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No question this is exactly why he moved his business to TX. This AG is bought and sold every day on an open market. Allegedly.

@parismarx Criminally indicted Ken Paxton wants to go after Media Matters for telling the truth. Nazi content appeared next to advertisements for Apple.
texASS where you will find vile, corrupt and stupid Republicans.
Paxton isn't upset about Nazi content on X (must be because he is a lowlife Nazi).

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That whole press release sounds like a cartoon, and Paxtin should be in jail.

@parismarx I would definitely like a recording of that conversation between Elmo and Ken Paxton. I'll bet that absolutely no illegal bribery of this public official was offered or accepted.

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Pretty sure the richest man in the world is Vladimir Putin, in which case, also true.

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America’s democracy looks as about as healthy as Isreal’s.

@parismarx Nothing to see here, folks, just the world’s richest man getting the Texas Attorney General to criminally investigate a news organization that reported bad things about his crappy company. You know, because the GOP is against weaponizing government. Hopefully none of the involved journalists will fall out of any windows.

@parismarx Elon Musk should be DEPORTED !!! NOW !!! And take down "X" ... AKA The Dead Blue Bird website !! Elon has made it a platform for hate, lies and UNAmer. activities ! He's a traitor !!!

@parismarx I like how they refer to it as X.com (formerly twitter) in the body but say “follow us on twitter” in the footer

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Paxton thinks that Elon’s website is a ‘public square’?
Who’s gonna tell him?

@parismarx Ken Paxton has no credibility and decimated the value of the seal at the top of that document

@parismarx Little draconian even more than his usual tone… but okay.

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It is Republican Texas. What did you expect ?

This is Ken Paxton.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Paxton

Paxton was indicted in 2015 on state securities fraud charges relating to activities prior to taking office; he has pleaded not guilty. The case was delayed over various procedural issues, but in October 2023 his trial was scheduled for April 2024.

@parismarx Still won't bring his advertisers back.

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Ken fucking Paxton? Jesus H Christ, that piece of shit thief and indicted criminal attacking anyone is like a code of honor.

@parismarx And how is this any different than Trump’s friends Putin, Kim Jong-un, or Bolsonaro and Duterte when they were in office. Authoritarianism, fascism, communism has no rules other than the cult leaders ego and revenge. 🤨🤨🤨 #authoritarianism #TrumpIndictment #RepublicansAreTheProblem

And Paxton is the most corrupt person on the planet behind Trump.

After Media Matters stops laughing at his ignorance, a possible lawsuit against the state of TX for attempting to deny 1st Amendment rights of press.

It could receive publicity that way also, and end up with more readers.

...aren't Republicans smart?

😄 #RWnj #news

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@parismarx Elon "Free Speech Absolutist" Musk out here suing people for freely speaking about him. What a surprise.

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I am fascinated to see that the left exposing the right and the right exposing the left and both ignore the problems of their own side...

so my question is, is the company Musk mentioned innocent?

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Twitter was headquartered in SF and was incorporated in Delaware.

X is headquartered in SF but incorporated in Nevada (conflicting news). What is it with his love of that letter - X.com was the domain name for the payment service Musk founded pre-PayPal.

IANAL, but how does Texas have standing?

And how did Musk file suit in federal court in Texas?

@parismarx surprised xitters not dead yet. I mean considering it's run by elongated muskrat.

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Assuming others have already said this in reply, but this is pretty much the history and purpose of states. They work for capital and the capitalists, and to the extent they do much for the public, it’s a minimal concession to maintain the stability of an inherently exploitative and destructive system.

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WTF, Texans… we should just call you X-ans?

@parismarx Time for the good people of the world to rise up against these robber baron asshats.

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The Missouri AG, Andrew Bailey, is using the incident too. The MO AG uses taxpayer dollars to pays a third party to data scrape social media, including X.
He had to list the payment on disclosure forms as required by the state.

Bailey & Paxton must have a bet going to see which one can claim to be the worst state AG ever.

#missouri

@parismarx He needs to suffer consequences for using the legal system in this way.

@parismarx And this will convince the advertisers? 🤣 🍿

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Ken Paxton has clearly drunk a quart of the Kool-Aid - his press release raises many questions of political bias. For instance, the accusation that Media Matters is an "anti-free speech" organisation, and that AG Paxton seemingly limits his concerns for radical schemes to "left-wing" organisations only. Are right-wing organisations (like TwitteX, run by Leon Musk) not capable of anti-free-speech activity, eg, by use of SLAPP law-suits?

Should they too not face the ire of AG Paxton?