Judd Legum

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OPTION 1: Every parent in the US gets 12 weeks of paid family leave; corporations pay a tax rate of 26.5% on profits OPTION 2: The US remains the only developed country in the world w/o paid family leave; corporations pay a tax rate of 21% The @USChamber chooses OPTION 2 — PolitiTweet.org

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If the Chamber cares about childcare, it should end its multi-million campaign to defeat paid family leave Its interest in "bipartisan solutions" is cute, but it didn't stop the Chamber from supporting Trump's 2017 tax cuts, which got zero Democratic votes — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nhannahjones: Every journalist and editor covering politics and/or crime/policing, please read this. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a very reasonable question. Too much of the discussion on reconciliation is abstract. Lets get specific. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ATT Related, from today: https://t.co/j8vCt5q6Mi — PolitiTweet.org

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From September 22: "@ATT abandons pledge, makes contributions supporting Republican objectors" https://t.co/pR3KZnPjRk — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @WajahatAli: Worth reading. Especially news editors and hosts. https://t.co/E7Nek64Gwm — PolitiTweet.org

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The @USChamber is involved in a multi-million dollar campaign to defeat the reconciliation bill, which would give ALL PARENTS the opportunity to care for their own children (and still get paid) for 12 weeks This is something that parents in every other developed country can do — PolitiTweet.org

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cc: @RacismDog — PolitiTweet.org

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Today, we detail: 1. How you'll be seeing misleading stats like these incessantly between now and Nov 2022 2. How the GOP plans to blame Democrats 3. THE FACTS https://t.co/MyFiHFU4QS — PolitiTweet.org

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If you want to know which corporate PACs, after 1/6, resumed giving to Rick Scott and the @NRSC and which stuck by their commitments, we are keeping track here: https://t.co/yOUfjjdzXY — PolitiTweet.org

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13. The police were not "defunded" in 2020. Among 105 cities with 200K+ people, just 37 reduced police budgets. Funding was not linked to murder rates, which increased in 84% of the cities that lowered budgets and 79% in cities that raised budgets https://t.co/MyFiHFU4QS — PolitiTweet.org

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12. Meanwhile, Wyoming and South Dakota, two states that passed no police reform legislation, experienced steep increases in murder and violent crime. https://t.co/MyFiHFU4QS — PolitiTweet.org

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11. Massachusetts, which created new training courses and oversight commissions, experienced the lowest increase in murder rate. Colorado, California, and Nevada, all states that passed new police reforms, crime rates were flat https://t.co/MyFiHFU4QS — PolitiTweet.org

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10. Let's keep going. Is the rise in violent crime/murders connected with the police reform movement? Cotton says yes: "During the fall and winter [of 2020] mayors and governors waged a relentless campaign to defund, disarm, and defame police officers” What do the facts say? — PolitiTweet.org

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Credit to Stephen for correcting the piece https://t.co/JKwSdNwUM7 — PolitiTweet.org

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There was a record increase in HOMICIDE (about 25%). "About 77 percent of reported murders in 2020 were committed with a firearm, the highest share ever reported, up from 67 percent a decade ago" — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @soledadobrien: This is worth reading: https://t.co/ya3WvTwQnP — PolitiTweet.org

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You report here that there was a "record increase in violent crime" in 2020 and that was "a source of heightened demand for guns" There was not. There was a 5% increase in violent crime which was not a record (or even close). https://t.co/MyFiHFU4QS — PolitiTweet.org

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9. Popular Information is an independent newsletter with FACTS you can rely on. That's why we were awarded a perfect score (100/100) for credibility and transparency by @NewsGuardRating. Breitbart gets an F (49.5/100) Sign up for more FACTS https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo https://t.co/ErzKVWxDdW — PolitiTweet.org

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8. Cotton and many other Republicans are abusing crime stats for political purposes. This makes it more difficult to identify and implement policies that could actually make the country safer. https://t.co/MyFiHFCtZk — PolitiTweet.org

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7. For overall crime, "seven out of the twelve states with decreasing overall crime rates between 2019 and 2020 have Democratic governors" and "[f]our out of eight states with increasing crime rates have Republican governors." https://t.co/MyFiHFCtZk — PolitiTweet.org

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6. Cotton highlights that "murder rose 50 percent in Chicago, 44 percent in New York, and 38 percent in Los Angeles" — cities run by Democrats. But he doesn't mention that murder rates rose 62% in Ft. Worth, Texas, which has a GOP mayor. https://t.co/MyFiHFU4QS — PolitiTweet.org

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5. Well, Wyoming, a state with a GOP governor and dominated by GOP officials, had the largest spike in homicides among the 23 states that reported data, 92%. The second-largest spike in murders, 67%, was in South Dakota, which also has a GOP governor. https://t.co/MyFiHFCtZk — PolitiTweet.org

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4. If you break down violent crime further there was a significant increase in murders -- about 25%. But what is the cause? Cotton says it was the result of "Democrat mayors, progressive prosecutors, and liberal governors are to blame" Is he right? https://t.co/MyFiHFU4QS — PolitiTweet.org

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@SenTomCotton @BreitbartNews 3. What about violent crime? Violent crime was up about 5% in 2020. But it is still WAY BELOW the levels we saw in the 1990s or even the early part of this century. Does 2020's increase in violent crime constitute a "crime wave" We report, you decide. https://t.co/MyFiHFU4QS https://t.co/jqGasvXYhA — PolitiTweet.org

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2. For example, @SenTomCotton wrote a piece in @BreitbartNews titled "Democrats’ Criminal-Leniency Policies Sparked an Undeniable Crime Wave" The piece is festooned with images of people committing property crimes. FACT: Property crime was DOWN in 2020 https://t.co/MyFiHFCtZk https://t.co/9Fzn5E0gd7 — PolitiTweet.org

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1. One thing you'll hear about a lot between now and November 2022 is the purported "crime wave" sweeping the United States. One thing that is lacking from this discussion is FACTS Follow this thread for lots of facts. https://t.co/MyFiHFU4QS — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JuddLegum: 1. While you were sleeping, the @USChamber executed one of the most brazenly hypocritical policy reversals in modern politic… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CorbinHiar: Dozens of business leaders made bold climate commitments during the Trump administration. Now with legislation advancing t… — PolitiTweet.org