Notices by Tony S. voted for Democrats (tonystark@progressivecafe.social), page 3

The Biden-Harris administration has already replaced over 367,000 lead pipes nationwide since taking office, benefitting 918,000 people, and recently required all lead pipes to be replaced.

This is what delivering for the American people looks like.

Trump, Vance, and the Republican party want to roll progress like this back.

#VoteHarrisWalz2024

EPA Says Some 9 Million Lines of Lead Pipes Must Be Removed—What This Could Mean For You:
https://www.health.com/epa-lead-pipe-removal-health-effects-8728839

Don’t stay home from elections.

“Following the 2010 Census, Republicans made a concerted effort to win control of state legislatures, the body that draws district lines in most states.”

A Brennan Center Analysis of the post-2020 Census redistricting found that because of lopsided gerrymandering, Republicans enjoy an advantage of around 16 House seats due to redistricting alone.”

Gerrymandering in 2024: How "deeply steered" districts benefit Republicans | Salon.com:
https://www.salon.com/2024/10/19/gerrymandering-in-2024-how-deeply-steered-districts-benefit/

Maybe he was tired of people leaving early and making him look bad.

What surprises me is that they’re surprised. What’s more Trump than pretending you care about people for a couple of minutes to try and get their votes and then strand them and assume they’ll still vote for you, which they probably will?

Trump’s Coachella Rally Went About as Well as You’d Expect | The New Republic:
https://newrepublic.com/post/187126/donald-trump-fans-coachella-rally-stranded

Here’s what it’s going to look like if Trump and whatever MAGA hyper-conservatives follow him up once he’s gone keep getting power.

Unless you’re part of this extremist group of right wing Christian white straight male supremacists, you’ll lose your right to vote, your right to education, your right to read what you want, your ability to own or rent a home, and a whole lot more.

They’re not letting you in.

Inside the political rise of Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare |
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/11/texas-tarrant-county-tim-ohare-far-right/

I don’t follow the polls too closely, but they can be a decent barometer of where we should focus our efforts to donate, get involved, make calls, or write postcards.

Help the Florida Democratic Party, or find a way to get involved in swing states in general:
https://www.floridadems.org/
https://www.mobilize.us/

NC and GA are in reach:
https://www.ncdp.org/
https://georgiademocrat.org/

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Harris May Finally Be Breaking Through to the Most Critical Voters | The New Republic:
https://newrepublic.com/article/187009/harris-working-class-vote-polling

Thanks again, Joe and Kamala.

You've managed Covid-related inflation more effectively than any other industrialized nation and brought the economy in for a soft landing.

Trump's disastrous non-response to the pandemic caused the massive spike to start with. We needed the right interest rates, pandemic-related cash payouts, and government spending to keep the economy intact. Incredible job guiding the country.

US inflation rate down to lowest levels since early 2021:
https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/economy/us-inflation-rate-down-to-lowest-levels-since-early-2021-in-final-report-before-election

@Snowshadow I’m so tired of government officials acting this way and I think most people are and I hope most US voters will prove me right in 4 weeks.

I would say him not taking the call is politically motivated. The safety of American citizens is more important than a party. Protect your state, stop being stubborn and ignoring your constituents’ needs, and get over yourself.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis refused call from VP Kamala Harris about hurricane aid: Source - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-gov-ron-desantis-refuses-call-vp-kamala/story?id=114570089

The Supreme Court’s Republican majority would rather have women die in hospital parking lots - they are truly pro-death.

Supreme Court declines to hear Biden appeal in Texas emergency room abortion dispute:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-declines-hear-biden-appeal-texas-emergency-room-abortion-rcna173858

Meanwhile in reality, Texas Senate Bill 8, passed in September 2021, effectively banned abortions after six weeks of pregnancy with few exceptions. This has led to nearly 10,000 more births than expected over a nine-month period and infant deaths in the state have increased by nearly 13%. And Republicans still won’t fund childcare or prenatal care.

Texas abortion law was followed by a rise in infant deaths: study | STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/24/texas-abortion-law-jama-pediatrics-study-increased-infant-deaths/

Scapegoating leads to the ruin of everyone and everything.

Jewish officials handling hurricane response face antisemitic harassment - Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
https://www.jta.org/2024/10/07/politics/jewish-officials-handling-hurricane-communications-face-antisemitic-harassment

@Snowshadow

Here’s what Vice President Kamala Harris said about Trump pushing false claims about the government's response to Hurricane Helene "the height of irresponsibility, and frankly, callousness."

"The role of a leader is not to beat people down, it's to lift people up."

I would say this goes for everyone spreading hate and misinformation about this issue and hurting so many victims in the process.

@Utah44 Education is a societal benefit.

Some of those being forgiven have already paid back 2 or 3 times what they borrowed, yet still owe 10's of thousands. I guess some think we should only bail out millionaires and billionaires, not people who really need help.

I have more than one degree and had small loans I paid off. I also attended college when school was more affordable. I do not in any way resent these reductions/ erasures of school debt for others. I do mind handouts to the rich.

The reason this Biden-Harris plan is constantly going back and forth in the courts is because MAGA Republican AGs keep trying to sue it out of existence.

They hate it when someone tries to make normal peoples’ lives better instead of making already rich people’s lives better.

Student loan forgiveness plan can move forward, federal judge allows:
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/03/student-loan-forgiveness-plan-goes-ahead-biden.html

@Tengrain

“Working with a team of private co-conspirators, the defendant acted as a candidate when he pursued multiple criminal means to disrupt, through fraud and deceit, the government function by which votes are collected and counted — a function in which the defendant, as President, had no official role.”

Walz came across as a normal human man who cares about the country and the world who wants to trust women to make their own decisions.

Vance came across as a Corporate CEO mansplaining to America why price gouging is a good thing and that random people that live inside the same state border you happen to should decide who has a baby and how.

Beyond that, if you can’t answer who won the 2020 election and say you’d vote to certify it even if you lose, you lost your debate.

If Trump and Vance and Republicans are so against a national abortion ban, which they obviously aren’t because they caused the national right to an abortion to cease to exist, let’s see some policy proposals or legislation to ensure that. What? There isn’t any? What a surprise.

And by the way, that right doesn’t belong to state governments, either. They say “everybody” wanted it back to the states. That’s a lie. Only anti-abortion extremists and right wingers wanted that to get to a full ban.

Surprise, it’s a right wing group looking to remove legitimate voters from voter rolls.

You know you're a losing party when one of your main strategies is to disenfranchise voters.

Pennsylvania isn’t the only state this is happening in. Check your voter registration regularly wherever you are.

‘PA Fair Elections' behind efforts to remove people from voter rolls | 90.5 WESA:
https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2024-09-28/pa-fair-elections-conservative-pennsylvania-voter-role-purges

Abortion decisions don’t belong to the state government. They belong to a pregnant person and who that person chooses to involve.

And that is IT.

What policy has Trump ever proposed to help kids or pregnant women or has been whatever the fuck Vance means by “pro-family.”? JFC.