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Amber Gustafson

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Mar 3

Right now in Iowa, there’s a coach torn up about the conversation he has to have to have with a girl on his team. Maybe he emails her parents first to talk about how. He asks if the athlete has access to mental health care, if they have a safety plan for their daughter. 1/

Together they work out a plan to sit her down and explain to this 7th grader why she is off the team and why even mom & dad can’t fix it. They know she will cry. They know she will be angry. What they hope is that she doesn’t sink into depression or harm herself. 2/

The coach thinks about the day she joined the team. Awkward and brave. Inexperienced but a fast learner. He admits to himself that he wasn’t sure at first how she’d fit in but that her own teammates taught him more about acceptance than he’d learned in 100 hours of training. 3/

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Amber Gustafson

@AmberForIowa

Feb 16

@KimReynoldsIA

Did you know that Ohio created a school voucher program in 2014? Let's look at some facts about their program as #ialegis considers the @KimReynoldsIA voucher plan for #Iowa students 1/15

But first, did you know that school vouchers are not a concept that was created by educational experts; not proposed by parents; not even an idea politicians came up with. Nope. Vouchers are the brainchild of Milton Friedman, a radical free-market economist. 2/15

Friedman wrote an essay in 1955 entitled "The Role of Government in Education." He starts his essay by saying “I deplore segregation and racial prejudice.” (You know, if you have to say 'I'm not a racist, but...' you've already given yourself away, Milt.) 3/15

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Amber Gustafson

@AmberForIowa

Jan 3

ICYMI from my earlier Tweet - I have #Covid_19 - so do my two youngest children & husband. We didn't realize our middle kid was symptomatic when we went to Xmas at my in-laws. 12 of the 16 folks at our family get-together have now tested positive and/or are having symptoms.

@modestholdings

I share this as a warning to others. Like @modestholdings we were extremely careful. We took all the precautions. We are all fully vaxed and boosted. We wear KN95s. We rarely do in-person events. Our family's only major exposure risk is via our kids at school.

But #Omicron is next-level contagious. By the time you spike a fever, you have already been contagious for 2-3 days. The R-naught for this variant is 10-12. (Each infected person will infect 10-12 others on average).

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Amber Gustafson

@AmberForIowa

Jan 9, 2021

@MomsDemand

I just want to say that those of us who have been working in gun violence prevention are not at all surprised by what happened this week. We have targeted, harassed & threatened by these kinds people for years. 1/@MomsDemand @Everytown @bradybuzz @GabbyGiffords @sandyhook

@Twitter

Many of us have reached out to @Twitter @Facebook @Google and law enforcement because they have threatened us with rape, home invasion, murdering our kids and pets and extended family members. @shannonrwatts has been especially targeted 2/

@kharyp

For those who are survivors of gun violence like @kharyp and @lucymcbath and the families of Sandy Hook, the harassment is particularly grotesque. Claiming loved ones never existed, blaming them for their own deaths.

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Amber Gustafson

@AmberForIowa

Dec 17, 2018

@desmoinesdem

Over the weekend @desmoinesdem published my article about reaching #rural voters and it spurred some outstanding discussions. One thing I hear a lot from people who did not grow up in #Iowa is their discomfort with Iowans’ emphasis on how long their families have lived in Iowa.

They often see this as Iowans setting narrow parameters on who is a “real Iowan” and who is not. This is not the case at all and glosses over a fundamental misunderstanding of why my family’s Iowa longevity matters.

In the last 100 years rural America lost over 50% of its population. During the Great Depression, 1/3 of all farmers lost their farms. Most families never returned.

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