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Arkansas Granny
Arkansas Granny's Journal
Arkansas Granny's Journal
October 16, 2020
https://twitter.com/i/status/1315735087737122816
This is why we need Al Franken back in the Senate.
https://twitter.com/Pithygirl/status/1315735087737122816?s=20https://twitter.com/i/status/1315735087737122816
October 15, 2020
https://twitter.com/SwanWhisperr/status/1316814875700662273/photo/1?
A message from "Dr. Seuss".
https://twitter.com/SwanWhisperr/status/1316814875700662273?s=20https://twitter.com/SwanWhisperr/status/1316814875700662273/photo/1?
October 15, 2020
Butler, then the head of the agencys coronavirus response, and his team had been trying to craft guidance to help Americans return safely to worship amid worries that two of its greatest comforts the chanting of prayers and singing of hymns could launch a deadly virus into the air with each breath.
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On Friday, Trumps aides called the CDC repeatedly about the guidance, according to emails. Why is it not up? they demanded until it was posted on the CDC website that afternoon.
The next day, a furious call came from the office of the vice president: The White House suggestions were not optional. The CDCs failure to use them was insubordinate, according to emails at the time.
Fifteen minutes later, one of Butlers deputies had the agencys text replaced with the White House version, the emails show. The danger of singing wasnt mentioned.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-fall-of-the-cdc?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature
Inside the Fall of the CDC
How the worlds greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.Butler, then the head of the agencys coronavirus response, and his team had been trying to craft guidance to help Americans return safely to worship amid worries that two of its greatest comforts the chanting of prayers and singing of hymns could launch a deadly virus into the air with each breath.
---snip---
On Friday, Trumps aides called the CDC repeatedly about the guidance, according to emails. Why is it not up? they demanded until it was posted on the CDC website that afternoon.
The next day, a furious call came from the office of the vice president: The White House suggestions were not optional. The CDCs failure to use them was insubordinate, according to emails at the time.
Fifteen minutes later, one of Butlers deputies had the agencys text replaced with the White House version, the emails show. The danger of singing wasnt mentioned.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-fall-of-the-cdc?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature
October 14, 2020
Might As Well Have A Good Time
October 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/i/status/1315996719134519296
Does this sound familiar?
https://twitter.com/FirenzeMike/status/1315996719134519296?s=20https://twitter.com/i/status/1315996719134519296
October 12, 2020
NoelCaslerComedy
@CaslerNoel
People with extreme gun rights views like Amy Coney Barrett should be given a bucket and a sponge and sent to the site of a mass shooting to help clean up. @realDonaldTrump
2:29 PM · Oct 12, 2020
An observation about Amy Coney Barrett's gun rights views.
https://twitter.com/CaslerNoel/status/1315736404140470273?s=20NoelCaslerComedy
@CaslerNoel
People with extreme gun rights views like Amy Coney Barrett should be given a bucket and a sponge and sent to the site of a mass shooting to help clean up. @realDonaldTrump
2:29 PM · Oct 12, 2020
October 12, 2020
Senator Gary Peters Shares His Abortion Story He's the first sitting senator in history to do so.
United States Senator Gary Peters, a low-key, moderate Democrat from Michigan, is in a very tight re-election race that could decide whether his party wins the Senate. But hes not the kind of guy who typically makes national headlines. Hes more known for being a dad who enjoys riding his motorcycle and drinking the local beer than he is for saying attention-grabbing things. So it may come as a surprise that with this story, he will become the first sitting senator in American history to publicly share a personal experience with abortion.
It's a story of how gut-wrenching and complicated decisions can be related to reproductive health, a situation I went through with my first wife, he told me in a phone interview Sunday afternoon.
In the late 1980s in Detroit, Peters and his then wife, Heidi, were pregnant with their second child, a baby they very much wanted. Heidi was four months along when her water broke, leaving the fetus without amniotic fluida condition it could not possibly survive. The doctor told the Peters to go home and wait for a miscarriage to happen naturally.
But it didnt happen. They went back to the hospital the next day, and the doctor detected a faint heartbeat. He recommended an abortion, because the fetus still had no chance of survival, but it wasnt an option due to a hospital policy banning the procedure. So he sent the couple again home to wait for a miscarriage. The mental anguish someone goes through is intense, Peters says, trying to have a miscarriage for a child that was wanted.
https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a34339956/senator-gary-peters-abortion/
It's a story of how gut-wrenching and complicated decisions can be related to reproductive health, a situation I went through with my first wife, he told me in a phone interview Sunday afternoon.
In the late 1980s in Detroit, Peters and his then wife, Heidi, were pregnant with their second child, a baby they very much wanted. Heidi was four months along when her water broke, leaving the fetus without amniotic fluida condition it could not possibly survive. The doctor told the Peters to go home and wait for a miscarriage to happen naturally.
But it didnt happen. They went back to the hospital the next day, and the doctor detected a faint heartbeat. He recommended an abortion, because the fetus still had no chance of survival, but it wasnt an option due to a hospital policy banning the procedure. So he sent the couple again home to wait for a miscarriage. The mental anguish someone goes through is intense, Peters says, trying to have a miscarriage for a child that was wanted.
https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a34339956/senator-gary-peters-abortion/
October 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/LisaDNews/status/1315656327956492288/photo/1?
Are Republicans turning this hearing into another super-spreader event?
https://twitter.com/LisaDNews/status/1315656327956492288?s=20https://twitter.com/LisaDNews/status/1315656327956492288/photo/1?
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