17) H. Scott Apley, a councilmember of Dickinson, Texas and member of the Texas State Republican Executive Committee, mocked vaccines for months. He just died from #COVID19.
18) Travis Campbell of Tennessee & his wife didn’t bother getting vaccinated. He now holds on for life in ICU & pleads with others to #GetVaccinated. He also infected two of his little kids. Who else did he infect? What variants did he breed?
20) Four UNVACCINATED Broward County, Florida, teachers die from #COVID19 in less than 24 hours, as schools prepare to reopen and #COVIDIOT@GovRonDeSantis mandates against mask or vaccine mandates. He earned his #DeathSantis hashtag.
21) Catholic Cardinal Burke, who spoke out against vaccine mandates, insisted on in-person services, and quoted theories that vaccines contain “microchips” used to control citizens, has been placed on ventilator after contracting #COVID19
22) An anti-vaccine Tennessee pastor, Jimmy DeYoung, who pushed hydroxychloroquine & horse paste (ivermectin), has died following a short battle with #COVID19
How many did he infect? How many variants did he breed? How many died from his disinformation?
23) Baby girl orphaned after parents die from #COVID19. The mother was just 32 & 32 weeks pregnant. She was unvaccinated. Her last act was giving birth to her baby girl.
Who else did she infect? What variants did she breed?
26) Mask-bashing, anti-vax Maine Republican, Chris Johansen, loses wife to #COVID19 after both get virus. Cited twice for breaking mask rules, he was one of seven @GOP lawmakers who refused to wear masks.
27) 3yo little girl, Aurora Cannon, is fighting for her life at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mom is a healthcare hero facebook.com/amelia.hickey who has been documenting her fight against #COVID19.
29) His father died of COVID, but he believed the #Coronavirus vaccine was a government conspiracy with a tracking device. Michael Stevenson moved to Florida where he contracted #COVID19 and died.
Only one of his sons decided to get the vaccine after his death. #Spreadnecks
30) Pressley Stutts, Republican Tea Party leader in South Carolina, shared conspiracy theories on election, #coronavirus, & vaccines from ICU bed. He called Kamala Harris’ vaccination efforts “ungodly”
✔️mRNA vaccines do not use live virus that causes #COVID19
✔️They don’t affect or interact with our DNA in any way
✔️ mRNA vaccines are held to the same rigorous safety and effectiveness standards as ALL other types of vaccines in the U.S. cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
32) So, if mRNA vaccines don’t contain live #coronavirus, how do they actually work to prevent #COVID19? You can thank researcher @kkariko for her life’s work which was the basis for this amazing scientific breakthrough.
33) While masks provide some protection to the mask wearer (depending on mask type), they mainly serve to protect others by limiting the spread of #coronavirus-laden airborne particles. How effective are masks? That depends on the mask and the wearers:
34) John Pierce, anti-vaxx lawyer for Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse as well as more than a dozen Capitol terrorists is reportedly on a ventilator and non-responsive after contracting #COVID19.
35) Wisconsin Republican state Sen. Andre Jacque, who questioned election, authored legislation to bar government or business owners from requiring vaccines or show proof of vaccination, has been intubated fighting #COVID19. He hid diagnosis.
36) Lisa Steadman had #COVID19. Her husband, Ron, later tested positive. They started symptoms on 7/30. Lisa was taken to a Florida hospital after passing out & returned home eight days later to find her husband dead
Both were unvaccinated. Who else did they infect? #Spreadnecks
37) BABY dies from #COVID19 amid Delta surge in Louisiana where 31% of all newly reported COVID cases are in children below the age of 18.
39) Missouri Republican lawmaker's unvaccinated husband died of #COVID19. Rep. Sara Walsh @SaraForMissouri said they both refused vaccine because it wasn’t fully approved by the FDA.
He made his choice to die and endanger others. Like Jesus taught?
41) Tim Parsons, Center Point Church pastor, died from #COVID19 after congregation fasted & prayed, “pleading with God for his healing.” Church advised members "not to worry" about #coronavirus because "God is in control"
Yeah, God gave us brains to create masks & vaccines #WWJD
41B) Center Point Church deleted its #COVID19 information page with section titled, “Should I be worried about COVID-19”
“We don't want to be worried because the Bible tells us not to worry. We know God is in control.. be wise by practicing what the CDC calls 'safe distancing.’”
