#andy biggs

[saywhat-politics]

BREAKING: Republican Congressman Andy Biggs has introduced a bill to abolish OSHA. The entire text of the bill reads "The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is repealed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is abolished."

What this bill would mean is the complete elimination of federal workplace safety protections. Millions of jobs in numerous states where the state-level protections are below the federal minimums would immediately become more dangerous.

[onlytiktoks]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jessica Valenti at Abortion, Every Day:

Picture this: violent anti-abortion protesters swarming every clinic in every state. They’re no longer required to stay a hundred feet from the entrance, and nothing stops them from blocking patients trying to get inside. The screaming and terrorizing we’ve witnessed for years now happens inches from patients’ faces. When protesters are arrested, they file First Amendment lawsuits—and they win. Right now, America is on the brink of a new era of extreme anti-abortion violence, one where radicals can terrorize women and doctors unchecked. This kind of dangerous free reign is right around the corner—not just in states with bans, but everywhere. And it’s been gift-wrapped by men who campaigned as abortion ‘moderates.’

On Thursday, Donald Trump pardoned nearly two dozen extremists convicted of attacking abortion clinics across the country. The activists, who our felon president called “peaceful” and “elderly,” forced their way into clinics, terrorized patients, and blocked them from entering the building for care. In Michigan, that included a woman whose pregnancy had just been diagnosed with a fatal abnormality and whose health was at risk. In DC, a patient was forced to climb through a window to access the building, while ‘pro-life’ activists refused to let another woman see a doctor even after she collapsed in pain. And the protesters that Republicans depict as praying grannies? One told a Manhattan clinic “we’re gonna terrorize you so good,” and crushed a staff member’s hand in a door. Another was found with a half a dozen fetuses hidden in her home. What Trump offered last week weren’t just pardons, they were permission.

In fact, both Trump and JD Vance promised at the March for Life that anyone who harasses patients or attacks clinics will “never have the government go after them ever again.” Vance told the crowd, “We stand with you.” That’s not a symbolic gesture or empty promise: Abortion, Every Day has discovered that on the very same morning of the march, more than thirty Republican legislators held a private meeting with anti-abortion activists where they pledged to repeal the FACE Act—the federal law that prohibits blocking or doing violence to a reproductive health clinic. At that event, U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs made their intent chillingly clear: “God demands justice,” he said. Meanwhile, as Republicans advance legislation to undo the FACE Act, the Department of Justice announced that they won’t enforce it anyway. Not unless there are “extraordinary circumstances...such as death.” In other words, anti-abortion activists can do anything they want short of murder.

It’s not a coincidence that this is all happening Trump’s first week in office. With the anti-abortion movement eager to roll out a slate of deeply unpopular restrictions, giving extremists the green light to attack patients and providers without fear of arrest is, at least in part, a way to buy the administration time and goodwill. But let’s be real: Trump has always loved emboldening bullies and inciting violence. This is the same man still pushing ‘post-birth’ abortion lie, fully aware it puts providers’ lives at risk. He thrives on this shit.

[...] If SCOTUS decides to take up one of these cases, the national implications would be massive. Because remember, since Roe was overturned, threats and violence against clinics and providers have skyrocketed. Stalking and burglaries are up more than 200%, arson has doubled, and providers are regularly doxxed and threatened with death. In just the last three years, we’ve seen clinics burned to the ground and maniacs drive cars into them. That’s to say nothing of the trauma inflicted on patients simply trying to access care.

[...] What comes next is worrying. Without clinic protections, there will be an unprecedented emboldening of extremist protesters. It’s also likely that we’ll see an influx of even more extremists in pro-choice states: With abortion fully banned in ultra-conservative areas, those who have the ability to take their sideshow on the road will do just that. If and when the Trump administration does roll back access to abortion medication—whether through the Comstock Act, or FDA rules—more patients will be forced to seek care at clinics. And wherever patients go, more protesters will follow. That means clinic escorts and defenders will need our support more than ever, along with providers and abortion funds. But we’ll need to do more than the logistical work of ensuring people can get care—we have to make it clear, again and again, that everyone has the right to seek an abortion without fear, shame, or harassment from assholes.

Jessica Valenti has a harrowing must-read report in Abortion, Every Day that the GOP is coddling people who attack abortion clinics with their dangerous proposal to repeal the FACE Act.

[mudwerks]

Average American commits 3 felonies a day 😂

Andy Biggs - a congressman from Arizona - claims that "the average american commits three felonies a day".

Who are these "Americans" he's referring to? That ain't me.

Looks like the "law and order party" has been completely taken over by the trump crime family and career criminals.

