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FACT CHECK: In
@HoppyKercheval
's latest, the commentator makes a series of claims about the City of Morgantown's proposed camping ban.
Having covered homelessness for years in WV, I've added much-needed context to his claims....
This morning's commentary: Morgantown will soon be the next city to ban homeless encampments.
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BREAKING: I’ve confirmed that Timothy Loehmann, the man who shot and killed 12 year old Tamir Rice as a Cleveland Police officer in 2014, has been hired to work in West Virginia.
Sources say Greenbrier County Sheriff’s Department, will confirm later.
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Rita Ray, 80, who risked her life pre-Roe by getting an abortion from someone who wasn’t a healthcare provider, watches on as Addison Gardner, 12, contemplates her own future without access to legal abortion in WV.
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“We don’t want the vaccine in our bodies because we don’t know what’s in it,” said an anti-vaxxer at a rally in Huntington, WV today while eating a free hotdog
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Capitol security said while last night wasn’t the largest turnout they’d ever seen, it was the loudest. 11+ hours of non-stop demanding repro rights in WV’s Capitol last night.
Security: Do you guys run on batteries or something?
Woman: No, Anger.
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BREAKING: Allegations of a "fentanyl-laced marijuana" overdose death are making the rounds in Morgantown, WV.
I just spoke with Dr. Lee Smith (Mon. County Health Officer) who told me the reporting on this incident is coming straight from the police. Here's why that's an issue.🧵
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Over 200 students walked out of Morgantown High in WV today in protest of a recent decision by their county’s superintendent to ban Pride flags in classrooms. After walking out, they taped a flag to the school’s wall and held up their hands in the shape of a heart.
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Friday night, a delegate with the WV Legislature repeatedly used homophobic slurs at me over the phone.
Today, when we spoke he said he'd been drinking, didn't remember the conversation, and was deeply sorry. But like I told him, I feel a sense of duty to share what happened. 🧵
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After citizens in White Sulphur Springs learned their town hired Timothy Loehmann (the man who shot and killed 12 year old Tamir Rice) these signs appeared outside city hall.
Someone who saw them said they went up around 8pm but were removed by 9:30pm.
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BREAKING: Timothy Loehmann, the officer who shot and killed Tamir Rice, has (again) resigned from a police department following public outcry.
Per
@WVVA
, White Sulphur Springs Mayor Kathy Glover issued the following statement on Loehmann.
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On Feb. 9, Huntington High students will stage a walkout during homeroom. This is in response to an incident last week where multiple classes were forced to attend a “revival” that was held on school property during instruction time.
It's come to our attention that students at Huntington High School plan to walk out this week to protest their school’s unlawful decision to allow a Christian revival during school hours. ACLU-WV stands with these students, and we will monitor the situation closely.
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Manchin was the only Dem. senator to serve as a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec), a conservative non-profit that focuses on reducing business regulations, weakening labor unions, loosening environmental conservation efforts and restricting voting rights.
Did not know this: in 2012 Joe Manchin was listed as an ALEC member -the only Democratic senator to be on that list.
@WilliamKyleVass
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"You roll up that window and I swear to God I'll fucking shoot you."
Rivesville Police Chief Nathan Lanham (working here part-time for Monongah PD) can be seen here showing exactly how not to de-escalate a situation. Records show Lanham is currently employed at FIVE departments.
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Last week, a fake news site was set up to “expose” a WV gubernatorial candidate’s sexual orientation.
This week, I cracked it. The site belongs to
@FamilyPolicyWV
President Caiden Cowger and the article in question has ties to
@macwarner4gov
.
A thread with receipts:
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UPDATE: Loehmann was hired by the White Sulphur Springs Police Department, not GCSD. Per govt source, he is currently employed there.
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This comes two years after Loehmann resigned from his job as a cop in a small town (Tioga, Pennsylvania) amid community pushback.
(Excellent reporting by
@minxian_
at
@SpotlightPA
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While the WV House voted to pass an abortion ban (with 3-10 years in prison for providers and no exceptions for rape/incest) the chamber was filled with chants of “fuck you” from the crowd outside.
