DeSantis’ spokespeople have been furiously tweeting and emailing that “partisan” media are making up “hypotheticals” and promising he’ll “fix” all the
#ReedyCreek
#Disney
problems. But my articles & others like it are the ones dealing w/reality & law as it currently exists. /1
maybe we shouldn’t have a system where one single person can get a book restricted at an entire school, hmm?
Florida mother behind ban on Amanda Gorman poem has Proud Boys links
Really? Last time I checked, you had an Ivy League law degree & experience arguing in front of SCOTUS. Please identify the legal precedent that will result in "giving away half of Manhattan," & a case currently on appeal where that's the issue. Include citations.
No,
@MarthaMcSally
, I’m not skipping a meal, but not everyone is as fortunate as I am. Instead of donating to you, I gave $20.20 to
@FeedingAmerica
so other Americans don’t have to skip meals either.
#FeedAmericaNotMcSally
😊🥪🇺🇸
My latest at
@lawcrimenews
...stunning case but it's sadly far from rare:
The Government Seized an Elderly Minnesota Woman’s Home Over $2,300 in Unpaid Property Taxes, Sold It, and Pocketed the Proceeds. The Supreme Court Just Agreed to Hear Her Case.
Good for Erin Burnett for calling out Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) for calling her "young lady."
He then claims he meant it as a "compliment" because it's his first time on the "Clinton News Network."
"That, I will say, was a bit, in my opinion, rude," replies Burnett. /1
You’re stuck in quarantine for 14 days with the third person who pops up when you type @. Who are you quarantined with, and will both of you make it out alive?
Cosign to what
@secupp
just said on
@TheLeadCNN
. "Donald Trump's most lasting, damaging legacy" is how he created a system that "completely undermined the idea that facts and truth exist."
This is lunacy.
We have no state income tax. Florida depends on tourists coming here (many for Disney!) & pouring millions of $ into the state thru sales taxes, hotel taxes, gas taxes, tolls, etc.
DeSantis’ culture war risks undermining the entire state economy.
Boom.
@GovRonDeSantis
vows Disney will not win battle with state. Says Fla Leg will void development agmt & says since Disney "opened" things back up the state will "look" at hotel taxes, look at putting tolls on roads, look at developing property owned by new district
I am having trouble finding the words to articulate how utterly depraved this is. Ladapo is a quack. He should not be our surgeon general. He should not have a tenured job at the UF College of Medicine. He probably shouldn’t have a medical license. /1
Pretty amazing how “Sleepy Joe” outfoxed the whole Trump campaign strategy by letting them have their big MAGA extravaganza at the RNC, double down on MAGA by picking Vance, and then surprise! drop his announcement after all the Sunday shows were done. 1/2
Alabama law requires a margin of 0.5% for a recount. The current
#ALSen
margin is 1.47%.
#RoyMoore
doesn't understand the Constitution or age of consent laws. We can't expect him to understand math.
Here's the thing: every time a guy says "young lady" when they're accusing a woman of not knowing something, it is NEVER a compliment. It is ALWAYS intended to be derogatory and minimizing, to put the woman in her place, to get her to sit down and shut up. /2
It was nuts to publish the op-ed in the 1st place, but failing to disclose the author is married to a
#ProudBoys
member, yikes
Sarasota Herald-Tribune Publishes Bonkers Op-Ed From Wife of Proud Boy Member Defending Group as 'Caring Parents' via
@mediaite
Dude, no. Just no. She’s a daughter grieving her dad. And Trump disrespected her dad this week. She’s hurting. Anyone with compasssion knows to cut her all the slack in the world. You’re better than this tweet, Ken.
Twitter is getting rid of fake accounts at a record pace. Will that include the Failing New York Times and propaganda machine for Amazon, the Washington Post, who constantly quote anonymous sources that, in my opinion, don’t exist - They will both be out of business in 7 years!
People who have been convicted or pleaded guilty since Trump became POTUS
-- Trump's personal attorney
-- Trump's former campaign chairman
-- Trump's former WH national security adviser
-- Trump's former campaign adviser
-- Trump's former deputy campaign chairman
Here's my documentation needed to write about DeSantis, Moody, Brodeur, or any other elected official. I'm not filing any "registration" or reporting my salary to Tallahassee. Go step on all the Legos with this unconstitutional nonsense.
