By voting “yes” on Proposition 31, Californians have taken a big step toward ending the nation’s teen vaping epidemic.🧵1/5 For years the tobacco industry has preyed on young people, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to market candied-flavored products that are a known gateway to a lifetime of tobacco use, which is one of the leading contributors to disease and death across the U.S. 2/5

The NRA put Bernie Sanders in Congress, And Other Inconvenient Facts.

A thread: NRA President Wayne LaPierre told Vermonters to vote for Bernie.

When Sanders ran in 1990, the NRA ran ads against his opponent.

The risks to our servicemembers extend beyond the battlefield.

Each day, 17 veterans take their own life. We desperately need to end the stigma surrounding mental health & ensure veterans in distress get the assistance they need.

Here’s what we’ll do: mikebloom.bg/389V83b I will expand military health care to cover IVF and fertility services for those who need it. I’ll make sure that military deployment doesn’t inhibit a servicemember’s ability to have a family. mikebloom.bg/389V83b

Tonight, Trump will deliver a #SOTU address.

He’ll say the State of the Union is strong, but here’s what he won’t say – the truth: The president is trying to kick millions of Americans off of their health care and get rid of protections for people with pre-existing conditions. #SOTU

In 2016, Trump repeatedly declared the election was “rigged” — and it was.

Just not against him. During the 2016 national election, 6.1 million American adults - more than half of whom are people of color - were prevented from voting because of a previous criminal conviction, even though they had served out their sentences.