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Last week, Twitter attached a link to one of President Donald Trump's tweets, asserting that the president's claims about voter fraud and mail-in voting weren't true. The social media platform decision incensed Trump and many Republicans, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Attorney General Ken Paxton. The president even issued an executive order attempting to strip social media companies of liability protections they've enjoyed since the '90s.

There a plenty of times over the past couple of years where Texans on Twitter could've used a little help from the fact checkers. If Jack Dorsey and company want to police their platform, here are a couple of places we wish they'd have started.

1. Let's start with an easy one:

In September 2019, North Texas state Rep. Jonathan Stickland called vaccines witchcraft during a Twitter fight with Dr. Peter Hotez, one of Texas's leading vaccinologists.

The fact check could've been one sentence: "Vaccines are not witchcraft."

2. Gov. Greg Abbott pumps up Kid Rock's Senate campaign: In 2017, Kid Rock acted like he was running for Senate in Michigan. He wasn't, really, but that didn't stop Abbott from celebrating his campaign.

The problem with poll Abbott tweeted out, as FiveThirtyEight would later explain,is that the organization that conducted it, Delphi Analytica, wasn't a polling firm. It wasn't even clear, the politics analysis website found, whether or not the firm even conducted the poll the way they said they did. Delphi Analytica's goal was to get attention. It worked, thanks in large part to the governor.

3. Abbott, part two: In August 2018, in the midst of a right-wing frenzy over the loosely collected leftists who compose Antifa, Abbott tweeted a quote he believed came from Winston Churchill.

The fascists of the future, an image macro featuring Churchill said, will call themselves antifascists.

The thing is, Churchill never uttered the sentence quoted in the meme. The meme itself came from @9gag, a Hong Kong-based content farm. Abbott deleted the tweet, but not before he made The Washington Post.4. Katrina Pierson mixes up Gaza and Belarus: Failed Dallas congressional candidate and Trump acolyte Katrina Pierson has never worried to much about consistency or the truth. A little more than a year ago, in an apparent attempt to attack Minnesota U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar over violence between Palestinians in Gaza and Israel, Pierson tweeted out images of rocket's being fired.

The rockets in question, The Washington Post found, were likely fired in Belarus. Pierson still hasn't deleted the tweet.

5. Abbott dooms the Astros: In 2014, the Astros were up 6-2 over the Royals in Game 4 of the American League Division Series. They led the series 2-1 and looked poised to make their first American League Championship Series. Abbott crowned them early. The Royals came back and then won Game 5 in Kansas City.

Another easy fact check: "No, they haven't."

6. Twitter tries to shoot Amari Cooper: On Feb. 19, a now-dead Twitter account called@TOffseason caused Dallas' sports media to melt down by tweeting that the Cowboys' Amari Cooper had been shot in a local parking garage. It never happened. Less than a month later, the Cowboys signed Cooper to a brand new, five-year, $100 million contract.

Wide receiver Amari Cooper, one of the keys to the Cowboys' potential success in 2020.

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7. Dallas police make Mark Hughes wait: Late on the night of July 7, 2016, one of the worst in Dallas history, Dallas police tweeted out a photo of Mark Hughes, identifying him as a suspect in the police shootings that left five officers dead. Hughes had nothing to do with the shooting, but DPD left their tweet of his photo up for hours, even after police killed the alleged shooter, Micah X. Johnson, with a bomb robot.

Maybe a simple "This isn't the guy!" clarification would've helped.

Mark Hughes was mistaken for Micah X. Johnson, the black man who killed officers on July 7, 2016.

Mark Graham

Stephen Young has written about Dallas news for the Observer since 2014. He's a Dallas native and a graduate of the University of North Texas.

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Netflix will work hard to bring the live-action adaptation of the classic Cowboy Bebop anime series, this will feature several changes, including their clothing.

Various jokes are generated on social networks about how Netflix is dedicated to making live-action adaptations of each of the anime series that are popular with the public or, to be honest, the formula has worked for them, so what they will continue to do for a long time to come.

Anime fans are aware of how difficult it can be to translate the action scenes we see in the anime into real action . Not to mention, its quite a cost to match the themes, settings, colors, and actions of the characters with the use of special effects.

In most cases the original product is respected by making only small changes that do not give a totally different twist to the story, although if that were the case probably many of the fans would not forgive that Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop completely change your story or your outfits for the new series that is being produced by the Netflix streaming platform .

The series was originally produced and directed by Shinichir Watanabe in 1998. Cowboy Bebop sets us in the plot of a group of bounty hunters trying to survive the year 2071 while reconciling with their present and past. Something striking from the first chapter that shows different things from different times

As crazy as it sounds to you, if you have never seen the anime you will find it strange at first that the series is set in a future where commercial space travel is not only a reality, the plot takes us to the jeans productions of the old west while exploring themes like poverty and loneliness.

