Vicki Ringer
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Director of Public Affairs @PPSATSC . Former reporter, editor, press secretary. Mom. Mimi. Gamecock. Pee Dee girl. Southern woman with opinions.
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New abortion ban bill introduced in SC Senate would prohibit anyone from telling a pregnant woman that she could go to another state for an abortion, prohibit anyone from driving her there, and prohibits a website from providing info about abortion. This cannot stand.
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I understand Texas troopers obeying their governor. But what human stands by and watches a woman and 2 children drown and forcibly stops border patrol from helping? At what point do you ask, is my job worth more than my soul?
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How does Fani Willis’s sex life with Nathan Wade or anyone else have anything to do with Trump’s attempts to steal an election? This seems ridiculous.
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SC Republicans blocked an amendment to allow voters of SC to decide if abortion remains legal in SC. Talk about a tell. They’re afraid of the public voice. And they should be. Women are coming.
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If Republicans are honest with themselves, they need to ask what has Lindsey Graham done for SC in 25 years? Our state is among the worst in every ranking: education, income, healthcare, student debt, poverty and more. Lindsey just hasn’t produced for SC.
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Trump is 77. Joe Manchin is 76. Jill Stein is 73. Cornel West is 70. Robert Kennedy Jr. turns 70 next month. Stop singling out Joe Biden for his age. They’re all old. At least Joe Biden will protect our democracy.
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Cruelty is the point. She had sex and now she must suffer.
Arkansas House committee rejects abortion exemption for fatal prenatal conditions
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I had surgery to remove my gall bladder and didn’t have 3 appointments with the surgeon. Yet NC requires 3 appointments for a medication abortion, a safer procedure than having my wisdom teeth removed (didn’t require 3 visits either). These laws are meant to harass women. Period.
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SC ranks in the bottom of every category - why do voters continue to vote for the same old people who refuse to do anything about it? It can feel so depressing but I will never, ever give up the fight. Our residents deserve better.
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Labor, delivery services 'paused' at Laurens hospital. Open hostility to doctors by our legislature means they can’t recruit OB/GYNs or any other doctors. 15 counties now without an OB/GYN. Who do legislators think will deliver all these forced births?
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Interesting that Republicans and Joe Manchin oppose the confirmations of Biden’s nominees who are: (1) Asian-American woman, (2) Native American woman and (3) Hispanic man. These are the same people who approved Jeff Sessions, Rick Grenell, Alex Azar, Brett Kavanaugh, et al.
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Henry McMaster walks a losing former guy onto the field at the Carolina-Clemson game. It’s a football game. Henry should keep politics out of it. We don’t want losers paraded out onto the field of my alma mater.
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@theaveragechair
Yep. We know where this is headed. If she’s pregnant and smokes, she should go to jail. Thanks for clarifying.
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That wasn’t even close.
@JoeCunninghamSC
won the SC Governor’s Debate hands down. McMaster came across as a 1950s good old boy. No new ideas. Ban gay marriage. Ban abortion. No medical marijuana. No improvements. Keep the status quo. We need the fresh ideas of Joe Cunningham.
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In his closing remarks in support of the SC abortion ban, Rep. John McCravy said he looked forward to the 2024 election so they could enact a total ban and get rid of exceptions for rape and incest. If you were wondering if women and girls were ever a priority in SC.
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South Carolina librarians are getting death threats. Death threats. Librarians. Lower the temperature. Y’all have lost your damn mind.
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Nikki Haley bragging about jobs she brought to SC. What she forgot to mention is SC ranks among the worst 5 states in the nation for wages and income. Most folks have to work two jobs in SC just to get by.
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Lou Dobbs compared Mitt Romney to Judas. Let me remind these fake Christians: Judas betrayed Jesus. Mitt Romney did what God commanded of him - to obey the law and follow his conscience. For Dobbs to suggest Trump is Jesus is just too far.
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Folks asking if Melinda Gates will become a philanthropist like MacKenzie Scott. Melinda has been giving away huge chunks of money and doing the work for decades. Women are capable of doing good works before they get divorced. We don't all need permission from our husbands.
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I remember people in wheelchairs being arrested at the US Capitol because they were begging for senators to not take away their health care. Today, terrorists broke into the building, attacked police and Congress, vandalized our building, and they weren’t arrested.
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If an embryo or fetus is involved, we little ladies just need to know our lives are secondary. So sayeth Justice Alito, the Federalist Society, Alliance Defending Freedom, and the Republican Party. If you want to live, don’t vote Republican.
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@LindseyGrahamSC
has told us three times his family ran a restaurant so he knows what it’s like to run a business. Lindsey hasn’t worked in a restaurant for 40 years. He’s been on the taxpayers’ payroll for nearly all his adult life.
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You know you’re headed down the wrong path when even former SC Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy is calling out the insanity in SC.
