This is so excellent b/c it is exactly what I’ve been thinking and feeling only so much better than the strands of thoughts bouncing around in my brain that I couldn’t string together to articulate my disgust with the pile-on. Thank you @drvolts
AHCA’s emergency rules: Desantis is picking & choosing which life saving care he supports & which he doesn’t by deeming some care “not an abortion” even when procedure is the same. Glad for some clarity so lives can be saved but healthcare should never be politicized like this.
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I don’t care what your belief system, religion or news source is. If your belief system or religion or news source foments, condones, or leads you to kill another human, leads you to kill a child, ffs, your belief system, religion, or news source is bs. https://t.co/lx6kpnmeTF
When I was a little boy, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a surprise attack, and thousands of U.S. servicemembers perished. As a nation, we were stunned. And we vowed to strike back. Revenge was understandably on everyone’s mind, including many Americans of Japanese descent who opposed the emperor and were peaceful and law-abiding U.S. citizens and residents.
In its zeal to exact that revenge, however, the U.S. government overreacted, out of fear and bigotry. They targeted everyone who happened to look like the people who had carried out the attack. Those of us who had done nothing wrong were forced to pay the consequences for the decisions of others far away and disconnected from us. We were interned for years, in open-air prisons, while America went off to fight Japan, Germany and Italy.
It’s so important that we carry the lessons of the past through to today. Merely because one group commits atrocities and acts with depravity does not mean vast hundreds of thousands or even millions of others should be lumped together with them and made to suffer. We must never paint with the brush of justice and retaliation too broadly, or the toll of human suffering will rise immeasurably.
T-2 days
While the country is careening toward a gov’t shutdown, Republicans are holding their impeachment hearing. Tx @RepSummerLee calls out the R’s for focusing on this sham and not working to prevent the shutdown.
This is a must-watch. She is 🔥!