I will post this late-term abortion story over & over & hope it will get even 1 more person to vote.

Some states have outlawed abortions & the GOP is planning a national ban. If you think this won’t affect you or your loved ones, you’re wrong.

Please, pass it on & #voteblue.
1/ This is @HaylieGrammer's abortion story. She gave her blessing to share it.
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[7] years ago, I gave birth to my daughter, Embree. She weighed 4lbs 4oz and was born with a tumor the size of a volleyball. Embree lived 25 minutes. We learned about the tumor only weeks before.
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Many states have banned abortions & the GOP is working on a national ban. So many think this will never affect them or their loved ones. They’re wrong.

Please, read, pass it on, & #vote.
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1. This is @HaylieGrammer’s late-term #abortion story. She gave her blessing to share it. 2. “5 years ago, I gave birth to my daughter, Embree. She weighed 4lbs 4oz & was born with a tumor the size of a volleyball. Embree lived 25 minutes. We learned about the tumor only weeks before.

This is @HaylieGrammer's story. She gave her blessing to share it. Take a moment & read this. You’ll be surprised.
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1. [Five] years ago, I gave birth to my daughter, Embree. She weighed 4lbs 4oz & was born with a tumor the size of a volleyball. Embree lived 25 minutes. 2. We learned about the tumor only weeks before. It was sucking her blood, pushing her organs, deforming her body, & overworking her heart. In the 5 weeks we'd known about it, the tumor grew from the size of a walnut to the volleyball.

Those 5 weeks were the hardest of my life.

🧵#dcdating
1. In a restaurant in DuPont w/ my bff & there’s a couple on a first date next to us. Dude is the epitome of why dating in DC is the worst. They begin by sitting down & he starts mansplaining the cocktails. “Negroni really shouldn’t be drunk outside May - September.” 2. We know it’s a first date because 10 minutes in he says “I sort of expected you to have a Nigerian accent” (goes without saying that he’s white and she’s black).
She goes “why would you think that?”

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1. This nightmare thought up by @NickKnudsenUS that I tweeted about a month ago still keeps me awake worrying. Read it through & try to imagine waking up in November 2022 & having this start to play out.

This could be our future if we don’t pass the #ForThePeopleAct 2. Imagine waking up in January of 2023, after midterms, & hearing that another Supreme Court Justice has passed. Once again Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell comes out with “let the voters decide,” promising to deny President Biden his rightful nominee to the Supreme Court.

Let's play something out:

1. Imagine waking up in Feb of 2023, after midterms, & hearing that another Supreme Court Justice has passed. Majority Leader McConnell comes out with “let the voters decide,” promising to deny President Biden his rightful nominee to the Supreme Court. 2. Former Senator Warnock is on Morning Joe, lamenting that the Georgia voter suppression laws that kept him from reelection, doomed yet another SCOTUS nominee. 

Two years later, in February 2025, President Josh Hawley’s SCOTUS pick sails through the Republican-held Senate.

1. This is @HaylieGrammer's story. She has given me her blessing to share it. Please share & remember Haylie & her baby when you #vote.
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"I recently saw an article about Senator Gary Peters & his experience with abortion. It reminded me that people need to hear my story too... 2. Four and a half years ago, I gave birth to my daughter, Embree Eleanor. She was born via c-section & weighed 4lbs 4oz. Embree was born with a tumor the size of a volleyball and she lived 25 minutes.

We found out about the tumor just 5 weeks before.

Urgent & harsh info re. voting in #NorthCarolina.

1. TL/DR: Absentee ballots from Dems are being rejected at 3x the rate as those from Republicans. NC is a swing state. Margins will be narrow. If you can, mask up & vote in person. Read on. #DemCast
bit.ly/2T2D0CD 2. As of 10/12, 494,881 absentee votes were cast in NC. 2.7% (13,406) have been rejected. 7,757 from Democrats rejected compared to 2,304 from Republicans. If these rates keep up, about 20k D ballots will be rejected & 6k Republican. States have been won by far smaller margins.

(1) I’ve really had it with this “lesser of two evils” stuff regarding Joe Biden in comparison to Trump.

Evil is defined as "profoundly immoral and wicked." Is that really a term that applies to Joe Biden?

Really?

I have some questions about this. (2) What exactly is “evil” about expanding health coverage to millions more people and linking drug prices to overseas prices? It’s not M4A, but is expanding coverage to another 10 million people actually evil or just not as good as immediate universal coverage?

1. Biden may not be your first choice for president, but if he does turn out to be our nominee, please remember:

You're not just voting for President, you're voting for the rule of law. You’re voting for who replaces RBG on the Supreme Court. You're voting for federal judges. 2. You’re not just voting for President, you're voting for sensible gun laws. You're voting against allowing the USA to become another authoritarian regime. You're voting for letting kids out of cages. You're voting for Dreamers. You're voting for the next Secretary of Education.

This👏is👏not👏 just👏“politics.”👏
I just had a conversation with an acquaintance about why I won’t go to dinner with him. I saw that he posted on FB that Trump was “a damn fine president.” So I told him our core values and beliefs are too at odds for us to even be friends. 2. He said “I’m curious if there really are core differences in our beliefs. That’s the negative side of politics. You get painted into a category.” I said it’s not about politics. It’s a question of morality for me.