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"Can you believe white nationalists were marching in Charleston today???"
Yes. Yes I can.
White supremacist group Patriot Front marching through the streets of Charleston, WV
“Be vigilant. They cover their faces for a reason. My bet is hardly anyone in this group is from WV. Most times, groups like this will bus people in to try to recruit new members.”
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Three years ago in Charleston, WV officials alleged a syringe services program was responsible for an uptick in crime. The claims were unfounded but the program was forced to shut down. (1/5)
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Four years before that, Loehmann was hired by Bellaire police in Ohio (just across the river from Wheeling, WV) police but withdrew his application to work there.
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I asked Sen. Grady how she opposes safe space signs in schools but voted for a bill to put "In God We Trust" at the entrance of every school in WV.
She said it's not the same because, "[In God We Trust] does start the beginning of our Constitution."
No. It doesn't.
WV Senator Amy Grady, who is also an educator, says that flags don’t do the job of creating a safe space, teachers do.
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To anyone who missed it, Sen. Smith (R - Tucker) said he's drafting a eugenics bill for the upcoming session to prevent people who use drugs from having kids.
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Dr. Smith said the Mon. County Sheriff's Dept. used a fentanyl test strip on marijuana found at the scene. But, past reporting has shown that police field testing crime scene weed for fentanyl can result in an incredibly high rate (98%) of false positives.
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For anyone following the ongoing
#DerrickEvans
story
!!! NEW: Justice Dept. has charged West Virginia state delegate with illegally entering US Capitol. Derek Evans
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Police in WV rarely face consequences for misconduct. When they do, it’s often dealt with by letting them transfer departments.
I wanted to know what that looked like and this is the result: an interactive map of cops playing musical chairs across the state.
In West Virginia, police who are fired or allowed to resign "in lieu of termination" due to misconduct are allowed to switch departments.
Our latest story from
@WilliamKyleVass
uses public records to show where these officers go and what they've done.
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And with news that a new federal law will allow the FCC to cap costs on calls from jails, the company with a monopoly on that market in WV (GTL) is seeing its stock tank.
You fucking love to see it.
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Any death is a tragedy, especially in WV -- the hardest hit state by the overdose crisis. But people are dying because the government's war on drugs makes them turn to an licit drug supply. Misinformation is their greatest weapon. Test your drugs and always question the police.❤️
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Being honest, I'm glad Nestor agreed to chat of the record today. FWIW, he seemed shocked he'd said those things and very remorseful.
My suggestion to him: Apologize (of course) but do something as a lawmaker or businessman to show you give a damn about LGBTQ+ people.
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In his State of the State Address tonight,
@WVGovernor
said multiple times that with him charge, WV is "no longer competing with Mississippi" for dead last last in national rankings.
Gov. Jim Justice is right. Mississippi is doing better than West Virginia in several areas.🧵
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In Connecticut last year, 39 of 40 samples of marijuana that initially tested positive for fentanyl were later confirmed to be false positives.
Dr. Smith said he's not sure if the Sheriff's Dept will be doing confirmatory testing in this incident.
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The DAY after news breaks of a trans/non-binary kid being killed at school in a bathroom and this is the ad
@chrismillergov
puts out?
Hey Chris, we had a kid die in Wayne County last week due to the lack of EMS services. I get you want that easy vote. But this is disgusting.
🚨
#MillerforGov
releases new TV ad, “Locker Room” 🚨
As the father of an 11-year-old girl, you’re darn right I don’t want her sharing a locker room with biological males. Girl’s locker rooms are for girls. And they’ll stay that way when I’m Governor.
#WVpol
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According to unsheltered people in
@huntingtoncity
, police officers have been running them off the day shelter’s property. So, I showed up at 5am today and it checks out. Filmed three officers kicking a 55 year-old woman (born and raised here) from under the shelter awning. (1/4)
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Unless the Mon. County Sheriff's Dept. releases confirmatory testing from the state lab, this claim has to be met with a high degree of skepticism, especially when the state govt is relying on misinfo about weed/fentanyl to bring back the death penalty:
In the latest episode of governments using fentanyl to justify militarism, WV Senate President Craig Blair is proposing legislation to reinstate the death penalty for people caught selling fentanyl over a certain amount.
