Overdose deaths are plummeting, thanks to Biden making Naloxone available over the counter. If you want a better country, the Democratic Party is here for you. pic.twitter.com/zyWGmvqehP
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) September 18, 2024
I want more people to know Joe and Kamala made an overdose stopper available to buy over the counter and overdose deaths *immediately* plummeted https://t.co/HQpjctxACx
— Isaiah Martin (@isaiahrmartin) September 19, 2024
Seriously!
An @NPR exclusive: US overdose deaths plummet by 10.6%. "The trends are definitely positive," says SHP’s @KeithNHumphreys. "This is going to be the best year we've had since all of this started." https://t.co/0AH383pmsM
— StanfordHealthPolicy (@StanfordHP) September 18, 2024
Per NPR, “U.S. overdose deaths plummet, saving thousands of lives”:
For the first time in decades, public health data shows a sudden and hopeful drop in drug overdose deaths across the U.S.
“This is exciting,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute On Drug Abuse [NIDA], the federal laboratory charged with studying addiction. “This looks real. This looks very, very real.”
National surveys compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention already show an unprecedented decline in drug deaths of roughly 10.6 percent. That’s a huge reversal from recent years when fatal overdoses regularly increased by double-digit percentages.
Some researchers believe the data will show an even larger decline in drug deaths when federal surveys are updated to reflect improvements being seen at the state level, especially in the eastern U.S.
“In the states that have the most rapid data collection systems, we’re seeing declines of twenty percent, thirty percent,” said Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta, an expert on street drugs at the University of North Carolina.
According to Dasgupta’s analysis, which has sparked discussion among addiction and drug policy experts, the drop in state-level mortality numbers corresponds with similar steep declines in emergency room visits linked to overdoses…
It’s a hard stat to brag about, because every story gets bombarded with comments about ‘spending taxpayer dollars to keep worthless addicts alive’ and ‘it wouldn’t be necessary if not for Demon-crat’s open border policy.’ But fewer dead community members is a good thing. And a lot of those ‘worthless eaters’ have family and friends who are also voters, so there’s got to be ways to point that out, yes?
Here is a whole list of things they did to address the overdose epidemic:https://t.co/6KeST1ei5w
— 🪷 She persists – I dissent! (@Cantkeepquiet3) September 19, 2024
Citizen Alan
I wonder how many MAGAs are opposed to this because they get off on the idea of addicts dying as punishment from the vengeful god they worship.
caphilldcne
@Citizen Alan: There’s a lot of folks that oppose things like harm reduction and overdose prevention centers (there’s no known overdose deaths at an OPC after 40 years of implementation in Europe and Canada) because it interferes with what people think should happen. The administration has been ok on these issues but could do more. It’s good that there’s a large drop but we still have more than 100k deaths a year (up from 60k about 10 years ago). It’s a consequence of fentanyl (easier to smuggle because it’s small). Anyway, I am pleased they’re moving forward. The Rs are pushing back on harm reduction and decriminalization hard and too many Ds will let them do so.
John Revolta
Party of Personal Responsibility will oppose this. You do drugs, you should die, the way God intended
ED: Great minds think alike! And so does mine.
Matt
Vent: it’s infuriating that since even the MAGAts know they’re going to lose the popular vote, they’re working to ratfuck both Nebraska and Georgia’s electoral votes.
Even more infuriating to realize that, despite watching them literally write out a “how to destroy democracy” to-do list over the last year, there’s a huge chunk of the Democratic party who will insist in 2025 that “we need to come together and reduce partisanship”.
Starfish
Naloxone should not be given all the credit for overdose deaths dropping.
They are not sure what has caused such a drastic drop.
Sorry, i don’t have a gift link.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/us/politics/drug-overdose-deaths-decrease.html
I imagine that people are not drinking and drugging alone like they were during parts of the pandemic.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Calvinist “thought” that permeates so much of our society, overwhelmingly on the right but not always, is such a sad, historical inheritance when it comes to efforts to help others less fortunate than us.
cain
@Citizen Alan: seriously..
They love punishment but whine like snowflakes when it is them that fucks around and finds out.
caphilldcne
@Starfish: thank you. It’s not really clear what’s happening. Some of it is a lot more awareness by people who use drugs of the dangers and hopefully taking steps to prevent overdose.
