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@nicksortor Check the facts. RFK Jr doesn’t know the answers so he just makes up answers. It’s called lying.

🔥 RFK Jr. just showed America that Sen. Warnock (D-GA) is an absolute DOPE 🤣 WARNOCK: You made cuts to the rabies office! RFK JR: “There’s 1-3 rabies cases PER YEAR in the US! I think ONE PERSON manning that office can handle that traffic!” 😂🔥

@EGBMafia @TharkunsRunes @nicksortor @VoluntaryOnly Try doing a govt job and get back to us. We are lucky that people dedicated to public service still exist in this country.

@TharkunsRunes @nicksortor @VoluntaryOnly I agree 💯. The way the federal government works it wouldn’t surprise me to find out they had a whole department of workers just for the 3 cases a yr.

Try again!! it’s important to be precise about how the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) operates, because it doesn’t function like a police agency. It’s primarily a civil rights law firm and watchdog, not a criminal prosecutor. 1) Direct impact: civil lawsuits that led to consequences The SPLC’s most famous work is civil litigation, not criminal prosecution. That said, their cases have absolutely contributed to criminal accountability indirectly. In a well-known case, the SPLC sued on behalf of a victim of a racist assault (Billy Ray Johnson). The attackers were criminally convicted, and The SPLC also won a $9 million civil judgment against them. That’s a typical SPLC pattern: 👉 criminal courts handle arrests/convictions 👉 SPLC uses civil courts to financially destroy perpetrators or organizations They’ve done this repeatedly against groups like the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist organizations over decades 2) Intelligence + law enforcement cooperation The SPLC also runs an “Intelligence Project” tracking extremist groups. They have shared information with law enforcement about violent threats and extremist activity. Their leadership has claimed that information gathered (including from informants) helped prevent violence and “saved lives.” In that sense, yes — their work can contribute to: investigations surveillance of extremist networks and sometimes arrests (though those arrests are carried out by police/FBI, not SPLC itself) ⸻ 3) The current controversy (2026) Right now, there’s a major dispute over how they gathered that intelligence. The DOJ has indicted the SPLC, alleging it paid informants inside extremist groups and misled donors. The SPLC argues this was standard intelligence-gathering and helped track dangerous groups. Supporters say the prosecution is politically motivated; critics say the tactics were improper. This is unresolved and heavily contested. ⸻ Bottom line Yes, SPLC work has contributed to real-world consequences, including: helping expose violent actors supporting investigations and cases where perpetrators were ultimately arrested or convicted But: they don’t arrest people themselves their primary tool is civil lawsuits, not criminal prosecution and their intelligence role is now the subject of major legal and political controversy

@HughEverett @RachelBitecofer @gothburz Have you not noticed the groups where everyone is in full Nazi regalia? These groups have marched in towns all over this country. The election of a racist President & the acceptance of increasing racism in our country is why we need the SPLC now more than ever.

When a charity dedicated to rescuing dogs from abuse and neglect does fundraising, they run ads with photos and videos of abused dogs. When SPLC does national fundraising, they have to create a phony white nationalist group in costume, because real rednecks don't have the time or interest to join groups. They can express their inner redneck on X.