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Had no idea Gordon Gee was on Massey's Board of Directors Safety and Environmental Committee for NINE of the ten years leading up to the Upper Big Branch disaster.
Good to know driving WVU into ruin is only the second most horrific stain on this guy's legacy.
In 2010, an explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine killed 29 miners. Gee was not only on the Board ... he was on the Safety Committee.
Massey was well-known to ignore and avoid spending on safety requirements under CEO Blakenship and Gee.
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TERMINATED: As of today, Chief Nathan Lanham is no longer with the Monongah Police Department.
This information was shared by Mayor John "Johnboy" Palmer via a Facebook news group about an hour ago.
"You roll up that window and I swear to God I'll fucking shoot you."
Rivesville Police Chief Nathan Lanham (working here part-time for Monongah PD) can be seen here showing exactly how not to de-escalate a situation. Records show Lanham is currently employed at FIVE departments.
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When cops get caught falsifying evidence or otherwise engaged in criminal behavior, they may end up on a prosecutors office’s Brady list. It’s a list of cops they won’t call to the stand.
Here’s that list for the Kanawha County Prosecuting attorneys office as of January 2021.
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Heartbreaking story on the 13 year-old kid in Huntington who was struck and killed by an off-duty sherriff’s deputy earlier this week.
Mother of 13-year-old Laney Hudson, who was struck and killed by an off-duty Cabell County sheriff's deputy last week, said she was informed of her daughters death by a stranger, not a law enforcement officer. She confronted the sheriff Tuesday morning.
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The revolution will be hot.
The revolution will be ready.
The revolution will be HOT-N-READY®
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WV has had 49 years since Roe v. Wade came down to address its pre-Civil War abortion ban (with 3 to 10 years in jail for providers.) Instead, we get our Governor making a deal in a single day with forced-birth Christian nationalists to get a tax cut for the wealthy through.
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YOOOO. Remember that sketchy "fentanyl exposure" incident in Oak Hill where a Black man was charged with attempted murder of two police officers for allegedly throwing fent in their faces?
Police tested negative for fentanyl aaaand the body cam footage just dropped.
BREAKING: Cop Overdose Video | Lab Results In!
Link 👇
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I made a thing!
The McElroy Brothers Will Be In Trolls World Tour: The Final Chapter has arrived.
It all comes down to this.
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Cabell Co. BOE meeting tomorrow at 4:30 is going to be wild. HEMS parents saying that kids were separated by gender at an assembly this week. Girls allegedly told if they wear things like “ripped jeans” they can’t be surprised when they’re “touched inappropriately.”
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(Also, I'd like to preface this by saying reporters get excited when they find out something scandalous. This ain't it. Being slurred, even when you're not a member of that community, fucking hurts. This experience has left me feeling hurt and angry on behalf of LGBTQ+ people.)
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When a local guy asked a white supremacist why he was protesting on the streets of Huntington today, the first reason to come out of his mouth was critical race theory.
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Gardner, speaking against the ban, said, “If a man decides that I’m an object, and does unspeakable and tragic things to me, am I, a child, supposed to carry and birth another child? Am I to put my body through the physical trauma of pregnancy?“
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Hours later, the House, by a thin margin, amended the abortion ban to include a rape/incest exception — but only up to 14 weeks of pregnancy AND if a police report is filed. When people Gardner’s age are sexually abused, it goes unreported 88% of the time.
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HAPPENING: Day 2 of forced birth demonstrations/student protests at
@marshallu
.
MUPD told one student they can’t sit on the grass near the demonstration and are threatening them with a student conduct violation. Since then, other students have joined in solidarity.
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Like coal mines deaths, opioids, and infrastructure collapse, West Virginia is now likely to be leading the nation in a new disturbing trend: the failure of the journalism industry as we know it to protect journalists.