TBone
So many friends gone, even more friends’ kids gone…I blame the Sacklers and the opioid pill pushers (although opioids actually saved my life when I needed them for pain so I could earn a paycheck). The pills faucet got turned off suddenly, and led too many to the easy streets to avoid withdrawal. Thank Dems for naloxone and whatever else is working!
When withdrawal hits, many people do not have the ability for awareness of danger. A lot of people have never been that sick before in their lives, and they only know what will make it stop.
prostratedragon
@Citizen Alan: I think there are many such.
cain
@John Revolta:
But they aren’t the party of personal responsibility. They are the people of other peoples responsibility. Essentially, not their problem if it is someone else but absolutely love socialism for themselves .
prostratedragon
@Starfish:
Here’s a link through archive.ph
Fake Irishman
….just wait until we ban assault weapons and put speed governors on cars.
SW
The “Opioid Crisis” didn’t become a crisis until it started killing white working class people. That is the heart of the MAGA constituency. Pretty selfless act for this administration to risk political blow back to save “those people”
noncarborundum
@John Revolta: As my dad used to say, “Great minds run in the same direction. And so do heads of lettuce.”
3Sice
Backing out of that debate is a bad look. OTOH the more MVP gets out there, the more her favorability goes up, so…
Not a lot of moves left on the table.
Juju
This is a nice story. It all goes back to being an actual human with actual human empathy. President Biden is made of human empathy.
Princess
Wow, Matt Stoller praising Democrats? This *is* a big tent.
3Sice
I’ve been endlessly frustrated by junkie behaviors, and know folks who are doing great in recovery.
I never wished death on any of them.
JaneE
For decades the war on opioids consisted of efforts to make it more difficult for medical users to get pain relief. If they had designed the programs to drive people to using street drugs and increase the number of overdoses they could not have done it better. Making naloxone available was the first time anything was done to reduce deaths.
KatKapCC
@Starfish: Not “all” the credit but certainly some of it. In the NPR article, some of the quoted experts do highlight it as part of the reason for the decline.
KatKapCC
Anyone, wherever they fall on the political spectrum, who says things like this has proven that they have far less worth than the people they are so eager to shit on. Substance dependency is an illness. Being a heartless jackass is the shitty personality you have chosen to inhabit.
sab
@Starfish: Obamacare has mental health treatment reqirements.
Before that, my oldest stepson had serious anxiety issues his whole life. He was attempting suicide at age 8. He started drugs soon after, self medicating. Alcohol, cocaine, heroin. He couldn’t find a doctor to seriously treat it until he was in his thirties. Two decades of his life wasted while he just tried to want to stay alive.
We saw doctor after doctor write him off as just a drug user until he finally found a doctor who saw an underlying problem and treated that.
Parfigliano
@cain: overdose deaths nowadays are white kids and fentenayl. Lots of them from MAGA families.
prostratedragon
Whatsaname has taken to talking about “remigration” of “Kamala’s illegal migrants🤬.” Here is an article about the use of the word “remigration” in fascist rhetoric. They’re making it real plain.
Matt McIrvin
Wait, Stoller is supporting Democrats again? I thought he’d gone full horseshoe-MAGA.
JiveTurkin
Just spent ten days in WY, MT and SD. Amazing trip, Yellowstone, Badlands, Jewel Cave, Crazy Horse monument, Mt. Rushmore, Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Politically, completely depressing. Trump signs everywhere, even on businesses (good, because at least I know where NOT to go). I opened my yap once when someone made a comment about how dumb Harris is (he was looking at a t-shirt that said “dumb and dumber” with pictures of Harris and Walz). Ultimately I asked what he liked about Trump and he said with a straight face that Trump embodies “western values”. I actually restrained myself and did not scream my response, which was something along the lines of he’s a con man, thief, serial adulterer, oh, and by the way, found liable for sexually assaulting a woman. I got the he isn’t any of things, just the media making stuff up.
I’m convinced the only path to victory for Harris is turnout, especially women and young people. White males are unmovable, they are toxic. I say this as a white male, although I am Jewish so for many Republicans I’m not really white.
