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Andy Kopsa

5 Mar, 11 tweets, 4 min read

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🧵thread @justiceseeker78 has brought to all our attention something which is critically important to understand: there are no coincidences. That a recent arrest of a Trump campaign worker and former @FRCdc worker was arrested for allegedly taking part in the Jan 6 insurrection

I have written about FRC and their global reach for almost a decade. This includes the Family Leader of Iowa, formerly Iowa Family Policy Center a branch of right wing hate group FRC. Here are some of the stories I have written over the years about this very group:

They got federal funding and funneled it to anti-Varnum efforts:

thenation.com/article/archiv…

and; therevealer.org/showing-them-t…

Fan girling over being mentioned in this by former IASC who was targeted by Family Leader during their famed "judge bus tour" inns.innsofcourt.org/media/69487/30…

Then of course there is also Indiana - this as an aside for all my Indiana people b/c you know who is from you know where: nuvo.newsnirvana.com/news/news/the-… (this won an SPJ award) local FRC chapter misusing fed funding (natch)

More about their anti-judge BS talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/how-iowa-…

So old this is archived but you get my drift: washingtonindependent.com/111064/groups-…

Some more about the vast network of FRC coloradoindependent.com/2010/10/26/col…

and; rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2012/0…

here's a few to get you started.

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Andy Kopsa

@andykopsa

15 Aug 20

#Derecho2020 thread - NERD EDITION - I will eschew my bona fides as an Iowan and get right to it:

There is nothing precluding Governor Reynolds asking for a federal disaster declaration like, yesterday. Here is why:

There is a provision (Chet Culver used it during the 2008 floods) that let's one cut through the horsepucky (if you will) and ask for immediate federal disaster declaration.

A state must request a declaration - unless falls under the purview of Feds - like was done with COVID (sort of). Culver asked and 48 hours later (or less?) Bush said yep!

Now.

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Andy Kopsa

@andykopsa

27 Mar 20

Thread/ Lousiana #COVID19 Yesterday I spoke with healthcare workers in Chicago, New Orleans, Iowa, and NYC - public health officials, nurses, paramedics, medical assistants all increasingly alarmed at the lack of response to #COVID19 and startling lack of protocols in place

This is about #NOLA my home for several years my daughter attended school in the French Quarter in the days before Katrina and disaster tourism and the city caring more about infrastructure for the Superbowl than the cracking concrete in the Lower 9th Ward inthesetimes.com/article/14428/…

@OchsnerHealth

Text yesterday from person working @OchsnerHealth in #Louisiana and #COVID19 "in the shit" "call after work" -- as a reporter I get calls and texts and DMS from around the country about many things - and now re: COVID19.
(Up front apologies for any/all spelling errors, etc.)

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Andy Kopsa

@andykopsa

26 Mar 20

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1243276945124712448

Thread: Let me just set this up a bit for you. I have been participating in WHO calls since February about this coming pandemic, I have talked to public health officials in three states (NY, La.,IA) and around the world (Africa, Australia, UK) #CoronavirusNewYork #COVID2019

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1243276945124712448

@Acosta

@Acosta sent out this tweet. Not surprising that Trump's letter will come as a shock to some of his "task force" - I saw the letter a little while ago and called the CDC directly to ask about the claim that there are apparently great strides in testing/relaxing social distancing

Press people are great - and they do yeoman's work - and the one I contacted at CDC is no different. I ran a few of these things past the press office at CDC re: testing, Trump's letter, relaxing social distancing. #COVID2019

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