Judd Legum

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7. The more fundamental flaw with the federal moratorium is that it delays rent but doesn't provide any rent abatement or forgiveness. So those that do end up being protected will owe large sums and potentially face eviction beginning January 1. https://t.co/viKDi3SLpb — PolitiTweet.org

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6. The federal moratorium has other loopholes. It only explicitly applies to evictions for UNPAID RENT. So if you are on a month-to-month lease or your lease term expires, you can be evicted on that pretext. https://t.co/viKDi3SLpb — PolitiTweet.org

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5. Overall, corporate and private-equity backed landlords have initiated over 1500 evictions since September 1. Thousands more were initiated by smaller landlords. For more accountability journalism, sign up for my newsletter, Popular Information --> https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo — PolitiTweet.org

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4. Princeton Enterprises, a company with thousands of properties across 15 states, is aggressively eviciting tenants during a pandemic. But it has taken taxpayer money to support its own operation. The company received a PPP loan of 350K to 1M in April https://t.co/viKDi3SLpb — PolitiTweet.org

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3. In Duval County, Florida, for example, 271 new eviction cases have been filed since the moratorium was imposed on September 1. 45 of those cases were filed by one corporate landlord, Princeton Enterprises. And Florida has its own "moratorium"! https://t.co/viKDi3SLpb — PolitiTweet.org

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2. The eviction moratorium is not self-executing. Tenants are required to fill out a specific form. The landlord can challenge the info on the form in court The landlord can exploit a power differential: 90% of landlords and 10% of tenets have lawyers https://t.co/viKDi3SLpb — PolitiTweet.org

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2. The eviction moratorium is not self-executing. Tenets are required to fill out a specific form. The landlord can challenge the info on the form in court The landlord can exploit a power differential: 90% of landlords and 10% of tenets have lawyers https://t.co/viKDi3SLpb — PolitiTweet.org

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1. Despite a "federal eviction moratorium," corporate landlords are filing new eviction cases against thousands of tenets across the country. Sheriffs are kicking people out of their homes. WTF is happening? https://t.co/viKDi3SLpb — PolitiTweet.org

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Herman Cain died after attending the last big indoor Trump event. — PolitiTweet.org

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There is only one person in the United States holding large, indoor, maskless events. That person is also President of the United States. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nickmartin: Here's a sitting U.S. congressman retweeting a defense of QAnon. https://t.co/J9fZbKMbBL — PolitiTweet.org

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@coreyward There is no evidence that social media shaming has saved the life of even one person — PolitiTweet.org

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3. It’s like we are all driving down a highway and people are taking videos of cars driving too fast and saying “look at that idiot speeding” but the highway has no speed limit signs and every day the president goes on TV and tells people to drive as fast as possible — PolitiTweet.org

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2. The pandemic is the prototypical problem that cannot be solved with “individual responsibility.” It needs government leadership. People can’t become infectious disease experts overnight. We need clear guidelines and enforcement. Months into this, we have neither. — PolitiTweet.org

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1. One thing that has been bothering me quite a bit is how much shaming there is of people on social media for allegedly not following social distancing protocols The disasterous response to COVID in the US is not the result of individual failures It’s a failure of leadership — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AlecMacGillis: 1) This picture is from four years ago. 2) I took the photo. Where's my credit?? — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump’s closing strategy is to hold large, maskless, COVID superspreader events and to criticize his opponent for not doing the same thing — PolitiTweet.org

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@KFILE All the best to your and your family Andrew. I’ll be thinking of you. — PolitiTweet.org

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Facebook board member Peter Thiel "hosted a dinner with one of the most influential and vocal white nationalists in modern-day America" and then "emailed the next day to say how much he’d enjoyed his company." https://t.co/omQWl2kI2e — PolitiTweet.org

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4. Zuckerberg then makes splashy announcements about new policies against voting disinformation. But there is no enforcement against large disinformation networks until they are exposed publicly by https://t.co/Gl6evXRDcZ or other outlets https://t.co/qxMEecjW5B — PolitiTweet.org

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3. Zuckerberg in July: "We do not profit from misinformation or hate." This isn't true. They've created a system where, if you pay Facebook enough money, you can set up a large misinformation network within a few weeks. https://t.co/qxMEecjW5B https://t.co/alxpp7tSLU — PolitiTweet.org

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2. The biggest page in the network, Trumpian Republicans, was only started in May. It already has 700K followers. How did Trumpian Republicans grow so big, so fast? BY PAYING FACEBOOK 75 THOUSAND DOLLARS https://t.co/qxMEecjW5B https://t.co/cEzuEzagft — PolitiTweet.org

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1. One important note about the network of Facebook pages pushing voting disinformation that I exposed yesterday Facebook often says it does not profit from disinformation This network proves it is not true. https://t.co/qxMEecjW5B — PolitiTweet.org

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One thing I'll never understand is nostalgia for the "unity" that occurred after 9/11. That "unity" was exploited by the Bush administration to launch an unnecessary war that killed hundreds of thousands of people. Never stop questioning authority. — PolitiTweet.org

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The pandemic is like a 9/11 happening every 3 or 4 days. A competent government could stop the planes. Instead, it just watches them slam into the towers over and over and over. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JuddLegum: 3. Over the last 90 days, the network of pages that promote Conservative Brief has generated 30.65 million engagements. That… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JuddLegum: 2. The network operates by funneling traffic to Conservative Brief, an obscure right-wing website. Conservatives Brief dis… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JuddLegum: 1. Facebook has permitted a large network of Facebook pages and groups — with names like Trump's Deplorable Army, To The Dea… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @rashadrobinson: This is why we have to keep demanding FB *enforce* their policies. Notice how they only began to look into it once they… — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump Facebook ads are getting VERY weird. This one divides a picture of Biden up into 25 squares and asks people to pick "which squares have Biden looking old and out of it." https://t.co/QqBQKFcYUi — PolitiTweet.org