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Los Angeles, CA
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@alexkasprak
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Something didn't smell right about those JD Vance semen cup claims, so I took a deep dive into the issue. The pictures are real and are from actual Trump events... but their origins are opaque and, quite frankly, suspicious. My latest:
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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@elonmusk thank you, billionaire who purchased a social media company to own the libs, for your advice on the excesses of individual power
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@nypost so is it like, someone's job at the post to just search for onlyfans accounts to exploit for ad revenue or?
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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It is wild to see the right complain about "communists" in the Democratic party when they are going full Stasi right in front of our eyes.
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The New York Times
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Breaking News: Erik Prince, the security contractor close to the Trump administration, recruited former U.S. and British spies to help infiltrate liberal groups
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I'd like to think that this folder, at least once, has been delivered with those two scoops of ice cream
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@danielsgoldman would probably take about 30 seconds of research to figure out his Jewish background had nothing to do with it
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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I asked @SpoxDHS if Homeland Security already collected data on journalists, and this was his reply:
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holy fuck. the official fucking house science committee twitter.
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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ah.
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Lauren Boebert: "Contrary to popular belief, I have never been as escort for Senator Ted Cruz."
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@Sethrogen ok "seth"
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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By the end of the day he will have categorically denied making this statement
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Acyn
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“They’ve come up with the AIDS vaccine”
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glad all that hard work paid off, kevin mccarthy
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Acyn
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The Build Back Better Plan is passed in the House 220-213
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alex kasprak
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CDC now recommending cancellation of any gathering over 50 people for the next 8 weeks
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alex kasprak
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perhaps some members of congress need a refresher on the germ theory of disease?
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alex kasprak
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they check the plumbing?
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Acyn
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Martha: Does he have the search warrant? Lara Trump: To my knowledge, no
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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The Daily Wire generally holds more than half of the top trending posts on Facebook in any given day despite the fact that they are getting those numbers by explicitly violating Facebook's Terms of Service. This "censorship of conservative opinion" narrative is a fantasy
@NikkiHaley
Nikki Haley
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Censorship by tech companies, esp censorship of conservative opinions,violates the spirit of the law & the 1st Amendment.But more regulation would go too far in the other direction,putting bureaucrats & lawyers in control of what gets said online. Either way, free speech loses.
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alex kasprak
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'this war, in which russia attempted a regime change in the name of imperialism, is actually about regime change in russia. i am an intellectual and an iconoclast who deserves to be on tv'
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Acyn
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Tulsi: It’s never been about morality. It’s not about the people of Ukraine or protecting democracy. This is about regime change in Russia and exploiting this war to expand NATO..
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the man can identify a drawing of a lion what more do you people want?
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Acyn
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The President says the “1917 pandemic” ended the Second World War
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alex kasprak
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biden celebrates deal supported by 70% of the population?
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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@mtgreenee shouldn't you be out trailing high school students yelling about building 7 or laser fires or some shit right now?
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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Just a quick reminder that Judy Mikovits is a fraud who was arrested for stealing lab equipment from the lab she was fired from for producing shoddy work. She invented a deep state/vax conspiracy years later to sell a book. Y'all eating that shit up, too.
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alex kasprak
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a sobering indictment of a fence's utility to protect from intruders
@willsommer
Will Sommer
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Right-wing activist Laura Loomer, last seen chaining herself to Twitter HQ, has jumped the fence at Nancy Pelosi's Napa home and set up a tent protesting immigration. Now she's chanting "Nancy, Nancy!"
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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In August 2023, RFK Jr. published a book of 'evidence' showing vaccines cause harm. It included a survey made by an activist who claimed — falsely — to have uncovered "the mathematically proven imminent dissolution of America from within." My latest:
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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would love to dig a bit deeper into this 'antifa historian pack' situation
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Kevin M. Kruse
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It just keeps getting sadder.
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alex kasprak
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this ain't it, @facebook
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@alexkasprak
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I have amended my piece on glyphosate. Thanks to all for the constructive feedback. …
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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Every episode would be 2 minutes long and consist solely of Nunes in an office asking a member of the GOP leadership what they would like him to include in each episode's memo. Its catchphrase? "Welp, no more questions from me."
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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in journalism, this process is known as fact checking. it normally occurs prior to publishing something. when a person's claims are "debunked" in said process, they typically are not given nationwide airtime.
@WeAreSinclair
Sinclair, Inc.
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We also interviewed a medical expert who debunked Dr. Mikovitz’s claims as conspiracy theories. We’re a supporter of free speech and a marketplace of ideas and viewpoints, even if incredibly controversial.
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alex kasprak
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me: vitamin c will not cure or prevent covid-19 my fans: you are a "demon" who has "prostituted himself to illusion and deception"
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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@ChildrensHD you are bad at science and you are hurting america please stop
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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Actually, the Wuhan Institute of Virology is 17 miles away. A "Wuhan Disease Prevention and Control Center" (one of many) is located near the Huanan market. But it's not now, nor has it ever been, a "CCP lab studying coronaviruses derived from bats."
