Tom Elliott

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Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
Part-time journalist (biased). Full-time founder. Grabien, RealityIndex.co, Azoth.MD, BioSpa.es, ConstitutionalityIndex.com, NewsLists.co.
Madrid, Spainlinktr.ee/tomselliottBorn May 25
Joined June 2009
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I just launched a new economic research project after 5 years of work. Reality Index publishes a parallel measurement of U.S. consumer prices using BLS's own weights, but with real retail data. The gap with official CPI is 32 percent over 25 years. → realityindex.co
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@tomselliott
Introducing the Reality Index — the first honest measurement of the prices Americans actually pay. Most of my followers already know the government's official inflation number, the Consumer Price Index, is heavily manipulated.
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I'll personally pledge $300 for Peter to livestream himself walking the following route, unarmed, after 9 PM on any weekend night
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Peter Baker
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Citing a nonexistent crime crisis, Trump plans to take over the Washington DC police and put troops in the streets of the nation's capital. Contrary to his claims, violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low. @katierogers @campbellnyt @ChrisCameronNYT nytimes.com/live/2025/08/1
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Hate to break it to you but if Trump had won, there would have been violence on Wednesday, and it most certainly would have been worse. How do I know? Because Democrats have been endorsing violence as a political tactic throughout the Trump Administration.
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@tomselliott
According to AOC, Congress amended the Constitution to prevent FDR from being re-elected: "They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt dd not get reelected." (Reminder, FDR died in office in 1945; the 22nd Amendment came in 1947)
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The more we learn about the 2020 election, the more undeniable it becomes that Biden owes his “victory” to blatant political corruption. To wit: 1) An IRS probe into the Bidens money laundering payments from hostile nations — the normal outcome of which would have ended his
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@AOC
record so far: — 82 days on the job — 40,000 jobs destroyed — 2 ethics complaints — 0 votes for Green New Deal — 44,000 uses of the word “like"
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@tomselliott
Trump’s last words to Terry Moran: “We had a president that was grossly incompetent. You knew it. I knew it. Everybody knew it. But you guys didn’t write it because you’re fake news … And by the way, ABC is one of the worst. I have to be honest with you.”
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Rep.
@laurenboebert
: "My colleague & three-month presidential candidate from Calif. [
@ericswalwell
], who’s on the Intelligence Committee, slept with Fang Fang, a Chinese spy. Let me say that again. A member of Congress who receives classified briefings was sleeping w/ the enemy."
Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
Flashback: Obama blasts Bush for not immediately visiting New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina (Bush waited 3 days, versus 7 for Biden w/ Helene)
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Kamala Harris descends from a Jamaican plantation owner who had 121 slaves ... this is dumb
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Felicia Sonmez
@feliciasonmez
Sen. Mitch McConnell's great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves, bringing reparations issue close to home nbcnews.com/politics/congr via @NBCNews
Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
Imagine if a version of the Capitol riot were happening … every night — for 8 months straight, but was somehow not being reported in the major media. That’s basically what’s been happening in Portland.
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@marwilliamson
: “What does it say that the conservatives are nicer to me? I’m a serious lefty but they are so — I understand why people on the right called them godless — I mean, it’s like, I didn’t think the left was as mean as the right, they are.”
Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
Can anyone explain — maybe
@jaketapper
or
@NicolleDWallace
— why Republicans who voted against certifying the Electoral College votes are being called “seditionits,” “treasonists,” etc. — while these terms were never used when Dems did the same thing in 2001, 2005, 2017?
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@tomselliott
West Freeway Church of Christ Senior Minister Britt Farmer: "I’m thankful our government has allowed us the opportunity to protect ourselves"
The media could not be played.
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@tomselliott
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@AOC
: I acknowledge my "privilege" in being born "cisgendered" "I'm a cisgendered woman, I will never know the trauma of feeling like I'm not born in the right body. That is a privilege I have no matter how poor my family was when I was born."
The media could not be played.