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Lot of concern about antisemitism today! I hope you'll all put that energy to good use and help
@JoshStein_
defeat a Holocaust denier who thinks Jewish bankers are a horseman of the apocalypse and become the first Jewish governor of North Carolina
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Just a reminder the Utah legislature was told in January they had a matter of months to avoid catastrophic drying in the Great Salt Lake and have spent their session bullying trans kids and targeting abortion clinics instead of doing anything about it.
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"It's too soon to politicize Uvalde."
Fine. Let's talk about Sandy Hook.
Or Parkland.
Or El Paso.
Or Pittsburgh.
Or Las Vegas.
Or Orlando.
Or Buffalo.
Or Fort Hood.
Or Aurora.
Or Virginia Tech.
Or San Bernadino.
Or Columbine.
Or Boulder.
Or Sutherland Springs.
Or
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@ditzkoff
@TwitterSupport
FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTISM*
*except for critical journalists
*and other businesses
*and left wing groups
*and people who post my DMs with them
*and
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@elonmusk
Oh, so if you pay your $8 you get the power of platform manipulation. That should go well.
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@tylerbowyer
I don't know where to start - your admission that Republicans would get creamed in a fairer electoral structure or your apparent belief that independent redistricting commissions impact the Electoral College.
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@JudiciaryGOP
You can clearly see a document labeled top secret with the markings for human source intelligence in this photo.
Right in the middle.
You get that, right?
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@thevivafrei
@POTUS
BIDEN: "America needs to come together around our Constitution, the rule of laws and free elections and swear off political violence."
YOU: "I am basically a Holocaust victim."
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@elonmusk
@micsolana
This was
@donie
's last tweet. Can you point to where your real-time location is listed?
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Any minute now, a caravan of 87,000 of Hunter Biden's pronouns is going to be caught teaching critical race theory.
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@JudiciaryGOP
Jim Jordan: "There are a half-dozen top secret documents in this photo... but there's ALSO a Time Magazine! If we talk about that, people will totally forget about the secret documents visible in the same photo!"
Did you reject cropping it to only show the TIME as too obvious?
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@RepJimBanks
You opposed health care for veterans exposed to burn pits. What's that do for recruitment?
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@TomFitton
@elonmusk
So you're saying it's okay to ban Twitter accounts if they're an incitement to violence? Huh.
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"Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two sides to an election - they win or they were cheated. And that's where the MAGA Republicans are." -
@JoeBiden
#bidenspeech
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Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA), seen here shoving someone for asking him a question, is a former police officer who once resigned his position while facing discipline for... you guessed it, use of unnecessary force.
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@RealCandaceO
So in other words, days after the tweet below, you think you have COVID.
Sorry, Candace, but you're not going to divert our attention from this.
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@Acosta
The thing is, Governor: Beto O'Rourke was livid because of the dead kids. He didn't need anything more than that.
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@ProudTwinkie
"Student organizer in bio"? That's supposed to be a burn???
I'm sad for Florida, and also cringing.
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Mass murders I couldn't fit keep coming to mind. Charleston, Oxford, Milwaukee, Oak Creek, Isla Vista, Moneta, Roseburg, Baton Rouge, Dallas, Milwaukee, the Navy Yard, Colorado Springs, Tucson, Manchester, Red Lake...
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@bgmasters
So to sum up: you're for full abortion bans when you're talking to the far right, and you're fine with the limits of Roe v Wade when you're talking to everyone else, and Arizona should vote for you and hope you're lying to the other guys.
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@Acyn
Lot of folks who freak out every time Biden trips over a word very quiet about Trump needing multiple takes to get to "people who attacked our country are bad."
#January6thHearing
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The Dobbs majority includes:
-Two sexual predators
-Two justices in stolen seats
-Four justices appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote
Roe v Wade has been overturned by an illegitimate court.
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@tylerbowyer
And that's before we get to how you came up with Blue Idaho, Utah and Tennessee.
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So why is "MK Ultra" trending?
