New: Santos' 2022 campaign reported receiving more than $45,000 from relatives in Queens.
One of those relatives, who was recorded as giving $5,800, told me at their apartment yesterday that they did not make any donation to Santos. w/
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A SANTOS SCOOP: The 2022 Santos campaign reported that a Santos family member donated $5800. We spoke to this person. They say they never gave any money. Yet another questionable donation for Santos. From and me. 1/2
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OMG, it just keeps coming.
& bring the latest George Santos campaign finance scoop:
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Victoria and Jonathan Regor each contributed $2,800—the max amount—to George Santos' first bid for a House seat. Their listed address was 45 New Mexico Street in New Jersey.
Various databases suggest those names don't exist. Neither does that address. 👀
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New: We've identified more than a dozen top donors to Santos' 2020 campaign who do not seem to exist.
I also spoke to a friend of Santos' who says he did not give the $2,800 donation attributed to him.
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This comes from something thought about for a while. which is how to explain the violence that took place on January 6: "Why is there such a racial disparity in the insurrectionists if the 'Big Lie' is the reason why it happened?” I argue something larger is the problem. twitter.com/jameswest2010/…
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This week is the two-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
argues we’ve been overlooking one *giant* piece of the puzzle, in this insightful video by .
Also some fascinating historical archive in here.
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The “Big Lie” has become central to the story of how Donald Trump incited violence at the US Capitol. But a much darker motivating factor has received little attention. bit.ly/3InY15i
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To produce what the New York Times called “a clean, uninterrupted narrative,” the committee left out some of the full, painful, messy truth, writes . Great piece:
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and we’re all just supposed to go to work tomorrow after all that? #whitelotus
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This brand new video by --which explains how Christianity itself is on the ballot Georgia, in a battle for its soul--is really amazing.
Also happens to his first (of many) for
What a debut.
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I had the AI compose "a letter from the late Queen Elizabeth II praising for his continued attacks on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle upon the announcement of their new series. The letter contains creative insults."
Nailed it:
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Statement from the BBC regarding the assault of my colleague Ed Lawrence by police in #Shanghai. Anyone who’s seen the footage will’ve seen that a group of police used excessive force to detain a journalist who was covering the #ZeroCovid #unrest in that city. He’s been released.
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Omfg I asked robot to put an angry Trump in the foreground…
… and it turned Trump into the Giant Ketchup Monster of Mar a Lago!!
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In case this reference has fallen into the memory hole
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Some amazing alts
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. joked earlier that there must be plenty of ketchup on the walls of Mar a Lago today, given the bad legal news for Trump.
So I asked my AI robot to imagine a ketchup-soaked Mar a Lago:
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I wrote yesterday about the insidious way modern soccer implicates you in what it has become, but also on separating its structures from its soul. It belongs to you, and it doesn't belong to you.
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WOW. Chris Kennedy — the Arkansas father who received an anonymous letter demanding he remove his "negro Santa Claus yard decoration" — will now become a Santa Claus himself in the documentary "Santa Camp," in which he has a starring role! Now streaming on ! 🙌🏾
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Robot got pretty dark with some subsequent variations:
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Asked AI to render a Twitter funeral amid the clouds. Not bad, robot:
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Just, uh, popping this here 😬
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“This was the Great Reprieve. It was the political equivalent of jump-starting an old car—you still might need a new one, but it’ll run a little while longer.” —
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Meet the seven new Texans in Congress: Republicans and Democrats .
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"Masters was wrong," writes our with the definitive look at his ill-fated candidacy. "His defeat comes at great personal cost—all self-inflicted."
A great read upon the news of 's win:
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Our writes a sobering morning-after warning to not get too comfy: Even with a smaller House majority than expected, the party of Jan. 6 can still unleash chaos.
In other words, the clown car has pulled up and is depositing its clowns.
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One thing I'll be watching tonight is the vote results to see who won the races
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Incredible thread showcasing our reporting going back years on the stakes of this election for the next...
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You’ve heard it a million times: Democracy is on the ballot. But what seems like a bunch of random state-level battles today is an insidious national strategy years in the making.
And voters will decide if they’re ok with the 2024 election being stolen. bit.ly/3tcWE0F
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This election day look at Kari Lake by is simply terrific and contains all his Muphian magic: motherjones.com/politics/2022/
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Obama cites chilling stat from my new article on impact of extreme gerrymandering in Wisconsin: "Democrats have to win statewide vote by 12 points just to get to 50 seats in the assembly, while Republicans could garner a majority with just 44% of votes" motherjones.com/politics/2022/
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Obama on gerrymandering in Wisconsin: "Think about any other thing you do in life where 44 percent are on one side, 56 are on the other, and 44 wins. It don't make sense."
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Lula's election promises on climate include:
- Updating Brazil's "insufficient" climate targets climatechangenews.com/2022/10/07/lul
- Appointing a climate envoy bloomberg.com/news/articles/
- Coalition with Indonesia and Congo to take united approach on rainforests arabnews.com/node/2160026
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The profession is immeasurably better thanks to
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So with that, I bid farewell to the ABC, tho not to Twitter 
30 years and as many countries is enough. Looking forward to new adventures. Please defend public service journalism.
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. got his hands on the divorce records of Jim Marchant, Nevada’s MAGA secretary of state candidate. They tell the story of financial ruin, mounting credit card bills, and an ice vending company wouldn’t even touch:
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🧵 Hi from Savannah, Georgia, where I'm covering the *only* debate between incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock & challenger Herschel Walker. Polls are virtually tied. The outcome of this race could very well determine which party controls the US Senate. Follow along for updates here!
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