@AmeshiaCross
We all should remember Black Americans, specifically the descendants of the survivors of Middle Passage, have been in, and been building, this country since long before most of our European ancestors emigrated here. I can place my first American ancestor to 1850 & I'm a newbie.
@JessicaValenti
This is EXACTLY what happened to my mother in 1971, when a judge ruled she wasn't "close enough to death" to qualify for a medical procedure under the strict Massachusetts law. She survived, but was left unable to have more children at age 32. I am infuriated. 1/2
@OmariJHardy
To protect the privacy of their athletes, all universities & colleges not located in FL should refuse to play any games in the state, or any state that pulls this sh*t.
@JessicaValenti
This is also why businesses should not be sending employees to any state - for conferences, trips, whatever - that bans abortion. You don't know when one of your employees may face a crisis and be trapped by these laws. 2/2
@DianaMiller5
One of the many errors conservative women make is presuming that abortion=elective termination of an otherwise uncomplicated pregnancy. They don't even realize their own health/life may be sacrificed to the altar of their narrow-minded beliefs.
@GovMikeHuckabee
Obama not only got enemy
#1
OBL, he did so while rhetorically destroying Donnie at the correspondents' dinner. Meanwhile your Dear Leader can't even criticize his bff Vladimir, much less impose Congressional sanctions against him, so, um No.
@NoLieWithBTC
In 1971, when my mother lost a pregnancy at 22 - 23 weeks, as she was bleeding out & in terrible pain, it was a Massachusetts judge without any medical training who decreed she wasn't "close enough to death" to qualify for a simple medical procedure to end her suffering.
@CommissBratton
Why should working people and tourists see humans who are down on their luck? Because it's a fact of life in a country with millions who scream about their Christianity while refusing to support the economic & social programs to ensure adequate, safe and clean housing.
@HeartlandSignal
If a man sent someone into your house to rob it and threaten your life, it's a "stand your ground" issue. If he forces a potential new life into your body to steal your literal flesh & blood while also threatening your life, totally different issue, right? WTF?
@Blacroc
@yuhline
This clip shows a really important thing, though. Bystander effect is real but the moment the first person steps up, notice how 4 others join him. That's vital. Overcome the shock of the moment and force yourself to act, others will follow.
@ask_aubry
Yep he's the AH, and in the immortal words of Robin Williams, unless you're having an umbrella opened up your...behind, you are not "sharing the birth experience."
@ndrew_lawrence
An eighth grader getting lippy and sarcastic and doesn't want to help around the house? Well clearly such behavior is so strange that it must have been caused by CRT. Can't imagine any other cause at all.
@BornTaLEAD
@adeledailymedia
My Ma taught for more than 35 years, nearly up to the day she finally lost the cancer battle. In her darker moments she wondered if she made an impact. At her wake, we had representatives of every class she taught, and my Dad, sister & I were comforting them. She made an impact.
@RepClayHiggins
The oldest of the Millennial generation was born during Reagan's first term. Maybe you're referring to Generation Z, who grew up in the aftermath of 9/11? Do you even understand how history works?
@mjcontrera
This article shows one of the main problems w/ white people's understanding of racism. It's not about hate. It's a power dynamic. Their ability to go to that school, and spray that graffiti without thinking about the consequences is the definition of white privilege.
@highbrow_nobrow
@keithedwards
"I can do my own research."
In fewer than 90 seconds he was wrong about:
1) timing of the first AIDS cases (actually decades before the 80s)
2) the most prominent HIV researchers (in the states, Robert Gallo)
3) the treatments for HIV/AIDS (Google "triple drug cocktail")
@Jack_Petocz
@chrislongview
Which is why liberal parents must sue anytime a straight teacher mentions a spouse or uses the terms "boys & girls," because that's introducing prohibited discussions of sexuality and gender identity.
@ZerlinaMaxwell
And I'm going to bet she took her own SATs and no one in her family had to make a "donation" to gain her admission into the college of her choice.
@Robbiepierce
@Facetious_Dem
One piece of advice for anyone facing this kind of nightmare - "bystander effect" is real. The more people around, the less likely anyone will intervene. However, single someone out & directly ask or instruct them to assist you, they likely will, and that can break the effect.
@wyntermitchell
In '71, Ma was denied an abortion as she lost her 5th pregnancy, even though she was bleeding out and the doctors had lost the heartbeat a week before. Judge ruled she wasn't "close enough to death" to qualify. Resulting damage left her unable to have more children. She was 32.
