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Dad x2, husband. Sushi-eating heretic. Research Influence Watch. Speak only for myself. #DoneWithCOVID; Not one step backward.
Anne Arundel, MDJoined March 2010
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On April 17, 2020, President Trump tweeted support for reopening.
Then, on April 22, 2020, President Trump criticized Brian Kemp for reopening.
Then, on April 30, 2020, President Trump criticized Sweden for staying open.
Too many such cases.
Stop trying to gaslight us.
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While @realDonaldTrump was putting himself at the heart of the lockdown rebellion, people in California and Florida were being arrested for going to the beaches.
See below from April 17th, 2020.
Don’t listen to the revisionists!
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It’s going to be an absolute joy to watch all the outlets who think Trump should not be listened to, hang on every word he says about DeSantis
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Also: Dems & their allies screamed bloody murder about all of the scientifically-sound reopening decisions (schools especially), filing lawsuits. They demanded much longer, very harmful closures, mandates & restrictions. This pro-Trump “rapid response” is VERY telling.
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🚨👀 So this person is rushing to affirm Trump’s nonsense attack against DeSantis for supposedly closing down FL beaches. I assumed it was a hardcore Trump fan. Nope…
…it’s someone else highly invested in helping Trump attack DeSantis: The Democrats’ rapid response director!🤔
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Actual reality re: Florida beaches from March 2020 twitter.com/guypbenson/sta…
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RDS: You subcontracted out your leadership to Fauci, retreated as our cities burned, cost us the Senate, and crashed our midterm against the worst President of our lifetimes with your terrible endorsements. I held the line and won Florida by 20 points. Leadership matters.
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It appears that we have gone from “stay home for a few weeks to flatten the curve” to. . . mitigate till VIRUSES STOP EVOLVING.
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OK, you can only write with ONE type of pen for the rest of your life, which one are you picking? (ignoring the ink color)
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Favorite moment at today’s FedSoc Western Chps conference? Responding to comment about progressive prosecutors being elected w/ heavy campaign spending, Brennan Ctr’s LB Eisen noted that spending was important to inform voters and level playing field for unknown candidates.
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Many United States cities decided it was safe for teenagers to flip burgers during the coronavirus pandemic, but unsafe for them to attend high school.
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“Establishment” is funny in the sense that it’s thrown around by Trump loyalists who still think they’re the insurgency. But they’ve been running the party for almost 8 years now. They are the establishment. Just like Rove, or the Bushes, or any other boogeymen.
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The Lincoln Project is rooting for Donald Trump to be the face of the Republican Party because their entire business model depends on it.
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The Alzheimer’s Association literally partnered with an assisted suicide group that calls dementia a “fate worse than death,” and which wants to make euthanasia “equitably” available to minorities.
That partnership has now ended, 24 hours after it was exposed in .
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UPDATE: The Alzheimer's Association has issued a press release today severing its relationship with Compassion & Choices and apologizing for its failure "to do appropriate due diligence".
Read their full press release today: alz.org/news/2023/alzh
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Organized labor.
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Incredibly, @sagaftra is requiring proof of vax, PLUS "at least" one booster, in order to visit any of their headquarters, anywhere in the country.
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"Downtown Washington is a wounded rendition of its once robust self...Many streets at the city’s core are pocked by vacant storefronts, moribund sidewalks & offices that, even on the busiest days, are just over half occupied." Good story:
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Some on the right view unions as a bulwark against ‘woke capital,’ but labor is even more compromised. Employee freedom is the answer. |
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Was trying to find one good line to quote from this piece by , but the whole thing is great. Read it here:
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It is easier to hold police officers accountable for misconduct when there's no collective bargaining for public sector unions.