Matt McIrvin
@TBone: I’m glad opioids exist because they kept pain from driving me out of my mind after knee surgery… but they’ve also wrought havoc in my town and I was really, really wary of even having those pills in the house.
This is a welcome development.
KatKapCC
@JiveTurkin:
Isn’t it fun? To many on the right, we’re not white. To some on the left, we’re the epitome of whiteness. Schrödinger’s Whites, I guess.
Citizen Alan
@SW: True. When “the Opioid Crisis” was entering media consciousness, I said then that I’d seen it all before. Except the first time, instead of fentanyl, it was crack cocaine. Instead of noble salt-of-the-earth white folx from the Heartland, it was black people in the inner cities. And instead of federal funding for treatment and heartfelt elegies for the dead, it was three-strikes policies and mandatory minimum sentences.
suzanne
@Citizen Alan:
Lots of MAGAts are addicts.
gene108
I remember the opioid crisis being an issue in the 2016 election. Hillary said she had plans to try to address it.
Once the Trump crime cartel was in the White House the issue seemed to go on the back burner.*
I’m glad the Biden administration took initiative on their own to try to help on an issue that no longer made much news.
*EDIT: I mean the chaos of the Trump administration took over the news, and the opioid crisis got less and less attention. In 2020, COVID was the biggest issue.
Citizen Alan
@suzanne: So? Hypocrisy is a fundamental element of the conservative mindset. There are also plenty of anti-choice women who would not hesitate to get an abortion or procure one for their daughters. Or at least there were before the anti-choice dog finally caught the car.
suzanne
@Citizen Alan: They want liberals (and racial minorities and gays and women) to suffer and die. White men with a drug problem are sick and deserve our help and sympathy.
suzanne
I will note that a fair amount of the social conservative right blames liberals — of course — for “inflicting the opioid crisis on them”, and encouraging vulnerable members of their society to go off the rails. They think we did it to them to “humiliate” them.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@JiveTurkin:
I’m sure that clown, when he said “Western Values”, wasn’t referring to the general sense of “West” as generally defined in this Wikipedia entry:
I saw a great example of “western values” the week after Labor Day when on a 4-wheeling, truck camping trip near Tin Cup Colorado. Both days, same party of 4 UTVs, white dudes flying American flags and this “5-30” flag (a Orange Fart Cloud reference), would flash white supremacists hand signs instead of the usual friendly wave when going past them on various trails to various passes.
“Western Values” is a dog whistle for environmental pillaging, white supremacy, etc. It’s Cleek’s Law on steroids.
Anthrax and tire rims.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Matt McIrvin:
He’s still a horseshoe loon. Just an example of a blind squirrel occasionally finding a nut.
TBone
@Matt McIrvin: amen brotha!
TBone
@JaneE: 👍
Shalimar
@Citizen Alan: I don’t know many MAGAs. I do know a handful of libertarian drug addicts who get very upset when their friends die but also oppose any government spending to do anything about it. Very fucked up people who ignore one obvious example of their life philosophy not working in reality.
TBone
Today, my friends whose (only child) adult son had a serious medical emergency that left him disabled, had a “reunion” fundraiser in DelCo. They sent me photos of all the old gang of friends that are still standing. Although it made me feel old (two exes have not aged well but they are still here), and sorta sad when I saw how many are missing from our group, to see the “survivors” standing together to help and lift each other was a real kick in the ass for my soul! DelCo wasn’t an easy place to grow up in, sometimes. So proud of my OLD friends!!!
TBone
@sab: 💜 hugs
Starfish
@KatKapCC: I was talking to a nurse about nasally-applied narcan like a decade ago, and she was so pissed at junkies and did not want to help them. On a local reddit, there was a person who works in a convenience store looking for free Narcan because he didn’t want junkies overdosing in the bathroom.
I feel like there has been a big shift in awareness and acceptance.
It’s just ashame that we don’t have proper treatment facilities for folks who need in-patient programs.
Matt McIrvin
@Shalimar: So there are the moralists who would prefer people to die to “send the right message”, and the libertarians who would prefer people to die rather than have the government ever do anything. Two seemingly opposed sides of the same coin.
