DebraToTheLeft
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Fierce fighter for Democracy living in Minnesota
Cancer survivor and #Healthcare voter
HORRIFIED at what is happening to our country
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At 10 am on @MSNOWNews, I’ll discuss Smith transcript. He debunked the claim that Trump was just contesting an election like other presidents. Trump knowingly engaged in fraud and took steps to obstruct the lawful transfer of presidential power.
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Jack Smith deposition transcript released
The former special counsel, who led two failed prosecutions of President Donald Trump, spoke before the House Judiciary Committee in mid-December.
www.ms.now
Jack Smith has a steel-rod backbone, much more than all members of Congress put together.
Democrats in the House and Senate need to learn how to tell the unvarnished truth like this.
Democrats in the House and Senate need to learn how to tell the unvarnished truth like this.
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How does an entire administration not understand this basic reality? Venezuelan oil is not profitable.
Heavy crude takes years to extract profitably. It requires massive upfront investment, specialized infrastructure, refineries configured for heavy oil, long timelines, and political stability.
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Heavy crude takes years to extract profitably. It requires massive upfront investment, specialized infrastructure, refineries configured for heavy oil, long timelines, and political stability.
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January 4, 2026 at 10:23 PM
How does an entire administration not understand this basic reality? Venezuelan oil is not profitable.
Heavy crude takes years to extract profitably. It requires massive upfront investment, specialized infrastructure, refineries configured for heavy oil, long timelines, and political stability.
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Heavy crude takes years to extract profitably. It requires massive upfront investment, specialized infrastructure, refineries configured for heavy oil, long timelines, and political stability.
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Trump is weak at home, and he can be stopped – so long as the domestic political logic of foreign intervention is recognized and turned against him. This act of war is about regime change in the United States. It only succeeds if Americans allow it to do so.
snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
Venezuela: The Precedents
And America: The Future
snyder.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Trump is weak at home, and he can be stopped – so long as the domestic political logic of foreign intervention is recognized and turned against him. This act of war is about regime change in the United States. It only succeeds if Americans allow it to do so.
snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
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Gift link, as I encourage you to read this in its entirety. We have work to do, fellow Americans. We are up to the challenge, if we choose to be.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
Opinion | Trump Is the Jan. 6 President
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Gift link, as I encourage you to read this in its entirety. We have work to do, fellow Americans. We are up to the challenge, if we choose to be.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
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This evening, President Trump shared a video on his Truth Social platform, which spread lies about the assassination of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman.
My statement:
My statement:
January 4, 2026 at 3:05 AM
This evening, President Trump shared a video on his Truth Social platform, which spread lies about the assassination of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman.
My statement:
My statement:
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The cynics think today's attack on Venezuela is staged and transactional. Maduro is allied with Putin, but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. (See Fiona Hill's testimony in Trump's first impeachment trial, h/t @davetroy.com). Even Maduro may be in on it. 2/
January 3, 2026 at 4:22 PM
The cynics think today's attack on Venezuela is staged and transactional. Maduro is allied with Putin, but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. (See Fiona Hill's testimony in Trump's first impeachment trial, h/t @davetroy.com). Even Maduro may be in on it. 2/
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Congratulations to President Trump for establishing the precedent that a would-be dictator who tried to overturn a democratic election can be forcibly seized by foreign adversaries. I'm sure this will go well for us.
Trump on Maduro and his wife: "They'll be heading to New York. They were indicted in New York."
January 3, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Congratulations to President Trump for establishing the precedent that a would-be dictator who tried to overturn a democratic election can be forcibly seized by foreign adversaries. I'm sure this will go well for us.
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Gen. Dan Caine is now describing in exhaustive detail an illegal American military operation not a single soldier refused to carry out
If you're wondering whether our armed forces will support martial law inside the United States at some point in the next 2+ years, pay attention
If you're wondering whether our armed forces will support martial law inside the United States at some point in the next 2+ years, pay attention
January 3, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Gen. Dan Caine is now describing in exhaustive detail an illegal American military operation not a single soldier refused to carry out
If you're wondering whether our armed forces will support martial law inside the United States at some point in the next 2+ years, pay attention
If you're wondering whether our armed forces will support martial law inside the United States at some point in the next 2+ years, pay attention
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Let’s not forget that over 77M Americans voted for this reckless, ignorant creature to retake the levers of power.
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Let’s not forget that over 77M Americans voted for this reckless, ignorant creature to retake the levers of power.
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Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.
January 3, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.
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This war and extra-judicial kidnapping is patently illegal and unconstitutional. Political leaders on both sides must condemn it. It’s not about whether Maduro is a tyrant but whether the US is still governed by laws and the Constitution. As if this morning, we are clearly not.
January 3, 2026 at 12:27 PM
This war and extra-judicial kidnapping is patently illegal and unconstitutional. Political leaders on both sides must condemn it. It’s not about whether Maduro is a tyrant but whether the US is still governed by laws and the Constitution. As if this morning, we are clearly not.