42) Caleb Wallace, who founded “San Angelo Freedom Fighters” to “end covid tyranny” has died of #COVID19. He refused to get tested for #coronavirus and treated himself with ivermectin. He was 30 & leaves behind three children & pregnant wife
43) Outspoken anti-vax, anti-mask conservative radio host Marc Bernier is dead after 3-week battle with #COVID19
In his last tweet, he said being pro-vaccine was like the Nazis after a post urging vaccination by @NikkiFried, a Democrat running for Governor against #DeathSantis
44) Jacksonville mother loses two sons aged 35 & 41 to #COVID19. She also caught the virus with them. She was vaccinated and had mild symptoms. They weren’t and died.
“It’s a parent’s worst nightmare… please get vaccinated.”
45) Another Florida conservative radio host, Dick Farrel, “the other Rush Limbaugh,” died from “severe damage” from #COVID19. He said #coronavirus vaccine was “promoted by people who lied all along about masks”
In the end he changed his tune, but who did he infect?
46) Robert David Steele told reporters he was first to call #coronavirus a hoax. He led charge on anti-vaccine and covid denialism. He said NASA had child slaves on Mars. QAnon followers believe he was murdered to make @GovRonDeSantis look bad.
47) How are anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers not accomplices to murder?
U.S. Army veteran Daniel Wilkinson died of a treatable illness because the ICU at the hospital that could have saved him was filled treating unvaccinated #COVID19 patients.
49) Mark McConnaughey, a vaccinated Nebraska man, died in Iowa because ICUs were filled by unvaccinated #spreadnecks suffering from #COVID19. They tried calling 23 hospitals before they finally could airlift him to a hospital in DesMoines. It was too late
50) Barbara Crosby, Trump-loving, anti-mask, anti-vaxx #Spreadneck South Carolina school board member of 12 years, says it's not her duty to protect kids from #coronavirus and dying from @COVID19: “God decides who lives or dies, right?”
51) 3 teachers, 15 Miami-Dade school staffers die of #COVID19 in 10 days, yet Florida schools prohibited from issuing mask or vaccine mandates. This is murder.
52) "A woman died of the #coronavirus, and as her family was planning the funeral, her mother was also struck down. An aunt took over arrangements for the double funeral, only to die of #COVID19 herself two weeks afterward"
53) Mike Lowe, a 38yo firefighter died of #COVID19. He & his wife Christina refused vaccine because “it was a political game.” Christina now supports vaccines, but in a Trumpy, conservative way: “I understand some of you believe that this political - I don't know that it's not…"
54) Florida fire chief Randy Burnham dies from #COVID19 after #coronavirus sidelines 75% of department. Was he vaccinated? We don't know since Florida has no vaccine mandate for first responders.
58) Ray Martin DeMonia, of Alabama, was just 3 days away from celebrating his 74th birthday. He died of heart complications after being turned away from 43 hospitals in 3 states due to unvaccinated #spreadnecks inundating ICUs.
59) Nurse Shanda Parish has cancer, but won’t get vaccinated, even after losing both parents to #COVID19. She resents judgment from friends asking why they didn’t get vaccinated: “people make us feel like it’s our fault they’re gone.”
60) This “Christian” radio host became infamous for reading obituaries from people who died of AIDS while playing the Queen song "Another One Bites the Dust”
Now Bob Enyart bit the dust.
But who did he infect? What variants did he breed?
61) Gregg Prentice, Hillsborough County, FL @GOP accountant & chair of the committee for election integrity, who wanted to “end Faucism” dies from #COVID19. He said, "we need more socialist distancing than we do social distancing."
62) R.I.P. Alabama Pickers. Dusty and Tristan Graham wouldn’t get vaccinated ‘cuz they had a “passport to travel called the ‘Bill of Rights.’” That passport led to the morgue.
They left their kids behind. Who else did they infect? What variants did they breed?
63) Alaskan Donald Tice belittled the #coronavirus & trumpeted (pun intended) right-wing disinformation about #COVID19. On his deathbed, he posted, “President Trump, fight the good fight. Break down the left’s fraud! Make America Great Again.”
64) Anti-vaxxer Jacob Zimmerman thought the vaccine was the “mark of the beast” and that “Christians should wake up.” Well, he’s not waking up. He died from #COVID19 on September 11. He was just 41 and left behind a wife and 17-month-old baby whom he infected.
