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@CainforNC is an educator & vet running in rural NC. After 10 years in the Army, he worked for veterans affairs agencies & helped form a nonprofit combating the opioid epidemic. He now teaches political science at local colleges.
The Horn of Africa is currently facing severe drought conditions that have increased by more than 40% in the last two months.
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To put that into perspective, the amount of children facing the impact of drought including acute hunger, malnutrition and thirst increased from 7.25 million to at least 10 million between February and April.
•The number of households without reliable access to clean and safe water has almost doubled – from 5.6 million to 10.5 million.
•The number of people classified as food insecure has risen from 9 million to 16 million.
-Creates millions of jobs
-Cuts costs for families and government
-Cuts taxes on the middle and working class
-The largest investment to fight climate change in American history
-Expanded access to affordable housing
-Increased investment in higher education
-Access to universal preschool
-Making the rich and corporations pay their fair share #BuildBackBetterAct#BBB
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-Universal pre-K
-$555 billion for climate
-$3k-3,600 cash for parents
-4 weeks paid leave
-Child and long-term care investments
-Expand Medicare
-Fill Medicaid coverage gap
-Lower drug prescription costs
I know we didn’t get close to all we wanted or needed in this deal, and we’ll keep fighting for ALL of it, but there are some truly transformational and important parts that we should celebrate. A thread:
AFFORDABLE CARE: The most transformative investment in children and caregiving in generations, delivering:
•Two years of free preschool for more than six million children. The last time America added years of free schooling was more than 100 years ago.
•Affordable child care so that no middle-income families pay more than 7% of their income on child care.
•Affordable, high-quality care for older Americans and people with disabilities in their homes, while supporting the workers who provide this care.
Biden tripped up the steps of Air Force One. Do you know what else he’s done?
-Extended the Eviction Moratorium
-Paused Student Loans
-Stopped Construction of the Border Wall
-Preserved DACA
-Reversed the Travel Ban -Prevented Workplace Discrimination Against the LGBTQ Community
-Ensured a Lawful and Accurate Census Report
-Rescinded the 1776 Commission
-Rejoined the Paris Climate Accord
-Canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline
-Revised Immigration Policies
-Made the Executive Branch Ethical Again
-Executive order to promote racial equity
-Covid-19 safety in domestic and international travel
-expanded access to Covid-19 treatments
-data-driven response to Covid-19
-Memorandum supporting states’ use of National Guard in Covid-19 response
-strengthened public health supply chain
-Covid-19 Health Equity Task Force
The people behind this policy of cruelty weren't elected. They're not famous, but they should be. John Bash. Gene Hamilton. Ed O'Callaghan. They are the human faces of this cruelty. images.app.goo.gl/7fzD9KHw64v28E…
Bash dutifully enforced Trump’s policy, ripping infants and toddlers from their parents before tucking his own kid in at night. oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/…
I’m going to show you some before/after pictures of what your lungs and heart look like from covid thanks to the innovative work being done by @drwilliamli and @Survivor_Corps.
I think it will help you, especially the deniers, to have a visual of the actual damage covid does.
The left is a picture of a normal, healthy, heart. The right is picture is what happens to the blood vessels from #COVIDー19. In simple terms, the splintering of the blood vessels in the right picture is what makes oxygenation so difficult. Ok...read on for pictures of lungs.
The photo on the left are healthy lungs. You can see all the colorful blood vessels. The center pic is actually *my* lungs. As a long hauler, I have less blood vessels than pre-covid. We don’t know if they will come back. The right are lungs of someone who passed away from covid.