Left Loonacy Daily

Scouring official Dem statements, then ruining them with facts. No spin. No safe space. Just the pile they left on the lawn.

[Left Loonacy Daily @LeftLoonacy]

Hi. I’m Left Loonacy. 👋

Politicians post. I read the fine print: bills, press releases, the boring stuff.

When they’re right, I say so. When the fine print tells a different story, I say that too. Nicely. With links.

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Bernie Sanders said: "The Republican-controlled board of elections shut down the 1 early voting site at North Carolina A&T University—a historically Black college—so students marched an hour to vote."

Hard to shut down something that was never open. The boards are Republican-run now, true. But Guilford County has never had an early voting site on A&T's campus, or any college campus, in a midterm year. That's straight from the county's own elections director. A&T got a site in presidential years, 2024 included. Midterms, never.

The 2022 midterm plan, passed by a Democratic-majority board, had zero campus sites too.

This year's plan kept 13 of the 2022 sites and added a new one at Union Square downtown, a shared campus where A&T is one of the partners. PolitiFact already rated Roy Cooper's version of this claim, that the A&T site was "removed," Mostly False.

Hats off to the students, though. They walked, they voted. That's the system working.

The point: nothing got shut down. A midterm site that never existed still doesn't exist.

What it means for you: in North Carolina, early voting runs through Oct. 31, and you can vote at any early site in your county. Guilford alone has 17. Look up yours and go.

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Kathy Hochul said: "No family should have to worry about affording heat when the temperatures drop. Washington Republicans may be willing to leave New Yorkers out in the cold, but your family is my fight." Then she plugged the state's heating aid program, HEAP, which opens Nov. 2.

Funny thing about HEAP. It runs on federal money, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Congress funded it in the stopgap spending bill Trump signed on Sept. 2. On Oct. 9, a full week before her post, the feds sent $3.63 billion of it out to the states. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's office says New York's share is about $356 million.

Gillibrand's quote is even in Hochul's own press release: "I am relieved that the federal government has released heating assistance funding." Same release. Same day.

To be fair, the state did bump the benefit for oil and propane homes by $90, to $990. Credit where it's due.

The point: Washington didn't leave New Yorkers out in the cold. Washington sent the check, and the governor is handing it out with her name on the envelope.

What it means for you: if you or your parents are on a fixed income in New York, the help is real and the money is already there. Apply starting Nov. 2. Just know whose tax dollars are keeping the furnace on.

[Left Loonacy Daily @LeftLoonacy]

@cenkuygur Cenk, you hosted a show on MSNBC and then had your own prime time hour on Current TV. Odd career path for a guy describing cable news as a Klan meeting.

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@PalmerReport Palmer Report has had someone in this White House crashing and burning pretty much every morning since 2017. At some point the forecast needs a new forecaster.

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Kathy Hochul said German Machado is a "law-abiding" New York State employee "with federal authorization to work through 2029," and asked if he's who Trump meant by the "worst of the worst."

Here's the part the post skips. DHS says he came in legally on Aug. 30, 2016, with permission to stay until Feb. 27, 2017, and then didn't leave. His own union says he applied for asylum in 2016 and is still waiting on an answer.

DHS also put it about as plainly as a government agency ever does: "work authorization or a pending application does not confer legal status in the U.S." A work permit lets you clock in. It isn't a green card.

The point: you can be a good worker, a good dad, and still be almost a decade past your permission to stay. Both can be true. Only one of them is what an immigration judge gets asked.

What it means for you: if a work permit counted as legal status, a ten-year wait in the asylum line would turn into a permanent pass for anybody willing to wait. The fix for a slow asylum system is faster decisions, not a governor deciding the case on X.

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@NYCMayor McKinsey says quantum computing companies made about 1 billion dollars last year and might hit 4.4 billion by 2028. Multi trillion in a few years is a lot of zeros to borrow, Mr. Mayor.

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@MollyJongFast You spend your feed clipping people calling each other names and still act shocked, Molly. That take came with the job.

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@SpeakerPelosi Social Security just locked in a 3.6 percent raise for next year. That is the formula tracking the price index it is built on. Checks keep up with their own yardstick, Nancy.

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Bernie Sanders said: "Yes. We need a 5% billionaire wealth tax in California and throughout America."

Small problem. California's own Democratic governor is a no. Gavin Newsom opposes Prop 40, the 5% billionaire tax, and just endorsed Prop 42, a measure that would cancel it out. In his words, "California's budget belongs to all Californians, not to any one stakeholder, no matter how worthy the cause."