A fake Insta post of Robert Crimo calling himself "a product of MK Ultra and a liberal" is going around, being used by the right as... proof he's a product of MK Ultra and a liberal.
How do we know it's fake? Clearly timestamped "4 minutes ago."
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For your reading pleasure
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What's it going to take?
We can't even get universal background checks - a law meant to ensure convicted felons we've all already agreed shouldn't have guns can't easily buy them.
Elementary school kids? Nope. Churches? Nope. Congressmen themselves? No, that's happened TWICE.
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@freedaaron
Last state to pass a primary enforcement seatbelt law: 1995
Fox News launches: 1996
(Doesn't work for smoking bans. But the concept holds.)
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@Acyn
Here are the 20 Republicans who voted against supporting human trafficking victims.
In case you're wondering: yes, it includes a bunch of coup co-conspirators, "Christian Nationalists," and of course alleged sex trafficker Matt Gaetz.
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Chick-fil-a has issued this response to the "woke chicken" allegations
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@TPCarney
On the left: church attendance by state
On the right: firearm mortality by state
I don't question your sincerity, but you're fighting facts here.
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@SawyerHackett
I was gonna say isn't this a pretty clear violation of the separation of church and state... then I remembered the Supreme Court decided only the parts of the Constitution Harlan Crow likes count.
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@bradheath
In fairness, this is the essence of the Republican argument - "if this election was fair, HOW COME SO MANY PEOPLE VOTED FOR THE OTHER GUY? Checkmate, liberals."
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The U.S. has had multiple mass shootings at *military bases*.
There have been *two separate mass shootings* at Fort Hood alone.
But we're supposed to think the real answer is what, more guns?
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That image of Pelosi and Kamala holding the signed Ukrainian battle flag behind him at the podium is going to be EVERYWHERE in about 15 seconds.
Volodymyr Zelensky is one of the most talented communicators in global politics, as well as having balls the size of Kremlin domes.
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So to be clear: the Supreme Court has functionally taken the position this week that higher education is for rich white people
#StudentLoanForgiveness
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@Acyn
So we've gone from "lol you're making this all up" to "yeah, it happened, it's all the immigrant's fault AND the doctor should be charged for it."
Without a pause to breathe.
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Chaya Raichik/
@LibsOfTikTok
's day so far:
🚨 Tied to 66 anti-LGBTQ+ incidents as a result of her targeting
🚨 Made her triumphant face reveal on Tucker Carlson
🚨 Almost immediately ID'd as having trespassed the Capitol on January 6th
Hard out here for a stochastic terrorist.
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Dominion is going to end up owning Mar-a-Lago when the lawsuits are over.
#January6thCommitteeHearings
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@JasonSCampbell
Are people out there actually under the impression that Republican DAs have had probable cause to criminally charge Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton and just... didn't do it? For the sake of the country?
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Something I missed that's getting some attention on CNN right now: Joe Biden including the disability community in his remarks.
#CripTheVote
feels like it didn't get the attention it deserved this cycle. Maybe we'll see that change in the cycle to come.
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Apparently Paul Gosar's digital director Ward Searle is a prominent Groyper/Nick Fuentes sycophant.
Do not let the fact that this is completely unsurprising detract from how shocking it is. These are open neo-Nazis on Capitol Hill.
h/t
@HunterW
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@mattgaetz
Biden: "American democracy is about free elections and respecting the rule of law and our Constitution, win or lose."
Matt Gaetz: "ARE YOU THREATENING ME????"
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Gentle reminder five moderate Republicans can stop this circus literally any time they want
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@benshapiro
Biden talked tonight about respecting the Constitution, the rule of law and free elections and rejecting political violence.
If you consider that "divisive" and "shameful," maybe the brownshirt fits.
#BidenSpeech
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@jasonrantz
Biden: "America is about free elections and respecting the rule of law and our Constitution, win or lose."
Jason Rantz: "OMG HOW DIVISIVE."
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@DavidBegnaud
Contact Clay County Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson to demand justice for
#RalphYarl
at 816-736-8300 or prosecutor
@claycopa
.com.
