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Statement from Iranian Americans for Liberty
In U.S. termination of the Hashemi–Tahmasebi family’s residency status and ICE detention
The @LibertyIranian account argued that residence status should not bar the family’s removal merely because relatives had not been charged with a U.S. crime.
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Claim from U.S. Department of Homeland Security
In U.S. termination of the Hashemi–Tahmasebi family’s residency status and ICE detention
The Department of Homeland Security said the family’s presence in the United States posed a clear threat to national security and foreign policy.
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Claim from Maria Kari
In U.S. termination of the Hashemi–Tahmasebi family’s residency status and ICE detention
Maria Kari said no U.S. government agency had presented evidence supporting its allegations against the family.
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Claim from U.S. Department of State
In U.S. termination of the Hashemi–Tahmasebi family’s residency status and ICE detention
The U.S. State Department said it terminated the family members’ lawful permanent resident status and that they were in ICE custody pending removal.
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Statement from Jon Ossoff
In Did Mike Collins support compensation for January 6 defendants?
Ossoff said Collins’s answer amounted to support for taxpayer-funded payouts to violent January 6 participants and called for a public retraction.
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Statement from Mike Collins
In Did Mike Collins support compensation for January 6 defendants?
In answer to a question about an anti-weaponization compensation fund and relief for people the questioner said had been harmed by a weaponized political system, Collins said the government has liability when it harms someone.
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Statement from Mike Collins
In Did Mike Collins support compensation for January 6 defendants?
A Collins campaign spokesperson rejected the claim that Collins had committed to pay January 6 defendants, while maintaining support for a process through which people wronged by the government could seek relief.
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Statement from Jon Ossoff
In Did Jon Ossoff’s Social Security ad fairly represent Mike Collins’s radio interview?
An Ossoff campaign television ad used a portion of Collins’s radio interview—“get off of Social Security, get back into the workforce”—to argue that he wanted to push beneficiaries off Social Security.
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Statement from Mike Collins
In Did Jon Ossoff’s Social Security ad fairly represent Mike Collins’s radio interview?
The Collins campaign said the Social Security reference was a mistake, that he meant Medicaid, and that the Ossoff ad intentionally truncated the interview to mislead voters.
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Statement from Mike Collins
In Did Jon Ossoff’s Social Security ad fairly represent Mike Collins’s radio interview?
In a June 2025 radio interview, Collins argued that lower taxes could create incentives to work and referred in the same sentence to Medicaid, Social Security, and returning to work.
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Statement from Michael LaRosa
In Should Zohran Mamdani attend New York City’s 9/11 memorial?
LaRosa signed the exclusion petition and warned that Mamdani's presence would divert attention from victims and families.
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Statement from Catherine Rampell
In Trump’s $5,000 election pledge: policy dividend or vote-buying?
Rampell questioned the credibility of Trump's election-contingent dividend by comparing it with earlier promised payments.
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Statement from National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare
In Did Jon Ossoff’s Social Security ad fairly represent Mike Collins’s radio interview?
NCPSSM asserted that Collins wanted to end Social Security and cited that assertion as a reason for endorsing Ossoff.
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Statement from Hunter Biden
In Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP memecoin launch
Biden rejected Threadguy's suggestion to delete the project and move on.
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Statement from Threadguy
In Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP memecoin launch
Threadguy urged Biden to abandon the project after Biden reaffirmed the foundation's involvement.
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Statement from Hunter Biden
In Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP memecoin launch
Biden reaffirmed the foundation's involvement after the token launch and directed readers to its explanation.
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Statement from Phoenix Veritas Foundation
In Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP memecoin launch
The project team denied preferential information for insiders, attributed early volatility to thin liquidity and automated buyers, and described liquidity measures and a planned token burn.
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Statement from Coffeezilla
In Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP memecoin launch
Coffeezilla renewed his warning against buying $LAPTOP following the launch and reported collapse in its price.
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Statement from Andreas Thom
In Did OpenAI improperly pressure mathematicians over authorship and credit?
Thom challenged OpenAI's explanation of research-related user data and requested evidence supporting its denials. Drawing on his own experience, he argued that de-identification would not eliminate the ethical issue if unpublished mathematical ideas were used to compete with their authors.
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Statement from Rudy Giuliani
In Zohran Mamdani administration's release of post-9/11 air-quality and health records
An unnamed spokesperson for Giuliani rejected Mamdani's framing of responsibility, cited the EPA's earlier assurances about air quality, and accused the mayor of politicizing the records release.
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Statement from Cheri Sparacio
In Should Zohran Mamdani attend New York City’s 9/11 memorial?
Sparacio opposed Mamdani's attendance on the basis of his policies and associations, including his relationship with Hasan Piker, while saying her objection was not to his religion or background.
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Statement from Creative Community for Peace
In Did Mark Ruffalo’s Paramount–Warner criticism invoke antisemitic tropes?
Creative Community for Peace rejected a letter defending Ruffalo, arguing that both his rhetoric and the letter reproduce antisemitic conspiracy themes involving wealth, media, and influence.
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Statement from Shahana Hanif
In Should Zohran Mamdani attend New York City’s 9/11 memorial?
Hanif opposed efforts to exclude Mamdani from the memorial, arguing that he was being treated differently because of his Muslim identity and invoking Muslim New Yorkers' losses and experiences after September 11.
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Statement from Michelle Tandler
In Cea Weaver’s “impoverish the white middle class” and homeownership remarks
Tandler criticized Weaver's housing rhetoric within an argument that rent regulation and state intervention would damage housing conditions and harm tenants.
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