New ProPublica reporting details an unintended consequence of Georgia's six-week abortion ban: it's killed at least one (so far) pregnant woman - and likely more. Amber Nicole Thurman's story is one likely repeating since her passing in 2022, but we won't know until further data gets released by the state.

There's a political distinction to this, too: conservative white men don't seem to care, nor do they want the fact that non-white women are vastly more likely to lose their life while pregnant to interrupt their sports conversations. Ask conservative radio mouth Clay Travis.

Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff is concerned, however. Yesterday he hosted a second local Senate hearing focusing on the very-real ramifications of Georgia's ban, enacted as the Trump-packed US Supreme Court overturned 'Roe v. Wade' with their 'Dobbs' decision. Hear two harrowing, gut-wrenching stories and insight from an Atlanta OB/GYN who's researched the state law's impact.

Sure, I could spend time today handwringing over a second Trump assassination, but I've become desensitized since they just keep happening - much the way America is desensitized to gun violence. So, since the GOP says there's nothing we can do about curbing access to weapons for nuts, why bother?

Instead, there's more to know about that goings on in Springfield, Ohio, where a rust belt city's renaissance is largely due to the influx of legal immigrants. Instead, the focus is drawn to a since-retracted social media post that Senator JD Vance still insists carries legitimacy because it casts a negative light on Haitian migrants, and well, because his boss, Donald Trump repeated it on the debate stage and can't be embarrassed by being misled by nonsense, right?

While Vance is in Atlanta today to speak to southern evangelicals (seemingly not about what the Bible actually says about being welcoming to the migrant) I was joined today by a pastor in Springfield offering a simple, yet timely message to his city's immigrant community: "I'm glad you are here. Christ loves you, and so do I." That message, being handed out throughout the community to Haitian immigrants, is the sentiment of Pastor Carl Ruby of the Central Christian Church in Springfield.

Pastor Ruby does a nice job explaining how his community got to where it is now, why he offers his message to the immigrant community and how we can all pitch in to help by visiting the Haitian Community and Support Center if so inclined to. (PayPal here)

Of course, I have some of Vance's back-n-forth with Dana Bash from yesterday, as well, and his umbrage to her quoting the (Republican!) mayor of Springfield casting blame squarely at his and Trunp's rhetoric for all that community's dealt with since last Tuesday night. It's inarguable - as is the downward spiral from the 1980 GOP and its position on immigration (not far from where Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is now) to where that party and its presidential ticket stands today.

Okay, we've all had a few good laughs over the whole "eating dogs and cats" quip from the Tuesday night debate (what IS it with JD Vance and cats?) but in all seriousness, Donald Trump's continued reliance of "hearsay" and "TV" for information - particularly anti-immigrant rhetoric - is dangerous and reckless. Kudos to Ana Navarro for calling it out. And to Kaitlan Collins for holding a Trump surrogate to account, as well.

Also, not for nothing, but Americans eat some pretty weird stuff, ourselves - you know, like roadkill. Maybe leaps to judgement son wild rumors houldn't be our thing.

Back at home, Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns seems to be indicating some opportunities may exist to work on reforms - not enough, honestly, but some - to address mental health and gun storage (eh, it's something).

In Washington, meanwhile, Senate Democrats are taking aim at the filibuster, with Senator Raphael Warnock leading the charge, invoking the Apalachee H.S. shooting as one of a number of reasons the filibuster undoes the will of the vast majority.

The headline for today's podcast came from the lips of Brit Hume on Fox News, and if that doesn't set the table for the conversation today, maybe it was the handshake she charged towards Donald to give well past midway on the stage to pronounce her name correctly for him. He never said her name; he invoked Joe Biden several times, but never once said her name.

George Chidi from The Atlanta Objective and Melita Easters, executive director at the Georgia WIN List join me today for some post-debate analysis.

On the 23rd anniversary of 9/11, it's Melita - mother of a female Naval Academy graduate who was at Annapolis that day - who reminds us all the importance of global standing for our country. That's a noteworthy distinction to make the morning after the Vice President drew stark contrasts between she and President Biden's standing and what world leaders think of one Donald John Trump.

American University Professor Alan Lichtman has made a near-flawless science of correctly predicting presidential elections since 1984 - having only been wrong once. Well, his 2024 call was announced - and ... well tune in (or get past the NYT paywall here).

While more than half the Georgia GOP Congressional representation still peddles "big lie" fodder, MAGA nuts like Nick Fuentes are FURIOUS Donald (finally) conceded he lost "by a whisker" in 2020. He took to Truth Social to backtrack a good bit and whine about the 'weaponization' of the DOJ - leaving out that he sought to do so, himself. Closer to home, a bipartisan group of former elected Georgia officials stepped forward to vouch for the reliability of the state's election system.

