Eric Lee
@ericleeacts.bsky.social
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)
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Eric Lee
@ericleeacts.bsky.social
· Aug 30
1) If you are outside the United States and you desire to weaken our power and influence, there is a simple calculus to it.
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A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
January 3, 2026 at 5:20 PM
A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism
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Take frequent breaks.
Every other douchebag on this platform is a foreign policy expert, philosopher and psychologist today.
Step away when you feel it becoming too much. You don't have to fight with everyone or give them the power to steal your energy.
Some of you are ready for that first break now
Every other douchebag on this platform is a foreign policy expert, philosopher and psychologist today.
Step away when you feel it becoming too much. You don't have to fight with everyone or give them the power to steal your energy.
Some of you are ready for that first break now
January 3, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Take frequent breaks.
Every other douchebag on this platform is a foreign policy expert, philosopher and psychologist today.
Step away when you feel it becoming too much. You don't have to fight with everyone or give them the power to steal your energy.
Some of you are ready for that first break now
Every other douchebag on this platform is a foreign policy expert, philosopher and psychologist today.
Step away when you feel it becoming too much. You don't have to fight with everyone or give them the power to steal your energy.
Some of you are ready for that first break now
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When people talk about “how did Octavia Butler know?” It’s because she lived through Reagan!
January 3, 2026 at 1:40 PM
When people talk about “how did Octavia Butler know?” It’s because she lived through Reagan!
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The media doesn’t talk enough about the fact that ”Let’s Make America Great Again” was Reagan’s 1980 campaign slogan
Nothing this man does is original, at all, including illegal/imperial invasions in Latin America
Nothing this man does is original, at all, including illegal/imperial invasions in Latin America
January 3, 2026 at 1:38 PM
The media doesn’t talk enough about the fact that ”Let’s Make America Great Again” was Reagan’s 1980 campaign slogan
Nothing this man does is original, at all, including illegal/imperial invasions in Latin America
Nothing this man does is original, at all, including illegal/imperial invasions in Latin America
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Candid answer - as someone who handled constituent affairs calls for years - while they’re not checking the phone right now, the urgency of the moment is important.
Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.
Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.
Is there actually a benefit to leaving a VM now vs getting a staffer on Monday? Can do both but just curious
January 3, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Candid answer - as someone who handled constituent affairs calls for years - while they’re not checking the phone right now, the urgency of the moment is important.
Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.
Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.
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i think that people really underestimate reality that
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
January 3, 2026 at 11:15 AM
i think that people really underestimate reality that
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
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This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner
January 3, 2026 at 2:42 PM
This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner
Definitely not over it.
And let's go back to 2016 when we could have prevented his 3 appointments to SCOTUS, which have blessed his BS. Oh, but...we're supposed to "get over that".
January 3, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Definitely not over it.
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this is worth reading. a longtime NYT insider confirms that the paper's abrupt turn into seething anti-trans bigotry came directly from the top: AG Sulzberg and his 2 deputies, Joe Kahn and Carolyn Ryan transnews.network/p/a-directiv...
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 2, 2026 at 3:07 PM
this is worth reading. a longtime NYT insider confirms that the paper's abrupt turn into seething anti-trans bigotry came directly from the top: AG Sulzberg and his 2 deputies, Joe Kahn and Carolyn Ryan transnews.network/p/a-directiv...
There was plenty to be critical of the US about before we elected Trump, but we still had a certain amount of credibility abroad. We’ve set a torch to that. We’ve decimated our foreign aid services that fostered good will. It will take decades to recover.
January 3, 2026 at 2:42 PM
There was plenty to be critical of the US about before we elected Trump, but we still had a certain amount of credibility abroad. We’ve set a torch to that. We’ve decimated our foreign aid services that fostered good will. It will take decades to recover.
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When I teach my seminar on coups we keep a running tab on how many regime changes were motivated at least in part by desire for oil or other valuable commodities...
January 3, 2026 at 2:33 PM
When I teach my seminar on coups we keep a running tab on how many regime changes were motivated at least in part by desire for oil or other valuable commodities...
This man has never had any business being POTUS and having lethal power at his command.
Trump to Fox & Friends on the raid that captured Maduro: "I mean, I watched it literally l like I was watching a television show. If you would've seen the speed, the violence -- it was an amazing thing."
January 3, 2026 at 2:31 PM
This man has never had any business being POTUS and having lethal power at his command.
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Tulsi Gabbard in 2019:
"The United States needs to keep our hands off Venezuela... end these destructive and wasteful regime change wars... proven to cause more problems, increase suffering, increase instability for the people in the countries where we wage these wars. In Latin America especially".
"The United States needs to keep our hands off Venezuela... end these destructive and wasteful regime change wars... proven to cause more problems, increase suffering, increase instability for the people in the countries where we wage these wars. In Latin America especially".
January 3, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Tulsi Gabbard in 2019:
"The United States needs to keep our hands off Venezuela... end these destructive and wasteful regime change wars... proven to cause more problems, increase suffering, increase instability for the people in the countries where we wage these wars. In Latin America especially".
"The United States needs to keep our hands off Venezuela... end these destructive and wasteful regime change wars... proven to cause more problems, increase suffering, increase instability for the people in the countries where we wage these wars. In Latin America especially".
“The price of love is loss,
But still we pay.
We love anyway.
And when the night has finally gone.
And when we see the new day dawn.
We'll wonder how we wandered for so long, so blind.
The wasted world we thought we knew,
The light will make it look brand new.”
“Light” from Next To Normal
But still we pay.
We love anyway.
And when the night has finally gone.
And when we see the new day dawn.
