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[Rebecca @RebeccaChasen]

I am once again crying

[Thaïs d’Escufon @ThaisEscufon]

Europeans and American patriots!

Tomorrow, the courts of my country, France, may decide to send me to prison for daring to say on television that “the main danger to women in France is Black African and Arab immigrant men.”

Meanwhile, my own attacker, a Tunisian migrant, is still at large.

I need your help to generate media pressure and hope to be acquitted.

They cannot silence the truth!

Thank you for your support 💪🏻🇫🇷

[Austin Franco @austinrfranco]

I recently found out that I share the same first and last name with a 19 year old student at Cornell who is going viral (over ten million views across twitter and other platforms) for anti-Semitic comments that he made (and continues to make) to a prospective-employer.

My social media (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) and law firm email address are being blown up by people understandably angry at this other Austin Franco. None of the posts cross any legal lines, but unfortunately there have been comments and emails talking about me, my firm, my parents, etc.

To make matters worse, the undergraduate looks just enough like me to be confusing, and the NY Post, Fox News, and other publications, have written about it with his image as the article cover.

The bad Austin Franco is continuing to make these statements to media and on social media, so we wanted to go on the record disassociating me and the law firm from him.

I am hoping this post will alleviate some confusion for the general public.

I appreciate all the people who have reached out!

[Jersey Jackas_s 🕳️ @Oldglorycries]

The elections in NJ are not rigged. People voted to give up local control. They voted for closing schools, laying off teachers, runaway energy costs, offshore wind, failing transit, insane taxes, LGBT history in schools, high density housing, and sanctuary status.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A Coast Guard jumps onto a moving boat and safely stops it in Maryland.

[Dawn Fantasia @DawnFantasia_NJ]

The jokes write themselves 🤦‍♀️
Now we're getting a lecture from @GovSherrillNJ about "junk fees."

Let's talk about some of New Jersey's greatest hits:

🔹 RGGI charges built into energy costs. 🔹 The Societal Benefits Charge added to every electric and gas bill. 🔹 Clean Energy Program surcharges added to utility bills. 🔹 A 5% State Occupancy Fee on hotel stays. 🔹 Up to an additional 3% municipal occupancy tax. 🔹 A $3 per night hotel surcharge in certain cities. 🔹 A 50¢ surcharge on every ride-share trip. 🔹 A $5 per day "Domestic Security Fee" on rental cars. 🔹 A $1.50 fee on every new tire sold. 🔹 Realty Transfer Fees when you sell your home.

The state literally puts a charge on your electric bill, your hotel bill, your Uber, your rental car, your tires, and your home sale... then here comes this one announcing she's cracking down on "hidden fees".

At this point, if it moves, gets rented, gets sold, gets driven, gets plugged in, or gets slept in, somebody in Trenton is trying to figure out how to slap a fee on it. The only thing standing between the Majority and a brand-new fee is a feasibility study, a task force, a consultant who consults four other consultants who consult seven more consultants, and three committee hearings.

@NJAssemblyGOP

[Dawn Fantasia @DawnFantasia_NJ]

Little Lord Fauntleroy woke up this morning & surveyed the ruins: 63 arrests, four stabbings, a shooting, fires, vandalism, looting, absolute filth & general chaos, and concluded the real story was how wonderful the 'celebrations' were.

This jackass has an almost supernatural ability to deny reality whilst taking a victory lap as NYC (and all who serve & protect it) were steamrolled last night. And this flaccid post is his heartfelt show of gratitude.

Insufferable.

[Viral News NYC @ViralNewsNYC]

I'm normally on your side. But it wasn't a small amount of people causing problems.

Half of Midtown was a disaster .

Multiple people were stabbed , a person was shot, Multiple cop cars were destroyed , school busses set on fire cops were assaulted New Yorkers were brutally beat up and much more .

Last night really sucked for New Yorkers.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Chris Nikic, the first person with Down syndrome to complete an Ironman, completes Ironman 70.3 Massachusetts.

Shortly before the race, Nikic announced that he needed a guide to run alongside him for the race.

That's when Dr. Tommy Martin decided to step up.
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"I learned more in this race than almost any other I have competed in, and none of it was about race tactics or how to PR. It was about life, perspective, determination, and grit. I owe all of that to Chris," Martin said.

"I hope every finish line Chris crosses serves as a reminder to the world: your diagnosis, your situation, your circumstances do not define your potential!"

Congrats, Chris!

Video: dr.tommymartin / ig.

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

The Knicks are actually a very likeable team. It just stinks their fans that I can’t stand.

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

A 21-year-old woman died during a bridge jump in Limeira, Brazil, after workers allegedly failed to secure her safety rope before she was pushed from a 40-meter-high bridge.