Starfish
@sab: Unfortunately, it seems like a lot of insurance is limiting the scope of how much time therapists can spend on their patients, and some therapists are starting to opt out of insurance because they don’t want to fight insurance over spending more time with a patient who is in crisis.
Geminid
Autumn is coming in with a bang in Central Virginia. A thunderstorm just crashed through, the leading edge of a cold front. The Harrisonburg radio station said the temps would hit 90° today, 74° tomorrow.
KatKapCC
@Starfish: May I gently note that part of that shift should be NOT using terms like “junkie”?
Matt McIrvin
@Geminid: Here in MA we had our city’s annual free outdoor music festival, “River Ruckus”, and it rained on us all day long, temps in the high 60s. One of the headliners was KT Tunstall and she said it was just familiar Scottish weather.
Starfish
@KatKapCC: That word is there for a reason. The reason is that it expresses the nature of the conversation a decade ago. “Hey, Narcan should only be administered by nurses using needles” and that the people who receive it are not deserving of help.
BethanyAnne
It’s great that the Biden administration has stood behind harm reduction orgs. So many politicians won’t support them at all.
Bill Arnold
@prostratedragon:
Yeah.
Here’s another rundown of alternative hypotheses. The Xylazine one is horrifying. (It is also linked in the NYTimes piece, I see.)
Are overdoses down and why? (Nabarun Dasgupta, Sep 18, 2024)
Includes evaluations of all these hypotheses.
caphilldcne
I’ve spent the better part of my career working on this issue. One thing that criminalization does is drive the problem much further underground. A criminal conviction additionally makes it more difficult to dig out of the hole a person who uses drugs is in by making it harder to get a job and reintegrate into society. To me this should be thought of as a safety issue. It’s if instead of telling people to wear seatbelts and drive more slowly and defensively, we installed a spike on the steering column to make it more dangerous (so people wouldn’t risk it) and further hid information about how to drive. The use of naloxone originated with a Chicago harm reduction program. Syringe services originated pre-HIV but became more widely adopted because of it. It took years even for knowledgeable public health officials to adopt it. It’s a big step that the Biden administration moved forward. I hope they will eventually adopt OPCs (edit – overdose prevention centers) and finally get congress to end restrictions on syringe services programs that originated with Jesse Helms. We’re still fighting that bastard 30 years after he descended to hell. And Gavin Newsom and Merrick Garland (and Biden deferred) have actively stood in the way of overdose prevention centers. It’s the politically safe thing to do after all. But I will not look a gift horse in the mouth. They are 10 times better than the next Trump administration will be. Biden’s folks do support syringe services programs and have tried to act on it. Incidentally, Trump’s former surgeon general Jerome Adams and HHS Secretary supported states adopting syringe services programs do credit where it’s due to them. I don’t expect a future trump administration to do so.
caphilldcne
@BethanyAnne: this is true. They were the first administration to publicly acknowledge and budget for harm reduction but they’ve been very careful to set up boundaries.
West of the Rockies
@JiveTurkin:
My sister and BIL just finished a similar trip. Yup, lots o’ knuckleheads in those parts.
Splitting Image
I saw my first cybertruck in the wild today. It was covered with a matte black wrapper that made me expect to see a Batman logo somewhere.
It had Tennessee license plates, so if anyone here is from Tennessee, one of your villages will be missing its idiot for awhile.
eclare
@Splitting Image:
I hope the idiot stays missing. Unfortunately our villages have plenty of idiots left to step up.
Jay
@Starfish:
I am on my 4th Narcan kit. They are free, kept behind the counter at any pharmacist’s. Sadly, none of the workplace First Aid kits had them, even though epi pens and defibs are required if you have either x amount of staff or x amount of customers a day.
I keep a full First Aid kit in my backpack. Once, at the Orange, I had to use it on myself because they did not have the right dressings in the Work Kit for my wound.
OD’s used to happen at home or in the streets and parks of the Downtown East Side, but since fentanyl arrived, they happen everywhere as dealers use it to “boost” the high on everything, even pot.
Prescott Cactus
It’s doctor month and their offices are attached to the hospital. They have one of the old newspaper vending boxes filled with Naloxone. A half a century ago those may have come in handy in my world, but still, what a great idea to make them readily available.
