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7 Jul, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Dear @washingtonpost et al

Using non-contextual, straight news headlines about Trump is just one of the ways news media helped him win in 2016. Y’all STILL haven’t learned a darn thing. He will do ANYTHING to get a red meat headline for the base.
On June 30, a federal judge blocked a Florida law that would penalize social media companies for blocking a politician’s post for violating terms of service. Former president Donald Trump filed similar lawsuits today. This tactic has never been upheld in court.

#FIXEDTHATFORYOU
Any and every story about Trump must follow the #truthsandwich model @jayrosen_nyu @GeorgeLakoff

Stop putting his lies in the hede and lede.

In this case, @washingtonpost gives his claim the weight of truth by repeating it verbatim 🤦🏼‍♀️
FOR THE LOVE OF PETE … your writer acknowledges this tactic SEVEN graphs into the story. And DECIMATED the argument in graph ELEVEN.

This is your lede - not the fact that Trump filed yet-another lawsuit. 🤦🏼‍♀️
This is NOT “tech news,” @washingtonpost

It is a political ploy. Why are you treating it as anything else? 🤦🏼‍♀️

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⚡️Kathy E Gill | Get vaccinated, wear a mask! Profile picture
9 Jul
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Thousands of sick and dying birds have been reported in
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cc @CT_Bergstrom
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⚡️Kathy E Gill | Get vaccinated, wear a mask! Profile picture
8 Jul
In @USATODAY, @JoeTrippi makes the most compelling argument that I have seen for ostracizing authoritarian Trump supporters, calling out their lies & challenging ourselves to think outside of the “two party system” that is the air that we breathe.
TY, Joe. We need you for 2022.
News media leadership need to heed @JoeTrippi’s warning. Trump may not have been elected in 2016 had the political chattering class put democracy over snark and clicks. He lost in 2020 despite news orgs learning little from the prior five years.
The flurry of headlines around Trump’s frivolous and fruitless lawsuits this week illustrate how news organizations continue to treat Trump as though he were credible.
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8 Jul
On the 4th of July, Hobby Lobby ran a full-page ad in the Oregon @registerguard which argues that America should be a Christian nation, run by Christians. There were a LOT of papers with this propaganda.

This is antithetical to the US Constitution. 🧵 Image
Hobby Lobby also ran this ad in the Sunday @latimes
Cost: ~$100,000

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Hobby Lobby called for America to be run by Christians in the Sunday @washingtonpost
Cost: ~$100,000
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⚡️Kathy E Gill | Get vaccinated, wear a mask! Profile picture
7 Jul
Mike Lindell (the MyPillow guy) and Michael Flynn (the pardon=guilty guy) AGAIN pose with an insane 'path to Trump' whiteboard that has an arrow from the top implying Trump is Jesus and is bordered on the left an excerpt from Ephesians, chapter 1.
📷@patriottakes
On Tuesday, Flynn posted an picture of himself and Lindell to his Telegram account in front of this whiteboard.
Telegram was created by two Russian brothers and has been called a “safe haven” for white supremacists by the Anti-Defamation League.

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⚡️Kathy E Gill | Get vaccinated, wear a mask! Profile picture
18 Jun
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This 2016 FATALITY accident was on I20 in GA. The truck driver and passenger were killed, not at fault.

Semi #1 ran into the back of semi #2. The 1st and 2nd semi ran over the silver pickup.
The 2nd ran into a 3rd semi that ran into a FOURTH semi.

The victims: Larry Donnell Adams, 53, of Benton, Louisiana, and Peggy O'Neal, 51, of Bossier City, Louisiana.

You should delete the damn tweet, @infamous_dinero

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Hell, the erroneously labeled image you just shared, @infamous_dinero, was debunked in SEPTEMBER 2016. @TwitterSupport WHY DO YOU ALLOW CRAP LIKE THIS TO PROLIFERATE?

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Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) told the Daily Dot that Critical Race Theory is “different things to different people but the bottom line is that it is a distorted view of racism…. [one that is] trying to turn it into a positive…”
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Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL):
“there’s a lot of people that have a lot of different definitions.”
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