And help Ralph's family pay for his recovery at this verified GoFundMe.
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@shannonrwatts
See, if I were the Whole Foods CEO, I might not weigh in on this side of the culture war.
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@halleberry
Thanks for sharing some ways to act.
Ralph Yarl's family needs our help too. You can find their verified GoFundMe here.
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@laurenboebert
Biden called domestic terrorists domestic terrorists.
The fact that you assumed he was talking about you is telling.
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@smotus
@mtgreenee
Something which is literally the next bit of his bio. Like she actually did not bother reading beyond Berkeley.
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@Jim_Jordan
Why should a machinist in Ohio pay the salary of a congressman who hasn't passed a bill in a decade and a half in office?
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UPDATE: The owner of the Marion County Record, the Kansas newspaper illegally raided by the police, died.
May she find peace and everyone involved in this outrage be brought to justice.
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@hugolowell
@BillyPrempeh
Good example of why you should get medical advice from somewhere besides "some guy named Billy" on social media.
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@AndrewYang
If you were making an Andrew Yang parody account, would it sound at all different?
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@MattGertz
You came back to Twitter and Gaetz's life blew up almost immediately. Coincidence?
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@JudiciaryGOP
Cassidy Hutchinson is testifying under oath and under penalty of perjury.
Multiple members of
@JudicaryGOP
ran screaming way from subpoenas.
#January6thHearings
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For two hours and 40 minutes, the United States was under attack and the President of the United States *REFUSED* to act to defend us.
If you toss aside literally everything else, that still disqualifies him from ever holding office again.
#January6thCommitteeHearings
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@Eve6
I feel like there's a word for someone who's a free-speech absolutist, but only for authoritarians.
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@tnhousegop
You responded to a bunch of kids getting murdered by expelling your colleagues when they demanded you do something about it. Not sure what you think needs explaining about that.
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Every day thousands of right wingers blindly RT Nick Adams without a clue that he's making fun of them.
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@BlairBrandt
@elonmusk
@tim_cook
If you're under the impression an economically significant number of people are going to stop using Apple products because they're not advertising on a certain social media platform, I *strongly* encourage you to log off and go outside.
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@shannonrwatts
If the reports about the Buffalo shooter are accurate, this is *at least* the third mass shooter promoting the Great Replacement Theory, joining the Tree of Life Synagogue shooter in 2018 and the El Paso shooter in 2019.
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@surlybassey
@tomginsburg
@aziz_huq
I'm doing a *lot* of reading about this particular topic right now, and one thing that has come through pretty consistently is a lot of steps for democracy protection at this point would need to be taken by elites who have not shown any capacity for doing so thus far.
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@laurenboebert
Two separate bipartisan group of members of Congress have proposed railway safety legislation to stop this from happening.
Lauren Boebert... supports neither of them.
Which is why you should help
@AdamForColorado
beat her.
#C03
deserves a representative, not a Twitter troll.
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@elonmusk
@WallStreetSilv
Are you kidding? This happens with literally every Twitter poll... including the ones you cheerfully declared binding.
It's not just that you're bad at running a company. You seem less familiar with Twitter than anyone who spends as much time trolling as you should be.
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Elise Stefanik claims violent crime is "skyrocketing across America" in her nomination speech for Jim Jordan. Worth noting the FBI released 2022 crime numbers that indicated violent crime is down. Literally yesterday.
#SpeakerOfTheHouseVote
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Just throwing this out there: anyone who can casually put six figures on the line to cyberbully a pediatrician for believing in vaccines should be paying more in taxes. Like... a lot more.
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@Jim_Jordan
Jim Jordan:
-votes against health care for veterans harmed in the line of duty
-compares half the country to Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan
-Tweets like he's trying to get a show on Newsmax
-and oh yeah... conspired to overthrow a free election.
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@Taniel
The largest 50 cities in America will have 37 mayors from the Democratic Party, 4 independents, and a whopping 9 Republicans.
Nine.