Fmr. GOP Rep. Gowdy on Fox: Americans don’t want women or doctors imprisoned over abortion. Republicans in my state are advocating for the death penalty for a rape victim who gets an abortion. Republicans used to say it’s a state issue, now they want the death penalty
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@tedcruz
@SherrodBrown
@DanSullivan_AK
There is a woman about two feet away from him catching all his spit as he speaks. Shouldn't you be reprimanded for speaking badly of your colleagues? There used to be rules of decorum. Clearly, no longer.
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Apparently this newest release of transcripts reveals that Matt Gaetz asked for a pardon for his sex trafficking of a minor. Innocent people don’t do things like that, do they? 😏
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Period poverty is a real thing causing girls to miss school because they don’t have the products they need while at school. Along comes this dude to object to it all. This is the most insane take on periods I’ve ever heard.
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I know a lot of you folks in Kentucky are unemployed and suffering. So why are 53% of you still supporting Mitch McConnell, who refuses to extend unemployment, offer another stimulus check, and prevent you from being evicted? McConnell is killing you and you’re letting him.
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@MarybethMahrer
Of course. Seizing cell phones is probably first thing they'll do. They'll rely on tattletales/snitches and probably offer rewards so that friends and family will turn in the woman in exchange for money.
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The hospital in Laurens County SC had to close its Labor & Delivery unit because they had no OB/GYN, forcing women to give birth in the ER. Instead of Laurens County funding the hospital or recruiting an OB/GYN, they decided to fund a fake clinic that provides no medical care.
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I can promise that if Democrats were cheating in elections, we would not be stuck with Lindsey Graham, Henry McMaster or Alan Wilson in SC.
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Not since Jim Jones convinced 900 people to drink the cyanide koolaid has there been such a massive brainwashing of Americans in just 5 short years. Trump and right wing media make Putin proud. Putin didn’t have to destroy our democracy - Trump, Fox, OANN, Breitbart, etc. did it.
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600 OB/GYNs doctors in SC are members of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. 5 doctors in SC are members of the anti-abortion OB/GYN group. A legislator today said doctors were undecided on reproductive care. Nah. They’re really not.
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Just so everyone knows, I live South Carolina. This is home. I don’t want to live anywhere else. And because I love her, I have the right to criticize and demand better. If you’re satisfied with where SC stands, good for you. But I’ll keep working to make sure SC is good for all.
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It’s a sad day for education when someone who is legally unable to be the superintendent of education and has never spent a day in a school wins the GOP nomination. We all better get busy working to elect Democratic nominee Lisa Ellis, who is a teacher and immensely qualified.
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Coach was right. The biggest bullies are in SC’s “Freedom” Caucus who know there are no trans women playing college sports in SC. One team from SC is playing for a national championship. They should congratulate
@dawnstaley
, not feign outrage over something not happening.
South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley says she believes that Trans women should be allowed to play in women's sports.
She adds that she knows that saying this is going to lead her to be bullied and harassed and she's ok with that.
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We were allowed to vote on whether we wanted to buy beer on Sunday in SC, but Republicans won’t let us vote on abortion. They know they’ll lose. 80% of SC residents support legal abortion. Even greater numbers want government to stay out of these decisions.
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SC House is debating a bill that would require pharmacists to get your doctor’s approval before giving you a Covid vaccine. Talk about grinding the healthcare system to a halt. Can you imagine pharmacists having to do that? And docs having to give that authorization every time?
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The SC Supreme Court just ruled 3-2 that the six-week abortion ban is unconstitutional! That’s good news. Privacy and bodily autonomy does matter in SC!
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Jaime! This time next year, I went to see you representing me in the US Senate!
@harrisonjaime
#DemocraticConvention
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I don’t care if Joe Biden is 100 years old, I will vote for him. In 2024, we will vote for democracy or authoritarianism; freedom or restrictions; control of my body or women as state property; delivering for middle class or tax cuts for billionaires; Biden or Trump. This guy. ⬇️
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Poor
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told Hannity that Russia wouldn’t attack our cyber systems if Trump were president. Did he forget that it actually did happen under Trump — multiple times. And at Helsinki, Trump said it wasn’t Putin. Does Lindsey need to see a doctor?
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@LindseyGrahamSC
insisted on Bill Clinton’s impeachment over something messy but not traitorous or treasonous. Now Lindsey says nothing’s wrong about Trump’s insistence that Ukraine investigate his political opponent or they’d get no US aid. I’m so embarrassed by my senator.
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“Wasn’t Merrick Garland qualified?”
@harrisonjaime
asks Lindsey Graham when he said he voted for qualified judges.
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How’s this for heartbreaking? My husband is going with a co-worker to vote today because she’s worried about how a Black woman will be treated trying to vote in a mostly white, Republican county. If anyone wants a friend at the polls, I’m here for you. We have so much work to do.
