Andrea J. Phillips
@AndreaJPhillips
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Love books, politics, & justice for all. Former: @johnshopkins non-trad grad student, #ialegis candidate, @iowademocrats vice chair, expat.
Ankeny, IA
Joined May 2010
I know we're not obliged to announce our departure from Xitter, but it occurred to me, after I deleted it off my phone, that I should leave a message in case people find me here. I've moved to Threads as @ andrea.j.phillips. Hope to see you there!
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Sure is interesting that the Medicare cost curve bent exactly when Obama signed a major health reform law one of whose stated goals was to bend the Medicare cost curve. https://t.co/BplvZja6Rv
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Fox News is news in the same way that cow pies are pies.
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If you’ve eaten a burger and fries recently, there’s a chance that the potatoes were picked by middle schoolers in Idaho. The United States is experiencing a sharp rise in child labor violations, especially in the nation's food sector.
motherjones.com
Why the nation’s food sector has the most child-labor violations
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This Labor Day, thank a Union for: - The Weekend - 8 hour workdays - A minimum wage - Paid Overtime - Breaks During Work - The Right To Strike - Child Labor Laws - Workplace Safety Standards What else should we be grateful to unions for?
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Second-biggest owner of Twitter is executing a man for his tweets. Silence from the owner of Twitter, who is a self-styled ‘free speech absolutist.’ Not even a “concerning”.
A Saudi court has sentenced a man to death based solely on his Twitter& YouTube activity. Repression has reached a terrifying new stage when a court can hand down the death penalty for nothing more than tweets. Saudi authorities should quash the verdict. https://t.co/jUYep3vrei
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The latest @pewresearch poll confirms what other pollsters have found: white Christians are the only religious group to say people see racism where there isn't any. A majority of Americans disagree, saying people tend to overlook racism: https://t.co/Ms4XTUCTJh
@bobsmietana
religionnews.com
(RNS) — A new survey from Pew Research revealed once again how deeply divided religious Americans are when it comes to matters of race.
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“Iowa is ranked 51st in the country – last in the nation – by the Treatment Advocacy Center, with only 2 beds per 100,000 people, when the recommended amount is 50 beds per 100,000 people.”
iowacapitaldispatch.com
Iowa has made progress in mental health legislation, but the need for services has blown past the progress we have made.
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Ron DeSantis has vowed to shoot fentanyl traffickers crossing the border illegally if elected president. But an overwhelming majority of fentanyl is being smuggled through the border at legal ports of entry — not by foreign nationals, but by U.S. citizens.
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She believed she could, but she needed a snacky snack and some trash TV, so she didn't. Not today.
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how many killers have to graduate from a course of independent study at the lone wolf academy of racism before we turn our collective attention to the people writing the curriculum?
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Freedom and Liberty never began by banning books. Sign the petition against book bans today - https://t.co/KMlcanDwJT
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Did you know: Democrats are trying to pass the Freedom to Vote Act 🗳️ This transformational bill would shine a light on dark money, limit big money in politics, crack down on corruption, and expand access to the ballot box.
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A man absorbs a bunch of toxic online hate speech, writes racist manifestos, buys body armor & an AR-15, & kills a bunch of innocent POCs. Then another man does the same. And another. And another. And another. And another. And each time, he is a "lone gunman," an N of 1.
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Dems should make more of an issue out of the fact that right wing culture-warring is pitting parents against teachers and flooding your kids' classrooms with a McCarthyite atmosphere of fear, suspicion and rage. 6/6 https://t.co/1ozG1v1ckx
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