Abortion is Healthcare

Elder millennial girl dad. I like orange tractors, teal power tools, and blue politics. Harris/Walz 2024.

[Abortion is Healthcare @mattmillr]

What happened to the caramel in my @CadburyUSA Caramel Egg! 😢

[Wendy Hasson MD @WendyHassonMD]

Have you ever watched a baby die of pertussis? I have. Several.

This is what it looks like:
A newborn baby can’t stop coughing. They can’t catch their breath and they can’t eat. They get dehydrated and stop peeing. They sometimes have pauses in their breathing. Parents are terrified so they come to the ER.

In the ER, labs show they have a dangerously high white blood cell count. Their blood has become thick from the white blood cells and doesn’t travel through organs like it should. Less oxygen gets delivered to vital organs. They start to seize. Imaging reveals they had a stroke. They can’t pump blood to their lungs and body.

A breathing tube gets placed in their trachea. They get put on a ventilator. A plastic catheter is placed in their veins and arteries to give them medicine and measure blood pressure.

If they are lucky, they can make it to a #PedsICU that provides #ECMO, or full heart lung bypass. They are attached to machines that take over all their body functions.

But it’s too late. Their hands and feet turn black because they can’t perfuse their bodies. Their faces turn grey/green. They won’t stop seizing from the brain injury.

They are attached to too many machines to hold while alive and parents lay their bodies on top of them and cry until they fall asleep then cry again.

There is nothing to do but stop the machines. Antibiotics to treat pertussis were given but were no match for the infections effects on a newborn baby.

Parents finally hold their baby after the machines have turned off and their baby is cold and lifeless.

Is this what you want? This is what RFK Jr will bring to American families.

[John Clune @CluneEsq]

Mr. Gaetz's likely nomination as Attorney General is a perverse development in a truly dark series of events. We would support the House Ethics Committee immediately releasing their report. She was a high school student and there were witnesses.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Dems have the Senate majority for the next 60-plus days. Use it! Not just to confirm judges. Hold your own pre-confirmation hearings. Foreign Relations on Tulsi Gabbards ties to Russia. Intel Committee onJohn Ratliffe's misconduct on intelligence in Trump's first term. 1/

[Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins]

Vaccines just don’t protect you. They protect everyone around you.

Vaccines are safe. And effective.

PERIOD.

[Abortion is Healthcare @mattmillr]

@MarkSAaron1 @davidhogg111 Didn’t the election last week prove this country is pretty damn motivated by money? https://t.co/YetUmIL3yu

[Abortion is Healthcare @mattmillr]

@RonFilipkowski @TheTNHoller “Provide advice and guidance from outside of government…”

Looks like a management consulting model.

So they’re applying lessons from a business sector that no one has ever called wasteful or expensive or mocked for charging millions to make obvious suggestions.

[elijah daniel @elijahdaniel]

@walipini his job my choice

[Abortion is Healthcare @mattmillr]

@KEBrightbill If it weren’t for the carbon impact I’d pay $7 just to have Grok make me a picture of Elon’s White House holiday decorations.

[Abortion is Healthcare @mattmillr]

The definition applies beyond “the law.” It includes empathy, respect etc. https://t.co/lYWqiNaOkm

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Conservatives are perpetual victims. They refuse to have empathy for strangers yet demand unconditional empathy from everyone else.

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Reminder: Aileen Cannon was confirmed in the lame duck session after Trump lost in 2020.

[Abortion is Healthcare @mattmillr]

@footyATL @davidsacc12345 He's (confusingly) only talking about dems because Bush I and McCain both lost by worse margins less than 35 years ago. And Harris got more than twice as many electoral (226) votes than Dukakis did in 1988 (111). It's a weird argument.

[Oxtail Pricing Specialist @simsimmaaz]

"There is no bridge I would not burn for my wife and daughter" I know they gasped

[Abortion is Healthcare @mattmillr]

@thepolkinator @VioletGweny I don’t think you know what the word “or” is or what it does.

[I Smoked Lindsey Graham @BlackKnight10k]

Congratulations guys. You genocided Gaza 🍉

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Oh my god shut the fuck up dude

[Abortion is Healthcare @mattmillr]

@Sad_Liberal @ElieNYC @nhannahjones @Bakari_Sellers I think you're the only one here talking about that.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

We are already seeing the rationalizing of how we got here and the blaming of the political party that, though flawed, actually reflects multiracial democracy. We must resist this. Voters knew exactly who Trump was and chose him anyway. This is not about the so-called excesses of the left. As the NYT editorial board writes, Trump ran the "most racist, sexist, and xenophobic campaign in modern history." As NYT reporter Lisa Lerer wrote today, "This was a conquering of the nation not by force but with a permission slip. Now, America stands on the precipice of an authoritarian style of governance never before seen in its 248-year history." This is the unsparing truth that we must confront.

[Abortion is Healthcare @mattmillr]

@JessieSingerNYC @GovKathyHochul That and remove Adams. He might lobby Trump for a pardon and never pay for his crimes, but he shouldn't be our leader right now.