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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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Oct 27
1. Last week, there were 3 Trump corruption scandals in 4 days that would define any other presidency.

Most people are probably not even AWARE of all three scandals.

🧵

popular.info/p/3-scandals-i…
2. On Thursday, Trump pardoned Binance’s founder, CZ, who pled guilty in November 2023 to willfully violating anti-money laundering laws

CZ's actions “allowed money to flow to terrorists, cybercriminals, and child abusers” through Binance.
3. Trump's pardon for CZ came after Binance structured a $2 billion investment with USD1, a Trump-backed cryptocurrency.

The transaction is expected to result in tens of millions of annual profits for Trump and his family.
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Oct 25
1. Here are some facts about the guy, Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million so Trump could pay the troops during the government shutdown.

🧵

popular.info/p/the-reclusiv…
2. In his self-published 2015 autobiography, Mellon writes that Black people have become "even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations" after social safety net programs were expanded in the 1960s and 1970s.
3. Mellon derided programs intended to lift people out of poverty as "Slavery Redux." Mellon claimed that in exchange for "delivering their votes in the Federal Elections, they are awarded with yet more and more freebies: food stamps, cell phones, WIC payments, Obamacare, and on, and on, and on"
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Oct 22
1. The Trump administration quietly DOUBLED the bailout of Argentina from $20 BILLION to $40 BILLION

Here is what is really happening

popular.info/p/update-taxpa…
2. The first $20 billion of the bailout is straightforward. The US is sending $20 billion to the central bank of Argentina in exchange for Argentine Pesos. This part of the bailout is not working out well. The Argentine Peso hit a record low yesterday. Image
3. But Bessent also announced a SECOND $20 billion bailout financed by PRIVATE BANKS. This never made any sense. Banks have not lent money to Argentina for years because it is one of the most heavily indebted nations in the world.
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Oct 20
1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information.

Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levelsImage
2. New spending in the small arms category from January 20, 2025 through October 18, totaled $71,515,762. The money was spent on guns, armor, chemical weapons, and “guided missile warheads and explosive components.”

popular.info/p/ice-boosts-w…
3. On September 29, 2025, ICE made a $9,098,590 purchase from Geissele Automatics, which sells semi-automatic and automatic rifles. The total spending by ICE in the small arms category between January 20 and October 18, 2024, was $9,715,843.
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Oct 14
1. In 2022, Jeff Bezos promised to give away the majority of his wealth during his lifetime.

It is not going well.

Since making the pledge, his net worth has almost doubled to $240 billion.

Meanwhile, he has given less than $5 billion to charity.
2. Most of Bezos' charitable giving has gone to the Bezos Earth Fund. But the org has a reputation less as a vehicle for the corporate infiltration of the climate groups.

oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/jeff-bezos-c…
3. The Bezos Earth Fund reportedly pressured a leading environmental standards group, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), to relax its rules around letting corporations use offsets to meet carbon goals.
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Oct 8
1. On Monday, Trump delivered a $70 million windfall to his billionaire buddy, John Paulson.

Paulson hosted the biggest fundraiser of Trump's 2024 campaign, raising over $50 million.

This week, Trump returned the favor.

Follow along for details.
2. Trump announced that he was approving a 211-mile road through the Alaskan wilderness that will allow for the mining of copper and other minerals.

The project was rejected under Biden due to its environmental impact

popular.info/p/trump-approv…
3. Two companies will operate the mine: South32 Limited, an Australian company, and Trilogy Metals, based in Canada.

Paulson owns 14,326,996 shares of Trilogy Metals, about 8.7% of the company.
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