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8 Jul, 6 tweets, 6 min read
BREAKING: @Toyota reverses course, will STOP donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election

The company faced a backlash after it donated 62K to 39 Republican objectors
@Toyota Popular.info first reported on @Toyota's donations in APRIL. At the time, Toyota said that it did "not believe it is appropriate to judge members of Congress solely based on their votes on election certification."

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.@Toyota's now abandoned justification for supporting Republican objectors was taken directly from a @USChamber memo that was released in March

It now adds pressure to companies that are following the U.S. Chamber playbook.

This includes @Cigna, @JetBlue, and @KochIndustries
@Toyota @USChamber @Cigna @JetBlue @KochIndustries We are about to learn A LOT more about how corporate PACs are operating. Reports for the second quarter of 2021 are due in a week.

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Toyota's decision came on the same day @ProjectLincoln released this ad

Why was @Toyota so eager to start contributing to dozens of Republican objectors?

It's hard to say.

But they do pay 240K per year for the lobbying services of Kyle Simmons, Mitch McConnell's former Chief of Staff

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7 Jul
Trump's business and CFO were just indicted. Trump's response to a bad story is always to concoct another story. Just FYI.
Whether the new story has any connection to reality is beside the point. The purpose is to make noise.

A large section of Trump's "lawsuit" against Facebook consists of attacks against the CDC and complaints that Facebook doesn't allow more misinformation about vaccines
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7 Jul
1. In June, @ATT plastered its social media accounts with rainbows and declared its solidarity with the LGBTQ community.

Simultaneously, @ATT quietly sent thousands to anti-LGBTQ politicians in Alabama that are targeting trans youth

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@ATT 2. In April, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a law banning trans youth from participating in school sports.

In early June, @ATT signed a letter opposing that kind of discriminatory legislation.

A few days later, AT&T's corporate PAC donated $5,000 to Ivey

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@ATT 3. In June, @ATT emphasized its commitment to addressing the "mental health crisis among LGBTQ+ youth," including a charitable contribution to the @TrevorProject

But the @TrevorProject condemned the Alabama bill as a dangerous attack on trans youth

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6 Jul
1. After 1/6, @Google pledged to cut off donations to members of Congress that voted to overturn the election for at least two years.

But Google's corporate PAC money is still flowing to numerous Republican objectors.

Here is how it works.

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@Google 2.

3/11/21: Google's PAC reported making a 5K contribution to the Wild and Wonderful PAC

3/23/21: Wild and Wonderful PAC, reported distributing 5K to Senator John Kennedy (R-LA), who voted to overturn the election on January 6

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3.

3/5/21: Google's PAC reported making a 5K donation to Mitch McConnell's Bluegrass Committee

5/24/21: The Bluegrass Committee distributes 5K to the campaign committee of Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)

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1 Jul
1. SCOTUS' new decision further undermines the Voting Rights Act & KAGAN is not mincing words: "What is tragic
here is that the Court has (yet again) rewritten—in order
to weaken—a statute that stands as a monument to America’s greatness, and protects against its basest impulses"
"Never has a statute done more to advance the Nation’s highest ideals. And few laws are more vital in the current moment. Yet in the last decade, this Court has treated no statute worse."
"Yet efforts to suppress the minority vote continue. No one would know this from reading the majority opinion. It hails the “good news” that legislative efforts had mostly shifted by the 1980s from vote denial to vote dilution."
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1 Jul
1. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court says Cosby's constitutional rights were violated because he was prosecuted after a DA (Castor) promised that he would never be prosecuted for assaulting Constand.

That can only be true if such a promise EXISTED.
2. The only contemporaneous evidence that it existed is a 2005 press release that includes the following line: "District Attorney Castor cautions all parties to this matter that he will reconsider this decision should the need arise."
3. Apart from that there is not one scrap of paper -- not an email, not a memo, not some notes scribbled on the back of a napkin -- that proves such an agreement existed
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30 Jun
1. A lot of misinformation is floating around about the nature of the PA Supreme Court's decision on Cosby.

So I want to clarify a few issues.

Let's talk about EXACTLY WHY the court decided it had to invalidate Cosby's trial.

And why their rationale is very weak
2. First there are a lot of lawyers on Twitter saying the court found there was a type of "contract" between the DA (Castor) and Cosby where the DA promised he would never be prosecuted

The PA Supreme Court court did not find that

The court expressly says there was no contract
3. The court found that there was an UNCONDITIONAL PROMISE from the DA not to prosecute Cosby and that Cosby relied on that promise.

And that, despite the absence of an actual agreement, "fairness" requires that the court to honor this "promise"
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