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I cannot believe that so many news outlets are showing themselves incapable of producing basic, very basic reporting on Musk's company, under his personal leadership, producing child sexual abuse material. And then snottily not responding to reporters when asked.
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I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.
www.readtpa.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:44 PM
I cannot believe that so many news outlets are showing themselves incapable of producing basic, very basic reporting on Musk's company, under his personal leadership, producing child sexual abuse material. And then snottily not responding to reporters when asked.
bsky.app/profile/park...
bsky.app/profile/park...
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This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
January 2, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
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📣 THE MAIN MIDTERM EVENT IS ON: Help flip the House blue by donating TODAY! #Blue26
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Show your support with a contribution.
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January 3, 2026 at 12:03 AM
📣 THE MAIN MIDTERM EVENT IS ON: Help flip the House blue by donating TODAY! #Blue26
--"TBD" donations go to the eventual Dem nominee.
--You can opt out of sharing your email/phone w/the campaigns.
--Not a dime of donations through this page go to me.
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--"TBD" donations go to the eventual Dem nominee.
--You can opt out of sharing your email/phone w/the campaigns.
--Not a dime of donations through this page go to me.
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Many don't realize that the most vulnerable or immune compromised depend on the rest getting vaccinated properly to keep diseases from spreading out of control. It's not just “my body, my choice” when it comes to saving lives.
January 2, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Many don't realize that the most vulnerable or immune compromised depend on the rest getting vaccinated properly to keep diseases from spreading out of control. It's not just “my body, my choice” when it comes to saving lives.
I think all of us are blocked by this account:
Will any friend of mine check out this dude? Who is he and why would I get blocked?
January 2, 2026 at 6:55 PM
I think all of us are blocked by this account:
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Just a quick reminder that Jack Smith had 86 witnesses lined up ready to convict Donald Trump, and every one of them were Republicans
January 2, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Just a quick reminder that Jack Smith had 86 witnesses lined up ready to convict Donald Trump, and every one of them were Republicans
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I don’t know about you, but—during this 250th anniversary year—I’m not going to stay quiet while Trump and his regime lies, steals, cheats, abuses, commits crimes, trashes our Constitution & imagines their cruelty & hate in any way represents America. I’ve had a little break and I’m ready to fight.
January 2, 2026 at 5:01 PM
I don’t know about you, but—during this 250th anniversary year—I’m not going to stay quiet while Trump and his regime lies, steals, cheats, abuses, commits crimes, trashes our Constitution & imagines their cruelty & hate in any way represents America. I’ve had a little break and I’m ready to fight.
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Masked agents dragged a teacher from her classroom. They pepper-sprayed a toddler. They shot a father of two, for the crime of trying to go to work.
This is Trump’s America—and we need your help to keep exposing it.
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This is Trump’s America—and we need your help to keep exposing it.
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Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
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January 2, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Masked agents dragged a teacher from her classroom. They pepper-sprayed a toddler. They shot a father of two, for the crime of trying to go to work.
This is Trump’s America—and we need your help to keep exposing it.
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This is Trump’s America—and we need your help to keep exposing it.
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I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...
Seven Voting Laws Every Blue State Should Enact Right Now
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 1, 2026 at 10:16 PM
I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...
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A salute to New York’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who takes office today.
Here’s my interview with him before the election. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqU0DAjg0RA
Here’s my interview with him before the election. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqU0DAjg0RA
A Conversation with Zohran Mamdani
Robert Reich
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January 1, 2026 at 8:30 PM
A salute to New York’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who takes office today.
Here’s my interview with him before the election. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqU0DAjg0RA
Here’s my interview with him before the election. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqU0DAjg0RA
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Mamdani: "We will answer to all New Yorkers, not to any billionaire or oligarch who thinks they can buy our democracy ... I will govern as a Democratic Socialist"
January 1, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Mamdani: "We will answer to all New Yorkers, not to any billionaire or oligarch who thinks they can buy our democracy ... I will govern as a Democratic Socialist"
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Mamdani: "The cost of childcare will no longer discourage young adults from starting a family, because we will deliver universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few"
January 1, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Mamdani: "The cost of childcare will no longer discourage young adults from starting a family, because we will deliver universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few"
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I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
January 1, 2026 at 11:07 PM
I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
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AOC: New York City has chosen the ambitious pursuit of universal childcare, affordable rents and housing and clean and dignified public transit for all. We have chosen that over the distractions of bigotry and the barbarism of extreme income inequality
January 1, 2026 at 6:47 PM
AOC: New York City has chosen the ambitious pursuit of universal childcare, affordable rents and housing and clean and dignified public transit for all. We have chosen that over the distractions of bigotry and the barbarism of extreme income inequality
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Mamdani: Where else can you hear the sound of the steel pan, savor the smell of sancocho, and pay $9 for coffee on the same block? Where else could a Muslim kid like me grow up eating bagels and lox every Sunday?
January 1, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Mamdani: Where else can you hear the sound of the steel pan, savor the smell of sancocho, and pay $9 for coffee on the same block? Where else could a Muslim kid like me grow up eating bagels and lox every Sunday?