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Sarah Posner Profile picture
@sarahposner
Aug 5, 2021 • 26 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
I'm starting a thread about state lawmakers' and local officials' recklessness with kids' lives. 1/x

@ me with more. DMs open.

Trent Garner, AR state senator, prefers "dangerous freedom" to "comfortable safety"

2/x
TN House Speaker Cameron Sexton:

tennessean.com/story/news/pol… Image
Related:

3/x
State Sen. Nass, in Wisconsin, reacting to state university system's attempts to keep students safe:

4/x
madison.com/wsj/news/local… Image
OH State Sen. Andrew Brenner bill would ban school districts from requiring masks (vaccine requirements already banned), reflecting ongoing effort "to block public mitigation efforts of a virus that has killed more than 20,000 Ohioans to date." 5/x
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2021/07/19/wit…
Arizona state legislator Warren Peterson. 6/x Image
NC Lt. Gov. 7/x
Iowa, where the governor is “proud” of the bill banning schools from imposing masking requirements, and the State Senate Majority Leader says:

8/x
iowacapitaldispatch.com/2021/08/04/iow… Image
Dispatch from a parent in Mesa County, CO

9/x
Spartanburg, SC state lawmaker Shane Martin doesn’t like “face diapers”

10/x
goupstate.com/story/news/loc… Image
Texas Gov Greg Abbott

11/x
Louisiana’s AG Jeff Landry, a Republican, is offering a form letter for parents who want to circumvent the mask requirement in K-12 schools, claiming masks interfere with “religious commands to share God’s love.”

12/x
lailluminator.com/2021/08/03/lou… Image
More Texas

13/x
More AG Landry, of Louisiana:

14/x
theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne… Image
Yet more Landry (cc @MollieOReilly )

15/x
US Rep Madison Cawthorne (R-NC) shows up for local school board meeting (🤷🏻‍♀️)

16/x
Iowa: Department of Education Director Ann Lebo refuses to address parents' desperate pleas to get around state prohibition on masks in K-12 schools. "Public comments are just public comments."

17/x
iowacapitaldispatch.com/2021/08/05/par…
Ohio: more from state Senator Andrew Brenner, who has introduced legislation barring local school districts from imposing mask requirements, and apparently is unfamiliar with … speed limits?

18/x
spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/ne… Image
Iowa: Republican state Rep. Jeff Shipley calls any vaccine mandate a "crime against humanity" and ridicules mask-wearers, claiming “this virus isn’t even killing anybody,” and that “the ventilators are killing people.”

19/x
littlevillagemag.com/gov-reynolds-s…
Iowa state Rep. Shipley complains about "self-congratulatory scientists" who "can't even figure out the difference between a man and a woman yet they're trying to lecture us and run our lives based on their health theories of virus transmission."

20/x
More Shipley:

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More Shipley:

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SC Governor Henry McMaster says kids can't learn with masks.

(Narrator voice: they can't learn when they're sick, either.)

23/x
Missouri

24/x
Florida

25/x
Texas

26/x

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Dec 5, 2022
This is not true. She filed the lawsuit before she made any wedding websites.
She was not taken to court. She filed the lawsuit to get exempted from complying with a non discrimination law. But the religious right loves to have the image of the Christian proprietor being hauled into court for her beliefs. But it’s simply not true.
ADF knows this — they represent her — but they retweeted Graham anyway.
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Dec 5, 2022
Read more about the lawyers representing the web designer in 303 Creative:

thenation.com/article/archiv…
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Dec 5, 2022
I finally read this piece today and it is so misinformed on facts, law, reality, history that I am shocked that it ran, even as "opinion."
To wit: the opening anecdote suggests that her church or her kids' Christian school might lose their tax exempt status because of their stance opposing marriage equality. 2/x
First, this has not happened once in the 7 yrs since Obergefell.
Second, despite all the fear sowed by the right that this would be like Bob Jones, recall that even though SCOTUS ruled in the govt's favor, the IRS abandoned enforcing that policy, and... 3/x
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Nov 19, 2022
I’d been on an airplane.

I just read the piece. I have some thoughts, which I will collect.
So. I know Rob, and he has been a source on a few stories I’ve written.

I understand how shocking this particular story — along with a couple of others recently, in which he describes his efforts to shape how SCOTUS justices thought about and wrote decisions. 1/x
Plus the efforts to connect SCOTUS justices with his stealth missionaries who would help shape their views. 2/x
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Nov 14, 2022
I just read the New York Times piece raising doubts about gender-affirming care (although the article doesn't call it that). This graf shows just how unaware the writers and editors are of the political/religious movement behind the effort to deny trans people their rights:
(Here's the link to the full piece: nytimes.com/2022/11/14/hea…)
I've been covering the religious right assault on trans rights for years. It's driven not by science or medicine, but by political activists who sought to sow a panic about trans people, a tactic that gained steam after SCOTUS ruled for marriage equality in 2015.
Read 14 tweets
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Oct 25, 2022
I read NYT story this morning and tried (unsuccessfully) to dissect the sourcing. This is illuminating (and infuriating that NYT elides or obscures this)

Two Witnesses the DoJ Wants to See Cooperating Share One Thing. And That’s a Problem., by @nycjayjay open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/… Image
(h/t @emptywheel )
@emptywheel It's not ok to obscure the identity or interests of your sources to such a degree that readers have no idea that someone with multiple conflicts and motivation is main or only source for your story that is basically non-news but shapes the narrative
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