Wednesday Open Thread

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1. Live made up fear for masculine mens men
   
   All those manly muscles on those two actors and they have to act afraid all the time

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   1. That Aurora apartment complex is shut down because of neglect and slumlord management- the Venezuelan gangs are a minor part of that overarching problem, which has persisted for years.

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      1. No shit thats how propoganda works you lie to spread fear to gain control of the weak. 

         Rogan is weak. He jumps on things to join in like when he made up that he knew a teacher who had been forced to have a litterbox in their classroom. Turns out to be made up crap floating in Rogan’s head that he had confused with having happened in reality. 

          

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2. The Harris Effect – Good News Wednesday. Via Heather Cox-Richardson.

   “the Harris Effect”: the 13 states that have updated their voters files since July 21—when Biden said he would not accept the Democratic nomination for president—have seen “incredible surges in voter registration relative to the same time period in 2020, driven by women, voters of color, and young voters.”

   The registrations of young Black women have almost tripled compared with the same period in 2020. The registrations of young Hispanic women are up by 150%. “Black women overall have almost doubled their registration numbers from 2020,” Bonier wrote. 

   These changes benefit Democrats, Bonier noted. “Democratic registration has increased by over 50%, as compared to only 7% for Republicans. These new registrants are modeled as +20 pts Dem, as compared to +6 during the same week in 2020.”

   The Cook Political Report today moved the electoral votes of Minnesota, New Hampshire, and North Carolina, and the governor's races in North Carolina and Washington, toward the Democrats. Minnesota, New Hampshire, and the Washington governor have gone from leaning Democratic to likely Democratic wins; the North Carolina governor’s race has gone from Toss Up to Lean Democratic; North Carolina has gone from Lean Republican to Toss Up. 

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3. Safe2Tell — well, it didn’t involve the institutional version of Safe2Tell, but Rep. Caraveo is speaking out:

   CPR: Rep. Caraveo speaking out about her struggles with depression

   After struggling privately with depression since her teenage years, Rep. Yadira Caraveo is now speaking out about it publicly, after experiencing worsening symptoms during her first term in Congress.

   “Over the last year or two, I’ve had increased symptoms of depression that I had to get treatment for, including a stay at Walter Reed,” she told CPR News. “And I’m now in a place where I’ve been able to see incredible doctors, incredible medical teams, and get to a place that I can talk about this.”

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   Caraveo, who is still being treated, says she plans to use her experience “to focus on policy to ensure that everyone can get through those dark spots in their life.”

   Last year, she introduced a bipartisan bill to set up an agriculture crisis hotline to provide mental health and other support for farmers and ranchers. And in May she introduced a number of bipartisan bills around mental health, from bolstering the pediatric mental health workforce and youth suicide prevention research to helping Latino youth with mental health issues.

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   1. Mental health is just as important as physical health.

      I'm thrilled that Caraveo is getting treatment and talking about it openly. I hope that gives more of us inspiration to work on our own mental well being.

      Showing vulnerability requires strength.

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4. Trump campaign staff had altercation with official at Arlington Cemetery : NPR

   So two campaign employees in Dumps entourage physically and verbally abused an official at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, because the official was trying to prevent them from taking photos and filming in section 60, which only cemetery staff are authorized to do.  Then the orange turd gives a thumbs up in a photo op over one of the graves.

   No decency whatsoever, just using the graves of soldiers for props. When you think the man can go no lower, he goes lower.

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   1. Raise your hand if you think Trump was actually there to honor a fallen soldier…

      Also, it's disgusting that the campaign decided to slander the Arlington staffer with a "mental health crisis" accusation.

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      This should enrage all veterans. I'm a Marine Corps veteran and this story really gets to me.

      As if using a visit to Arlington National Cemetary for a blatant political attack wasn't enough…

      "Trump participated in an event to mark the third anniversary of a deadly attack on U.S. troops in Afghanistan as U.S. forces withdrew from the country…"

      As if bringing campaign staff to photograph and video the visit in blatant disregard for the rules of Arlington wasn't enough…

      "Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate's campaign," according to the statement. "Arlington National Cemetery reinforced and widely shared this law and its prohibitions with all participants."

      As if having campaign staff get into a verbal and physical altercation with staff of Arlington wasn't enough…

      When the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump campaign staff from entering Section 60, campaign staff verbally abused and pushed the official aside, according to the source.

      As if having blaming the incident on the mental health of the Arlington staff member wasn't enough…

      "The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump's team during a very solemn ceremony," Cheung said in the statement.

      This is all from the same fucker who calls veterans "losers" and "suckers" for getting killed or wounded in action.

      Seriously, how the fuck does any veteran support that man? I want this story to last at least until November. If there's one thing veterans should know about Trump, it's this.

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      1. Additional elements:

         • your account leaves off all the things the Trump Sad!-ministration to set the stage for the attack at the Kabul Airport. Plenty of blame to pass around
         • the Trump scampaign said it was awful that Biden & Harris weren't there to honor the dead (overlooking the apparent lack of an invitation from the families to be present)
         • Apparently, Fox News had a team at the ANC.  I've not seen any other networks saying they were asked to cover the event.
         • the outrageous conduct apparently happened AFTER the ceremony, as the families and Trump went to individual gravesites and had the campaign's team take photos.  Who smiles and gives a thumbs-up gesture at a graveside? 

          

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5. Trump is just such a sick human being.

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6. So, to all my fellow Star Trek (especially DS9) fans, I don't know if you remember what starts in 2 days.  I know it's fiction, but it is an issue from a two parter that is almost 30 years old and is still pertinent, and almost accurate.  

    

    

   The only thing the got totally wrong is that we Americans still don't measure our heat temperature solely in Celsius.

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