#Tammy harris

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JASON ISAACS as Lucius Malfoy HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (2007)

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More albums Twin Peaks characters would listen to! This time: Annie, Harry and Tammy (first row) and Bobby, Audrey and Gordon (second row)!

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Been working on my nana wheeler is fake thesis *screaming and crying can be heard far off in the distance*

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Ilana Berger at MMFA:

The Biden administration is cutting car pollution and incentivizing automakers to produce electric vehicles. Right-wing media repeatedly misconstrued these efforts, falsely claiming they were attempting to take away voters’ gas-powered cars or forcing them to buy electric vehicles. No such federal mandate exists. Yet now the Trump-Vance campaign has adopted this false claim.

Harris has supported efforts to expand access to electric vehicles during her time as vice president, but that did not include a federal mandate

The EPA finalized a tailpipe emissions rule in March, but it was not a mandate. In March, the EPA established tailpipe emissions standards for the auto industry in a bid to slash greenhouse gas emissions. According to NPR, “The EPA rules are not written as an EV mandate or a ban on the sale of gas cars. … Instead, the EPA sets standards that apply across an entire fleet – meaning an automaker still can make vehicles with higher emissions, as long as they also make enough very low or zero-emission vehicles that it averages out.” [NPR, 3/20/24]

E&E News clarified that “there is no EV ‘mandate’ from the administration, although President Joe Biden and Vice President Harris have backed a series of climate policies that seek to incentivize the production and purchasing of EVs.” [ E&E News, 9/3/24]  

The New York Times also wrote of the EPA rule that it ��does not mandate sales of electric vehicles, and consumers can still buy and drive gas-powered cars.” [The New York Times, 3/20/24]

The Inflation Reduction Act allocated billions toward supporting the adoption of EVs through tax credits, loans, and funding for charging networks, critical minerals, and battery manufacturing. Harris cast the tie-breaking vote that passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which created $47 billion in EV investment on top of tax credits and loans. [Atlas EV Hub, 9/2/22; accessed 9/6/22; Twitter/X, 8/7/24]  

Harris also oversaw parts of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that distributed funding to school districts for electric buses and to states for EV charging stations.The act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, provided $7.5 billion to build a network of charging stations, and $900 million of that went to the electric school bus initiative. [AP News, 12/13/21; Spectrum News, 5/29/24]

Donald Trump’s campaign has echoed right-wing media lies about electric vehicles, such as falsely insinuating that Kamala Harris and the Democrats want to eliminate gas-powered cars and that they have issued an EV mandate (when no such thing exists).

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First Openly Gay Senator in the United States 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈

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my comfort movies :)

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My Take: Hang On To Your Hats!

Before I begin this story, watch this video. This is from Roland Martin Unfiltered in which he described what America is going into for the next four years under the upcoming administration. Press Play. Also, I haven’t talked about this example in a long time: “Speaking of Mayor Barrett, he did warn the state to “hang on to your hats” for a lot of slash and burn decisions that Walker would do.…

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WHCD recap…

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JASON ISAACS as Lucius Malfoy HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS (2002)

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Blaska's ballot looks like this:

Garbage in, garbage out! Unlike The Washington Post — or Amazon.com for that matter — Blaska Policy Werkes endorses candidates. In many cases, we help the candidates we support by endorsing their opponents. The old switcheroo, as KC Chiefs Coach Andy Reid might say. Donald Segretti would be proud. Donald Trump riding a garbage truck in Green Bay WI in response to the Uncle Joe Biden’s latest…

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It's been awhile since I gave money but I feel like this can be a trancedent opportunity for a much better future.

Yes Joe Biden dropped out and you still need to vote blue. Hope this helps

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Arthur Delaney, Daniel Marans, and Igor Bobic at HuffPost:

Republican ads suggesting Vice President Kamala Harris cared more about promoting transgender rights than boosting the economy likely contributed to Donald Trump’s victory, according to a new survey conducted after Tuesday’s election. Another poll released this week by a different Democratic firm found, however, that hardly any voters were motivated by opposition to transgender surgeries or what Republicans derisively call “boys in girls sports.” The conflicting surveys, with clashing but not totally contradictory findings, illustrate the tricky post-election analysis Democrats will need to conduct as they chart a course out of the political wilderness.

On Friday, the Democratic polling firm Blueprint released survey findings that suggest anti-trans ads hurt Harris. Blueprint asked voters to rank 25 statements about why they picked Trump instead of Harris. The two most popular reasons were that inflation was too high under the Biden administration and that too many immigrants illegally crossed the border. The third-most popular statement was that “Kamala Harris is focused more on cultural issues like transgender issues rather than helping the middle class.” Among swing voters who broke for Trump, the “transgender issues” criticism was the most popular reason, Blueprint found. “It was a symbol, a very effective symbol. It brings to life how voters feel that on lots of cultural and social issues, elected Democrats are so unfamiliar to them,” Alyssa Cass, a partner at Slingshot Strategies, which runs Blueprint, told HuffPost on Thursday. “So I think it was very effective in reminding voters that the Democratic Party has moved to a place that you can’t recognize in yourself and your friends and your family.”

Exit polls from Tuesday suggest inflation was a major drag for Harris, but otherwise the data doesn’t present a perfectly clear picture of what else pushed so many voters in Trump’s direction. The exit polls from Fox News and the Associated Press, for instance, found voters basically split on banning gender-affirming care for children: 47% supported the idea but 52% opposed it. A more vaguely-worded question found 54% of voters thought “support for transgender rights in government and society” had gone too far, while 22% thought it was just right and 22% said it had not gone far enough. In a Wednesday memo, the Democratic firm GQR cautioned against scapegoating trans issues for the election outcome, citing polling from the week leading up the election, which found nearly two-thirds of voters saw Trump’s trans ads. “And yet, when asked their most important issues in this election, just 4 percent — dead last on this list — identify opposing transgender surgeries and transgender kids in sports as something that drove their vote,” the firm said in its analysis.

[...] Nonetheless, moderate Democratic lawmakers have already pointed to trans issue as a reason Harris lost. “I have two little girls, I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) told The New York Times following the election — prompting a rebuke from one of his campaign aides, who resigned in protest. Rep. Tom Suozzi, a moderate Long Island Democrat who flipped a GOP seat in a February special election, made a similar comment. And Gilberto Hinojosa, chair of the Texas Democratic Party, told KUT, a local Austin, Texas, outlet on Wednesday that Democrats might consider disavowing the use of taxpayer dollars for transition care. His comments prompted immediate criticism from LGBTQ+ groups in Texas, leading him first to apologize and then, on Friday, to resign, though he claimed he was simply making room for a new generation. But other Democrats said they didn’t believe Trump’s ads attacking Harris over transgender rights were as effective as his broader message on the economy and immigration.

The Democratic Party is facing questions on what caused Kamala Harris, but a few have said that Donald Trump’s anti-trans “they/them” ads may have been one of the culprits, but that trans issues weren’t all that important when considering a vote.

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Tammy For Wisconsin!! First openly female senator!