DebraToTheLeft

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Democracy advocate living in Minnesota. I’m a boots-on-the-ground volunteer for Democrats up and down the ballot
I’m #RidinWithBiden and #GetOutTheVote volunteer
Cancer survivor and #Healthcare voter
Lymphedema patient and advocate
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🚨 We have 1️⃣1️⃣3️⃣ DAYS to STOP #Project2025 by re-electing President Biden & VP Harris and FLIPPING THE HOUSE blue. Donate today! #Blue24 secure.actblue.com/donate/house...

Help flip the #HouseBlueIn24!secure.actblue.com Democrats only need to flip a handful of seats to retake control of the U.S. House. Donate today!

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The first 7 people that NBC spoke to knew about Trump's Project 2025 The message is getting out there and it's being delivered by the team of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris - not by a bunch of "Democrats" that don't think that Trump winning would be so bad www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Biden blasts Project 2025 in Michigan and ties it to Trump in effort to regain footingwww.nbcnews.com The president is leaning into a line of attack that unifies Democrats and could appeal beyond his base as he seeks to move past the party infighting over his candidacy.

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this is why the billionaires are trying to stop Biden

President Joe Biden on Monday released a budget proposal aimed at getting voters’ attention: It would offer tax breaks for families, lower health care costs, smaller deficits and higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations. apnews.com/article/bide...

Biden's budget proposal for a second term offers tax breaks for families and lower health care costsapnews.com Unlikely to pass the House and the Senate to become law, the proposal for fiscal 2025 is an election year blueprint.

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The theory is that by wrecking the 2024 election, they can throw the choice of President to house delegations where the Republican is certain to prevail. This is insurrection, a coup and needs to actually be dealt with as such. If your plan is to sue them and win, you've already lost.

The Republican Party and its conservative allies are engaged in a "wide-ranging and methodical effort" to lay "the groundwork to contest an election that they argue, falsely, is already being rigged against former President Donald J. Trump." www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/u...

Unbowed by Jan. 6 Charges, Republicans Pursue Plans to Contest a Trump Defeatwww.nytimes.com Mr. Trump’s allies are preparing to try to short-circuit the election system, if he does not win.

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Tom Homan, Trump’s acting ICE director, is listed as a Project 2025 contributor and said this past week he’s eager to return “and run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen.” “They ain’t seen shit yet,” he said at the fringe National Conservatism conference. “Wait until 2025.”

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is a radical plan geared for a potential second Trump admin. Frighteningly expansive, Project 2025 targets immigrants—and anyone perceived to be one. More from @joesudbay.bsky.social and @tusk81.bsky.social ⬇️ zacharymueller.substack.com/p/project-20...

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Hot new Quiet New Deal chart just dropped

WHY THE QUIET NEW DEAL MUST GET LOUDER Joe Biden deserves credit for reducing administrative burdens. And politicians will likely abandon making government work if he doesn't get it.

This is why we cannot let the Quiet New Deal stay so quieti-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io If politicians don’t think they will get credit for reducing administrative burdens, they just won’t do it. What do 11 down-on-their-luck factories being retrofitted to build EVs have in comm...

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What If You Had a Military Summit Defending the Future of Democracy and No One Gave a Damn? www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/12/w...

What If You Had a Military Summit Defending the Future of Democracy and No One Gave a Damn? - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net To find actual news of Joe Biden's efforts to defend democracy against growing authoritarianism, you'd need to scroll to ¶18 in a story buried beneath a half dozen articles providing different takes o...

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@[email protected] put together this excellent TL;DR of Project 2025’s stated plans. Please share with any undecided voters you know.

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Lynn of the Fae

Even NPR is pushing the STATISTICAL TIE bullshit, despite the unassailable fact that voters do not want Benedict Donald, and he loses by more each election cycle.

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This is your reminder that deregulation has led to the weaponization of our mass media. Billionaires own and/or control everything you see and hear. The so-called Free Press hasn't been that for decades

Even after Joe's press conference,the MSM is still after him,they are publicizing Joe's couple of gaps but ignoring trumps thousands of gaps like Hannibal Lecter,windmills,electric planes,being eaten by a shark, mistaking Nikki Haley with Pelosi but Joe had a couple and everyone's after him !!

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Breaking: hackers stole call and text records for "nearly all" AT&T customers. Shows which phone numbers a customer called or texted. A staggering and unprecedented data breach. Data usually only available to authorities; now hackers got it www.404media.co/hackers-stea...

Hackers Steal Text and Call Records of ‘Nearly All’ AT&T Customerswww.404media.co In one of the most significant data breaches in recent history, hackers stole AT&T customers’ call and text metadata spanning several months.

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It’s obvious that our institutions won’t save us from MAGA extremism. It's up to all of us to stop Trump, restore reproductive freedom, and repair our democracy. Are you ready to take action?

Ready to go all in for our freedoms in 2024?act.indivisible.org Sign up now, and we'll send you everything you need to join in so we can save our democracy, restore reproductive freedom, defeat Trump (again), and finally end the MAGA threat.

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"LetsBeClear: The wishful benefits of a contested convention or a late-stage exit are vastly outweighed by the potential harm. Biden has the integrity, moral character & record needed to beat TFG in Nov. Our path to victory lies in standing by Biden & understanding the high stakes of this election."

