🧵Who's funding @elonmusk's Twitter and what do they get in return?

Read free: wapo.st/3hRieWm 1. Saudi Arabia, Qatar & Binance (which was founded in China) get:

"Access to confidential company information... (including?) personal data about Twitter’s users... (given to) governments that have a history of cracking down on dissidents on Twitter and other online platforms."

While Republicans are smearing #DragQueens, #teachers and #librarians as "groomers," a GOP candidate in South Dakota THIS NOVEMBER was arrested for grooming and raping a family member over multiple years—and the @sdgop didn't even ask him to drop out of the race. While Republicans are accusing others of being sexual predators, another GOP candidate in South Dakota this November LOST TO HIS MOM and then went out and raped a woman in the bathroom stall at a bar.

Since the beginning of March 2021, more than 50,000 people have died in Florida of #COVID19.

That's a higher death toll than any other state—one that is simply unacceptable in the age of free vaccines.

How did Ron DeSantis manage to cause so many preventable deaths? 🧵 May 2021: After Biden's first 100 days, the new administration had put Trump's vaccine rollout failure in the rear-view mirror. But suddenly Fox News and Governors like DeSantis decided they didn't like Biden succeeding at "Warp Speed." thedailyedge.substack.com/p/idiocy-trump…

Trump didn't care if Mike Pence lived or died on January 6th.

Despite that, every single day since, @Mike_Pence has embraced Trump's and the GOP's lawlessness, marching alongside violence-inciting Ultra MAGA Republicans on the path toward fascism. thedailyedge.substack.com/p/mike-pence-b… (1/x) On January 7th, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer called on Mike Pence to invoke to #25thAmendment: “If the vice president and Cabinet do not act, the Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment,” said Pelosi. (2/x)

When Mormon mother of three and niece of the former GOP standard bearer @MittRomney of Utah, Ronna Romney McDaniel became @GOPChairwoman on 19 January 2017, she had a choice to make. (1/4) Would McDaniel:

a) Speak out forcefully against the kinds of behaviors the pussy-grabbing, teen-ogling sex predator Trump and his pedophile associates were normalizing and insist that the @GOP reclaim its role as staunch defender of “Christian” virtue and values?

or:

(2/4)

Back in April 2019, as Trump’s reckless trade policies had already plunged US #manufacturing into recession, the Carnival-Barker-in-Chief continued his hyping of the “Trump Economy” by tweeting “JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!” to celebrate the creation of 196,000 #jobs in March 2019. (1/x) Trump's “JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!” tweet ignored the the fact that when Obama was President, Trump responded to a sub-200,000 jobs report by telling us it was “not a good sign” and “we could be facing another #recession.” (2/x)

Under Trump, America lost 154,000 manufacturing jobs.

Under Biden, America has already gained 545,000 manufacturing jobs. Under Trump, America lost 3 million #jobs while $8 trillion was added to the #debt.

He mortgaged our future and still had the worst jobs record since the Great Depression.

Johnny Rotten is England's Ted Nugent, you dumbfuck.

He had one good album 40 years ago.

Now he's just a full-time wanker.

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Never mind the bollocks. Elon also has boob jokes. thedailyedge.substack.com/p/musks-misogy…

DYK: The sole beneficiary of Florida GOP Gov Ron DeSantis canceling math books in Florida is… Virginia GOP Gov Glenn Youngkin’s former company Accelerate Learning🧵

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Before now, The Carlyle Group was best known for being the Bush/GOP-affiliated, Bin Laden family-backed firm that made huge profits from the war on terror: pressherald.com/2018/12/15/let…

Now The Carlyle Group has cornered a new market in America’s latest war: tallahassee.com/story/news/202…

Ruben Verastigui is a 27-year-old "pro-life advocate" and ex-campaign aide for former President Donald Trump.

He has also worked as a senior digital strategist for the @GOP.

He was just sentenced to 151 months in prison on child pornography charges. justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/dis… DOJ: From Feb 2020 to Apr 21, "Verastigui was active in an online group devoted to trading child pornography and discussing child sexual abuse. Verastigui shared child pornography videos with another member of the group and made numerous comments about sexually abusing children."

