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28 Aug, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This "Biden asleep" stuff is nonsense. Full vid shows: 1) Biden talking; 2) Biden looking at Bennett; 3) Biden looking downward, his hands moving, starting right when Bennett mentioned this week's "difficult days"; 4) Biden immediately replying to Bennett.
H/t to @daveweigel for pointing out that this silliness was percolating.
The Post Millennial, a right-wing site from my home and native Canada, has been involved in spreading a bunch of inaccurate-but-viral narratives about US politics.
And now the House GOP caucus. Always interesting to watch how, and how quickly, this stuff spreads.

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10 Sep
This viral video is nonsense. It begins with a bonkers claim that the Secretary of Defense sent a text to all active military demanding they get vaccinated by 10 AM the next day. There was no such text. Also, the military's actual vaccination deadlines begin in November.
Important tip: Don't rely on internet stories told by a guy who begins his dramatic story by saying "my dad just let me know this."
Ah, interesting: A week ago, PolitiFact debunked a highly similar nonsense article - with the 10 AM deadline and everything - that was published on a site that pushes false claims under the guise of "humor, parody and satire." politifact.com/factchecks/202…
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9 Sep
It's not a "new study," it's from 2011, and it's a study of 37 Nigerians with river blindness who took ivermectin for 11 months. I'm not saying ivermectin is good for Covid; I'm saying people should chill with the Dramatic Social Media Claims about it.
37. The study says they began with 385 people diagnosed with river blindness, but found only 37 of them had sufficiently normal sperm counts to make them eligible for the ivermectin study.
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6 Sep
Here’s a statement from a hospital that Oklahoma doctor is affiliated with, supporting his comments about ivermectin use contributing to hospital congestion in the state - though not suggesting, as viral stories did, that ivermectin is a main cause of the backup. (Thread!)
As far as I can tell so far, what happened is the doctor gave an interview to a local outlet in which he cited ivermectin use as one reason some hospitals are congested. The outlet then framed ivermectin use as the main cause of the congestion, which it obviously isn’t. 2/
Then national and international media outlets aggregated the initial, poorly framed local story without themselves doing due diligence to examine the extent to which ivermectin was contributing to the OK hospital congestion. And Maddow and others tweeted out the stories. 3/
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27 Jul
Temporarily leaving aside the presence of numerous other weapons: Yes, some people in the Capitol crowd had guns.

Because most of the people present were not arrested that day, we may never know how many guns. But there were some, according to federal prosecutors. Quick thread:
Guy Reffitt has been charged with illegally carrying a gun on Capitol grounds. cnn.com/2021/06/17/pol…
A now-former DEA agent, Mark Ibrahim, is accused of illegally carrying his government-issued gun on Capitol grounds (and showing it off to others there). You can see the gun in photos: cbsnews.com/news/mark-ibra…
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15 Jul
Elections chiefs in Republican GA counties tell me they too had piles of no-crease "mail" ballots. That's because, for scanning, counties have to *duplicate* military/overseas ballots (printed out on nonofficial paper) + damaged ballots. They store duplicates in a separate box.
The office of Republican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has been saying this for months, but in light of the "NO CREASES" conspiracy theories popping up again, I thought I'd call some local officials in Trump-dominated places in Georgia. Again, it's nonsense.
Jane Scoggins, elections chief in Coweta County, GA (67% Trump), said sometimes people just don't get how election processes work. On duplicate (UNCREASED!) mail ballots: "I don’t think people understand why you’d put them all in the same box -- which makes perfect sense to me."
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8 Jul
New version keeps many of the previously proposed restrictions but gets rid of: provision to ban Sunday morning early voting; at least 2 provisions to make it easier to overturn elections; a provision to make mail voters disclose whether they’re ill, injured, or have a disability
To be extra-extra-clear, the new version of the bill *gets rid of* previously proposed provisions that would've made it easier to overturn elections. Those provisions were in the bill Dems thwarted with their walkout but aren't in this newly filed version.
New bill also abandons GOP's previous attempt to require a disabled person who wants a mail ballot to be "not capable" of voting in person (not just "prevent"ed from voting in person), and abandons previous GOP language about a lack of transportation being insufficient grounds.
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