David Lee

Commitments I'm looking for from candidates: ✅️Tear down that stupid ballroom ✅️Prosecute ICE from top to bottom ✅️Expanded Medicare for All ✅️Affordable home ownership ✅️Free higher ed & debt relief ✅️Renewable energy & fighting climate change ✅️Reform the Supreme Court ✅️Tax the wealthy

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

I have one message for everyone who thinks Ukraine should surrender. You can discuss giving away our land from your comfortable home. I already know what it means to lose mine.

Mark Carney on Elon Musk crippling Ukraine’s Starlink: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision… against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of its citizens against naked aggression."

I know Putin is a monster but seeing him ‘thanking Melania Trumр for her humanitarian effort’ in Oleshky after his own Russian army first occupied it to then starve the people there is some very special level of psychopathy

Every time Trump starts criticizing and blaming Ukraine and demanding they surrender territory, he should be immediately asked what concessions he's demanded of Russia. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. And it's an abject failure of the press that this is not happening, and I'm furious about it.

The saddest “do you denounce” going unasked is “do you denounce seditionists convicted beyond a reasonable doubt of violently attacking America?” For nearly every Republican, not only is the answer no, but their revealed preference is that the Jan. 6 attackers should be pardoned, even celebrated.

You should not vote for fascism because fascism is evil. But also, you should not vote for fascism because fascism is stupid.

-Trump just waived sanctions on Russia -Putin is pleased -Russia was never a hoax Q: “Is Trump now openly on Putin’s side?” A: He always was.

Can the denial and wishful thinking about Trump and Russia finally stop now? But he’s trying for peace! (Telling Ukraine to surrender, trying to enrich his cronies) But he told others to sanction Russia! (Just a show—no follow up) But he’s sanctioning Russia! (No, Congress did and he removed it)

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

The film unearths new dimensions of this story, and underscores an important point: the phenomenon of oligarchs acquiring supra-governmental power, without elected roles and often with little accountability, is bigger than Elon Musk, and we’re all living with the consequences.

Musk says he didn’t cut services to thwart Ukrainian self-defense, the US govt did. A senior US official says the Trump White House had nothing to do with that, implying Musk did it. A problem is they’re both serial liars, Putin sympathizers, and anti-democracy, so who knows.

Trump announces that two countries who have been in a major war have agreed to a ceasefire. Ukraine said they had no idea what he was talking about. Russia said they agreed to nothing. Trump has taken a blowtorch to any credibility the US has built over two centuries.

Zelenskyy to Fox: “Everybody understands that the prices of diesel don't depend on our attacks on diesel in Russia. “Everybody understands that it depends on the blocking of Hormuz, the Strait of Hormuz.”

“Last night, we didn’t attack any energy objects on the territory of Russia," Zelenskyy said in the interview on Fox News. Yet Russia continued attacking Ukrainian gas stations and critical energy facilities.

Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.

More than half are connected to the production chain for ballistic missiles. We are making it significantly harder, slower and more expensive for Russia to produce the weapons it uses to kill Ukrainians.

EU Foreign Ministers just adopted nearly 1,600 new sanctions listings targeting Russia’s military-industrial complex. This is the single largest expansion of our sanctions list since Russia started its war. Europe is again showing a united front.

Trump: There has to be a ceasefire Zelenskyy: Yes, without conditions Putin: No Trump: You should meet, face-to-face Zelenskyy: Anytime, anywhere Putin: No Trump: Stop hitting energy infrastructure Zelenskyy: Agreed Putin: No Trump: Thank you, Putin. Zelenskyy has to go.

This impression is wildly accurate @nbcsnl.bsky.social

The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

Heard today U.S. Ambassador lamenting how Ukraine’s been ‘attacking Russian refineries’ and how Trump ‘has been clear in asking Ukrainians to stop’. Funny he mentioned that. Cause I’ve been curious, Mike, have Trump ever tried to be clear in asking Putin to stop? Cause maybe he should start there

International lawyer: “Stop pretending silence is moral… Silence makes this possible… say the word: Genocide.” From @DiegoParrhesia 🧵

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being

I am Ukrainian , and all I’ve ever wanted is for Russia to leave us the f%ck alone . Russia decided not to. So now, all I want is for Russian federation to fаll apаrt so it could never do to anyone what it did to my people . And , obviously , for Russia to pay . For everything .

Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.

Posting this for the Harvest Moon tonight.

If any of you ever want to have an actual life? You’re going to have to come together to elect progressives and tax the billionaires.

Computer crimes are already illegal. I do not think “we knowingly deployed software we can’t control” is a legitimate defense against break those laws.

My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.

There is probably no idea deader than the idea that integrating evil autocratic regimes into our trade networks would give them an economic incentive sufficient to convince them to be nicer. Turns out they'll take the dough and just keep on being assholes.

Tax the rich. Make corporations pay their fair share. Invest in working people. That's how a real economy runs. Everything else they've sold you is a scam.

There have always been humans who thought: 1) The world will end soon 2) It will happen in a cool, exciting way 3) It’ll happen to me personally 4) I’ll be a martyred prophet, or a warlord, or otherwise special 5) People who don’t see this are lesser “Sexy apocalypse” is a great phrase for that

Trump has not once called on Putin to stop bombing civilian population centers, which he targets daily. Witkoff & Kushner never said that to Putin. We cut off Patriots to Ukraine for air defense. But now he demands Ukraine stop bombing refineries while Russia murders civilians.

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

Israel is a terrorist state actively practicing ethnic cleansing and indiscriminate murder of civilians. Unfortunately, the US continues to fund them, and many democracies continue to trade with them. They should be a pariah state, shunned and isolated by the civilized world.

Palestinians inspect the rubble after Israeli bulldozers demolished 10 homes in the West Bank village of Khirbet al-Fakhit, reportedly for being built without permits

The AI company CEOs gloat about how AI will eliminate all of our jobs while insiders warn it represents an existential threat to human survival. Meanwhile it already consumes ridiculous amounts of water & electricity, driving shortages, higher costs, and the use of the dirtiest forms of generation.

We need to bring corporate America to heel. We need to free our government from the clutches of big business and then we need to subjugate big business.