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Jun 10

1. The @NCGOP selected @markrobinsonNC as the party's nominee for governor. He's one of the most radical gubernatorial candidates in history

Robinson's fundraising is lagging -- many people don't want to be publicly associated with him

So Republican legislators have launched a brazen plan to ALLOW WEALTHY PEOPLE TO LAUNDER MONEY to Robinson with no fingerprints

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2. Under existing North Carolina campaign finance law, corporations cannot contribute directly or indirectly to state campaigns or committees. This prevents the main national fundraising vehicles for gubernatorial campaigns — @DemGovs and @GOPGovs — from donating to NC political committees. These committees, known as 527s, accept unlimited contributions from corporations.

@DemGovs @GOPGovs 3. Republicans in the NC legislature have proposed changing the rules in the middle of the election to allow 527 groups like @GOPGovs to donate unlimited money to the state party committee.

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Jun 6

1. Black women make up 8% of the US population and received 0.0006% of total funding from venture capitalists from 2009-17.

In recent years, it's been well below 1%.

But right-wing activists have just convinced two Trump-appointed judges that Black women are receiving TOO MUCH venture capital money and are benefiting from illegal racial preferences

Follow along for details 🧵

2. Fearless Fund awards 20K grants to small businesses that are majority-owned by Black women.

The American Alliance for Equal Rights, a group that represents aggrieved white people, filed suit to shut down the grant program

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3. The case argued that Fearless Fund's grants violate section 1981 of the 1866 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race when enforcing contracts

That law was originally "intended to protect formerly enslaved people from economic exclusion" but is now being turned on its head

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@JuddLegum

Jun 4

1. One of the main drivers of inflation in the US is skyrocketing rents, which are up 30%+ over the last four years.

So, it's surprising that the recent FBI RAID on a corporate landlord based in Atlanta has received little attention.

The raid was part of a federal probe of an alleged CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY AMONG LARGE LANDLORDS TO JACK UP RENTAL PRICES

Follow along to learn how the scheme works

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2. The investigation centers around RealPage, advanced property management software used by many corporate landlords.

Landlords that are supposed to be in competition w/each other "outsource daily pricing and ongoing revenue oversight" to RealPage

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3. An e-book produced by RealPage says that the company allows corporate landlords who are “technically competitors” to "work together . . . to make us all more successful in our pricing." RealPage bragged that landlords that use its software “continually outpace the market in good times and bad.”

In other words, RealPage helps landlords charge higher rates than they would in a truly competitive market.

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Judd Legum

@JuddLegum

Jun 3

1. Trump is now a convicted felon.

Since the verdict, various politicians and pundits have advanced arguments suggesting that Trump's convictions were illegitimate, unfair, or inconsequential.

In this thread, I will dismantle these one by one.

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2. Perhaps the most common argument is that the charges against Trump were "obscure" and "entirely unprecedented."

On the most basic level, this is false.

The same office has prosecuted dozens of cases of first-degree falsification of business records over the last 15 years.

It's the bread and butter of the Manhattan DA.

It is true that prosecuting someone for falsifying business records to conceal a campaign finance violation is uncommon — but that is because the crime itself is uncommon.

There are not that many people who run for political office in New York who also run their own businesses. And even fewer who falsify business records as part of a conspiracy to conceal violations of campaign finance law to help them win.

The idea that the prosecution is unusual is important only if it suggests that the government routinely lets others get away with similar conduct. There is no evidence suggesting that this is true.

3. @marcorubio and many others have claimed that prosecutors didn't reveal their legal theory against Trump until closing arguments. This is false.

The verdict required the jury to find that Trump falsified business records to conceal an intent to commit another crime.

The specifics of the prosecutors' theory were disclosed in great detail in a November 2023 legal filing.

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@JuddLegum

May 30

1. Across the country, inspired by Trump, Republican legislators have passed laws restricting how teachers can discuss race and gender

This week, a federal judge struck down one such law as unconstitutional, citing the experience of a high school teacher who showed her class the music video for Beyoncé's Formation

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2. In 2021, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu (R) signed a new law, modeled after a Trump executive order, that prohibited government employees, including public school teachers, from promoting "divisive concepts."

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3. The law was passed in response to a panic about Critical Race Theory infiltrating schools.

But instead of banning CRT and related concepts like structural racism and implicit bias, the law banned instruction on a series of vague and inscrutable topics

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Judd Legum

@JuddLegum

May 29

1. A civics training for teachers created by the Florida Dep't of Education likens a Canadian psychology board sanctioning @jordanbpeterson to the systematic mass murder of dissidents in Stalin's Soviet Union

Teachers should tell students that both actions are motivated by the same ideology

2. The linking of "cancel culture" to the murder of hundreds of thousands is part of a new curriculum on "the dangers and evils of Communism."

@RonDeSantis signed a bill in April that will make this mandatory for all Florida public school students

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@RonDeSantis 3. The training on Communism was presented to thousands of Florida teachers, lured by cash stipends, in the summer of 2023.

The slides were obtained by Popular Information through a public information request filed by @FLFreedomRead

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