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25 Oct, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Numerous Virginia high schools’ libraries included books with pornographic content. @IWV created an ad to raise awareness about this issue—but the ad was REJECTED as too explicit to run during the 11 p.m. hour on TV in Virginia.

WATCH our ad here: toxicschools-video.org
As @carrielukas writes, "Why are our schools so much less protective about what high school students, as young as 14, are exposed to than TV stations catering to adults?" @IWF

foxnews.com/opinion/carrie…
Here's an example of a page from one of the books, which @IWV even blurred out. If you check out the book from the library, there's no censoring. You see it all.
Here are three more images from “Gender Queer,” a book that’s available to young teenagers in Virginia school libraries, but deemed too “explicit” to show via an ad on Virginia TV. @IWV

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2 Oct
A few points about this WaPo hit piece against @IWF. 1. The headline: "Koch-backed group fuels opposition to school mask mandates, leaked letter shows."

The letter was available to anyone who pays $5-$25 to join our membership-based network. But good investigative work, WaPo.😅
2. Let's talk about this gaf (attached). The letter, authored by @HadleyHeath, was written to her *PRESCHOOL.* Yet, in trying to undermine her arguments why "little kids should be forced to wear masks," WaPo cites a study about "school-age children."

iwf.org/wp-content/upl…
Now, is it not possible—and in fact, quite likely—that a significant chunk of parents would support "school-aged children" wearing masks, but feel very differently about forcing mask mandates on 2, 3 and 4-year-olds?

Whatever it takes to support the narrative, though.
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27 Sep
THREAD: Last week, following the debunked “whips” narrative, @DailySignal shared a 2017 video I produced highlighting the important role horses play in securing the border.

Instead of showing the video, Twitter showed some users a warning for "potentially sensitive content."
The video, a production I am proud of, has *nothing* that could be misconstrued as "sensitive content." Watch the full video here:
Twitter initially denied censoring the video, but Monday afternoon changed its story, saying the video was indeed flagged but refusing to say why or whether the censoring was the result of an algorithm or if human error was involved.
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21 Aug
The situation in Afghanistan symbolizes everything that’s wrong with Western, victimhood-based feminism. No one who wore pink pussy hats for 4 years and claimed oppression under Trump is marching in the streets this weekend after the leader they supported abandoned Afghan women.
Conservatives know what true oppression looks like and don’t waste our time and privilege claiming it here. We know that thousands of Afghan women would do anything to come here, and will speak up when our president cruelly abandons them with no time to plan.
America can’t be the world’s police and many of the human rights abuses they face will have to be solved there, but I refuse to accept the idea that we had “no choice” but to leave them so desperate as to throw children over walls and be rounded up to be terrorists’ third wives.
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24 Mar
THREAD: Gov. Kristi Noem launched a coalition on Monday (notably *after* sending back the girl's sports bill) calling to Defend Title IX. Her office says we to "gather states together to fend off the NCAA’s pressure." This is a huge reason she cites for refusing to sign the bill.
But here's the thing: In March, Idaho @GovernorLittle already signed the "Fairness in Women's Sports Act" into law. nytimes.com/2020/04/01/spo…
Similar bills are working their way through ~30 other state legislatures. So the national coalition that Noem says we need already exists. The momentum is there.
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11 Sep 20
I will #NeverForget being in middle school on 9/11 and not knowing if my dad who worked in NYC was OK. There were so many children in my Connecticut town whose parents worked in the city that teachers didn't want to tell us what happened—they just told us we were all going home.
My dad was one of the lucky ones, but some of my classmates' parents were not. That day changed my life in more ways than I'll ever know, and is the reason I work in politics. I am a child of the 9/11 generation.
In high school, I watched a group of guys I knew volunteer to serve and defend America from evil. One of them was Private First Class Nicholas Madaras, who enlisted in the US Army in January 2005. He was 18 years old and still had one semester of high school to finish.
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29 Apr 20
The @NLRB "attempted to subpoena all emails and communications between staff members [at @FDRLST] going back years—including about editorial decisions, hiring decisions, and confidential sources during our coverage of the Russia-collusion hoax." @WSJ

wsj.com/articles/how-m…
All this because @bdomenech made a JOKE about sending his employees “back to the salt mine” if they tried to unionize. Not one employee or contributor to @FDRLST complained. WE ALL KNEW IT WAS A JOKE. @MattBruenig did too, but he filed a lawsuit anyways.
Now, taxpayers (myself included) are funding a multi-thousand dollar lawsuit to sue @FDRLST WHEN NO ONE COMPLAINED. Want to know the truth? This lawsuit could actually HURT FDRST employees and contributors bc @bdomenech now has to spend $$ defending himself and his publication.
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