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During President Donald Trump's nationwide address on Monday evening, he announced his intent to use all federal resources to help stop the rioting and looting that's taking place across the country. He also mentioned that he would protect the rights of law-abiding citizens, including the right to keep and bear arms. Naturally, progressives and those who hate the Second Amendment were up in arms over the mention of the Second Amendment.

Apparently encouraging people to protect themselves when cops are attempting to stop rioters is encouraging "racist supporters" to "start shooting black protestors."

They also seem to think that if you support the Second Amendment that you should automatically take to the streets to over martial law.

Here's what these folks fail to understand: the Second Amendment is there to protect our freedoms, including our First Amendment rights, but it's also there for self-defense. Relying on cops to protect you when they're trying to keep rioters from looting and literally burning down cities, it's up to you to protect yourself, your family and your property. Even when there aren't massive riots taking place across the country, it can take cops minutes, sometimes even hours,to arrive to a person's call for help (depending on where they live and how well-staffed their police and/or sheriff's department is).

Progressives can make the assumption that Trump is telling people to go out and shoot protestors and looters. That is notwhat he said. He's simply saying that people's Second Amendment rights will not be taken away, that people will have the ability to protect themselves and their families should someone try to cause them harm.

Remember: there are still rules and responsibilities that come with owning and carrying a firearm. Pretty much every gun owner will say the same thing: they never want to have to utilize their firearm but they have it should the need arise. Defending life is when a firearm should be utilized. It should and always will take priority over a person's property.

Guns, however, have been proven to be a deterrent that keeps people from breaking into buildings and stealing. Just look at what happened when all hell broke loose and "armed rednecks" stepped up to protect various businesses.

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Update: Sources confirm that the "Open Carry" rally has been cancelled after a request from the Traverse City Police Chief. A protest over George Floyd's killing will still be held in Traverse City Saturday.

Randy Bishop, a radio host in Cheboygan, has called for an Open Carry rally in Traverse City this weekend amid planned protests over the killing of George Floyd.

As of Thursday night, one protest over Floyds death was planned for 12-2 p.m. at the Open Space in Traverse City on Saturday.

Bishop says the Michigan Militia, a paramilitary group with right-wing ties, and the Proud Boys, a right wing group that came to prominence at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, will hold their rally in Traverse City Saturday as well. He says they plan to be peaceful and that firearms will be holstered.

They have first amendment rights to peacefully assemble, to freedom of speech, Bishop said of those protesting George Floyds death.

But if it comes to the point where certain bad actors are going to step up and co-opt a peaceful protest? he added. The guys with the second amendment rights will be there and we will step up and we will react.

Rumors have been circulating over social media for days that protests this weekend could be disrupted by people from outside northern Michigan and counter-protesters, although IPR could not find any evidence to substantiate them. On Thursday, Traverse City Police Chief Jeff OBrien said his department has investigated several of those claims, and did reach out to individuals that had made threatening posts online.

We found no credible threats of any type of disruption thats gonna happen in Traverse City. Theres been some chatter on Facebook about individuals coming up here and assisting the police, he said Thursday prior to Bishops announcement. Weve reached out to them and told them we dont need any assistance.

OBrien did not say specifically who his office has communicated with, but asked that any attendees of protests this weekend not bring weapons.

Bishop says he initially wasnt planning on attending any protests this weekend, but changed his mind after seeing a flyer allegedly passed out to business owners in downtown Traverse City.

The flyer, a picture of which was posted to social media, called for peaceful protests and urged shop owners to put signs in their windows declaring that theyre minority-owned or white allies to prevent rioting or looting from violent protesters.

I know there is concern of vandalism, rioting and looting. I want to prevent this from happening in any way that I can! the flyer reads. For this reason, if your business is MINORITY-OWNED, please put signs in your windows stating this!

Organizers in Traverse City say the flyer was passed out by a group that was planning a peaceful protest, and was intended to prevent damage and looting to Traverse City stores. But Bishop insists the flyer was passed out by bad actors, saying it could be from the Black Lives Matter movement or ANTIFA, a left-wing, anti-fascist political movement. IPR found no evidence to support that claim.

Bishop has been involved with Second Amendment protests and resolutions passed by several northern Michigan counties, including Grand Traverse.

Prior to Thursday, protestors and law enforcement officials called for peaceful demonstrations in town. Protests throughout the week in Traverse City, Petoskey and Gaylord have been peaceful, according to attendees and media reports.

Traverse City Police Chief Jeff OBrien held two impromptu press conferences this week, one with Traverse Citys Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem and City Manager, to dispel online rumors and urge for peaceful protests. He said he understands the frustration over Floyds death.

I speak for everybody in law enforcement: we do not condone the actions of law enforcement officers in Minneapolis," O'Brien said.

On Tuesday Mayor Jim Carruthers also echoed calls for protests in Traverse City to remain peaceful.

"We welcome people here, we just want people to be safe and to share their opinions and not do damage to our city," Carruthers said.

