RT @Popehat
Let nobody deny Elon Musk is an innovator. Here he has taken the popular alt-right "free speech means you have to let me on your platform" meme and updated it to "free speech means give me money."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597285572699074560?s=20&t=gxmxrFy9FUUmcgOR_UnuKw

“To the extent that people remain active on Twitter, they preserve the viability of Musk’s gambit. The illusory sense of community that still lingers on the platform is one of Musk’s most significant assets. No matter which side prevails, the true victor in any war is the person selling weapons to both sides.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-i-quit-elon-musks-twitter

Another example of media failure.

This extremely wealthy woman was drinking, driving 80mph in her Mercedes, and killed two young boys w/her car in front of their families—but media portrays her as the victim.

This is how media normalizes white supremacy. Unacceptable.

The GLAAD Accountability Project monitors and documents individual public figures and groups using their platforms to spread misinformation and false rhetoric against LGBTQ people, youth, and allies. Some groups have misleading names inferring unwarranted expertise or credibility, when their main focus is advocating against LGBTQ people, and some claiming to be grassroots efforts have ties to national organizations with long histories opposing LGBTQ Americans.

https://www.glaad.org/gap

You might have seen somebody using the proverb Vox Populi, Vox Dei. What was missing was the context in which it was used:

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.

In case you do not speak Latin, it means in English:

And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

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I just picked my 13YO up from school. She had an ALICE drill today, the first time in years she’s had to barricade herself in the room and sit there quietly in the dark (as opposed to escaping).
She knew it was a drill but she was still scared.

It happened during French class. One of her classmates asked the young teacher, born in Paris, what ALICE drills were like in France. “They don’t do ALICE drills in France.”

No other country traumatizes our kids like this. @shannonrwatts