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@riecker May the Lord bless and comfort you all in this difficult time. 🙏

Tomorrow my wife and I will bury our son. Please pray for my family.

@riecker Cameron, I am so sorry to hear this painful news! May the Lord comfort you and your family. RIP with the Lord little Joshua. 🙏

Jesus took my son Joshua to heaven yesterday. It was not expected and we still don’t know what happened. Please pray for my family. We are keeping the faith, but there is so much pain. Praised be Jesus Christ, now and forever.

@amyklobuchar While I empathize with this man and others like him, close to a quarter million unborn HUMANS have been aborted in your state since you've been in office thanks to policies you support. I think your moral scale is a bit off.

This is a US citizen! It is zero degrees outside. Thao was taken by federal agents from his St. Paul home in frigid cold only wearing boxers and Crocs. St. Paul mayor Her ‘livid’ after ICE wrongly targets family friend, escorts him undressed into cold startribune.com/st-paul-mayor-…

@AnnieAndrewsMD Thank you for the reminder to not choose doctors who criticize other human beings by saying they have brain worms. 👏

I have a story to share about Neisseria meningitidis, the bacteria the meningitis vaccine protects us against. Not for the faint of heart. But PLEASE listen up and protect your children, despite what RFK Jr. and his brain worm tell you.

@ryangrim Trump and Rubio were on the mission too?! That's amaze-balls!

Trump and Rubio killed the father of these three children, First Lieutenant Yunio Estévez. He was among the Cubans killed by Delta Force operators as they kidnapped Maduro.

@Rep_Stansbury Good thing we're not at war.

The White House is confirming U.S. military operations in Venezuela tonight. Let us be clear: these strikes are illegal. The President does not have the authority to declare war or undertake large-scale military operations without Congress. Congress must act to rein him in. Immediately.

@greenhousemd Anecdote does not equal science.

Interesting. I am a pediatrician. I know precisely zero doctors who have refused a flu shot.

@ThinkInPeach God bless you all! 🙏❤️

Doctors told us to abort our son. We didn't. He lived 19 months. It began at 19 weeks. The doctor saw he had a shrunk cerebellum. DORV (a heart problem). Couple of other issues. They told us he'd likely die in utero before 28 weeks. The doctors recommended the "merciful" choice: abortion. And we were hit with the weight of the world. We were forced to take the ultimate decision: Should our son live or die. I still remember the silence as we drove home from hospital. Later that evening my wife and I talked. About what we'd been told. What was the situation. Could it be wrong. We got a second opinion. Same conclusion. At that point, all we could do was surrender. And we chose life for him. "If God takes him, that's His choice. It's not ours to take." And survive he did. He was born at 35 weeks - beyond the doctors' prescriptions - and rushed straight to NICU. This was August 2021. The height of COVID restrictions. We were living in Thailand at the time and the hospital refused to let us see our son. We went in anyway. Every day. This caused a lot of conflict with the hospital staff, but as far as we were (and are) concerned? We didn't care if every nurse there hated us if we got to see our son. My wife struggled with this. It added extra pressure on her as she was still recovering from birth. After 5 weeks of constant conflict, they let him go home with us. And that's where the reality of having a son with Cerebral Palsy set in. Oral therapy. Physical therapy. Re-inserting feeding tubes. My wife was the star. She quit her job. Became his primary carer. Learnt more about physical therapy than any non-professional wants to know. But we soon realized we needed to be closer to one of our families. We had friends in Thailand - one couple helped us beyond expectations, and we'll never forget that - but friends are not the same as family. So we moved to Indonesia when he was 6 months old. And are thankful we were able to spend over a year there with our family. Due to my wife's diligence, he improved. He could roll. Laugh. Follow us with his eyes. But his life was hard. Every tiny win was a monumental effort. And he fought. And fought. And fought. Through this time I had my own internal fight. I was angry at God. Angry at why he'd done this to us. Angry at the pain my son suffered. And confused as to why. Why would he punish me? Why would he punish my son? Then 3 months after our second son's birth, he had a seizure and passed away. Burying your son is something I wouldn't want anyone to experience. It's hard to explain to those who haven't been through it. But he had a hard life. Every day was a struggle. Now he's at peace. And it taught me something I needed to learn: Humility. I was proud. Arrogant. Self-aggrandizing. And the 19 months we got to spend with my son humbled me. It took me months after his passing before I got it. Those 19 months weren't a tragedy. They were a gift from God. A gift to let us get to know him. A gift so that when we meet again in heaven, we won't be strangers. A gift we received because we trusted Him with the outcome. For anyone going through pain. Tragedy. Heartbreak. I feel you. The doubt. The confusion. The question of "why me?" But you're being given this burden to strengthen you. To force you through the flames. To shape you into who you're meant to become. It may not seem like that when you're living it. It didn't for me. But it all becomes clear in hindsight. My son taught me this lesson. His name was Jake.