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SC has the 5th highest rate of new Covid cases in the nation. Leadership matters and we have none in the governor’s office.
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The 6-week abortion ban has been blocked! This is the best news and so appropriate while we’re in Senate Medical Affairs listening to scripture about abortion! 20 weeks is the new old law!
BREAKING: The South Carolina Supreme Court just unanimously blocked the state’s ban on abortion after about 6 weeks of pregnancy. We applaud the court’s decision to protect the people of South Carolina from this cruel law that interferes with a person’s private medical decision.
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SC ranks among the worst 10 states for income, wages, education, healthcare, overall health, domestic violence, maternal mortality, infant mortality, teen pregnancy and status of women. I think we’ve had about all we can take of McMaster, Trump and Lindsey.
South Carolina’s economy is fueled by small businesses & entrepreneurs. Opportunity & prosperity will be smothered by
@JoeBiden
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@realDonaldTrump
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@LindseyGrahamSC
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Biden sign in my neighborhood. In Lexington County, SC. And it’s not mine. This is really good.
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27 Republican men (all of them) voted today to ban abortion in SC. I’m gutted. Because women will die. Full stop.
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I love SC but our state ranks last in every category about quality of life so why do we keep voting for Republican politicians. They’ve been in charge and gotten us into this mess. Henry needs to go. That’s a good start.
#SCGovDebate
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Best news from the Kentucky Senate race? More than 544,000 votes in the Democratic primary while slightly under 414,000 voted in Republican primary. Democrats outperformed Republicans by more than 130,000 votes. In Kentucky! That’s great news!
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Under Henry McMaster’s many years in political office, South Carolina has a higher crime rate than New York, California, Illinois and Florida. SC has the 6th highest murder rate in the USA. Reason 83,264 why Henry needs to be retired by voters.
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Republicans have controlled the state Senate, House and Governor's Office in South Carolina for more than 20 years. What has that gotten us?
❌48th best states for women
❌6th highest murder rate
❌49th best state to raise a family
❌44th best education system
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Georgia GOP State Sen. Ed Setzler, who sponsored their abortion ban, said he isn’t worried about the lack of OB/GYNs in their state. He doesn’t want doctors who perform abortions in GA. Pregnant women can just use Telehealth anywhere in Georgia, he said. Childbirth by Zoom!
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The Republican nominee for education superintendent Ellen Weaver won’t have a master’s degree as required by SC law at the time of the Nov. 8 election. She is unqualified to lead our schools if she lacks the basic education that our teachers and principals are expected to have.
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Abortion is still safe and legal in South Carolina and I’m determined to keep it that way. Politicians have no place governing women’s bodies.
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Now that a SC state senator says women can get vasectomies, I’m calling Rep. Doug Gilliam to see if he’ll send that magical ambulance to pick me up and take me to Walmart to get my vasectomy. Asking for nearly 3 million women in South Carolina.
#StopTheBanSC
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The first bill to be considered in this session of the SC legislature is school vouchers which allow tax dollars to pay tuition at private and religious schools in violation of our SC Constitution. Our tax dollars MUST be used only for public schools! Call your legislators now!
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DA Fani Willis’s father, John Floyd, is quite the accomplished attorney. He has done some impressive work all over the world, including regarding the genocide in Rwanda. We see where DA Willis gets her skills and independence.
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@KellyLGregory
@MaryRobinette
And my mom, while waiting for her insurance to take effect before seeing a doctor, had her breast tumor literally burst out of her skin. I rushed her to the doctor that day. I was 16. American healthcare. It sucks.
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Voter ID is not as much a race issue as it is a class issue. My grandfather was born at home because he was poor. He never had a birth certificate. SC didn’t require birth certificates until 1915 and not for home births until much later.
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SC Attorney General Alan Wilson sued to overturn President Biden’s decision to forgive up to $20,000 in student loans based on need. Why would Wilson want to hurt SC residents? That money now goes into SC’s economy benefiting everyone. Disappointed in the AG but not surprised.
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I’m sure it comes as no surprise to anyone that SC Senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott voted today against the Respect for Marriage Act which protects not only same-sex marriages, but interracial ones, too.
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Wait until SEC football fans are told that their university can’t admit a superior athlete because of race unless that athlete meets all the same qualifications as other students of all races.
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Jerry Falwell risking the entire student and faculty population in order to prove his devotion to Trump. “Hey, dear leader, we’ll experiment with your plan at Liberty!” I hope Gov. Ralph Northam, the people of Lynchburg and the National Guard put a quick end to his insanity.
Liberty University will reopen this week, Jerry Falwell inviting students to return and ordering faculty to come back to work.
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SC House Judiciary Committee voted today to remove minor’s ability to get judge’s permission for an abortion. This is how they hide sexual abuse of girls by family members. If dad, brother, uncle raped a girl, they deny an abortion and no one will know. Girl has no recourse.