@tedcruz
Ted Cruz
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Actually, it’s called Covid-19. It is a particular kind of coronavirus. It originated in Wuhan, China. 400 meters away from a CCP lab studying coronaviruses derived from bats. Then CCP disappeared brave Chinese doctors & whistleblowers trying to stop it. Why ignore that?
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pretty good deal tbh
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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Hello @EPAScottPruitt . Reporter for here seeking comment on why members of the press were (allegedly) selectively excluded from today's summit on contaminants. alex @snopes .com
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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For more on how the MAGA movement is not fascist, please check out my show "The War Room" where I discuss the necessity of uncompromising political violence
@peltzmadeline
Madeline Peltz
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Steve Bannon is doubling down on President Biden's characterization of the MAGA movement as a threat to democracy: "The battle lines are drawn. There’s no compromise here ... we have not yet begun to fight"
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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In May, I reported on the digital origins of Michigan's anti-lockdown movement. Many of the same people identified in that story showed up for what became the Capitol riot, and they are in denial about its cause. My latest:
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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thank you, @LindseyGrahamSC , for supporting the troops
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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I spent 18 months unraveling a complex network of online grifts connected to "visionary" aerospace entrepreneur Max Polyakov. My latest (5-part) investigation for @snopes :
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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The most absurd lede of my career:
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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Nebraska and Idaho's elevation to nation status going to affect the balance of the senate, one would think
@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
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Trump does not commit to taking the advice of public health experts if they say that social distancing measures need to last longer than 15 days. He then misidentifies states as "countries"
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alex kasprak
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nothing, repeat nothing, has changed for the lab leak theory to "gain traction"
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alex kasprak
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Reporter: So your documentary says it reveals the "hidden agenda" behind the COVID-19 pandemic. What is that agenda? Plandemic filmmaker: I have no idea
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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A small small sampling of the abject crap he spewed on that platform:
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@yashar
Yashar Ali 🐘
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Instagram has taken down the account of @RobertKennedyJr . Kennedy is the most vocal anti-Vaxxer in the US. He had 800k followers on IG. I can’t begin to tell you how dangerous this man is with respect to public health. He has spread a huge amount of misinformation re vaccines.
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it was just locker room talk
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Acyn
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Ingraham: Could the President have sold his own record better? Yeah... But does he need to remember the swing voters and suburban women still need convincing? Yeah I guess so. Yeah but did Biden lob fifth grade insults at the President in order to get under his skin? Absolutely
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alex kasprak
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@WesleyHuntTX RICO is an act. To be charged under RICO, you need to be able to identify, among other things, two or more actual crimes listed in the RICO act. You guys had like 35 options under the act and you couldn't name one. Terminal Dunning–Kruger effect on display here.
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alex kasprak
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Mark Meadows and Ginni Thomas credulously shared messages about "quantum financial system" watermarks on election ballots in November 2020. I had to debunk this nonsense back then, and let me tell you it is...... out there.
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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The group, despite having the word "militia" in its title and its stated location set as "Kenosha" apparently evaded Facebook's "policy addressing militia organizations" until @snopes pointed it out to them yesterday. "‘When Can We Open Fire?’" one member asked.
@snopes
snopes.com
4 years
Here's everything we know about the former online militia group and its threats of violence against protesters.
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alex kasprak
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Virtually everything in this thread is debunked, dangerous misinformation:
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@Acyn
Acyn
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“We don’t have kleptocratic billionaires behind us”
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alex kasprak
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"I do not give Facebook to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future. By this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents."
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alex kasprak
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“Pick ones with outlandish foreign names, particularly Middle Eastern if they exist” How the Trump-linked "Public Interest Legal Foundation" weaponized voter fraud narratives in 2016, and what that means for 2020. My latest for @snopes :
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@Acyn
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We’re still doing this?
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. @Revkin Marshall County Independent, Indiana, November 17 1899:
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alex kasprak
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sir
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Cawthorn suggests Red Flag Laws will lead to fact checkers showing up at your home and seizing your property
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alex kasprak
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Countering lazy conservative misinformation with even lazier liberal misinformation is... counterproductive. Trump went to pretty much all his kids' graduations:
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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now here's a man with a clear understanding of the acute public health crisis he and he alone can fix
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Trump: You’ll develop like a herd mentality
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alex kasprak
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wut
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Acyn
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Lol did I just hear this right?
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alex kasprak
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"It’s a tacit admission that what is good for Facebook is, on the whole, destabilizing for society."
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alex kasprak
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it's as if he is getting his talking points from debunked march facebook posts
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Acyn
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Navarro: Everybody thought and this was a reasonable presumption, that come summer, the heat and humidity would get rid of the virus. It doesn’t look that way. This looks like a weaponized virus.
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this is the content i crave
@chrisgeidner
Chris “Law Dork” Geidner
6 years
JUST IN: Michael Cohen formally states that he will assert his 5th Amendment rights against self-incrimination in Stormy Daniels' civil case in California due to the ongoing criminal investigation against him in New York.
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alex kasprak
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one of the most overrated qualities in a leader is coherence
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Trump: Sometimes you’ll see a building that costs less money than another building that costs more because the one that built the one that costs more, this one looks better. The one that’s cheaper looks better. They say how much more did you spend for that building.
