1. Mark Zuckerberg was once a champion for the undocumented, starting an entire org to push for a path to citizenship

"Mass deportation is absurd on its face and these policies are indefensible on human, economic, and political grounds"

Now Zuckerberg has embraced Trump 2. Trump campaigned on a pledge to carry out the "largest deportation effort in American history" starting on his first day.

He has promised to construct massive detention camps, and deploy the U.S. military

Last week, Zuckerberg directed Meta to donate $1 million to Trump's inaugural celebration

1. Yesterday, Elon Musk — who for some reason is in charge of deciding what federal government programs are unnecessary — declared that the concept of homelessness is a "lie" and "propaganda."

Musk also suggested that virtually all unhoused people are "violent drug addicts" who cannot be helped.

Musk needs to educate himself. Starting with five basic facts. 2. FACT: 17% of unhoused people are children

A 2023 survey found 17 percent of unhoused people were children under the age of 18

That is 111,620 unhoused children

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1. Some people are saying Trump's pick for FBI Director, Kash Patel, is unqualified but did you know he's a published author of books on important legal topics? 2. In addition to being a legal genius, Patel is also a medical expert

1. Media outlets have show little interest in an $18 million payment from Justin Sun, a Chinese national being prosecuted by the SEC for fraud, to President-elect Trump

It wasn't always this way

Consider how the NYT covered the alleged influence of foreign cash on then-candidate Hillary Clinton

🧵 2. In the lead-up to the 2016 election, there was extensive coverage of how foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation created conflicts of interest for Hillary Clinton

This was a legit topic but differed significantly from Sun's enrichment of Trump

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1. In April 2024, California raised the minimum wage for fast food chains to $20/hour

The industry claimed it would be devastating & require significant job cuts and prices increases

Here is what really happened: workers got a raise, prices went modestly, and the industry continued to add jobs 2. I can't put the link in the first post because Elon Musk suppresses links but here it is:

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1. Justin Sun, a Chinese national being prosecuted for fraud by the SEC, just sent Donald Trump $18 MILLION

Sun made the payment by purchasing tokens from a Trump-backed crypto company

THIS IS A MAJOR SCANDAL

Follow this thread for details 2. On November 25, Sun purchased $30 million in crypto tokens from World Liberty Financial, a new crypto venture backed by Trump.

Sun said his company, TRON, was committed to "making America great again.

1. Nancy Mace's bathroom bill targeting the first trans woman elected to Congress is not just discriminatory bullying

It is also brazenly hypocritical Mace previously claimed she was A CHAMPION OF TRANS EQUALITY

Follow this thread for receipts 🧾 🧾 🧾 2. “I strongly support LGBTQ rights and equality,” Mace said in March 2021. “No one should be discriminated against.” Mace added that she believed "religious liberty, the First Amendment, gay rights, and transgender equality can all coexist."

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1. Pete Hegseth published a column in college that claimed having sex with an unconscious woman is not rape

The piece published by Hegseth claimed that rape required both the failure to consent and "duress," and women who are passed out cannot experience "duress" 2. 13 things everyone should know about Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense

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1. @elonmusk has every right to support Trump but he has become one of the most malign forces in politics

He has used his control of this platform to spread lies, many deeply rooted in racism, to millions of people

It is likely the most expensive disinformation campaign ever 2. Musk spent 9-figures financing a Super PAC, America PAC, to support Trump

American PAC created political ad that repeatedly called Kamala Harris the c-word.

Despite some reporting to the contrary, the ad was never taken down.

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1. Trump is not a policy wonk and is not eager to talk about what specific policies he would pursue if he returns to the White House.

But in the closing hours of the campaign things are coming into focus.

Follow this thread for details

🧵 2. One point of contention is Project 2025, the 922-page blueprint written by members of the first Trump administration under the auspices of Heritage.

Trump has said he "has no idea who is behind it."

We now have proof this was a blatant lie

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1. @JeffBezos has made CHOICES

He chose to buy the @washingtonpost

He chose, despite his conflicts, to intervene in the paper's editorial decisions & spike an endorsement of Harris

Bezos claims people who care about journalism have no choice but to accept his decisions — and trust his benevolent leadership 2. The only alternative giving him a pass, according to Bezos, is to rely on "off-the-cuff podcasts, inaccurate social media posts and other unverified news sources."

Bezos is wrong.

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1. @ElonMusk is spending 9-figures to elect Trump, appears alongside Trump at rallies, and his Super PAC is coordinating w/the Trump campaign

Musk just produced the most misogynistic ad in the history of politics

Coverage of the ad has ranged from muted to non-existent 2. "America really can't afford a 'C-Word' in the White House right now," America PAC posted, adding a laughing emoji. "Kamala Harris is a ‘C word,’" the narrator of the ad says. "You heard that right. A big ole ‘C word.’"

