād also add to that NOT continuing to elect leaders who dehumanize members of our human family, as you cannot dismiss the rhetoric of the emboldened extreme right that currently has the reins of the Republican Party.
I get that you might THINK that Iām a bot because Iām a damn broken record going on about how a lot of folksā sensibilities are being manipulated to dampen enthusiasm for the Democratic Party, but thatās because I feel like fucking Cassandra around here. And thereās a LOT of us Cassandras.
Damn, you almost had meš¤£
Yep. Be clear-eyed, strategic, persistent, and pragmatic. And donāt be an enemy of the good.
Such a great word.
Honestly, Iām for it. May just start carrying chalk. Make them scared to cross the street, lest they catch āthe gay!ā
I feel like people who ARENāT Dems are trying to paint us as supporting Newsom as a candidate, while Iām happy to have is help throwing his weight at Trump, and can still think heās a terrible general election candidate.
Iām a little conflicted, having been in the building when Zach Wahls spoke in defense of marriage equality. But I am hopeful for a good race, and for Iowans to elect a great Democrat to the US senate.
Oh wow! Heās got the Dvorskys in his corner?!
Iām genuinely curious, because nowhere have I stated that I have any preference for a candidate for the 2028 presidential race, nor would I do such a thing. So I want to know who I may have implied I was āsimpingā for. I want to make sure Iām communicating my thoughts clearly and effectively.
Oh man. Much love and light to you. I am so sorry for your loss.
Pray tell, please illuminate me as to who I am āsimpingā for?
And donāt forget to vote in every special election and midterm BETWEEN now and then. Thereās a lot we have to do in the meantime.
Itās so tiresomely predictable.
Surely you jest. Iāve been taking this deadly seriously for 30 years. Iām just waiting for folks to catch up.
Perception on here can be an illusion. The GOP and EVERYTHING they are trying to do is VASTLY unpopular. If you canāt help now, then please, at least agree to some sort of votersā Hippocratic oath to Do No Harm.
9) You see, all any of our adversaries (and weāre mostly looking at you, Mr. Putin) have to do is simultaneously exploit ALL of our biases. Thatās it. And we can choose to be useful to them or not. Thatās a freedom any of us has.
8) Throw anything else you can think of under āout of touch,ā āsocialist,ā ācommunist,ā and or āun-American,ā and Voila!
7) Ohhhhh, and the Border Panic! We can never forget about the border panic!
6) Oh, and donāt forget to crank up the homophobia and transphobia, as well as anything else that MIGHT also marginally transcend racial lines to pick off a few more votes, in addition to the fearful, fragile white votes you can always depend on not being there.
5a) while at the same time making sure any attempts to communicate honoring a long-standing commitment to Jews in Israel is seen as a heinous crime against humanity and unforgivable.
5) Now, you can simultaneously dial up EVERYTHING. Just drop into the receptive audiences and watch it go. A lot of racism, a handful of anti-semitism, with the other hand toss in some anti-Muslim sentiment, amp up the evangelical case for not abandoning Netanyahuā¦
4) NOTE, you do not have to espouse any one ideology. You do not have the requirement of consistency. You identify ALL the weaknesses of the US electorate that might have it any less than enthused about the Democratic Party.
3) HOWEVER, the most effective thing you can do, and what worked in 2016 AND in 2024, is cast doubt and derision upon our best hope, the Democratic Party.
2) There are two parties that can have power. You have a marginal chance at increasing votes for the party (the GOP) that introduces the most chaos.
1) If you are outside the United States and you desire to weaken our power and influence, there is a simple calculus to it.
And we have plenty of great leaders. We just happen to also have diverse ideas of what constitutes leadership in this moment. There are plenty of good soldiers out there doing the work. And we have to make sure to do our part, as well.
Inspector convening White House staff: āMy job is to determine which one of you murdered the President.ā Pan to room: *JD Vance awkwardly holding a couch pillow.* *Kristi Noem nervously rubbing gun barrel.* *RFK Jr. swigging raw milk.* *Stephen Miller crouched in corner gnawing on a deerās femur.*
And stop whining about a local endorsement from somebody you donāt care about anyway. Let him mind his business and get to work getting your candidates elected.
If the Democratic Party receives the majority of your ire, then our aims are not the same, and you may go ahead and block me. We do not have time for your dreams of a socialist utopia. This is triage. We donāt get to build anything while weāre bleeding out on the table.
Democratic influencers donāt have to disclose they are receiving $8000/month from the party because they are not receiving $8000/month from the Democratir Party.
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
Itās been a fun night! Thanks everybody. Fingers crossed for good news in the morning.š¤š
Googling sad versions of YMCA just in case
At the very least itās fun to think of this as a sort of tailgate party before the big event
Be a crying shame if he were to visit Bluesky tonight.
Trump is definitely alive bc who else would would blast Les Mis in the Rose Garden??
Itās been a LONG time since I feel like Iāve seen something like that.
It just FELT like everybody had fun making that movie, AND they did it damn well. And there was a wonderful lightness and airiness to Gosling and Blunt. I kind of want to see a Grant and Hepburn kind of thing with them now.
Total chefās kiss.
Oh! So I go and decide Iāll just watch a movie, and WHATāS HAPPENING NOW? STOP TOYING WITH MY EMOTIONS! IS THERE NEWS? But also, holy shit, yāall, The Fall Guy was SO MUCH FUN! And tight as hell. Just solidly packed with bits and great callbacks, as well as the action! Blunt and Gosling? So sweet!
I fucking love Sen. Tina Smith.