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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The law is named after this kid. It was written in Missouri. It has zero opposition. And Missouri still hasn’t passed it.

Cecilia Williams answered a knock at her door on April 13, 2021, and learned her son Cordell, his fiancée Lacey, and their 4-month-old baby had been killed in a fiery crash by a 26-year-old drunk driver on Highway 30. She was left raising two surviving grandchildren. So she wrote the bill herself.

The math tells you why this law needs to exist. 12,429 people were killed by drunk drivers in 2023. One every 42 minutes. 25% of children killed in road crashes that year involved alcohol-impaired drivers. The average drunk driver drives impaired 80 times before their first arrest. And when they kill a parent, the surviving children get zero from the person who destroyed their family.

Tennessee passed it first in 2022, unanimously. Kentucky and Texas followed in 2023. Six states total now have versions on the books, and a dozen more introduced bills this year.

This tells you everything about how legislation actually moves in America. A grandmother has been showing up to the Missouri Capitol with Bentley and Mason since 2022. Multiple sessions introduced. No opposition from anyone. The first officer on scene that night, Sgt. Cody Unfress, was himself orphaned by a drunk driver as a child. A family in Tennessee already received child support payments under the law. The system works where it exists.

Six other states passed versions of a bill that originated in Missouri before Missouri could pass its own. That’s the whole story of American lawmaking in one sentence.

[mari 🇵🇸 @_mementomari]

I don't care if the tech bros think it makes their service better, I want to be able to opt out. I want to be able to use Google search without consuming extra water for an AI summary I didn't ask for.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Merry Christmas from Saint Georges of Derdghaiya in South Lebanon.

This ancient Church, which has stood for over 300 years, was bombed and reduced to rubble by Israel.

9 innocent civilians, seeking refuge within its sacred walls, were killed in cold blood.

[Jaybefaunt🏳️‍🌈 @Jaybefaunt]

Dr. Jill Stein is literally getting endorsements from Palestinians in Gaza.

[The Hind Rajab Foundation @HindRFoundation]

Scenes unfolding today in Gaza show civilians being rounded up by soldiers, with reports of summary executions. We are documenting all of this to preserve the memory of the victims and to hold the perpetrators accountable. All eyes are on the (north) Gaza!
#EndIsraeliImpunity

[reb @rebmasel]

“what radicalized you?” probably my basic human empathy

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

A man named Matt Nelson self-immolated outside the Israeli consulate in Boston on September 11th, in protest against the Gaza genocide.

He is the third person in the United States to have self-immolated outside an Israeli consulate or embassy since October 7th 2023.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

All it cost was losing the support of millions of young, Arab, Black, and Muslim voters across the country, plus the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.

[vivafalastin 🇵🇸 @vivafalastin]

wow it’s almost like palestinians have been saying this since FUCKING DAY ONE

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

Dear Americans, If you are killed by the Israeli government, our country won't care.

No one will be held accountable. It doesn't matter who you are, Israel can kill Americans and get away with it.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

What an insane series of horror stories in ONE DAY.

Imagine if the media actually ran these headlines, every day, how would Americans feel about the way their tax dollars are being spent?

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

SHOCKING POLL: Democrats have a 40 POINT DROP with MUSLIM Voters.

Jill Stein is now tied with Kamala Harris with the Muslim vote! This is probably the strongest position third parties have been my entire life

[irene @irene_koo]

repeatedly hitting a Muslim woman over the head with a “We ❤️ Joe” sign is a bit too on the nose, no?

[⋆⁺₊⋆ jessica ☾ ⋆⁺₊⋆ 🍉 @ItsMrsRabbitToU]

Every word. Every single word.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

BREAKING: An influential fanatical Zionist propagandist has just come out and admitted that Israel is engaged in actual systematic mass rape of Palestinians, and that they do it to those they know are innocent. He admits he was lied to by his own government, media and friends

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

"I actually was the victim of a war crime myself because the Israelis dropped a GPS-guided bomb on the house where a British charity medical team was staying. They had our GPS coordinates, they knew who we were, and they knew where we were. They knew where we were every second of the day because we coordinated with the IDF, so this was a deliberate attempt to assassinate a British medical team in order to dissuade any medical teams coming from abroad."

[Feroze Sidhwa @FerozeSidhwa]

This is an open letter addressed to @POTUS, @VP , and @FLOTUS signed by 45 American physicians and nurses, about what we saw while working in Gaza. Please feel free to distribute. A PDF can be downloaded from the link and/or QR code on page 1.