I have given the Southern Poverty Law Center $340 a year since 2014. That is $3,400. Ten years. Automatic withdrawal. I set it and forgot it, the way you forget a subscription to a meditation app you stopped using in February. I did not donate to fight hate. I donated to stop thinking about hate. Those are different products. The SPLC sold the second one. I found out last Monday. Eleven federal counts. Wire fraud. Bank fraud. Money laundering. The indictment is 47 pages. I read every one. I read them the way you read a biopsy result when the doctor's voice changes mid-sentence. Here is what my $340 a year bought: The SPLC paid informants inside the Ku Klux Klan. They paid informants inside the neo-Nazi National Alliance. They did this for forty years. They called them "the Fs." Field sources. Internal codename. It sounds like a file folder designation because it was a file folder designation. One informant received over one million dollars between 2014 and 2023. Let me say that differently. In the same calendar years I was setting up my automatic donation to fight white supremacy, the Southern Poverty Law Center was cutting checks to a man inside the National Alliance. He was being paid more per year than I make. He was inside a neo-Nazi organization. My money and his money came from the same account. I paid them to fight the people they were paying. Somewhere in Montgomery, a line item balanced perfectly. They sent me a thank-you card. It is still on my refrigerator. It has a stock photo of diverse children holding hands and it says "Because of you, hate has no safe harbor." It is next to my daughter's finger painting of a horse and a Thai takeout menu from a place that closed during COVID. The card cost eleven cents to print. The informant inside the National Alliance cost a hundred and eleven thousand dollars a year. Same fund. The shell accounts were named "Fox Photography" and "Rare Books Warehouse." I need you to sit with "Rare Books Warehouse." Someone at the SPLC — someone with a title and a parking space and a benefits package funded by people like me — sat in a conference room and said "What should we name the shell company we use to pay neo-Nazis?" and someone else said "Rare Books Warehouse" and everyone in the room nodded. There were blueberry muffins. There is always blueberry muffins. Somewhere in that conference room there was a whiteboard that said "Q3 FIELD SOURCE DISBURSEMENT" in blue dry-erase marker, and under it "Fox Photography" with a checkmark next to it. I know this because I know how conference rooms work. The muffins are always blueberry. Another informant was paid $270,000. He was in the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" planning chat. He was in the chat where they planned the rally where Heather Heyer was murdered. The SPLC knew he was in the chat. The SPLC was paying him to be in the chat. After Charlottesville, the SPLC sent me a fundraising email. The subject line said "This Is Why We Fight." I screenshotted it and posted it to Instagram with a black square. Seven people liked it. One of them was my therapist. I opened the email. It said the events in Charlottesville proved why the SPLC's work was more important than ever. It had a red donate button. I clicked the red donate button. I felt like I was doing something. I was doing something. I was replenishing the fund that paid the man who sat in the chat where they planned Charlottesville. The fundraising email did not mention the informant. The fundraising email did not mention "Fox Photography." The fundraising email did not mention that the SPLC had a man inside the planning and chose to use him as an intelligence asset rather than, say, calling the police. The fundraising email said "fighting hate requires resources." I provided resources. The resources fought hate by funding it. My donation subsidized both sides of the same transaction. I was the float. I put the bumper sticker on my car. The one that said HATE HAS NO HOME HERE. I put it on a 2016 Subaru Outback, Wilderness Green Metallic, which is the most SPLC-donor car in the history of motor vehicles. Hate had no home in my car. Hate had a condo in Montgomery, Alabama, a shell account called Fox Photography, and a direct deposit schedule. My partner asked me once — this was 2018 — "Do you actually know what they do with the money?" I said "They fight hate." She said "How?" I said "They track hate groups and take them to court." She said "Have they taken anyone to court recently?" I changed the subject. I changed the subject the way you change the subject when you realize the answer is no but the bumper sticker is already on the car and you used it as your profile picture on two platforms. My tax preparer asked about it. April 2019. She said "Oh, the SPLC, good for you." I got thirty-seven dollars back on my taxes. The informant inside the National Alliance got a hundred and eleven thousand. We both filed in April. Mine went to H&R Block. His went through Fox Photography. The IRS treated both of us like philanthropists. The SPLC's endowment is $732 million. I need you to hold that number. Seven hundred and thirty-two million dollars. In an endowment. For a nonprofit that fights hate. That is more money than the GDP of ten sovereign nations. Hate is, apparently, a growth industry. The SPLC found the arbitrage: you can monetize both the existence of hate and the appearance of fighting it simultaneously if your donors never check the ledger. I never checked the ledger. Morris Dees — the founder — was fired in 2019. Sexual harassment. Internal complaints going back decades. Two dozen employees signed a letter. The letter said the SPLC had a "systemic culture of racism and sexism." Inside the organization that defines racism and sexism for the rest of America. They hired a new president. She released a statement about "transformative accountability." The informant payments continued. They settled a defamation lawsuit with Maajid Nawaz for $3.375 million. They had labeled him an "anti-Muslim extremist." He is a Muslim. He is a Muslim who runs a counter-extremism think tank. The SPLC put him on the same list as the Klan. Then they sent me a fundraising email about the dangers of the Klan. The hate map. I should talk about the hate map. The SPLC publishes a hate map. It is the most cited source on extremism in America. It labeled the Ku Klux Klan a hate group. Correct. It labeled the National Alliance a hate group. Correct. It also labeled Moms for Liberty a hate group. It labeled Turning Point USA a hate group. It put parents who yell at school board meetings in the same taxonomic category as organizations that advocate for racial genocide. When you label everything hate, hate means nothing. When hate means nothing, the actual Nazis become noise. When the actual Nazis become noise, you need informants to find them. When you need