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On Feb. 5, 2021, the day after the House of Representatives voted to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from two committee assignments due to her history of making inflammatory and conspiratorial comments, a set of screenshots — one supposedly showing a headline from The Onion that read Pundits Warn Removing Marjorie Taylor Green from Committee Assignments Could Leave Her with Free Time, and the other a tweet from Greene reveling in the fact that she now had more free time after being removed from these committees — started circulating on social media. This image featured a genuine headline from The Onion, one of the country's most well-known satire publications, and a genuine tweet from Greene. The Onion article was published in the afternoon of Feb. 4, 2021, a few hours before 11 House Republicans and 219 House Democrats voted to remove Greene from her committee positions. In that article, The Onion wrote: The tweet from Greene was also real. The above-displayed message was posted to Greene's personal Twitter account (@mtgreenee) on Feb. 5, 2021, the day after she was removed from two House committees. An archived version of that tweet can be seen here. The text of the tweet can be read below: Greene did not specify how someone like her would use her free time. It should be noted that the satirical article on The Onion joked that hours after Greene was removed from these committees she tweeted that climate change was being caused by secret Muslims who used lengthy extension cords to put space heaters next to glaciers. As of this writing, Greene has tweeted no such conspiracy theory.
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