@roywoodjr
@TrashPandaFTW
Cards aren't processed until they land. Found out when my credit card was cut off in SF after American waited 6 days to process the charge for the beer I drank on the way out and I suddenly couldn't pay my hotel bill because the system had charges in OK and CA in the same day.
@DAvallone
In 1971 Ma lost her 5th pregnancy at 23 - 24 weeks. Doctors feared for her life/health & petitioned the Mass court for permission to abort the pregnancy. Judge ruled Ma wasn't "close enough to death." She bled out for 18 hours & was left infertile. Radicalized her too.
@evanasmith
@GovAbbott
@JoeBiden
@POTUS
Abbott arguing for the deliberate murder of brown children because a corporation refused to ensure its own machinery was free of bacterial contamination is very on point for a "pro-life Christian."
@KatieDaviscourt
Heroes are those willing to sacrifice for others. These men and women refuse to take the necessary step to protect their communities. They're better finding another line of work where they can't spread disease, death & misery.
@KayaJones
Triggering? Hardly, but as a skin cancer survivor, I would suggest copious use of sunscreen. I'm a liberal, so I want everyone to practice good preventive care.
@jelani9
Months later, when her principal saw the increased test scores for her class, he asked "what did you do?" She replied, "I fed them." This is not to lionize my mother, but to point out how a small bit of empathy goes a long way.
@HereToRebuild
@chrislhayes
@ClaraJeffery
Who knew that a bunch of mediocre rich white guys whose fathers bought their way through life and never had to work for anything did not, in fact, make the best public servants? Well, I guess we all do, now, because it's amazing to see so much improvement so fast.
@RepVernonJones
Funny, the rest of America wishes the alleged followers of the rabbi Jesus of Nazareth would pay as much attention to his actual teachings as they do to using their churches to promote bigotry, false witness, divisiveness & hate.
@grahamwalker
That completely healthy pregnancy you wanted, planned for and were thrilled to learn happened? That can turn on a dime and suddenly become a life- or health-threatening emergency, but the GOP doesn't think you're thoughtful enough to make the decision to terminate on your own.
@MarisaKabas
A friend of mine used to work for a company that had an "Aunt Nancy" day policy, in which you could take a last-minute, unplanned vacation day for your mental health, by claiming your Aunt Nancy had come into town unexpectedly.
@RepJeffDuncan
@MLB
You're directly retaliating against an organization making a stand for democracy. You won't even acknowledge there are millions of your fellow Americans with significant concerns about these laws. That's not a democracy, fella.
@KatieMaree_88
@imbdennis
That you're not isolating in jail, which is where I would have been after an assault like that, is testament alone to your human decency. Thank you for all that you're doing, and know there are millions out here trying to protect our communities.
@tomandlorenzo
Even worse have been the absolute lies rolling around social media, everything from "she was visibly drunk" while greeting mourners with the P&P of Wales, to criticism she had put on a fake tan (because a brown skinned woman living in CA would normally be pale?).
@MangoPineappl19
@JanNWolfe
The ones who feel guilty are the white parents feeling both because they weren't taught accurate history and they may have to confront their own biases. Part of the problem is white people equate racism solely with hate - if I don't want to do you harm, I'm not racist.
@mikepompeo
The founding document of our government was so inadequate those founders amended it 10 times as soon as it was ratified. It's been amended 17 additional times since then to correct flaws (well, 15 times, Prohibition is an outlier). Do you even know American history?
@FedonRebel
@KimKardashian
Yep, I've already planned out 2 weeks of social isolation so I can travel to FL and sit in my father's living room to celebrate Christmas with him (he's 80 and alone), then the 2 weeks of quarantine after I return. This means giving up Turkey Day with my sister & family in MA.
@jelani9
My mother, who when she was teaching in a very poor school in Rochester, NY in the 1960s, brought bread & peanut butter so that every one of her kids, no matter how much breakfast they claimed to have had, all ate something before school started.
@lilll_uglyyy
@starryxdjh
Wow, you mean, if you harass someone, there might be consequences? What a mind-blowing concept! (Seriously, she graduated college, correct?)
@michelepexner
You work for a man who openly lied to the press, just today, by claiming "no one" was questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election. Why should we believe anything that comes out of his office?
@iamalmostlegend
"...25 minutes after [the challenge to find any racist past] was made, Mary Nicosia admitted she's the owner of an anonymous Twitter account that she and the lawyer admit posted racist tweets." WTF were these people thinking?
