NEW: The autism world says RFK Jr.'s messaging and policies could set back decades of progress. The community has worked for years to dispel the false contention that vaccines cause autism.

But they say there's more he obfuscates 🧵

nbcnews.com/politics/white… Kennedy often begins his vaccines-cause-autism argument by spinning a narrative that he didn’t know severely autistic children when he grew up, and doesn’t know any at his age now.

The increased incidence, he concludes, coincides with the prevalence of childhood vaccinations.

NEWS: Sen. Ron Johnson has hired a law firm to talk about a possible RECOUNT.

The firm? The same one run by a TRUMP attorney – Jim Troupis – who's tied to a "fake elector" scheme and texted Johnson about passing info to Pence before the Jan. 6 riot.

nbcnews.com/politics/2022-… Financial disclosures also show that Johnson accepted more than $8K in campaign contributions this year from KENNETH CHESEBRO – another significant player alleged to be involved in the fake electors scheme as well as the Fulton County case.

NEW: I talked to dozens of NV Latinos at their homes, at markets, at strip mall near RNC Hisp center; at a Latina women’s event.

Latinos in NV, who are diff than TX/FL, are threatening to stay home in Nov - or vote D

But few enticed by GOP.
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nbcnews.com/politics/2022-… Scenario went the same way in a lot of interviews.

They didn't like Biden, unhappy with gas, inflation their jobs.

Liked Cortez Masto but waffled on voting.

But raise Adam Laxalt's name? And it was a visceral "no."

That included from men who supported Trump in 2020.

Mock lynchings, electroshock, suffocation, beatings and burning. These were the tactics employed by white Chicago police detectives on black suspects for years. And for years, the system protected it, and cops covered up for each other.

politico.com/news/magazine/… A direct line can be drawn between long ignored torture of black suspects in Chicago and the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald.

Cops reflexively covered for their own—even when they’ve done wrong. Politicians did little unless faced with incontrovertible evidence.

California defense lawyers are reviewing criminal cases in which Tara Reade testified as an expert witness.

“We’re aware of Ms. Reade, we’re in the mode of trying to review the transcripts to see if she misrepresented herself in court."

politico.com/news/2020/05/2… In at least two transcripts reviewed by Politico, Reade testified under oath that she obtained a bachelor's degree from Antioch University.

Antioch University stands firm in its denial that Reade graduated.

BREAKING: Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is now calling for changes to Tuesday's election, ordering the state legislature into session and calling for an all-mail election. Evers' request of lawmakers
-- avoid in-person voting (except in limited circumstances)
-- send ballots to every Wisconsin voter who hadn’t already requested one by May 19
-- Allow voters to return ballots by May 26

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is ordering the closure of all bars and restaurants in the state through the end of March. Pritzker says: “I tried earlier this week to appeal to everybody’s good judgment...the time for persuasion and public appeals is over ... this is not a joke.”

NEW: As Michael Bloomberg defended stop-and-frisk, he likened NY’s ACLU to the NRA. He did the same with the teacher’s union, something Randi Weingarten at the time called “disgusting.” politico.com/news/2020/02/1… Bloomberg’s NRA comparison to the teacher’s union especially upset teachers because it came just a month after the Sandy Hook elementary shootings. In a letter to Bloomberg at the time, Weingarten noted that two members of her union were among those gunned down.

NEW: Ex-Vermont Gov. Shumlin slams Bernie Sanders, "Even if he considers you a friend-like Elizabeth Warren- Bernie will come 1st. That’s the pattern we’ve seen ...in Vermont, and that’s what we are seeing now nationally.” (Shumlin endorsed Biden) politico.com/news/2020/01/1… Sanders had endorsed and campaigned with ex-Gov. Still, he teed off on Sanders’ relationship with Vermont Dems.

“Don’t forget, the first office he won was beating the Democratic mayor of Burlington. He never endorsed most Democrats until his Senate career,” Shumlin said.

That time when former VP @joebiden is standing right next to you at the Corn Stalk Cafe and you just don’t care. I ask the guy if he just wasn’t a fan of Biden’s and he says “who?” I say the former VP. The man, who farms in the Missouri Valley says he’s never heard of Joe Biden.

We looked at how women are hired and paid inside 2020 presidential campaigns.

Examining FEC and internal campaign data, we isolated salaried senior leadership within the campaigns for 6 women & top polling men. Here’s what we found: (thread)

politico.com/story/2019/08/… Women running for president filled nearly 60% of senior leadership with women

Top polling men filled 54 % of those posts will women