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Aug 8, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
With cases spiking in 38 states and up in all 50, the Delta variant is driving a surge of hospitalizations & deaths ... ripping through the South.

-16 states have banned vaccine mandates in some form.

-8 have banned mask mandates in schools, as cases in children & teens rise. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fl) as new cases in Florida this week hit an all-time high:

"We can either have a free society, or we can have a biomedical security state and I can tell you, Florida: We're a free state."
Mar 14, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
RESTRICTIVE VOTING LAWS: A thread (1/5)

Republicans have proposed 250+ laws in 45 states designed to limit early, mail-in, in-person, and Election Day voting.

... Inspired in part by Trump's false claims this election was stolen. (2/5)

Republicans may have the power to achieve these limits.

They hold legislative majorities/governorships in 24 states. And they've proposed restrictions in 22 states.
Jan 13, 2021 13 tweets 5 min read
@SpeakerPelosi opens debate on impeaching President Trump: "We know that the president of the United States incited this insurrection, this armed rebellion against our common county. He must go. He is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love." @RepJerryNadler takes the floor and says "we all saw it coming."

"We have a duty to observe, Madam Speaker that racism played a direct role in this incitement."
Oct 1, 2018 4 tweets 4 min read
NEW: @HeidiPrzybyla joins the panel to discuss the latest @NBCNews breaking report about Judge Kavanaugh and his team working behind the scenes with his former classmates to refute allegation he exposed himself in college

nbcnews.to/2NfMAg2 WATCH: @HeidiPrzybyla reports text messages "show that Kavanaugh may have been trying to discredit Debbie Ramirez in the run-up to the New Yorker story" that detailed her allegation the Supreme Court nominee exposed himself to her in college #mtpdaily