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Nov 7, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Here’s last night’s story about election subversion and a forbidden recipe:
If you’d like more background on the hurdles we’re currently facing in terms of voting, here are a few pieces we’ve done:
May 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Here’s last night’s segment on the impending overturning of Roe v. Wade:
As we mention in the piece, there is clearly a lot of work to do at the state and federal level, right now — and we need elected officials to stop tiptoeing around abortion rights and start taking steps to safeguard them.
Nov 19, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Hello to all our new viewers who've encountered our 2019 segment on voting machines through conservative media using it to push Trump's voter-fraud claims! First: sorry we swear so much! But second: the way people are using that segment is horseshit!
If you watch our segment through to the end, you'll notice that we say the biggest vulnerability is if a state uses direct-recording electronic voting machines, or DREs, especially those without a paper trail.
Nov 15, 2020 • 12 tweets • 1 min read
Our finale is on at 11. End tweet.
Listen, some tweets can be simple. No fuss needed. It’s the finale, and it’s on at 11, the end.
Aug 19, 2020 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
Congratulations to all the winners of Marble League 2020! Through our sponsorship, they raised $100K for worthy causes. Here’s a thread of the winners and where their funds went:
In Event 1, the Minty Maniacs won and $5,000 went to the Atlanta Community Food Bank in their name! acfb.org
Aug 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
If you’d like some additional context regarding a certain president’s statements on the USPS and voting by mail, we have some segments that might help:
This is our piece on the USPS, and the financial catastrophe they’re facing:
Aug 3, 2020 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Here’s last night’s segment about how U.S. history is taught, and not taught, in schools:
If you want to fill in some of the gaps in your own knowledge of history, here's where to find out about some of the events we mentioned, and some we didn't:
Jul 30, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
President Obama mentioned a lot of necessary reforms during his eulogy today for Rep. John Lewis. Here's a thread of our segments on some of the ones he mentioned.
Here's our 2016 piece on Voter ID laws.
May 29, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Now seems like a good time to re-share this story about police accountability, 'bad apples', and what they do to a barrel.
This also, sadly, seems like a good time to re-share this:
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