Today we found out that Trump and his GOP allies made so many requests to Twitter to delete posts to which they objected that Twitter had an entire “database” of takedown requests.

So Republicans were pushing “censorship”, too — yet these examples weren’t mentioned in Matt Taibbi’s “Twitter Files” exposés. Shocking, right?
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-trump-twitter-files-collusion-biden-censorship-1234675969/

Oh you mean the people who were ready to trash American democracy and install Trump for another term based on Rudy Guiliani’s ramblings and Mike Lindell’s fever dream don’t have an organized and rational approach to governing?

Interesting.

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Semafor said today that "a critical mass of conservatives do not trust McCarthy to lead them..."

Conservatives. Is that what they are?

John Boehner's description of the same crowd in his memoir:

"What they're really interested in is chaos... They want to throw sand in the gears of the hated federal government until it fails."

Are the sowers of chaos properly called "conservatives?"

Is MAGA conservative?

Why do #journalists with a commitment to accuracy maintain this fiction?

#uspolitics

10 Image #CaptionTips from a transcriptionist:

1. Any words are better than nothing.
2. You don't need to say it's "a picture of…" screen readers will already say it's an image.
3. Start with the framing or format (i.e. close up, landscape, meme, text).
4. Think about the reason you're posting the pic and describe that first, add background details if you have time.
5. Pretend you're talking to someone on the phone and want to tell them about this cool thing you're looking at.
6. Transcribe any and all text in the image, even if it's the only thing you do.
7. If you've described the image in your post, you don't need to copy and paste it again in the caption. But again, don't leave it blank, just put something like "as described."
8. You can add small subjective notes, but don't give too much interpretation of the image in your own opinion.
9. Caption jokes are fun, as long as they still describe the image objectively.
10. Use punctuation, and capitalize words properly. A lot of us have interacted with this tech when calling customer service or talking to Siri, so keep in mind that you're writing for a computer to read, and it needs all the help it can get.

After years of #christmas viewings being paused to play the song on YouTube, it's FINALLY available on #Disney plus. After prepping some cinnamon buns for #xmas breakfast tomorrow, sitting down to watch the whole version without interruption.

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