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Oct 14, 2023 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
“It’s about time we end our membership in the U.N.” says Rep. George Santos just now
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“We need to call out the fake stuff” Rep. George Santos just said.
May 24, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
1st question: why announce on Twitter Spaces?
DeSantis says Twitter is now "in the hands of a free speech advocate" and warns that "we cannot have a society where govt is colluding" with tech platforms to "enforce" an ideology.
2nd question: what about the NAACP's travel advisory against visiting FLA
DeSantis says the head of NAACP lives in Florida and its board members vacation there
4: eliminated AP African-American history; threatened to eliminate all AP classes in FLA
5: signed law allowing people to carry concealed weapons w/o permits
May 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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Amid debt ceiling impasse, House GOP auctions off lip balm for $100,000
via @amybwang: washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…
"During their weekly, closed-door conference meeting, the House GOP caucus held a fundraising auction in which multiple lawmakers placed bids for a tube of lip balm that, as first reported by Politico’s Olivia Beavers, was supposedly used by the House speaker."
Robert Zimmerman (D) whom George Santos beat, tells me:
"This story is not a shock to me. We always knew he was running a scam against the voters & we raised many of these issues but were drowned out in the gov’s race where crime was the focus & the media had other priorities"
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North Shore Leader reported in Nov.
"Santos disclosures also state that he earned 'nothing' - no income - over the past year."
@RepDarrenSoto said “It’s time to set our people free,” as he recalled his late grandmother, who “lived in a colonial territory as a second-class citizen in the greatest democracy in the world. What a tragedy. What an irony.”
Aug 4, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
The @nypost is an important voice among Rs & conservatives.
Today, they created a potential conversation starter.
They call the #ElPaso shooter a "terrorist" — applying a term often used to attack Muslims and people of color. And they identify his (warped) motive.
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Papers in Texas focused on victims.