When you say trashy things, people might call you trashy. I sincerely hope you lose badly tomorrow and never again see elected office. You are horrifically unworthy of any office in this great country.
Just so I’m clear: Yes, you are trash.
And I thought Hillary calling
@realDonaldTrump
voters "deplorable" was bad! Now they call us "degenerate" & "trash people". Are there no depths to which these people won't sink?!
#AZSEN
The laws on the books right now state that
#ReedyCreek
dissolves 6/1/2023 & their municipal bond debt will be transferred to the taxpayers of Orange & Osceola County. That’s not a hypothetical. It’s reality. /3
They’re the ones who passed a bill w/o a plan, who have been promising a plan for days & still have nothing to show. They promise Central FL taxpayers we won’t have to pay any extra taxes if RCID is dissolved. How?! /2
He says he's quarantining but he literally is doing the opposite. Continued to have events AFTER Hicks was known to have symptoms. WH didn't announce news; they were forced to admit it after reporters broke the story. How many exposed before then? Irresponsible.
I had a minor dental surgical procedure earlier today (I’m fine, don’t worry) and even under the influence of nitrous oxide, I didn’t say anything even half as nutty as this. 🤷🏻♀️
As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over...
Hey
@realdonaldtrump
, since you like
@tompetty
's songs so much, you should get someone to read this to you -- what he said about the Confederate flag in 2015:
lol dude we saw the video. As someone who has a goofy last name, I know what it sounds like when someone’s mocking a name. Just own it. It was ridicule, not a policy debate.
Senator Perdue simply mispronounced Senator Harris' name, and he didn't mean anything by it. He was making an argument against the radical socialist agenda that she and her endorsed candidate Jon Ossoff are pushing, which includes the Green New Deal... (1/2)
#GASen
#gapol
The last hour of Fox News coverage has been effusively pro-Zelensky and pro-Ukraine. Anchors praising Zelensky's speech, comparing him to Churchill, panelists supporting sending MiGs. Will be interesting to see if any of the evening opinion chatter shifts at all.
"Donald Trump is a weak man, pretending to be strong. He is a small man, pretending to be big. He is a faithless man, pretending to be righteous...Donald Trump has suffocated the soul of the Republican Party."
@AdamKinzinger
y’all I got a lot of traffic on posts mocking Britt’s SOTU response but note the issue isn’t that she’s dumb or inexperienced. She was student body president at Bama among other impressive achievements.
The issue is the GOP thinks that speech was what women want to hear. 1/2
Listen to the difference between Alabama Senator Katie Britt’s natural voice and her speech voice. Britt delivered the Republican Party response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address last night.
"Carlson is lying."
Just flagging this for my fellow members of the media, to prove it's possible to write that plainly.
Tucker Carlson lied on his show last night, multiple times, and in ways that are easily fact-checked by any semi-sentient vertebrate with internet access.
Capitol Police Chief Excoriates Tucker Carlson For 'Outrageous and False' and 'Cherry-Picked' Jan. 6 Video, Says Fox News Didn't Even Reach Out For Comment
Nehls' exact quote: "Listen, I don't know if you are aware, young lady, but I am also a member of the House Freedom Caucus."
He isn't trying to compliment her. He's lecturing her, suggesting she is an idiot or uninformed. /3
JD Vance is on CNN right now frantically trying to claim his attacks on Americans without children were just a "sarcastic quip." He's said that phrase I think 3 times?
Except it wasn't just one "sarcastic quip." He's made these comments in multiple interviews & he's been clear.
“Mean, nasty world” is for when a high school girl gossips that her frenemy on the cheerleading squad is, like, such a trampy slut.
You need different words for “taken hostage, interrogated, tortured, dismembered, and murdered.”