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1. @JeffBezos did not become the second-richest person in the world because of his dedication to journalist integrity

He did it by prioritizing the bottom line

And, even though he owns the @washingtonpost, wealth maximization continues to be his priority

🧵 2. How important is the @washingtonpost to Bezos? He paid $250 million for it in 2013

That's half of what he paid for his superyacht, Koru

He also spent $75M on Abeona, a 246-foot yacht that follows around his other yacht w/a helipad and other toys

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1. Three GOP state senators in North Carolina have demanded an investigation of state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs

They claim that Riggs has "blatantly violated" the Code of Judicial Conduct

Riggs' transgression? She mentioned reproductive rights in a campaign ad. 2. In a TV ad, Riggs says that "women should be in charge of our own reproductive health care"

She notes that the GOP nominee for Governor, Mark Robinson, supported a total abortion ban and her opponent "could decide if [Robinson's] ban becomes law"

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1. This is an OUTRAGEOUSLY MISLEADING headline by @NBCNews

The 600 people w/"possible ties" to the Venezuelan gang includes PEOPLE WHO WERE VICTIMS OF THE GANG OR WITNESSED CRIMES BY THE GANG

Unfortunately, it's part of a pattern of NBC pushing misleading Trump talking points 2. Being a victim of a gang crime does not mean you are "tied" to a Venezuelan gang.

Only 100 Venezuelan migrants in the US are believed to be members of the Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang and many of them are in ICE custody or in the custody of other law enforcement!

1. There is a brazen and ongoing attack on free speech in Florida, where the DeSantis admin is attempting to coerce TV stations to stop running ads in support of abortion rights

Funny that none of the people on X who claim to care about free speech are talking about it.

🧵 2. Earlier this month, the general counsel for the Florida Department of Health sent a letter to TV execs threatening jail time if they continued to run an ad supporting abortion rights.

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1. If the government found someone laundered $67,000 in drug money, they would almost certainly go to jail

Meanwhile, TD Bank executives oversaw the laundering of $670 MILLION, but no one is going to jail

The company is paying a fine

Follow this thread for details

🧵 2. On March 7, 2024, Attorney General Merrick Garland, speaking at the American Bar Association's 39th Annual White Collar Institute, gave an impassioned soliloquy on the importance of criminally prosecuting individual corporate executives for serious corporate crimes.

"[O]ur first priority in the area of white-collar crime is going after individual bad actors… All of us in this room know that the acts of corporations are actually the acts of individuals. All of us in this room who have counseled corporations—and I did very early on in my career—know that the greatest deterrent to white-collar crime is fear of individual prosecutions of the executives and companies. But the most important element of this is the rule of law. That people see that if a corporate executive is held to account, is in prison for a corporate crime, people are being treated equally, that there isn't a different set of rules, that like circumstances are treated alike. That increases respect for the rule of law, and, conversely, without that, people's respect for the rule of law goes down in every element."

1. Since Kavanaugh was confirmed in 2018, he's been a key vote in Supreme Court rulings that ended federal protections for abortion, gave presidents near total immunity from prosecution, etc.

New evidence shows his narrow confirmation was aided a sham FBI investigation

🧵 2. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) released a report last week documenting how the FBI investigation into allegations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh — key to his Senate confirmation — was deeply flawed

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1. A Texas county has reclassified a public library book on the abuse of Native Americans as "fiction"

The move comes after the county government excluded librarians from reviewing challenges to children's books

Follow this thread for details

🧵 2. The book at issue is Colonization and the Wampanoag Story

Penguin Random House, the publisher, describes it as "the true story of the Indigenous Nations of the American Northeast"

Montgomery County, Texas now classifies it as "fiction"

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1. In Florida, @RonDeSantis' administration has THREATENED A LOCAL TELEVISION EXECUTIVE WITH JAIL TIME

His supposed crime? Airing a television ad in support of abortion rights

It is a shockingly brazen attack on the First Amendment

Follow this thread for details

🧵 2. The allegedly "illegal" ad was produced by Floridians Protecting Freedom, the group promoting Amendment 4, a ballot initiative that would add language protecting reproductive rights to the Florida Constitution.

You can watch it here:

1. In a series of fundraising appeals sent to tens of millions of his supporters, Trump offered a chance to appear with him on stage during his October 5 rally in Butler, PA.

It seems like it was a scam.

Follow this thread for details.

🧵 2. "I’d love to bring you up on stage for my Butler rally!" was the subject line of a September 2 fundraising email from Trump.

He sent similar messages on 9/10, 9/28, and 10/1.

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