All 28 Days Between Now And The Election, Ranked! Tabs, Tues., Oct. 8, 2024

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Oct 08, 2024

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As of last night, Hurricane Milton has turned into a catastrophically powerful Category 5 hurricane that’s supposed to hit the western coast of Florida later this week near Tampa, either as a Cat 3 or Cat 4. If you’re in the path, listen to your best local guidance and be safe. [NBC News]

At this point, it’s a safe bet that if a Republican tells you anything about Hurricanes Helene or Milton, you should assume it’s a lie until you’ve verified it five times. Look, don’t take it from us, take it from this Republican North Carolina state senator:

Friends can I ask a small favor? Will you all help STOP this conspiracy theory junk that is floating all over Facebook and the internet about the floods in WNC. Example: FEMA is stealing money from donations, body bags ordered but government has denied, bodies not being buried, government is controlling the weather from Antarctica, government is trying to get lithium from WNC, stacks of bodies left at hospitals, and on and on and on. PLEASE help stop this junk. It is just a distraction to people trying to do their job. Folks, this is a catastrophic event of which this country has never known. It is the largest crisis event in the history of N.C. The state is working non-stop. DOT has deployed workers from all over the state. Duke power has 10,000 workers on this. FEMA is here. The National Guard is here in large numbers. My Senate district is 8 counties and it takes 3 hours to drive across it in good weather…. And this disaster is 25 counties in N.C. This is going to take MONTHS if not years to overcome. Government will play a role in this cleanup. We are going to make sure the state chips in some massive money. But Government is not the total solution. YES, there are a lot of neighbors helping neighbors and that’s good and the way it should be. Please don’t let these crazy stories consume you or have you continually contact your elected officials to see if they are true. I just talked to one Senator that has had 15 calls TODAY about why we don’t stop …….. “fill in the blank.” 98% chance it’s not true and if it is a problem, somebody is aware and on it and not waiting for a post to go thru 10,000 people to be addressed. Thanks for listening but I’ve been working on this 12 hours a day since it started and I’m growing a bit weary of intentional distractions from the main job …. which is to help our citizens in need.

Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis isn’t taking Kamala Harris’s calls about hurricane relief, because he’s a pissy, pissy li’l guy. [NBC News]

You need to watch the video Sally Field released yesterday about the abortion she had when she was 17. You just need to watch it.

Meanwhile, the Georgia state supreme court just reinstated Georgia’s disgusting six-week abortion ban while the case is being appealed. And the Supreme Court refused to intervene to require certain emergency abortion care in Texas. Yeah. [Washington Post / ibid.]

Hey did y’all know that, even though Donald Trump is actually allowed to get intel briefings now, because he’s the Republican nominee, he’s refusing them? And that he’s making all these huffs and puffs about what bombs Israel should drop and where without hearing from the intel community? Maddow talked all about it on her show last night. Personally makes us wonder if he’s getting intel briefings from one of our enemies, or if even our enemies are like “LOL you can’t brief that guy, he’s too fucking stupid,” or however you say it in elegant Russian. [Axios / Newsweek]

So there’s a new swing state ad campaign on porn video sites, just letting people about to spank it know that if Donald Trump and JD Vance are elected, their Project 2025 wants to come for your porn. It’s called Hands Off My Porn, and they even have a link where you can register to vote, if your state deadline hasn’t passed yet. (A few of the deadlines were last night.) It’s a really good website, it doesn’t even have any porn on it. [Daily Beast / HandsOffMyPorn]

At my Friday place, I started a deep dive into the Christian extremists who are swarming JD Vance like mosquitoes. Except unlike how normal people react to mosquitoes, JD Vance is like “Ooh bite me, yeah right there, I’m not wearing bug spray, I’m wearing SEXXX SPRAY.” Um, yeah anyway, point is there are a LOT of the creepiest, most dangerous people in the US who really want JD Vance to be ~~the functional president~~ vice-president, and you should know who they are. And I’ve only started to scratch the surface! Come by, read/share/subscribe! [The Moral High Ground / audio version]

Everybody hates Corey Lewandowski, and the Trump campaign is apparently in the process of making sure he knows he’s just a coffee boy. [Guardian]

Does macaroni and cheese turn into a health food vegetable if you put broccoli in it? Gonna say yes, this recipe is easy and good. (Usual warnings apply about how the New York Times is terrible at reporting about politics, but OK for recipes.) [NYT food blog]

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