So you folk arguing that passing gun laws won’t work because some people won’t follow them. I have some things to say to you, and I don’t need you to respond because my patience is gone on this subject. Gone.
1) We don’t pass laws based on whether everyone will follow them. 🧵 If we did pass laws based on that litmus, I think this bodes well for any and all marijuana legislation. In fact, why did we pass all those abortion bills? Some people won’t follow them, after all.

I know people think that sharing those images is the righteous thing to do. But a few points. (Sorry, another 🧵):
1) The loved ones of these individuals did not consent to this. Mamie Till (who people keep invoking) was fully aware of what she was doing and made a choice. 2) Many of the people you are sharing this with (politicians who have chosen the gun lobby) also saw the carnage from other mass shootings, including Uvalde.
If that didn’t sway them, will this? Probably not, and in the meantime you’ve traumatized a whole lot of people because

As a Christian who prays on the regular, I find that after this many preventable gun deaths, extending your thoughts and prayers and doing precious little else cheapens the conversation with God. James 2:14, 17: "What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Yesterday someone asked me if I thought Twitter would get sued by Lilly or any other company that was spoofed by a blue check account.
I should explain I am not a lawyer, but I’ve written about the law for too many years. Section 230 protects parody, so the answer could be no. But, as usual, these are not normal times. 230 protects platforms from being sued because of the things published on them, but in this case, Twitter took the extra step of conveying legitimacy to the account

Quick Veterans Day related thread:

The oldest of nine children, Jacqueline Macal was raised in Dallas, and during World War II, she found herself in New River, North Carolina, attending basic training after she joined the Marines. Basic training, she said in an interview almost 10 years ago, was tough, thanks to a “sorry and no good” red-headed sergeant from Georgia who put the women who signed up to serve through their paces.

So since it is Friday, here’s a thread of things I’ve written this week: “I walk around work hollering that I’m feeding the babies, but I really didn’t know what else to do. It was such a rash, ridiculous thing that I did out of anger, but it’s restored my faith in humanity.” dmagazine.com/style-beauty-w…

This morning, in a FB group I’m in, a woman told us she is having a miscarriage. Her doctor prescribed misoprostol to help her complete the miscarriage. The doctor had to spend 30 minutes explaining to a Walgreens pharmacist that she wasn’t having an abortion. 🧵 The first round of misoprostol didn’t work. The doctor calls in another round, and she heads to the pharmacy to pick it up. After waiting 20 minutes, she is told by the pharmacist that they’ve talked to colleagues and the corporate office, and have decided not to fill it,

I don’t want to say I told you so, but I did tell my husband when Abbott caved on the salon lady and then moved up his timeline for reopening to pander to a vocal minority that he would end up screwing himself over. You see ... Other countries had shown the benefits of SIP until you get consistent declines, masking, etc. Countries that didn’t saw massive infection rates. This was not an unknown.