A peaceful protest was scheduled earlier this week in Cadillac, but it was cancelled due to threats, according to an organizer.

It has become apparent that our collective vision for a peaceful demonstration has been undermined. We have received a number of credible threats from outside sources to hijack our community event and diminish our movement and our message, the events organizer told attendees on Facebook.

A clerk at the Cadillac Office of Public Safety said the protest was simply rescheduled, but could not name a time or place.

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A woman holds up a sign in support of the 2nd Amendment around the Virginia State Capitol grounds in Richmond, Va., January 20, 2020. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters)Even a cursory examination of American history shows that gun rights are not racist.

Pulitzer Prizewinning writer Nikole Hannah-Jones had some thoughts on the Second Amendment yesterday:

Its not really a head scratcher to comprehend why Americans want to protect their property and lives from looters and the mob. Why a reporter can breezily fabricate history under the banner of one of the nations most-widely read newspapers, on the other hand, definitely qualifies.

Theres no historical evidence to suggest that the Second Amendment was created to ensure Southern slaveowners the right to maintain & arm slave patrols to put down insurrections amongst the enslaved, even if southerners subsequently used guns for their nefarious purposes. As Charles Cooke has noted, That neo-Nazis are protected by the First Amendment does not indict the First Amendment, just as that criminals are protected by the Fifth does not call that bulwark into general question.

The right to self-defense, in fact, is incompatible with the idea of slavery it runs counter to the arguments made by the Founders, even if some of them were hypocrites; counter to the arguments made by many abolitionists and the early civil-rights leaders; and counter to the arguments made by Second Amendment advocates today.

The animating ideas of the Second Amendment both as personal and communal protection are predicated on natural rights and English common law. And while nearly every intellectual, political, and military leader of the Founding generation stressed the importance of the right to bear arms as a means of preserving liberty, some of its most vociferous champions were against slavery.

In his 1770 defense of Captain Thomas Preston, one of the British soldiers responsible for the Boston Massacre, John Adams who often defended freed slaves and held the practice of slavery in such abhorrence argued that even the unwanted and intrusive British soldier had the inherent right to arm and defend himself from a mob. Here every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, he said. It was the primary canon in the law of nature, he argued, quoting William Blackstone, whose writings helped define the English common-law legal system.

Those interested in fact-based history of the philosophical foundations of the Second Amendment can read Joyce Lee Malcolms classic study on the topic: To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right. In it, Malcolm makes the case that colonists were men and women steeped in English laws, English customs, English prejudices, and English habits of mind. It was within this tradition that colonists staked their claim to revolt when the king came for their weapons.

The 70 or so American militiamen who fought 700 British soldiers in Concord and Lexington among them Prince Estabrook, a black militiaman wounded in the battle (a soon-to-be freed slave) werent anxious about slave revolts. They were intent on stopping the British from stripping them of the ability to defend themselves.

Sam Adams, one of Massachusetts leading revolutionaries and agitators, argued in 1769 that the the subjects of England are entitled first to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law next to the right of petitioning the King and parliament for redress of grievances and lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self-preservation and defence.

Adams opposed slavery.

Even abolitionist religious leaders such as Simeon Howard and Jonathan Parsons for while we plead for liberty on one hand, and promote slavery on the other, our principles are too contracted and corrupt, Parsons said defended the ideas that gird the Second Amendment. [F]or if one man may defend himself and his rights against an assailant, much more may a whole country defend themselves when their rights are invaded, Parsons preached.

The first American effort to codify and guarantee the right to bear arms was made in Pennsylvania, under a conference run by Benjamin Franklin, also president of the colonys antislaverysociety. The second colony to do so was Vermont, where there were few slaves and no fear of a revolt. When New Hampshire suggested language for the future Bill of Rights Congress shall never disarm any Citizen unless such as are or have been in Actual Rebellion the future state probably had less than a hundred slaves.

After the ratification of the Constitution, five states (Rhode Island and New Hampshire among them) demanded a Bill of Rights be adopted by Congress, and every one of them asked that the individual right to bear arms be mentioned.

As I argue in my book First Freedom, of all the rights organized in American life, none had a longer and more defined history in English common law and tradition than the right to self-defense not freedom of speech, or press, or religion.

Whats most misleading about Hannah-Joness distortion of the Second Amendment, however, is that the first gun-control laws were all racist in intent, meant to keep newly freed black Americans subjugated. Black Codes instituted after the Civil War made owning guns illegal for most blacks, and continued to put them at the mercy of racist governments. Arguments made during the debate over the 14th Amendment often specifically mentioned the right to bear arms.

Whats most ironic about Jones, who names herself after 19th-century civil-rights leader Ida B. Wells, is that the historic figure was a champion of the Second Amendment. She maintained that an important lesson of postCivil War America, one that every Afro American should ponder well, was that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.

The Second Amendment certainly wasnt a head scratcher for the real Ida B. Wells.

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