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@JuddLegum
Jan 24, 2022 • 9 tweets • 13 min read • Read on X
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1. In May, Texas Republicans enacted a draconian abortion ban and a system of vigilante justice to enforce it.

In response, numerous large corporations wrote these Texas Republicans substantial checks.

Follow along if interested.

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2. @ATT CEO John Stankey said one of the company's "core values" is "gender equity and the empowerment of women."

On 11/20/21, @ATT donated 50K from its corporate treasury to the Texas Senate Republicans who unanimously approved the abortion ban

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@ATT 3. On 12/14/21, @ATT's corporate PAC donated 30K to @DadePhelan, the Texas House Speaker who marshaled the abortion ban through the House.

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@ATT @DadePhelan 4. @ATT told popular.info that it "has never taken a position on abortion" and "did not endorse nor support passage of Senate Bill 8."

The 50K check to the Texas Senate Republicans, @ATT insists, "may not be used for political purposes."

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@ATT @DadePhelan 5. @pepsi publicly touts its commitment to "empowering women in the workplace, marketplace and community."

On 8/5/21, @pepsi donated 15K to the @TexasGOP

Pepsi did not respond to a request for comment.

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@ATT @DadePhelan @pepsi @TexasGOP 6. @Walmart touts its "efforts to advance women associates and empower women."

In December, @Walmart donated 5K to Texas House Speaker @DadePhelan and 5K to Lt. Gov @DanPatrick, who also serves as president of the Texas Senate.

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7. If you are interested in this thread, you'll be very interested in my newsletter, Popular Information.

It's dedicated to accountability journalism.

You'll learn the information you won't find anywhere else.

And it's free to sign up.

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8. Other companies that made substantial donations to Texas Republicans after the passage of the state's abortion ban:

@zillow
@Allstate
@Ford
@Exelon
@KochIndustries
@UPS
@USAA
@UnitedHealthGrp

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@zillow @Allstate @Ford @Exelon @KochIndustries @UPS @USAA @UnitedHealthGrp 9. One more thing: The head of @ATT's legislative strategy is @EdWGillespie, the former chair of the @RNC. When Gillespie ran for Governor of Virginia in 2017 he said he "would like to see abortion be banned.”

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Jan 26
1. The Trump administration is not conducting its deadly immigration crackdown in Minneapolis alone

Major corporations, including @amazon, @CitizensBank, and @ATT, are enabling — and profiting from — the operation.
@amazon @CitizensBank @ATT 2. @Amazon powers much of the technological infrastructure that the Trump administration uses to target immigrants.

Amazon hosts the ICM database used by ICE which "integrates a vast ecosystem of public and private data to track down immigrants"

popular.info/p/the-corporat…
3. Hours after Alex Pretti was fatally shot at point-blank ranger, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy attended a screening of "Melania," a documentary about the First Lady, at the White House.

Amazon is paid Melania $40 million for rights to the vanity project and is spending another $35 million to promote itImage
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Jan 22
1. After months of denials, the Trump administration has admitted that DOGE staff misused Social Security data.

A DOGE staffer signed a deal to share the data with a “political advocacy group” seeking to “overturn election results"

The identity of the staffer is not disclosed but there are clues
2. Antonio Gracias, a DOGE staffer who was embedded at the SSA, publicly spoke about using Social Security data to “expose” voter fraud. During a March 30 rally alongside Elon Musk, Gracias — a fellow billionaire — made a variety of false and misleading claims.

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3. Gracias said that he had compared SSA data with voting records and found that non-citizens were registered to vote and did vote. He claimed he referred these people for prosecution. (There are no known charges or convictions resulting from those alleged referrals.)
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Jan 21
1. In 2025, 32 people died in ICE custody.

That figure was the largest in more than two decades and tied for the highest number of deaths among ICE’s detainee population ever.

2026 is only three weeks old, and it’s already shaping up to be much worse.
2. In just 21 days, at least six people have died in ICE custody.

Last year, ICE did not have six in-custody deaths until April 25. The early trends put ICE on pace for 120 in-custody deaths in 2026.

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3. Several of the deaths, according to advocates, are related to substandard medical care. Popular Information reported on Monday that ICE stopped paying for third-party medical treatment for detainees on October 3, 2025.

popular.info/p/ice-has-stop…
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Jan 20
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees

ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals

Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care

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2. ICE has not paid any third-party providers for medical care for detainees since October 3, 2025. Last week, ICE posted a notice on an obscure government website announcing it will not begin processing such claims until at least April 30, 2026.

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3. ICE’s failure to pay its bills for months has caused some medical providers to deny services to ICE detainees, an administration source told Popular Information. In other cases, detainees have allegedly been denied essential medical care by ICE.
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Jan 13
1. In an interview with the New York Times, Trump claimed that, as a result of the civil rights movement, white men have been "very badly treated" and subjected to "reverse discrimination."

Trump says that white men have been excluded from colleges and jobs.

Here is the TRUTH.
2. In 2024, the data shows, white people represented 40.7% of the applicants but 53% of the enrolled students.

In contrast, Black applicants accounted for 8.7% of the applicant pool but just 5.8% of enrolled students.

popular.info/p/the-truth-ab…
3. Most college applicants are female, so many institutions admit a higher percentage of men to ensure their student population is more evenly divided by gender.

For example, in 2023, Brown University’s acceptance rate was 6.9% for male applicants and 4.2% for female applicants.
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Jan 7
1. The DOJ has not released 99% of the Epstein Files, in direct violation of the law

They claim the delay is necessary to review the files

But here is the thing: The DOJ previously claimed THE REVIEW WAS COMPLETE IN JULY Image
2. In an unsigned July 7 memo, the DOJ said the review of the Epstein files was complete.

The DOJ described it as an "exhaustive review" which involved "teams of agents, analysts, attorneys, and privacy and civil liberties experts"

Now the DOJ is pretending it never happened

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3. In a January 5 letter to a federal judge, AG Bondi says 99% of the files have not been released yet because the review is ongoing and necessary to protect the privacy of the victims. This is the same task that Bondi said was initiated last February and completed in July.
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