Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D
@RVAwonk
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Behavioral Scientist. Asst Research Scientist @ UMD. Studying disinformation, sociotechnical systems, public health, cognitive security, crises. Opinions=mine.
Joined January 2014
Just in case this place burns down, here’s where you can find me!👇.-IG: rvawonk (.-Medium: -Website: (under construction).-Substack: (content coming *very* soon)
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Your dad's 2019 budget cut spending for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration by $665 million, and slashed funding for the National Institute of Mental Health by 30% — a half a billion dollar decrease. Nice words, though.
Kate Spade’s tragic passing is a painful reminder that we never truly know another’s pain or the burden they carry. If you are struggling with depression and contemplating suicide, please, please seek help.
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Taking down Confederate monuments is not erasing history - it's declaring that some parts of history belong in a museum, not on a pedestal.
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A child is sexually assaulted every 8 minutes in America. Today, every single one of them heard their president say: "I don't believe you — and even if I do believe you, I don't care."
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I keep hearing people say the recent flood of sexual assault allegations has men "looking over their shoulder" and wondering if they're next. There's a really easy way to answer that question: Have you ever sexually harassed or assaulted a woman? . No? Good. Yes? You're next.
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Nick Fuentes put my picture and info in a video and said I should be killed and ground up into dust, and as a result I ended up on a neo-nazi kill list. I don’t support doxxing but I very much support Karma.
Doxxing Nick Fuentes and leaking his address to the public is WRONG. Even if you hate him and his views. Inciting harassment on him, in hopes to have him assaulted or even killed, is pure evil. Anyone who does should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
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Elon Musk may want to do his homework before mouthing off to Ed Markey. This was…not a wise move. To say the least.
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#Kaepernick started kneeling in protest during Obama's presidency. This wasn't abt Trump until Trump tried to make it abt Trump. #TakeAKnee
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I want to engage this question earnestly, b/c it’s a legit question. The answer is yes, I do look at left, too. Left-wing activists are responsible for 2% of murders committed by political extremists in the US over the past decade; right-wing activists are responsible for 74%.
Have you studied the random violence on the other side as well, or do you only look to the right?.
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It’s weird to me that we have a national meltdown over temporary increases in the price of gas, food, etc, but then we just shrug and do nothing about the fact that an entire generation has been priced out of home ownership and will go to the grave with student debt.
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Parkland school shooting survivor @davidhogg111 just shut down the NRA and its attack dogs in 4 simple words: . "We will outlive you." 🔥. #AMJoy .
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It bears repeating that banning abortion doesn’t stop women from having abortions — it just stops women from having *safe* abortions.
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Oh wow. The Lancet — one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world — is out with a forceful statement about Roe v. Wade *on the cover*.
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It’s striking that the same reporters who gave us months of breathless headlines about Hillary Clinton’s emails can barely be bothered to acknowledge the 900+ emails documenting Stephen Miller’s successful effort to codify white nationalism into law.
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Sarah Sanders says the White House will not consider standalone legislation to stop family separation. They'll only consider legislation that includes funding for a border wall, etc. So yea. The White House just confirmed that these children are, in fact, being used as pawns.
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Can we not just gloss over the fact that Rep. Katie Hill’s abusive husband released revenge porn, mainstream outlets published it, political operatives weaponized it, and now she’s resigning from Congress? That’s all shades of not okay.
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Trump: “What do you have to lose [by taking an unproven drug]?”. President of the American Medical Association: “You could lose your life.”
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Wow. OceanGate, the company that owns the missing submersible, fired an employee a few years ago after he filed safety complaints against them. The employee specifically said the sub was not capable of descending to such extreme depths before he was fired.
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You know what would reduce the threat of nuclear war with North Korea? A fully-staffed State Department that actually cared about diplomacy.
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People protesting Trump's immigration policies marched in 50 states today. There are no reports of violence. Trump-supporting far-right protesters rallied in one city today. It was declared a riot & violence was everywhere. so don't even start with the "both sides" BS.
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Rep. Katie Porter just accused a gun advocate (Amy Swearer of Heritage Foundation) of giving false testimony under oath (!!), adding: . “I respect that we have different opinions, but we cannot have different facts.”.
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Kellyanne Conway, a top White House official, called journalist Jim @Acosta a "smart ass" on national television while speaking to reporters at the White House today. Still waiting on the outrage and demands for her to apologize for her lack of civility. .
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Just in case this wasn't clear the first time: When Republicans learned of Deborah Ramirez's allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, they tried to speed up the process of confirming him. The GOP is a sexual predator protection racket.
