Paul Tenny

@BlueAmerica
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An American liberal rabble rouser. America isn't a place, it's an idea. One worth fighting for.
Websitehttps://sa.mediapundit.net/
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/OurBlueAmerica
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Paul TennyOct 6, 2024
MAGA users of Lie Social are turning out to be a bonanza for financial scammers. It turns out they are extremely gullible and very easy to con. Shocking! https://gizmodo.com/truth-social-users-are-losing-ridiculous-sums-of-money-to-scams-2000506604
Truth Social Users Are Losing Ridiculous Sums of Money to Scams

Read the complaints submitted to the FTC by users of Donald Trump's social media platform.

Gizmodo
Paul TennyOct 6, 2024
Republican Elon Musk's Republican mom is openly advocating vote fraud on Twitter. I don't expect it to stay up, but she is currently Community Noted for it (and correctly so.)
Paul TennyJul 21, 2024
I like Jeff Jarvis a lot but right now he's a shining example of why you should never get emotionally invested in politicians. It's way too easy to fall into the traps of tribalism and cultism. Biden got us here and nobody else. This is not sports and Joe Biden was not your team.
Paul TennyJun 12, 2024
What's the source of this stupidity? Republicans believe free speech means the ability to speak without being criticized, which is not at all a protection that the First Amendment provides nor is it within the spirit of the law. Free to speak, not free to not be criticized.
Show threadPaul TennyJun 12, 2024
And Twitter's paid user base is so tiny that it's not really going to make a difference for anybody but the most toxic scumbags around, the MAGA/Musk crossover. Not really a basket of deplorables such much the contents of a portable outhouse.
Paul TennyJun 12, 2024

Twitter's paid userbase under Elon Musk is so incredibly toxic that they want to hide their likes? Musk has been burned by this more than anybody I can think of and I think that's probably at the heart of it, rather than his racist, moronic fanbase.

We'll see if it actually happens. First, Musk promises changes that never materialize all the time. Remember when all major changes would be put up to Twitter poll? Remember when Twitter polls would be fir paid users only?

Paul TennyJun 4, 2024
Dan GillmorJun 4, 2024

A must-read from @ProPublica: New investigation details "significant financial benefits" that have gone from Trump world to witnesses in his court cases -- is not surprising, in a way.

https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-criminal-cases-witnesses-financial-benefits

Only the latest, and perhaps starkest yet, reminder that it's all corruption, all the time in Trump world.

I hear that Trump apparatchiks were trying to get this article suppressed, so please read it and pass along the link to everyone you know.

Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaign

Witnesses in the various criminal cases against the former president have gotten pay raises, new jobs and more. If any benefits were intended to influence testimony, that could be a crime.

ProPublica
Paul TennyJun 4, 2024
Casey NewtonJun 4, 2024
After a new investigation in the WSJ, I am once again asking: what is the conflict of interest policy at OpenAI?? https://www.platformer.news/openai-altman-investments-conflicts-wsj/
The strange incentives at OpenAI

I am once again asking: what is the conflict of interest policy at this company?

Platformer
Paul TennyJun 4, 2024
I'd like to be able to say that indys approving of Trump's convictions 57-30 is a death sentence, and if every one of those people refuses to vote for him then it will be. But you can't infer that. You just can't. WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK IF THIS HAS CHANGED PEOPLE'S VOTING INTENTIONS? Actual polling malfeasance right there.
Paul TennyJun 4, 2024

I don't know anything about the pollster (Data for Progress) but, of Trump's convictions in New York (adds strong & somewhat):

Dems Approve: 91%, Disapprove 5%
Indys: 57%-30%
GOP: 18%-75%

All: 56%-38%

But this question is meaningless. Will it change votes? They didn't ask! 🙄 https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/6/3/majority-of-voters-approve-of-trumps-guilty-verdict

Majority of Voters Approve of Trump’s Guilty Verdict

A majority of voters (53%) say the trial was fair, while 39% say it was rigged.

Data For Progress