We'll wonder how we wandered for so long, so blind.
The wasted world we thought we knew,
The light will make it look brand new.”
“Light” from Next To Normal
January 3, 2026 at 2:24 PM
“The price of love is loss,
But still we pay.
We love anyway.
And when the night has finally gone.
And when we see the new day dawn.
We'll wonder how we wandered for so long, so blind.
The wasted world we thought we knew,
The light will make it look brand new.”
“Light” from Next To Normal
But still we pay.
We love anyway.
And when the night has finally gone.
And when we see the new day dawn.
We'll wonder how we wandered for so long, so blind.
The wasted world we thought we knew,
The light will make it look brand new.”
“Light” from Next To Normal
Had we elected Vice-President Kamala Harris, we would not see expiring health care subsidies. We would not have kidnapped the leader, legitimate or not, of another country. We would not be Putin’s buddy. We would not be ending every environmental protection we can. The list keeps going.
January 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Had we elected Vice-President Kamala Harris, we would not see expiring health care subsidies. We would not have kidnapped the leader, legitimate or not, of another country. We would not be Putin’s buddy. We would not be ending every environmental protection we can. The list keeps going.
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Trump promised no “new stupid wars,” yet he’s starting one with Venezuela without congressional approval.
People can’t afford groceries and millions are losing healthcare, but this is where his focus is.
This is unconstitutional and not what the American people asked for.
People can’t afford groceries and millions are losing healthcare, but this is where his focus is.
This is unconstitutional and not what the American people asked for.
January 3, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Trump promised no “new stupid wars,” yet he’s starting one with Venezuela without congressional approval.
People can’t afford groceries and millions are losing healthcare, but this is where his focus is.
This is unconstitutional and not what the American people asked for.
People can’t afford groceries and millions are losing healthcare, but this is where his focus is.
This is unconstitutional and not what the American people asked for.
I can’t help but think this is what a lot of the bothsiderism gets us. It is hard to break through to the young folks I work with and call friends against whatever it is that’s influencing them.
People I know in Pennsylvania who volunteered for Harris said the biggest reason why young men didn't want to vote for Harris was that they believed she would send them to war.
I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris.
In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).
In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).
January 3, 2026 at 1:47 PM
I can’t help but think this is what a lot of the bothsiderism gets us. It is hard to break through to the young folks I work with and call friends against whatever it is that’s influencing them.
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You know how Trump gets stupid ideas stuck in his head forever?
“In a July 2017 private briefing with intelligence officials, President Donald Trump apparently asked why the US wasn’t at war with Venezuela, noting that “they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
“In a July 2017 private briefing with intelligence officials, President Donald Trump apparently asked why the US wasn’t at war with Venezuela, noting that “they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
“Andrew McCabe claims Trump wanted war in Venezuela because ‘they have all that oil’” 2/20/19 … 2/ www.vox.com/world/2019/2...
Andrew McCabe claims Trump wanted war in Venezuela because “they have all that oil”
It’s a surprisingly overlooked passage of the former FBI acting director’s new book.
www.vox.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
You know how Trump gets stupid ideas stuck in his head forever?
“In a July 2017 private briefing with intelligence officials, President Donald Trump apparently asked why the US wasn’t at war with Venezuela, noting that “they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
“In a July 2017 private briefing with intelligence officials, President Donald Trump apparently asked why the US wasn’t at war with Venezuela, noting that “they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
This betting market shit is so totally weird to me.
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
January 3, 2026 at 1:14 PM
This betting market shit is so totally weird to me.
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I’m afraid it is so. Has Mike Johnson spoken about this? I’m guessing he hasn’t heard about this.
January 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM
I’m afraid it is so. Has Mike Johnson spoken about this? I’m guessing he hasn’t heard about this.
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The world needs to heal! In the interim, I'm gonna self-soothe the nerd way.
youtu.be/rihNRTTcztQ?...
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (from Mary Poppins)
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January 3, 2026 at 12:50 PM
The world needs to heal! In the interim, I'm gonna self-soothe the nerd way.
youtu.be/rihNRTTcztQ?...
youtu.be/rihNRTTcztQ?...
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rubio pretty much believes in a reverse domino theory for latin america and since he is effectively running foreign policy in the region i would expect him to see cuba as his next target
And I don’t want to sound conspiratorial, but if they feel like they can do this in Venezuela without any serious consequences, they’re absolutely going to try it in Cuba too.
January 3, 2026 at 12:37 PM
rubio pretty much believes in a reverse domino theory for latin america and since he is effectively running foreign policy in the region i would expect him to see cuba as his next target
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NEW: The anonymous "researcher" in Nick Shirley's viral "fraud" video--treated as a concerned citizen on Fox News and elsewhere--is actually a Minnesota state lobbyist and political activist who worked with a GOP House staffer to provide Shirley info/
theintercept.com/2026/01/03/m...
theintercept.com/2026/01/03/m...
Unnamed Source in Viral Minnesota Somali Fraud Video Is Right-Wing Lobbyist Who Called Muslims “Demons”
David Hoch, who goes by his first name in Nick Shirley’s video allegedly exposing Somali fraud, referred to “demon Muslims” on social media.
theintercept.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM
NEW: The anonymous "researcher" in Nick Shirley's viral "fraud" video--treated as a concerned citizen on Fox News and elsewhere--is actually a Minnesota state lobbyist and political activist who worked with a GOP House staffer to provide Shirley info/
theintercept.com/2026/01/03/m...
theintercept.com/2026/01/03/m...
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Those Epstein files must be insane … juss say’n 💁♀️
January 3, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Those Epstein files must be insane … juss say’n 💁♀️