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At least she could have had the decency to have had an affair with Joe Manchin.
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The rise of candidates centering gun violence is a result of the growing prevention movement across the US, which has become something of 👉a pipeline for new candidates running for office.
#Maxwell #Frost, the nation’s first gen Z US representative, started off as a volunteer before becoming organizing director for
"March for Our Lives",
the gun-safety group founded by survivors of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in #Parkland, Florida.Georgia representative #Lucy #McBath, whose son Jordan Davis was shot and killed in 2012,
and Virginia governor-elect #Abigail #Spanberger were both volunteers with the gun-safety group
"Moms Demand Action" before they ran for office.And #Cameron #Kasky, a survivor of the Parkland shooting who helped to organize the March for Our Lives student protests, recently announced his campaign to represent Manhattan, New York, in Congress.
“I see myself as a small part of a bigger movement. It’s the reason I got into politics,” Frost said.
“I was 15 when #Sandy #Hook happened and that’s what pushed me to get involved in organizing and it’s remained a big piece of my organizing.”
Today, calling out gun-rights lobbyists and groups like the National Rifle Association ( #NRA ) is common among Democrats vying for political office.
But less than 15 years ago, many moderate Democrats held A ratings from the NRA and the subject of regulating guns was a third rail that could spell an end to political aspirations,
said #Shannon #Watts, a violence-prevention activist and founder of Moms Demand Action.“It was gradual and not linear,”
she said of the change that’s happened.
“We saw that our volunteers were running for office and thought it was common sense that someone who was learning how to shape legislation would want to take the next step to make the legislation as an elected official.”Watts marks the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school, in which a gunman
killed 20 children and six adults,
and the subsequent failure of Congress to pass gun-safety policies, as a watershed moment that pushed formerly gun-friendly Democrats like former West Virginia senator #JoeManchin, Minnesota governor #Tim #Walz and former Arizona representative #Ann #Kirkpatrick to risk their A rating from the NRA to call for restrictions on gun-#magazine #capacities and #assault #weapons.
⭐️Now, having an F rating from the group is a point of pride.“After Parkland, zero Democratic members of Congress had an A rating and were proud about it.
That’s a seismic shift,”
Watts added.
“I think it’s proof positive that playing the long game works.
Lucy [McBath] ran for a seat held by Republicans and she ran on the issue of gun safety.
It shattered a lot of misperceptions and fears about being gun safety-forward.The issue of gun violence has also activated newcomers to politics.
#Shaundelle #Brooks’s son, Akilah Dasilva, was one of four people killed in a mass shooting at a #Nashville Waffle House in 2018.Five years later, in 2023, another son, who survived the Waffle House shooting, was shot and injured while leaving a Nashville music venue.
After her son’s death, Brooks said she regularly would go to the statehouse to advocate for gun laws that she feels could have prevented the death of her son and so many others.
After years of her pleas falling on unreceptive ears, she decided to run for office.
“There was a time where people were scared to even mention it while they were running.
And I remember not voting for certain people because of that.
So I am grateful that people are standing up, speaking out and being brave about it,” Brooks said.
“Coming up here for seven years and having them just ignoring me,
testifying and then being told that if my son had a gun that would have saved his life,
showed me that I needed to do more than what I was doing.”The personal experiences of loss unite people like Brooks and Pearson with the scores of Americans who are part of what gun-violence victims and survivors describe as a club that no one wants to be a part of.
“When people see you’re personally impacted,
they feel that you’re more credible to talk about this kind of stuff.They know it’s not a political thing for us,” she said
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/02/gun-safety-law-us-legislation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Manchin urges lawmakers to stop acting in ‘attack mode’ amid political violence https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/14/joe-manchin-erika-kirk-political-violence #CharlieKirkshooting #Republicans #USpolitics #JoeManchin #USCongress #Democrats #RandPaul #USnews
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#Wikipedia - Origin of the concept of a #SacrificeZone
"According to the United Nations Human Rights Council [#UNHRC], the term Sacrifice zone emerged in the #ColdWar period when #NuclearTesting, conducted by #colonial powers, such as the #UnitedStates, #France, the #UnitedKingdom, and the #SovietUnion transformed sections of land into #uninhabitable and highly #radioactive areas. Sacrifice zones can be defined as communities that experience dangerous levels of hazardous contamination and waste exposure. Sacrifice zones are linked to #racism, #oppression, #patriarchy, and #colonialism, as they are hubs of #pollution that disproportionately target and harm the physical and mental health of marginalized groups who face overlapping forms of #oppressions.
According to Helen Huntington Smith, the term was first used in the U.S. discussing the long-term effects of #StripMining #coal in the American West in the 1970s. The National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering Study Committee on the Potential for Rehabilitating Lands Surface Mined for Coal in the Western United States produced a 1973 report that introduced the term, finding:
In each zone the probability of rehabilitating an area depends upon the land use objectives, the characteristics of the site, the technology available, and the skill with which this technology is applied. At the extremes, if surface mined lands are declared national sacrifice areas, all ecological zones have a high probability of being successfully rehabilitated. If, however, complete restoration is the objective, rehabilitation in each zone has no probability of success.
