Ben Walgenbach

[Shea Serrano @SheaSerrano]

GAME 7 BENCHES CLEARED LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

It's early, but so far the most worrisome use of Grok I see is people responding to every post they don't understand asking Grok to explain it to them. It's just so clear how the relationship will make a population already struggling with critical thinking even worse at it.

[Roger Sollenberger @SollenbergerRC]

For the record, the GOP Senate just confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel even though he'll get $1 million in Chinese megacorp SHEIN stock this year—*while* he's FBI Director—for 8 months of "consultant" work he never explained, hid it from Judiciary Cmte, and refuses to divest

[Momentum Chaser @electricfutures]

The single biggest ticket item is a DHS contract listed as saving $8 billion. Wow, that's a huge contract!

Actually no, it's $8 million. They must have tried to automate scraping the FPDS form and failed.

That means we're down to $8.5B in savings.

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[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Speaker Johnson is 100% incorrect (receipts below) and he HIMSELF voted by proxy.

He thinks it’s *so unconstitutional* that he did it—not once or twice—but nearly 40 times?

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[Ben Walgenbach @Waggenflaggen]

@mshardem11 @hunthunt21 Ball don't lie!

[Ben Walgenbach @Waggenflaggen]

@DefiyantlyFree @CommunityNotes the article clearly indicates the person arrested for this was located in Canton, was not an immigrant, and was clearly having a mental episode. https://t.co/YvbOBHkllp

[will davis @wdavisx3]

THREAD: 1/? True story, @PeteHegseth was the subject of my first ever research book in 2017.

I used to have to wake up early every weekend morning to watch Fox and Friends and hang on his every word.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. Trump is not just running for president; he's also partnered with a professional pickup artist to launch a new crypto company

THE COMPANY IS STRUCTURED SO IF TRUMP WINS IN NOVEMBER HE CAN USE THE POWER OF THE PRESIDENCY TO GENERATE MILLIONS IN PROFITS FOR HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY

Follow this thread for details on how the scheme works

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[Ben Walgenbach @Waggenflaggen]

@DonaldJTrumpJr @CommunityNotes oh look, a great opportunity for you to stop the spread of misinformation!

[Ben Walgenbach @Waggenflaggen]

@Suzy_1776 @CommunityNotes @CommunityNotes 3 days and 400k impressions...

[Ben Walgenbach @Waggenflaggen]

@Suzy_1776 Over 300k impressions in 18 hours and still no @CommunityNotes, it's almost as if there's some selective bias going on

[Quiver Quantitative @QuiverQuant]

Last week, Lever News reported that four politicians were sabotaging legislation that would force airlines to give refunds.

This included both Democrats and Republicans.

We took a closer look at their finances, and found multiple donations from the same airline executives🧵

[Ben Walgenbach @Waggenflaggen]

@TheLaurenChen @CommunityNotes should weigh in here to add some context for the blatantly obvious trickery that likely DID make this impossible

[Ben Walgenbach @Waggenflaggen]

@TheLaurenChen Do you have the answer key? How do you know that some of this aren't trick questions designed to make you pick the wrong answer (spoiler: there are - that's the whole point)?

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

Hi Elon!

The post you're quote-tweeting seems to suggest that, based on Social Security Administration data, 220,731 illegal immigrants have registered to vote in Arizona since January 1, 2024.

A few things if I may be so bold (since I have easy access to Maricopa County's data -- which makes up 62% of Arizona):

1) Only 39,653 new voters have registered in Maricopa County in 2024 in total. For Arizona, that number is about 60,000.

2) Arizona's voter rolls have actually been going down. In Maricopa County, we've gone from about 2.6 million active registered voters in 2020 to about 2.4 million active registered voters in 2024.

3) SSA is not used to check citizenship. It's used to check proof of identity.

4) Motor Vehicle Divisions are typically used for proof of citizenship. In Arizona, since October 1, 1996, drivers have had to provide proof of citizenship for driver's licenses (except Type F). We use this data to confirm citizenship for the vast majority of registration applicants. We also have some other tools at our disposal, or we communicate directly with the voter to get documentation.

5) If the voter cannot provide documented proof of citizenship, but still attests under penalty of law that he is a citizen, he goes on what is called the "Federal Only" list in Arizona.

6) In Maricopa County, there are 20,768 registered voters on the Federal Only list. There are about 30,000 for all of Arizona.

7) Again, these people attest that they are U.S. Citizens, but they have not provided documented proof.

8) Most studies show that these people are disproportionately college-aged students (perhaps who don't have ready access to a birth certificate).

But there is 0 validity to the suggestion in the original post that 220,731 illegal immigrants have registered in Arizona in 2024.

Hope this helps.

We loved the recent rocket launch that we could see in the Arizona sky. Thanks for all the cool sciencey stuff you continue to do.

Stephen
(owner of many, many Musk-related products, and former user of TBC "flamethrower")

[Ben Walgenbach @Waggenflaggen]

@roblabonne You vet claims that out of THOUSANDS of pit bulls, just one has been a friendly and loving dog

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

In a brilliant moment during Wednesday's sham impeachment hearing, Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz flipped the script and called the Republicans' bluff by making his own motion to impeach President Biden and asking the GOP to second it. The Republicans crumbled as he exposed their scam.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. @elonmusk told his 175 million followers on this platform that Biden committed "treason" by "secretly" chartering flights to bring 320K "illegal immigrants" to the United States

Let's be clear: EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS CLAIM IS A BRAZEN LIE

Follow along for receipts

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