Judd Legum

Judd Legum @JuddLegum

I'm not advocating for Rogan to be censored. But Spotify chose to pay him $100 million. And, in so doing, they endorsed his program. Which is now being used to convince millions of people not to get vaccinated for an illness that has killed nearly 900K Americans. — PolitiTweet.org

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Rogan's contention now that people accept as fact that "cloth masks don't work" is also false. Wearing a cloth mask is certainly more protective than nothing at all. They are less effective than N95 respirators or surgical masks. — PolitiTweet.org

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Rogan is right that scientific views change with new evidence but his claims that people insisted it was impossible to catch COVID if you are vaccinated is false. People said it was much less likely, which was true before the variants. It's still less likely even w/the variants. — PolitiTweet.org

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UPDATE: @Twitter informs me that it received a complaint about the tweet at the beginning of this threat, pursuant to German Law, but it will not be removed https://t.co/eug0OTVE2n — PolitiTweet.org

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The other question I've posed is whether @pepsi ever reissued the check. Because typically a corporate check will expire after 90 or 180 days. — PolitiTweet.org

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The other issue is that, if @Pepsi objected to the fact that the Texas GOP was pushing through a draconian abortion ban, it could have canceled the check. It chose not to. As a result, the Texas GOP was able to cash the check on 8/5/21. Here is how it showed up on the filing. — PolitiTweet.org

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Quick reminder of how the media covered George W. Bush calling a NYT reported a "major league asshole." https://t.co/qvxkQP0riy — PolitiTweet.org

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One reason @ATT does this is it is used to no one paying attention. If you are interested in this tweet, you'll be very interested in my newsletter, which is dedicated to independent accountability journalism. And it's free to sign up --> https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo — PolitiTweet.org

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@ATT @DadePhelan On December 20, @ATT donated $50,000 to the Texas Senate Republicans, who also passed the state's abortion ban. This money also came directly from @ATT's corporate treasury. The company is rewarding politicians who ban abortion and enforce the ban with vigilantes — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: On December 12, @ATT donated $30,000 to @DadePhelan, the speaker of the Texas House, who pushed through Texas' draconian abortion ban last year These were funds directly from @ATT's corporate treasury — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: On December 12, @ATT donated $30,000 to @DadePhelan, the speaker of the Texas House, who pushed through Texas' draconian abortion ban These were funds directly from @ATT's corporate treasury — PolitiTweet.org

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17. @Honeywell donated 15K to the @NRSC on 6/3/21 https://t.co/ljvgMalguF — PolitiTweet.org

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If you want to provide American families with paid leave — something that virtually every other government on earth guarantees — its a huge controversy with lots of hand-wringing about the cost If you want to spend $750B on bombs and other stuff designed to kill people, no sweat — PolitiTweet.org

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UPDATE: Stock in Trump's new media company is now trading at over $50, imputing a valuation of $1.85 BILLION! This a company with: ✔️ No products ✔️ No subscribers ✔️ No tech ✔️ No revenue An only one named employee: Devin Nunes https://t.co/82VacGQrBW — PolitiTweet.org

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@BuzzFeed Trump's media company up 12% today on news that DEVIN NUNES will be the CEO. It's the ultimate meme stock for the MAGA set. https://t.co/82VacH830w — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump's media company, which has no products, revenues, or subscribers, currently has a $1.8 BILLION market cap That's more than 6X the current value of @buzzfeed, a real media company that had $421 million in revenue last year! https://t.co/82VacH830w https://t.co/ZrPEtzbfrT — PolitiTweet.org

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Truth Social was supposed to launch in Beta in November but didn't and the company offered no explanation or updated timeline. But it's much further along than TMTG+, which Trump is counting on to generate virtually all the revenue for his company https://t.co/82VacH830w — PolitiTweet.org

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Much of the coverage of Trump's media company (TMTG) has focused on Truth Social, a new social network. But TMTG is projecting $3.6B in revenue in 2026. Almost all of it from a streaming platform, TMTG+, which isn't scheduled to even launch until 2023. https://t.co/82VacH830w https://t.co/ujIR3E3mY9 — PolitiTweet.org

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With content like this, how can Trump's new streaming platform (TMTG+) possibly fail to grab market share from Netflix, Hulu and Disney+? https://t.co/d5JmAvKniX — PolitiTweet.org

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"The superintendent of a rural North Dakota school district sent a controversial email..in which he slammed critical race theory, compared Democrats to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and advocated for teaching students about the nation's 'Christian heritage'" https://t.co/PoAjhoNNlo — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm sharing my findings in my next newsletter. It features: Deleted tweets A racist textbook from 1985 Morgan Freeman https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo — PolitiTweet.org

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I've spent the last couple of days looking into this and its MUCH WORSE than I thought. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m glad scientists are concerned about Omnicron and are studying it. I’m not personally going to be concerned until we know more about it. If it turns out to be very bad, there will be plenty of time to freak out later. — PolitiTweet.org

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2. In 2020, shoplifting in San Fransisco reached a 45-year low its lowest level since statistics began being collected 45 years ago. It has increased slightly in 2021 but still remains well below 2019 levels. https://t.co/oO2AnBP1xT https://t.co/Mzj4MH9FqB — PolitiTweet.org

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4. A page on the Alexandria City Public Schools website called “Talking to your Children about Racial Justice” — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias You keep coming back to CRT as a reasonable term for a variety of real societal changes and perhaps it is for you but it is not a term that is deployed to foster debate. It is a term being used as a political cudgel to shit down debate. Anything under the CRT umbrella must end. — PolitiTweet.org

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@beirutwhat @jbarro @chrislhayes @conor64 @JohnHMcWhorter If you are interested in an intellectual framework that rejects these kind of performative measures in support of racial equity I recommend Critical Race Theory — PolitiTweet.org

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If you have nothing to say there is always the option to not tweet — PolitiTweet.org

Judd Legum @JuddLegum

@JakeSherman He said he didn't like it but he stopped short of saying it's a deal-breaker for him. Revenue has to come from somewhere. — PolitiTweet.org

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Manchin's comments stop somewhat short of full opposition, so we'll see what happens — PolitiTweet.org