@RepJeffries He has hundreds of doctors who advise him. Trust the science bro.

RFK Jr. is a completely unqualified conspiracy theorist who is putting newborn babies at risk. The reckless decision to end a proven vaccine recommendation has no scientific basis. This guy has got to go.

@SenTinaSmith Vaccine uptake is not a good metric of health, but being able to do pull-ups, although not proven in a trial, has an extraordinarily strong statistical association with longevity and health. Stop being partisan.

You know what else is a great way to stay healthy (and doesn’t involve embarrassing yourself at the airport?)   Vaccines.

@PapistDirectory Where can I buy this??

Would you use a kneeler in your home?

@simonmaechling No need to get technical with fallacies here, bud. Simple logic only. The studies HAVEN'T been done. Sticking your head in the ground like a ostrich, pretending it's not there because you didn't see it, isn't how to practice science.

Hi, actual scientist here 👋 Science doesn’t work by proving a negative. You don’t prove unicorns don’t exist. You look for evidence they do and if none shows up, you move on. And here’s what we’ve found after decades of research: Millions of children. Dozens of studies. Multiple countries. Same result every time: No causal link between vaccines and autism That’s not uncertainty. That’s overwhelming evidence. Saying “well you can’t rule it out completely” isn’t science. It’s appeal to ignorance - pretending “not disproven” is the same as “possible.” If we accepted that logic, we’d have to fear: 🧪 Organic broccoli causing autism 📺 Television causing autism. 🌦 Clouds causing autism. Because nobody has “ruled them out” either. Science isn’t about imagining risks. It’s about measuring them and vaccines have been measured more than almost anything else in medicine. So let’s be clear: 💉 Vaccines have evidence. ❌ The autism claim has none.

@SenatorSlotkin @grok, did Trump threaten lawmakers with death, or did he accuse them of something else, albeit unproven, which has historical precedent for the death penalty?

Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging. Here’s my response:

@VanJones68 You say we need peace, and then spout stuff like "planes fall from the sky". Hyperbole or not, it's ridiculous. You are so two-faced.

Democrats are squabbling among ourselves over the end of the shutdown. But we shouldn’t overlook THE most important fact that this whole drama exposed: Trump and the Republicans REALLY don’t care about everyday Americans — at all. Bottom line: Trump and the GOP were willing to let planes fall from the sky, American children starve and federal workers get evicted from their homes— rather than find a way for you to see a doctor. Meanwhile, Trump himself is globetrotting all over the place, trying to win a Nobel Prize — while energy prices spike at home. He comes back mainly to attend gazillionaire galas and oversee construction on his golden ballroom. I hate to be the one to tell you this: but the GOP is just not that into Americans anymore. It’s kinda crazy! I think it’s time for America to move on. The GOP already has!

@ShangguanJiewen @grok, is China actually communist?

This is China.🇨🇳 China is proof that socialism works. As for Cuba, Venezuala and other examples, they may have worked if the US government hadn't spent TRILLIONS of dollars to prevent their success. 👇

@malcolmkenyatta You're a fool, Sir.

THIS MOTHERFUCKER HELD A GREAT GATSBY PARTY WHILE 43 MILLION PEOPLE GO HUNGRY AND HEALTHCARE COSTS KEEP RISING.

@GavinNewsom You have no shame.

Donald Trump hosted a Great Gatsby party while SNAP benefits were about to disappear for 42 million Americans. He does not give a damn about you.

He surprised his best Navy friend who he hadn’t seen in years 🇺🇸🙏🏼 This is America 99% of the time We’re just so used to seeing all the negative stuff Videos like these are good reminders that the real America is better than you think!

@SwPrayer Amen!

Let's offer one Hail Mary for those in search of a new job. Please comment 'Amen' as a response. #OneHailMarycampaign

@jpdisclosure 🙏❤️

My wife Christina made this tribute to our son Nathan who passed away yesterday from histiocytic sarcoma.