What's going on? And can it be reinvented? 🧵
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Protestors were using Mt. Dew and HOT-N-READY® to demand the government hear them as Senators voted behind closed doors. (This might be the most inspiringly Appalachian thing I’ve ever seen in my life.)
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Upset that LGBTQ+ folks here have to live in fear of being called dehumanizing slurs, denied service, and access to basic healthcare. Upset that someone just doing their damn job could draw such vitriol.
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BODYCAM: Edmond Exline died after being beaten by three WVSP officers in Martinsburg last year.
They’re named as John Does in the lawsuit, but I’ve confirmed it was Thomas Ellis, Bradley Mason, and Abraham Bean.
Ellis had Exline on the ground when the other two arrived.
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Here at Marshall University where forced birth demonstrators have set up a rather large graphic display.
Protestors have shown up to show them they’re not welcome.
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@BetteMidler
So,
@BetteMidler
which progressive political organization in WV are you going to be making that donation to?
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UPDATE: The Chief of White Sulphur Springs Police Dept D. S. Teubert spoke with
@clevelanddotcom
about his decision to hire Timothy Loehman (the man who shot and killed Tamir Rice).
Teubert met him through friend in the military and spent a year looking into him.
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@KissMySassBby
@nikescarkyle
The fact this misinformation has 258 likes while the factual take below it has like five is also very alarming.
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After watching two Charleston Police officers kick unsheltered people out of this park for being there after 11 (city ordinance violation), I decided to go see how people were treated for breaking that same law in other city parks. 🧵
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In 2015, when
@dougskaff
was caught cheating at the Greenbirer Casino, he was put on a statewide casino blacklist.
@wvgazettemail
covered it.
Since then, Skaff was named president of HD Media (the paper’s parent company) and all coverage of the incident was deleted.
Ex-legislator Doug Skaff on casino ban list after blackjack cheating incident
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First up Wendy Fire, a teacher from Hurricane High. She holds up a sign that was removed. “I want to know how this is political?” Says she was told today she had to remove it from her classroom.
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UPDATE: White Sulphur Springs Mayor Glover: Chief Teubert (who hired Timothy Loehmann) has resigned as chief and demoted himself to patrolman.
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I had to hear this on the drive home, mere hours after covering a public hearing on a House bill that would give business owners the right to discriminate against LGBTQ+ folks. In the moment, I was gobsmacked. But when I woke up the next day, I felt deeply upset.
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Books and Brews and Elk City Records, two businesses that have benefitted from the revitalization of Charleston's Elk City neighborhood, are lobbying alongside a slew of other businesses/residents to prevent a day shelter from opening that would serve unhoused people in the area.
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Happy to announce that as of today I'm working full-time for
@ACLU_WV
as an investigative reporter. Hiring journalists is a relatively new practice for
@ACLU
, but other affiliates like
@ACLUofMichigan
have uncovered major stories with their reporters. Excited to do the same!
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Got a close up shot of the sign that a teacher was asked to remove today for being political.
Pretty sure telling a teacher they can’t have this sign is the actual “being political” going on here.
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It’s that time of the year in WV where we get to watch a bunch of people who pretend to hate government expand it to limit health care in objectively one of the unhealthiest states in America.
Godspeed to anyone having anything to do with these people over the next two months.
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There’s a reason people like Bernie, Ojeda, and Shrewsbury have done absolute gangbusters in WV compared to what establishment types (anyone with Manchin’s blessing) expect their turnout to be.
The reason? They actually give a shit and people can tell.
@WilliamKyleVass
Awe. Hug it out in a corner or get behind someone who actually gives a shit.
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Full clip of the woman reading an excerpt about “pussy eating” during the public hearing on HB 4654 this morning.
Sally Rattabaum open with "I love the Lord." Reads a book she says came from a school in Williamstown. "Are you gonna eat her pussy? Yeah, Earl. I'm gonna eat her pusys. Hey, yeah. Do you even know how to eat pussy?"
