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@NewBlackMan Which interiewer of @BillAdairDuke will be the first to ask him why his claim of an explosion in political falsehoods isn't borne out by the fact checker he created, @PolitiFact? #PolitiFactThis

@NetsDaily Still waiting for a @nytimes "overlooked" obituary for John J. Fitz Gerald (1892-1963), the New York Morning Telegraph track writer who popularized "Big Apple" in the 1920s. He died during the 1963 NYC newspaper strike, and is buried in a still-unmarked grave. cc @NYTimesPR

@lsanger To be fair, it's not like we need more proof.😁

The Federalist: The fact that I was banned by Wikipedia, which I co-founded 25 years ago, shows that left-wing censorship is alive and kicking. They're right. Considering the sheer power of Wikipedia, this counts as censorship. thefederalist.com/2026/07/08/wik…

@megaphire @PolitiFact @grok That'll be PolitiFact's next fact check. Ha ha.

@PolitiFact @grok is it a crime to mass murder your own people like Iran did?

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump threatened to bomb bridges and power plants unless Iran returned to negotiations. Trump has made this threat before but has not carried it out. We previously fact-checked a Democratic lawmaker who said, "Bombing civilian power infrastructure is a war crime” and rated it Mostly True. politifact.com/factchecks/202…

@slyweazal @Penguinr90 @VeryChrislike @meatloaf1999 @TheRickWilson So, you tell me: What media source(s) informed their audiences of that fact? What books or movies? Anything? Run. Run from the truth. flsenate.gov/laws/statutes/…

@slyweazal @Penguinr90 @VeryChrislike @meatloaf1999 @TheRickWilson IX 102.166 of the 2000 Florida starutes, the law controlling the Democrats' county-level recount requests, specifically states "Any manual recount shall be open to the public." It was the temporary denial of that right to public observation that touched off the "riot." 1/2

So, we're allowed to storm the Capitol when he steals the election, right? Is that how this works?

PolitiFact (D-Fla.) gets all sensitive as Trump discusses self-identified communists running as Democrats. Reminder: You can call a Trump and his movement "fascists" and they don't care.

@Penguinr90 @VeryChrislike @slyweazal @meatloaf1999 @TheRickWilson What you remember about the Brooks Brothers riot is probably false thanks to media malfeasance. They didn't explain 102.166, for starters.

@VeryChrislike @slyweazal @meatloaf1999 @TheRickWilson I mean if we weren’t bots like you we would remember the Brooks Brothers riot, tea party riots, Unite the Right, etc. If you’re really retarded your comment goes hard.

July marks the start of the Taylor Swift tax, and those who think it will never apply to them or it's the best way to get something out of the privileged and fortunate should think again. #PoliticsThisWeek @JohnDePetroshow and @JustinKatzRI

Democratic Rep. has advice for ICE agents: Shoot the Tires This is what happens when elected officials get their understanding of guns and law enforcement from Hollywood Movies.

...He omitted the word following "Well regulated": "militia." It did not mean regulations, but rather a proficient, fully capable militia. Now if only Talarico could support a well-read amendment as well as a well-regulated militia...

@OriginalGoalie @VinceGottalotta Let's talk this out, shall we?

"Republicans will point to some arbitrary technicality." An arbitrary technicality? Florida passed its sunshine laws for a reason, backing them up with specific requirements for public observation like those found in 102.166. Public observation defuses (ideally!) the appearance of corruption. Miami-Dade started Nov. 22 by ignoring two clear requirements of Florida law. There's no wiggle room in the law permitting a recount of undervotes, and you should not forget that post-election evaluation of the ballots showed *Gore's chances of winning rested mostly on including overvotes in the recount.* Recounting the undervotes as Miami-Dade intended would not have given Gore the lead. Plus not following the law, so, hello? So the GOP sees Miami-Dade using a end-run around the requirement to "manually recount all ballots" and after that illegally restrict public observation. From the GOP side, it really did look like the Democrats were up to something. Try to put yourself in their position. As I pointed out above, Miami-Dade quickly announced it would return to a public recount. There was no GOP opposition to that, aside from the earlier threat to sue, so the idea that the board was intimidated into canceling the entire recount is simply false. That part of the story is pure media myth. Why do *you* think the media didn't report on the law, hmm?🤔

Remember when morons actually thought stealing elections at the state level was a "state right?"