Lyrebird
@Matt McIrvin: Oh wow! KT Tunstall live, I am envious!
Hope your party came well prepared with whatever you like to wear in the rain.
Brendan In NC
My response to anyone saying the government is ‘spending taxpayer dollars to keep worthless addicts alive’ is to retort “Well, it’s als o spending taxpayer money to keep your worthless MAGA a$$ alive, too”. And yes, I’ve used it at least twice…
Lyrebird
@caphilldcne:
massive credit to YOU Cap Hill !
All those years pushing uphill!
Splitting Image
@eclare:
I was thinking that if Tesla has developed its own GPS system, it might be awhile before he gets home. His guidance system is likely to route him through Norway.
Starfish
@Jay: Sorry. I forget. Are you in Canada?
cain
@Matt:
Who would that be? It’s not the younger democratic voters. It’s probably rich democratic donors.
suzanne
I am seeing The National, The War on Drugs, and Lucius tonight, at an amazing venue in OH. Wish this wasn’t a fucken red state.
Jeffro
OT but I caught up with my favorite normie, Mrs. Fro, about Mark Robinson.
She actually said, “all of that cannot be true…you’re pulling my leg!”
Next up: Nuzzi/RFK Jr, Hovde, Gaetz. You can only cover so much ground in one day, though!
Starfish
@Brendan In NC:
Yup, they rescued W after he choked on that pretzel.
Jeffro
@suzanne: that’s awesome! we had The War on Drugs come to town a year (or was it two?) ago and they were phenomenal
suzanne
@Brendan In NC: I’ve had a similar thought….. they keep making noise about deporting immigrants. Fuck, I’d much rather deport our homegrown criminals. I should tell them so.
lowtechcyclist
@Matt McIrvin:
In either case, it’s the elevating of abstract principles over the welfare of flesh-and-blood human beings.
Rusty
@Citizen Alan: The admin for our unofficial town page likes to occasionally stir the pot. A few weeks ago he posted something about Narcan. I saw the post early and commented, asking if anyone knew of any organizations that might distribute and give training for free. I’m almost 35 years in AA and I work next to park in a city where drug addicts regularly shoot up. Some kind souls gave me good suggestions I need to follow up on. There were many comments however, which gained lots of likes, that it would be better for these people to die, they weren’t worth saving. So yes, there are plenty of people against Narcan because they would prefer for addicts to drop dead. This is world in which we live.
BR
I’m seeing signs that the horseshoe left is amping up its antics because they’re desperate and being ignored. I expect to hear a lot more noise from them in the coming weeks, and a lot of attacks and protests as a result. A few are sincere and deluded, focused entirely on Gaza, but many were never going to vote for Dems anyway. I think my plan will be to:
1. Direct them to what Uncommitted said. They said while they aren’t formally endorsing Harris, Trump would be far worse and a third party vote would also be far worse because it will help Trump.
2. Remind them that Biden is dug in on foreign policy with his 50 years of experience and views on it. He’s going to do what he’s going to do. And Harris can’t take a stance that differs from Biden without making the entire campaign turn into a “Harris fighting with Biden” media storm that would drown out important issues like abortion rights.
NotMax
@Splitting Image
Several “out there” examples. Numero uno — Numero dos — Numero tres.
:)
Jay
@Starfish:
Yes, Canada, Vancouver BC.
Rusty
@TBone: This is the hard part, people’s children. I’m a suburban living professional, and I’ve had a neighbor, a work colleague, one of my daughter’s friends, and several acquaintances through other social contacts that have lost young adult children to overdoses. Much of the rise in overdose deaths have been with groups that historically had very low overdose deaths.
Frankensteinbeck
Abusive thought is fundamental to conservatism. Abusive thought says that kindness doesn’t work. You can only help people by hurting them. The phrase used to make that sound not utterly evil is usually ‘tough love’. The same people are usually looking for someone they can put a label on that lets them hurt whoever has the label guilt-free.
eclare
@suzanne:
Where would you deport a homegrown criminal to? I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but I don’t see any other country accepting them.
