Amy Hayes

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Grew up in Breaking Bad (the 505). Now resides in House of Cards (the #SC05). You have to be tough to do good. Pro-Democracy, always. #scpol #Climate
Amy HayesJan 17, 2023
Jan RosenowJan 16, 2023

BREAKING: Heat pump market in Finland grew by 50% in 2022.

1.5m heat pumps have now been installed in a country with just 2.7m households.

https://www.sulpu.fi/almost-200000-heat-pumps-were-sold-last-year-an-increase-of-50/

Almost 200,000 heat pumps were sold last year. An increase of 50%. – SULPU

Heat pumps sales are growing at a very fast rate. According to Finnish Heat Pump Association SULPU statistics, the sales of heat pumps grew last year by 50%. In 2022, a total of 196,000 heat pumps were sold. The number of air-to-air heat pumps sold was 160,000. As for air-to-water heat pumps, sales grew by almost 60% and 19,000 […]

SULPU
Amy HayesDec 22, 2022
Show threadCeleste PewterDec 22, 2022

Two things:

1. It's important to remember with the incoming House, that McCarthy threatened to cut funding for Ukraine.

Take tonight's speech as a critical reminder that we HAVE to push back if he/House GOP tries.

Source:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/26/politics/kevin-mccarthy-house-gop-ukraine-funding-blank-check/index.html

Amy HayesDec 21, 2022
Winter solstice is a good day for nature observation. Where in the horizon is the sun setting for you? Where will it set on the day of the Summer Solstice? Knowing these two points is helpful in understanding your land.
Show threadAmy HayesDec 19, 2022
Amy HayesDec 19, 2022

Dogs aren’t allowed on the furniture at my in-laws’ house.

Meanwhile, Paul at the in-laws’ house:

Amy HayesDec 18, 2022
Dan GillmorDec 17, 2022

I don't think journalists (in general) -- and certainly not the organizations they work for -- fully understand the threat Musk represents to the future of free expression and journalism itself.

Begging him to reinstate the banned accounts is pure folly. It is bended-knee supplication to a sociopath who now controls a powerful media company. But the power of his company depends in no small degree on keeping journalists there.

Leave. Now.

Amy HayesDec 8, 2022
Dr. Elizabeth SawinDec 7, 2022
Proposal to stop referring to covid in the past tense and climate change in the future tense.
Amy HayesDec 2, 2022
NPR US NewsDec 2, 2022

President Biden calls for a big shakeup in Democrats' presidential nominating calendar - Biden has proposed elevating South Carolina to the first spot, moving the swing states of Georgia and Michigan up to the early slate, and putting Iowa back in the pack. #Georgia #Michigan #Iowa #SouthCarolina #npr

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/01/1140193037/president-biden-calls-for-a-big-shakeup-in-democrats-presidential-nominating-cal

A Democratic panel OKs a Biden-backed shakeup of the party's presidential calendar

Biden has proposed elevating South Carolina to the first spot, moving the swing states of Georgia and Michigan up to the early slate, and putting Iowa back in the pack.

NPR
Amy HayesDec 2, 2022
David DarmofalDec 1, 2022
With Michigan likely to become an early state, I hope our national political press, still sadly far too lacking in racial diversity, will listen to the words of now-VP Kamala Harris in Detroit in 2019 & redefine & broaden their conceptual understanding of the Midwest.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1125456441840631808
The Hill on Twitter

“.@KamalaHarris speaks to Detroit NAACP: "There has been a lot of conversation by pundits about the electability & who can speak to the Midwest... Too often their definition of the Midwest leaves people out. It leaves out people in this room who helped build cities like Detroit."”

Twitter
Amy HayesDec 1, 2022
Bill Kimler for SC House 13Dec 1, 2022

"More than 4 in 5 pregnancy-related deaths are preventable in the US, and mental health is the leading cause"

Even more shocking:

"At present, only 39 states have dedicated committees in place to review maternal deaths and determine whether they were preventable; "

#SouthCarolina could've moved forward with the Dignity in Birth Act to establish such a committee. But sadly, Republican legislators choose to prioritize nonsense issues like CRT.

#childbirth #mentalhealth
https://theconversation.com/more-than-4-in-5-pregnancy-related-deaths-are-preventable-in-the-us-and-mental-health-is-the-leading-cause-193909

More than 4 in 5 pregnancy-related deaths are preventable in the US, and mental health is the leading cause

Many of the preventable pregnancy-related deaths documented by the CDC are directly attributable to failures and barriers in the maternal care system.

The Conversation