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So, yea. Corey Booker just noted that Kavanaugh's name wasn't on Trump's list of potential SCOTUS nominees until after the Mueller probe began. and then Kavanaugh said he would not recuse himself if an issue related to the Mueller probe reached the SCOTUS. So there it is.
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Obama: Signs an executive order. Republicans: "IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY!!!!". HRC: Doesn't get charged for crimes she didn't commit. Republicans: "SHE THINKS SHE'S ABOVE THE LAW!!!". Trump: "l'm POTUS. Laws don't apply to me." .Republicans: "Ok, chief. Sounds good!".
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Per @CNN, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's attorneys have confirmed that the FBI concluded its investigation without interviewing Ford, nor the witnesses who could corroborate her testimony. So as expected, it was a sham investigation to give Republicans cover to vote for Kavanaugh.
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Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) just said on @CNN that he spoke to Trump last night about the GM plants closing in Ohio, and that Trump didn't even know that the GOP tax bill he signed (& touts frequently) offers an incentive for US manufacturers to move their plants overseas.
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So Kavanaugh has already confirmed that:. 1) he was hiding his angry, aggressive side. 2) he's vengeful AF.3) he is a hyperpartisan activist judge whose loyalty will remain with his party, not the country. 4) He can't be on the SCOTUS. Not now, not ever.
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NRA chief Wayne LaPierre is now incoherently screaming about socialism. This is a new level of insanity for the NRA. And you know what's causing it? They're scared. Because they know the kids at Stoneman Douglas are more powerful than their money.
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My mom just asked for a Black Lives Matter sign and an antifascist flag (“the one with three arrows”) to hang in her room at her nursing home. I am the proudest daughter in the world right now.
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Trump is making the 69th visit to a golf course during his presidency while the Mayor of San Juan is literally begging for WATER.
Increasingly painful to undestand the american people want to help and US Gov does not want to help. WE NEED WATER! @UN @washingtonpost.
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Good morning. -The average CEO makes 300X what the avg worker makes.-Avg hourly earnings peaked 45 years ago.-Avg wages for men w/ a college degree are higher than women w/ an advanced degree.-Wages for the top 1% are growing at 4X the rate of the bottom 90%. Happy Labor Day!.
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Why is Susan Collins so fixated on the presumption of innocence? You don't have to believe Kavanaugh is guilty to believe he's unfit for the Supreme Court.
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-White supremacists planned the rally.-White supremacists attended it.-White supremacist killed someone.-White supremacists celebrated it
Poll: Just 15 percent of GOP voters in Virginia say white supremacists more to blame for Charlottesville
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Peter Alexander was trying to get the president of the United States to address the fears Americans have about #coronavirus. His attack on Peter is absolutely shameful and hard to watch -- but realize that he attacked Peter so he could avoid answering to you.
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Running list of companies that have cut ties with Fox News host Laura Ingraham:. Atlantis.Expedia.Hulu.Jenny Craig.Johnson & Johnson.Jos. A. Bank.Liberty Mutual.Miracle Ear.Nestle.Nutrish.Principal investment group.Office Depot.Ruby Tuesday.Stitch Fix.TripAdvisor.Wayfair.
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It’s striking to me how many women don’t seem to grasp that the attack on abortion rights isn’t just about abortion — it’s about policing, controlling, & punishing women, and it won’t stop at banning abortion. If you think you’re “safe”, you’re misunderstanding what’s happening.
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Given that the Covington Catholic High School students think they're mature enough to understand pregnancy, abortion, childbirth, and parenting — and to tell women what we should do with our bodies — it'd be great if the media would stop coddling them like they're little boys.
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In the past 24 hours, Trump has attacked:.-The FBI.-The DOJ.-The free press. but please, tell us more about how Black athletes are "unpatriotic" for engaging in peaceful protest.
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I mean say goodbye to your remaining advertisers. I will personally mail them print-outs of the rape threats, death threats, and photoshopped pictures of me with a bullet hole in my head if I have to. This is just negligent.
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Stephen Miller emailed Breitbart 900+ times from 2015-2016 to lay out his anti-immigrant policies. His source material included:.-White nationalist websites.-A “white genocide”-themed novel.-Eugenics-era laws that Adolf Hitler lauded in “Mein Kampf.”.
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This Facebook post by Dan Rather is everything.
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Refusing to allow the Red Cross to access detention facilities where children are being held is the kind of behavior we've come to expect from the likes of Bashar al-Assad and Kim Jong-un. It's called weaponized humanitarian access, and it's a human rights violation.
