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Sam Karlin
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Sam Karlin
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investigative reporter for @NOLAnews | Tips: [email protected]. Signal: samkarlin.94
Kansas City enjoyer.
New Orleans, LA
Joined December 2010
- Here's the account from a New Orleans doctor, who was told by her hospital's lawyer she couldn't perform a D&E on a 16-weeks-pregnant woman whose water broke. Instead, she went through a "painful, hours-long labor to deliver a nonviable fetus, despite her wishes"
- Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, upon winning reelection: "As for the president, God bless his heart." #lagov
- Replying to @samkarlin"She was screaming--not from pain, but from the emotional trauma she was experiencing," the doctor wrote. After delivering the fetus, she hemorrhaged and lost close to a liter of blood. "There is absolutely no medical basis...to experience anything like this"
- Replying to @samkarlinThis was filed in court as part of the legal challenge to Louisiana's trigger ban on abortion. More:
- Seriously a worrying sign ahead of #Ida. The Waffle House in Morgan City is closed until the storm passes.
- just saw a restaurant in New Orleans advertising a $28 poboy. what's happening man
- News: Louisiana House Democrats have lost another member to a party switch. State Rep. Jeremy Lacombe has switched to the GOP. It comes after state Rep. Francis Thompson gave the House GOP a supermajority by switching parties. Developing story: #lalege
- Huge news: Everyone with a Louisiana driver's license has likely had their personal information--including social security numbers--exposed to cyber attackers. The state says to take these steps:
- WAFB, take a bow. A public records request for Connie Bernard's internet search history shows she was lying when she insisted she wasn't online shopping during an emotional board meeting about renaming Lee High School.
- Asked if Letlow had any underlying conditions that would have made his death more likely, Dr. GE Ghali at LSU-Shreveport said "None. All covid related."
- Louisiana has started running PSAs with LSU head football coach Ed Orgeron about coronavirus, @LouisianaGov says. #lalege #lagov
