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Jon Ossoff, Always Doing the Work

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No matter what’s going on, Trump craziness, indictments, the latest shiny object, I find comfort in checking out Jon Ossoff’s twitter feed.

He is always doing the work.  Truly inspirational.

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Name your top 5 hardest working senators.  Bring receipts if you can!

Also, if this comment by Angry Staffer isn’t begging to be a rotating tag, I don’t know what is.  Too bad it’s so long.

The GOP has not only ceded the moral high ground – they’ve burrowed into a pile of shit at the bottom of the valley and built a fort there.

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    4. 4.

      rikyrah

      Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) posted at 1:07 PM on Thu, Sep 26, 2024:
      Vice President Harris: “I have a personal experience with caregiving. I remember being there for my mother when she was diagnosed with cancer. Cooking meals for her, taking her to her appointments. Trying to make her comfortable, figuring out which clothes were soft enough that they wouldn’t irritate her. Telling her stories to try and make her laugh. I know caregiving is about dignity”

      https://t.co/GXLOCZ4jEl
      (https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1839366290340798702?s=03)

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    6. 6.

      rikyrah

      Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) posted at 8:55 AM on Thu, Sep 26, 2024:
      Can we PLEASE stop calling what’s going on with Trump, Vance, and others’ hateful rhetoric about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, part of the “immigration debate”? That’s not what this is.

      This also isn’t just about Republican Rep. Clay Higgins showing his whole racist ass with his comments; this is about people hating Haitian immigrants because they are Black immigrants. They are here legally, so now racists are trying to figure out what hateful labels to use publicly since “illegal aliens” doesn’t quite fit.

      Higgins: Maybe “thugs” will work.

      Thank you, @TaraSetmayer and @abbydphillip, for keeping it real.

      https://t.co/PrDNRyqKrI
      (https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/1839302749227524574?t=dZZcmGv0hBFESZUHyvDy8Q&s=03)

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    7. 7.

      Frankensteinbeck

      @rikyrah:

      They see conservatism for what it is: A way to remove girl’s /women’s right to say “no” to them.

      And they’re not even quiet about it.  They say so.

      EDIT – @rikyrah:

      They are here legally, so now racists are trying to figure out what hateful labels to use publicly since “illegal aliens” doesn’t quite fit.

      Mostly they seem to be going with “illegal aliens.”  That’s part of the point for them – that no one but whites can be here legitimately.

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    8. 8.

      Ramalama

      The GOP has not only ceded the moral high ground – they’ve burrowed into a pile of shit at the bottom of the valley and built a fort there.

      How about this abbreviated version:

      The GOP buried the moral high ground into a pile of shit at the bottom of a hill and then built a fort over it.

      Yeah, still too long.

      I might opt out of work this afternoon because this has my cylinders working.

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    10. 10.

      Chief Oshkosh

      Given that the postal service is specifically called out as an actual requirement in the Constitution, you’d’ve thought that Postmaster General would, indeed, not be subject to the vagaries of a tiny cadre of cronies and shitheels (admittedly, very close to describing a Republican Senatorial subcommittee roster), but, yes, Ossoff may be onto something there…

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    11. 11.

      Old School

      Name your top 5 hardest working senators.

      Working hard is not why most people become senators.  But I’m glad some folks put in the effort.

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    13. 13.

      Bruce K in ATH-GR

      @Frankensteinbeck: Well, if Vance insists on calling legal Haitian immigrants “illegal aliens”, then I no longer have any qualms about calling J.D. Vance a couch molester. It’s no less true than what he’s calling the Springfield immigrants, after all.

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      Sister Golden Bear

      In today’s edition of “Trans people are the canaries in the coal mine”:

      22 Republican AGs Threaten To Make It Illegal For The AAP To Endorse Trans Care

      The letter, which was sent to the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, attempts to use consumer protection laws to make it against the law to support puberty blockers. They threaten that endorsing trans care as beneficial may be illegal, and demands extensive internal docs.

      They could target abortion with this tactic as well.

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    24. 24.

      rikyrah

      Jen “We aren’t going back ” Rubin 🥥🌴 (@JRubinBlogger) posted at 8:55 AM on Thu, Sep 26, 2024:
      Consider how the Inflation Reduction Act has transformed the economy. The act invested “close to $370 billion to combat climate change,” which in turn spurred “more than $100 billion in private investment and roughly 100,000 new jobs created in clean energy manufacturing,” PBS NewsHour recently reported. “Together, the [Inflation Reduction Act] and its companion bill, the Chips Act, offer more than $400 billion in funds focused on jump starting manufacturing industry, reducing emissions and providing cleaner electricity to the economy.”
      washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…
      (https://x.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1839302856735600801?s=03)

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    25. 25.

      Old School

      @WaterGirl:

      So you don’t think there are even 5 really hard working senators?

      Oh, I think there are.  It’s just that it would be easier for me to name five senators who aren’t working hard. Or ten.  Or fifteen.

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    29. 29.

      Sister Golden Bear

      And yes, Republicans are trying to eradicate us, and sadly their efforts are paying off.

      Groundbreaking Study: Anti-trans State Laws Increased Suicide Attempts By 72%

      The study, published in Nature, surveyed over 61,000 transgender and nonbinary individuals through multiple waves of questions distributed by The Trevor Project, analyzed the state-level impact of anti-trans legislation.

      Researchers determined that for transgender youth 13-17, suicide attempts rose by up to 72% attributable to anti-trans legislation. For those 13-24, the rise was up to 44% attributable.

      The increase is significant. According to The Trevor Project, 20% of trans youth in America have attempted suicide at some point in their life. Using the Williams institute estimate of 300k trans youth in America, anti-trans laws account for tens of thousands of attempts.

