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Still trying to have it both ways - 2024-04-29 1 0 0 0 0 0 1784933947828494608 1784933947828494608
America's Founders knew all about kings and emperors - 2024-04-27 38 0 0 0 0 0 1784045760805564468 1784045760805564468
Who would you pick? 2024-04-27 4 0 0 0 0 0 1784042046917140621 1784042046917140621
How empires collapse - 2024-04-27 1 0 0 0 0 0 1784040275960295821 1784040275960295821
Want to make a small fortune? 2024-04-27 0 0 0 0 0 0 1784032705681989973 1784032705681989973
Can't tell the players without a scorecard! 2024-04-26 2 0 0 0 0 0 1783891784835473551 1783891784835473551
Hamas talks "cease-fire" meaning "pause to regroup, 2024-04-26 13 0 0 0 0 0 1783651760567197971 1783651760567197971
You probably never heard of or cared about Moldova, 2024-04-26 18 0 0 0 0 0 1783649111033720976 1783649111033720976
“I don’t care if the speaker’s office becomes a 2024-04-19 2 0 0 0 0 0 1781351078791184888 1781351078791184888
Where the Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP can get its 2024-04-19 1 0 0 0 0 0 1781338536698081495 1781338536698081495
That was the week that wasn't - 2024-04-19 1 0 0 0 0 0 1781336025920651515 1781336025920651515
Getting a pardon or commutation from Trump is pretty much 2024-04-18 5 1 1 0 0 0 1780934933021962328 1780934933021962328
They were against labor then - 2024-04-17 2 0 0 0 0 0 1780413494862762391 1780413494862762391
You don't know about the election until you've heard from 2024-04-17 1 0 0 0 0 0 1780406746571587780 1780406746571587780
GOP megadonors cater to the reactionary religious right 2024-04-16 3 2 0 0 1 1 1780367949246927156 1780367949246927156
Can Johnson lead the Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP, 2024-04-16 1 0 0 0 0 0 1780362388459659304 1780362388459659304
Why is the GOP is so opposed to abortion? Some care 2024-04-16 1 0 0 0 0 0 1780269977347727625 1780269977347727625
Devaluing the dollar - as good an idea as unilateral 2024-04-16 3 0 0 0 0 0 1780254056063369356 1780254056063369356
Inflation is real, but not bad compared to the stagflation 2024-04-16 3 0 0 0 0 0 1780040438738764230 1780040438738764230
Sacrifice is for little people, not Trump! The little 2024-04-16 0 0 0 0 0 0 1780035870067990633 1780035870067990633
You can't be a Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP without 2024-04-07 0 0 0 0 0 0 1776983692927521017 1776983692927521017
Party caucuses are a joke. Replace them with 2024-04-07 3 0 0 0 0 0 1776982834844147748 1776982834844147748
Freischütz Caucus greatest accomplishment - driving out 2024-04-07 4 0 0 0 0 0 1776977798068109562 1776977798068109562
Who's going to make money on Truth Social? It won't 2024-04-07 3 0 0 0 0 0 1776973019535306931 1776973019535306931
No peace for our time! 2024-04-07 5 0 0 0 0 0 1776970246353834086 1776970246353834086
Third-party centrism just doesn't work unless it's combined 2024-04-07 1 0 0 0 0 0 1776966295025856766 1776966295025856766
In Trumpworld, loyalty or the illusion of loyalty always 2024-04-06 0 0 0 0 0 0 1776651237603360994 1776651237603360994
How Putin, Xi, Kim, and the Ayatollah use social media to 2024-04-06 2 0 0 0 0 0 1776646519560770030 1776646519560770030
Trump assumed that in 2016 he was elected emperor for life. 2024-04-05 2 0 0 0 0 0 1776384860170674205 1776384860170674205
A win for rule of law. But how long can it stand? 2024-04-05 0 0 0 0 0 0 1776383861393670456 1776383861393670456
What happened when the defenders of minority rule realized 2024-04-05 0 0 0 0 0 0 1776383137318371742 1776383137318371742
Violence is still as American as cherry pie - 2024-04-05 24 0 0 0 0 0 1776382469736169499 1776382469736169499
Money is not speech. Democracy is not about one 2024-04-05 13 0 0 0 0 0 1776380795336503807 1776380795336503807
What the Alabama IVF decision did and didn't decide - 2024-04-05 3 0 0 0 0 0 1776379360351785284 1776379360351785284
Why stick to boring old facts when you can weave exciting 2024-04-05 0 0 0 0 0 0 1776322765865492509 1776322765865492509
That was the week that wasn't - 2024-04-05 1 0 0 0 0 0 1776321286379388998 1776321286379388998
More than one way to interpret an old text! 2024-04-05 0 0 0 0 0 0 1776318805448573130 1776318805448573130

