Judd Legum

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Manchin couldn't be any clearer that he is prepared to kill the reconciliation bill. As long as he holds that position, there will not be enough votes in the house to pass the infrastructure bill. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ConceptualJames @whollyfists One strong sign you are winning an argument is to call the person you are arguing with a "fuck" and start posting dumb pseudo-memes. It really conveys confidence and strength. Very alpha. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ConceptualJames The strategy here is to make engaging in these issues so unpleasant that people just move on to other things Unfortunately for James and his buddies, it won't work on me I'm going to keep digging and insisting on facts — PolitiTweet.org

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This tweet from @ConceptualJames, one of the leading voices behind anti-CRT hysteria, is instructive. I asked him to provide real evidence of his claims about CRT in Virginia His response is to dismiss factual support as a "triviality" and call me a "fuck" https://t.co/j5gRuAdwTM — PolitiTweet.org

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@ConceptualJames The Youngkin ad claims McAuliffe's administration instructed teachers to teach Critical Race Theory to students. Do you have evidence of that? These are materials from Virginia's annual equity conference. It's not about curriculum. — PolitiTweet.org

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This was obvious from both the context (an event about school discipline) and the presentation. But just to be sure I called up the professor who delivered the talk "I was not advocating for teachers to teach Critical Race Theory to students," she said https://t.co/tTDaQVSJy3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Fundamentally, the ad takes one slide from a presentation about SCHOOL DISCIPLINE and alternatives to in-school suspensions and pretends it's a directive about K-12 curriculum. It had nothing to do with curriculum. https://t.co/tTDaQVSJy3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Youngkin's closing attack ad is based on a lie. I lay out all the FACTS and talked to the woman whose 2015 presentation the Youngkin campaign claims is "proof" that McAuliffe pushed teaching CRT in K-12 schools. https://t.co/tTDaQVSJy3 — PolitiTweet.org

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@RMac18 He also appears to be walking on a paved driveway with manicured hedges in the background? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JuddLegum: 2. Youngkin's ad claims to contain "newly unearthed documents" which it presents as proof that McAuliffe's administration "a… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JuddLegum: 1. I just talked to the woman whose presentation is featured in Youngkin's closing ad She says the ad misrepresents one sli… — PolitiTweet.org

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@realchrisrufo If Rufo was confident in his claims, you would think he would welcome debate and discussion. But he's taken a very different approach. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@realchrisrufo has injected misinformation about Critical Race Theory into the Virginia gubernatorial election I expose what's happening here: https://t.co/tTDaQVSJy3 Rufo, however, will not see this tweet https://t.co/NhnJ1CJD66 — PolitiTweet.org

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10. Fox News is helping Youngkin push this misinformation. This article, published last night, cites the same presentation by Walker that was not about teaching kids CRT https://t.co/mgkeqaDKpr — PolitiTweet.org

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@billscher I just published a story about the negative ad. I talked to the woman whose 2015 presentation serves as "proof" that McAuliffe pushed CRT in schools. https://t.co/tTDaQVSJy3 — PolitiTweet.org

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9. Regardless of the outcome of Tuesday's election, these kinds of misrepresentations will be common in campaigns over the next year. For more accountability journalism, check out my newsletter Popular Information. It's free to sign up --> https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo — PolitiTweet.org

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8. Youngkin's closing ad is also based on a false characterization of Walker's presentation. But, as the WashPost editorial board notes, Youngkin is seeking to use CRT as a "bogeyman to foment racial resentments among the GOP’s heavily White voting base." https://t.co/tTDaQVSJy3 — PolitiTweet.org

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7. Youngkin has spent much of the campaign claiming that CRT is taught in "all our schools in Virginia." In August, Politifact evaluated all the evidence that the Youngkin campaign could marshall to support that claim and rated it "FALSE." https://t.co/tTDaQVSJy3 — PolitiTweet.org

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6. Walker told me that she would never recommend that CRT be taught to K-12 students and did not do so in her 2015 presentation. She described the use of her presentation in the ad as "mythology" — completely divorced from the reality of her talk. https://t.co/tTDaQVSJy3 — PolitiTweet.org

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5. Walker said the presentation was designed to inform school administrators about "disproportionate punishment of [black] students," who receive harsher discipline for the same conduct She intro'd CRT as a lense for ADULTS to understand the phenomena https://t.co/tTDaQVSJy3 — PolitiTweet.org

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4. In other words, neither Walker's presentation nor the event had anything to do with establishing curricula for students. Nevertheless, it has been promoted by dark money operative @realchrisrufo as proof McAuliffe was trying to teach students CRT https://t.co/tTDaQVSJy3 https://t.co/r7wSxWpVFF — PolitiTweet.org

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3. The "documents" are a 2015 presentation by Brenda Walker, a professor at University of South Florida It was given as part of an institute about STUDENT DISCIPLINE. The purpose of the program was "to provide alternatives to out-of-school suspensions" https://t.co/tTDaQVSJy3 — PolitiTweet.org

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2. Youngkin's ad claims to contain "newly unearthed documents" which it presents as proof that McAuliffe's administration "actively pushed" K-12 students to be taught CRT It turns out that is a lie https://t.co/tTDaQVSJy3 — PolitiTweet.org

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1. I just talked to the woman whose presentation is featured in Youngkin's closing ad She says the ad misrepresents one slide to invent "a conversation that never happened" "I was not advocating for teachers to teach Critical Race Theory to students" https://t.co/tTDaQVSJy3 — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s amazing how purportedly “intellectual” Republicans have bought into the lie that supporting McAuliffe is an endorsement of Critical Race Theory. — PolitiTweet.org

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Glenn Youngkin's closing ad featured a woman who wanted to ban Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Beloved. This is McAuliffe's response: https://t.co/g2gZkwsjKu — PolitiTweet.org

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@USChamber @BizRoundtable The new problem is that there is a 15% minimum tax on corporate profits. It's almost like the #1 issue for corporate America is making sure they don't pay any taxes at all. — PolitiTweet.org

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Corporations, through the @USChamber and the @BizRoundtable, opposed the reconciliation bill because they said they didn't want the corporate rate to increase from 21% to 26.5%. Now that increase is out, and they still oppose the bill. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JakeSherman Yeah, you could be right. I just feel like if you are watching the Virginia election, it's quite clear that the reconciliation bill is not the major issue. It's a culture war. — PolitiTweet.org