Sorry, laughing too hard to continue transcribing this.
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Capital High School's Meera Hartman giving her highest honor graduate speech this. Hartman took on a "system that churns out children not to realize their individuality, but to satisfy their captors' vision." Full speech here:
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The wife of Cody Maynard, the WV State Trooper who was fatally shot last year in Mingo County last year, has repeatedly told Mike Stuart to stop using her husband’s death as an excuse to get votes.
Stuart has refused, using Maynard’s death for his own political purposes.
👀 Mingo County Deputy Sheriff Association publicly rescinded its endorsement of Sen. Mike Stuart, who is running for Attorney General.
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The story on Doug Skaff getting blacklisted from WV casinos was last seen on the
@wvgazettemail
website on 11/25/2020.
Skaff was named president of the GM's parent company just 16 days before it disappeared completely from the newspaper's site.
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HAPPENING: Putnam County BOE is meeting the first time since it started enforcing a “no political speech” policy that’s forced teachers to remove safe space signage from their classrooms. 🧵
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Last Friday, a friend was out in the same bar as Del. Ty Nestor and called me up to tell me Nestor was trash-talking me. The friend and I laughed. And, assuming at most it would be some light trading of barbs, I spoke with Nestor directly.
CW: Uncensored homophobic slurs ahead
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Me: Man, WVU SGA should stage a campus-wide walk out in solidarity with everyone impacted by the cuts.
WVU SGA: Here’s a cookie, Mr. President.
as faculty are finding out whether their programs could be downsized or eliminated, WVU president Gordon Gee is around campus greeting freshman and opened up a fortune cookie.
“A small gesture will go far with friends today.”
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Ken Tolley, a HHS alumn and preacher, says he is the son of an AP Science teacher. Says he wants to dispel the idea there is a Christian monolith against these signs. Says we need to improve how we treat kids. “sometimes that means rainbows.”
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WV Teachers: We’re struggling with staffing shortages and discipline issues
WV Lawmakers: So, you’re saying you want more access to guns and ways to bully trans kids? We got you!
@culvyhousemss
nailed it
Lawmakers have advanced bills allowing concealed carry in classrooms, requiring the discussion of intelligent design, and give teachers a pay raise.
“We’re trying to run good legislation that will improve our schools,” said Del. Joe Statler.
Read more:
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Kanawha Coutny now has the same number of new HIV cases related to IV drug use as New York City. Allowing police and politicians to dictate public health has ushered in what the CDC is calling the most concerning HIV outbreak in the nation. (4/5)
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We’re all “deeply disappointed and angry,” Delegate Crouse. But it’s over the fact you’ve wasted our time with this bullshit while West Virginians face so many real problems.
A court filled with jesters seeing who can cry the loudest about problems that never existed.
It is with a heavy heart that I share the news regarding the fate of the Women's Bill of Rights, HB5243, and its companion bill SB601. As the sponsor of this critical pieces of legislation, I am deeply disappointed and angered by their failure to come to a final vote on the floor
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House Minority Leader and President of HD Media, Doug Skaff, allegedly directed staff to delete a story about his 2015 gambling scandal.
Staff who’ve worked under Skaff say his conflicted presence undermines the Pulitzer Prize-winning paper’s integrity.
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To be fair, Joe Manchin is “a sick fuck” who “sold our futures” — especially that of the Democrats in WV.
Manchin about to throw hands. Dweeb deserved it. Obviously, he doesn't know WV.
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NOW: Hearing reports that 23 unsheltered people have been arrested in
@wvcharleston
over the last 24 hours as a run up for Regatta.
This tracks with last year’s increase in citations given to unsheltered people between the announcement of the event and the days it took place.🧵
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Delegate Geno Chiarelli (R-Monongalia) is so proud of his involvement in the New Columbia Movement that he chose to display their insignia in his legislative photo.
The New Columbia Movement is a christofascist Catholic organization. One of their members is a West Virginian state legislator, Geno Chiarelli, who is sponsoring a bill to ban gender affirming care. They want to force their christian nationalism on everyone.
