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Samantha Putterman retweeted
SCOOP: While Bo Hines was leading the White House’s push to pass the Genius Act, Tether—the company with the most at stake in the bill—was steering millions of dollars to a company he co-owned.
Right after the bill passed, Tether hired him as its U.S. chief.
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Samantha Putterman retweeted
Our @PolitiFact fact-checking of the first Maura Healey- Mike Minogue Massachusetts gubernatorial debate for @WCVB, by @SamPutterman and a tiny assist from me: politifact.com/article/2026/…
Samantha Putterman retweeted
President Donald Trump said multiple times in March that the war in Iran would last four to six weeks. He did not distinguish between a timeline to get rid of the nuclear threat and the overall war. His rewrite is False.
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Samantha Putterman retweeted
NEW: The IRS is reviewing a whistleblower claim over $10 million in Medicaid settlement money that moved through the Hope Florida Foundation and, within weeks, into the political committee @JamesUthmeierFL chaired to fight Amendment 3.
@RAlexAndradeFL filed the claim. The IRS Whistleblower Office acknowledged it May 30. Legal experts weigh in on whether campaign finance laws were violated.
Meanwhile, the foundation's accountants warned this year that the Centene money put its tax-exempt status at risk.
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Samantha Putterman retweeted
America.gov's chatbot spent its first minutes confirming Trump's name is in the Epstein files, that Biden won in 2020, and that officials found no widespread fraud. While Trump was still speaking at the launch, it started refusing to answer those same questions.
The site's question-and-answer function confirms that President Donald Trump's name is in the Epstein files and that Democrat Joe Biden beat him in the 2020 election.
It says federal officials did not find widespread fraud in that election, as Trump says constantly. to.pbs.org/4yZmkO8
Samantha Putterman retweeted
Florida gubernatorial candidates Democrat David Jolly and Republican U.S Rep. Byron Donalds spoke at WLRN’s Sept. 23 Sunshine Economy Summit. PolitiFact fact-checked some of their statements.
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Samantha Putterman retweeted
New @PolitiFact by @SamPutterman: Florida governor’s race: Fact-checking Byron Donalds, David Jolly at WLRN’s Sunshine Economy Summit
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Samantha Putterman retweeted
Just checked out this White House app. Under “accomplishments,” it lists…
1) Gas prices from seven months ago, before the Iran war (they’re now more than $1.50 per gallon higher — $4.48, per AAA)
2) The inflation rate from seven months ago, before the Iran war (the most recent rate, for August, was a full percentage point higher, 3.4%)
3) GDP growth from three quarters ago (the most recent available quarter, Q2 2026, was nearly three points lower, 1.5%)
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Samantha Putterman retweeted
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Samantha Putterman retweeted
Florida fights to keep insurance companies' profits secret, and state Senate threatens legal action against Sun Sentinel and Orlando Sentinel for publishing details sun-sentinel.com/2026/09/19/…
Samantha Putterman retweeted
The law DeSantis signed leaves implementation up to the state Public Service Commission, which is where this case is playing out.
The law is only as effective as its enforcement. Read the whole story: tampabay.com/news/environmen…
Samantha Putterman retweeted
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ team says they would have made the small metal cages where immigrants were held “even smaller” if federal standards would have allowed.
Immigrant detainees at Alligator Alcatraz were put in small metal cages, a new report found.
"While it adheres to all federal standards for criminal confinement, we’d make it even smaller if we could," said @AlexLanfran, DeSantis comms director.
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Samantha Putterman retweeted
An ad from Florida GOP gubernatorial nominee Rep. Byron Donalds says Democratic nominee David Jolly wants to raise taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security. This distorts Jolly’s position and omits that Florida has no state income tax.
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Samantha Putterman retweeted
During the Republican midterm convention, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the U.S. has the “sickest children in the history of the world.” Although U.S. children have higher chronic disease rates than in the past, children are more likely to survive childhood now than in the past.
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Samantha Putterman retweeted
Moody tells @ActionNewsJax she won't debate, continuing the very cautious campaign to keep her seat that I wrote about in August. Moody also hasn't done a wide-ranging interview or press conference in 19 months she's been office.
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Samantha Putterman retweeted
Reminding listeners of an idea he proposed on the convention’s first night, President Trump said, "If we win the midterms, we will … provide a — let's call it the Trump dividend. $5,000 for every adult citizen in our country. … We're taking in trillions, trillions of dollars."
Doing back-of-the-envelope math, $5,000 multiplied by 240 million adult U.S. citizens works out to $1.2 trillion. That’s more than what the federal government spends annually on Medicare ($997 billion), national defense ($916 billion) and interest on the federal debt ($970 billion). buff.ly/7iWYT3M
Samantha Putterman retweeted
DeSantis rebukes Trump’s $5K checks: ‘More debt and more inflation’ dlvr.it/TVQZ6k
Samantha Putterman retweeted
Our @PolitiFact team effort on fact-checking the second night of the GOP midterm convention, with @AmySherman1 & @SamPutterman: politifact.com/article/2026/…
Samantha Putterman retweeted
This will be a long thread. Please stick with it.
The Miami Herald, one of the premier legacy newspapers in America, laid off or wrote off more than 30 positions today – well over one-third of its editorial staff. The cuts include crucial accountability beats. (1)
Samantha Putterman retweeted
No evidence linking illegal immigration to measles outbreak, despite Donalds’ comment tampabay.com/news/florida-po…
