Judd Legum

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1. @DanCrenshawTX, who has spent years railing against "cancel culture," is calling for any athlete who expresses political views he disagrees with to be expelled from the U.S. Olympic Team https://t.co/o9M7R6RzOn — PolitiTweet.org

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@Toyota @axios Weird timing on all of this since it's all been public since mid-April. Toyota itself hasn't even filed this year so all of our data comes from Senate/House committees which filed on April 15. I wrote about @Toyota and other top donors on 4/17: https://t.co/VXnjFO9rto — PolitiTweet.org

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Great that more people know @Toyota is the top donor to members who voted against certifying the election because @Axios reported yesterday that the company donated 55K to 37 GOP objectors. BUT @Toyota actually donated 62K to 39 GOP objectors Details: https://t.co/i07JB5mLNY — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JuddLegum: 2. Black people represent 12% of the total population and 33% of the prison population. Why? https://t.co/8GHvYuEyya https… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JuddLegum: 1. CRT has been distorted by the right as an all-purpose boogieman to rile up voters. But it's actually a sophisticated an… — PolitiTweet.org

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Someone allegedly called up Tucker Carlson and read him a text that he sent. If that's true, it's possible it's evidence that the NSA is spying on him. Or it could just be that his phone was hacked. Which is more likely? — PolitiTweet.org

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Carlson claims that to get to the bottom of it he FILED A FOIA REQUEST WITH THE NSA. This is brilliant. In order to get my next big scoop, I'm going to FOIA the NSA and just ask for all info about anyone interesting they've been spying on in the last few years. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's theoretically possible that the NSA is spying on Tucker Carlson but it's also the kind of claim that you can make and will never be disproven because the NSA is not going to release a statement saying "We are not spying on Tucker Carlson." — PolitiTweet.org

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Recent claims by Tucker Carlson: 1. The FBI was behind the January 6 insurrection 2. Critical Race Theory will soon result in genocide 3. The NSA is spying on him — PolitiTweet.org

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There are four states where COVID cases have increased 20%+ in the last 14 days. All have vaccinations rates significantly below the national average (46%) Get vaccinated. https://t.co/xTc815JWtq — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RBReich: Here’s a radical idea: What if instead of Pride banners, corporations stopped bankrolling bigotry? https://t.co/91qQjx8SMY — PolitiTweet.org

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@AryaVolkan @sullydish Have fun trolling. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AryaVolkan @sullydish They are embedded in the law. Read my piece. — PolitiTweet.org

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@khaledsayswhat CRT is concerned with the law. The solution to this would not be attempting to change any implicit or explicit biases. The solution would be changing the legal structure that allows the inequities to perpetuate. It's not that confusing. — PolitiTweet.org

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@khaledsayswhat I doubt you are interested but here is a concrete explanation of exactly how it works: https://t.co/DjLdyPgTNX — PolitiTweet.org

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Her crime was turning her back to the flag for the national anthem — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias It’s not like the people pushing false information on CRT are otherwise addressing these issues in good faith. They are distorting the issues as a way to marginalize the core concerns and mobilize racial resentment for political advantage — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias It’s a very intention strategy by people who deny that structural racism exists to promote their views without actually engaging in the issues — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias I’m fully willing to agree to that because it’s true. But I disagree that the conflation of CRT with BS corporate diversity training is a quibble — PolitiTweet.org

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Life is too short to listen to Mitch McConnell talk about bipartisanship — PolitiTweet.org

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McConnell insists a condition of “bipartisanship” is to make him de facto majority leader with the power to determine what other bills Democrats will support and when — PolitiTweet.org

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8. I'll have more on the web of non-profits, elected officials, and media figures that are pushing disinformation about CRT in the days ahead. (And, critically, the $ behind their effort.) Sign up for updates and accountability journalism. https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo — PolitiTweet.org

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7. These are complex topics that are hard to explain over Twitter. And, BTW, are not taught in second grade. But check out the whole piece. In order to understand how CRT is being distorted, we need to understand CRT itself https://t.co/8GHvYuEyya — PolitiTweet.org

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6. This helps explain why black people are much more likely to be incarcerated for drug crimes. Police are able to use explicit and implicit bias to pull over black people at higher rates. Thus, they catch more black people with drugs. https://t.co/8GHvYuEyya — PolitiTweet.org

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5. For example, CRT scholars would point to the 1996 case of Whren v. United States A unanimous SCOTUS ruled that police who lack probable causecan follow someone they FEEL might be engaged in druge activity until they find a pretextual traffic violation https://t.co/8GHvYuEyya — PolitiTweet.org

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4. CRT interrogates the legal system for answers. And it finds many of the practices that create racial inequality are unintentional, banal, and facially race-neutral There is no evil man behind the curtain It is baked into the institutional structure https://t.co/8GHvYuEyya — PolitiTweet.org

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3. It can't be explained by saying that black people commit more crime. And "[b]lack and white Americans sell and use drugs at similar rates." But Black Americans are 6x more likely to be incarcerated for it https://t.co/8GHvYuEyya — PolitiTweet.org

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2. Black people represent 12% of the total population and 33% of the prison population. Why? https://t.co/8GHvYuEyya https://t.co/5Hw1DIFsbD — PolitiTweet.org

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1. CRT has been distorted by the right as an all-purpose boogieman to rile up voters. But it's actually a sophisticated and useful way to understand the cause of persistent racial inequality. Let's explore how it works in practice. https://t.co/B3JZRK6Jye… — PolitiTweet.org

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1. CRT has been distorted by the right as an all-purpose boogieman to rile up voters. But it's actually a sophisticated and useful took for understanding persistent racial inequality. Let's explore how it works in practice. https://t.co/8GHvYuEyya — PolitiTweet.org