We share everyone's concern about the border situation and stand ready to help. We have offered assistance to federal gov't authorities, but without permission, we can't access facilities. Here’s a list of trusted organizations providing assistance:
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Yes, it appears that the Uvalde shooter purchased his weapons — which cost several thousands of dollars — on credit. The fact that most gun stores & manufacturers have financing plans is a wide open door to impulse-buy deadly weapons, and I’m shocked this isn’t talked about more.
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Imagine how much better off we'd be as a society if we took the money Jeff Sessions is going to spend throwing people in jail/prison for smoking pot, and used it to treat opiate addiction instead.
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I still can’t get over the fact that a bunch of airlines lifted their mask mandates with zero warning by announcing it to passengers who had ALREADY BOARDED and physically could not get off the plane. Whatever you think of the ruling, this ^ was just unacceptable.
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This is wildly untrue. Not even close. (It’s heart disease, if you’re interested. Followed by cancer. Followed by COVID.)
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One thing that keeps me up at night right now is the possibility that Twitter’s potential death spiral will coincide with a major regional/national/global crisis. For better or worse, Twitter is a crucial disaster comms tool, and we don’t have a replacement for it. 1/.
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Remember when a bunch of Republican men spent the entirety of 2016 trying to convince us that Hillary Clinton’s emails were an imminent national security threat? And then those same Republican men stormed a SCIF with their electronic devices because the rules don’t apply to them?.
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Elon Musk is now explicitly encouraging his 120 million followers to start following QAnon. Put differently, Elon Musk is encouraging his 120 million followers to join a domestic terrorism movement.
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I put my daughter to sleep 45 min ago and I just realized I’ve been sitting here watching Sesame Street by myself that whole time.
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Nothing Michelle Wolf said about Sarah Huckabee Sanders could possibly inflict as much humiliation as SHS inflicts on herself when she stands in front of the country every day and sacrifices her integrity on behalf of Trump. #morningjoe.
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Rudy Giuliani went on a tirade against Stormy Daniels today, saying she has "no reputation" to tarnish and that "if you sell your body for money, you have no reputation.". Putting aside how disgusting his comments are, it appears Rudy forgot what Melania used to do for a living.
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Hi all. Thank you so much for checking on me. I am alive and well; will be back on here soon. I had a severe episode of PTSD but I am alright and I'm with family and friends now. Thank you for your love and support. ❤️🙏❤️.
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Trump is using his vast fundraising network to reward senators who pledge to have his back on impeachment — and send a message to those who don't. That, um, kinda sounds like bribery.
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Tulsi Gabbard voted "present" on impeachment. If you needed any more proof that she's a morally compromised fascist enabler, there it is.
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This asshole started the worst HIV outbreak in Indiana's history when he decided to ignore public health experts and play politics instead. But yea keep whining about Obama.
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The country is being led by an authoritarian with a sidekick who believes in electrocuting the gay out of people, the GOP literally has nazis running for office, and @CNN can't stop asking Dems if they're scared the party is moving too far to the left b/c OMG UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE.
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This is from March for Life in 2018.
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If Trump wants law & order, let’s give it to him. There are a couple dozen women waiting to see him brought to justice for alleged sexual assault — so let’s get started on that. Justice delayed is justice denied, right?.
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I was just talking about disinformation tactics such as strategically sharing only part of the story, and here’s a great example:. Breitbart headline says 15 border agents died in the line of duty in 2021, but doesn’t say that 13 of them died of COVID b/c they weren’t vaccinated.
More Border Patrol Agents died in the line of duty during 2021 than in any other time since the agency’s inception. The line-of-duty deaths of 15 Border Patrol agents mark a grim milestone in the agency’s history.
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I still can’t get past the fact that Putin bombed a Holocaust memorial while hunting down the Jewish leader of Ukraine, and he’s calling his actions “denazification”. There needs to be a word to describe this and nothing in our current lexicon really quite captures it.
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oh. my. god. Trump posted a video to his Twitter account after leaving Iraq -- and in doing so, he gave up the location and identities of SEAL Time Five members who are deployed on a covert special ops mission.
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Paul Manafort was not a coffee boy. He was not a low-level aide. He was not some hanger-on. He was the CHAIRMAN OF TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN. and he just pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States. Take a moment to consider how profound and unprecedented this is.
