#stacey ​abrams

[socialjusticeinamerica]

#stacey abrams #never trump #republican assholes #vote blue vote Biden Harris #crooked donald #traitor trump #maga morons #Putin owns Trump

[thundergrace]

FIRST?!

#oh dear God #WE HAVEN'T DONE THIS YET?! #not even once!! #stacey abrams #somebody fact check Stacey Abrams #this can't be right

[ladyluscinia]

If the great twitter migration really is happening, when do we get politicians on tumblr? I want support for Destiel as a footnote on the 2024 Democratic platform, and I think with enough access to harried 20-something staffers trying to run their bosses' blogs spnblr could make it happen

#stacey abrams is our in. cory booker too #joe biden's silence on destiel has been deafening #spn #destiel #politics #nov 5th #spnblr #ladyluscinia #nov 5 2022 #nov 5 2024

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President

#star trek cards #star trek discovery #stacey abrams

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

November 17, 2023

Brother-in-law of Stacey Abrams charged with human trafficking

Brother-in-law of Stacey Abrams, federal judge Leslie Abrams' husband charged with human trafficking.

Jimmie Gardner is married to Leslie Abrams, a Georgia Federal Judge appointed by Obama. Leslie Abrams is on Joe Biden's short list for a judicial appointment.

Gardner lives and works in Georgia where he served as a motivational speaker and emotional intelligence trainer for students for those formerly incarcerated. 

Jimmie Gardner spent 27 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of sexually assaulting an elderly woman.

TAMPA, Fla. — The brother-in-law of two-time Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and the husband of Georgia Federal Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner is facing human trafficking charges.

On Friday, Jimmie Gardner, 57, was arrested in Tampa, Florida after a 16-year-old girl said she had been involved in sexual acts with him inside a hotel room.

Tampa police say the teenage girl told them that Gardner contacted her just before 1:45 a.m. and invited her to his hotel room and she accepted.

Once there, Gardner reportedly offered the girl money for sex. She initially agreed, but when she changed her mind, she said he became angry and began choking her.

After he stopped and left the hotel room, she called 911.

By the time police arrived, Gardner was gone. He was arrested just a few hours later, according to jail records.

He’s charged with human trafficking, lewd or lascivious touching of a minor and battery.

#stacey abrams #Georgia #Leslie Abrams #Tampa #obama #biden #judiciary

[kp777]

By Brian Kahn

The Guardian

March 25, 2023

From the article:

Stacey Abrams has been hailed as a masterly community organizer, after she helped turn out the voters that secured two Senate seats for Democrats in once solidly red Georgia. She has also run twice – unsuccessfully – for state governor. For her next move, she’s not focusing on electoral power so much as power itself.

Recently she left the world of campaign politics and took a job as senior counsel for the non-profit Rewiring America. Her role will focus on helping thousands of people across America wean their homes and businesses off fossil fuels and on to electricity, at a moment when scientists have given a “final warning” about the need to curb greenhouse gas emissions and prevent global catastrophe.

“We are at an inflection point where we can choose to electrify,” she said in an interview. “We don’t have to do it everywhere, all at once. If you want to see what the future looks like, we start building it here and now.”

The impetus for her role comes from significant moves taken by the Biden administration. When he signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) last year, President Joe Biden hailed it as “the biggest step forward on climate ever”. It includes a sprawling array of tax credits, rebates and other incentives to help people electrify their lives.

“The government has basically filled a bank account for you with thousands of dollars that will help you go electric,” Abrams said.

Her mission is to help people access that so-called bank account.

“You can improve your indoor air quality, make cooking quick and easy, make being cool in the summer and warm in the winter, and be more affordable,” Abrams said. “But we have to talk about it.”

Abrams is perhaps best known for registering 800,000 voters in Georgia through her voting rights advocacy organization Fair Fight Action. She wants to use a similar playbook with electrification, and doing so could benefit many of the same people whose voices risked going unheard in elections.

‘You meet people where they are, not where you want them to be’: Stacey Abrams. Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA

But figuring out what incentives you qualify for and how to access them can be involved, to say the least. While Rewiring America has a calculator that lets individuals suss out what IRA benefits they can snag, Abrams will be taking that and other tools to the community level. She highlighted how houses of worship could be prime places to talk about the IRA and a potential target for outreach.

And she hopes to work with local leaders such as teachers, mayors and city council members to make the IRA a kitchen table issue. Enlisting them will, she hopes, eventually lead to neighbors talking to neighbors about how much money they saved on a new induction stove or how much more comfortable their home was during a heatwave thanks to a newly installed heat pump.

“You meet people where they are, not where you want them to be,” she said. “That means understanding the lives they’re living and the questions they have and who they go to to talk about their questions.”