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The more that gets revealed in these stories, I get the impression that while a fellow traveler with the progressives, Roth actually was (ineffectively) attempting to be a moderating influence. Explains (to me at least) why he wasn't in the first firings
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I'd like to thank Randi Weingarten for inadvertently doing more to ignite the universal school choice revolution than anyone could have ever imagined
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you can prefer Banks to your hearts content but to call Daniels a "RINO" is just a cope
Daniels signed an anti-abortion bill, made right to work a thing in Indiana, prohibited illegals from receiving state college tuition and set fines for companies that employed illegals
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The fact that Democrats want RINO Mitch Daniels to run for Senate gives me more reasons to oppose his campaign. @Jim_Banks needs to win at all costs twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz…
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Among other things, liberal historians accepting the 1619 Project’s rehabilitation of the British Empire to own the cons is downright hilarious.
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Just watched the Hulu 1619 Project's first episode. It leans heavily into the claim that the American Revolution was fought over slavery.
Lord Dunmore becomes an "emancipator" in Nikole Hannah-Jones's account, propped up by Woody Holton.
Not mentioned: Dunmore was an enslaver.
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I don’t take any advice from !
She was wrong to lock our kids out of the classroom and she is wrong about School Choice. This is about our kids!
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What’s shameful is that by politicizing the very real threat of foreign information operations on social media with lies, this group made the task far easier for our foes by further eradicating trust in those fighting actual disinformation campaigns.
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7.The ASD advisory council includes neoconservative writer Bill Kristol, former Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, ex-Hillary for America chief John Podesta, and former heads or deputy heads of the CIA, NSA, and the Department of Homeland Security.
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From : The reason gas stoves are in the news is simple: There is a coordinated, calculated—and well-funded—strategy to kill them off, writes
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I feel like building anticipation for a police-brutality video by announcing the time in advance, while promising it's going to be particularly horrifying, and also releasing it after sunset, is possibly not the best plan.
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The Left is against air travel in general so good luck mandating that carriers expand service to Burlington, Wausau & Cheyenne
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You can't get to much of rural America anymore because regional flights were eliminated after deregulation. twitter.com/kenklippenstei…
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As always, it comes down to “how many guys you got”
grassroots support and major donor support don’t matter when the other guys have the butts in the eligible voter seats
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NEWS: RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel is re-elected to lead the party. Final tally: McDaniel gets 111 votes, Harmeet Dhillon gets 51, Mike Lindell gets 4.
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"Whether climate activists have the discipline to wait until their goals become palatable to the mass of mankind remains to be seen. So far, the signs aren't encouraging."
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Mr. Ekdahl's statement regarding his reinstatement from a 10-month suspension.
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LOL, Hamilton 68 even a secret list of Russian assets. Not sure if the list had been updated since first being presented to the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling.
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10. The secret ingredient to Hamilton 68’s analytical method? A list: “Our analysis has linked 600 Twitter accounts to Russian influence activities online,” was how the site put it at launch.
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It's easy to think of a guy who's job title was basically "VP for censorship" as the bad guy but it's funny how often in the Twitter Files that Yoel Roth comes across as being the sensible voice of moderation pushing back against others demanding aggressive censorship.
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4.“Virtually any conclusion drawn from it will take conversations in conservative circles on Twitter and accuse them of being Russian.”
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I was going to say 36% of ppl are insane, but I suspect, as is the case with a lot of polling, that they respond in ways, 1) they think pollsters want to hear 2) they think bolster general partisan and cultural preferences 3) they think make them sound open-minded.
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New Wason Center poll of VIRGINIA voters: “Virginia voters show support for requiring parental approval for K-12 students to be referred to by a different pronoun from their birth certificate (59% to 36%).”
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They found a pen 🖊️
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EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Martinelli has agreed a new 4.5yr contract at Arsenal. Previous terms ran to 2024 & #AFC had 2yr option. Fresh deal in process of being finalised for 21yo Brazil attacker to extend at Emirates Stadium until summer 2027 @TheAthleticFC theathletic.com/4131671/2023/035
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U.S.-built ships are extraordinarily expensive, with prices 4-5x higher than those found abroad for certain vessel types. But why? Here's a quick 🧵 on the reasons sometimes offered and the reality behind them.
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Randi Weingarten became the accidental hero of the school choice movement. Her decision to shut down schools, promote critical race theory, and antagonize parents created the political conditions for legislators to enact universal school choice. World-historical incompetence.
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