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This guy was just standing in front of Trump Tower singing “Fire, Retire, Donald J. Trump” next to a guy holding a sign that said “sh*thole” with arrows pointing to Trump Tower. New York is many things. Boring is not one of them.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders just said the allegations against Trump have been dealt with; that voters decided & put the matter to rest. No. That's now how this works. Voters don't get to decide that sexual assault is okay.
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Seeing the way Elon Musk ignores computer scientists and programmers and actual experts in favor of listening to right-wing grifters and frauds, it’s becoming much clearer why Teslas look very fancy and cool but then burst into flames when you actually try to use them.
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Y'all realize women could literally bring an end to human civilization in a generation if we wanted to, right?.
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This AM, Trump accused Democrats of "holding the military hostage.". Tonight, Iraq War vet/Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth told Trump: “I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five deferment draft dodger." 🔥💀🔥💀.
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Wow. UK officials say the Trump admin’s requests for info to discredit the Mueller probe are “like nothing we have come across before, they are basically asking, in quite robust terms, for help in doing a hatchet job on their own intelligence services”.
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Speaking to the crowd in Duluth, Trump brings up "Crooked Hillary" and asks, "How guilty is she?". Crowd chants, "Lock her up!" . It's been 5 days since Trump's campaign manager got thrown in jail. Three of his other senior campaign members have already pleaded guilty.
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Flynn: Met w/Russians; lied.Page: Met w/Russians; lied.Sessions: Met w/Russians; lied.Kushner: Met w/Russians; lied.Donald Trump Jr: Me too.
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You. made an audio recording inside a SCIF? And then tweeted it out? . I have no words. 🤦♀️.
BREAKING--> My report from inside the SCIF hearing room where we are exposing Adam Schiff's secret so-called impeachment inquiry.
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Karyn Turk, a former Mrs. Florida pageant winner turned conservative commentator who is pictured here wearing a “Roger Stone Did Nothing Wrong” shirt, was just sentenced to federal prison for stealing social security checks from her elderly mother.
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The people who are freaking out right now and calling Simone Biles a bad American for not “taking one for the team” are also the same people who won’t get vaccinated to save other Americans’ lives.
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I am happy to announce that I successfully defended my dissertation this week, which means that (unless I deliver really late), I will have earned the titles of “Dr.” & “mom” within 2 weeks of each other. To the special people in my life who helped make it possible: Thank you.
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"THEY want to take away OUR history & heritage," Trump tells the crowd at his #PhoenixRally. *This is the language of white supremacy*.
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It’s been 20+ months since I had a very “mild” case of COVID and I still have nerve damage and haven’t regained my sense of smell or taste. I’m 36 years-old and otherwise healthy. (Something to keep in mind when you hear about Omicron being a “milder” variant).
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So based on what we’ve learned, Trump notified Russia in advance of the Baghdadi operation but didn’t notify the Speaker of the House or the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
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Apparently Chris Matthews didn’t tell anyone he was about to resign on-air? He didn’t even finish the rest of @hardball — he just said he was resigning, it cut to commercial, and then Steve Kornacki was sitting there in front of the camera stunned when commercials ended.
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When Trump fired Comey, Sarah Sanders said FBI agents were "thankful" for Trump's decision. Over 100 pages of internal emails show that not only were they not thankful — they were devastated.
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Holy hell. Trump just told the crowd at his Wisconsin rally that after women give birth, the baby is "wrapped in a blanket" and then "the mother and the doctor decide whether to execute the baby.".
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McCain did the right thing at the most important time.👏. Murkowski and Collins did the right thing *every* time.👏💪👏. #WomenInPolitics ♀️.
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A lot of people still express skepticism about whether Russia’s 2016 disinformation campaign could have actually changed voter behavior, and I would just like you to look at our pathetically low vaccination rate if you still don’t think disinformation can affect behavior.
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Just a reminder that issuing a pardon or commuting a sentence in exchange for a witness refusing to testify about your own criminal behavior is in itself an act of obstruction that would need to be investigated by Congress & could lead to new charges (esp. if Trump loses in Nov).
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-Jeff Sessions: Met w/Russian spy; lied.-Carter Page: Met w/Russian spy; lied.-Mike Flynn: Met w/Russian spy; lied.-Susan Rice: Did her job.
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An important takeaway from the Carter Page FISA documents released today: They prove without a shadow of a doubt that @DevinNunes lied about the FISA warrant to try to discredit the Russia probe. And they also prove that @RepAdamSchiff told the truth. 1/.
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Hey did you hear about the guy who set off a bomb in VA today & was charged with domestic terrorism? . No. ? You didn't? I wonder why.
White male arrested and charged with terrorism after IED near College of William and Mary
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