Posts Tagged ‘progress
Keep Up The Good Fight
The 4th Circuit has reaffirmed that assault weapons are not protected by the 2nd Amendment.
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Tim 🇺🇸 Dickinson (@7im) February 21, 2017
For those who still dont understand ACA (or know they now have no benefit caps) read this piece on what that means. vox.com/policy-and-pol…
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Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) February 22, 2017
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A Judge Has Blocked Texas From Cutting Planned Parenthood Funding
buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner… https://t.co/0cNeid21Dr
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BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) February 22, 2017
Federal judge Sparks is ... not impressed with TX's rationale for trying to kick Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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Brian M. Rosenthal (@brianmrosenthal) February 21, 2017
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Angry constituents confront Chuck Grassley in Iowa: “If it wasn’t for Obamacare, we wouldn’t be able to afford insu… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) February 21, 2017
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Everyone holding up their CO driver's license to prove that it's all Coloradans wanting to talk with… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
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(@IndivisibleNOCO) February 22, 2017
Activists hang ‘Refugees Welcome’ banner on Statue of Liberty nyp.st/2m9X6cn https://t.co/RJrlbGTzt9
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McSpocky™ 👽 (@mcspocky) February 21, 2017
Progress You Can Believe In
Under @POTUS, 15.5 million new private-sector jobs have been created over the past 80 months. This is progress:… twitter.com/i/web/status/7…
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 07, 2016
Have we gotten any better?
Channing Kennedy unearthed a little tidbit from 1982, in which President Ronald Reagan’s spokesperson Larry Speakes is asked about the disease which had been recently declared an epidemic by the CDC: AIDS. Amid much laughter from Mr. Speakes and the White House Press Corps, all parties participate in a callous back and forth on what the Reagan Administration’s position was on the new disease.
One part of the dialogue stuck out to me:
Q: Does the President, does anybody in the White House know about this epidemic, Larry?
MR. SPEAKES: I don’t think so. I don’t think there’s been any—
Q: Nobody knows?
MR. SPEAKES: There has been no personal experience here, Lester.
Q: No, I mean, I thought you were keeping—
MR. SPEAKES: I checked thoroughly with Dr. Ruge this morning and he’s had no—(laughter)—no patients suffering from AIDS or whatever it is.
“There has been no personal experience here.”
No one in the White House, or among the White House Press Corps, knew anyone who was afflicted with AIDS. It hadn’t touched them. And the concerns of a despised minority reaping what they had sown were not their concerns.
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