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Sep 17, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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1/So I'm going to tell @ChrisRock why he's incorrect. Also, how exhausting is it that people with fame think that everything that falls out of their mouth is gold and people like me with my tiny platform have to attempt to clean up their misinformation. newsweek.com/why-chris-rock…
2/When folx w/large platforms spread misinformation about policy w/o the basic understanding of how the Legislative, Executive, Judicial branches function it harms all of us (makes Putin happy!). That's not civics shaming, just don't place blame w/o understanding how it works.
3/(I also think Chris Rock forgot why Congress impeached Trump: BECAUSE HE SOLICITED FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN THE 2016 ELECTION AND THEN OBSTRUCTED THE INVESTIGATION INTO HIM OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Chris, Trump isn't a "5-year-old", he's a CRIMINAL. Get it?) lawfareblog.com/revisiting-cri…
4/The impeachment of Donald Trump occurred between the dates of Dec 18, 2019 – Feb 5, 2020. On Dec 31, 2019 the Wuhan Municipal Health Authorities report a few pneumonia-like cases in Wuhan, China. It is not until Jan 3, 2020 that China officially notifies the WHO of an outbreak.
5/On Feb 3, The first U.S. coronavirus patient is discharged from the hospital. On Feb. 6, the day after impeachment ends, Trump has a conversation with Chinese President Xi. Trump told Woodward on Feb. 7 saying "This is deadly stuff." politico.com/news/2020/09/0…
6/The impeachment did not stop Trump from knowing that there was a virus, that it was deadly, and that action needed to be taken. Nancy Pelosi on the other hand was already pleading with Trump in February to take COVID seriously. That a larger financial response was needed.
7/Nancy Pelosi is not POTUS, Trump is. Nancy Pelosi couldn’t have ramped up production of PPE by invoking the Defense Production Act, only Trump could've. Nancy couldn't have implemented a nationwide mask mandate or a COVID-19 tracing and testing program, only Trump could have.
8/What are we going to do now? #VOTE

@chrisrock if you want to be helpful, please drop the misogyny and use your formidable platform and all of your connections and pled w/folx to #VoteEarly

Our democracy will either continue or end with this election. Please, please focus.

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May 13, 2023
1. @RonDeSantisFL’s bigotry will destroy Florida’s economy. FL’s 47,500 farms bring an annual income of approx 7 billion; construction contributes over $58 billion annually. Most of this work is done by the skilled labor of undocumented workers. #SB1718
2. Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed SB1718 which goes into effective on July 1st. It’ll requires businesses with 25 workers or more to register employees under E-verify, and have hospitals ask for citizenship status. Many have stopped working worried about deportation.
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13 billion in taxes.‼️🤯

"Immigrant communities are 20% of our state workforce, they contribute with over 13 billion to the state in taxes every single year," said David Metellus, Director of Policy and Politics at the Florida Immigration Solution.”cbsnews.com/amp/miami/news…
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Oct 25, 2022
1. This isn't how I wanted to start my thread on fascism, but here we go. Below is an example of how legacy media aids, abets, and normalizes fascism. The Proud Boys were there to promulgate antisemitism and other bigotry. Not a comedy show (I'll come back to this).🧵
2. As I say in my newest article, one reason why Republicans have been so successful in utilizing fascist tactics is that much of the public and press do not recognize these tactics even when witnessing them. open.substack.com/pub/mayatcontr…
3. Even if members of the press and public recognize fascist tactics, they may not fully comprehend the catastrophic danger of totalitarianism. My article below is a guide to the fascism much of The GOP has embraced. Next are a few "lowlights." mayatcontreras.substack.com/p/farewell-to-…
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Oct 25, 2022
🚨New From Me. Republicans have been successful in utilizing fascist tactics because much of the public & press don't recognize these tactics even when witnessing them. If they do, they may not fully comprehend the catastrophic danger of totalitarianism.
mayatcontreras.substack.com/p/farewell-to-…
The actions of Trump & MAGA Republicans have laid the groundwork for a totalitarian regime. As Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels said, “This will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy, that it gave its deadly enemies the means by which it was destroyed.” the orgins of totalitarianism
I hope my article will be a guide to the fascism that much of the GOP has embraced, and why it should never be acceptable or normalized by the press or the public. Understanding fascism & the danger it possesses is the only way we can potentially stop it. mayatcontreras.substack.com/p/farewell-to-…
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Sep 23, 2022
1. As a reference, Sen. Chuck Grassley was born 2 yrs before Cudjo Kazoola Lewis died. Then there is William Casby, one of the last living Americans born into slavery (Photo by Avadon, 1963). Yet we have Representatives who ignore or deny intergenerational inequality and poverty.
2. We have representatives who’ve long ignored or denied the emotional and socioeconomic impact of the intergenerational transmission of inequality and poverty — and a media that has largely ignored the racist intent behind that denialism (mostly from Republican reps).
3. While some media outlets report how damaging cuts to the social safety net have been, many don’t make the historical connections of continuous discrimination, wage gaps, and other policies keeping people in cycles of poverty, low income, and lacking access to opportunities.
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Aug 29, 2022
1. It's the 17th Anniversary of #HurricaneKatrina. Aug. 29, 2005. Below is a report from 2002. It warned that the Levees had only been built "to withstand a Category 3." Katrina was a Category 5. 1,833 died, and millions were displaced. Bush, cut the levee budget to pay for Iraq.
2. June 8, 2004: Walter Maestri, emergency management for Jefferson Parish, warned the Times-Picayune a year before Katrina: "It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq. I suppose that’s the price we pay..."
3. Walter Maestri, from the June 8, 2004 interview continued, "Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us." pbs.org/wgbh/pages/fro…
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Aug 28, 2022
1. Presidential Diaries, or Daily Schedules, on remarkable days of their presidency. Interesting, to say the least. Last days of President John F. Kennedy's Diary. "11:05 A.M. Departed Andrew Air Force Base for San Antonio, Texas."
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11:49 AM President SIGNS Voting Rights Bill S.1564
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3. President Richard M. Nixon, the day of the Watergate Break in.

9:10 AM The President had breakfast.
10:58 AM The President talked long distance with his Assistant, H. R. Haldeman.
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