Matt McIrvin
@Lyrebird: It was fun! As well as singing a bunch of her own songs, she did some surprising covers–Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” and Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down”.
Matt McIrvin
@suzanne: Sounds like an awesome night!
lamh47
Ayeeee…I found the SD cards my photos from my trip to Japan early last year!!
Woo hoo…photo dump coming all week!
Matt McIrvin
@BR: I think a lot of those people have in common with conservatives what Frankensteinbeck just mentioned, a dedication to the idea that you can only help people by hurting them–in this case, by hurting all of society as a kind of punishment for its sins. Accelerationism is really abusive thought in the collective sphere.
BR
@Matt McIrvin:
Great points. Yeah, some of the horseshoe left is just accelerationists / people who want to see everything burn.
But there is definitely a young, idealistic, holier than thou segment that isn’t about that. They’ve been told that they are making an immoral choice if they vote for Harris, and they believe it. What I think can be thrown back at them when they say “I’m voting for Jill Stein” is “I can’t believe you’re voting for the genocide candidate” and when they are in disbelief their morality bubble can be popped about “oh, I can’t believe you support the genocide candidate who supports the dictator who caused the million+ deaths in Syria and 7 million injured or refugee, and the other dictator who caused million+ deaths in Ukraine and the 7 million injured or refugee.”
Jay
@BR:
https://vatniksoup.com/en/soups/306/
Receipts were brought.
Baud
@BR:
Save who you can, fuck the rest.
Villago Delenda Est
Cruelty is the point with Rethuglicans. On the other hand, there’s this disgusting ad.
Steve in the ATL
@eclare: at the very least, bus them to Texas.
In other news, Oklahoma sucks. And they’re bad at football too!
suzanne
@Jeffro: This venue is resonant and it sounds so good. I swear, Adam Granduciel’s guitar sound feels like it has become this tangible thing that I can hold in my hands. It sounds amazing.
John Revolta
@Frankensteinbeck: @Matt McIrvin: You’ve Got to be Cruel to be Kind!
eclare
@lamh47:
Yay! You take the best vacays.
eclare
@Steve in the ATL:
Hehehe…so far so good, but I won’t relax til the game is over.
My fave cheer: run, clock, run!
caphilldcne
@Lyrebird: thank you. It’s been interesting. Sometimes we win.
suzanne
@eclare:
England used to ship criminals to Australia. So I am not the first person to have this idea.
I don’t actually want to “denaturalize” or make stateless citizens. But I grew up around a lot of undocumented people. I get actively offended when people talk about them badly.
I also have a special loathing for people who use drugs but also speak ill of immigrants from Mexico. Fuck you assholes. The reason there’s a drug problem in this country is due to demand. Not poor people who want to work hard and make some money. You don’t want drug trafficking in your town or city? Americans can stop using. Until then, get bent.
caphilldcne
@Rusty: these deaths in part are because they are taking a drug that is adulterated with fentanyl or other drugs for which they don’t have tolerance. This is due to the lack of regulation of the illicit drug market. We could literally prevent all of these deaths. But we don’t because people think that the very use of drugs is so immoral that they are willing to countenance death. They think it’s the just result. Instead of finding ways to prevent this outcome. It’s maddening to me.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Lyrebird:
I saw her and Martin Sexton on a Monday night in Lincoln NE about a year ago.
Both are great live.
caphilldcne
@Frankensteinbeck: yes. So true. Tough love is an excuse for abuse.
Jay
@caphilldcne:
We have “Safe Supply” here and monitored injection sites, where they will test your drugs. Pot is legal here.
We still get people dying, in part because there arn’t enough services, because of NIMBY’s, because people don’t use the services, because recreational users and kids are “experimenting”, etc.
prostratedragon
@Jeffro:
“What a terrible day to be literate.”
laura
@Citizen Alan: All of them until their wife, son, daughter, family, friends, coworkers, grandchildren, dearest of loved ones and friends all die and then maybe, but don’t get your hopes up.
BR
Who do I call to ask the Harris campaign to overwhelm the country with good vibes starting in mid October? Basically I want a cross between what we had in early August combined with Obama ’08. Harris and Walz and team have it in them.
