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Government Political

Georgia Republican attack on trans kids

Now that Georgia Republicans no longer have abortion as their ‘moral cause’ they’re attacking trans people. The same people who they’ve ignored for decades but—all of a sudden!—have become the seeming greatest need and threat to Georgians!

Not the price of eggs any more, is it?

According to the Georgia Recorder, the GOP-controlled Senate just passed a bill banning trans girls and women from playing in any women’s sporting team. But more than that, they’re going after trans kids healthcare:

Savannah Republican Sen. Ben Watson has filed a bill that would ban the use of puberty blockers or hormone therapy on minors.

So, something that Republicans didn’t care about for decades now is an immediate problem, so much so that they insert themselves not only between patients and doctors but between parents of the kids and the doctors…solely to have some ‘moral cause’.

Without that ‘moral cause’, they don’t have something to drive hysteria—some made-up threat to distract and to deflect from the very real harms being inflicted on you by the state, by Congressional Republicans, and by Trump and Musk.

Georgia GOP-controlled Senate passes ban on trans girls from school sports teams

 

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People Weather

A return to normalcy

We’ve been through two major weather events in the last few months in Savannah: Debby and now Helene.

Our home didn’t flood during Debbie, and didn’t lose power in either system since our subdivision has buried lines. We did have several hours of power cycling and had to turn major appliances off at the breaker but power never went completely out for more than 1/2 hour.

We also lost roof shingles and the emergency repair on them was a bite out of the wallet, but we could pay it. We have lost internet access, first because of the power loss, and after power was restored, because AT&T Fiber had a break in the line and is still waiting on a permit to dig to repair it.

We’re retired so we haven’t suffered loss of wages. And by having power, we haven’t had to throw anything away in our refrigerator.

We, individually, and generally throughout the Savannah area have not suffered the devastation that communities in Florida, south-central Georgia, and especially Tennessee and North Carolina have suffered. In particular, the floods from Helene have taken out entire towns in North Carolina, and isolated communities throughout the western part of the state. Sadly, over a hundred lives have been lost in several states, both because of Debby and now Helene.

Each community impacted by these storms has suffered as a consequence of them, though the amount of impact can be drastically different in each. But, big or small, impacts because of natural disasters leave everyone feeling vulnerable. And the solution to that vulnerability is normalcy.

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Places Political

On my way to writing there was a pandemic. And we moved to Georgia. And Trump.

I had such good intentions at the start of the year. I was going to lose weight, get in shape, and most of all, return to writing on a regular basis. And then the rest of 2020 hit.

It started with COVID and it ends with COVID and a parade of masks and hand washes and furtive outdoor trips. We made it worse on ourselves by deciding come hell, high water, or pandemic, we were still going to follow through on our decision to sell our home in Missouri and move to Savannah. And we did make the thousand mile move, though it’s not something I would recommend to anyone else during a pandemic.

 

Moving truck about to leave Missouri