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ERIC. SCHMITT. CAN’T. PROTECT. MISSOURIANS. @Eric_Schmitt
-Not from abuse/slavery at unlicensed boarding schools
-Not from a pandemic ravaging hospitals and destroying families
-And not from enduring forced birth and trauma at the hands of the state.
Let’s explore.
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-Not from abuse/slavery at unlicensed boarding schools
-Not from a pandemic ravaging hospitals and destroying families
-And not from enduring forced birth and trauma at the hands of the state.
Let’s explore.
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He and @GovParsonMO allowed the situation at #Agape to go unchecked for far too long, and still haven’t stopped it.
@AGEricSchmitt’s office fielded the complaints of gang rape.
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@AGEricSchmitt’s office fielded the complaints of gang rape.
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He had received the many DHS warnings of the labor trafficking. The sickening reports of children and even employee spouses forced into involuntary servitude.
Ok folks. I think we all need a civics lesson. The concept of States Rights. It is from our most local working up to the federal govt that should be making orders,edicts, marshaling the ntl guard etc. Meaning what has your mayor or county commissioners done before they
cried out for the @POTUS to step in??? We must MUST stop asking for the feds to step in where we can locally take care of ourselves. It is called Self Governance. We cannot expect to remain as a free people if we keep screaming to be saved by the feds. Remember now that
the left is always ready to take advantage of a crisis so that they can take away more of your personal liberty. We must be wise with this cv but we must also push back and make our voices heard that we are not going to stand for usurping of our rights in the
dumb Kardashian-style palace intrigue outrage porn, courtesy of access "journalist" #MaggieDurantyHaberman right after House releases Cohen transcripts which contain DAMNING AF info about tRUmp's inner circle.
Surprise!
Surprise!
Boop. (bye-bye bar license!)
Here's a little thread about #StateRights and #StatesRights that has been puzzling me. #Twitterstorians I am anxious for your insights! 1/
Nearly every book that considers the problem of state sovereignty uses the phrase "States' Rights" to describe this constitutional idea. "States' Rights" seems to be the preferred usage over "State's Rights" and "State Rights" in University Press guides as well 2/
But anyone familiar with political language in the mid-nineteenth century knows that people at that time more commonly used STATE Rights. Folks who favored more centralized power OR who claimed power for the states--in both South and North--talked about State Rights 3/
The Trump administration is lying. They aren’t worried about our safety, and they don’t want to reduce gasoline usage. Their arguments are transparently weak. They’re denying science and truth so that they can sell us out for oil-industry cash. nytimes.com/2018/08/02/cli…
I'm proud of California for doing what's best for its citizens. #StatesRights
More Republican hypocrisy — “state's rights" tossed out when it’s inconvenient for them and the GOP agenda. They abandon it when it means cleaning up our air.
As a battle looms ahead, let’s take a look back at where we’ve been & why #CleanCarStandards are so important.
Once upon a time, CA’s fight for #cleanercars emerged from a thick layer of yellowish gray #smog with a metallic taste & eye-stinging character...
Once upon a time, CA’s fight for #cleanercars emerged from a thick layer of yellowish gray #smog with a metallic taste & eye-stinging character...
When Governor Ronald Reagan signed the law creating CARB in 1968, California had been fighting the #smog monster for over 20 years with regulations to clean up tailpipe pollution
Governor Reagan fought hard to protect CA’s authority to set its own #cleanercarstandards under the newly passed #CleanAirAct, signed by President Nixon a few years after LA’s #smog made the cover of Time Magazine
