@MrAndyNgo @FBIDirectorKash There was a piece in The Progressive Magazine about perfidy of the SPLC in the 1980s. Found it: progressive.org/magazine/how-t…
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Michael Leon
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Michael Leon
@mal644
Michael Leon is a writer living in Madison, Wisconsin. "The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry." ― Robert Green Ingersoll
Madison Joined Mart 2011
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@FBIDirectorKash The SPLC is accused by the DOJ of paying millions to neo-Nazis, KKK members & far-right extremists to organize, and then using that as evidence that people needed to donate to the SPLC to fight right-wing hate.
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This evening: @DAGToddBlanche and I are announcing an 11 count indictment against the Southen Poverty Law Center.
Charges include wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.
The SPLC allegedly engaged in a massive fraud operation to deceive their donors, enrich themselves, and hide their deceptive operations from the public. They lied to their donors, vowing to dismantle violent extremist groups, and actually turned around and paid the leaders of these very extremist groups - even utilizing the funds to have these groups facilitate the commission of state and federal crimes.
That is illegal – and this is an ongoing investigation against all individuals involved.
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Michael Leon retweeted
I was assured that this never happens and that it's antisemitic to say it does.
Chris Menahan 🇺🇸@infolibnews
Fmr Israeli intelligence force captain Ella Kenan tells Jewish conference she runs an influence operation out of Tel Aviv that works with "over 60,000 people around the world that make our content viral." She says she made up the "Hamas is ISIS" meme after Oct 7, and they pushed it so far it "even got to Biden." "We also create content for non-Jewish influencers that collaborate with us," Kenan reveals. "We got close to three billion views since the beginning of the war."
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@sebastianguy99 @PollTracker2024 What you don't understand is the diminution of foundational liberties is ahistorical, nonsensical and immoral. You don't like the Second, repeal it.
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@mal644 @PollTracker2024 We do it when it comes to Civil Rights, the 4th Amendment, the 5th Amendment, increasingly the 1st Amendment and more.
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NBC News: Graham Platner, notably, leans to the right on one issue: He said he’d oppose a ban on semi-automatic assault weapons, a goal that Democrats have pursued for years.
“In a nation awash in guns like ours,” he said, the focus should be on restricting access to firearms people with a violent history or “displaying a likelihood of committing a violent act.”
#MaineSenate
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NBC News: Senate hopeful Graham Platner calls to investigate Trump and impeach Supreme Court justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas The underdog Maine candidate, who has risen in polls, told NBC News he wants to carry on the legacy of Bernie Sanders and push Democrats to be more aggressive. nbcnews.com/politics/2026-…
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@FrancescaHongWI Hit Walleye Weekend in Fondy in June. It's great. fdlfest.com/walleyeweekend…
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I love everything about this state — from the Great Lakes to the North Woods to the city parks like Kosciuszko, where we recently did a cleanup with Ismael Luna and supporters (and Spider-Man!)
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Happy Earth Day from Wisconsin — the state where it all started.
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Our brave service members are doing their jobs, and facing life and death situations every day. Congressional Republicans should be doing their job, fulfilling their constitutional responsibility and checking this out of control president.
I will continue to fight with every tool and power we have in the Senate to stop this reckless war
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@blackangelband2 Corrupt and Genocidal. Never even considered voting for this repulsive person.
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No. She threw away her chance of being president by supporting the GENOCIDE in Gaza.
Wicker@OG_Wick0
She would have been a great president. A great leader. If she have a chance to prove that! Do you agree? 🤔
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@JoshKraushaar Against Genocide equals Anti-semitism. Against war equals Anti-semitism. For Human rights equals Anti-semitism. Zionists have a place in the party--the Nazi Party.
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"It's extensive," said University of Michigan Regent Jordan Acker, when asked about the level of antisemitism in the state party. "The question we have to ask as Jews is whether we still belong here?"
Josh Kraushaar@JoshKraushaar
Detroit News: "Running through this weekend's state Democratic Nominating Convention was an undercurrent of antisemitism that left many Jews wondering if they still have a place in the party" detroitnews.com/story/opinion/…
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Platner says, No Schumer.
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NBC News: Graham Platner also said he won’t support Schumer to stay on as leader. Asked who he’d rather see in that position, Platner floated four names: 🟦Chris Van Hollen, D-Md 🟦Mark Kelly, D-Ariz 🟦Chris Murphy, D-Conn 🟦Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii. #MaineSenate
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@CoryBooker SPLC become rich fighting the Klan; later became an agent of Israel. I have not read the indictment. But SPLC is just partisan hacks now.
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The DOJ indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that has spent more than half a century fighting the Klan, tracking hate, and defending civil rights.
Let's be clear about what's happening. This administration is using the full weight of federal prosecution to target an organization whose mission is rooting out violent extremism.
This is part and parcel of Trump's assault on free speech, on nonprofits, and on anyone who dares to disagree with him. First it was lawfare against political opponents. Then it was revoking the tax status of universities. Now it's a federal indictment against one of the most historic civil rights organizations in America.
The SPLC has saved lives. It will not be silenced — and neither will we.
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Slaughter inflicted by Israel continues. @tammybaldwin @TheDemocrats offer nothing.
Global Insight Journal@GlobalIJournal
Consciences are deaf, and the world is mute! The innocent ten-year-old child, who was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers a week ago, was brutally killed yesterday. This is not a war crime, but a massacre of ethics.
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Michael Leon retweeted
The Dem leadership has been history’s worst at winning general elections, passing good policy or doing anything that helps anyone other than donors.
But it has been the GOAT at winning Dem primaries & hoarding internal party power.
2026 will show if that’s still the case.
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I’ve warned Democrats for months about Hasan Piker’s efforts to insert himself into our party.
Read my op-ed in The Washington Post about why the normalization of Piker within the Democratic Party is a mistake Democrats cannot afford to make. wapo.st/4cyGZyT
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@IndivisibleMich @AbdulElSayed @HaleyforMI @RepHaleyStevens is a Zionist, Israel-firster who understandably provokes vocal reaction among those opposed to genocide, rape, torture and slaughter of children. Act like children? Speak up against Zionist Nazis, you fool.
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I talked to quite a few people who were so turned off by this they are no longer voting for @AbdulElSayed. It’s a democratic process, let all speak and let the people decide. Stop acting like children.
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@ewarren Not a small number of Democrats need to grow a spine as well.
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Don’t forget that Trump threatened to wipe out an entire civilization in Iran.
Congress has tools to rein in this president.
But nothing will happen until Republicans grow a spine and work with Democrats to stand up to him.
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Michael Leon retweeted
🇩🇪🇵🇸 Brutal violence German police inflicted on a peaceful pro-Palestine woman.
Zionism is evil
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Michael Leon retweeted
Sorry to sound antisemitic but any country that allows their soldiers to rape prisoners with dogs is a country that doesn’t deserve to exist
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Michael Leon retweeted
This is who Israel is. Human garbage. And @SenSchumer and @RepJeffries will do anything to keep shoveling $millions of U.S. taxpayers' money to this indecent society.
MO@Abu_Salah9
يُعتبر هذا المشهد واحد من أكثر الجرائم رُعباً في كل تاريخ الحروب لحظة قيام جندي إسرائيلي بقنص سيدة مُسنة في غزة وهي تُمسك بيد حفيدها رافعين الراية البيضاء وبعد أن قام جيش الاحتلال بإعطائهم الأمان للمرور النسيان جريمة.
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