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Jesse Lee

@jessecharleslee.bsky.social
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Former Econ Comms for President Biden, Senior Advisor to Speaker Pelosi, Special Assistant to President Obama, VP of Comms for CAP. jesseclee.com

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Jesse Lee @jessecharleslee.bsky.social · 2h
It was never about saving money.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 23h
… alright, so we’re getting “go back to Africa” before the N-word. Let’s adjust our betting sheets accordingly.
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Trump Affordability Tour @trumpaffordable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump is having “the most exclusive dinner” in the world for his crypto scam investors, while parents forego meals to feed their kids in his economy. #PayToPlayPresident
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again  Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!
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Jesse Lee @jessecharleslee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump’s signature cost-of-living promise on the campaign trail was that he’d cut energy prices in half — now his “oil & gas only” energy policy is his single biggest failure, the biggest reason Republicans are losing. 3 of the 4 top pain points for people are energy costs.
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Trump Affordability Tour @trumpaffordable.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This farmer is one of the Americans, like all of us, who is paying tax dollars for Trump to run campaign ads “paid for by the U.S. government.”
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Jesse Lee @jessecharleslee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seeing some beltway horse race journalists itching to give Trump a comeback narrative. Take Playbook PM, which insisted Trump’s economy is “surging” despite Trump having both higher inflation & higher unemployment than when he took office. On manufacturing jobs: Biden: +775,000 Trump: -62,000
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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s happening again: Elon Musk is spending thousands to elect his data center champion Tom Barrett.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good times for Ken Paxton and Roger Marshall
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We can make more jobs and drop the price of electricity while solving the climate crisis, too.
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Trump Affordability Tour @trumpaffordable.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As grocery prices spike and Trump kicks millions of families off food assistance, he announces a celebration of his “Golden Age” with tech billionaires. #TrumpsCorruptCongress
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Both WaPo and @oliverdarcy.bsky.social are reporting that one of the stories the WH claims they banned Politico for was based off a background briefing (that is, they're complaining Politico reported what WH told them to). Darcy makes it clear JD was the background briefer in this case.
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Trump Affordability Tour @trumpaffordable.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The American people may be upset that Trump spends all his time focused on The Ballroom, but at least they can take comfort he’s doing that right. Wait, what’s that?
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Jersey has fined a huge data center in New Jersey over $1 million for installing and operating 62 large gas powered generators without state permits. This comes as other data centers, like Elon Musk's facilities in Memphis, pollute communities with unpermitted turbines and face no consequences.
gothamist.com
NJ fines data center $1 million for illegally powering facility with gas generators
Gov. Mikie Sherill said it was the largest fine handed out to a data center in state history.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Gentlemen, our 29% approval rating is too high. Let's start take away people's health care."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
nytimes.com
F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 22/09/2026
"That said, Tesla Takedown...was successful, according to the documentary, in large part because it bruised Musk’s ego so much. He is desperate to be liked and loved by a critical mass of people." 😂🔥🤘 LFG! www.hardresetmedia.com/p/we-got-a-s...
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We Got a Sneak Peek at the Massive Musk Doc
Elon Musk is so insane that he must be a genius, we’ve been told. But is that true? Is he actually just … insane? A new film peels back the layers of his illusions.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
and featured prominently in @bangordailynews.bsky.social
Bangor Daily News headline: The FBI anti-corruption squad was circling Susan Collins - until Trump got in the way
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨👀 “After Donald Trump returned to office, the investigation (into a reported “sweeping pay to play” “interactions” between Susan Collins and a “top donor”) died, a casualty of his purge of the FBI. Its closure shut a potential window into how Washington works.” Oh? #MEPolitics #MESenate
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Trump Affordability Tour @trumpaffordable.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our ultra-wealthy president who spends billions of our taxpayer dollars on monuments to himself says gas prices — approaching $5 in many places — are a “very inexpensive price to pay” for his war.
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Jesse Lee @jessecharleslee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I actually wouldn’t be surprised if this whole thing was a Trump torture test for Scott Jennings to prove his loyalty before getting the Press Sec job.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We @democracydefendersfund.org are proud to be among "Civil Rights Groups Suing to Keep Armed Agents Away From Voting Sites" We are representing labor unions @aft.org, UFCW & IUPAT together w/ many from our coalition that also stopped Trump's USPS cheating! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...
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Civil Rights Groups Sue to Keep Armed Agents Away From Voting Sites (Gift Article)
The lawsuit argues that the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and suggestions that it could send agents to polling stations violate the Voting Rights Act.
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Trump Affordability Tour @trumpaffordable.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump’s continues to toy with a new strategy to address record low approval on inflation: voter extortion. #StopTrumpCorruption
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 17/09/2026
New: Trump called crypto "thin air." Last year, he reported $1.4 billion in income from it. Buyers of his crypto? They're an estimated $4.7 billion underwater. I made an 8-bit game out of it— 📈 Play as Trump: you cannot lose money. 📉 Play as an investor: you cannot win.
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‘THIN AIR,’ REAL MONEY — The Trump Crypto Game
An 8-bit game about real money. Play as Trump: you only make money. Play as an investor: you only lose. Every figure is drawn from Public Citizen's report and the sources it cites.
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Jesse Lee @jessecharleslee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New AP poll: 78% are concerned about the air pollution & environmental impacts of data centers. As long as data centers are powered primarily by gas, diesel and coal, they are going to be rejected — and btw, simple supply-and-demand means using all that gas = higher utility bills
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh. ‘I did not find them': GOP official in Calif. apologizes for fraud claims www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
sfgate.com
'I did not find them': GOP official in Calif. apologizes for fraud claims
The apology comes as President Donald Trump continues to criticize mail-in voting.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨👀 Rep. Thomas Massie reading out articles of impeachment on the House floor for Hegseth for bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Iran, which reportedly killed 120 children.
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Jesse Lee @jessecharleslee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump has put himself and his Administration in the most unpopular position imaginable on data centers — as a steamroller over local opposition on behalf of Trump’s trillion dollar tech donors. No better fight for Dems to pick.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump is a world-historical villain who's putting us all in extreme danger, so put him at the center of this story. Dems can highlight how Trump is actively using DOJ and EPA to help AI data centers steamroll communities, and vow that a Dem majority will stop it. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2154...
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Jesse Lee @jessecharleslee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The same bill that had the biggest Medicaid cuts in history, the biggest food assistance cuts in history, and the biggest clean energy cuts in history, also included these massive tax breaks for the richest companies in history:
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Trump Affordability Tour @trumpaffordable.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
As fuel prices continue to spiral and raise costs on everything else, the Trump family is making preparations to pull up stakes.
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Janet Johnson @jjohnsonlaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Pardoned by Trump. All of the worst people in the world are connected to our president. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire
Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
There it is. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) says Republicans’ next goal is to kick seniors off Social Security: “Get off of Social Security. Get back into the workforce.”
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Last month, the Pentagon fired the publisher and editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes. Two opposite headlines this morning show the results were swift.
Hormuz shipping traffic falls to single digits, data shows
By Reuters
September 10, 2026 10:48 PM CDTOil shipments through Strait of Hormuz rise with US military assistance