Meanwhile, the grandfather of the Apalachee HS shooter squarely blames his grandson's "home environment," and Georgia Democrats may rely on him, the boy's mother and aunt to help convince Republicans in the general assembly to do more on the state's lax gun laws.

Georgia House Democrats Friday urged a special session from Governor Brian Kemp (R - NRA) to address what they believe are needed legislative reforms in the aftermath of the Apalachee High School mass shooting.

They won't get one, because problem-solving isn't big on Kemp's "to do" list, but proposed legislation like Dr. Michelle Au's "Pediatric Health Safe Storage Act" deserve more than a "committee hearing" after a lack of "safe storage" by a reckless father from his clearly-unwell son contributed to the murders of four innocent people last week.

The usual reflex response from the right after a mass shootings relates to mental health, and yet there were already plenty of folks who knew of the boy's unsettled behavior, and on top of that, we've learned his mother tried to warn the school the morning of the shooting. Well, that didn't work, did it?

Another instant statement from the right: "now's not the time." Spoiler alert: it's never "the time" with them; but I have a theory as to why that's the knee-jerk retort. It turns out they're most vulnerable to doing something. Listen to the conservative pundits from Sunday's "The Georgia Gang" TV program for evidence.

Lastly, I'm really sad this even has to be brought up, but whispers in conservative media about Colt Gray having "gender issues" is sort of ... gross, and on so many levels. First, a rural Georgia teenage boy with shoulder length hair isn't all that unusual these days. Second, the subtle transphobia in suggesting even the possibility that that's the cause for Gray's murderous spree leaves out the most important aspect - who, but a bullied child (we do know he suffered from that) would go to such lengths and do we not need to address the bullying and not the "why he was being bullied?" if that is indeed why?

Also, isn't even just the speculating sort of a dogwhistle for other transphobic minds to do the same?

Like I said ... gross.

As families make burial and/or memorial plans in Winder, Georgia, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) pinned the father of the 14-year old shooting suspect with an array of charges, including second degree murder. We've learned more about the 2023 incident where a Jackson County (GA) sheriff's investigator visited father Collin and son Colt in 2023 - yet another "warning sign" that went largely untouched. Hear those conversations. Oh, and mother Marcee, has a long criminal rap sheet, too. Not that gun enthusiast and parents with priors can't be good parents; these two just obviously weren't. The boy's aunt tells the Washington Post that he'd been "begging for months" for mental help.

Is there a "culture" problem we need to discuss? Social media content creator Jameelah Jones - @SunnyDaeJones - wonders why white families and parents aren't scrutinized the way black families and parents are about "violence" and "culture" in a blistering TIkTok that's gone viral. She joined me today for a broader conversation on that topic.

Also, a previously-scheduled state Senate subcommittee meeting just happened to occur the day after the mass shooting - focusing on gun safety. That's where Heather Hallett of Georgia Moms for Change was among a handful of advocates for "common sense" legislation to make some sharpened points in the shooting's aftermath.

You can tell we're desensitized by mass shootings when it doesn't take over your social media feeds. Such was the case yesterday when the U.S. largely went about its business as four were killed in a north Georgia high school at the hands of a 14-year old boy with access to an "AR style" weapon.

You can hear the late-night GBI update, with Governor Brian Kemp (for whatever reason) droning on with his thanks (the least he can do, being the signer of gun nut-friendly laws), local TV reporters mingling with arriving parents all re-routed on foot as they approach the school campus and hear student reactions from the Atlanta Journal Constitution as well, to get a sense of the deranged scenario that plays out so "normal-like" in our country.

I'm joined by Democratic nominee for the 10th Congressional district Apalachee High School is in, Lexy Doherty, today. Hear her reaction and get to know her - a stark contrast of sane rationality vs. the MAGA insanity of Rep. Mike Collins.

Fox News is always gonna "Fox News" with antics from the likes of Jesse Watters (even 'judge Jeanine' gets turned off by him now and then), but they can't un-data their own data. Their latest polling shows Kamala Harris has caught (and likely surpassed) Donald Trump in key swing states and nationally.Ya know what? Those polls may actually under-sell her position, what with the surge in voter registration since she ascended to the top of the ticket.

An intriguing piece from Politico's Jonathan Martin ponders if it's better for the GOP to lose (again) the White House this November or to let the "fever" run its course with (just) one more Trump presidency. We dive in.

Oh, and Donald lost in court; again. He'll have to change his tune.

Governor Tim Walz stumped in Wisconsin at "Laborfest" while a rejuvenated President Joe Biden joined VP Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh on Labor Day rallying organized labor. Meanwhile, Donald Trump stewed on social media from Mar A Lago (with nothing on his calendar this week) and his VP pick, Senator JD Vance did as most Americans did and just enjoyed an "off-day."

The contrasts couldn't be more glaring, but you'll hear both stump stops and get some noteworthy reminders who has the working folks' interests and who doesn't.