Lots of viral videos / interviews. Fun events. Massive stadium rallies every day. Lots of mockery of Trump and Vance as weird — yes we need to bring back that word — and constant mockery of them through videos and press releases. The Obamas out there mocking Trump every day. No more fear of the bad things the GOP might do, just joy and winning.
rikyrah
Protect Kamala Harris ✊ (@DisavowTrump20) posted at 7:00 PM on Sat, Sep 21, 2024:
This is Montana GOP Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen. Her office just left Kamala Harris’s name off ballots sent to thousands of Montanans living abroad.
RETWEET if you think @SOSJacobsen should be investigated! https://t.co/bNlrEPYl84
(https://x.com/DisavowTrump20/status/1837643191455035666?t=24B-EJlcjX4pP7qdrEwTIw&s=03)
Scout211
@prostratedragon: Ewwwww! I just had to click on that link. Ugh! Give us a little warning next time. 🤣
But JD Vance has now made a strong* statement in support of Mark Robinson. NBC
*And by strong, I mean weak and nonsensical.
. . .
prostratedragon
@Scout211: Now there’s a pole to anchor your tent!
BR
Glad to see more videos about the implications of the SAVE act. While I know it won’t pass, the narrative and firing up our base is useful:
https://www.tiktok.com/@theempresscjj/video/7417159090465525034
BR
I’d love to be a fly on the wall when someone does this:
https://www.tiktok.com/@ahimsa__/video/7416835009325174047
Jackie
Goooo Obama!
BR
I don’t know if it’s just my imagination, but Harris is inspiring a level of creativity and communication that I haven’t seen in a long time. Here’s a short music video — posted today — that uses a line everyone will find familiar:
https://www.tiktok.com/@paytra/video/7417138893931154731
prostratedragon
Next stop on the remigration tour:
Wilmington [NC] massacre of 1898.
🎼🎶 Another sundown town
Another sundown town
To get his message through
The man is going to
Another sundown town.
2liberal
is lower case suzanne the same person as upper case Suzanne ?
MinuteMan
@noncarborundum:
And so do heads of lettuce.”
What’s Liz Truss got to do with this?
MinuteMan
@JaneE:
Seems like this happened the last time there was a surge in drug use back in the 60s or 70s? The system starts out handing the drugs out like Halloween treats and when things get bad, they start taking them away from legitimate users. Used to be there was no problem getting mildly narcotic pain killers after a dental procedure but now they really try to talk you out of filling the script; the problem is if you wake up in the night with a splitting pain headache there’s not much you can do if you don’t have the pills to hand. I would hate to see how people needing more serious drugs for more painful conditions are faring under this new puritan regime.
eclare
@2liberal:
Yes, just on different devices.
suzanne
@2liberal: Yes. Upper-case Suzanne is my tablet, lowercase suzanne is my phone.
wjca
OMG! The only reason for her to do that is if she thinks Montana is (or at least very well might be) in play. Perhaps she knows something, being on the scene and all. Wouldn’t that be fun?
NotMax
@suzanne
2/3 of the way to our own raven, Raven and RAVEN.
:)
StringOnAStick
@rikyrah: What legal relief is possible here? I hope Marc Elias is getting after this.
Matt McIrvin
@wjca: Or it’s to keep Democrats from voting so they won’t vote for Tester for Senate.
Starfish
@rikyrah: That Tweet is a mess encouraging people to target their secretary of state instead of helping people find out what is wrong and how to fix it.
This article had more details, but what we truly need is a guide to “How do you fix the problem if you experience this?
Shorter: Yes, what @StringOnAStick said.
lowtechcyclist
@Brendan In NC:
Being the old Jesus freak I am, my response would be “Are you a Christian?” and since practically all the right-wingers I’d be likely to run into would say Yes, I’d follow up with “so you want them to die and go to Hell rather than save their lives so that they might someday save their souls.”
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@Jeffro: That’s good, but not as good as Shiv Ramdas’s account of his conversation with his aunt, which he shared on Bluesky.
He noted that he hadn’t even got to the Black Nazi part yet.
(If you are a Bluesky user, you can follow him at @nameshiv.bsky.social—sometimes he comments on sports, sometimes it’s movies, and other times it’s politics. Funny & insightful.)