Ellen Bee

@biinfc
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Proud New Jerseyan, retired public librarian, progressive Dem, live with 3 Whippets, a Scottish deerhound & 2 Red-footed tortoises, love birding & photographing birds, wandering the Pine Barrens. Tolkien geek. 4 1/2 years living with MBC. she/her.
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Unwanted subscriptions add up for Americans, and our Administration is taking action to save families time and money.

🚨BREAKING: Georgia Court DECLARES "no election superintendent (or member of a board of elections and registration) may refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance."

A big defeat for election deniers in Georgia.

https://democracydocket.com/cases/georgia-fulton-county-certification-challenge-ii/

#MarcElias #GA #ElectionLaw

🚨 Adams v. Fulton County

Learn more.

Democracy Docket

From Rick Wilson, going to pin this one to our account for future:

“Don’t drink the poison.

In the next 20+ days, you’ll be offered poison many, many times. It will come from the Trump campaign, the mainstream media, fellow Democrats, and friends. The poison, in this case, will be that of electoral despair. The purpose of negative campaigning is never to change of mind or to alter a vote. The purpose of negative campaigning is to suppress votes and force you into a cognitive frame where staying home seems like a valuable and viable alternative to political engagement.

Don’t drink the poison. They’ll try to convince you that the campaign is over and that Trump is already victorious. They’ll spin 100 scenarios of why Harris can’t win even as her numbers improve.

Don’t drink the poison.

This race will be a hard fight until the very last. It will be ugly and loud. You will want to switch it off. That’s by design.
There will be revelations and surprises in the next three weeks. Some polls will show Trump up, some will show him down. Media prognosticators who’ve never been in a campaign will declare this poll is the decisive end to the campaign or this model shows Trump will inevitably win.

Don’t drink the poison.

The reality is simple: there are two campaigns being run right now. One Campaign is to motivate a new coalition of voters from the left to the center-right, from Bernie Sanders to Liz Cheney. That Campaign is pragmatic, professional, has fuel in the tank to win, and calls out to your better angels.

Please keep your eyes clear, stay focused on the fight, and never, ever, ever let them convince you that all is lost. The lies are all Trump has left, and he only wins if we believe them.

Don’t drink the poison."

Trump didn’t send Putin COVID tests.

Trump sent Putin Abbott test MACHINES!

This, while Americans:

- Lacked adequate testing
- Had no vaccine
- Faced a crumbling healthcare infrastructure
- Watched as the Trump administration intercepted state-purchased COVID care

At best, he's guilty of negligent homicide. But more accurately:

TRUMP

IS

A

TRAITOR.

It’s time for real consequences!

🇺🇸

Here’s the way I see it: If NYC Mayor Eric Adams can be charged with bribery and corruption, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas can be charged with bribery and corruption. — Let’s fucking go already, this isn’t rocket science.
somehow I didn't see this when it came out.
#MaskUp #YallMasking

Talk about a grotesque invasion of privacy:

"Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them to display images from a connected laptop or video game console"

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2449198-smart-tvs-take-snapshots-of-what-you-watch-multiple-times-per-second/

How can this possibly be legal?

Here's why: Congress isn't just indifferent to your privacy. It is actively complicit with big corporations -- and law enforcement -- in embedding surveillance into everything we do.

Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second

Smart TVs from Samsung and LG monitor what you are watching even when you are using the screens to display a feed from a connected laptop or video game console

New Scientist

Texas has purged about 500K eligible voters from voter rolls

Nebraska potentially changing its Electoral count to winner take all so they all go Red

Georgia is requiring 5-6M votes be counted by hand

Red states have closed more than 10,000 polling locations in Black/Latino neighborhoods

This is how Republicans are organizing to steal the election

Amber Thurman, a 28-year-old mother to a young son who had dreams of becoming a nurse, died a painful, preventable death after doctors at a hospital there refused to perform a simple procedure that could have saved her life – because Georgia's anti-abortion law did not allow them.

Vance's idea to group chronically ill people into high-risk pools so insurers can shun & gouge us was something that used to happen pre-ACA. So yes, he wants to go backwards. Fuck this guy and his terrible ideas.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/09/20/vance-health-care-affordable-care-act/

Vance floats new health plans for chronically ill, reopening ACA debate

The GOP vice-presidential nominee’s proposal to overhaul the Affordable Care Act’s insurance markets could mean higher costs for sicker patients.

The Washington Post