Mini 🧵- When @KimReynoldsIA and @PatJGarrett start talking about all the wonderful things Iowans are getting through her administration remember @IowaGOP voted against the following:
1/7 When @RepAshleyHinson @ChuckGrassley @SenJoniErnst don't get me started on @RepFeenstra and @millermeeks start making the rounds on compliant Iowa television news and nonsense talk radio remember:
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Unless you are an owner-operator small farmer, a woman who has to drive an hour to deliver a baby, need child care, work at Tyson in Waterloo, are a Black person/person of color, LGBTQ+ or a kid struggling with mental health issues in Fairfield and I can go on.

https://twitter.com/PatJGarrett/status/1461425935547342848

A reporter targeted by a county prosecutor
A small businessperson trying to make it in a town of 400, a woman farmer who wants to get started but cannot access loans because WOMAN, Iowa School Teacher, school-kid, disabled adult - or child....

The opinion in the decision goes farther than that: universal masking is required to provide (pg. 20 of opinion) talking now Is this person on the back foot?

1/1 I would go further however and point to the entire section the plan Iowa submitted to the @usedgov that attested to quarantine guidelines, masks, and testing through @IAPublicHealth and ESSER funds

https://twitter.com/andykopsa/status/1428319327527309313

2/2 - I reported on this for @IowaWatch about @AnkenySchools and letter from Garcia about 'normal childhood illness' iowawatch.org/2021/07/29/ank…

1/1 I want to be clear: Iowa passed a LAW prior to @IAPublicHealth and @IADeptofEd and @IAGovernor signed attestations on June 7 (most recent filed with DOE) that there were actual mitigation strategies in place 2/2 I - along with many others have been shouting this from our journalistic rooftops iowawatch.org/2021/08/12/wes…

1/1 This one goes out to @PatJGarrett the spokesperson for @IAGovernor because this is how the current administration in Iowa works. They only respond when pushed out into the glowing light of Twitter. 2/2 I live in NYC currently. I am from the great state of Iowa - home of Tom Harkin, Gov. Robert "Iowa Will Take All The Refugees" Ray, and HRH Cloris Leachman (a fellow Czech) - from a farm in the middle of Grundy County in Iowa's #IA04

🧵thread @justiceseeker78 has brought to all our attention something which is critically important to understand: there are no coincidences. That a recent arrest of a Trump campaign worker and former @FRCdc worker was arrested for allegedly taking part in the Jan 6 insurrection I have written about FRC and their global reach for almost a decade. This includes the Family Leader of Iowa, formerly Iowa Family Policy Center a branch of right wing hate group FRC. Here are some of the stories I have written over the years about this very group:

#Derecho2020 thread - NERD EDITION - I will eschew my bona fides as an Iowan and get right to it:

There is nothing precluding Governor Reynolds asking for a federal disaster declaration like, yesterday. Here is why: There is a provision (Chet Culver used it during the 2008 floods) that let's one cut through the horsepucky (if you will) and ask for immediate federal disaster declaration.

Thread/ Lousiana #COVID19 Yesterday I spoke with healthcare workers in Chicago, New Orleans, Iowa, and NYC - public health officials, nurses, paramedics, medical assistants all increasingly alarmed at the lack of response to #COVID19 and startling lack of protocols in place This is about #NOLA my home for several years my daughter attended school in the French Quarter in the days before Katrina and disaster tourism and the city caring more about infrastructure for the Superbowl than the cracking concrete in the Lower 9th Ward inthesetimes.com/article/14428/…

Thread: Let me just set this up a bit for you. I have been participating in WHO calls since February about this coming pandemic, I have talked to public health officials in three states (NY, La.,IA) and around the world (Africa, Australia, UK) #CoronavirusNewYork #COVID2019

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1243276945124712448

@Acosta sent out this tweet. Not surprising that Trump's letter will come as a shock to some of his "task force" - I saw the letter a little while ago and called the CDC directly to ask about the claim that there are apparently great strides in testing/relaxing social distancing