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Not content with banning abortion, the sponsors of H. 3549 want to charge women with murder and sentence them to the death penalty. There are no allowable exceptions in this bill. If you're dying and you have an abortion to stay alive, you can claim self-defense in court.
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Stephen Colbert’s monologue last night: The Supreme Court says, of course, states can’t decide who goes on the ballot, states are too busy deciding that life begins in the freezer section.
@StephenAtHome
@colbertlateshow
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While some SC politicians were busy smearing
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Have you noticed that Kentucky senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul both said they’d vote against a climate bill? After 30+ deaths in Kentucky from flooding caused by the environment? Once again, Democrats will save red states from poor management and lack of leadership.
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Since Hobby Lobby denied their employees health insurance coverage for birth control, I don’t go there. Them buying full page ads in newspapers saying only Christians should be elected or work in government, my decision is confirmed.
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Employers will cover Viagra but not birth control. What logic is that? If your employers drops birth control from your insurance plan, I want to hear about it so we don’t support those businesses. They don’t support women - we don’t support them.
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Teachers deserve so much more. They should be the best paid people in SC. Full stop. Legislators debated this week about raising teacher starting salaries to $33,600 or $35,000. That's shameful. No other industry pays so little for college-educated staff.
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.
@harrisonjaime
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@maddow
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Thank you to the folks who voted against discrimination against transgender children in SC. The bill was defeated again! Hate didn’t win today!
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SC Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette said a fetus feels pain at 15 weeks gestation. Nonsense. The connections required from the spinal cord to the brain to feel pain are not developed until the 3rd trimester. Evette isn’t a doctor. She needs to quit making up stuff that REAL doctors reject.
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I want the story on
@dawnstaley
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@GamecockWBB
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The treatment for a miscarriage early in pregnancy and an abortion are exactly the same. Where abortion is banned, women who have miscarriages are denied medical care, are investigated by police and often prosecuted. This is not what South Carolinians want. It’s unconscionable.
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These are the 27 Senators who voted to ban abortion tonight - 26 Republicans and 1 Democrat - Kent Williams of Marion. Remember these names. They’re all up for re-election in 2024. They’re hoping we’ll forget. Never.
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SC Judge has granted an injunction blocking SC’s six-week ban until it can be heard by the SC Supreme Court. This is good news for the women of SC today.
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You know what’s clear from this debate? Henry McMaster has been on the public dole for too long. He needs to retire. I don’t care how old he is, but his ideas are just as old and stale.
#SCGovDebate
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A really powerful ad. SC senators will vote today on a bill that will result in investigations for miscarriages and punishments for ending a pregnancy - no matter when, why or how. This has to stop. Women’s lives must be at least as valuable to GOP men as an egg, embryo or fetus.
MAGA Republicans want women arrested for having an abortion. This is what that looks like.
#LockHerUp
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I can’t imagine what SC could accomplish if we focused on something other than abortion, transgender people and guns.
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If your children attend public school, vote for
@LisaForSC
for Superintendent of Education. The other person wants to take tax dollars away from public schools and spend it on private and religious schools that can discriminate.
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Lee Greenwood has served on the national arts council for like 20 years and he’s mad that President Biden is bringing in new board members. These are not lifetime positions. We need new members and fresh ideas.
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“I gave up my life to move to Washington to help Americans,” Ivanka Trump says in Davos interview. Meanwhile, her income has increased and she’s built power. Poor thing. What a sacrifice.
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@SteveSchmidtSES
I know this is hard for you, Steve. That makes it even more admirable that you’re willing to do it.
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@LaurieAtBoston
@johnpavlovitz
Sunday nights. Either right before or right after the Wonderful World of Disney! We’d had our baths and were propped in front of the TV with milk and Oreos for a bedtime snack.
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I’ve been watching the
#WestWing
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@notcapnamerica
This is who she called the police on. Have you ever seen a less harmless family?
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@LeCingola
@niais
I'd just find another doctor. Denying her medications because she MIGHT get pregnant is obscene.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett from Texas is a better representative for SC than Nancy Mace.
@JasmineForUS
is standing up for the Constitution. Mace is looking for her next TV camera.
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Biden Laid the Trap. Trump Walked Into It.
Hillary warned of the dangers of a man who can be baited with a tweet. President Biden baited him with an entire speech. (Paraphrasing here!)
Right on point
@davidfrum
.
@TheAtlantic
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The transgender sports ban bill has been put out to pasture where it belongs. The only bright spot in a tough day.
#scpol
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@ACLU
This boy has been told his mother died, that she left him, that she didn’t love him. Children this age are very literal and if mom is gone, then what he’s been told must be true. This is torture of children by MY country and it is never acceptable.
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