🧵 When Mitt Romney’s niece Ronna Romney McDaniel took over the leadership of the Republican National Committee (RNC) in 2017, the Republican Party was in crisis.... (1/x) The election of the notorious pervert, pussygrabber, and pornstar-hush-money-paying Donald Trump had destroyed the party’s reputation as a protector of “family values.” (2/x)

1M US dead didn’t have to happen

The US having a higher death-rate-per-capita than any other wealthy nation didn’t have to happen

Trump was the worst possible President to lead America through a pandemic

By March 2020, he had already botched the nation’s #Covid19 response...🧵 February 2020 was the month in which Covid-19 “seeded” in NY, leading to a devastating first wave.

Trump spent the month golfing, holding MAGA rallies, visiting his own resorts, attending GOP fundraisers, and taking an election-year ego-stroking trip to India. (2/)

March 11, 2020: WHO calls #Covid19 a "pandemic"

March 11, 2022: Nearly 1M US dead. US continues to have higher death-rate-per-capita than any other wealthy nation

How Trump's recklessness and incompetence put us on the path to this staggering death toll thedailyedge.substack.com/p/a-trump-crea… The Atlantic, October 2020: “Trump’s carelessness didn’t just jeopardize his own health, and that of his wife, his aides, and the Secret Service. The September 26 White House event for the Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett appears to have compromised the health of many…

21,072 Floridians have died of COVID-19 since July 4 this year.

Only 34 countries in the world have seen more Covid deaths than that since the start of the pandemic. Fewer people have died of #COVID19 in Japan (population 126 million) since the start of the pandemic than have died in Florida (population 21.6 million) since July 4 of this year.

Donald Trump, Mark Foley, Dennis Hastert, Roy Moore and Matt Gaetz were just the start… The list of @GOP and Trump-connected child rapists, sex traffickers, pedophile enablers and child porn offenders keeps growing thedailyedge.substack.com/p/gop-gang-of-… In a 2015 video unearthed in 2020, Trump indicates knowledge of Epstein's rape island and smirks when mentioning Prince Andrew. 

Trump is also known to have been a frequent guest at Epstein's NY mansion, where many young girls were raped and abused.
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#COVID19 and kids: "This virus scares me. Some of my friends have gotten it. My grandmother got it and was really sick. I think we should all do what we can to stop this. I’m wearing my mask at school. Hope I can get the vaccine soon.” -- Jim, 14. (1/7) Kids and #MaskMandates: "Coronavirus has hurt all of us. I hate missing school. All of us are wearing masks. Not sure when kids can get the vaccine. I hope it’s soon.” -- Lauren, 12

Mark Foley, Dennis Hastert, Donald Trump, Roy Moore and Matt Gaetz were just the start… thedailyedge.substack.com/p/gop-gang-of-… In 2015, when Josh Duggar admitted to molesting 5 young girls, @GovMikeHuckabee said, “Josh’s actions... (were) ‘inexcusable,’ but that doesn’t mean ‘unforgivable.’”

In 2021, the child porn found on Duggar's PC was described as “the worst of the worst.” people.com/tv/josh-duggar…

Because #TrumpIsACompleteFailure in every way imaginable it's easy to forget ALL of the ways he's failed us. With the election just 100 days away, this THREAD and the attached article recap 10 key examples of Trump’s broken promises and colossal failures: thedailyedge.substack.com/p/trump-the-di… #TrumpIsACompleteFailure Instead of the jobs he promised, Trump has presided over one of the worst economic disasters in American history. Since he became President: 7.8 million jobs have been lost — including 7,100 coal mining jobs and 274,000 manufacturing jobs. (2/11)

#SundayThoughts. The curve has not been flattened. Chart via @abc (1/4) Cases are increasing in 39 states. #coronavirus (2/4)

Last night’s #60Minutes exposed Trump for playing the worst kind of pandemic politics—cutting funding for US researcher Peter Daszak, jeopardizing possible COVID-19 cure. Also exposed @MattGaetz and @TuckerCarlson for their role in the disinformation scam cbsnews.com/news/trump-adm… This clip from #60Minutes shows how @mattgaetz and @TuckerCarlson spread dangerous lies that Trump then amplified at a WH press briefing in a sad attempt to smear Obama. Funding for vital research cut. More time wasted by Trump & Fox News as Americans die.

David Muir should not have allowed Trump to push his debunked China ban B.S.

In reality, 430,000 people arrived on direct flights from China after the outbreak began -- equivalent to the entire population of #Minneapolis.

Then Trump wasted #70days as the virus spread unchecked. In February, nearly 2 million travelers arrived in the US from Italy & other European countries. Trump lied & said passengers from Italy, by then the global epicenter, were being screened. They weren’t. Trump’s failure CAUSED the disaster in NY, NJ & CT.