@clairecmc
The "pro-life" movement was never about morality or concern for developing humans; it simply provides a rhetorical cudgel to prop up the tribal belief of certain "Christians" that they're innately morally superior.
@RAMansour
Dr. George Tiller was assassinated in his church by a "pro-life Christian" who believed the lies spread by those who use their religion as a moral cudgel. The entire movement was the foundation of the modern conservative Bear False Witness strategy in the "culture wars."
@ConnieSchultz
@megynkelly
@naomiosaka
I appreciate your concern, but to think Kelly is going to even acknowledge that a non-white person has enough value to show them empathy & compassion is, sadly, beyond the pale.
@RonFilipkowski
Even worse, he was there with other friends to cheer on one of his daughter's friends who was performing. Imagine a military vet who likes all kinds of people. What a horrifying thought /s
@McJesse
My Dad had to sell the house when Ma died and he went through bankruptcy. It's been 22 years and when I'm back visiting my sister, I'll sometimes just drive by the old house and lament that the new owners pulled out the rose bush Ma spent years cultivating.
@ahappything
@franklinleonard
Lawyer, comedian, TV star, epic dancer, brave leader, proud father, loving husband AND he likes dogs. If you wrote this in a screenplay the producer would say you're laying it on too thick.
@funder
My uncle had Down's. He had the intellectual development of a 2-year-old. He was, by far, a better person, and brought more joy to this world in one day, than this piece of garbage in her lifetime. I am beyond disgusted.
#ExpelMarjorie
@dex_ruth
@choo_ek
It got ridiculous during the '84 election, because Ferraro didn't take her husband's name, and the Times couldn't figure out how to refer to her. She wasn't Mrs. Zaccaro (her husband's name), but she also wasn't Miss Ferrraro.
@PigmyWurm
@elsebelle
@tlecaque
Not just any HIPAA violation. Literally psychotherapy notes are the only part of a patient's medical record that cannot be freely shared among clinicians treating the same patient.
@mkraju
@HolmesJosh
Like a lot of "Christians," Ted & Heidi don't get that "do unto others" has a flip side: if you sh*t over people repeatedly, they'll eventually treat you the same. Maybe you should have tried to be decent humans first?
@chrismorley
I was watching the vote tally and getting a little worried at all the Democratic "no" votes, until I heard Jeffries was holding a bunch of votes back to ensure the
#MAGA
Party did their part. I like this new leadership, they clearly learned from their elders.
@Cirincione
@Tesla
@elonmusk
@Twitter
I'm a progressive who's about 1/2 way through my tenure with what I presume to be my last ICE car. I can confirm this entire fiasco, and the burgeoning availability of competitive products, has pretty much ensured I won't step foot in a Tesla dealership when the time comes.
@AOC
Shhhh, no one tell her that DC already has this law on the books, and has for >10 years. Note, we have not destroyed women's rights, women's sports or religious freedom. Only unintended consequence was gay bars having to admit bachelorette parties ๐๐
@RealCandaceO
You should also make the pledge not to seek any medical care if/when you contract any variant of
#COVID
. The problem is, because selfish cruelty is the point of your political "movement," you'll push others out of the way to access care when you need it.
#Deplorable
.
@FPWellman
Gay man raised in a Catholic family in Massachusetts. Parents were JFK Democrats - think Rob & Laura Petrie. Sister is married to a high school classmate, going on 32 years with two great sons. I am a member of this extended family and even w/out kids have a stake in the future.
@dogstar7tweets
@Robbiepierce
@Facetious_Dem
When I was assaulted in DC yrs ago - brick to the face - I ran into the street and literally pointed at drivers and demanded "You! Help me!" Three of them called 911 and a former military medic who lived in the neighborhood heard what I was yelling and helped.
@RonFilipkowski
Those adulterers are so precious. Just look at them violate every sexual rule that "Christians" are supposed to uphold, while lecturing the rest of us on morality. How cute!
@alex_abads
1. Both women just seem like nice people, making this all the better.
2. Love how Clarkson is doing her cover of every song, while Grande is doing her best impersonation of each original singer. It's like the two strategies of good karaoke playing off each other.
@laurenthehough
Suddenly feel the need to search for the USAirways flight attendant who was incredibly sympathetic & helpful when I had to fly from DC to Massachusetts in January '97 because I found out my mother was dying.
@ask_aubry
Ma volunteered at a DV shelter. She assisted a lot of women trying to disappear from abusers. She'd send me addressed/stamped letters the women wrote to family back home & I'd mail them from various US locations while on business trips, so the post mark couldn't pinpoint them.