65) COVID makes a noise. Imagine being a nurse listening to that noise all day, all night, day after day, incessantly. This is what the unvaccinated and Republican disinformation have wrought on our healthcare workers.
67) Wayne Davis caught #coronavirus on the job. The Houston firefighter and father of 3 put off getting vaccinated — now he needs a lung transplant to survive.
Who else did he infect? What variants did he breed?
71) Georgian, Blake Bargatze, 25, got a double lung transplant. “Shocked” how quickly #COVID19 attacked his body, he said the virus made his lungs look like "chewed up pieces of bubblegum."
He chose not to get vaccinated, I hope those lungs weren’t needed elsewhere. #Spreadnecks
72) Anti-vaxx trolls are spewing disinformation that novel #coronavirus is same as common cold. If you see it, share this tweet explaining there are different types of human coronaviruses, some leading to mild symptoms, while others serious disease like #COVID19
73) 10-yo Teresa Sperry dies from #COVID19 days after developing headache. Distraught mother says “people are too damn selfish to care about what could happen to others.”
74) Tyler Gilreath got sick with #COVID19 two days after moving to college. Mom “cajoled, encouraged, threatened, & nagged for him to get vaccinated.”
The sinus infection combined with a staph infection & passed into his brain where an abscess ruptured. wbtv.com/2021/09/27/dev…
75) This 53-yo pastor from Apison, Tennessee, frequently posted pro-Trump, pro-De Santis, and anti-vax propaganda. He died from COVID on 9/22. His wife posted she “didn’t understand” when it’s the most talked about health crisis of our lifetime
76) Anti-vax #Spreadnecks are murderers. Here is Kayla Rayne Vaughn. She was a certified Nursing Home Assistant at Litchford Falls in North Carolina, where officials confirmed an outbreak of #COVID19.
77) Witness Republican murderous incompetence: Disinformation-spewing New Hampshire @GOP House Finance Committee Chair, Rep. Ken Weyler, circulates reports that #COVID19 deaths are a Vatican plot — and vaccines contain “living organisms with tentacles.”
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Tonight’s topic: Slavery
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>>> According to the 1860 Census, what percent of Southerners owned slaves?
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There is a strong, persistent myth pushed by historical revisionists and slavery apologists about slave holding in the Southern states and confederacy.
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I will not criticize President Biden for the collapse of Afghanistan. I will not criticize our military & families who endured 20 years of sacrifice propping up that government and training and supplying its troops.
Criticism should lay squarely with the Afghan Army & Government
I disagree with those saying this is a “sad day for America.” Quite the opposite. It’s a betrayal of America. Our troops endured multi-generational deployments. We built a 300K-strong army. It’s amazing what the US did. But if 20 years of support and billions of American dollars
didn’t give the Afghanis the motivation to defend their country, it shows there is no loyalty to the “nation.” It’s a country of warlords vying for power. Another 20 years would not change this outcome.
3) Background checks have stopped nearly TWO MILLION prohibited persons from buying guns, but BGCs are only required by licensed dealers. NICS data sharing is voluntary & exemptions for private sales across 38 states make BGC's easy to circumvent.
1/3: ArmaLite first developed AR-15 in late 40s as a military rifle & sold patent to Colt who developed it into the M16 & ramped up production of semiautomatic version for law enforcement marketed as the AR-15 designed to kill PEOPLE! #GunOwnerForGunReform gundigest.com/gun-reviews/th…
2/3: The AR-15 was developed as a military weapon. The AR-15 came first, in 1947 & tested in Vietnam; the M16 a decade later. There are only subtle differences such as semi vs full auto. Bump stock helps with that. Learn more:
Ted Cruz flew to Cancún while the people he supposedly represents suffer and die from cold due to continued, systemic Republican incompetence. No signs of Heidi, though. She must be busy managing the fallout in her Texas energy portfolio for Goldman Sachs.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
@tedcruz@SenTedCruz is just another Republican proving Orwell right. Orwell was meant as a warning, not as a GOP play book.
Sure #CancunCruz@tedcruz left for vacay while Texans die and millions suffer in unbearable cold due to Republican incompetence, but let us remember that before he asked President Biden for disaster relief, he and fellow Senator @JohnCornyn voted against Hurricane Sandy relief.