1. This will be a thread of tweets from corporations promoting their impassioned support for LGBTQ rights along with how much the same corporations have recently donated to the politicians behind Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill
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2. @UnitedHealthGrp donated 200K to the politicians behind Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill
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1. Louisiana @AGJeffLandry appeared last December with RFK Jr. at a hearing to spread misinformation about COVID vaccines and the state "mandate" to vaccinate students.
Now he's using the same dishonest tactics to raise money.
Follow along for the details of this grift
@AGJeffLandry 2. Landry claims he's fighting against an "illegal rule mandating Covid shots for all children attending school K-12"
First, COVID vaccines will be treated like all other vaccines in LA. And that means parents can opt-out for any reason - medical, religious, or philosophical
3. Second, even that optional "requirement" only applies to situations where the vaccine is fully approved by the FDA. And that applies, right now, only to students 16 and older
So the claim that children as young as 5 will be forced to get the vaccine is false in multiple ways
@PENamerica 2. In Kansas, HB 2662 would make it a Class B misdemeanor for a teacher to use any material in the classroom depicting “homosexuality.”
Not sexually explicit depictions of homosexuality.
ANY DEPICTION WHATSOEVER
3. In South Carolina, H 4605 forbids teachers from “subject[ing]” students to “controversial and age-inappropriate topics” like “gender identity or lifestyles.”
@MichaelRapaport@riteaid@nypost@axios 3. But the claim wasn't limited to right-wing media outlets controlled by Rupert Murdoch. It was echoed by @axios, which presented Rapaport's claims as fact, citing the @nypost's "reporting."
@RepublicanAGs 2. In December, Louisana @AGJeffLandry, part of the @RepublicanAGs leadership team, invited RFK Jr to testify at a legislative hearing on a COVID vaccine requirement for schools.
3. @AGJeffLandry praised Children's Health Defense, the world's leading source of vaccine misinfo, and urged the panel to "listen very closely" to RFK Jr
RFK Jr. proceeded to falsely claim COVID vaccines are the “deadliest vaccine ever made"