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Among those 95 who voted to confirm Judge Chutkan: Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Tim Scott, Rand Paul, Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley, John Cornyn, and every member of the Senate leadership team then serving.
Whatever GOP says now about Judge Tanya Chutkan.
She was confirmed in the US Senate in 2014 by a vote of 95-0.
Yes, 95-0.
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Thought I'd take the opportunity of Oklahoma's attacks on public education getting national headlines to do a
#thread
on their GOP state superintendent of schools, Ryan Walters. Because hooooo boy the sledgehammer to the separation of church and state is just the beginning. (1/x)
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@BrodyLogan
LibsOfTikTok. Chaya Raichik is real sensitive about people pointing out the consequences of her actions.
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@megynkelly
This person risked their career in a courageous act of conscience. You'd recognize that if you had one.
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@davenewworld_2
The folks who are out in the cold tonight caring for the migrants Greg Abbott left to freeze are
@SanctuaryDMV
, part of the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network.
I just kicked in $50 to help support their good work. Can you join me?
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@kilmeade
@EricTrump
@POTUS
It wasn't too long ago you all thought the security of classified information was the most important issue facing America. Or have we forgotten about Hillary's emails already?
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@abughazalehkat
I for one am shocked, SHOCKED that Andy Ogles, who invented most of his resume and may have defrauded donors to a child burial garden, turns out to be completely shameless.
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@LeaderMcConnell
One of
@LeaderMcConnell
's legacies for this country has been the rolling back of the Voting Rights Act which Dr. King spent years fighting for.
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@andres___camilo
Hey,
@LennyDykstra
served! Granted, it was in the Victorville Federal Penitentiary, but still.
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@TomCottonAR
You know it's funny how the left seems thoroughly confident they can win more elections with a fair voting system and the right seems petrified that they can't.
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@elonmusk
@EricRWeinstein
"Prior doxxing action"? That's the standard now?
Because if so, I have some stuff I'd like to report.
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No, but seriously. It's been hours now.
Why hasn't anyone *slightly* more reliable than Steve Bannon reported on these "35 Trump allies being raided."
Who are they? What are their names? Why aren't they demanding justice and maybe donations to their legal funds for themselves?
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@ScottPresler
Joe Biden: "Political violence is not who we are."
Scott Presler: "THIS IS AN INCITEMENT TO VIOLENCE."
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@Heritage
It's weird how the FBI, a conservative bastion for its entire history, somehow got taken over by the Left right around the time Republicans sold their soul to a guy with a lifelong history of skirting the law.
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@MickMulvaney
Boy, if only there was a former Trump chief of staff and member of Congress who could help the Committee spread that message.
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If you're wondering why "Tulsa Race Massacre" is trending it's because Ryan Walters - state superintendent of schools for OKLAHOMA - doesn't think students should be taught it happened “because of the color of people’s skin.”
And it's one of maybe 12 ways he's failing his state.
Thought I'd take the opportunity of Oklahoma's attacks on public education getting national headlines to do a
#thread
on their GOP state superintendent of schools, Ryan Walters. Because hooooo boy the sledgehammer to the separation of church and state is just the beginning. (1/x)
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@Mike_Pence
Public polling came out today showing 58% of Americans agree that the MAGA movement is a threat to democracy... including 1 in 4 Republicans.
And the truth is, Mike, we all know you're one of them.
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This thread is a must read, by the way.
NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves sent a letter to President Joe Biden tonight request federal help with an emergency declaration for public assistance.
"Mississippi will not be able to recover without the aid of the federal government," Reeves told Biden.
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@nytimes
Ffs. Ffs.
You know what's a dangerous precedent? Letting presidents commit crimes without consequences. And it's about time we changed that.
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Yeah, still not paying for Twitter.
But this is a good reminder that I should be cross-posting in Mastodon, Post and Spoutible more. You can find me on all other platforms at the same handle.
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@jduffyrice
@profmusgrave
...I'm really glad it's working for you, but this sounds like something I'd be forced to use in my ironic hell.
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