While the IRA has the potential to be transformative, it’s also not enough to electrify every household in the country. The law has billions set aside for home upgrades, but more resources will be needed to achieve the Biden administration’s goal of reducing US emissions up to 52% below 2005 levels by the end of the decade.

An analysis by the Rhodium Group found the law has the potential to cut emissions by up to 42%. And that it could reduce home energy bills by $717 to $1,146 by 2030.

Abrams said that, based on her experience in the arena of voting rights, the prospect of such benefits could help foster an electrification movement. “As people get more, they expect more,” she said. “The most sustainable movement is when people expect more and are willing to work for more.”

This isn’t Abrams’ first foray into climate. She was quick to point out her college senior thesis was on environmental justice and that she interned with the Environmental Protection Agency. During her tenure in the Georgia house of representatives, she also worked as minority leader to help pass a bill that included the state’s biggest influx of cash for public transportation.

Ultimately, the Biden administration wants the US to reach net zero by mid-century. It might be hard to imagine that occurring – a distant future, when perhaps technologies that are only nascent today like carbon dioxide removal will be more widespread, almost every car and home will be electric, and the inequalities targeted by the IRA and Biden’s executive orders will have dwindled.

That scenario can read a bit like science fiction – a genre of which Abrams is a well-known fan.

“In almost every sci-fi story, it begins with what decisions people are making long before the story takes place,” she said.

#stacey abrams #rewiring america #inflation reduction act #climate change

[davidhudson]

Happy 50th, Stacey Abrams.

#stacey abrams

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#290

"I thought Stacey Abrams being the president of Earth in Discovery was in poor taste. She was, and still is, a very divisive politician not just in the state of Georgia but also within her own party, and it was just very off-putting to see. Any other cameo for her like a Captain or Ambassador would have been fine, but the president was very presumptuous. I know she wanted to be on the show because she loves Star Trek, but the way they framed it made it more about current politics than viewers' enjoyment."

#confession 289 #star-trek-fandom-confessions #star trek #discovery #stacey abrams #president of united earth

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #roy wood jr #food #waffle house #chic fil a #stacey abrams #atlanta #herschel walker

[quotent-potables]

Godspeed to Nichelle Nichols, champion, warrior and tremendous actor. Her kindness and bravery lit the path for many. May she forever dwell among the stars.

— Stacey Abrams on the passing of Nichelle Nichols (on Twitter)

#quotes #nichelle nichols #star trek #st:tos #star trek: the original series #nyota uhura #stacey abrams

[itwillalwaysbedestiel]

#misha collins #stacey abrams

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H I N G

#STAR TREK DISCOVERY [Season 4] #SONEQUA MARTIN GREEN #Doug Jones #Anthony Rapp #Mary Wiseman #Wilson Cruz #Blu del Barrio #David Ajala #Tig Notaro #Oded Fehr #Ian Alexander #Chelah Horsdal #Annabelle Wallis #David Cronenberg #Shawn Doyle #Hiro Kanagawa #Bill Irwin #Sonja Sohn #Stacey Abrams #STAR TREK #SCIFI #WATCHING

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Brian Kemp is unintentionally running a very good campaign for Stacey Abrams.

This is his latest uhhh slam ad???

#stacey abrams

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Stacey Abram’s as President of Earth

#star trek cards #star trek discovery #stacey abrams

[hotandfunnywomen]

Natalie Portman campaigns for Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams during a stop of Abrams’ statewide campaign bus tour on November 5, 2022 in Savannah, Georgia.

#natalie portman #stacey abrams

[nodynasty4us]

From the November 12, 2022 opinion piece by Goldie Taylor:

While it’s true that Georgians tend to like their governors homegrown and home fed. Some—Black and white alike—complained that she spent too much time crisscrossing the country, dining with Hollywood elites, hobnobbing with superstars, and appearing on national talk shows.... That she was too busy being famous, too busy leading on national issues, struck me as an indictment on what they believe drives Abrams.

The truth is, she isn’t afraid of Klieg-lights, but she uses them to shine a spotlight on the issues that matter most like voter suppression and criminal justice reform. The fact that she wasn’t “anointed” by the Atlanta political class still rubs some the wrong way, as if she needed a permission slip to leave the state or run for higher office....The stench of envy welled up among even people who should have been proud of her ascent.

So, when her opponent openly groused about her perceived lobbying to be Joe Biden’s 2020 running mate, ... He wanted everyone to know that she was getting, as my grandmother would say, “too big for her britches.”

Click through to read the author’s memories of meeting Abrams at a Confederate flag protest and more reasons why she lost.

#stacey abrams #georgia #2022 #featured