Judd Legum

Judd Legum @JuddLegum

When I was growing up, the main complaint about young people was they were apathetic & uninterested in politics Now, the main complaint is that young people are too woke & politicize everything Both are meaningless generalizations that say more about the complainers — PolitiTweet.org

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Things can always get worse — PolitiTweet.org

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If the idea that DeJoy's changes to the postal service threatened the timely delivery of ballots is a CONSPIRACY THEORY why did the USPS sent letters to 46 states in July warning them that it might not be able to deliver ballots on time? — PolitiTweet.org

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5. It's about scale. Facebook is doing a lot to try to combat COVID-19 misinformation but when billions of people are posting every day, it's not nearly enough. It's too big not to fail. For more accountability journalism, sign up for my newsletter --> https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo — PolitiTweet.org

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4. Weeks after publication, one of Facebook's fact-checkers debunked the article (in German.) But by that time the article was republished or excerpted by 29 other websites. Those websites generated another 4.7 million views and none were fact-checked https://t.co/ILwxXgZUMN — PolitiTweet.org

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3. In the context of a pandemic, this kind of disinformation is particularly dangerous. An article by RFK Jr. falsely claiming Bill Gates was sneaking a "sterilization formula" into vaccines generated 3.6 million views. https://t.co/ILwxXgZUMN — PolitiTweet.org

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2. @Avaaz looked at the top 10 health disinformation websites, and compared them the top 10 websites of leading health authorities (CDC, WHO, etc) The disinformation websites generated FOUR TIMES as many views https://t.co/ILwxXgZUMN — PolitiTweet.org

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1. Facebook talks a lot about everything its doing to stop disinformation on COVID-19 But it doesn't appear to be working Health disinformation gets massive distribution on Facebook, according to a new report, swamping authoritative sources https://t.co/ILwxXgZUMN — PolitiTweet.org

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In the video, Trump signs his mail-in ballot for Florida and says: "Absentee ballots are good. Universal mail-ins are bad and will lead to terrible things." Florida does not have anything called an absentee ballot. Florida does have no excuse mail-in ballots. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here is an example. https://t.co/DAunHcgHXt — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is running dozens of ads today on Facebook targeting Florida voters, urging them to vote by mail — PolitiTweet.org

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Postmaster General announces that, now that people are paying attention, he's suspending various efforts to sabotage the postal service https://t.co/5Z792vPIVr https://t.co/TuoBa5lt76 — PolitiTweet.org

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Perhaps he will address this in the book but New York made many mistakes which undoubtedly cost lives. They should get credit for learning from those mistakes and getting the virus under more control. But it is not a simple success story. — PolitiTweet.org

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Why is Andrew Cuomo writing a book about how well he handled a pandemic in the middle of a pandemic that is very much still in progress? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @abigaillafrica: Popular Information is essentially my cheat for stitching together all the other news that I consume piecemeal. It pain… — PolitiTweet.org

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@SaveTheFangirl I missed 2 — PolitiTweet.org

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6. This report was written by Popular Information's talented research assistant @tesszeeks Follow her and also subscribe to the newsletter! https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo — PolitiTweet.org

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5. Even today, prisoners remain locked in their cells 23 hours a day in an effort to control the spread of the virus These cells, which they share with another person, are tiny As small as 4x9 https://t.co/PY8t3Yuzvu — PolitiTweet.org

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4. 25 prisoners at San Quentin have died of COVID-19. Recently, the number of active cases have declined. But it doesn't mean they've fixed the problems. It just means most (70%) of the prisoners have already been infected https://t.co/PY8t3Yuzvu — PolitiTweet.org

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@Voicesof_SQ 3. Remarkably, there were basically no COVID-19 cases at San Quentin until the beginning of June. Then California transferred "healthy" inmates from a prison w/a massive COVID outbreak to San Quentin Only they weren't healthy Then all hell broke loose https://t.co/PY8t3Yuzvu — PolitiTweet.org

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1. We partnered with Voices of San Quentin (@Voicesof_SQ) to bring you the inside story of how the California prison became the largest COVID cluster in the United States https://t.co/PY8t3Yuzvu — PolitiTweet.org

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@GregHMusic There is no difference. Absentee voting and mail in voting are the same thing! — PolitiTweet.org

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@GregHMusic None of these sites are Florida government sites. There is no such thing as absentee voting in Florida. It's called Vote by mail. https://t.co/qtfTgUemIO — PolitiTweet.org

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Just to review Trump says that mail-in voting is hopelessly fraudulent and he only supports abstentee voting and says that is what he does in Florida but Florida doesn’t even have anything called absentee voting; Florida only has mail-in voting — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SarahKSilverman: Amazing!! https://t.co/P5gep9YdxQ — PolitiTweet.org

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@anildash @reckless That's true although indy blogs disappeared because there wasn't a business model behind them. Newsletters are better situated in that regard. Not all the newsletters that are being started will survive. Some have already died. But I think that it will be more sustainable — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @annehelen: Some personal news! Last week was my last at BuzzFeed News. This week, I’m going full-time w/my newsletter at Substack, wh… — PolitiTweet.org

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You don't want to vote on November 3 and expose yourself to crowds. But Trump is sabotaging the USPS. YOU CAN RETURN A MAIL-IN BALLOT WITHOUT THE USPS To make it easy, we've created a page that explains how to do it in each state Spread the word! https://t.co/mxztT9wB6P — PolitiTweet.org

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It is not a conspiracy theory that changes imposed by the Postmaster General in July is significantly slowing down mail delivery. It is happening! — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump has said FLORIDA is a model for mail-in voting. Florida uses drop boxes. They are available at the Supervisor of Elections' main and branch offices and early voting sites https://t.co/qtfTgUemIO — PolitiTweet.org