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    33. 33.

      rikyrah

      @Sister Golden Bear:

      Researchers determined that for transgender youth 13-17, suicide attempts rose by up to 72% attributable to anti-trans legislation. For those 13-24, the rise was up to 44% attributable.

      The increase is significant. According to The Trevor Project, 20% of trans youth in America have attempted suicide at some point in their life. Using the Williams institute estimate of 300k trans youth in America, anti-trans laws account for tens of thousands of attempts.

       

      If confronted with the consequences of their actions….the GOP will pretend that it’s not happening.

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    34. 34.

      Dan B

      @Sister Golden Bear:  These AG’s need some danger to fight.  They need a boogeyman.  Our corporate media has little interest in trans people or their issues and social media parrots the smears, see Springfield, Ohio.  Empathy is seen as weakness since it might threaten control and these snowflakes are terrified by rumors and fill with hatred at the drop of a hat.  I wish we had more people like Hillary Clinton’s acquaintance who went from white supremacist to saving people who were caught in the lies.

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    38. 38.

      Steve LaBonne

      @rikyrah: I think there’s also some fear involved. When Harris wins without kissing their, um, rings, their irrelevance will be exposed for all to see.

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    39. 39.

      BR

      @rikyrah:

      Yes exactly this comment. One of the tiktok videos I just linked to in my last comment was on this. The supreme court justices and the parties are not the same.

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    40. 40.

      Dan B

      @Steve LaBonne: If Trump were to win they’d be forced to fire the majority of their reporters and many editors would be charged with disseminating propaganda.  Corporate media needs to be policed for their own good but they sure love pushing down the plebes and telling them they’re lucky they’re not black (immigrant, LGBTQ, etc.).

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    42. 42.

      Sure Lurkalot

      My senators (Hickenlooper and Bennet) are not very visible and too Third Way for my taste but I do hope Colorado Reps Joe Neguse and Jason Crow have bright futures.

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    43. 43.

      Dan B

      @Sister Golden Bear: You’d think that in NYC there would be trans people who the NYT would know and where are the protests at the Times building.  Oh, nevermind, there are regular protests.  How about protests at the watering holes of Time’s management?

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    44. 44.

      Baud

      @Dan B:

      If Trump were to win they’d be forced to fire the majority of their reporters and many editors would be charged with disseminating propaganda

       

      In their minds, Biden and Harris not giving them interviews is just a bad.

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    47. 47.

      trollhattan

      Surely, this Ossoff fellow is a monster and must be stopped. Can Brian Kemp declare him unemployable, or something? What’s a governor to do?

      Reply
    48. 48.

      Omnes Omnibus

      @Sure Lurkalot: Many people mentioned at the time of the verdict that it is not uncommon for judgments to be reduced on appeal.  Indeed, the reduced bond should have also been seen as a sign that it would happen.  This could be Trump getting special treatment, but it is at least as likely that it is court system working normally.

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    49. 49.

      Ceci n est pas mon nym

      Just read a Helene update. The 20-foot storm surge may be the scariest aspect of this storm.

      “If you’re just bound and determined to stay and not get out of harm’s way, go and take a black magic marker, write your name, your Social Security number, everything on your arm and we can identify you. I don’t like telling people that, but it is going on,” [Taylor County Sheriff] Padgett said.

      “The water — you can kind of hide from the wind — but you can’t hide from that water.”

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    50. 50.

      UncleEbeneezer

      I abandoned my commitment to Unity and made the mistake of getting into the Tennis/Pickleball debate for our local courts.  Spoiler: as an instructor, player and lover of the sport, I am on team Tennis.  Build as many Pickleball courts as you want.  I’ll happily pay with my tax dollars.  Have fun.  I got nothing against Pickleball.  Hell, I’ll probably join you when my knees/hips can’t do tennis anymore.  But in places where tennis is still very popular and it’s always hard to get a court, leave our tennis courts alone!

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    51. 51.

      Sure Lurkalot

      @Omnes Omnibus: You would know better than I but some of the points the judges made…like whatabout that the transactions were between “sophisticated parties” seemed like blaming the defrauded. Though my sympathies for DeutscheBank are nonexistent, I must add.

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    54. 54.

      Omnes Omnibus

      @UncleEbeneezer: Is this like the skier/boarder battles of the ‘80s and ‘90s.  That one ended with skiers saying “We’ll share the mountain if you stop acting like assholes.  And we get to play in the terrain parks too.”

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    55. 55.

      Matt McIrvin

      @rikyrah: In this case? They’ll probably just use the suicides as evidence that trans-ness is a Bad Thing you want to keep away from your kids.

      It’s the same “heckler’s veto” pattern we saw with gay people, and it’s a thing I particularly hate: interpreting the negative consequences of the stigma they created about a thing as a negative consequence of the thing itself. I’ve seen it all over for my whole life.

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    58. 58.

      Omnes Omnibus

      @Sure Lurkalot: I also need to reiterate my warning about reading too much into what is said at oral argument.  It may be meaningful.  It may not.  It may be, but not in the way you thought.

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    60. 60.

      Melancholy Jaques

      @Omnes Omnibus:

      I thought that case was challenging for the state from the beginning. The sophisticated counterparties and the lack of harm. Along with the “everybody does this” defense that seems implicit in everything that asshole ever does.

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    64. 64.

      Hungry Joe

      @UncleEbeneezer: Yes, this. Exactly. Build more pickle ball courts!

      But NOT adjacent to tennis courts. The BAP BAP BAP BAP of pickle ball play disrupts the semi- (and deceptively) quiet nature of tennis. As does the rowdy shouting and cheering of the participants. I’m sure it’s great fun, and a lot more power to you; I, too, will probably join you some day. But … distance. Please.

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