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@JuddLegum
Jan 26, 2022 • 10 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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The Mcminn County School board in Tennessee just voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust

The vote was 10-0

tnholler.com/2022/01/mcminn…
Sadly, this is not an isolated incident. There is a wave of book banning across the nation.

More here: popular.info/p/the-war-on-l…
If you are interested in tracking these issues, I’ve been doing a lot of reporting on book banning and other attacks on free expression in my newsletter

Sign up here —> popular.info/subscribe
Tomorrow is International Holocaust Remembrance Day
This is a useful database of book banning and other censorship efforts across the country

ncac.org/youth-censorsh…
MORE: A Mississippi mayor is "withholding $110,000 of funding from the Madison County Library System" until its libraries purge books w/LGBTQ themes

The mayor calls the books, including an essay collection by Elton John & others, "homosexual materials"

mississippifreepress.org/20068/ridgelan…
UPDATE: @Twitter informs me that it received a complaint about the tweet at the beginning of this thread, pursuant to German Law, but it will not be removed
@Twitter UPDATE: The author of Maus, Art Spiegelman, reacts to his book being banned

"It has the breath of autocracy and fascism"

cnn.com/videos/us/2022…
@Twitter UPDATE: @realchrisrufo, who has fueled anti-CRT hysteria, defends the decision to ban Maus from 8th grade classrooms.

Oddly says that banning the book from the classroom is not a ban.

Book banning is part of a larger strategy.
@Twitter @realchrisrufo Let's go over the facts. Rufo claims the book has been "swapped out." It has not. The board does not have a replacement and the result, according to the board, is the entire module on the Holocaust will be skipped because Maus is the "anchor text."

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Jul 23
1. Eugene Ramirez, the lead anchor of @WeAreSinclair's national evening news broadcast, resigned this year over concerns about the accuracy and right-wing bias of the content he was required to present on air, three sources told Popular Information.

Follow along for details

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2. The sources, one current and two former Sinclair employees, said one of the primary issues that prompted Ramirez's resignation was the mandate to include 3 stories produced by Sinclair's Rapid Response Team each night.

One current Sinclair employee described the RRT as "the right-wing propaganda arm of the national digital operation."
3. Through July 4, 2024, the RRT has produced 147 stories this year that portray Democrats in a negative light and just 7 stories that portray Democrats positively.

Over the same time period, the RRT has produced 57 stories that portray Republicans positively and 22 that portray Republicans negatively.Image
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Jul 22
1. Minutes after Biden dropped out, the attacks on Harris began

One of the most common: Harris "helped raise money for a far-left organization that bailed a rioter who shot at police out of jail."

As it turns out, this one is complete BS

Follow along for the facts

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2. Here are the things that are true:

In 2020, Harris encouraged people to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF), an organization that helps people who need assistance with cash bail.

The MFF did pay $75,000 to get Jaleel Stallings out of jail.

Stallings was "charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting at police during protests on May 30" 2020

But that's not where the story ends.
3. Stallings is an army veteran with a gun permit.

While he was protesting the George Floyd murder, he was shot in the chest with rubber bullets from an unmarked van

Stallings returned fire to protect himself.

The police officers in the van then "beat and kicked Stallings repeatedly while he lay prone on the ground, resulting in facial fractures."
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Jul 17
1. For months, @elonmusk's account has been the social media equivalent of 2000 Mules

Musk has bashed mail-in voting as "insane," "too risky," and a recipe for "large-scale fraud"

Now, Musk is donating $180 MILLION to a pro-Trump Super PAC focused on getting Trump supporters to vote by mail

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2. On January 8, Musk wrote that it was "insane" that you can "mail in your ballot" in the United States. The same day, he said the government should require "in-person voting" on a single day, with few exceptions, "like other countries do."

popular.info/p/the-extraord…
3. On February 2, Musk asserted that the Biden campaign was involved in a scheme to submit a massive number of fake absentee ballots.

On February 5, Musk said that absentee ballots are used for widespread fraud because the nature of absentee ballots made "fraud traceability impossible."

On May 9, Musk falsely claimed that "widespread voting by mail" was "not allowed before the scamdemic" and now "proving fraud [is] almost impossible."
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Jul 16
1. Trump's aides & allies are blaming Democratic rhetoric — such as calling Trump a threat to democracy — for inciting the attempted assassination

Meanwhile, the GOP convention features many speakers who use violent & extreme rhetoric

Follow this thread for details

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2. Senate candidate Kari Lake (R-AZ) suggested she and millions of other Republicans would fight Trump's criminal conviction with firearms

“If you want to get to President Trump, you’re gonna have to go through me and you’re gonna have to go through 75 million Americans just like me, and I’m going to tell you … most of us are card-carrying members of the NRA.”

She is a featured speakers at the GOP Convention
3. North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) promoted the murder of his perceived enemies. “Some folks need killing,” Robinson said. “It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity.”

Robinson is a featured speaker at the GOP convention.
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Jul 11
1. Trump has COMPLETELY PLAYED the media on abortion

The GOP position to ban abortion nationwide, a possibility with the repeal of ROE, is deeply unpopular

80% of Americans — including 66% of GOP voters — oppose a national abortion ban

So Trump wants to convince people that's no longer the GOP's position
2. The 2016 GOP platform, which was ratified again in 2020 says that abortion was prohibited by the Constitution's 14th Amendment and called for legislation and a Constitutional amendment to make that "clear"

popular.info/p/how-trump-pl…
3. The Trump campaign strategy for the 2024 GOP platform is to say much less about everything, including abortion. The previous GOP platform was 66 pages. The new GOP platform is 16 pages.
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Jul 10
1. Trump is running on a pledge to end taxes on tips

But the proposal would actually harm most tipped workers

The primary beneficiaries would be people (like Trump) who own and operate hotels and restaurants

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2. First, many people who rely on tips earn so little that they already pay no federal income taxes.

Half of servers earn less than 32K. A server with a family who earns 32K does not owe federal income tax and would not benefit from Trump's proposal

popular.info/p/trumps-tip-t…
3. The bigger issue is that the federal minimum wage for tipped workers is $2.13 an hour. The tipped minimum wage has not increased since 1991. Combined with tips, these workers are supposed to earn a minimum of $7.25 an hour. That is not close to a living wage in the United States in 2024.
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