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Chris Murphy 🟧 Profile picture
@ChrisMurphyCT
Sep 29, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
1/ If Amy Coney Barrett gets to the Supreme Court, the ACA is gone, and in Connecticut, 260,000 will lose their insurance.

That's the equivalent combined population of these CT towns:

Litchfield
Easton
Durham
Haddam
Woodstock
Old Lyme
Essex...

(not done...see rest of thread)
2/

Lebanon
Westbrook
Brooklyn
New Hartford
Killingworth
Marlborough
Beacon Falls
Willington
Bethany
Harwinton
Pomfret
Chester
Barkhamsted
Ashford

(wait...not done...)
3/
Columbia
North Stonington
East Granby
Canterbury
Bolton
Preston
Deep River
Middlefield
Union
Canaan
Warren
Colebrook
Norfolk
Lisbon

(nope...not done)
4/
Thomaston
Bridgewater
Scotland
Eastford
Hampton
Franklin
Hartland
Roxbury
Chaplin
Morris
Lyme
Voluntown
Sharon
Bozrah

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5/
Kent
Sprague
Goshen
Andover
North Canaan
Bethlehem
Washington
Salisbury
Sherman
Sterling
Salem

That's the total population of 62 towns in CT. And insurance would disappear, likely overnight, for all these families.

Amy Coney Barrett would create a humanitarian catastrophe.

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Feb 1
1/ Let me explain why the total destruction of USAID - happening as we speak - matters so much.

China - where Musk makes his money - wants USAID destroyed. So does Russia. Trump and Musk are doing the bidding of Beijing and Moscow. Why?
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2/ Over the last week, 50% of the Global Health Bureau and 60% of the Humanitarian Assistance Bureau have been fired. Aid programs everywhere have been closed. The U.S. is in full retreat from the world.

Dystopian. No good reason for it.
3/ The immediate consequences of this are cataclysmic. Malnourished babies who depend on U.S. aid will die. Anti-terrorism programs will shut down and our most deadly enemies will get stronger. Diseases that threaten the U.S. will go unabated and reach our shores faster.
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Jan 28
Look, Trump is trying to oversaturate us with nonstop chaos so we can’t react meaningfully to any one thing.

But Friday's global stop work order on almost all U.S. aid is dumb and murderous. You need to know about it.

1/ A short🧵on this evil.
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2/ First, this isn't a funding pause. It's a STOP WORK ORDER to almost all aid. Unprecedented.

So today we just stopped feeding babies and housing refugees and mediating conflicts all around the world. Aid orgs are laying off staff and many programs will not restart.
3/ Tons of kids are just going to die needlessly. Famine has struck in Sudan, but because of the freeze, our most important life savings programs shut down. Within weeks or maybe days, malnourished babies who rely on our food and care will die.
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Jan 14
I spent all last year writing a REAL tough bipartisan border bill. So I know grandstanding when I see it.

1/ You need to know the truth about the Laken Riley Act, and how, if unamended by the Senate, it will make this country much less safe.
2/ I joined Senate colleagues in voting to begin debate on the bill bc I'm serious about making our immigration system keep us safe.

But the current bill does the opposite, and it's part of a GOP pattern - complain about a problem and then pursue policy that makes it worse.
3/ For instance, the bill says that anyone arrested of theft or shoplifting MUST be incarcerated by DHS.

But it doesn't apply that to people arrested for violent offenses. So DHS will have to RELEASE violent offenders to lock up non-violent offenders.

Bad idea!
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Jan 5
What? We don't have to treat conspiracy theorists like RFK Jr. with kid gloves.

It's simple. He's spent his career fighting school vaccine programs. If they atrophy, kids will get killed.

1/ Let me tell you why we need to be shouting this from the rooftops.
2/ First, let's not sugar coat the extent of RFK Jr.'s evangelism. The anti school vaccine organization he chaired is the nation's leading spreader of vaccine conspiracies and has filed dozens of lawsuits challenging vaccine mandates. npr.org/2024/12/03/nx-…
3/ And there is simply no question vaccines save lives. The WHO says the measles vaccine alone saved the lives of 20 million (20 MILLION!) kids over just 15 years. Many of those lives saved are right here in America.
unicef.org/eca/press-rele…
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Dec 18, 2024
It's happening right in front our eyes. It's accelerated rapidly in the last 24 hours. Not sure why everyone doesn't see this.

1/ Can I take a minute to connect the dots - on how Trump is putting into action a plan to cripple our democracy in a way we may never recover from?
2/ He wasn't kidding when he said Democrats were the no. 1 threat to America and needed be dealt with by law enforcement and the military.

Today House Republican's referral of Liz Cheney for criminal prosecution - on made up charges - shows you the plan.
yahoo.com/news/key-repub…
3/ Who will stand in the way of Cheney and others being put in jail?

Not DOJ. Kash Patel was chosen to lead the FBI BECAUSE he wants to prosecute Trump's opponents.

Not the courts. Trump's pliant DOJ can handpick a jurisdiction with a MAGA judge.
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
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Nov 10, 2024
That was a cataclysm. Electoral map wipeout. Senate D practical ceiling is now 52 seats. R's is 62.

Time to rebuild the left.

We are out of touch with the crisis of meaning/purpose fueling MAGA. We refuse to pick big fights. Our tent is too small.

1/ Some early thoughts:
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3/ The things that mattered are disappearing. We spend half as much time with friends as a generation ago. Hard work no longer guarantees economic mobility. Institutions (like churches) are delegitimized. Place based identity evaporates as we all become "global citizens."
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