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UPDATED Thu May 2 05:27:42 PM PDT 2024

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Still trying to have it both ways -

"Trump said there is a lot you can do in terms of
entitlements, in terms of cutting.”

"Trump’s campaign said  that Trump will continue to
strongly protect Social Security and Medicare in his
second term.”

https://apnews.com/article/aarp-older-adults-retirement-savings-prices-c4f1353d97e8c0a9973c9c67a8eab800

#PS1deficit

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impress 1
time 2024-04-29 13:13 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1784933947828494608

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America's Founders knew all about kings and emperors -
and wanted none of it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opinion/trump-immunity-supreme-court.html

The Supreme Court isn't sure they meant it.

#PS1trump

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impress 38
time 2024-04-27 02:23 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1784045760805564468

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Who would you pick?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2024/vice-president-candidates-donald-trump/

Trying to think like Trump, I came up with MTG.    She's as
loyal to him as he to her, which is to say, until something
better comes along.

#PS1trump

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impress 4
time 2024-04-27 02:09 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1784042046917140621

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How empires collapse -

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/26/david-ignatius-rand-study-us-forecast-decline/

Or not!      Where is our Theodore Roosevelt?

#PS1theory

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impress 1
time 2024-04-27 02:02 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1784040275960295821

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Want to make a small fortune?

https://apnews.com/article/trump-investing-stocks-truth-social-short-politics-986566b8b876cd5ddae909029fd410c9

Start with a large fortune.

#PS1trump

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engage-rate NaN
time 2024-04-27 01:31 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1784032705681989973

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Can't tell the players without a scorecard!

https://apnews.com/article/trump-election-interference-indictments-giuliani-meadows-8137b90da8c3a971316e0cfa3acfd6a9

Several have already cut plea deals.

#PS1insurrection

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impress 2
time 2024-04-26 16:11 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1783891784835473551

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Hamas talks "cease-fire" meaning "pause to regroup,
recruit, and rearm for the next invasion."

Netanyahu's coalition depends on a minority as fanatical
as Hamas.    But that minority is not the Hamas target -
all of Israel is.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-war-f756cc054732eb3f7e0c49a9987560a0

#PS1mideast

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impress 13
time 2024-04-26 00:18 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1783651760567197971

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You probably never heard of or cared about Moldova,
just as your great-grand-parents about the Sudetenland.
Putin talks "peace" and "cease-fire" but he means "pause
while Russia regroups, recruits, and rearms for the next
invasion."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/25/moldova-russian-politics-ukraine-invasion-europe/

#PS1ukraine

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impress 18
time 2024-04-26 00:07 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1783649111033720976

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“I don’t care if the speaker’s office becomes a
revolving door"

There you have it - Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat politics
in its purist form - shut the Federal government down!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/19/israel-ukraine-aid-house-speaker-mike-johnson/

#PS1gop

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impress 2
time 2024-04-19 15:56 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1781351078791184888

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Where the Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP can get its
orders -

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/17/russia-foreign-policy-us-weaken/

Though most seem to know what to do without being told.

