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Lot of noise about @RonDeSantis announcing & discussing his Presidential bid on this platform.

But you what isn’t noise? Setting an all-time record for fundraising!

Worth considering for announcements in general. https://t.co/8cGlxiHhHS

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 26, 2023

 

This is the greatest thing the internet has ever produced

Ron Wears Lady Clothes... pic.twitter.com/PLC2shlfU0

— C3PMeme (@C3PMeme) May 25, 2023

 

I have a feeling that it will blow people's minds... literally

— 🇺🇸Carrie Sweet🇺🇦 (@Anybodyhomehere) May 26, 2023

 

Kandiss Taylor, who ran for governor in 2022 and recently became a Georgia GOP district chair, is a flat earther: "Everywhere there's globes ... and that's what they do to brainwash." pic.twitter.com/PEz1sqOTvA

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) May 22, 2023

 

I just finished your single-paragraph review on Twitter and I found it profound and engaging. Thanks for making sure it made it's way to me. Please DM me with a more elaborate critique that I may commence rewriting and refilming that 2007 work post haste. https://t.co/VE80oebOkm

— David Simon (@AoDespair) May 26, 2023

Am famously known for my very simplistic opinions and depictions of things that are always black and white. Would love to discuss this ornately with a rando Twitter mook named for a fictional character and many numerals but there's gold in writing silly TV shows instead. Regrets, https://t.co/0UfeuwR0Wx

— David Simon (@AoDespair) May 26, 2023

 

Roddie Edmonds was a Master Sergeant in the United States Army. In late 1944, Edmonds was captured in the Battle of the Bulge and held at a German POW camp. In January 1945, the Nazis ordered all Jewish-American POWs to step forward. Edmonds, the highest-ranking noncommissioned… pic.twitter.com/4V8ZIkZAk9

— Humans of Judaism (@HumansOfJudaism) May 25, 2023

 

Lauren Boebert says fighting “hate and antisemitism” is code for going after conservatives https://t.co/pfxWdCAe5Q

— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 25, 2023

 

These people clearly don't fly internationally very often, nor spend their time looking at flight times and flight paths.

 

If the threat of White Supremacy to the republic is so real and so prevalent, why does it seem like they have to outsource all of the hate??? pic.twitter.com/u2LQc8MqGK

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 23, 2023

 

I don't speak Trumpese - can someone explain this to me, particularly given the pic on the right has a Nazi flag lying on the ground. Is he saying the flag belongs to the driver of the U-Haul and not to the guys standing around?

 

Hope they didn't need the water

India official empties dam to retrieve lost phone https://t.co/z9s1mAlWIt

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 27, 2023

 

Put the debt on the blockchain.

by Andrew Yang

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) May 27, 2023

 

Now we will see some improvement!

Gavin has since removed The Babylon Bee from is LinkedIn bio pic.twitter.com/oFkKZLmGFv

— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) May 27, 2023

 

Since The Office is trending…

it takes 10,000 Schrute bucks to make a dollar. https://t.co/sFWaDqKUk8

— CoolOldGeek (@disguyiknow) May 27, 2023

 

1. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...-wealth-maga-loyalty-lose-thousands-rcna84965

2. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con

 

Instant comparison:

TRUMP: "Get that baby out of here."

Character matters. https://t.co/QnzxBMUMJp pic.twitter.com/RcdvpAreAy

— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) May 26, 2023

 

.@elonmusk is using the same quote and graphic @RepThomasMassie did 11 months ago, even though subsequently multiple major outlets - @ap, @Reuters - showed that it came not from Voltaire but from a neo-Nazi, Kevin Alfred Storm. https://t.co/J6mETf3qla

— Ron Kampeas (@kampeas) May 27, 2023

 

BREAKING: Court sanctions Mark Finchem & his attorney almost $50k following baseless election lawsuit. Finchem's atty said in court that he expected to be sanctioned or disbarred. Over $40k is against Finchem personally for bringing a frivolous suit. https://t.co/roSIw1EbF1

— Barry Markson (@BarryMarkson1) May 27, 2023

 

NEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton has personally called House members while on the floor threatening them with political retribution if they vote in favor of impeachment, Rep. Charlie Geren announced on the House floor.

— Tony Plohetski (@tplohetski) May 27, 2023

 

More than a year, since they tried to capture it in 3 days, more than 7 months since they tried to plunge it into darkness, more than 1541 years, since it was founded
Happy birthday, my Kyiv 🤍 pic.twitter.com/mljlAX3IRu

— Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 (@reshetz) May 28, 2023

 

Around 200k unemployed people exist between the ages of 49 and 54. Some portion have dependents or disabilities.

There are 500k homeless people between the ages of 16 and 49. Almost none of them were eligible for SNAP before.

This is an *expansion* of SNAP. https://t.co/joXnCucRQi

— Galen Metzger🪬📈🇺🇦🌐 (@GalenMetzger1) May 28, 2023

 

Around 200k unemployed people exist between the ages of 49 and 54. Some portion have dependents or disabilities.

There are 500k homeless people between the ages of 16 and 49. Almost none of them were eligible for SNAP before.

This is an *expansion* of SNAP. https://t.co/joXnCucRQi

— Galen Metzger🪬📈🇺🇦🌐 (@GalenMetzger1) May 28, 2023

 

Yes. These are real concessions. But when we say they cld have gotten as much thu normal budget negotiation (correct) that means the whole hostage taking accomplished nothing. When you go into a Dennys with a gun and say gimme the money, if you just get breakfast that’s a fail. https://t.co/WGXiorZLN8

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 28, 2023

 

Head of RT Margarita Simonyan Calls for Lindsey Graham’s Assassination

"It’s not even hard. We have his address."

My latest for @thedailybeast https://t.co/Qq73hteCvu

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) May 28, 2023