There's another Ossoff-Collins debate tomorrow night. The Georgia fans here know a phrase from a few years ago - "step on his throat with a hobnail boot".
Scott Gillispie
@fsgillispie.bsky.social
Historical board gamer. Scouter. United Methodist. I think I drew a bunch of Perot's 1992 infomercial charts. J! Record: 6-2. Hill '86. Go Jackets!
Good AJC op-ed providing color on the R Ga governor candidate - www.ajc.com/opinion/2026...
Rick Jackson claims to be a self-made man. Let’s unpack this American myth.
Georgia Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson is touting his story as a self-made man who owes nobody anything, but that feeds into an old and dangerous American myth.
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turns out the best day to buy gas this year was january or february
As Republicans target Bottoms’ record as Atlanta’s leader, Mayor Dickens pushes back “I watched her do the hardest version of this job in one of the hardest years in the history of the United States. She cared and she led.” #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...
Prominent Black Democrats rally behind Keisha Lance Bottoms
Republicans want to make Bottoms' record as Atlanta mayor a major liability in the governor's race, but her successor, Andre Dickens, offered an unequivocal defense on Sunday.
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NEW Everybody knows Abdul El-Sayed is committed to Medicare for All But how would that translate to governing? I spoke to the key players in a revealing, mostly forgotten 2020 episode—including El-Sayed Here’s what I learned www.thebulwark.com/p/forgotten-...
Little-Known Episode Offers a Big Clue to El-Sayed’s Politics
Republicans call him a radical. Progressives love his uncompromising politics. This obscure fight complicates both pictures.
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The median American opinion right now is setting up guillotines. Was the French Revolution a success? “Too soon to tell.”
The Chinese ministry at Pittman Park #UMC in Statesboro, Ga., did not begin with an outreach campaign or a strategic plan. It began with a mother and her teenage twins willing to visit the church and congregants willing to extend welcome. www.sgaumc.org/advnewsdetai...
https://www.sgaumc.org/advnewsdetail/what-a-chinese-community-taught-one-georgia-church-about-welcome-belonging-and-the-body-of-christ-19929291
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Hamilton honored for connectional leadership | The Rev. Adam Hamilton, #UMC pastor and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, was honored for leadership on Aug. 4 during the 2026 installment of Discipleship Ministries’ School of Congregational Development. www.umnews.org/en/news/hami...
Hamilton honored for connectional leadership | UMNews.org
The Rev. Adam Hamilton, United Methodist pastor and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, was honored for leadership on Aug. 4 during the 2026 installment of Discipleship Ministries’ School of…
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Viewing from out of state, it feels increasingly that AES is a fairly normie Dem. And the Rs are getting desperate; about ready to condemn him as a “thespian” perhaps.
Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn@citizencohn.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnatomy of a MAGA Smear How right-wing media and influencers turned an El-Sayed accomplishment into a grossly dishonest attack And how its spread across social media is a sign of our political dysfunction www.thebulwark.com/p/debunking-...
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4/11/1956 episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: About 5 minutes in, to about 5:30 - "But I thought our present tax system..." archive.org/details/OTRR...
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If any historians want to suffer through the Florida Man Version of AP History, here's the document:
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You want a 2028 candidate who vows to dismantle everything Trump has done. Me? I demand a 2028 candidate who goes to the dedication of a John Brown memorial and declares:
The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.
The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Pope Leo XIV https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-pope-leo-xiv/
Would be great if Usha Vance could become the first pregnant first lady since Jackie Kennedy!
I have two kids starting college, one special needs, aging parents, four work projects, planning church events, and my right knee hurts. The doc says I need to lower my blood pressure, and the shortest route is impeachment. Could the Rs please get on board?
NPR started their 6 am hour this morning with 15 minutes of each story basically saying, "Trump is nuts" Trump needs to go away to make my blood pressure go down.
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.
"Those who would twist this moment to attack Afghan families aren’t seeking safety or justice — they’re exploiting division and endangering all of us." Statement from the @afghanevac.bsky.social veterans on the DC shooting.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
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Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...