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3 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
South Dakota led the world, per capita, - for a while - in both deaths and hospitalizations due to COVID-19.
But their Governor said this tonight...
She said the science told them they couldn’t stop the virus. The science has also said masks work. Mask mandates work. But this governor refused a mask mandate and in her statewide public service announcements she doesn’t tell people to wear a mask.
South Dakota does now lead the country in terms of vaccine roll out. That, is very good news.
South Dakota station @kotatweets got an exclusive with @govkristinoem. There were no softball questions. The interview was wide ranging and the Governor seemed candid and pretty revealing in her answers. It’s worth a watch.
kotatv.com/2021/02/02/exc…

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3 Feb
.@GOPLeader on @mtgreenee: “Past comments from and endorsed by Marjorie Taylor Greene on school shootings, political violence, and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories do not represent the values or beliefs of the House Republican Conference. I condemn those comments unequivocally.
I condemned them in the past. I continue to condemn them today. This House condemned QAnon last Congress and continues to do so today. “I made this clear to Marjorie when we met.
I also made clear that as a member of Congress we have a responsibility to hold ourselves to a higher standard than how she presented herself as a private citizen.
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2 Feb
In my hometown - Lafayette, La - the parish president refuses to mandate masks.
The parish council was considering doing it but members worry the President will undermine it.
The Governor issued a statewide mandate.
Every major city has one.
Not Lafayette.
thecurrentla.com/2021/lafayette…
“While the governor has had a mask mandate and other restrictions in place since the summer, Lafayette officials were ordered by Guillory (the parish president) to stop assisting the state with enforcement in September after the Lafayette Fire Department cited Grouse Room...”
“... which is owned by one of Guillory’s supporters, for multiple violations of the governor’s Covid restrictions.”
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1 Feb
“No coloreds are allowed to be buried here. Only white human beings...” That’s what Karla Semien of Oberlin, LA was told when she went to buy a plot to bury her husband, Darrell. I interviewed Mrs. Semien & the graveyard association president who’s since changed the contract.
Mr. Simen served the people of Allen Parish as a sheriffs deputy and it was his wish to be buried at that cemetery. Little did he know the racism that would await his wife and family. google.com/amp/s/www.cbsn…
Creig Vizena is President of the graveyard association. It was his aunt who told the widow that she couldn’t sell to her because Semien was black. Shockingly, his aunts daughter allegedly asked the family: “do y’all have a back up plan?”

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31 Jan
In Lafayette, LA, the director of the public library suddenly resigned after the library board “criticized the selection of speakers they dubbed too "far left" for a book discussion on the history of voting rights.” The board wanted "opposing perspectives" theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/…
Here’s the original report from @ClaireTaylorACA "These two speakers are extremely, extremely far left leaning...They’re not going to represent the other side."
Lafayette Parish...votes conservative...We need to represent our constituents," (she) added.” theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/…
The first book was "Bending Toward Justice" by Gary May...”It is described by Duke University Press as "a vivid and fast-paced history, (that) offers a dramatic account of the birth and precarious life of the 1965 Voting Rights Act...”
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29 Jan
BREAKING: Cicely Tyson has died
This is devastating.
What a woman.
What grace.
What legacy.
What talent.
What a loss.
I always thought she was one of the most beautiful women. It wasn’t just her looks; it was the life she lived.
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28 Jan
Tonight a Tennessee reporter was threatened with arrest after asking Rep. @mtgreenee a ? during a town hall. She was told she was trespassing & wasn’t approved to ask questions, reports @WRCB. Newsflash: reporters don’t need approval to ask questions wrcbtv.com/story/43245677…
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As she wastaking questions, this news broke
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