informants, you pay them. When you pay them, you fund the thing you said you were fighting. When you fund the thing you said you were fighting, you send a fundraising email about it. Forty years of this. The org chart had a department for it. The FBI severed its relationship with the SPLC. Kash Patel called them a "partisan smear machine." I am not in the habit of agreeing with Kash Patel. But when the FBI says your informant program is too compromised for the FBI — the FBI, whose own informant programs are legendarily compromised — you have achieved a kind of operational distinction. I told my friends to donate. I told my mother to donate. For Christmas 2017, I gave my college roommate Mark a gift membership. Forty dollars. I told him it was the gift that fights back. Mark put it in his holiday letter. "Peter got me an SPLC gift membership!" Exclamation point. He was proud. I was proud. The neo-Nazi was solvent. It was the gift that fights back by sending forty dollars to an organization that was simultaneously paying a man inside a neo-Nazi cell and labeling PTA parents as equivalent threats. The donation was a personality. The personality you purchase when you want credit for caring without the inconvenience of doing anything. I put it in my Instagram bio for two years. "SPLC donor." Next to a sunflower emoji and a link to my Goodreads. I said it at dinner parties. I said it the way people say they drive a Prius. At Thanksgiving, my uncle — the one who watches Fox News and forwards emails about immigrants — saw my t-shirt. The one that said TEACHING TOLERANCE. He said "What's that about?" I gave him the full pitch. He laughed for forty-five seconds. He said "You're paying them to do WHAT?" He was closer to the truth than I was and he'd never read a single page of anything. The tolerance was a shell company called Fox Photography. The teaching was a filing cabinet in Montgomery with a folder labeled "F" containing pay stubs for a man who attended cross burnings on company time. I looked at my bank statement after I read the indictment. I have fourteen recurring donations. The SPLC is one. The ACLU gets $25 a month. I do not know the ACLU's endowment. I have never looked. I assume they fight for civil liberties the way I assumed the SPLC fought hate. I assume this the way you assume the pilot has a license. The Sierra Club gets $15 a month. I don't know what the Sierra Club does with $15 a month. I have a Sierra Club tote bag. I use it to carry groceries from a store that sells water in single-use plastic bottles. The tote bag has a tree on it. Doctors Without Borders. $20 a month. I set it up in 2016 after seeing a photograph of a child in Aleppo. I cried. I clicked a button. I have not thought about Aleppo since 2017. The $20 continued. That is the product. Not the doctoring. Not the borders. The not-thinking-about-it-after-2017. I have seven tote bags from organizations whose executive directors I cannot name. I have a closet that functions as a moral resume. Every bag is a receipt for a feeling I had once and never verified. The SPLC is the one that got caught. Fourteen recurring donations and the SPLC is the only one where I know what happened to the money, and what happened to the money is neo-Nazis. I don't know what happened to the other thirteen. I subscribe to being a good person the way I subscribe to streaming services. Monthly. Automatically. I audit neither. The difference is that when Netflix cancels a show, no one ends up in a planning chat for a rally where someone dies. I want to walk you through the accounting one more time. My automatic donation: $340 per year. Their informant payments: $3 million over the same period. Their endowment: $732 million. Their settlement to the man they falsely labeled an extremist: $3.375 million. Morris Dees's severance: undisclosed. The number of active hate groups they tracked in 2024: 595. The number of those groups that contained SPLC informants: classified, but the indictment says at least two. The number of hate groups that would have existed without SPLC funding: also classified, and I think about that every day. One thank-you card on the refrigerator. Thirteen other recurring donations I will not look into because looking into one was enough. The hat trick is that I can't stop donating. Not because I believe. I stopped believing when I read page 23 of the indictment, the paragraph about the shell accounts, the one that said "Rare Books Warehouse." I stopped believing in the middle of a sentence. But the automatic withdrawal is a metaphor and the metaphor is my entire political identity. If I cancel, I have to explain to myself what I was doing for ten years. If I keep paying, I don't. If I cancel all fourteen, I have to become a person who does things instead of a person who pays for things. I have never been that person. The SPLC knew I would never be that person. That is why the product worked. I tried to cancel. The website has a page called "Manage Your Giving." It has an "Increase Your Gift" button. It does not have a cancel button. There is a phone number. The phone number goes to a voicemail that says "We are experiencing higher than normal call volume due to recent media coverage." Eleven federal counts. "Recent media coverage." You understand. You understand because you have fourteen recurring donations too. Or seven. Or three. You understand because you have a tote bag from an organization you believe in the same way I believed in the SPLC — which is to say automatically, monthly, without verification, and with a bumper sticker. The right side is a product. The SPLC sold it for $732 million. I bought it for $340 a year. The spread between those two numbers is where the informants live. But the informants are not the point. The point is that I would have paid the $340 even if I'd known. Especially if I'd known. Because the $340 was never about the informants or the hate or the map or the court cases. The $340 was about the feeling. The feeling was the product. The SPLC just got caught selling it with neo-Nazis in the supply chain. I am the donor. I am the fundraising deck. I am the red button that says DONATE NOW. I am the Charlottesville email. I am the bumper sticker. I am the black square on Instagram. I am the tote bag. I am the closet full of moral resumes. I am every person who ever said "I gave to the SPLC" and felt the warm feeling and never once asked what the money actually did. I am every person who gives to anything and feels the warm feeling and never once asks. Here is what the money actually did. $340 a year. Ten years. One neo-Nazi. One million dollars. One shell company named after a camera store that does not exist. One thank-you card on the refrigerator next to a horse that my daughter painted in 2019. Thirteen other donations I will never audit. I am still on automatic withdrawal. The next charge is June 1st.

