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Feb 10 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
This is another imaginary Ottawa-protest-related claim, just fiction. No judge has ordered police to give back fuel they’d seized from protesters. The viral video doesn’t actually show police returning fuel.

And this one lie quickly turned into three lies. (Quick thread)
After protest supporters invented a court order requiring police to return fuel, and that false claim was repeated on a livestream by prominent protest man Pat King, other protest supporters got mad that police were defying the (again, nonexistent) court order. (2/3)
Also, people started making false claims that police were indeed returning fuel under the (nonexistent) court order but maliciously mixing the fuel with water. These claims have gotten hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. (3/3)
Oh, PS: an editor at a Toronto news channel, @B21Writes, says they’ve been getting agitated phone calls about the nonexistent court order. Not great.

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Feb 10
False. Ottawa police are required to be vaccinated.
They were initially exempt -- the clip here is from October -- but still at 84% fully vaxxed even *before* Ottawa reversed course and set a Jan. 31 deadline. Now, of 1,480 officers, fewer than 10 haven't received a dose.
Source for the "fewer than 10": cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…
CTV didn't report anything false. The news segment Mitchell tweeted out was from October, when Ottawa police were exempt. Days later, Ottawa got rid of the exemption.
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Feb 6
Dan Bongino's Fox show took a website's list of the most healthy US cities and turned it into a graphic titled "TOP TEN MOST UNHEALTHY U.S. CITIES," which it used to back Bongino's claim that Democrats don't care about urban deaths. Nice catch by @Acyn.
(Bongino's show additionally appears to have mixed up Irving, Texas with Irvine, California.)
Here's what Bongino was saying around the time the upside-down "MOST UNHEALTHY U.S. CITIES" graphic was on screen:
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Jan 11
I'm not sure if everyone on the left is aware that the controversy about Walensky's comments as they relate to people with disabilities has been followed by a separate controversy on the right about the same comments as they relate to Americans' risk of dying of Covid.
There are a bunch of "the unedited comment changes nothing, she was still devaluing disabled lives!" tweets. That's subjective; people can debate it all they want. But the unedited comment clearly shows that the other controversy is based on a misinterpretation of what she said.
Like, I'm getting a ton of messages like this...even though I'm dealing with an entirely different controversy, about right-wing commentators wrongly depicting Walensky's comments, and not touching the argument that she demeaned disabled people, which is not fact-checkable.
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Jan 11
Walensky referenced a particular study that found:

Of 1,228,664 people *fully vaccinated*

Just 36 died of Covid-19

28 of those 36, 78%, had four or more comorbidities

Walensky was asked about this study and responded by summarizing the study. Did not talk all Covid deaths
Lots of unvaccinated people who’ve died of Covid have also had lots of comorbidities. My point, which has been made by others, is that Walensky’s comments on Good Morning America are being inaccurately described
This is the clip to watch.
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Dec 8, 2021
Biden's sentence: "We're gonna keep at it to ensure the American people are paying their fair share for gas - not being gouged for gas." This rapidly spreading Post Millennial clip cuts out the "gouged" clause to make him sound out of touch or something.
Townhall (), Disclosetv () and others have posted the truncated 12-second clip. The Michigan GOP and Rep. Dan Bishop, among others, then amplified it. ImageImage
(Postscript: I honestly don't even see how the deceptively truncated quote is being interpreted as Biden saying current gas prices are fair, but the full quote certainly makes it more clear that he isn't saying that.)
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Nov 4, 2021
Biden made two false claims in this short section of his remarks yesterday on the Virginia election: Image
It's unusual in recent decades for a VA governor candidate to win with a partymate as president, but far from unprecedented: McAuliffe himself did it in 2013; Republicans did it in 1969 and (with a party-switching former Dem governor) in 1973; lots of Dems did it prior.
(And no, Biden couldn’t have been talking only about sitting governors, since a) he was talking about McAuliffe’s performance; b) more importantly, sitting Virginia governors can’t even run for re-election.)
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