[Brenden Dilley @WarlordDilley]

This is Richard Webb. He's my father-in-law. He served two tours in Vietnam as a Marine Recon Sniper. He received two purple hearts for his service along with countless other medals.

This photo is seven years ago...

Today, Richard spends most days not knowing what the hell is going on because he developed type 2 diabetes from agent orange in Vietnam.

My wife has been fighting the VA for over a year to get Richard the care and benefits he needs just to survive. The process is a joke. The service is a bigger joke.

The VA case managers are absolute dog shit and treat our nation's heroes like garbage. They also act as if they're doing our vets a FAVOR for the most basic of care.

@SecVetAffairs, I've been to your headquarters building in DC, and have first hand experience dealing with the incompetent staff.

This is hands down the most embarrassing department in all of the Trump administration. If the Boss knew how horrendously our veterans are still being treated after you've had eighteen months to fix these issues, you'd be fired tomorrow.

I waited a long time to write this, but at this point I've seen enough.

[Mr. Star Spangled MAGA @4thOfJuly365]

I know how Elon Musk became a trillionaire, but I don't know how Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Nancy Pelosi became millionaires.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Elon is not the problem…

There are 193 countries in the world and 177 of them receive US taxpayer money from Congress.

177 of 193.

Thats 91.7% of the world.

Its not Congress’s money.

Its your money, my money, our kid’s money etc.

Americans are being screwed.

Not by Elon…

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

I’ve visited dozens of solar complexes at this point.

It’s become common to see stacks of broken/shattered panels inside and outside the facilities.

Many report to me they leave these panel stacks indefinitely when the out of state, and out of country, labor moves on.

I was driving to Lake George yesterday to go swim. I didn’t know/intend to find broken solar panels. I didn’t even know they were building another ecological detention center in north Washington County.

Here’s the “green energy” they promised you. When panels are broken open like this, they leach lead, zinc, silver, and cadmium onto the soil below them. They also drop glass shards, microplastics, and PFAS (forever chemicals).

Rain transports the contaminants into our communities.

Prime farmland and animal habitat is destroyed forever.

[Jimmy’s Famous Seafood @JimmysSeafood]

@nytimes @TheAthletic The only thing truly problematic about America is the number of self-hating dipshits who refuse to appreciate its greatness.

Also, GFY 🇺🇸

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

How great is this, Hundreds of neighbors showed up to support the two local kids who's lemonade stand was robbed!

More of this please!

[Joseph Hernandez @hernandezforny]

Apollo manages over $1 trillion in assets and employs more than 4,000 people worldwide. The firm has roughly 944 employees in New York and says the bulk of its future hiring will be in Austin.

Let’s do some simple math.

If just 500 future jobs that would have been created in New York are instead created in Texas, at an average compensation of $300,000, that’s $150 million in annual payroll leaving New York’s future tax base.

That’s potentially $15–20+ million a year in lost state and city income tax revenue alone, before sales taxes, property taxes, business taxes, and all the economic activity those workers generate.

Nice job, @ZohranKMamdani. Nice job, @KathyHochul.

The people who create jobs, invest capital, and fund New York’s tax base are sending a message loud and clear.

And this is just one firm.

Who’s paying for all the free stuff when the jobs, investment, and tax revenue are heading to Texas?

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.

And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.

One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.

Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.

If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.

Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.

Alternatively

There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.

To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.

It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)

Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.

Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up

But

They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks

Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

[Kristen Waggoner @KristenWaggoner]

Let’s make one thing very clear: signing up for girls’ wrestling is in NO way a permission slip for sexual assault.

As @ADFLegal explained in our lawsuit: “Digital penetration falls outside the scope of implied consent to participating in athletics because, under normal circumstances of girls wrestling, it is not a reasonably foreseeable hazard from the perspective of a girl wrestler. Nor is sexual assault or groping generally accepted by society as part of any lawful athletic contest.”

Also: girls who sign up for girls’ wrestling aren’t consenting to wrestle boys. Kallie Keeler was betrayed by multiple adults in authority, who knowingly allowed her to wrestle a male without her knowledge or consent. They bear responsibility for what happened to her—and they are continuing to put female wrestlers in harm’s way through their actions and policies.

That’s why, besides suing governing bodies @wiaawa, @waOSPI, and the Puyallup School District, we’re also suing:

- State superintendent Chris Reykdal
- Kallie’s principal
- Her school district’s Title IX coordinator
- Her opponent’s coach

… and not just in their official capacities, but as individuals.

I’m also glad to hear the local prosecutor is reportedly still considering action against those who failed to report the sexual assault, as required by law. These mandatory reporters should have reported the incident within 48 hours but waited 53 days. They should face consequences.

We won’t rest until Kallie gets justice—and girls in Washington state get their sports back.