AOC is doing a good job of supporting Democrats and Biden's expansive bill that includes the #GND, while also calling out "fossil fuel lobbyists who brag about having members of Congress on speed dial." She is calling out Manchin by his actions. "We have to choose the science."

AOC says members of her community have had to remove bodies of people who died in basement apartments during flash floods and that this cannot continue. She cites the stats on how the overwhelming majority of Americans are ready to.address #ClimateCrisis.

@AC360

Asked about Greg Abbott's comments on rape, AOC says she finds his comments "disgusting," and that "he doesn't understand biology 101," that it's six weeks before a menstruating person knows they have missed a period.
@AC360

Read 4 tweets

Victoria Brownworth

@VABVOX

5 Sep

#THREAD
This disgraceful headline is evocative of the inhumanity many Americans have adopted during the pandemic. Politicizing grief, be it Biden's for his beloved son, or that of the 640k families who lost someone--including young children--to #COVID, is itself pandemic.
1/🧵

Too many are bored by grief and impatient with suffering. We call it "empathy fatigue," but how have we come to a point where we tire of being compassionate? After 4yrs of a self-absorbed narcissist who felt nothing for anyone else, shouldn't Biden's raw humanity be welcome?
2/🧵

Trump could not have cared less when Americans died. He famously was shocked to discover from Bob Woodward that it was the thousands of dead that mattered in the COVID crisis, not the stock market. Biden was gutted by the Kabul massacre and what it meant for the families.
3/🧵

Read 8 tweets

Victoria Brownworth

@VABVOX

3 Sep

#NEW
Some personal news: I just had a two-hour in-home visit from my spectacular nurse practitioner who I last saw at the end of March 2020 when everything shut down. She's a specialist in chronically ill patients with serious health issues. She is a remarkable
healer.
🧵1/

There's no substitute for hands-on healthcare. She was able to go over every physical issue from the decompensation brought on by lack of physical therapy to how much worse my lungs are due to my 2020 COVID experience. Full work-up including mental health discourse. Crucial.
🧵2/

She also spent time talking to my wife about caretaking and balance. And she will be arranging for me to get physical therapy again, which is fantastic. Since we have been working together for 5yrs, we have a trust relationship. This is essential to all healthcare.
🧵3/

Read 5 tweets

Victoria Brownworth

@VABVOX

3 Sep

So a trans woman who has been to hell and back, says she's afraid of a powerful journalist known for bullying, after their relationship went south and now he is doing the political equivalent of revenge porn, releasing their private correspondence? Shameful and dangerous.

I actually joined Twitter to write about Chelsea Manning when I was reporting on her over a decade ago. I was one of the left journalists pleading with Obama to release her and get her out of the torturous conditions she was in where she was kept naked with the lights on 24/7.

This turn of events is disturbing and painful to witness. The plethora of people calling Manning "unhinged" and financially predatory of the very wealthy Greenwald is truly shocking. How many of these folks want Manning back in prison? (Greenwald is RTing the likes of Redsteeze.)

Read 6 tweets

Victoria Brownworth

@VABVOX

2 Sep

This is pretty unsettling. #Philly is a Mid-Atlantic city. This is historic flooding in a city which doesn't--or didn't used to--get extreme weather. But when you get 8inches of rain in a few hours. This is "unprecedented"according to PFD Commissioner Adam Thiel.

The Schuylkill has only been this high one other time: in 1880. And at the other end of the city, the Delaware has flooded. Over in Manayunk everything is underwater. The river is literally running through some businesses--shops, restaurants. The clean-up is going to be brutal.

I am grateful that we are on high ground, but the flooding has literally turned sections of the city into islands. Including 30th Street Station, which is a major Amtrak hub. The Schuylkill there is several feet above crest, which is why the Vine St Xpway is flooded out.

Read 4 tweets

Share this page!

Victoria Brownworth

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

More from @VABVOX

Victoria Brownworth

Victoria Brownworth

Victoria Brownworth

Victoria Brownworth

Victoria Brownworth

Victoria Brownworth

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Like this author's thread?