#PS1putin

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impress 1
time 2024-04-19 15:06 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1781338536698081495

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That was the week that wasn't -

https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check

Just the lowlights -

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-trump-trial-migrants-264c620a7ee973d26d869cbec57ad7ec

#PS1media

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impress 1
time 2024-04-19 14:56 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1781336025920651515

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Getting a pardon or commutation from Trump is pretty much
a guarantee of criminal behavior!

https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/13/trump-pardon-philip-esformes-biden-justice-department/

That's why so many criminals are hoping Trump gets
re-elected and helping any way they can.  Here's how that
one turned out -

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article285778766.html

#PS1justice

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engage 1
engage-rate 20%
expands 1
impress 5
time 2024-04-18 12:22 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780934933021962328

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They were against labor then -

https://www.facingsouth.org/2021/03/pro-act-would-undo-decades-southern-anti-union-laws-rooted-racism

and they're against labor now -

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/16/republican-governors-uaw/

Interesting how only Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP
governors are interested in protecting black folks' rights
to be exploited.

#PS1economics

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impress 2
time 2024-04-17 01:50 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780413494862762391

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You don't know about the election until you've heard from
Dave Barry!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/16/election-postcards-2024/

#PS1election

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impress 1
time 2024-04-17 01:23 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780406746571587780

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GOP megadonors cater to the reactionary religious right
for the same reason they cater to the gun lobby - it's a
cheap source of reliable GOP votes in favor of candidates
that will protect and enhance minority rule economic and
political power.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/16/religion-politics-republicans-abortion-trump/

#PS1gop

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engage 2
engage-rate 67%
impress 3
likes 1
retweets 1
time 2024-04-16 22:49 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780367949246927156

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Can Johnson lead the Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP,
which is only barely a majority if you add up all its
feuding contradictory factions?

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-israel-house-republicans-3f6f6af81c860eb8ce4104e61728a0fb

Boehner, Ryan, and McCarthy couldn't.   Can ANYBODY?

#PS1gop

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impress 1
time 2024-04-16 22:27 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780362388459659304

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Why is the GOP is so opposed to abortion?  Some care
deeply, and some just pretend - anything to win the
election.

Its megadonors finance the GOP to protect and expand
minority rule and the economic and political power of the
ruling class.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/opinion/arizona-abortion-supreme-court.html

#PS1gop

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impress 1
time 2024-04-16 16:20 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780269977347727625

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Devaluing the dollar - as good an idea as unilateral
nuclear disarmament.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/16/trump-devalue-dollar-inflation-economy/

#PS1economics

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impress 3
time 2024-04-16 15:16 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780254056063369356

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Inflation is real, but not bad compared to the stagflation
of the 1970's.

But swing voters that don't follow politics closely usually
just vote their pocketbook feelings, whether based on fact
or fantasy.

https://www.columbian.com/news/2024/apr/13/why-biden-is-getting-little-credit-for-the-economy-especially-in-california/

#PS1economics

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impress 3
time 2024-04-16 01:08 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780040438738764230

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Sacrifice is for little people, not Trump!  The little
people can't say they weren't warned.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/25/trump-truth-social-stock-2024/

https://apnews.com/article/trump-media-truth-social-nasdaq-stock-106d7c423174ca1d7cc3cc9a3f3897a0

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/14/truth-social-investors-faith-trump/

Maybe they'll remember what "pump and dump" means next
time, if they ever get to have a next time.

#PS1trump

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engage-rate NaN
time 2024-04-16 00:49 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1780035870067990633

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You can't be a Putinist-Trumpist-Dixiecrat GOP without
being an election denier.    Fortunately, there's more
than one way to qualify.

https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/speaker-johnson-denies-being-an-election

#PS1gop

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engage-rate NaN
time 2024-04-07 14:41 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776983692927521017

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Party caucuses are a joke.    Replace them with
ranked-choice voting.

Our campaign finance laws are another joke.    End
unlimited dark money!

https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/decoding-the-iowa-caucuses

#PS1democracy

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impress 3
time 2024-04-07 14:38 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776982834844147748

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Freischütz Caucus greatest accomplishment - driving out
GOP who want to solve problems.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/07/house-republicans-retirements-mike-johnson-majority-elections/

"Congress was built to make incremental changes, but that
lawmakers often promise immediate, large-scale reforms to
voters in an effort to get elected."

