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Ossoff: "Tonight, a united Georgia will hear the trial the Mike Collins. Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he's sold out Georgia in his pathetic child-like devotion to Donald Trump."
El-Sayed: "You just heard something out of my opponent. He said he 'thinks the war is going to end.' He's got a direct line to the president who is making sure the war does not end and he's not using it because he's cheerled this war the entire time."
Ossoff: "If you want to understand whether the Trump-Collins budget has helped you, just go fill up a tank of gas. Go to the grocery store. Try to buy food for you kids. Look at your electric bill. Look at your health insurance premiums. They've doubled for more than a million Georgians."
El-Sayed: "The reason he's flip-flopping has nothing to do with policy, nothing do with your costs. It everything to do with his sagging poll numbers ... He's doing an ad drinking a Labatts, talking about the Red Wings, pretending he was not for this the entire time. Be serious, my guy."
Ossoff: "The question was about the stewardship of tax dollars. And as we stand here today Rep. Collins is under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax dollars. For illegally funneling public money to his violent staffers girlfriend."
Ossoff: "We're now almost 12 minutes into this debate. We still haven't heard an explanation of how the tariffs are helping Georgia families. Georgians deserve to know why someone who wants to serve them in the Senate voted over and over for these tariffs."
El-Sayed: "Weak, cowardly, won't stand up until his poll numbers drop ... he has the audacity to do an ad looking at the drugs prices in Canada, expect he voted four times to keep you from buying the prescriptions drugs in Canada. It's incoherent."
El-Sayed: "This is guy who has not been serious about providing people healthcare his entire career. What he has been serious about is making sure he can monetize his time in office. $14, two yachts, a McMansion in Florida."
lol El-Sayed dropped a “my guy” in the debate, @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h agoEl-Sayed: "The reason he's flip-flopping has nothing to do with policy, nothing do with your costs. It everything to do with his sagging poll numbers ... He's doing an ad drinking a Labatts, talking about the Red Wings, pretending he was not for this the entire time. Be serious, my guy."
El-Sayed: "He's been cheerleading this war for the better part of 20 years. I will condemn any use of force a domestic population abroad. That's not hard to do. But I also condemn a war we shouldn't be fighting ... when you have an international problem, he's got a war for that. Iraq. Iran."
Q: You have pledged unconditional support for Israel's right to defend herself. Is there any action by the Israeli government that would cause you not to support sending US military aid? MIKE ROGERS: Pretty hypothetical question (Sounds like no!)
Ossoff: "How can a sitting congressman vote to shut down a labor and delivery unit in his own district? Delivering mothers in Mike Collins's district now have to drive an hour to get to a labor and delivery unit while they're in labor while we already a maternal mortality crisis."
Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"
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El-Sayed: "He wants unconditional support for a foreign government. I want unconditional support for kids in our schools, healthcare, childcare -- things he would vote to defend."
And 175 years later, remains one of the most powerful forces in modern American politics.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11h agoI've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
When you shoot a person in the back, it isn't self-defense and you aren't standing your ground.
They Argued About Trump at a Dog Park. Then They Pulled Their Guns. (Gift Article)
What happened between two dog owners one April afternoon in Ohio will soon be scrutinized by a judge and jury as both men grapple with the consequences.
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Governor Abbott, I'll meet you at the Governor's Mansion next Thursday at 10 AM. If you're not man enough to debate me, you don't deserve to be the governor of Texas.
Mortgage rates have increased now for *7 weeks in a row* They're at the highest levels in almost *3 years* This is EXACTLY what Donald Trump said he wants to do Can't afford to buy a home or even rent an apartment? Now you know why It's the #CostOfTrumpsCorruption And we're ALL paying for it
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 8mo agoTrump: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own homes."
Textured facade tiles made by molding a gravel-like composite with embedded metal clips, then cured and drilled onto a wooden frame for exterior wall installation. IG: @goldklinker1 Andijan, Uzbekistan
🚨Holy shit, brilliant animators just made a devastating ad against Republican corruption: “A massive flood of money… impacts every part of our democracy.” Trump’s corruption is putting our democracy, our rights, and our future up for sale. VOTE. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption
Turning state violence into a public spectacle is a very fascist move BTW.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10h agoWASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in December.
There’s not a whole lot of room left for him to fall here. Nixon still had 25% approval when he resigned and Trump has an even more loyal cult behind him. It’s staggering that he’s this low but frankly it’ll be an earthquake if he goes any lower
Political Poll Bot@pollresults.org · 12h agoDonald Trump Approval Sep 28 - Oct 4, 2026 Disapprove 68% Approve 30% Pew Research Center (A/B) 5062 A View Poll
NEW: Reports reveal Trump is letting Big Tech write its own AI rules. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic said the rules were too strict. Trump made them voluntary. Then Musk and Zuckerberg said they were too harsh. Trump cut the 90-day review to 30 days. I’m pushing for guardrails.
Any politician that mentions looking the other way, forgiving Trump and his officials, the "respect to the office of the President", or insinuates in any way they will not prosecute Trump and his cabal, does not belong near any government role.