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28 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Biden is no FDR.

We don't have Japanese-American internment camps.

We don't have a president preoccupied with solving the "Jewish problem" by "spreading the Jews thin."

We don't have a president who ordered sailors to go undercover & have sex with men to root out "perverts."
As much as we need to tear down the Saint Reagan myth, we also need to tear down the Saint Roosevelt myth.

FDR and the Newport sex scandal that targeted gay sailors, clergy & others: golocalprov.com/news/fdrs-dark…
FDR, anti-Semite: google.com/amp/s/www.lati…
FDR, creator of Japanese-American concentration camps: google.com/amp/s/www.hist…

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“Look, 90% of restaurant employees were terminated in mid-March last year. They didn’t get on unemployment bc they’re lazy...they were fired.”

Now, many of those employers blame UI benefits as they struggle to find workers for $2.13/hr.

The real story: mississippifreepress.org/12527/breaking…
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"These establishments chose not to use that PPP money to rehire workers for hybrid models, or to-go models...Industry workers didn’t opt out of work. They were all terminated by places that were happy to operate without them, until the pandemic was over.” 
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29 May
THREAD: This is me back in 2010 with my congressman, Gene Taylor. He was a conservative Democrat who I did some tough reporting on in my student newspaper.

I had a black eye at the time (long story, college). I told him we to pretend he was punching me for a tough question. Congressman Gene Taylor rai...
When I first began reporting for my college paper, I called D.C. asking to interview Rep. Gene Taylor, thinking there was no way he'd make time.

20 minutes later, he called. I interviewed my congressman for 30 minutes. Steven Palazzo unseated him in the Tea Party wave that year.
Since then, I haven't been able to talk to my congressman. He makes no appearances at town halls. He doesn't debate opponents. He basically never answers questions from media unless he knows they're on his side.
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NEW: "There’s nothing that would give any of us up here more honor than...to help you with anything," Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith told families of fallen officers on May 3.

Today, she voted against a Jan. 6 commission despite pleas from Officer Sicknick's mom.mississippifreepress.org/12615/after-vo…
Sen. @cindyhydesmith claimed that the independent commission, which would've included an equal number of members appointed by each party, amounted to "a politically-skewed exercise that I cannot support.”
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"It is my view that adding a new commission ... would inevitably delay & distract from the productive investigations already underway.” mississippifreepress.org/12615/after-vo…
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28 May
How American democracy works:

•Presidency
Candidate A: 66 million votes
Candidate B: 63 million
Winner: Candidate B

•Bills
Yea: 54 senators
Nay: 35 senators
Result: Nay

•Senate Control
Party A: 123 million votes
Party B: 99 million votes
Result: Party B wins 53/100 seats
What I'm referencing:

•Presidential elections
Hillary Clinton won 66 million votes; Trump won 63 million

•Bills
54 senators voted for the Jan. 6 commission, 35 against; the 35 killed the bill.
•Senate Control
Dem candidates for US Senate won 123 million votes for Senate votes across all races btwn 2014, 2016 & 2018; Republicans won 99 million.

Only in 2014 did GOP win more raw votes, with + 3 million. (Dems won 11 million more in 2016; 18 million more in 2018).
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NEW: With ICE failing to vaccinate detained immigrants, COVID-19 cases have exploded at a private prison in Natchez—with more cases confirmed since mid-April than in the prior 13 months combined.

Only 7% of immigrants in ICE custody are vaccinated. 1/
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On April 15, 2021, ICE reported a cumulative total of 282 cases at the facility since March 2020.

The agency has confirmed another 308 cases since, bringing the cumulative total to 590 as of today. 2/ mississippifreepress.org/12579/covid-19…
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BREAKING: Will Norton, the former Ole Miss School of Journalism and New Media dean whose emails with a wealthy donor were a central part of my @MSFreePress 2020 #UMEmails exposé, is no longer an employee at UM. mississippifreepress.org/12534/will-nor…
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The donor, Blake Tartt, wrote to Norton in September 2018: “You know Oxford and Ole Miss have real problems when black hookers are working on Jackson avenue. ... I happen to know what happens when a place is overtaken by the wrong elements.”
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