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8. Since 1/1/21 @GM has donated 605K to members of Congress rated zero by @HRC 1K to politicians behind anti-LGBTQ legislation 426K to 527 orgs that support anti-LGBT politicians https://t.co/ZoMv6MFnEX — PolitiTweet.org

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7. Since 1/1/21 @Verizon has donated 505K to members of Congress rated zero by @HRC 4.5K to politicians behind anti-LGBTQ legislation 50K to 527 orgs that support anti-LGBT politicians https://t.co/kf9nVSMBcm — PolitiTweet.org

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6. Since 1/1/21 @GetSpectrum (Charter) has donated 585K to members of Congress rated zero by @HRC 148K to politicians behind anti-LGBTQ legislation in 7 states 430K to 527 orgs that support anti-LGBT politicians https://t.co/togKWZuprF — PolitiTweet.org

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5. Since 1/1/21 @Deloitte has donated 514K to members of Congress rated zero by @HRC 3.5K to state politicians behind anti-LGBTQ legislation 325K to 527 orgs that support anti-LGBT politicians https://t.co/43nhOvX9z4 — PolitiTweet.org

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4. Since 1/1/21 @ATT has donated 598K to members of Congress rated zero by @HRC 204K to state politicians behind anti-LGBTQ legislation in 9 states 250K to 527 orgs that support anti-LGBT politicians https://t.co/MYOJ6xR9Dv — PolitiTweet.org

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3. https://t.co/JhoV1QDaTS's analysis includes: $ to members of Congress rated zero by @HRC $ to sponsors of state anti-LGBTQ legislation $ to governors that signed that legislation $ to 527 groups that support anti-LGBTQ politicians https://t.co/eMF3XaNA2w — PolitiTweet.org

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2. A https://t.co/Gl6evXRDcZ investigation found that 25 rainbow-flag waving corporations have donated more than $13.2 MILLION to anti-LGBTQ politicians since the start of 2021 https://t.co/eMF3XaNA2w — PolitiTweet.org

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1. It's Pride Month and corporations are plastering their social media accounts with rainbows, sponsoring parades, and declaring their allegiance with the LGBTQ community But how do these companies spend their $ in politics? Follow this 🧵 if interested https://t.co/eMF3XaNA2w — PolitiTweet.org

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1. It's Pride Month and corporations are plastering their social media accounts with rainbows, sponsoring parades, and declaring their allegiance with the LGBTQ community But how do these companies spend their $ in politics? Follow this 🧵if interested https://t.co/eMF3XaNA2w — PolitiTweet.org

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8. Previously, I've been attacked by the Florida Department of Education for reporting the truth about their efforts to politicize K-12 textbooks. But I will not be dissuaded. For updates, subscribe to my newsletter. It's free to sign up. https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo https://t.co/Dwls4TWIcR — PolitiTweet.org

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7. Next, the Florida Department of Education will assemble a panel of reviewers to examine the social studies textbooks submitted by publishers For math textbooks, they included reviewers with no expertise but were committed to DeSantis' political agenda https://t.co/qCuyF8nA3j — PolitiTweet.org

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6. This might be news to the leaders of various social justice movements, such as women's suffrage, which occurred many decades before CRT was conceived in the early 1980s. https://t.co/qCuyF8nA3j — PolitiTweet.org

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5. So why is Florida banning "social justice" in social studies textbooks. Because CRT is not taught in schools. Florida asserts, without explanation, that social justice is "closely aligned" with CRT https://t.co/qCuyF8nA3j — PolitiTweet.org

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4. Teachers, Schulzki said, should not be prohibited from covering important topics because "somebody found the notion of words 'social justice' to be something that they don't agree with." https://t.co/qCuyF8nA3j — PolitiTweet.org

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3. Schulzki told me that social justice "goes hand-in-hand with teaching civil rights," which is a central component of a social studies curriculum. Policymakers that impose prohibitions on topics like social justice, Schulzki noted, "spend little or no time going to schools." — PolitiTweet.org

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@GovRonDeSantis @EducationFL 2. I spoke with Anton Schulzki, President of the National Council for the Social Studies (@NCSSNetwork), "the largest professional association in the country devoted solely to social studies education." Schulzki has taught social studies in for 38 years https://t.co/qCuyF85YEJ — PolitiTweet.org

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1. @GovRonDeSantis and the Florida Department of Education (@EducationFL) have introduced new rules prohibiting discussion of "social justice" in K-12 social studies textbooks Can you teach social studies while ignoring social justice movements? 🧵 https://t.co/qCuyF8nA3j — PolitiTweet.org

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.@GovRonDeSantis issued a new rule that texts used in Florida's K-12 schools cannot include any discussion of "social justice" So I guess the Bible is out? — PolitiTweet.org

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Wow. "The Uvalde Police Department and the Uvalde Independent School District police force are no longer cooperating with the Texas Department of Public Safety's investigation into the massacre at Robb Elementary School" https://t.co/bFdspOqscG — PolitiTweet.org

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@DickDurbin @SenWhitehouse 12. The fees that @neal_katyal wants to charge for this case ($2500/hour) are so egregious that it prompted a rare objection from the DoJ bankruptcy watchdog. The DoJ notes that Katyal wants to charge $1100 MORE to work on this case than the other extremely expensive lawyers https://t.co/ni9V8Rwwsa — PolitiTweet.org

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11. Some members of Congress, including @DickDurbin and @SenWhitehouse, are considering proposing legislation to outlaw the Texas two-step. There was a hearing in February. But, thus far, no bill has been introduced. https://t.co/p6whL6Nc5E — PolitiTweet.org

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10. This kind of phony bankruptcy, called the "Texas two-step" was pioneered in 2017 by @KochIndustries, which used it to offload asbestos liability from its Georgia-Pacific subsidiary. It paid lawyers from @JonesDay millions to execute the scheme https://t.co/p6whL6Nc5E — PolitiTweet.org

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8. At stake is not just the legal rights of people with cancer who have sued J&J, but also the very notion of corporate accountability. If corporations can jettison any problems to new subsidiaries with few assets, they can get away with anything. https://t.co/p6whL6Nc5E — PolitiTweet.org

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7. Is this even legal? Unclear. But J&J is paying a phalanx of expensive lawyers to make it legal Now this "bankrupt" fake company wants to add another lawyer, @nealkatyal, to handle the appeal of its bankruptcy filing and pay him $2500 PER HOUR https://t.co/p6whL6Nc5E — PolitiTweet.org

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6. By declaring bankruptcy, all 40K lawsuits are immediately halted. If the bankruptcy goes forward, every plaintiff will have to fight for a piece of the $2 billion that J&J set aside, which is less than the amount awarded by a single jury verdict https://t.co/p6whL6Nc5E — PolitiTweet.org

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5. In October 2021, J&J executed a brazen scheme to change the rules of the game. Using Texas law, they spun off a new subsidiary, LTL Management LTL received ALL the baby powder lawsuits and $2 billion Then LTL immediately declared bankruptcy https://t.co/p6whL6Nc5E https://t.co/Z5GdgT0455 — PolitiTweet.org

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4. J&J, however, was not always successful in making these arguments in court. In July 2018, 22 women who said they contracted ovarian cancer from J&J baby powder were awarded over $2 billion. J&J appealed all the way to the Supreme Court and LOST https://t.co/p6whL6Nc5E — PolitiTweet.org

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3. J&J claims that its baby powder has always been safe and does not contain asbestos. But lab analysis commissioned by plaintiffs found "asbestos in more than half of multiple samples of Baby Powder from past decades." J&J disputes these results. https://t.co/p6whL6Nc5E — PolitiTweet.org