By ALISON BATH  STARS AND STRIPES Published 27 minutes ago

Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2026-09-11/middle-east-iran-hormuz-navy-tankers-22817340.html
Source - Stars and Stripes
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Mike Rogers left his home in Florida to try to get to Michigan and somehow ended up in Dallas...let's help him out!
comehomemike.com
Come Home, Mike
Help Mike Rogers find his way from Florida back to Michigan. He hasn't managed it yet.
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Predictably, Trump lies out of his ass during his speech at his Midterm Convention, saying "there are no empty seats"... But give an award to the NTD camera operator that zooms back and pans around the arena to show...the many empty seats. 😆
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/09/2026
Interesting: Massachusetts has ordered all new data centers above 25MW to procure clean power.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Meiselas: Mike Rogers is going to be showing up to this Trump-a-palooza event. El-Sayed: I guess when daddy says, “Give me a hug,” you give him a hug. And it’s curious because Mike Rogers does not want to show up to a debate…
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Trump Affordability Tour @trumpaffordable.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As oil passes $100/ barrel again and Trump says they’re not coming down anytime soon, he and Republicans in Congress are heading to a two-day Trumpapalooza party with billionaire donors, co-chaired by the head of an oil company.
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Trump Affordability Tour @trumpaffordable.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When increased harvest costs hit grocery stores, everybody loses — except Trump and his billionaire Cabinet who are getting even richer.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Epstein, Trump, and Michael Cohen: The Biggest Political Cover Up In History Continues thelefthook.substack.com/p/epstein-tr...
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 04/09/2026
By this measure, you could say the Trump administration is “paying” Maggie Haberman, since having access to him “put her in a position” to write a best-selling book.
The mayor's office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes, and viewers watch longer.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 04/09/2026
Trump’s proposed 250 ft. vanity arch is illegal, wildly narcissistic, and would only make traffic gridlock worse. Even the National Park Service acknowledges the project would disrupt Arlington National Cemetery.   This monstrosity must be stopped and I’m fighting to make sure it is.
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Don Beyer On the Importance of Arlington National Cemetery
YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer
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Jesse Lee @jessecharleslee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The highest Labor Day gas prices in history, highest any-day diesel prices in history, and utility bills that spiked 18% since Trump came in. Trump promised over & over to cut energy prices in half. His corrupt “oil & gas only” energy policy has been a catastrophic failure.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/09/2026
WOW: This lifelong Republican says he’s finally had enough. The reason? AI data centers. “I’ve been a Republican my entire voting life. And I’ve been given the finger by my party.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/09/2026
NEW: We went inside the growing nationwide revolt over massive data centers, speaking with the people fighting back and a candidate making it a major campaign issue. What we found on the ground in our new series tells a very different story than Trump does. Introducing 'In Your Backyard':
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NEW SHOW: America’s Data Center Revolt is JUST BEGINNING
In the inaugural episode of In Your Backyard, Luke Radel digs into the massive pushback to data centers across the country.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 03/09/2026
Why do people think Musk plans to spend nine figures on behalf of Republicans this fall, folks: base, greedy self interest, or the goodness of his heart?* (* Trick question — it's difficult to think he has either goodness or a heart.)
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Jesse Lee @jessecharleslee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As GOP postures against data centers, here’s what their moneyman Elon Musk just demanded at G20 on data centers: “It is pretty straightforward, you have to have an environment that is relatively free of regulation. New things must be default legal instead of default illegal.”
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Trump Affordability Tour @trumpaffordable.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s not a great time to buy a new house, so why not use some taxpayer dollars to fix up that old bowling alley in the basement? #CostofCorruption
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Jesse Lee @jessecharleslee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The corruption of America’s government has gone off the charts under Trump, and it has escaped (almost) nobody.
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