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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 6d

I don't know what Mr. Grunstein's health insurance situation is, but the current legislative fight is a policy fight, and a lot of us have real skin in the game! You have to be able to both articulate a vision and fight for policy -- when the rubber meets the road, they're the same damn thing.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 7d

If I were to sum up my advice to the Democratic party leadership about how to defeat Trumpism, it would be to set aside policy for now and focus instead on articulating a vision of what American society should look like and what role the US should play in a rapidly changing world today.

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 7h

I just don't get it, I truly don't.

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 9h

@ossoff.senate.gov If you cave I will be bitterly, bitterly disappointed and angry. Also broke. Where is the support for actual small businesspeople, the kind politicians always blow smoke about protecting?

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 10d

I'm one of the 20 million, and it was to my immense surprise a few weeks ago when the Dem strategy of prioritizing protecting the subsidies was met here with widespread derision that doing so was overly wonky and out of touch, so....

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 7h

Fuckers

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AthensMusicJunkie @athensmusicjunkie.com · 9h

Help me call Ossoff. I can feed my neighbor, I can’t pay their cancer care alone.

(And if he folds I swear I will primary the man myself if I must)

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 9h

So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader

Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 10h

Call them:

Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542

Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224

King (ME)
202 224-5344

Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324

Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152

Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521

Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841

Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451

Masto (NV)
202 224-3542

Warner (VA)
202 224-2023

Fetterman (PA)
No Point

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 9h

@warnock.senate.gov go talk some sense to @ossoff.senate.gov , the fix is fixin' to be in.

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 9h

@ossoff.senate.gov If you cave I will be bitterly, bitterly disappointed and angry. Also broke. Where is the support for actual small businesspeople, the kind politicians always blow smoke about protecting?

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 10d

I'm one of the 20 million, and it was to my immense surprise a few weeks ago when the Dem strategy of prioritizing protecting the subsidies was met here with widespread derision that doing so was overly wonky and out of touch, so....

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 10d

Republicans are explicitly saying they will deny food to 40+ million unless Democrats agree to end healthcare insurance for 20+ million.

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Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 1d

A thread about an incident from last weekend that I'll call "Lucky I'm a White Guy (Chapter 7,412)"

I took a car trip last week to some cities I'd either never visited or spent much time in (the epic trail from my Decatur, GA home -- Montgomery, Biloxi, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, then back home)

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 1d

...but this incident brought home to me the likely reality that our current administration has also de facto made the old sundown rules the law of the land. Thanks for reading -- in conclusion, fuck Trump, fuck ICE, and fuck the rednecks doing their bidding. (11/11)

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 1d

Is there any doubt that absence of accountability = permission to terrorize? And who is available to listen to a kidnapping victim in an El Salvadoran prison about the chain of his custody?We fight the horrific high-profile ICE maneuvers that happen in broad daylight, as we should... (10/x)

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 1d

From my vantage point that night, it was impossible to tell the difference. And what difference is there, really? Even if this guy was not a state actor, what would stop him from subduing someone alone and turning him over to ICE agents who are as anonymous to all of us as he was to me. (9/x)

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 1d

Profiling was on my mind at least partly because I'd visited Montgomery's Civil Rights Memorial Center just a few days prior, and it was not lost on me that we've returned to a time when the actions of a potential lone vigilante or posse are indistinguishable from that of the state. (8/x)

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 1d

I'd seen a group of three or four cars a good ways behind me, so I slowed down enough for them to get closer and eventually the SUV backed off and I sped away. It was only after a few more miles that I shook off the adrenaline enough to figure out what had just happened -- I'd been profiled. (7/x)

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 1d

I was taken completely by surprise -- if I'd been back in Atlanta I'd be giving this guy the finger, but that seemed especially imprudent given the location and time of day, so I just raised my hand in a "What the hell?!" gesture, but for the next several seconds he continued riding my tail. (6/x)

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 1d

He'd crested the bridge and was not in view as I passed the spot where he'd braked, but I saw nothing unusual. He was still loitering on the right as I came over the top of the bridge, then as I passed the SUV suddenly jerked into my lane and got right on my tail, brights on, and stayed there. (5/x)

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 1d

About 1/4 mile ahead of me, an SUV was nearing the crest of one of the many bridges in the area. Suddenly, for a reason I couldn't discern, he slammed on his brakes and came nearly to a stop. He was in the right lane, so I moved left and slowed down in case there was an obstruction. (4/x)

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 1d

I was up in N.O. extra early on Sunday morning on account of the time change, and decided to head home rather than wait for Café Beignet to open (the unrealized goal of the trip). I was on the road by 3:30 AM, and so was well out of town around 4, heading east on a practically deserted I-10. (3/x)

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 1d

The trip was great! I ate my way across the South -- pot roast in Montgomery, seafood buffet in Biloxi (the one port of call I'd been to many times before), Tex-Mex in Houston, brisket in Austin, jambalaya in N.O. Had a wonderful time, right up until the journey home. (2/x)

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 1d

A thread about an incident from last weekend that I'll call "Lucky I'm a White Guy (Chapter 7,412)"

I took a car trip last week to some cities I'd either never visited or spent much time in (the epic trail from my Decatur, GA home -- Montgomery, Biloxi, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, then back home)

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 2d

Martin Short had a few moments this season where he dropped his usual upbeat manner, and I saw him in a new light. An example of the show doing more than spinning its wheels.

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 3d

If your Edgerton's Joel
The fun will be total
If your Egerton's Taron
You'd best bewarin'

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 3d

The women who have been my superiors were all mission-focused, never bullshitted, and gave no indication they were amenable to gladhanding. That meant I knew my job performance was all that mattered. "Workplace" here seems code to me for all that other stuff.

hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 3d

as a thought exercise for everyone reading ross douthat's latest missive in the NYT, i want you to think about sending an email to your entire company with the subject line "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", then think about the over/under on the number of minutes/hours you would still be employed

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 4d

I used to patrol the outfield with Dewitt for Smell the Glove, back in our bar league softball days. Looks like he could still chase a few down!

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 4d

Appreciate you making the statistical case -- in addition, he embodied the values the HOF makes explicit in its consideration of worth. The BBWAA and other committees have used these values as a cudgel to refuse entry to others. Time to use them even once to solidify a borderline case.

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 4d

Welcome to the cause!

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Andisheh Nouraee @andisheh.com · 4d

Tim Echols lost reelection for Georgia Public Service Commission because voters think he works for the power company instead of the public. He just sent an email to his supporters saying he’s going to go on vacation for the remainder of his term. Public service indeed.

Kristi E. Swartz @bizwriterkristi.bsky.social · 4d

Shoutout to @tiamitchell.com for flagging this email from the now out-going, veteran Georgia utility regulator Tim Echols, who announced in an email he is leaving the Public Service Commission immediately and taking a sabbatical

This is a message from Tim Echols, a Georgia utility regulator who has announced a sabbatical. Echols lost his seat in last night’s electiin

Samb @sansho1.bsky.social · 4d

Atlantic never not gonna Atlantic

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