@AndrewCFollett
@whignewtons
There's a corollary to the "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" message. It's "if you defecate on people for long enough, they aren't going to like you very much." If you think calling pro-choice people "baby killers," claiming Black Americans are lazy or... 1/2
@BrentBozell
Yeah, that arrangement worked out really well for the girl he raped. She's dead now, btw, and her rapist is being all judgemental about the child he forced her to create with her flesh & blood. I guess celebrating rapists as good men is on point for the "moral majority."
@Cslither973
@notcapnamerica
I was obsessed with cars - Matchbox & full size - sci-fi shows, disaster movies and the Hardy Boys book series. Queer as a $3 bill.
@RightWingCope
When my mother passed in 1997 from cancer, at age 58, there were women literally hitting on my father in the line at the wake. He waited 6 months before beginning to date again, and my sister & I were fine with it.
@ScottCopeland12
@MarisaKabas
My mother referred to it as "the most romantic thing your father ever did for me" (she had been denied a medically necessary abortion in '71 and nearly died; doctors told her she couldn't carry another pregnancy, and trying would kill her). He just called it "shooting blanks."
@RonFilipkowski
It's not the racism, the sexual assault, the self-dealing or any of the other myriad corruptions of this con man and his family that finally does it - it's him proving what an insignificant twerp he really is. I'll take it.
@GlynnisI
@stybba3019
@byKateSmith
Only correction I'd make, at that point there is no "baby." Rather, she's carrying an embryo that could have led to a baby, after a lot of hard work by the woman in question, but never will.
@seanspicer
@CNN
You do know that people who get shot end up in hospitals, right? And those hospitals are part of hour health care infrastructure? So, by definition, anything that drives people to use hospitals is a public health issue.
@KeneAkers
@zeebap2
"Ma'am, this is X at Lowe's. I understand you refused our delivery because the driver was the wrong race. We're so sorry for the confusion and will reimburse you the cost of the purchase. We hope you can find a racist company to better serve your needs." Just that simple.
@laurenboebert
"I'm not just irresponsible, I'm also paranoid enough to think I'm under threat all the time" isn't exactly the "lib owning" you might think.
@KalynnBayron
@clairewillett
What you're telling me is I won't be able to buy Ken's Mojo Dojo Casa House, aren't you? โน๏ธโน๏ธโน๏ธ
Seriously - Margot Robbie & Ryan Gosling for the Oscars, because they completely understood the assignment.
@RudyGiuliani
"Our current administration"? Given you were a key collaborator in the attempted coup against this duly, freely and honestly elected administration, I guess we should be happy you're sort of admitting you were wrong, but you still don't have the credibility to criticize it.
@AnnabelTheRose
@KayserCathie
@sandy_kaw
@OmariJHardy
Did no one consider a coach might use this exact tactic - questioning the gender of a number of kids on an opposing team - just to score a victory. It's a recipe for sheer disaster.
@HeartlandSignal
The total and complete dismissal of the extreme physical challenges of pregnancy, which not every woman (and certainly not children) can handle, is repugnant. I'm thinking of a teammate's wife with Lupus who tried to have a child, but her body couldn't handle the strain.
@MarlenaStell
@DrVirgo1981
"Pro-life Christian" women insisted this could not happen, because that's "not abortion." They fundamentally don't understand either the full process of pregnancy, or the myriad types of abortion care there are.
@anamariecox
I also love that they point out Steele was dead set against a
#Trump
presidency. So a
#Russia
expert did research into Donald's business background and was so appalled at what he found he realized Donald couldn't effectively govern. Sounds about right to me.
@diannaeanderson
Anti-trans: bigots "you're either a biological male or biological female!"
Also anti-trans bigots: "cut my son up because he shows tissue growth that should only occur in a biological female!"
Then anti-trans bigots: "there are only 2, totally different, genders!"
@SheaKitten
@ElieNYC
Why isn't it a "stand your ground" issue? That new life is going to literally take the nutrition the woman intakes, the air she breathes and the calcium in her bones, while threatening her life the entire time.
@RobertKennedyJr
This is not an apology; this is an excuse in which you place the blame on those you offended, rather than taking personal responsibility. It's bad enough you invaded my city and likely caused innocent people to get infected; this is just twisting the knife.
@misosusanowa
@4T9NER
There were 2 "spinster" great-aunts via marriage in my family. One was tall & blonde, the other short & dark. They died when I was a kid, the tall one first. At the short aunt's funeral, there were strange people in the family pew. That's when Ma explained they weren't sisters.