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this is not how a fact check works
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alex kasprak
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Nearly all of the 18 "reasons" provided by Elliot are scientifically incorrect, overt misrepresentations, or irrelevant to the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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How Andy Weir wrote "The Martian" and became Hollywood’s most unlikely star: http://t.co/dD3kqZsPuE @MartianMovie http://t.co/7jeuNxcGBf
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alex kasprak
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there it is
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Leadership: Whatever happens, you're responsible. If it doesn't happen, you're responsible.
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which constitution is navarro working with?
@Acyn
Acyn
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Peter Navarro says Pence has the authority to give them a ten day window and also says the inauguration date can be rescheduled
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alex kasprak
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writers laying it on a bit thick here
@ryanjreilly
Ryan J. Reilly
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Newly released Jan. 6 body-worn camera footage shows the mob using an enormous TRUMP sign as a battering ram against police.
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it's all true
@buildsghost
Jamie
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I was not prepared for the ending of this
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alex kasprak
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@AlexMLeo if todd starnes can't make crispy bread in the same self-contained unit that cooks personal-sized frozen pizzas then this country is fucking over, man
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@ggreenwald @oneunderscore__ seems like you looked real hard for that answer
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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. @newtgingrich Do facts even matter? Strict TSA regs came from the Homeland Sec. Act of '02; Sanders voted against it, you were for it.
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alex kasprak
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Was that Dodge Ram commercial written by Paul Ryan's social media team?
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you might be shocked to learn, given the image used, that snopes is not mentioned once in the article, nor are any snopes writers contained in the "database" used to reach the headline conclusion
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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In Brit Hume's deranged fever swamp of a brain, asking the President "What do you say to Americans who are scared" is a "gotcha question."
@brithume
Brit Hume
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Legitimate question my a**. It was the kind of bullsh*t gotcha question which hack WH reporters have been asking for decades. But instead of going off on the reporter, Trump should have said the whole briefing in all its particulars was a message to people who are scared.
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how many wackos, traitors, and failures do you plan on hiring if you win a second term, mr. prez?
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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When Wacko John Bolton went on Deface the Nation and so stupidly said that he looked at the “Libyan Model” for North Korea, all hell broke out. Kim Jong Un, who we were getting along with very well, went “ballistic”, just like his missiles - and rightfully so....
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deep dive in this dildo debunker
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alex kasprak
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The Trump campaign claimed that it could suppress Clinton votes twelve days before the 2016 election; unsecured files linked to a Canadian company offer insights into how that might be possible. Our story:
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alex kasprak
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the number of problems that could be ostensibly solved by this logic is endless. bravo mr prez
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Trump: If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any
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this steve gill?
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@TheTNHoller
The Tennessee Holler
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WATCH: “YOU’RE KILLING PEOPLE, STEVE.” On @FOXNashville The Holler’s @Kanew rips former Tennessee Star editor Steve Gill for saying “zero” COVID vaccines are FDA approved 🤥, pointing out WE ALREADY HAVE VACCINE MANDATES in Tennessee. @Scott_Couch
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alex kasprak
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not *quite* milford material
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not holding back
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alex kasprak
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so many calls. so many meetings.
@jessebyrnes
Jesse Byrnes
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Kimberly Guilfoyle at #CPAC2021 : "I will confidently say that President Trump from his desk at Mar-a-Lago will accomplish more for America in the next 4 years than Joe Biden & Kamala Harris could dream of"
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alex kasprak
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jfc it's a virus not a sentient bacterium
@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
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TRUMP: "The germ has gotten so brilliant that the antibiotic can't keep up with it ... there's a whole genius to it ... not only is it hidden, but it's very smart."
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A second-by-second chronology of which users shared Facebook invites to lockdown protests shows that Michigan's anti-lockdown movement was originally pushed by a small circle of activists who have been protesting since well before the onset of the pandemic
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i am here for this jim gaffigan fuck you content
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alex kasprak
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@NicoleShanahan We have to wait a full eight words to get to the first lie, here. You can do better.
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alex kasprak
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now here's a man in a position to challenge another man's coherence.
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alex kasprak
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increasingly relevant
@chrisfluming
Chris Fleming
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not nearly enough people talking about ska
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alex kasprak
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Cool thing about the #sharpiegate lawsuit: the group behind it has previously been sued for defamation. Thanks to discovery docs in that case, we have vivid evidence of how they clearly operate in bad faith. I recently profiled them for @snopes :
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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No credible evidence has been presented to suggest the presence of graphene oxide in COVID-19 vaccines. Karen Kingston’s ability to Google CAS numbers does not change this reality.
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alex kasprak
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Oh fuck salt streaks
@WSJ
The Wall Street Journal
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In Cannes, mega yachts are showing minor blemishes in the midst of drought-related water restrictions. “You get salt streaks,” one salesman said.
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alex kasprak
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a "fog of war" if you will
@srl
Sam Levine
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The handful of lawsuits the Trump campaign is filing are legally meritless, experts say, and are aimed more at casting a cloud over the election
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@alexkasprak
alex kasprak
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Daily Caller editor Katie Frates:
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