Judd Legum

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1. EXCLUSIVE

An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency.

The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result.

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3. Property records are public everywhere because its an essential component of any economic system that has private property.

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1. The New York Post and others have repeatedly claimed that Mayor Mamdani “doxxed” wealthy New Yorkers when he published a list of property owners to implement the new pied-a-terre tax.

THIS IS NOT TRUE BECAUSE ALL OF THIS INFORMATION WAS ALREADY PUBLIC AND EASILY SEARCHABLE ONLINE

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2. The false claim spread to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the larger right-wing media ecosystem, and even liberals like Scott Galloway.

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1. The billionaires fighting a billionaire tax in California have created an AI-slop ad that shows the tax’s supporters assaulting kids and stealing their stuff.

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2. The entire premise of the ad — that the tax would require every Californian to itemize their assets — is a lie.

It also misspells the word billionaire.

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1. Michael Whatley, the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate in North Carolina, launched his general election campaign with an ad emphasizing that he travels in his GMC truck.

A Popular Information investigation has found that Whatley has spent over 130K on private jets.

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2. Most of the money Whatley has spent on private jets has gone to an LLC linked to Carl Andrew “Drew” Boggs — a felon convicted of defrauding the federal government.

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2. McConnell is fortunate to be employed in a job with excellent benefits. In 2025, about 27 million private sector workers had no paid sick leave.

One reason: Mitch McConnell.

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1. Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14 and has not been in the Senate for two months. But he's continued to get paid his salary of 174K/year.

Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave at least 23 times.

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3. Many more examples in today's Popular Information. Polymarket did not respond to a request for comment.

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Polymarket, which bills its self as a “truth machine,” has been using X to promote brazen misinformation in an effort to drum up engagement.

This week, for example, it claimed that babies in the US are required to get 72 shots, which is false.

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2. Last week, Polymarket posted that Mayor Mamdani would require an ID to buy groceries at city-owned stores. Also false.

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A stark look at Kushner's disastrous diplomatic record in today's Popular Information:

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The Strait of Hormuz is closed.

The fighting in Ukraine has intensified.

The peace deal in Gaza is crumbling.

Meanwhile, Jared Kushner is vacationing in Iceland.

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Details in today's Popular Information:

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These corporations are bankrolling Congressman Max Miller’s reelection campaign, even as he faces serious allegations of domestic violence:

@StanleyBlkDeckr ($10,000)
@ElevanceHealth ($9,000)
@Pfizer ($8,000)
@AltriaNews ($7,500)
@MGMResortsIntl ($7,500)
@UBS ($7,500)
@BCBSAssociation ($5,500)
@Honeywell ($5,500)
@JohnDeere ($5,000)
@northropgrumman ($5,000)
@ATT ($4,500)
@Nationwide ($3,500)
@smuckers ($3,500)
@kroger ($3,500)
@Citi ($3,000)
@UPS ($3,000)
@DraftKings ($2,500)
@aflac ($2,500)
@RocketOTD ($2,500)
@bp_America ($2,500)
@GM ($2,500)
@HomeDepot ($2,500)
@TDBank_US ($2,000)
@Nike ($2,000)
@Walmart ($2,000)
@UnitedHealthGrp ($2,000)
@Boeing ($2,000)

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Holy shit, I just found out from @JuddLegum that Senate Republicans are running a pink slime operation https://t.co/jLLkB4h7iK

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1. A new Popular Information investigation reveals that Senate Republicans have recently launched at least six fake news sites in key states.

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3. One Nation, which collects anonymous donations for Senate Republicans, is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on Meta ads driving people to these fake news sites.