Opinion: Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams says Biden is still best bet against Trumpwww.ajc.com The president is still the Democrats’ best choice for beating former president Donald Trump in November.

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The biggest challenge to countering the media's failure is that it's so all-encompassing. It's the whole industry. It's the leaders of all the news outlets, every single person on the political desks and everyone involved in op-ed sections save for the token normals (who are themselves enablers).

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Today, Sen Warnock dropped the Bridge to Medicaid Act that provides affordable health coverage for 1.6M people in the Medicaid coverage gap. Closing the coverage gap is crucial to advancing health equity. Read CBPP’s new paper to find out why. tinyurl.com/zk6e2t4m

Closing Medicaid Coverage Gap Would Help Diverse Groups and Reduce Inequities | Center on Budget and Policy Prioritiestinyurl.com More than 1.6 million uninsured adults are stuck in the Medicaid “coverage gap,” with no path to affordable health coverage.

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this is powerful, whatever else you think about the paper of record. i suggest skipping the sniping and just embracing and sharing this widely.

Opinion | Donald Trump Is Unfit to Leadwww.nytimes.com He failed the tests of leadership and betrayed America. Voters must stand up to him in November.

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Project 2025 seeks to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, which wld “end Medicare negotiating prescription drug costs.” Heritage, “which is behind Project 2025, supports an increase to the retirement age for Social Security … Project 2025 is coming for Social Security but they are hiding the ball.”

Project 2025 has been gaining attention lately, and rightly so. With rising awareness about this MAGA-made plan for a second Trump term, writer Jay Kuo breaks down the 900-page document into its key subject areas so we can take action against it.

Breaking Down Project 2025thinkbigpicture.substack.com We took on Project 2025 issue by issue so you don't have to.

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Reply to

Larry Glickman

I agree. The IRS thing really address the massive uprising of anger towards Billionaire taxes, capital gains lope-holes for the rich and wealth inequality from Trickle down GOP policies. People are waking up.

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the editor of the New York Times reacting to a potential Trump second term with “fasten your seatbelts” is so deeply vile i can’t wrap my mind around it. these people have detached themselves so completely from the things they cover that the rise of fascism becomes just something exciting to watch

I'm no ivy league fail upward brunchlord news professional, but I feel it's generous to call conspiratorial fascism (managed by a sociopathic manbaby with a fourth grade reading level) "disruptive" that's kind of like saying nuclear annihilation is "modifying"

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Good grief. thehill.com/opinion/judi...

‘I am not a crook,’ said Nixon — under Trump v. US, he wouldn’t bethehill.com It’s startling how far today’s Supreme Court has moved from that unanimous decision in United States v. Nixon.

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"Today, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries will highlight how Democrats are working to lower costs, defend reproductive freedom and protect our democracy while extreme MAGA Republicans continue to take orders from Trump." Starts with TFG's Project 2025

7.11.24 Weekly Press Conferencewww.youtube.com Today, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries will highlight how Democrats are working to lower costs, defend reproductive freedom and protect our democracy while...

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Imagine looking at one million acres of land and pristine fresh water, with no motor vehicles, no development, one of only 13 dark sky sanctuaries in the world and saying…this should be a mine.

Very unfun fact: Project 2025 specifically names Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area and wants to remove its protected status and open it up to mining. This is the future Donald John Trump wants.

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Breaking Down Project 2025thinkbigpicture.substack.com We took on Project 2025 issue by issue so you don't have to.

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Anyway, I’m out. I tried beating back the ocean on Afghanistan, Snowden, Yemen, etc. It’s not worth it. I truly hope this doesn’t end in disaster but it feels more likely than ever. We have self destructed because some rich people on TV had a panic attack after a debate. Good for us.

It’s been weird as hell to see liberals mobilize, from donors to commentators, from celebrities to newspaper editors, to push Biden off-stage but they still can’t manage a coherent message against Trump or even talk about his fascist nonsense that much. Sort of speaks to priorities, you know?

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we do not have to tolerate this shit

This seems like a thing

Clarence Thomas Took Free Yacht Trip to Russia, Chopper Flight to Putin’s Hometown: Demswww.yahoo.com Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been accused of not disclosing a yacht trip to Russia and a private helicopter flight to a palace in President Vladimir Putin’s hometown, among a slew of othe...

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Lenacapavir did so well at preventing HIV infection that it hit the threshold where the only ethical thing to do was stop the randomized trial and immediately offer it to literally every participant. That's huge news. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trialwww.npr.org The testing of lenacapavir was halted because results were so impressive — 100% effectiveness. The decision was made to give all participants the injection rather than the alternative daily pill.

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Very unfun fact: Project 2025 specifically names Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area and wants to remove its protected status and open it up to mining. This is the future Donald John Trump wants.

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Expect the blue state housing crisis to get exponentially worse if Trump gets to implement the Project 2025 reign of terror - forcing a lot of people to flee to places where they'll be more safe. (We need to be building way more housing).

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If this were a normal election, President Biden would be extolling excellent economic news: inflation looks like it has not only been tamed, but turned around. Median wage growth (which excises returns for the top 1%) is outpacing inflation significantly. Unemployment is near record lows.

Prices fell in June for the first time since the start of the pandemic | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com Americans weighed down by fast-rising prices for three years just received more encouraging news on the inflation front.