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May 23 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Education minister Lecce opts for a #JewHate hashtag in a stunningly offensive Feb 22, 2022 tweet intended to call out anti-Semitism that likely played well in certain area codes;

Ford was a staff pundit on Rebel TV, the Christofascist-friendly, Fox News clone that at the../2
..time employed Postmedia's Brian Lilley and Gavin McInnes, founder of the hate group, the "Proud Boys";

Heather Mallick cites "Lassitude, mendacity and honed incompetence," as hallmarks of the Ford government in a Jan 17, 2022 column for the Toronto Star;

Postmedia's.../3
..Ottawa Citizen breaks ranks with its libertarian media colleagues in an Apr 2, 2022 editorial, demanding Ford, Elliott and Moore resurrect Covid mandates and stop "harping on about living with Covid and returning to normal";

The Toronto Star's Bruce Arthur joins in on../5
...Apr 5: "It appears Ontario doesn't care who gets infected and what happens, as long as people can walk around without masks and the hospitals don’t bleed into the streets."

#VoteFordOut2022
#CLUSTERFORD

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