#PS1gop

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impress 4
time 2024-04-07 14:18 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776977798068109562

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Who's going to make money on Truth Social?     It won't
be the little investors that bid up the stock price!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/07/trump-media-truth-social-payout/

What's sure is a gold mine for lawyers!

#PS1media

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impress 3
time 2024-04-07 13:59 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776973019535306931

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No peace for our time!

It didn't work for Chamberlain with Hitler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_for_our_time

And it won't work for Trump with Putin

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/05/trump-ukraine-secret-plan/

#PS1ukraine

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impress 5
time 2024-04-07 13:48 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776970246353834086

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Third-party centrism just doesn't work unless it's combined
with ranked-choice voting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/06/no-labels-trump-biden-election/

And there's no ranked-choice voting for president.

#PS1democracy

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impress 1
time 2024-04-07 13:32 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776966295025856766

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In Trumpworld, loyalty or the illusion of loyalty always
trumps competence or the illusion of competence.

https://ncnewsline.com/2024/03/29/in-gubernatorial-race-mark-robinson-exposes-republican-fault-lines/

#PS1trump

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engage-rate NaN
time 2024-04-06 16:40 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776651237603360994

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How Putin, Xi, Kim, and the Ayatollah use social media to
weaken America -

https://apnews.com/article/misinformation-anonymous-accounts-social-media-2024-election-8a6b0f8d727734200902d96a59b84bf7

And then there are all the Americans using social media
to stir up blind rage  - for big bucks, or to protect
minority rule.

#PS1media

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impress 2
time 2024-04-06 16:21 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776646519560770030

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Trump assumed that in 2016 he was elected emperor for life.
Same as Putin, Xi, Kim, and the Ayatollah!

https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/a-president-is-not-a-king

But he was, is, and will be... wrong.     That won't keep
him from trying.

#PS1democracy

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impress 2
time 2024-04-05 23:02 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776384860170674205

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A win for rule of law.       But how long can it stand?

https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/breaking-trumps-immunity-claim-rejected

Rule of law just gets in the way of strong leaders.

#PS1justice

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engage-rate NaN
time 2024-04-05 22:58 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776383861393670456

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What happened when the defenders of minority rule realized
that a reactionary judiciary could be bought too -

https://statecourtreport.substack.com/p/state-court-report-post-dobbs-state

#PS1justice

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engage-rate NaN
time 2024-04-05 22:55 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776383137318371742

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Violence is still as American as cherry pie -

https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/threats-and-intimidation-are-distorting

Strong leaders love to incite violent mobs to shortcircuit
the rule of law.

#PS1democracy

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impress 24
time 2024-04-05 22:52 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776382469736169499

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Money is not speech.       Democracy is not about one
dollar = one vote.

While American Promise has been laboring toward a
bipartisan Federal solution,  New York has already acted -

https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/the-answer-to-citizens-united-is

#PS1democracy

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impress 13
time 2024-04-05 22:45 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776380795336503807

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What the Alabama IVF decision did and didn't decide -

https://statecourtreport.substack.com/p/state-court-report-how-the-alabama

#PS1health

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impress 3
time 2024-04-05 22:40 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776379360351785284

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Why stick to boring old facts when you can weave exciting
new fantasies?

https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/fact-checking-trumps-speech-on-crime

#PS1trump

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engage-rate NaN
time 2024-04-05 18:55 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776322765865492509

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That was the week that wasn't -

https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check

Just the lowlights -

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-voter-registration-e3a7f5f7d3e68120395b05065d051c80

#PS1media

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impress 1
time 2024-04-05 18:49 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776321286379388998

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More than one way to interpret an old text!

https://statecourtreport.substack.com/p/state-court-report-the-thing-about

#PS1firearms

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engage-rate NaN
time 2024-04-05 18:39 +0000
https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1776318805448573130