I’m wondering if what we’ll hear soon is “Re-elect us & we totally promise we’ll fix it in the 2023 general legislative session.” Because there’s no time to fix it this year, unless they just completely repeal what they did last week. And that won’t win the culture war. 🤔 7/7
We’re still litigating over the Congressional district maps. And the primaries are in August. General election in November. When, pray tell, is DeSantis going to “fix” this problem he caused? Neglect the property ins. issues? Another special session in June? Come on. /5
Even if DeSantis’ team does have a plan, when exactly are they going to do it? The 1-week special session in May is already going to be a circus with the unresolved property insurance issues. Hurricane season starts June 1, so this is a priority! /4
She’s never had to find a job, worry about how to pay her bills, or find a place to live where she could afford the rent. She’s never had to wait a few days to buy groceries waiting for a freelance check to clear. Don’t talk to me about “discomfort and uncertainty,” Princess. 🙄
Mercy, this is hilariously bad. “Steel isn’t forged overnight,” narrator says at beginning.
Actually, it takes *less than an hour* to forge steel from iron. Google it! So, yeah, it *can* very easily be forged overnight.
No one who worked on this ad knows any metalworkers, hmm?
Trump Touted $28 Billion Aid to Farmers in His Speech. The Biggest Beneficiary Was a Corrupt Brazilian Firm with Ties to the Maduro Regime. via
@mediaite
Wait wait wait. They sent Jason Miller out to defend Trump against these accusations about affairs?
Jason Miller. Defending Trump about affairs.
Jason. Freaking. Miller.
That is some Olympic gold medal level shamelessness right there, wow.
Remember when critics tried to complain because
@ProjectLincoln
hadn’t spent all their $ right out of the gate, & twisted themselves into illogical knots to claim it was grift & ignore the reality of how campaigns work ($ spent mostly at end)?
They’re spending that $ now. Happy?
The former GOP operatives behind the Lincoln Project are expanding their list of Republican targets, infuriating allies of President Trump and national Republicans scrambling to preserve the GOP majority in the Senate.
As I wrote four year ago and I say again today, I would have LOVED to have been wrong about Trump. It would’ve been great if he had stumbled with Forrest Gump-like luck into greatness. Instead, he was worse than I expected, and bad in ways I could never have anticipated. 1/6
If she had helped Epstein groom & rape your daughter, you wouldn’t care if it was 25 years or 25 days ago. Sexual assault of a minor is such a heinous crime many jurisdictions have long or no statute of limitations.
What a horrifically bad take. What dirt does she have on you?!
When asked
@realDonaldTrump
said he wished
#GhislaineMaxwellArrested
well. With media mob eager to see her lynched it was brave to weigh in. Fact: cases vs her are for crimes allegedly committed more than 25 years ago. She deserved bail & got solitary confinement: woke politics.
And actually getting into tax policy, especially when it involves multiple jurisdictions like this RCID issue, is highly complex. Any bill for the May special session would be rushed & unlikely to actually solve the problem or hold up to court scrutiny. /6
Democrats are wildly underestimating the power of television & Americans seeing witnesses testify, specifically on issues of Trump endangering Pence & refusing to act to calm the rioters. Would’ve increased political pressure on GOP to convict.
It's ALWAYS WRONG to sexually touch anyone who:
1. Is underage,
2. Doesn't want you to touch them,
3. Is too drunk/high/sleepy (doesn't matter why) to consent, or
4. Over whom you have to use your power/influence to intimidate into "consent."
IT'S PATHETIC THIS IS DEBATABLE.
These guys like to fall back to the defense of claiming they meant "young lady" as a compliment, but that is just another dose of derogatory misogynistic nonsense. "Silly women with their vanity & obsession with youth! Just tell them they're pretty and they'll shut up." /4
absolutely schadenfreudelicious...
Bannon and 'We Build the Wall' Charged with Six Felonies, Including Money Laundering, Conspiracy, and Scheme to Defraud via
@mediaite
The House has just voted to condemn Trump's racist tweets by a vote of 240-187. Four Republicans (Hurd, Upton, Fitzpatrick, and Brooks) and Justin Amash voted with Democrats in support of the resolution.
HOLY SH**. The staff finally got control of his phone!!! Seriously, y'all know there is NO WAY this is Trump's actual unfiltered thoughts about the
#ALSen
race.
Congratulations to Doug Jones on a hard fought victory. The write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win is a win. The people of Alabama are great, and the Republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. It never ends!
Being a d*ck to a reporter advances absolutely zero conservative policies & does nothing for the people of Florida. They could always just say, “Thanks, no comment,” but the trolling is a higher priority than actual good governance. Pathetic and embarrassing.