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Eric Lee

@ericleeacts.bsky.social

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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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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.

Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 2h

Getting to enjoy coffee anytime is one of the perks!

Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 2h

If it weren’t so damn scary,
it would be hilarious the
way he’s painting Obama and Biden as radical leftists. But they’re obviously going to make anybody to the left of Mitch McConnell out to be a radical leftist out to topple the country or something.

Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t think I’ve paid enough attention to just how unhinged and dangerous Sen. Ron Johnson is.

Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 2h

They’ll never hear the plans Democrats actually propose over their own bias and desire to hear them say the exact plans they want. Can’t be UHC, has to be M4A. It’s so tiresome.

Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 2h

The GOP has always kept their powder dry for Sanders, because as long as he wasn’t the nominee, he was useful in driving down Democratic enthusiasm. It would have been a shellacking.

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LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 1d

Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 13h

These guys all fast forward through plot and character development to get to the action scenes or the nudity.

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 15h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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🫧 Kay Hanley 🫧 @kayhanley.bsky.social · 1d

Working on a full length Letters To Cleo album for the first time in almost 20 years and I'm glad it took this long. I love and appreciate this part of the job so much more now ♡

come see us w/ the cavedogs
11.19 Bowery Ballroom NYC
11.21-22Paradise Rock Club Boston

tix --> www.letterstocleo.net

concert poster with a green and yellow flowered hand grenade
letters to cleo w/ special guests The Cavedogs Nov 19 Bowery Ballroom NYC Nov 21 The Paradise Rock Club Nov 22 The Paradise Rock Club Boston

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 15h

“For I was hungry, and thankfully you checked that my papers were in order.”

-The MAGA Bible (presumably)

Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 15h

I do really love it. There’s something delightfully disarming about it. And gaaawwwwd do they hate ridiculousness.

Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 16h

This man can fuck all the way off. If stealing our labor is the only way your industry can survive then I’ll gladly lead the funeral procession.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 16h

So much potential creativity and innovation stifled by struggle.

Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 16h

Can you imagine the freedom that would come with UBI?
I am an artist, an actor, and I feel reasonably certain now after decades of work that I’m pretty good at what I do. I ALSO know I could be much better AND have produced my OWN work had I not ALSO worked 40 hours a week paying bills for 25 years.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 22h

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 22h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 22h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 19h

First, justice and accountability for the recklessness and corruption of this administration.
Then,

Universal Basic Income
Universal Health Care

No more piling work on top of people who are hurting and need help. Get them the resources and fund and staff the agencies to administer them.

Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 19h

Beeeeeeaaaaans!!!

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 1d

More of this please!

A bright spot from a friend in Philly:
"The Proud Boys - a white supremacist group with a
stupid name - planned a rally a block from my house
today. The "belly of the beast" rally. Because apparently
that's where I live - the belly of the antifa beast. Whatever
the fuck that means.
2 hours before it was supposed to start, the park starts
filling up with my neighbors. A drum line shows up. A
brass band plays. The anarchists are giving away
vegetables and nachos and some artists are selling
jewelry. Black leaders give speeches. We chant Breonna
Taylor's name. And all the other names.
No right-wing rally every coalesces. There was never
room for a critical mass to congregate. A lost-looking
man or two walks to the park, doesn't see their people,
turns around. A right-wing vlogger trying to debate people
is surrounded and walked to the edge of the park.
Someone spotted with a handgun is chased through the
park, to their car, by over 100 people. The ice cream truck
music plays the whole time.
The usual guys sets their chess tables and start playing,
the crowd of neighbors start to break up.
Nazis, we will replace you. We will displace you. We will
louder and more numerous. We anti-fascists are full of
music and love and nachos. We will always replace you."

Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 1d

I just couldn’t help myself but to exclaim! She got me fired up!

Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 1d

“They wanna play, let’s play.”
-MVP Kamala Devi Harris

a woman in a suit and pearl necklace is sitting in a chair with her eyes closed and her hair blowing in the wind .

ALT: a woman in a suit and pearl necklace is sitting in a chair with her eyes closed and her hair blowing in the wind .

media.tenor.com

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 1d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 1d

Madam Vice-President!🔥🔥🔥

it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 1d

Kamala Harris.

Fight fire with fire...

🔥🔥🔥

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 1d

Some more examples:

acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...

Maryland

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.