2/2 When Miami-Dade got around to deciding the Democrats' selected precincts showed enough of an "error in vote tabulation" to alter the outcome of the election, they had choices to fix whatever problem ther was with the counting machines or conduct a full manual recount. On Nov. 22, the day of the BBR, Miami-Dade found itself close to the newly announced hard-ish deadline for certifying their vote totals. They could not finish the full manual recount they had started, so they decided to just recount the undervotes and add that to the changes from counting the handful of requested precincts. The GOP threatened to sue, saying that the board should count all the votes or none of them. When the board additionally moved upstairs closer to the machine that separated out the undervotes, into a room permitting only a few observers, that's what prompted the so-called "Brooks Brothers riot." Look at the law. It says "Any manual recount shall be open to the public." It's obviously relevant to what happened that day. The GOP was correctly asserting its right to observe the recount as it had done the first two days before the move to the 19th floor. Why didn't journalists report on the relevant law? I don't know. Incompetence? Bias? Incompetence born of bias? To the credit of the Miami-Dade canvassing board, it only took about an hour of protest before they decided to move the recount of undervotes back to the 18th floor, and at that point the evidence suggests the "riot" was over. Hours (about 2) later, the board announced it would cancel the recount, saying it could not complete a full and fair recount by the deadline. That language implies the board had come around to the GOP argument that the law required them to recount all the ballots manually and not just the undervotes. Got questions? I'm here. And I've got video if you're not already convinced.

@OriginalGoalie @VinceGottalotta How did the media not mention 102.166 of the 2000 Florida statutes? By not mentioning it. Why should it have been mentioned? It's the governing law for a manual recount request. Any credible journalist writing about the Miami-Dade recount should have taken a look at it. 1/2

Thorough debunking of the 1619 Project's key claims about slavery and economics. youtu.be/ycJNLJ7bhKw?si…

@OriginalGoalie @VinceGottalotta Weird how the media never mention how Miami-Dade was violating Florida election law that day, leading directly to the protest. 102.166 flsenate.gov/laws/statutes/…

@VinceGottalotta The year 2000, right? thenation.com/article/politi…

Bernie Sanders claims that the “United States has the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country.” IN FACT, the U.S. has one of the lowest rates of child poverty of all countries, including small wealthy ones like Denmark and Iceland. Here are the specifics: • The source of Sanders’ assertion is a 2012 report from UNICEF which found that the U.S. had the second-highest “relative child poverty” rate among 35 of “the world’s wealthiest nations,” not “almost any major country.” • More importantly, the report warns that “this relative poverty measure may mislead the public” and that all references to it should “strictly” use “the term ‘relative child poverty’” — which Sanders does not. • “Relative poverty,” as defined by the report, is “living in a household in which disposable income, when adjusted for family size and composition, is less than 50% of the national median income.” • The report stresses that “relative poverty” can “mean very different living standards in different countries” because “50% of median income in Norway” is 10 times greater than in Bulgaria. • The report also cautions that “comparing relative child poverty rates on the basis of household incomes cannot take into account significant differences between countries in the cost of living and especially in the costs of essential goods and services such as health and child care.” • For the reasons above and others, the World Bank’s “preferred” indicator of material well-being isn’t income but “personal consumption,” a comprehensive measure of the goods and services consumed by households. • Likewise, the Journal of Human Resources states that “consumption is better measured than income for those with few resources” and is “a more direct measure of material well-being” than income. • Furthermore, the Journal of Human Resources explains that “consumption standards were behind the original setting of the poverty line,” but governments now use income because of its “ease of reporting.” • The Bureau of Economic Analysis, which is the primary source for U.S. consumption data, normally reports consumption for the nation as a whole and doesn’t break down the data by economic levels. However, a chief economist at the Bureau of Economic Analysis conducted a study in 2012 which provided that data for 2010. • The study found that the poorest 20% of U.S. households consumed an average of $57,049of goods and services, or 5.2 times the $11,034 of income they reported to the Census Bureau. • That massive differential between their reported income and consumption is because the “poor” in the U.S. heavily underreport their cash income and receive a host of non-cash goods and services from governments and charities, such as Food Stamps, Medicaid, Section 8 housing, Head Start, utility assistance, college grants, school lunch, school breakfast, community health centers, family planning services, prescription drugs, job training, clothing, legal services, cell phones, cell phone service, and internet service. • Using international purchasing power parities so that goods and services like apples, shoes, cell phones, MRIs, and square feet of living area are counted the same in all nations, the poorest 20% of people in the USA consumed more goods and services than the averages for all people in most of the world’s richest nations, such as Spain, Denmark, Iceland, Japan, Greece, and New Zealand. • Furthermore, the poorest 20% of people living in the United States, which includes millions of illegal immigrants, consumed an average of 3–30 times more than the national averages for all people in a wide range of developing countries. • None of this means that America’s poor “live better” than average people in the nations they outpace, because people’s quality of life also depends on their communities and personal choices, like the state and local politicians they elect, the crimes they commit, and the spending decisions they make. Hyperlinks to the sources of all the facts above are available at justfactsdaily.com/in-fact/n00008…