This speech is full of half-truths, distortions, misleading claims and outright lies. Basically living up to every meme, trope and unfair stereotype, of Americans being ignorant morons. I'll go through each of the claims he made in this segment and what the actual facts are. /1

Tassie's most overlooked road rule. If you're turning at an intersection while driving or riding, you must give way to pedestrians crossing the road. From the Road Safety Advisory Council ( https://t.co/rlUQQDOVPJ)

Ahmad Adas: "We want to see our family. I want to see my mum and dad. We havn't seen them for 15 months. It's a long time. We're going now!"

It's not really about whether you personally like, want or need to drive. It’s about not being DEPENDENT on driving all the time, for everything you do. And it’s about the fact that in cities, if everyone has to move by car, no one moves much at all. Pic via @BrooklynSpoke

Honoured to be asked to play this role @Mayors4Climate - hope I can help to advance the concerns of cities + towns in tackling the climate change challenges we’re all experiencing.

Hello @EricAbetzMP Curious to know if the real time bus information is being rolled out this month as promised? Knowing that my @metro_tasmania bus was delayed would have been very helpful this morning! #politas

The government boasts that emissions are now 28.2% below 2005 levels. Sounds great, except that is only when you include the very dodgy "emissions" from land clearing and land use (there was massive land clearing in 2005). The fall of "actual emissions" is a mere 1.8%.

Same comments apply to this. No wonder our state has numeracy issues when a sample so small that it doesn't even provide statistical confidence that opposition exceeds support is being mislabelled as a "clear message". Make it stop! #politas https://t.co/EAKGDtMqfY

EMRS Collins St bike lane commissioned Q, if this is correct that n=only 92 then the tiny sample size and the fact that there were some prior contentious questions about councils renders this absolutely useless. #politas https://t.co/yO3DmjW01H

Yes indeed… https://t.co/pQZRIK6xWy

[🚨BREAKING🚨] 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐍𝐎 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦. In heavily contested referendum, 53% voted against 6 major highway extension projects throughout the country. Source: https://t.co/raHexckDu8

Electric cars won’t save us: “People who biked on a daily basis had 84% lower carbon emissions from all their daily travel than those who didn’t. […] emissions from biking can be more than 30 times lower than driving a gas car, and 10 times lower than driving an electric car.”

State parliament is full of rhetorical flourishes Local government is more practical & deals in facts In last 24 months , 1321 development applications were considered •1299 - 98 % Approved •22 - 1.6 % Refused No-one could describe this “anti everything” #politas

This study: bike lanes are good for business. That study: bike lanes are good for business. And another study: bike lanes are good for business. Americans: we need another study.

"Climate crisis : Scientists warn of imminent Atlantic current collapse with global consequences" by Samir Sebti for Daily Galaxy:

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Hobart takes out medal for 3rd cleanest air in the world, from 400 cities ranked globally 🏆 Top performing city in Australia We are very lucky 🍀 https://t.co/xOiWpGy9sw

🥱 why pick on Hobart when concerns expressed are across local government? Perhaps check out the debate from across the river, an even bigger vote in Clarence against these poorly drafted DAP laws #politas Mayor’s comments starts @ 2hrs 9mins https://t.co/5F9LGG3AJp

The knowledge economy is key to the future prosperity of cities & Hobart is no exception. I’d like to see Hobart grow its tertiary & research sector significantly in next 20 years. There’s room for new & improved educational & research facilities in both the CBD & Sandy Bay

A piece I wrote about STEM for Sandy Bay in the lead up to the Hobart Council elections… #politas https://t.co/gaDtzvinaQ