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For posterity, I present to you the speech delivered by Sen. Mike Azinger (R-Wood) yesterday on the WV Senate floor. Warning: It reads sort of like Jordan Peterson getting super high on benzos, going on Joe Rogan and explaining why Joe McCarthy was right after all.
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CW: Extreme homophobia
“This is a disease of nature. Nature will take care of something that’s wrong.”
Several people have asked me why there is a strong a refusal to confront the HIV and Hep C outbreaks in Kanawha Co. My answer is a 33 year-old episode of Oprah. (1/6)
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To see young people engaging in mutual aid in the face of these generic-ass abortion misinfo sign people was so inspiring.
Radical love beat the shit out of hate and fear in Huntington. I can’t wait to see what Gen Z has in store for these people in Morgantown tomorrow!
The Appalachian Liberation Collective has unveiled their “All Pronouns Buggy” filled to the brim with Plan B (courtesy of
@HollerHealth
!) to provide it to anyone who wants. Come down and get some!
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The echoes of pizza boxes and two-liter bottles crashing together filled the chambers.
Inside, the Sen. Pres. emptied the galleries over “outbreaks” when Sen. Robert Karnes began to speak of “romanticization” in child rape victims.
Outside, the numbers (and volume) grew.
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Del. Danielle Walker brings up faith leaders, children and organizers to lead chants demanding abortion access outside the WV Senate chamber today.
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While I'm not going to tag all the businesses who signed it (they're listed on the attached letter) I'll save people the trouble and point out that neither
@KinShipGoods
nor Base Camp Printing signed on.
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Just been told speakers will be given fifteen seconds for comment at the public hearing on the abortion ban. Like everything else in the special session, transparency and discourse are actively being quashed.
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The 2024 Republican gubernatorial primary in WV will include both the son of Congresswoman Carol Miller and Senator Shelly Moore Capitol.
Who will win this face-off between two very special little guys?
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About 10 years ago, a family friend who was in high school at the time had a really bad drug experience. I think it was bath salts? Anyway, he was standing on a parked car and freaking out in nothing but his underwear. Tim Irr, who happened to be cycling by, came up to see if
Let it be known: Tim Irr is a West Virginia treasure. Always has been, always will be.
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Denaul Dickerson begged officers nine times to kill him today on Charleston’s West Side. Roughly 20 officers approached him, guns drawn. “We don’t have a single taser out here?” asked an in disbelief. After four minutes, an officer with a taser shows up.
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Something about setting up shop in a neighborhood as part of a revitalization effort and then complaining about efforts to address issues like homelessness in said neighborhood feels very gross – especially in a city that desperately lacks low-barrier shelters.
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Given the public health crisis unfolding on Charleston’s West Side, the Mayor, County Commission, and the Governor should all be working together to declare a state of emergency.
If thousands not having access to heat or clean water, isn’t a Public Health issue, what is?
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A little update on some of
@CaidenCowger
’s political shenanigans. Folks have asked:
What sitting officials have been paying him?
Is he working on any campaigns currently?
What about the other fake sites he runs?
Here’s a sneak peek into what I’ve found so far. 🧵
Last week, a fake news site was set up to “expose” a WV gubernatorial candidate’s sexual orientation.
This week, I cracked it. The site belongs to
@FamilyPolicyWV
President Caiden Cowger and the article in question has ties to
@macwarner4gov
.
A thread with receipts:
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While the incident where two classes at Huntington High were made to attend a revival is being called a "mistake" by
@cabellschools
, the event itself was defended as being "student led." However, look at this email from an HHS teacher from fewer than four months ago.
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After chanting for nearly two hours in the Capitol today, protestors rallying for the rights of LGBTQ+ youth had a moment of silence, sat down on the floor, and held hands and cried. It was an incredibly powerful thing to witness.
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A picture of a woman jailed in Marshall County for the “crime of abortion” is making its way around social media.
I spoke with the persecuting attorney there who explained it’s an error. When booked, her controlled substances list included an abortifacient.
But…
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