Protesters are starting to gather outside of the outside of the Old Post Office (now Trump International Hotel) in DC for one of the several hundred #SaveThePostOffice rallies happening across the country
This video is good and everyone should watch it. But I wonder if everyone knows where the original report on Jamie Foxx came from in the first place?
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this is the tweet that you likely saw first, as it has 12 million impressions. it caused what I like to call an "aggregation avalanche," which I'll explain in the next tweet
Several outlets likely saw that tweet and ran with it, citing the original "exclusive" from Radar Online, a gossip site. This causes an avalanche of aggregated reports, all from that one "exclusive"
Google "Jamie Foxx’s Family Reportedly Preparing ‘For The Worst’," you'll see
Wow: Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones, one of the Dems that the GOP is trying to expel from state legislature to protesting gun violence, calls out his colleagues on the floor
‘For years, one of your colleagues, an admitted child molester, sat in this chamber – no expulsion’
NOW: “I’m about to speak because the people of district 52 sent me here to speak. Speaker Sexton is not my constituent, Speaker Sexton is not a king, Speaker Sexton is not God” - Rep. Justin Jones
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas police commander says officers could have stopped the gunman in Uvalde school shooting within three minutes.
Texas Department of Public Safety director Steve McCraw says the Uvalde “on-scene commander chose to put the lives of officers before the lives of children.”
“The officers had weapons, the children had none.”
McCraw: I’m disappointed in the social media industry for not being more proactive … I have great confidence in their resources to be able to identify potential threats and bring them to the attention of law enforcement