[surviving-the-next-4-years]

V-Tuber talks about how the Trump Administration is repealing OSHA. And yeah, ITS A REAL FUCKING THING.

Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs sponsors bill to abolish OSHA.

Republicans are trying to kill everyone just to line their own pockets.

[filosofablogger]

Snarky Snippets With Lots Of Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ...

Okay, folks … I’ve tried to hold back on the Snarky Snippets, but they are literally just boiling over tonight and I feel a need to relieve the pressure before the top of my head blows off!  So, here goes … “The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is repealed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is abolished.” That is the text, in its entirety, of House Bill H.R.86 – NOSHA…

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[lifeswhatimlivin]

I beg your fucking pardon, Andy?

[saywhat-politics]

These Republicans introduced a bill to REPEAL the $35 cap on insulin for Medicare recipients

[jackhawksmoor]

'they' my ass

THIS MOTHERFUCKER

THIS COCKSUCKER RIGHT HERE

yall. yall.

new bill introduced to nulify OSHA. OSHA.

Even the goddamn magats are upset.

[onlytiktoks]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Robyn Pennacchia at Wonkette:

In 1911, 146 garment workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, because their boss had the brilliant money-saving idea of locking the doors to the stairwells and exits in order to prevent them from taking unauthorized breaks. The streets were littered with the bodies of people who threw themselves out of the windows, hoping that would be a safer escape. One of the witnesses to that horrific moment in American history was Frances Perkins. Already a suffragist, consumer and labor rights activist, and sociology professor, Perkins was so horrified by the fire that she committed herself to improving labor standards in New York and elsewhere. In 1934, after FDR appointed her Secretary of Labor, she became the first woman in a presidential Cabinet (and to this day, the longest serving Secretary of Labor in US history). As Secretary of Labor, Perkins created the Bureau of Labor Standards in order to improve working conditions for the American labor force. In 1971, the Bureau of Labor Standards became the more comprehensive Occupational Safety and Health Administration, better known as OSHA. Over the years, OSHA has instituted regulations that have protected American workers from getting hurt or killed on the job So, naturally, a Republican wants it gone. For the third time in as many years, Rep. Andy Biggs has introduced the NOSHA Act, an act that would abolish OSHA in favor of letting states set their own safety standards.

[...] During his first term, Trump gutted OSHA, and he’s promised to do worse in his next. Which will be very hard, because in his first term, his administration killed a yearslong project that was specifically dedicated to preparing hospitals, nursing homes and other medical facilities … for a pandemic. Because when will one of those happen, right? Also, on Monday, Trump demanded that every regulatory agency kill 10 regulations for every new one they implement, which should work out just great. Surely no one will die or be left bankrupt or get food poisoning or anything like that. Surely businesses will do what’s necessary to protect their employees and customers, even if it would cost more than the lawsuits would if they didn’t bother. [...] Every safety regulation is written in blood. Each of those regulations exists because someone died or was severely hurt or made severely sick by something that regulation would have prevented. The first job safety regulation, the Massachusetts Factory Act of 1877, was passed after The Pemberton Mill Collapse — caused because the greedy new owners of the mill made it “profitable” by shoving more machinery into it than it could handle, and it collapsed, killing 145 workers (mostly women but some children) and injuring 300 more. (Lawrence would later be the site of the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike, better known as the Bread and Roses Strike, a year after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory burned.) No one is coming up with random unfair regulations just to hurt the feelings of “job creators” or because they want to destroy American businesses. But OSHA exists because companies locked people in buildings to ensure they weren’t taking unauthorized breaks, because they overloaded buildings with more machinery than they could handle. It has provided a recourse for employees who believe their safety isn’t being considered by their employers, and, according to a report published by the AFL-CIO, it has saved almost 700,000 lives and likely prevented millions of injuries since it was implemented.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ)’s bill to abolish OSHA is an attack on workplace safety.

[penig]

Next door to the David Ottomai live a couple of dormies who got playable through the Greeks. Lacy Roush got an outing call from Gene and went out to the nearest Bigg City venue to the location from which I townified him, the Seedy Bowl. Lacy had a fine time but Gene made the mistake of inviting both Andy Bellum and Edward Chert, who hate each other. No particular reason that I know of (I don't think Edward's one of Dot's dates), but they're both pretty grouchy, so who says they need a reason? Lacy tried her best but it was a short and not very successful outing, thanks to them.

[thena0315]

The first time, and most likely the last time we'll see the full Hate Crimes unit with these four

Hate Crimes spinoff is most likely never gonna happen

[panspanther]

TREASON : Giving aid & comfort to the enemy

They need to be tried just like the proud boys