.@KaitlanCollins on Trump's verbal attacks:
"It's really not about me, and I don't want it to be about my reaction. ... In those moments it's important to put the reminder back on the work, on the question, and on the non-answers that we get."
.@TheEconomist Editor-In-Chief @zannymb on her wide-ranging interview with @elonmusk:
"It's irresponsible for someone who has 240 million followers to propagate things that are simply not true." https://t.co/uN9YV1zYp0
Congress is not serious.
We are voting on a stock trading ban for members of Congress…
BUT Republicans added voter-ID in the legislation.
Not to get Dems to vote for voter-ID,
but to get them to vote against the stock trading ban, so they can use it in the Nov. election.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) pressed Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought on Thursday to name specific cost savings from the DOGE effort.
“I love the idea of DOGE. But what I don’t love is the idea of DOGE s*** that we’re picking up because people did it wrong,” Tillis said.
A reminder on the evolution of 2020 "stolen election" theories: First we had mail-in fraud + Dominion + "illegal law changes" (Nov–Dec 2020) then → Georgia election workers + foreign interference/Italygate (Dec 2020–Jan 2021, concurrent) then → 2,000 Mules (ballot stuffers) (2022) then → social-media-censorship revival via Twitter Files (Dec 2022) then → renewed foreign-interference claims (2024–present).
Through all this, we've had:
1. Dominion getting $787 million from Fox News for defamation
2. Rudy Giuliani admitting he lied about Georgia election workers (and the jury awarding the workers $148 million)
3. Sidney Powell admitting in court "no reasonable person would conclude" her claims of election fraud “were truly statements of fact"
4. The Gateway Pundit retracting claims of election fraud in Atlanta
5. The Media company that put out D'Souza's 2,000 Mules film apologizing and removing it after law enforcement proved it falsely accused people of fraud
6. Newsmax and One America News Network (OANN) settling with Smartmatic
It is NOT true that none of these allegations have seen a court room. Most have. Of the 64 cases of fraud that Trump and his legal team filed in court, 30 were dismissed that included a hearing on the merits, 14 were voluntarily dismissed by Trump and his allies before a hearing, and just 20 were dismissed for lack of standing before a hearing on the merits. One case, involving far too few votes to impact the election, prevailed in Pennsylvania. That case was about voter ID deadlines, not election fraud.
Those are the facts.
Whatever happens Thursday night, please try to remember them.
I genuinely wonder what current CIA Director John Ratcliffe was thinking when Trump complained to him about the job then-ODNI Director John Ratcliffe did in 2020
This entire thing is so stupid. We have paper ballots! Imagine that an election actually *was* impacted, we could figure it out immediately with an audit. We could hand recount, which we do, and prove something was amiss.
Because it’s been the exact same “evidence” from him for the last 6 years… and the same debunked bullshit for the last 6 years. The same “evidence” presented at 60+ failed court cases. The same “evidence” that his own lawyers admitted to fabricating. Their totally detached from reality lies are believed by too many—and undermine trust in our elections in the process. That’s why. Hope it helps.
It's obviously a big deal, and we should all be aghast, but I really can't get over this whole framing that Trump is going to "declare" two elected senators illegitimate. That has about as much weight as me declaring myself king of the realm. Just actual parody at this point.
Last year some regrettable cost cutting decisions were made about foodborne pathogen testing, ending 28 years of screening for cyclosporiasis and quickly catching and quenching several outbreaks. Now we still have no idea what the source of this outbreak is. This is the price!!!
Mitch McConnell has FINALLY released that proof of life video and demonstration of his fitness to continue serving as a United States senator. Thanks Mitch, we appreciate you. Much love.
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This is a really excellent thread, showing how much work it takes to debunk the viral nonsense that spreads on this website (in this case, by @elonmusk). One lie that Elon posts in 3 seconds can take hours of work to unpack and ultimately expose as nonsense.