WA Leg Watch

Watching what happens when Lawmakers are in Session

[Congressman Brandon Gill @RepBrandonGill]

Me: “Should illegal aliens receive taxpayer-funded unemployment benefits?”

Newman: “I don't know what you mean by illegal aliens.”

His organization circulated a petition to give illegal aliens taxpayer-funded unemployment benefits.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

Here's something many people don't know about me -

Before I publicly dissected the long list of problems in the 1619 Project, I contacted the New York Times through their official channels to request a series of corrections to unambiguous factual errors in its content. The editor - Jake Silverstein - brushed me off and refused any correction - a pattern he also exhibited toward other critics from across the spectrum.

Before I publicly broke the story about Kevin Kruse's plagiarism in Reason, I contacted Princeton's academic integrity officer and alerted him to the problems I had found, giving them a chance to respond and address it internally. They ignored my email and later claimed to have lost my email after I went public.

Before I published my findings on Quinn Slobodian's habitual manipulation of source materials to alter its plain meaning through misquotation, I submitted an article to Contemporary European History (the journal where the worst examples appeared), highlighting the problems with the passages and asking for a correction through their official process. They desk-rejected it, brushed me off, and falsely claimed that Slobodian's piece had been thoroughly vetted in peer review. In fact, one of their own referees had flagged the same problems over a year earlier and recommended rejection of the article.

Before I published an expose on Nancy MacLean & Sandy Darity's similar manipulation of W.H. Hutt quotations in their article for History of Economics Review, I (along with 2 coauthors) submitted a response comment to this journal asking for a correction through its official processes. The editor gave us a complete runaround where he imposed an arbitrary length limit requiring us to cut the content, sent the trimmed version to a referee, then rejected the piece because the referee said we didn't sufficiently address the very same things we were forced by the editor to cut. When I then asked the editor to issue a simple corrigendum to the most egregious misquotation (one that transformed Hutt's explicit attack on the racism of white Afrikaners into a defense of Apartheid), he refused and tried to pass it off as a difference of "interpretation."

Before I published an expose of a leading covid masking model in the Wall Street Journal, I sent a comment to the medical journal that published it alerting them to a math error that changed their entire set of results. The journal acknowledged the error was real but refused to publish my piece on the grounds that the "next release" of the model would be updated to reflect it - even as politicians up to and including Joe Biden were trumpeting the erroneous results all over the news.

[WA Leg Watch @360GOP]

I thought this was parody. Apparently, it's not.

Of course, flying to the Caribbean for vacation doesn't hurt a thing, right? And of course all the private jets flying to the climate change summits don't add and CO2. What a bunch of hypocrites!

[Real America's Voice (RAV) @RealAmVoice]

STOP DEPORTATIONS TO SAVE THE PLANET?

@ClimateDepot: “A UK human rights group…revealed that ICE deportation…flights conducted by the Trump administration are, quote, accelerating the climate crisis, unquote...They're claiming that that rise in co-emissions is causing a climate crisis.”

@AmandaHead @jsolomonReports

[Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 @seanhannity]

James Comer praises Minnesota whistleblowers for exposing fraud, revealing the findings have now been referred to the DOJ as pressure grows for accountability

[Mountain States Policy Center @MtnStatesPolicy]

Are we spending wildfire funds on the right thing?

#wildfires #idleg #mtleg #prevention

[Washington Policy @WAPolicyCenter]

Washington State's future hangs in the balance. Education has slipped from top 10 to average, and environmental goals, like salmon recovery, are being missed. Data shows we're heading in the wrong direction. #waleg #washington #education #environment

[NEWSMAX @NEWSMAX]

“Scott, you never served our country. You're a reporter, just like I am.”

Rob Finnerty slammed Scott Pelley for saying that, despite never serving in uniform, he was “in combat for this country” while covering stories in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kuwait. @RobFinnertyUSA

[Michael Patrick Leahy @michaelpleahy]

BREAKING: Metro Nashville Clerk says proposed $1.5 million grant will continue funding legal services for illegal aliens. https://t.co/MAaZLpRFNw

[Susan Shelley @Susan_Shelley]

Late-arriving ballots continue their enthusiastic embrace of higher sales taxes in Los Angeles County. "Yes" on Measure ER has overtaken "No" in the June 8 update of the vote. Post-Election Day, it has moved in one direction only.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Are you sitting down?

There is a NGO for every 273 people in California.

The entire state is a fraud.

Every aspect.

From voting to homelessness to hospice care.

Everything.

And we’re funding it.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 JUST NOW: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver just TOTALLY REFUTED Hakeem Jeffries’ accusation that President Trump is NOT a Knicks fan and is just there for attention

“He was a FIXTURE at NBA at Madison Square Garden.. Back in the old days, he had COURTSIDE SEATS!

He was here ALL the time!

He was at drafts. So he's a GENUINE Knicks fan..

Looking around this arena, it's packed!”

[WA Leg Watch @360GOP]

This has now happened so often, you have to wonder at the intelligence of people who keep posting this stuff. Employers do not want people working for them that are so very vile.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

SCOOP: Marc Chin, a microcomputer specialist for the City of Tallahassee, Florida, allegedly made a post online appearing to call for the ass*ssination of GOP Congressmen.

"Pick a random GOP Congressman... Luigi had a great plan but he got lazy on the day he chose."

Our tax dollars pay his salary.

We reached out to Tallahassee City officials for comment and they say they are reviewing.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Folks, we're dealing with a fraction of a percentage point difference, there's still hundreds of thousands of votes outstanding, and LA officials have given us the next 3 weeks to count! Let's git-r-dun!

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

Caller: “You were a Marxist and then became a conservative. What influenced you?”

Sowell: “Working for the government.”

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 USAID Inspector General finds 101 additional UNRWA school teachers, principals & staffers are Hamas terrorists who participated in the October 7 terror attacks. U.S. may soon designate UNRWA as a foreign terrorist organization.
https://t.co/Vwj0yffkhH @AidOversight

[Ari Hoffman @thehoffather]

Zillow founder Rich Barton leaves Seattle for Las Vegas, adding to growing wealth exodus from Washington

The move comes after WA Democrats enacted a controversial new tax on high-income earners.

https://t.co/WhejuC3646

[Ashley Moir @ashleymoirDC]

Obama also only did 3 interviews on Fox News during his entire 8 years in office. Biden did zero interviews on Fox during his 4 years as president.

Trump has been willing to engage with the legacy media since he came down the escalator in 2015.

[Author Daniel Gray @DannyKingGinger]

President: they ushered them into the building

Reporter: there's no evidence of that

5 years of my life

#trump #January6

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

“You’re not going to tell us where we can and cannot enforce our nation’s laws, because we are not picking and choosing which laws we enforce. We enforce the laws that Congress passed.” @SecMullinDHS

[U.S. Department of Justice @TheJusticeDept]

This Department of Justice has filed DENATURALIZATION ACTIONS in various U.S. district courts against 17 individuals accused of serious offenses.

“When criminal aliens exploit the naturalization process by breaking the law, there are consequences. Criminal aliens are lying about their past crimes, including drug dealers, sexual predators, and fraudsters. Gaining U.S. citizenship is a privilege and under the steadfast leadership of President Trump, this Department of Justice maintains a zero-tolerance policy for the abuse of this process,” said Acting Attorney General @DAGToddBlanche. “We continue to work around the clock with our interagency partners to make sure U.S. citizenship is granted to those who truly deserve it.”

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