@Kylomon Sorry I assumed you meant all of them when you said “get the suitcases of cash that “they” sent back home.” It’s the GOP that’s attacking all Somalians.

@ShackKate @WallStreetApes I did not ever once point the finger at all Somalians. I wrote about this one person mentioned in the post. You are taking me out of context.

A 24 year old Somali fraudster named Abdimajid Mohamed Nur in Minnesota stole $48 million dollars from American taxpayers - He bought himself a $65,000 car - A month later he bought a $35,000 car - He took his new wife on a honeymoon to the Maldives, they stayed in a private villa - He spent $30,000 on jewelry in Dubai - He spent a fortune Kenya - He bought a beautiful home You paid for all of this by the way - He graduated from high school in 2019 with a GPA of 1.75 - In 2022, he paid someone to go to college for him, and got bachelor's in healthcare management He tried to pay a juror $120,000 to say this man was innocent “This Somalian fraudster stole $48 million from the Minnesota taxpayers saying he was running 30 different feeding sites where he was feeding hungry children.”

Senator, thank you for all that you do. You are appreciated on both sides of the Delaware River!!

@Concerned_MAHA @VoxAllie @EricLDaugh @XavierBecerra But Trump supporters are never able to prove these stories. That’s why Trump‘s lawyers keep losing in court. Can you tell me where I will find the facts about this human trafficking operation under Biden?

@ShackKate @VoxAllie @EricLDaugh @XavierBecerra Because the Democrats were running a human trafficking operation under the Biden administration and you'll are ok with it. I'm sick of the ignorance of Democrats.

🚨 OMG. Sec. RFK Jr. BRUTALLY takes down Sen. Wyden (D) 🫳🏻🎤 WYDEN: A 3YO girl was s*xually abused at a foster home you oversee...you didn't know?! RFK: "There were tens of THOUSANDS of girls and boys s*xually abused, the Biden admin lost 425,000 children, and YOU NEVER COMPLAINED!" WYDEN: Whose job is it to inform you of something like this? Because this, to me, is an unconscionable case. RFK: "Yeah, but why weren't YOU worried when he lost 425,000 children?! Why are you SUDDENLY worried about s*xual abuse of children NOW and trafficking when it was MASS PROMPTED under the Biden administration?" "Where they gave 425,000 children to adults without identification?!" WYDEN: Mr. Secretary, I'm asking the questions here, and this was in a national publication seen by millions of people, an unconscionable example of mistreatment of a three-year-old, and you don't know anything about it. RFK: "This is a selective INDIGNATION. It is very dishonest, Senator." "Why don't you help us find those children who are lost, still lost? We found 138,000. We're working on this right now." BOOM.

@foresthillsjon This is one Somalian who worked for the white woman who developed and directed this fraud. Most fraud in this country comes from white people who are citizens of the US. We should not be surprised given that this country elected, a professional fraudster as president.

@Kylomon @WallStreetApes not only that his extended family should be deported immediately that will stop this fraud nonsense

@Kylomon @WallStreetApes The fraud was created, directed and controlled by a white woman named Aimee Bock. Will you now blame all white people for this fraud? Are you so sure that all Somalians are bad people? It was Somalians who had worked for her that notified the authorities about the fraud.