Similarly in 1975, Genevieve Atwood wrote in Scientific American:
Surface mining without #reclamation removes the land forever from #productive use; such land can best be classified as a #NationalSacrifice area. With successful reclamation, however, surface mining can become just one of a series of land uses that merely interrupt a current use and then return the land to an equivalent potential productivity or an even higher one.
Huntington Smith wrote in 1975, "The Panel that issued the cautious and scholarly National Academy of Sciences report unwittingly touched off a verbal bombshell" with the phrase National Sacrifice Area; "The words exploded in the Western press overnight. Seized upon by a people who felt themselves being served up as 'national sacrifices', they became a watchword and a rallying cry." The term sparked public debate, including among #environmentalists and politicians such as future Colorado governor Richard Lamm.
The term continued to be used in the context of strip mining until at least 1999: '#WestVirginia has become an environmental sacrifice zone'."
#JoeManchin #BigOil #BigCoal #StripMining #EnvironmentalRacism #CoalMining #Appalachia #PollutionSacrificeZones #CorporateColonialism
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—>> #TheDailyShow ⦁ Interview ⦁ #JonStewart <<— Former Sen. #JoeManchin “Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense” #DailyShow #TDS #Comedy #Humour #Humor #Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News #AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol youtu.be/vyZ9j44Kg4M
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—>> #TheDailyShow ⦁ Interview ⦁ #JonStewart <<—
Former Sen. #JoeManchin
“Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense”
#DailyShow #TDS #Comedy #Humour #Humor
#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News
#AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol
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Dear #JoeManchin, you were a Republican who realized you couldn't win a primary, so you jumped to the Democrats and torpedoed their agenda every step of the way.
You probably have no problem with what is going on in Trump's White House.
Go F- yourself! https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/former-sen-manchin-details-bidens-164946242.html
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Screenshot of post by Governor Gavin Newsom that reads:
"The best way to honor Charlie's memory is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse. In a democracy, ideas are tested through words and good-faith debate - never through violence."
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Joe Manchin warns Democratic party is ‘toxic’ as he steps down from US Senate https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/22/joe-manchin-democratic-party #Republicans #USpolitics #JoeManchin #Democrats #USnews
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I wonder what #DonaldTrump offered #JoeManchin & #KyrstenSinema to screw the #Democrats over in the Senate‽
This is an under reported but major victory for #Republicans.
👉🏾 #Manchin, #Sinema block Democratic control of #NLRB https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5035142-senate-blocks-nlrb-re-nomination/ 🔛 @TheHill (discovered via Perfect Union on #Threads)
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In a way, this scumbag #JoeManchin has been more destructive than Trumplicans like McConnell or Graham because of the broken promises and failed potential of his cynical rhetoric over the years.
While teasing Democrats he stuck a knife in their hearts with vote after vote. He's been on the take from fossil fuel companies for years. He can't leave the Senate too quickly. And I hope to never hear his disgraceful name again.
https://apnews.com/article/nlrb-labor-board-manchin-sinema-5e6dea85b147b4f53da000cef813b996
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@inquiline The villains, as usual, were #KyrstenSinema and #JoeManchin. The actual Dems voted right.
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If Joe Manchin is involved, I'm skeptical.
Manchin, Welch unveil bill placing term limits on Supreme Court
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5030197-supreme-court-term-limits-manchin-welch/#SCOTUS #TermLimits #SupremeCorruption #JohnRoberts #JoeManchin #PeteWelch #USPol
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Joe: hear me out. I think it would go a long way to healing our national divide if you'd set your yacht on fire.
Manchin pitches one last bad idea, says Biden should pardon Trump
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/manchin-pitches-one-last-bad-idea-says-biden-pardon-trump-rcna182600#JoeManchin #WestVirginia #BadIdeas #JoeManchinSenatorForSale #USPol
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#Republicans face a remarkably favorable map as they battle to flip the #Senate. Dems are defending 23 seats, many of them in red & purple states, while Republicans are running in 11 states, all of them on their turf.
#JoeManchin, independent who caucuses w/ #Democrats, decided to retire, giving Republicans 1 all-but-certain flip in red #WestVirginia. That would lead to a 50-50 split Senate if all other seats stayed the same, w/the party in control of the WH deciding the balance in the Senate.
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Joe, come on. Admit it. There's no shame in just saying that you're a fucking traitor...
Joe Manchin Has Found A Confusing Reason Not To Back Kamala Harris
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-manchin-doesnt-seem-to-know-what-democracy-means_n_66f2f67de4b0d04575631a65 -
US energy reform bill a ‘wishlist for the fossil industry’, say environmental groups https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/31/energy-reform-bill-senate #Oilandgascompanies #Fossilfuels #Environment #JoeManchin #USCongress #USpolitics #USSenate #USnews #Energy #Oil #Gas
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On this day in "Answers to questions nobody is asking" History