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1. Hollywood studios have publicly declared their opposition to abortion bans in Georgia.

But you know what they aren't telling you?

The same studios bankrolled the politicians most responsible for Georgia's abortion ban (and a similar ban in Lousiana)

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2. NBCUniversal, for example, is threatening to leave Georgia if courts uphold its abortion ban

But Comcast, NBCUniversal's parent company, donated over 100K to the Georgia politicians most responsible for the ban

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3. Here are the donations by Hollywood studios to politicians behind the abortion bans in Georgia and Louisiana

@NBCUniversal (130K)
@SonyPictures (12.5K)
@warnerbros (10.5K)
@DisneyStudios (10K)
@CBS (7.5K)

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4. What's striking to me is that these studios can publicly declare themselves champions of women and reproductive rights without addressing these donations

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5. The @MPAA the lobbying org for all major Hollywood studios has also given $10,000 to the politicians most responsible for the bans in Georgia and Louisiana.

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6. A lot of people ask me if these companies also give to Democrats. This isn't an issue of Republicans and Democrats. The Governor of Louisiana, who just signed an abortion ban last Friday, is a Democrat

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7. Other people focus on what the studios intended with these donations. Clearly they intended to keep their tax breaks. But that doesn't matter. These donations helped these politicians stay in power and they used their power to ban abortion.

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8. No one forced these studios to publicly declare their support for women's rights. But they did. If they're truly committed they need to take a look at their political donations and make sure those donations reflect that commitment. Otherwise its just PR popular.info/p/hollywood-st…
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1. WOW

ABC affiliates around the country are promoting a Trump campaign fundraising gimmick - Trump's birthday card - and presenting it as "news."

One, @cleveland19news , links directly to the Trump's fundraising site

The other are just copying and pasting text from the GOP
@cleveland19news 2. These are the "articles" the affiliates are linking to.

Some, like @ABC7Chicago, appear to be taking them offline now.

But how did this ever happen in the first place?

(Shoutout to @TrumpEmail for alerting me to this.)
3. A huge problem with campaign coverage is that a lot of the meaningful activity has moved online but most media hasn't adapted. It's still focused on events

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Judd Legum
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1. The Trump admin is attempting an illegal, racist, partisan power grab by rigging the 2020 Census.

Now Trump invoked "executive privilege" to shield docs relating to the plot

But there is A LOT of misinformation and confusion about executive privilege popular.info/p/check-your-e…
2. @theskimm which is a newsletter that goes out to millions of people, says that executive privilege is "the legal principle that presidents don't have to comply with Congressional subpoenas"

THIS IS COMPLETELY FALSE

This stuff is pretty important so lets get it right.
@theskimm 3. Executive privilege creates a presumption that protects certain presidential communications from being disclosed

BUT THAT PRESUMPTION IS NOT ABSOLUTE AND CAN ALWAYS BE OVERCOME

That's why, for example, Nixon was required to turn over his tapes
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Judd Legum
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1. Trump has robbed us of our sense of decency and proportion.

As a survival mechanism, many of us have learned to tune out most of what he says.

But his comments yesterday about Kim Jong Un deserve our attention

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2. Trump said that he would not use the CIA to spy on Kim Jong Un

Kim has nuclear weapons and has threatened to use them against the United States

Limiting intelligence gathering is a fundamental violation of the President's duty to protect the country

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3. Trump has previously said that's he's "in love" with Kim Jong Un.

Kim is a murderous dictator with the most atrocious human rights record on the planet.

He murders, imprisons, and terrorizes his own people

Let's get specific

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