HOMELESSNESS CRIMINALIZATION BILL SPONSOR: "Some homeless people don't want homes, like being homeless."
Sen @PaulBaileyforTN says the @TNGOP bill further felonizing homelessness was about "health & safety", perpetuating a cruel, unsupported myth that homeless people enjoy it.
Friendly reminder that Elon Musk told the UN that if they gave him a budgeted breakdown of how $6Bil could end world hunger, he would do it. They gave him the budget and then he decided not to do it, and instead decided he would buy Twitter for $45Bil.
NEW: Greg Abbott’s border stunt, which cost Americans $9,000,000,000 and raised costs nationwide, resulted in 0 drug seizures and 0 migrant detentions, per @lmtnews.
Florida Republicans: “I hate communism except for using the power of the state to force businesses to conform to my personal ideological preferences.”
It’s an nonsequiter, wrapped in a riddle, coated with a thick shell of irony.
Wild - by @GovRonDeSantis stripping Disney of its own control, they’ll actually get a $160 MILLION TAX BREAK… and $1 BILLION in debt will be passed on to county residents, triggering a 25% property tax hike for everyone in surrounding counties .
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How it started… how it’s going — Moms For Liberty Williamson County-linked PAC edition
juvenile judge they endorsed CONNIE REGULI faces criminal charges: “missing 12yo & her non-custodial mother found in Reguli’s home by police” 🤔 (h/t @Lizzybeth_Reyes)
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“New TN (REPUBLICAN) law requires renters to come up with a year’s worth of rent to appeal an eviction… from @SenMikeBell & @RepAndrewFarmer… Both took💰in the last 4 years from PACS (Housing Industry, TN Apartment PAC)… Bell used to be a landlord…”
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JUST IN: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton just admitted Greg Abbott’s strategy of economic sabotage out loud on Fox News: “The governor has figured out we can stop trade along the border, slow it down, and it will create pressure” to achieve Republican political goals.
👀 WATCH: “How will the children’s genitals inspection process work? Will you be doing it yourself?”
We asked anti-trans athlete bill sponsor @joey_senator Hensley about his bills that threaten school funding if they don’t verify a child’s gender, and how that will work. 😳🏳️⚧️
WATCH: “What point were you making with your Hitler comments? If HITLER can do it anybody can?” 🤔😳
After @senfrankniceley made national news by invoking HITLER’S work ethic to support a homelessness criminalization bill, we asked him to clarify his point. He wouldn’t. 🏃🏻