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@JuddLegum
Jan 10 • 11 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
1. A Florida school district has removed @MerriamWebster's Dictionary for Students from library shelves, saying it may violate a law championed by @RonDeSantis

No, this is not a parody.

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2. Escambia County School District, located in the Florida panhandle, has removed 3 dictionaries, 2 thesauruses, 8 encyclopedias, and 2800 other books saying they may violate HB 1069, a bill signed by DeSantis last May

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3. HB 1069 gives residents the right to demand the removal of any library book that "depicts or describes sexual conduct"

The Escambia school board decided last June to require the district's librarians to conduct a review of all books & remove titles that may violate HB 1069
4. Each school in Escambia County has thousands of titles. As a result, many school libraries in Escambia were closed at the beginning of the school year pending the completion of the review.

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5. That review resulted in 2800 books, including the dictionaries, being removed from the shelves and placed into storage.

Dictionaries do "describe sexual conduct." One definition of "sex" in @MerriamWebster is a "sexual union involving penetration of the vagina by the penis"
@MerriamWebster 6. A checklist provided to Escambia librarians suggests they consult "Book Looks," a right-wing website relied on by Moms for Liberty and other groups to justify book bans Image
@MerriamWebster 7. Classic texts like Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl, The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, and Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile are also no longer available to Escambia County students.

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@MerriamWebster 8. Also locked away in storage are 23 @StephenKing novels and biographies of Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey, Nicki Minaj, and Thurgood Marshall.
@MerriamWebster @StephenKing 9. These books are being reviewed again by the school district. But that process is proceeding extremely slowly. According to a list maintained by the Escambia County School District, fewer than 100 texts have gone through the final review.
@MerriamWebster @StephenKing 10. The reality in Escambia County serves as a rejoinder to DeSantis, who has described concerns about book removals as a "leftist activist hoax" and a "false political narrative."

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@MerriamWebster @StephenKing 11. This website is controlled by a right-wing billionaire who presents DeSantis as a champion of free speech.

So don't rely on it for facts.

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More from @JuddLegum

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Jan 11
1. @elonmusk has spent this week spreading false & misleading information about voting to his 168 million followers

Musk used these erroneous claims to justify massive restrictions on voting, including ending early voting and most mail-in voting

Follow along for details

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2. On January 10, Musk posted that he recently learned "illegals are not prevented from voting in federal elections," and that "came as a surprise."

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3. Musk appears to have "learned" that non-citizens are allowed to vote in federal elections from another X user Mark Jeffery on January 9

Jeffery posted an image that said people in Arizona who don't provide proof of citizenship are provided with a "federal only" ballot Image
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Jan 9
1. When someone steals a six-pack of beer from a grocery store or a sweater from a boutique, it is generally treated as a criminal matter.

The billions of dollars in wages stolen from workers — if they are punished at all — are almost always treated as a civil offense

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2. At the federal level, the DOL is only empowered to impose civil penalties against repeat offenders or when it finds that the wage theft was "willful."

Only 2% of first-time wage theft offenders are found to be "willful" violators

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3. Only 9% of offenders are considered repeat offenders.

And in 41% of cases that do involve willful or repeat violators the DOL STILL does not impose any penalty.
Read 9 tweets
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Jan 8
1. GOP officials in Missouri, Florida, and Texas are threatening to kick Biden off the ballot.

Their justification is based on a white nationalist conspiracy theory.

Follow along for details.

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2. The Colorado Supreme Court and the Maine Secretary of State found that Trump is ineligible to be a presidential candidate because he "engaged in insurrection." This is the standard set by the 14th amendment.

GOP officials want to subject Biden to the same treatment.

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3. Unfortunately, Biden did not engage in an insurrection.

So @RonDeSantis and others say Biden may be ineligible because "he's let in 8 million people illegally, a massive invasion, including from enemies of our country."

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Read 8 tweets
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Jan 4
1. Something that should be getting a lot more attention: @GovAbbott is flying hundreds of migrants out of Texas and dropping them off in the Chicago suburbs in January

Some have no coats and are wearing flip flips

It is a gross violation of human rights

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2. Abbott says that he is transporting migrants to "sanctuary cities" as punishment for the cities' permissive policies

But this isn't a matter of enforcing immigration law

Nearly all the migrants being used as pawns by Abbott are in the US LEGALLY

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3. One approach to deterring migrants is ignoring human rights and making the ordeal as traumatic as possible.

That appears to be Abbott's strategy.

But it is not the law.
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Jan 2
1. Trump is using Hitlerian rhetoric in his stump speech, claiming migrants are "poisoning the blood" of America

Trump defended himself by saying he has never read Mein Kampf and knows "nothing about Hitler"

This is Trump's standard response to deflect charges of racism

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2. When former KKK grand wizard David Duke, one of America's most famous racists, endorsed Trump in 2016, Trump said he didn't "know anything about David Duke" and didn't "know anything" about "white supremacy or white supremacists."

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3. When Biden challenged Trump to denounce the Proud Boys, a violent hate group, during a 2020 presidential debate, Trump said: “I don’t know who the Proud Boys are"
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Dec 13, 2023
1. @WreathsAcross America is a popular and rapidly growing veterans charity

It raised over $30 million last year.

But the vast majority of the money goes to Worcester Wreath Company

Key fact: The owners of Worcester Wreath Company founded Wreaths Across America

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2. Wreaths Across America was created around the same time Worcester Wreath Company lost its contract with LL Bean, which accounted for 90% of Worcester's wreath sales

Today, Wreaths Across America accounts for 80%+ of Worcester's sales

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3. In fiscal year 2022, $20,605,527 of the money raised by Wreaths Across America went directly to Worcester Wreath Company. Most of the rest of the funds went to marketing, overhead, and staff salaries. Image
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