Southern correspondent @TheEconomist. Signal: rsimjackson.20
Atlanta, GA
Joined January 2015
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What is America’s greatest cultural export? “The Intelligence” asks @robertguest1, @rsimjackson and @dlknowles and gets three very different answers economist.com/podcasts/2026/…
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“The Sunday morning sermon often feels like a CEO giving a TED talk.” @rsimjackson tells “The Intelligence” why America’s megachurches are becoming more businesslike bit.ly/4a0Pfrs
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“There’s a new legion of health clinics serving it up at astonishing rates.” @rsimjackson tells “The Intelligence” of Americans’ ravenous hunger for testosterone. Listen to the daily podcastbit.ly/44JeNXE
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Are you delusional?
You've constantly turned your back on Texans and President Trump, including trying to stop his campaign in 2024 and saying his "time has passed him by."
Texans won't believe your lies or forget how you've consistently worked to undermine the President.
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The battle between Trump's DOJ and the courts has reached a worrisome level. New @TheEconomist analysis of last weekend's lawless deportations from @arynbraun and me, with insights from @steve_vladeck economist.com/united-states/…
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Careful Trudeau.
The Texas economy is larger than Canada’s.
And we’re not afraid to use it.
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As @SenPizzo questions @JoeGruters about new language in TRUMP Act, game this out: Leg. passes bill, @GovRonDeSantis vetoes ...
Legislature then has option to override veto, but I think override will need some Dem votes.
Can Dems really go along with capital punishment aspect?
Here's the strike-all amendment that will add the above provisions. Keeps in-state tuition repeal for undocumented and designates @WiltonSimpson as the state's chief immigration officer:
flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/20…
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Black-plurality precincts in Jacksonville swung 9 points to Trump, while the balance of Duval County swung 3 points.
Jacksonville has been somewhat immune to the reddening trends elsewhere in Florida, so this is more generalizable to the rest of the South.
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I spent days secretly tracking plainclothes drug agents through the ATL airport. We exposed how they seized cash from innocent passengers. Now that investigation has forced the DOJ to shut down the entire program nationwide. Here's the story:
youtu.be/AsmVfa3BvvY?si=SXvO…
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A 5 y/o girl starved to death in Baltimore. Zona Byrd weighed only 17 lbs when she died in a home where her brother was also starving. The parents had a history of abuse — at one point losing custody. How could this happen? @Calefati and I sought answers
thebaltimorebanner.com/commu…
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So many fake videos circulating right now, and many with the explicit intent of spreading the false claim of largescale noncitizen voting to undermine faith in the election.
Remember, when Georgia did a full audit, it identified just 9 cases of noncitizen voting from 2008-2020.
ALT A review of the millions of registered voters in Georgia found just 20 noncitizens were registered to vote, Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Wednesday. Those 20 people were removed from the state’s voter rolls – which total 8.2 million – and have been referred to local law enforcement, he said. Of the 20, only nine actually ever cast a ballot.
The office of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says that the state has been targeted by a disinformation campaign attempting to “sow discord and chaos” ahead of the election. @GaSecofState says the disinformation is likely “foreign interference” linked to Russia.
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As we continue our unprecedented response to Hurricane Helene, the nation is beginning to understand that impacted areas have been the target of a relentless vortex of disinformation, dialed up by bad actors and platforms like X. 🧵
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"Chaos is a tool"
What's the 2024 version?
👉the politicization of the certification process at the local level raises the risk of violent disruptions much earlier in the electoral process
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Just announced @RyanWaltersSupt is asking for $3 million for Bibles in the classroom from this years budget…the OSDE meeting has begun @kfor
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In this century Republicans have won 31 out of the last 38 statewide elections. Republicans have supermajorities in both chambers of the Florida Legislature. Democrats last won the Governorship 30 years ago and only one statewide election in the last 10 years.
Deep. Red. State.
