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Jan 24 • 9 tweets • 13 min read
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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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 25
1. People think that Republicans are introducing bills banning Critical Race Theory in schools.

This is misleading. Most of the bills don't even mention CRT.

It is a sweeping attack on free speech inside and outside schools.

Follow along if interested

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2. A new report from @PENamerica revealed that, in the first few weeks of 2022 there were 71 BILLS introduced in states restricting the speech of teachers

Many bills contain basic factual errors, contradictory language, or leave important terms undefined

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3. In Florida, @RonDeSantisFL is pushing legislation that would prohibit any kind of instruction or training in schools OR PRIVATE BUSINESSES that makes white people feel "feel discomfort, guilt, [or] anguish."

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Jan 20
1. There are 150K people in US hospitals with COVID and it put the hospital system into a state of crisis.

Yes, more people should get vaccinated.

But why don't we have enough hospital beds to deal with this emergency?

Follow along for the answer

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2. There are FAR FEWER hospital beds in the US today than there were just a few decades ago.

In 1975, when the country had 113 million fewer people, there were 1.5 million hospital beds in the US.

Today, there are just over 900,000.

What happened?

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3. Between 2010 and 2020 there were more than 680 hospital mergers. Over the same time period, "at least 120 rural hospitals have shuttered."

This has coincided with a vertical acquisition of other health care facilities and providers by hospitals.

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Jan 19
Interesting statement as no one reported that "Justice Sotomayor asked Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask."

The report was that Chief Justice Roberts asked EVERYONE to wear a mask and Gorsuch refused.
And no pushback on two facts:

1. Gorsuch didn't wear a mask

2. That's why Sotomayor had to participate remotely
Roberts is also out with a statement.

The original report says that Roberts "in some form asked the other justices to mask up."

Roberts now says he "did not request" Gorsuch mask up.

We'll see what @NinaTotenberg says

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Jan 19
The stock for the SPAC slated to merge with Trump's new media company has almost doubled in price in recent days, giving it an imputed value of $20 BILLION

The company has: 1. No products, 2. No customers, 3. No revenue

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Trump's media company was supposed to launch a social media network in November. Now it might launch in February?

But it's worse than that. By the company's own projections the social media network is NEVER SUPPOSED TO GENERATE SIGNIFICANT REVENUE Image
Almost all of the revenue is supposed to come from a forthcoming streaming product which will have to compete against all the other streaming products. There is no information on when or if such a streaming product will actually launch.
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Jan 19
1. Federal employees are prohibited by law from participating in matters that could impact any company in which they own stock.

But members of Congress, who are far more powerful than most government bureaucrats, are EXEMPT

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2. While federal gov't employees face a maximum penalty of five years in jail and a fine of 50K, members of Congress are free to actively trade an individual stock while voting on bills that would directly impact the stock's price.

And many do just that.

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3. Members of Congress are not required to avoid conflicts of interest, actual or perceived, when it comes to stocks.

Coincidentally, studies "consistently show that the investments of members of Congress outperform the market."

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Jan 17
1. This will be a thread of corporations that are "honoring" MLK Jr on Twitter today but donated to the @NRSC in the last year, supporting a caucus that is filibustering voting rights and a chair (@SenRickScott) who voted to overturn the last election

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@NRSC @SenRickScott 2. @Google donated 15K to the @NRSC on 6/30/21

3. @AmericanAir donated 15K to the @NRSC on 6/9/21

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