10 years for stealing what people work their whole lives for and never come close to. Stealing their work. Stealing their quality of life. Stealing from the pockets of people that have to pay more to off set the fraud. Stealing from the Tax Payer. Stealing from Me. I pay a fairly good amount as a person in the worst tax bracket and this man stole money I paid in Taxes. Meaning this man stole from me and if you pay taxes he stole from you. He stole the care of people that needed it, but providing NONE - driving them to go elsewhere. Our system is so broken, that we would let this happen. The impact of this. I think 10 years is not enough. No where near enough. I think he need to give that money back. I think we need to go to Somalia and get the suitcases of cash that they sent back home. I would like to see this man serve 25 years in a maximum security prison and then get deported to wherever there are a bunch of starving polar bears.

@WallStreetApes @RMoreno404 It was a white woman who designed and directed the fraudulent federal programs. She hired Somalians and used their race to protect her program. Her name is Aimee Bock.

@WallStreetApes Why do you never bring up the master mind of the Fraud in MN? Oh right she is “White.” Say her name Amiee Bock.

@PeggyDowns7 @AndyKimNJ We will be paying for the cost of the fraud in the Trump administration for a very long time.

@AndyKimNJ That’s what I voted for! They are finally getting the job done. When we deport the illegal immigrants and end the fraud on our welfare systems, all the other costs will come down.

I’m leaving the Capitol at 4am after Republicans rammed through a vote paving a path for $70B to fund ICE for years without any reforms/accountability. They rejected all Dem proposals to lower your healthcare costs, housing, and gas prices. Spread the word. We need to stop this.

@DermaFaire @EricLDaugh But you support the President who is hiding the sex abuse files. Do you actually believe a man who bragged about sexually assaulting women and associated with Epstein for years is innocent?

@EricLDaugh Did he vote to keep the Congressional slush fund for sexual abuse secret from the taxpayers?

@Pallas221 @EricLDaugh @RonWyden Where is the proof? They tell you this so that you will support them and you believe it?

@RonWyden: you are the most disgusting of hypocritical, human beings. Shame on you and all the members of Congress who have not stopped OPEN BORDERS, where the most vulnerable - 100,000s of minor children - have been lost, missing, sexually predated, and murdered, for body parts. SHAME. ON. YOU.

@VoxAllie @EricLDaugh @XavierBecerra How did 85,000 become 450,000? Trump lies. MAGA lies. GOP cannot be trusted. They have to lie to get you to vote for them. You voted for Trump & see where that got us. We can recover. Votes matter.

@EricLDaugh As Biden's HHS Secretary, .@XavierBecerra facilitated and enabled 450,000 children trafficked across our soouthern border

@abheea530 Congratulations! You are an inspiration! Blessings to you.

Graduating nursing school at 52 - turn 53 in 4 weeks.

@POWCASTSPORTS (Today is Tuesday, not Wednesday.)

The Philadelphia 76ers delivered a perfect response to their Game 1 loss, defeating the Boston Celtics 111-97 on Wednesday night to even the series at 1-1. VJ Edgecombe was the breakout star of the night, racking up a double-double with 30 points and 10 rebounds. He was supported by Tyrese Maxey, who orchestrated the offense with 29 points and 9 assists, while Paul George added a steady 19 points. Despite a game-high 36 points from Jaylen Brown and a near triple-double from Jayson Tatum (19 pts, 14 reb, 9 ast), Boston’s supporting cast struggled to match Philadelphia’s intensity. With this victory, the 76ers successfully reclaim home-court advantage as the series shifts to Philadelphia for Game 3. #NBAPlayoffs #NBA #Powcast #AdminNad

@MZHemingway @Dagny1066 What people and when and where did they use the map to attack the hate groups? Ive never heard of anyone attacking the KKK or a group that self-identifies as Nazis. I’d appreciate a source. Thanks.

A reminder that this hate-filled and bigoted and deeply corrupt activist organ of the left, beloved by the corporate media, published a hit list “hate map” that people used to violently attack conservatives.

@CarlBovisNature @suestroud Proud Robin

Hi everyone 😊 Please can you help me?🙏 I can't decide which of these Robin & berries photos I should have as the December pic for my new 2027 Birds calendars. 🤔 1. Proud Robin 🐦 2. Robin drop 🐦 Which would you prefer to see in my calendar?🤔

🚨BENNY JOHNSON just tried telling us that 13,000 people died at the hands of illegal immigrants in the past year. The correct number was 29. We proved that more people will believe Benny. Even though it’s a direct lie. Why? Because he was the first one to say it.