The state's nonpartisan Legislative Analyst says it's a one-time tax, not a yearly one. It "probably" brings in tens of billions spread over several years, but how much is "very hard to predict," and the state could keep losing income tax money every year if billionaires leave or rearrange things. That same office has found the top 1% pay close to half of California's income tax.

The point: when your tax can't get past Gavin Newsom, maybe it isn't the billionaires who are out of touch.

What it means for you: one-time money paying for ongoing health care leaves a hole the next year. And when the people who pay half the income tax pack up, somebody else covers the gap. It's usually the folks who can't move.

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Chris Murphy said a $25 minimum wage isn't a radical idea. "They are mainstream ideas."

Mainstream compared to what? The typical American worker makes $24.51 an hour, according to the Labor Department's latest national wage survey. So a $25 minimum would sit above what half the country earns right now. The highest state minimum wage today is Washington's $17.13. The federal one is still $7.25.

When the Congressional Budget Office scored a much smaller raise, to $15, it estimated about 1.4 million fewer jobs, hitting young and less-educated workers hardest.

The point: when the minimum is higher than the middle, it's not a floor anymore. It's the whole first floor.

What it means for you: the teenager's first job, the retiree's part-time shift, the extra hours at the diner down the street. Those are the jobs that go first when hiring gets that much more expensive. It sounds great at a rally. It costs a lot at the counter.

[Left Loonacy Daily @LeftLoonacy]

@GovWhitmer Undue Medical Debt says each dollar wipes out about $100 of debt it buys for pennies from hospitals. So '$21 million erased' cost a small fraction of that, Governor.

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@Acosta Ten years of the same take, Jim. CNN offered you the midnight slot and you walked. The take came with you.

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@GovTimWalz Your own link says 'functional zero,' Governor. That means homelessness among vets is rare and brief, not a thing of the past. Not the same thing.

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@tedlieu Tax Policy Center says the top 1% got about 16.5% of the tax cut, and 85% of filers got one. 'Primarily' is doing gymnastics, Ted.

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@OccupyDemocrats She lost all seven swing states and the popular vote. Imagining is all that's left, folks.

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@GovPressOffice California is at $6.34 a gallon. The national average is $4.36. Same president for all fifty states, so what's the extra two bucks, Gavin?

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Full post: "If you want to open a sandwich shop, food inspectors must first determine that it's safe. If you're a Big Tech Oligarch who builds an AI product that could threaten the human race? That product won't be subject to 1 safety regulation. That's insane. We must regulate AI — NOW!"
https://t.co/23dQzFqaYu

What's already on the books:
• California SB 53, the Transparency in Frontier AI Act. Signed Sept 29, 2025. In effect since Jan 1, 2026. Newsom's office called it "first-in-the-nation frontier AI safety legislation."
• It covers the biggest labs: models trained on more than 10^26 operations, with the heaviest duties on developers over $500 million in revenue.
• They must publish a safety framework, report critical safety incidents to California's Office of Emergency Services within 15 days (24 hours to authorities if there's an imminent risk of death or serious injury), and protect whistleblowers. Penalty: up to $1 million per violation, enforced by the Attorney General.
https://t.co/dEmkCtK79K

• New York's RAISE Act, signed by Gov. Hochul in December 2025, requires incident reports within 72 hours, with penalties up to $1 million for a first violation and $3 million after that.
https://t.co/Kn7aYZW3DO

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮: No rules at all makes a great slogan. But if you're told nothing exists, you won't use what does. California's law gives the public a way to report AI safety incidents to the state.

If Bernie means a federal law, he can say federal law. Zero is a number, and here it is the wrong one.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

If you want to open a sandwich shop, food inspectors must first determine that it’s safe.

If you’re a Big Tech Oligarch who builds an AI product that could threaten the human race? That product won’t be subject to 1 safety regulation.

That’s insane. We must regulate AI — NOW!

[Left Loonacy Daily @LeftLoonacy]

@BernieSanders 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝: Big Tech's AI "won't be subject to 1 safety regulation."

California's frontier AI safety law took effect Jan 1. Up to $1M per violation. Gavin Newsom signed it.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭: Good news, Bernie. We found 1.
https://t.co/39iTOX1sZr

[Left Loonacy Daily @LeftLoonacy]

@atrupar You got 'unqualified' and a whole psych profile from a photo of two people smiling at a helicopter, Aaron? That's not reporting, that's a mood board.

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@WajahatAli Treason has a definition in Article III of the Constitution. Annoying you is not in it, Wajahat.