stephanieie

the effort u give is what u get back

[Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd]

Dr. Fauci did the best that he could with the information that he had when he had it. Attempting to reinvent history doesn't change the facts. Dr. Fauci saved lives.

[Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove @RepKamlagerDove]

The Alzheimer's drug Leqembi:

- Is administered through an infusion (for example, through the hand)
- Can cause swelling, bleeding, or fluid leakage in the brain, requiring regular MRIs
- Can cause tiredness

Curious. 🤔

[Dr. Annie Andrews @AnnieAndrewsMD]

Horrified. Political violence is NEVER ok.

[Richland School District Two @RichlandTwo]

✋THIS IS WHAT COMMITMENT LOOKS LIKE: Safety is a shared responsibility. Today, educators, families, and community partners pledged together, to #BeSMART about gun safety - and protect every child’s tomorrow.
@CityofColumbia
#PurposeDriven

[Richland School District Two @RichlandTwo]

"Today we celebrate progress in keeping our kids safe-but we also celebrate our recommitment." - Sr. Chief Communications Officer @DarciSRush at the 2nd Annual SMART Week press conference at Columbia City Hall. @CityofColumbia
🔑Progress is powerful. Recommitment is essential. Today we renew our promise to keep firearms secure, locked, and out of reach - because our children’s safety is worth everything.
#BeSMART

[stephanieie @apricotsteph]

Securing firearms is one of the best ways to keep our schools and communities safe from gun violence. Help spread the word about #securestorage during SMART Week—August 25-29!

Learn more about how to get involved at https://t.co/ASE7nT8Bx2 or email [email protected].
#BeSMART

[stephanieie @apricotsteph]

How is it “asking a bit too much” to ask our SC Legislature to require guns to be stored in a special car safe? A lock box that can attach to the seat of a car is less than $30.

#SecureStorage #SCLeg @MomsDemand

https://t.co/0FwzeEmT6n

[American Academy of Pediatrics @AmerAcadPeds]

Pediatricians do not profit off vaccines. In fact, most pediatricians either break even or even lose money when they offer vaccines. Misleading parents about doctors' motivations puts children's health at risk and sows distrust in lifesaving vaccinations.
https://t.co/BmRlh6wx1G

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

Air strikes may start a war. They rarely end it. 

I am not convinced the President has thought that through. Or has any plan to de-escalate. 

This debate has to happen in front of and with the input of the American people. 

No more forever wars.

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

We need to have an honest conversation as a country about what comes next.

And we cannot repeat our approach from 2001 and 2002. The answer cannot be “we’ll figure it out as we go.”

I lost too many friends because of that logic.

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

For a guy who ran on keeping us out of war, this is a total 180. 

And he did it without ever making the case to the American people, or involving Congress (or even getting on the same page with his Dir. of National Intelligence!!) 

That is deeply wrong and Un-American.

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

I love our country. I proudly put my life on the line to keep the American people safe.

And I'm under no illusions about the Iranian regime – it is evil. 

But war is hell and Trump just introduced an incredible amount of risk and volatility into the global order.

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

It's not just conventional attacks from Iran (ballistic missiles, drones) I'm worried about. 

It's asymmetric escalation. Cyber. Closing the Strait of Hormuz. 

Militant groups in Iraq deciding they have nothing to lose. 

It’s – god forbid – a strike on the homeland.

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

I know Trump said he now wants peace. I share that goal. The problem is that, as Secretary Mattis always says: in war, the enemy gets a vote. 

We have 40,000+ troops in theater. The risk of an Iranian (or proxy) counter-attack is now MUCH higher. 

I’m praying for their safety.

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

Iran now has every motivation to breakout and develop a nuclear weapon as quickly as possible. 

Given the lack of clear rationale for why this preventive strike was needed & what exactly it was capable of achieving, that is an incredibly dangerous amount of risk to take on.

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

This morning Chairman Caine made it clear it was far too soon to know whether Iran’s nuclear program was destroyed.

I hope and pray the strike was successful. But there’s a real chance the operation wasn’t fully effective.

If so, the risk to the US is DRAMATICALLY higher.

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

Within hours of the strikes, Trump said the nuclear facilities were “completely and totally obliterated.”

This was literally impossible to know – a Battle Damage Assessment takes days or even weeks, especially given the secretive and fortified nature of all three targets.

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

Trump is claiming his strikes on Iran made the American people safer. He is dangerously wrong.

I served two combat tours in Iraq and am now on the Armed Services Committee.

His actions were not only unconstitutional, they have made America less safe – not more.

Here’s why:

🧵

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

We can drop hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bombs from billion dollar planes but we can’t afford pediatric cancer research.